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Jul 26, 2011 -- 8:33PM, generalchaos34 wrote:

...the possibilities are endless, and using your system of varied origins (tech, arcane, etc) i think it really captures what "is" Rifts, the ultimate sandbox setting, and with Gamma World Rules we finally have the ability to truly customize your character beyond the OCC and RCC and what gear you have. The only extra option i am considering is that the players should be able to also pick their characters race, even if it does not have an effect their actual stats (elf, orc, quick-flex, grackle tooth, etc), which would naturally be influence by their character origins if they lend to a specific type (i.e. saurien = grackle tooth, quickflex = speedster or hypercognitive)a

I think letting characters choose their race is a great idea, especially if they are wary about the randomness in Gamma World's character generation (I still recommend the random system, but having a choice, even if its cosmetic goes a long way to soothing those kind of fears).  The dual origin of GW characters is a sort of combination race/class anyway, and as you said some of the origins naturally lend themselves to specific rifts races.

You may want to rethink using Palladium's art in anything like this. They'll stomp you pretty hard.

Jul 26, 2011 -- 7:44PM, Victor_Von_Dave wrote:

I've just posted a field report, discussing how using Gamma World in the Rifts setting plays out - mainly by using my players' characters as an example.

Tomorrow I'm going to put up my conversion notes for using the introductory adventure, Steading of the Iron King (Steading of Cyberworks 7 in my campaign) in the world of Rifts, as well as a PDF of the handouts I made for it.  

That is seriously cool. A friend and I were saying that Gamma World (and the very awesome Day After Ragnarok) were what RIFTS "should have been", and we've talked about running Rifts using GW.

I like the way you've approached the power sources and Omega Tech cards - really a great bit of flavor.

EDIT: I just read through the reworking of the adventure, The Steading of Cyberworks 7 and I loved it. I was thinking of doing the same thing for the adventure presented in Legion of Gold. This RIFTed first adventure will make an excellent lead-in to that more challenging adventure.

Fantastic work all around. What really makes this work is the simplicity of your conversions, changing the fluff with out torturous mechanical changes.  

Day After Ragnarok is possibly the craziest, most adaptable, best written setting book for any system that I have ever read. Not only are the ideas presented infinitely adaptable to other games you might want to run, but they do a great job of showing you how its possible to run a Mad Max style game, or a slick Casablanca spy game, in the same world -the setting is wonderful for hosting a diverse range of disparate games.

I was planning on using Legion of Gold as a terrestrial adventure, with the teleporters taking you into CS territory, rather than to the Moon. (though I LOVE the idea of using to do a Mutants in Orbit game!)

My game is set in 63 P.A. (maybe that should be "Post Mistake"?), well before most of the published RIFTS material, and before the power creep set in. So the CS is a developing threat, rather than the illogical empire of millions as presented in books like War Machine and the various War on Tolkeen books. Things are lower tech, and people are a good bit thinner on the ground. The predecessor to the CS's UAR-I Enforcer is still the hottest thing around.

I guess the CS in my game would be more like the Empire of Humanity as i remember it in After The Bomb -just one of many players in a region, rather than the single continental super-power.

I'm thinking that one end of the Legion of Gold teleporter is in Old Detroit, and the other is in the ruins of Chicago, with the CS using it to explore/run seek & destroy patrols up into the Great Lakes area. (Free Qubec is not yet part of the CS in my game, so there's no established link yet between it and Chi Town.) They are taking people and mutants, not to turn into cyborg soldiers, but for medical experimentation aimed at finding out if they can "undo" minor mutations and return those mutants to base-line human norms.

The crazy NERO computer will obviously have to be completely redone.

I'm also working on adapting the Famine in Fargo adventure for my game right now. The group is based outside of Lazlo in the tiny outpost of Low Down (London, Ontario), where the other two adventures will also jump off from. I'm thinking the UFO will be a failed CS attempt to get into space -picking up the dangerous mold while in low orbit. 

There's an encounter with some Klickies -perfect standins for the Xiticix

I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the automated chicken farm. Is the AI running it yet another ARCHIE derivative, or is that too much to do with back-to-back adventures? Was it a facility where mutant animals were created? Or is it a pre-Mistake clone farm that only recently came back online and just wants to survive and take care of its own?

So many options.

PS: why are crazy computer brains at the heart of all three Gamma World adventures? LOL In a world of infinite possibilities you'd ahve thought WoTC would show a bit more diversity/originality.