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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 7668896" data-attributes="member: 15582">The real question is whether a player's perception of Rifts is tied to the actual setting or the rule set. Rifts, as a setting, has a lot of variety, but it's not overly complex. If anything, SW might be a better fit on getting different PC concepts on the same playing field, even if they are on different power levels. As for the system, Rifts psionics is not that different in execution to Rifts magic. Both are just a level based mana-point system. Savage Worlds does something similar, they are just much for straightforward about it in their core rules set. If your GM cut and pasted the core powers into a separate power list for each different Arcane Background along with renaming Power Points into ISP, EEP and Mojo-Mojo, added trappings and then gave you the list for your particular concept, you'd probably be convinced that you had a unique power set as compared to your fellow players and their own supernatural powers.</blockquote>