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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arlough" data-source="post: 5909712" data-attributes="member: 79335">Maybe they really liked the idea of the Operator or Ley Line Walker, but discovered that was a mistake when they encountered a dragon off in the wilderness and the Glitterboy was the only thing that could accomplish anything.  Also, all the people I know who played Rifts eventually came to the same conclusion.  The game, while a fascinating concept, was fun to play despite the system, not because of it.*  The whole thing was unbalanced, over complicated, and full of holes.But perhaps this has changed in the last 15 years (I hope so.)*: I must admit, I did have tremendous fun when I finally decided to just flat out abuse the rules.  I fashioned a glitter boy and only fired his railgun while in the air (for radical maneuvering), or while standing on the enemy.  I killed a dragon by standing on its head and firing off in the distance.  As soon as the railgun activated, laser pitons that could, according to the description, penetrate anything shot down from my heels into his skull to anchor me and the recoil ripped me, and the dragon's skull, clean from its neck (and sent me flying about a mile into and through the side of a mountain and I landed in a warren of something I couldn't see that did lots of megadamage, but I think that is more because the GM was irritated that I killed his dragon)</blockquote>