Rifts and Savage Rifts General

>dat rifts plagiarism

According to the revised Sourcebook One, the Altara were originally human. Modified into what they are with bio-wizardly. Think they're human enough to get magic tattoos?

They are in my game now!

>The original Palladium to Savage Rifts conversion file
>Probably stolen by Pinnacle and Sean Patrick Fannon
>Erron “Bo” Whitten owns this idea (Copyright © 2003)
>lol

There's repeated mention of cyberpunk elements in Rifts. Has anyone ever run a cyberpunk game in this setting? Does it do the classic "cyberspace/wired reflexes/megacorporations" tropes well?

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That headgear *almost* looks like a Gear VR.

They could not possibly have chosen a worse system to reboot Rifts than Savage Worlds. I mean, it's hard to pick a system worse than Savage Worlds in the first place. In terms of generic systems there are FAR better options: GURPS, Cortex, and FATE, to name a few.

Savage Worlds takes a decent core mechanic and lumps on a shitty wild die that is arbitrarily assigned because "muh plot" and fills the character with bennies that require the player to know all of their uses to use effectively. Not to mention, Benny effectiveness is heavily dependent on session length, so if you don't play the recommended 4 to 6 hours the game becomes wildly unbalanced.

The game is full of garbage trap options like in 3.5, the chargen is basically minmaxing Flaws like in GURPS except worse, shotguns are brokenly powerful giving a flat +2 to hit which in this system is basically only missing on a 1. They also do broken-ass damage because of exploding dice. The exploding dice also turn combat into a slogfest occasionally punctuated by someone actually dying; usually from a fucking ridiculous amount of damage.

I played Savage Worlds for a good three years now. Never will play it again, it is an arsed system that is half narrative bullshit, half autistic wargame, and entirely terrible.

Oh Boy CopyPasta from yesterday.

Yeah but you can't refute a single word from it therefore you have no choice but to suck its dick.