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My spending varies, depending on what game I'm reading/playing at the time. Some games, I buy just to read. I know that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that's my thing. Things I have bought lately: Green Ronin's Psychic Handbook (Awesome!), Mongoose's Bab 5, Chaositech, Legacy of the...

FF broke all the rules when it first came out forty three years ago. It began the Marvel Universe. Call it the 60's equivalent of Astro City. FF's always been about the lives of four people. A family. It's waffled away from that, time to time, but that's still the core of the book. FF has...

Buzz, you're missing my point. Rifts does have balance, assuming that your GM knows what he's doing. Otherwise, he can very easy have an unplayable mish-mash for a PC party. The balance comes from intelligent campaign design, not the rule system. The rules just tell you what's possible, not...

Umm, no. I think balance is a wonderful thing, I just don't depend on the game rules to provide it. As long as you realize that SDC plays with SDC, Mecha plays with Mecha and MDC plays with MDC, things workout rather well. Rifts by its nature, includes so many concepts that balancing out all...

I disagree. In my own experience GMing Rifts since the first book came out, I've realized that balancing player power levels is the onus of the GM, not the rules. The easiest way to do so is to limit the characters to either everyone being SDC or everyone being MDC. As a general rule, this...