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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5120520" data-attributes="member: 51930">I like the links, and also the questions.I've got to say that Rifts for me is a post-apocalyptic setting with Sci-Fi and Fantasy mixed together first, and a survival game at that.  I like how really varied concepts can work together in it.  I like zombie movies because I like the challenge of what I'd do to survive.  If I was in Rifts, who would I be?  I like Westerns (which is the major cultural influence in the setting for me), I like cyborgs, I like magical fantasy as a spice.  I like the idea of the Rebellion against the Empire model that we see in PCs vs. the Coalition States.  I want to do that while shooting alien bugs from dimension X.  I want my reckless band of mercenaries to escape the Coalition genetics lab's destruction through a hole in space that leads to a Splugorth slave market, then find another portal home in time to explode giant Coalition tanks marching on Tolkeen.I don't like uber creations dominating story.  I've heard of a cyborg floating whale PC, and the DeeBee Juicer creations with 16 MegaDamage attacks per round at level one.    I don't like spending days working on the stats for one PC.  I don't like figuring out whether the third commoner on the right is a carpenter or a woodworker.    I do like the idea of finally using all the books that I've been collecting for the past decade.  All of them, the modern and the 3e, but with tweeks from SAGA that fix general issues with 3e that bothered me.</blockquote>

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