Rifts to Gurps

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by AlonzoTheGurpsPlayer

Sorry I only ask questions on the forums but I was wondering if anyone knows of a conversion I can find because well, most sites are down or all if that's the case (sites about conversions or at least pages). I used to try and play rifts but the system is OK at best and I really like the setting.

A simple principle that could carry you a long way is to go to Gurps Ultratech and convert by name or description.

So Rifts laser rifle becomes Gurps laser rifle. Most suits of Rifts personal MDC such as the Dead Boy are just examples of the Gurps Combat Hardsuit. the light/"soft" suits might be Tac suits instead.

You can also play around with TLs making Triax a full TL in advance of Northern Gun as just one example.

UT also gives you light and heavy battlesuits though the big Mecha are going to have to be guessed at. They were a problem even with full design systems seen in earlier vesrions of Gurps too.

Moslty though Rifts is built out of standard SF tropes and Gurps has most of those covered.

Also, if you uise Gurps stuff v. Gurps stuff you'll probably find them decently balanced agaisnt each other which Rifts conversions based on soem numerical formula might not be.