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<blockquote data-quote="kinem" data-source="post: 5698180" data-attributes="member: 24234">I only played in one Rifts campaign and never owned the books, but I can vouch for the system being badly balanced. I decided to play a sentient robot, which the system and setting sounded well suited for. I didn't have a reference for power scale. I didn't min/max for combat power but I did choose what looked like reasonable strong options.The clunkiness of the system was obvious - especially the fact that &quot;robotic strength&quot; and &quot;supernatural strength&quot; use entirely different scales: your strength score might be the same number as another guy's but it doesn't mean the same thing, and the robotic version is less strong for the same number. Of course, it took me a while to discover this over the course of the campaign. There were also many things that robots were vulnerable to, including basically a school of magic that grants the power to easily control them with a touch.I underestimated the power scale of the rest of the party. At one point, out of the blue after several sessions, the GM used a really cheesy in-game way to triple my total hit points in an attempt to bring my PC up to a reasonable standard. However, it wasn't enough; I was still vastly outmatched by the tougher characters. I missed the final battle but from what I understand my&nbsp; PC wouldn't have lasted more than a round in it.I also dislike some of the magic I saw, which again seemed very unbalanced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kinem, post: 5698180, member: 24234"] I only played in one Rifts campaign and never owned the books, but I can vouch for the system being badly balanced. I decided to play a sentient robot, which the system and setting sounded well suited for. I didn't have a reference for power scale. I didn't min/max for combat power but I did choose what looked like reasonable strong options. The clunkiness of the system was obvious - especially the fact that "robotic strength" and "supernatural strength" use entirely different scales: your strength score might be the same number as another guy's but it doesn't mean the same thing, and the robotic version is less strong for the same number. Of course, it took me a while to discover this over the course of the campaign. There were also many things that robots were vulnerable to, including basically a school of magic that grants the power to easily control them with a touch. I underestimated the power scale of the rest of the party. At one point, out of the blue after several sessions, the GM used a really cheesy in-game way to triple my total hit points in an attempt to bring my PC up to a reasonable standard. However, it wasn't enough; I was still vastly outmatched by the tougher characters. I missed the final battle but from what I understand my PC wouldn't have lasted more than a round in it. I also dislike some of the magic I saw, which again seemed very unbalanced. [/QUOTE]

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