So what's the most powerful combo in Rifts?


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Plane Sailing

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I only ever saw the first book, and so long ago that it is probably not the case now, but the edition I saw it was possible for a juicer to become hugely over-the-top crazy. Something to do with being able to get lots of extra actions or something?

They were the ultimate 'live fast, die young' character class at the time!
 

Chainsaw

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I had that book in high school.. soft cover, demon guy on a floating barge surrounded by half-naked women. Setting looked cool as heck and I wanted to play all the classes, but we never did. I'd love to find someone local and get involved.
 

TroyXavier

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I can't say I'm an expert on it so I won't venture a guess, but I do know that it's rarely so much the classes as the races that tend to be overpowered. I will say they've reigned it in a bit from the early years (except maybe in the Dimensional Books, but I don't have most of the recent ones of those)
 



Green Knight

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Yeah, the Cosmo-Knight was pretty tough. I played one almost 10 years ago in a space-based Phase World campaign, back when playing the Palladium system didn't automatically cause me to break out in hives.

Another crazy combo I heard of was a Demigod with a Heroes Unlimited martial arts class. I forget what the class was called (Ancient Master, maybe?), but the gist of it was that the class started at level 15, to represent a long life of studying the martial arts (think Quai Chang Caine). The funny thing, though, was that a Demigod could select the class abilities of several spellcasters, including the Ley Line Walker, and he automatically knew all the spells for that class equal to his level. So such a character could, quite literally, start out a campaign knowing every single spell there is in the game for the Ley Line Walker. Though from what I understand, that was nerfed. Still funny as hell, though.
 

Dannyalcatraz

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1) Get out Heroes Unlimited. Ignoring the randomness of the random power chart, make a Superhero.

2) Get the RIFTS Conversion book and convert the Superhero's stats into RIFTS.

3) Start loading him down with RIFTS gear, like getting him a SAMAS or Glitterboy.
 


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