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#1 I_Hate_All_Life Apr 27, 2010 22:05:34	I don't want to open a can of worms here, but I think I've found the the best forum for this. (If it looks familiar, I've deleted it from the Off-Topic Forum and reposting here.) Anyway, here goes. I think Rifts is an awesome setting and fun concept, but it's hampered by an awful, outdated system and runaway power inflation with every new sourcebook. I would love to see that game modeled using better rules. Upon reflection I feel the 4th Ed Shadowrun rules would model Rifts best -- it has good rules for magic and tech, and on that framework I think I can approximate the setting. However, at one time I did a partial 3E d20 conversion, and there are some others floating around out there. And briefly I considered using D&D4 for the conversion. So I'm wondering, have any of you enterprising people out there done your own Rifts to D&D4 conversions, or have ideas for such? I'd love to hear about it if so. I wonder how Mega-Damage would be handled in the system (or if it exists), how juicers and dragon PCs would balance with "baseline" humans and street rats (if they would at all), and how other things would be handled. (I have no expectation to see an "official" d20 conversion of Rifts or anything Palladium, as Kevin Siembieda would rather continue killing his own game line than let anyone redeem it. He has some good setting ideas, but he marries them to a third-trimester coathanger abortion of a game system, crazyquilt mechanics largely derivative of 1st Ed AD&D that he hasn't updated significantly in 20+ years. And won't. The best I can hope for is that Palladium will finally die its well-deserved death, and that WotC or someone else will swoop in and gobble up those properties. But I won't hold my breath on that. So fan conversions only, for the time being.) Anyway, I'll quit ranting for now.
#2 I_Hate_All_Life May 01, 2010 10:28:31	Well, I'm glad I didn't start a ruckus, at least.
#3 Krusk May 13, 2010 16:56:53	www.palladiumbooks.com/policies.html From what I hear he is relatively persistent about that. Specifically For this reason, we can NOT allow any conversions of Palladium's copyrighted works to other game systems (for example, Rifts® characters using D20 or GURPS stats), nor allow characters and settings from other companies and creators (for example, Marvel Super-Heroes or the Star Wars characters) to be presented/posted using Palladium’s game stats. . They exist, and a quick Google can find any of a hundred out there for you, but you won't find many with a big following.