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Old 05-02-2006, 10:23 PM   #1
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Default Rifts to GURPS: another way to look at it.

Pardon my Poor Understanding of Love/hate relationship with RIFTS.

In my opinon the best way to really play Rifts with GURPS is not to play rifts at all. Use the GURPs post apocalytic material available and just string the together. Concepts like Partially Augmented Combatants and Powered Armor Soldiers are nothing new or original. Mixing it with occult and magic is not new as well (w/c is covered in gurps btw).

My problem with Rifts is a bit of how it scales poorly. GURPS is great with realism and the sense of scale (which it corrects with rifts). If GURPS comes out with its own Epic Post apocalyptic setting, does that make it a RIFTS RIP OFF? or can one just say, they're improving on an established genre?

I dont get why it has to be RIFTS itself. I've GMed it and tired to make sense of it as much as I can with GURPS but the powerlevels dont make sense. My opinion is that all you really need to have a GURPS RIFTS is just get all of GURPS post appocalytic and some cyber-punk material connect them together with a good story and add a conspiracy or two and you've got your Rifts effect withouth the legal issues.

RIfts is fluff, its good fluff but fluff still. Better fluff will come along and in the same genre... possibly reinventing it. Why not just play that... it may not be RIFTS but it is GURPS?

I'm sure GURPS can pull of the conspiracy, the big-brother militaristic-keep'em in-the-dark bad guy much better and make a better mix and balance between tech and magic. Without class limitation; templates and heroes would reach a broader and more original variety.

Of course, what made rifts what it is. Is the charisma of its creator and the passion placed in its work. Although, i'm sure he is not the only charismatic and passionate game-designer to come around and I'm sure this idea is nothing new to anyone. So i guess is the real challenge is that people to see RIfts as a genre and not anymore the sole property of one man... but an idea that can take many forms and be expresed by different gamers to be shared with more gamers.
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