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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7231799" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>The big thing that guarantees Palladium will only run the Rifts Megaverse is the fact that nobody is willing to convert anything into that system, because that system is not very good. Otherwise, yeah, you could translate something like Shadowrun over there and it would work pretty alright.</p><p></p><p>There's some stuff that <em>hasn't</em> been done in the Palladium system, and it's hard to tell what the rules <em>would be</em> because everything is a patchwork and nothing is consistent, but the Rifts setting is large enough that you could probably cobble something together out of similar parts. Rifts already has trolls and magic and cyberlimbs and monofilament katanas, so you could make something that cosmetically resembles Shadowrun. </p><p></p><p>Going back to my original point, if you <em>did</em> model Shadowrun using the Palladium system then you'd get different outcomes for similar situations, in this case because of the Mega Damage rules. The Rifts ruleset describes a setting where any normal person will explode at the slightest touch of a monofilament katana, where the Shadowrun ruleset describes a setting where nobody dies instantly and a beefy toll can easily withstand a mere monofilament katana to the chest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7231799, member: 6775031"] The big thing that guarantees Palladium will only run the Rifts Megaverse is the fact that nobody is willing to convert anything into that system, because that system is not very good. Otherwise, yeah, you could translate something like Shadowrun over there and it would work pretty alright. There's some stuff that [I]hasn't[/I] been done in the Palladium system, and it's hard to tell what the rules [I]would be[/I] because everything is a patchwork and nothing is consistent, but the Rifts setting is large enough that you could probably cobble something together out of similar parts. Rifts already has trolls and magic and cyberlimbs and monofilament katanas, so you could make something that cosmetically resembles Shadowrun. Going back to my original point, if you [I]did[/I] model Shadowrun using the Palladium system then you'd get different outcomes for similar situations, in this case because of the Mega Damage rules. The Rifts ruleset describes a setting where any normal person will explode at the slightest touch of a monofilament katana, where the Shadowrun ruleset describes a setting where nobody dies instantly and a beefy toll can easily withstand a mere monofilament katana to the chest. [/QUOTE]
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