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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3509444" data-attributes="member: 3087">Rifts is a good world. As people have said it's a terrible system.Siembieda is a gifted creator, and a poor system designer.He's also, apparently, a business wiz and does a reasonably good job of running a company. You may laugh but for his generation he's basically the only one who's still in charge of a company that controls the original product (and Steve Jackson I suppose).However the business model is busted, so the company will eventually go belly up.If Siembieda is smart he'll get in on that action, but so far evidence suggests that he's got some emotional attachment to the proto-1ed rules set he developed decades ago.When the inevitable happens someone will buy the setting and rebuild it with a decent engine (probably D20 but maybe something else). Personally I think MnM would work reasonably well, other possibilities exist though.The sooner it happens the sooner that Rifts could regenerate as a viable gaming world. On the other hand the longer it takes the more time other engines will have the develop and (all things being equal) the richer Rifts 2e will be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Graf, post: 3509444, member: 3087"] Rifts is a good world. As people have said it's a terrible system. Siembieda is a gifted creator, and a poor system designer. He's also, apparently, a business wiz and does a reasonably good job of running a company. You may laugh but for his generation he's basically the only one who's still in charge of a company that controls the original product (and Steve Jackson I suppose). However the business model is busted, so the company will eventually go belly up. If Siembieda is smart he'll get in on that action, but so far evidence suggests that he's got some emotional attachment to the proto-1ed rules set he developed decades ago. When the inevitable happens someone will buy the setting and rebuild it with a decent engine (probably D20 but maybe something else). Personally I think MnM would work reasonably well, other possibilities exist though. The sooner it happens the sooner that Rifts could regenerate as a viable gaming world. On the other hand the longer it takes the more time other engines will have the develop and (all things being equal) the richer Rifts 2e will be. [/QUOTE]

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