I still haven't really figured out how to throw reasonably
appropriate monsters at my RIFTS group. I just kind of pick monsters
that sound cool. They usually get utterly trounced. Combat is really
kind of an afterthought in a game where dudes lug around particle canons
and nano-swords made from bio-wizardry and what the fuck am I even talking about juuuuuuuuuuuice!
Ahem.
Right
now I'm all about the environment in the game. I try to give my players
cool shit to interact with. I think I had some Lamentations-esque rooms
in my necromancer tower last night. (Lamentations-esque meaning creepy
and unsettling, not pushbuttonruincharacter.)
The players also managed to ruin both a "safe recovery" room and a
potential source of information though general carelessness. Ooooops.
I
play fast and loose with the rules. The Ley Line Walker in the party
has managed to semi-accidentally learn two Necro-Magic spells, and I
offered a non-spellcasting player the chance to acquire the ability to
use Necro-Magic. Both of these things are technically against the rules,
but meh. I am constantly hand-waving things in RIFTS, because to do
otherwise is to court madness.Wit h Rifts, you pretty much have to go style over substance. I think of RIFTS as more of an attitude rather than a set of rules.
The game is a little horror-ish right now, but hey, necromancy should probably be a little horrifying, right?
Tonight
I am filling in for our Deadlands GM. When I fill in, we actually play a
different campaign that is also somewhat divergent from "default"
Deadlands. My Skype group is also set to resume on Sunday after a month
long hiatus, the game being my house-ruled Ravenloft/Masque of the Red
Death/Gothic Earth game.
If Rifts is "more of an attitude rather than a set of rules" are you indicting those who lambast the game for having a failure in the attitude department?
ReplyDeleteJust wondering.
Arrrright, see, the Rifts books, despite having great ideas, are not the best written books on Earth. I could draw parallels to George Lucas, but I'm not going to.
DeleteThe attitude that I bring to Rifts is my own. It's a little bit AD&D, a little bit Heavy Metal, a little bit Robot Carnival.
My Rifts game rocks because I and my players make it rock.
If you really want me to lambast you, I'll make a special entry just for you.
...indict, I mean.
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