The Rifter® #53 includes:•Ravages of Time, by S.E. Gibbons, is an interesting Rifts® article with tips for Game Masters and playing sprawling epic sagas like the Minion War™ and Siege on Tolkeen.•ARCHIE Phase Two, by Damon Sutton. This Rifts article takes a look at more machinations of our favorite mechanized menace, ARCHIE Three™.•On Faerie Folk, by Michael P. Yocom, offers up a menagerie of new Faerie Folk, cousins and animals for the Rifts® and Palladium Fantasy® settings.•Dawn of a New Era, by Corey Livermore, presents an adventure in a setting for Heroes Unlimited™ in which mutants and aliens are being forced to "register" with global governments, or else.•The Lucky Psychic, by Steven Dawes, presents a new Beyond the Supernatural™ psychic who makes his own luck.•A Dark Day™ Short Story, by Jeremy Hutchins, will keep you wondering what's next.•The next chapter of the Hammer of the Forge™.•Plus news and coming attractions.•Heroes Unlimited™ cover by Zachary Schoenbaum.•More of the usual, but in addition to game material and fiction, you'll learn what Palladium has planned for 2011.