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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ACpilot" data-source="post: 5627796" data-attributes="member: 6679603">I've played a few low-level "balanced" games of RIFTS, but the last few games where all RIFTS WITH THE LID BLOWN OFF!  I highly recommend this style of game.A short little rabbit-hole follows:I ran a game where the PCs were:Rakshasa NinjaVampire Intelligence (player played both the master vampire and the intelligence as appropriate for adventuring)An adult Chen-ku DragonCan't remember the rest but they were all heavy hitters...Anyway the plot was they wanted to free Fenris the wolf so that he'd devour the sun and thus Vampires would rule the earth and the vampire intelligence would control rifts utterly along with his other friends and they would all share in that sweet sweet PPE.  Even though I ran this I can't really remember but it had something to do with killing Tiamat and then Apsu had tricked them into bringing him back or something... anyway after they had gone to war with Atlantis (this is after killing Tiamat and freeing Fenris) the other alien beings which had stakes on RIFTS earth pleaded to the cosmo-knights to intercede and a joint cosmo-knight/ oni-space-ninja force abducted them and there was an inter-dimensional trial presided over by the gods of the law as to what to do about the whole mess.  The PCs argued beautifully that all these other beings would-shoulda-coulda done exactly what the PCs did do, and are just being hypocritical - the vampire intelligence player put it best, "Lets cut the sanctimonious crap here people and get down to brass tacs; its aaaalll about the PPE!"...The last game I PLAYED in was the culmination of a 15 year, meandering campaign where my lowly elven temporal wizard had a, few years back, performed a mind-swap with an alien intelligence and well, long story short he went completely mad for awhile.The campaign had to do with the Mobius magic item (its the like the ultimate mcguffin in rifts canon) and we had to hunt down some time-clones of ourselves which stole part of the mobius fragments at the moment we got the item.In a sort of meta-game way the mobius was the prison for Satan Lord of Hell (a creature given stats in an old palladium book but we thought he was removed from later editions for legal reasons so we decided the rifts gods erased him and trapped him in the mobius) - the adventure involved running afoul of all the big nasties of rifts - Merlin, Lord Splyncryth, the 4 horsemen (3 actually because one died years earlier), and a host of other baddies including styphon the black, lord of all evil dragons --- they all wanted the Mobius power for themselves (merlin hilariously wanted to devolve the whole of RIFTS to a medieval Europe state of being - he turned someones mecha into a donkey cart)Long story short we lost the Mobius and set free Satan Lord of Hell (who we presume has gone back to hell/hades to settle the brutal civil war going on within --- probably not a good thing)... that was the last RIFTS game I played in....I also played in a game where we were all killed by cyborgs while trying to find food in some ruins.That's RIFTS</blockquote>

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