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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ACpilot" data-source="post: 5624640" data-attributes="member: 6679603">I've been reading en world for a long time but never registered or posted until now - just to tell you how awesome RIFTS is.I've been playing and running RIFTS for around 18 years, on and off among other games.I've never played the game rules by-the-book, always used a heavy amount of house-rules and on-the fly fixes - but even then the game was not about balance of any kind.RIFTS is about a brutal, HELLISH, post-apocalyptic earth sitting at the center of a pan-dimensional mega-versal struggle.You can play everything from a psychic slug, uneducated human scum, pixies, all the up to dragons, demons, and young gods.  It is a truly insane setting with truly insane - action oriented rules.Best part of the rules as-is; you can often have 6 or more attack actions per round!  My friends and I always used the incorrect "blow your load" method for combat where each character did all actions at once - its not how the rules are worded but it made for insanely fast and violent  anime-esque combat.</blockquote>