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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1479407" data-attributes="member: 892">Just for fun, I once designed a cyberknight for Rifts that was better than the Wilderness Scout in every way.  No exceptions anywhere.  Rifts is horribly, horribly unbalanced, and doesn't have a smidgen of guidance as to how to balance it.  That said, I have played in a Rifts game (with said cyberknight), but to even pretend that it is balanced is just silly.D&D 3E is a lot closer to balanced, and gives guidance on how to keep things in balance.  This makes it a better game, other things being equal, than other games that do not do this.  Rifts does not do this.  What Rifts has going for it is a cool setting.  But a good DM could make up a cool setting, or buy a packaged cool setting designed for D&D or another d20 setting (or d20 modern).  So given the wide array of choices, I would choose a d20 game over Rifts hands down every time.Now if someone could do Rifts d20 without getting sued, that would be cool.</blockquote>