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Anonymous03/11/26, 21:07No.97693228
I’ve heard someone describing the setting of Rifts as being based on “putting together everything that would’ve sounded cool to a kid growing up in 1985.” It makes me wonder: what would a setting look like if it was created by throwing together everything that was cool to you as a kid?
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Anon03/11/26, 21:27No.97693324
I grew up in the 90s. So everything that a kid growing up in the 80s would think is cool, plus pets with superpowers.
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Anon03/11/26, 23:37No.97693925
>was cool to you as a kid?
There are many different generations here so which one are you talking about? We got people from the 80s (grognards), 90s, 00s, even some 10s probably (underage b&). They all have different cultural touchstones, shows, comics, movies, etc.One thing I know is that any NuRifts for the youngest generation would include tons of anime & manga. Which Rifts and Palladium had for a long time before they became mainstream hype, ironically. Palladium Books with Robotech and Talsorian Games with Cyberpunk/BGC were the original weaboo RPG companies from the 80s.Also, there's a Rifts thread here, in case you didn't notice it: [/tg/thread/97687068#p97687068]
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Anon03/12/26, 00:06No.97694051
>It makes me wonder: what would a setting look like if it was created by throwing together everything that was cool to you as a kid?
Rifts.
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Anon03/12/26, 02:07No.97694441
Palladium Fantasy is the origin -- it's basically D&D with the serial numbers filed off by someone (Kevin) with an incomplete understanding if the rules in the first place. He then took everything that sounded cool and threw them in a blender, and out came Rifts.
So many a.c.r.o.n.y.m.s. w.i.t.h. p.e.r.i.o.d.s., unnecessary repetitions of redundant information just to fill space, and a deathly allergy to presenting information in tables across all of Palladium's books make it painful to reference,
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Anon03/12/26, 02:12No.97694459
This thread was recycled. Jesus. Is that all that anon is now? Just mindless reposts with anything breaking the mold reprimanded by jannies and social media managers? What the fuck.
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Anon03/12/26, 04:38No.97695112
>what would a setting look like if it was created by throwing together everything that was cool to you as a kid?
An incoherent mess, impossible to make a playable game out of. But that's what happens when you mix numerous series of varying power types and power levels without regards to each other, and that's always been one of the major issues D&D and its imitators have.
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Anon03/12/26, 05:28No.97695315
I was 9 years old in 1985.
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Anon03/12/26, 05:48No.97695386
Idk what a mashup of Thunderbirds, 90's scifi games and Nazis would even begin to look like
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Anon03/12/26, 08:54No.97695871
Pratchett-style parody of Narnia, Zamonia and the things only a fellow Pole would recognise: world from Pan Kleks books and Islands of Nonsense from Tytus, Romek & A'Tomek.
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Anon03/12/26, 11:36No.97696238
>Star Wars
>Dragonball
>Yu-Gi-Oh!
>Pokemon
>Warcraft
>Grand Theft Auto
>Rome/ Medieval Total War
>Age of Empires/ Mythology/ Empire Earth
It would inevitably be some bizarro kitchen sink setting
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Anon03/12/26, 17:41No.97697664
>what would a setting look like if it was created by throwing together everything that was cool to you as a kid?
Rifts. Just sent my buddy a picture of a glitterboy the other day.
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Anon03/12/26, 18:47No.97698003
I was 8yo in 1985. Rifts was the first RPG I ever played as I found no one that played D&D. My big turn off for it was the dumb ass concept of mega damage.
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Anon03/13/26, 18:19No.97702965
>everything cool in 1985
>everything cool when you were a kid
Those things are one and the same for me.
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Anon03/13/26, 19:49No.97703364
The whole reply chain is a prime example of why I make my own games, because corporations can't be relied on to feature character options that can stand up to their "game's" challenges.
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Anon03/14/26, 10:12No.97706092
Born in 91 so by kid you mean me between 6-12 or 12-18? Because there was a huge difference of what I would like. Before twelve I would like basically everything which is fantasy or science-fiction. As a teen I watched anime a lot so I would like crazy chuuni eclectic baroque-victorian shit. Like Ragna Crimson slop, yeah, probably perfect representation.
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Anon03/14/26, 16:57No.97707399
Complaints about balance are such bullshit
The gm's job is to say no when someone creates a god and the rest of players are running a spec-ops team or even the hobo with a shotgun. By that same token if the game is centered on a group of demigods and dragons its the gm's job to tell the city rat to kick rocks.Me and my homies in the hills with simie-auto rifles, and heavy gwot era plates are over matched to a bunch of no guns metro types, but if a platoon or delta squad comes for us we are equally as fucked.
Its a universal system, why should a bunch of mortal soliders be a match for a balrog or 2?Learn the system better
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Anon03/14/26, 17:14No.97707470
I'm shocked that nobody has made a 'Mighty Max' game. For Mattel, even an official one would be easier than actually bringing the toy line back, plus they could use it to renew trademarks. Rifts is fine but it captures the '80s mecha era, not the grungy '90s era which focused more on exploration and less on impossible tech.
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Anon03/14/26, 22:39No.97708851
Copyright infringement