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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3505423" data-attributes="member: 28553">I think you mean <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit" target="_blank">Sanskrit</a>.But, yeah, you're completely right.  Palladium's system is infamously terrible and outdated, and it's a real shame that they didn't bother to overhaul it for Ultimate Edition.  Supposedly, they wanted to make sure the freaking boatloads of existing Rifts books were still usable, but I didn't whine about all the AD&D books I'd already bought when D&D 3E came out.  I think what happened was as much about old Kevin Siembieda's unwillingness to see the problems with his beloved system as it was about loyalty to their small, die-hard fanbase (and apathy about the possibility of winning over new fans).Anyway, Rifts is comepletely awesome in a mid-1990s, Image comics, lasers-and-mutants-and-dragons-and-magic-tattoos-HOORJ!!! kind of way, and I think it's also got the possibility to be a lot more, too.  I mean, hell, it's the ultimate sandbox: You can do pretty much anything in it, and your biggest hassle will be finding a way to keep out the factors that you don't want.If I was going to do anything with the Rifts setting--and I might, if my oldskool Palladium buddy ever has time to play--I'd just use the Rifts books for fluff and use Mutants & Masterminds for the system.  That crazy-ass kitchen sink setting is better suited to point-based superhero-style character creation than D&D-inspired classes and levels, anyway.</blockquote>

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