What's in YOUR party?

[Nekira Sudacne]

well, our game has something of a mixed multiclass group that in no way follows cannon rules. note, out GM also uses many homebrewed stuff,so if you don't recognise some of the stuff, it's because it dosn't offically exsit.

we have:
halfling juggler mage/theortician
Demon Lord Antiquitarian/Alchmist Apprentice
Amazon Psi-Warrior
Psi-nullifier/Knight-Samurai
Mutant Gunslinger
Mutant Psi-Tech
Great Horned Dragon Hatchling/deific champion

if I included NPC's the list would be several times longer.


BTW, this is a multi-year running Epic campaign.

[Dustin Fireblade]

I'm in three different CS-based games (two are PBeM), a magic-user based game, everyone is a magical OCC (PBeM), a mercs game (also PBeM) that has a Momano HH, Gunfighter, Legacy Scout, Assasin, RCSG Scientist, Preacher/medic and a Juicer.

[Mudang]

Wow, some strange groups. I take it most people playing RIFTS are power gamers?

Having a powerful group does not make you a powergamer.

[Slag]

In the Ol' DarklordDC campaign we had:

Mercenary Pilot OMAV Pod pilot
Lord Magus
Psi Stalker (Spider Clan)
City Rat turned Gambler (western)
Mind Melter
Cyber Knight (had to leave )
Battle Magus (NPC)

[Toc Rat]

I'm in three different CS-based games (two are PBeM), a magic-user based game, everyone is a magical OCC (PBeM), a mercs game (also PBeM) that has a Momano HH, Gunfighter, Legacy Scout, Assasin, RCSG Scientist, Preacher/medic and a Juicer.

What the hell is PBeM?

[Toc Rat]

Just started playing again after a long break. Our party consists of:

1. Former CS Special forces, minor psychic 4th lvl

2. Former CS Psi-stalker, 4th lvl

3. Techno-Wizard, Human, 4th lvl

4. Operator, True Atlantean, 4th lvl

5. Former CS Psi-Net operative, Mind-melter, 4th lvl

6. Rouge Scientist, Human, 4th lvl.

Considering the other parties I've seen posted here my group looks way under gunned

And our GM just threw a rather pissed off Ancient Greathorned Dragon at us

Hopefully the Dragon will play nice and let us go, oterwise it will be the shortest campaign I've ever been in.

[Killer Cyborg]

Last time the party was together, we had:

A Shifter/Summoner
A Mutant Bat Longbowman
A Chiang-Ku Hatchling
An Operator with super powers
A Headhunter
A mutant Pteradon Techno-Wizard
A Shemarrian Warrior Woman

[Larsen]

The current campaign I'm in consists of a bk merc, mind melter, juicer scout, bounty hunter, demi-god, and an operator/vampire hunter.

[Nekira Sudacne]

The current campaign I'm in consists of a bk merc, mind melter, juicer scout, bounty hunter, demi-god, and an operator/vampire hunter.

what's a bk stand for?

[Mike Taylor]

What the hell is PBeM?

Play By E-mail.

Our party was fairly traditional, but when I started the only O.C.C.s that really existed were the ones in the core book.

Mind Melter, two Juicers, Crazy, two Werejaguars (Vampire Kingdoms), Mutant Cat (also vampire kingdoms), three Dog Boys, a Wolfen Headhunter, a Maxi-Man, a Full Conversion 'Borg.

[The Galactus Kid]

I moved a few months ago, but my group back home still plays regularly. We have had many characters come and go which leaves us with alot of NPCs and contacts throughout the region but here is the rundown of our current group.

Psi-stalker
Headhunter anti-robot
Necromancer
Psi-slinger
Juicer Assassin
Amazon
Mystic Kuznya (They were rifted to China where they met this one)

this regularly changes, but this is about right. Over the course of the game we have had the following

Psi-warrior (dead)
2 gunslingers (dead)
Totem Warrior (spirit west, off meditating or something)
Momano HH (dead)
Crazy (dead)
Cyber-Knight (dead)
Full Conversion Borg
Headhunter Assassin (bk)
Burster
Lord Magus
Ley Line Walker
...ANd countless others

[Dustin Fireblade]

I'm in three different CS-based games (two are PBeM), a magic-user based game, everyone is a magical OCC (PBeM), a mercs game (also PBeM) that has a Momano HH, Gunfighter, Legacy Scout, Assasin, RCSG Scientist, Preacher/medic and a Juicer.

What the hell is PBeM?

Play-By-eMail.

[Larsen]

The current campaign I'm in consists of a bk merc, mind melter, juicer scout, bounty hunter, demi-god, and an operator/vampire hunter.

what's a bk stand for?

brutal killer headhunter from rifts canada. In case you don't have that book they are the stone cold killers of the mercs. "hell hath no fury like a killer scorned." Edward ain't got nothing on them.

[Gomen_Nagai]

for the Africa Campaign I've had
(all high level)

a Medicine Man
An Earth Warlock
a Mutant Martial Artist
a Body Fixer
a Centaur Robot
a Thunder Lizard
an Ice Dragon
and a Mind Melter

For My Rifts DBZ Game I've had

a Korschei - Infernal - Wu shih.
a Biofreak - Psi Nullifier - Slaver
A Cursed Saiyan - Z Warrior (Cursed to be 6 inches tall when ever he transformed)
A russian Holocaust Cyborg

For my Assault on Archie III I've had
A CS Military Specialist
A wilderness Scout
A Great horned hatchling
A Shifter
A Mummy
A Mind Melter
A burster
A Robot Plane
A Robot Centaur
A Rahu Man Mystic
A Titan Cyber Knight
A Pair of Juicers
Aided by a Lizard Mage Alchemist.


For My Robotech/Rifts Crossover I've had
a Dakaran Imperial Guardsman
A Micean Turbo Jockey
A Mutant Combat Specialist
a Zentraedi Melee specialist/ EBSIS scout

For a Chi town Sewers campaign we've had
A psi stalker
a Few Dog boys
a Battle Cat Snow leopard
a CS Tech Officer
A Cs Military Specialist
A CS RPA Samas Pilot

[Defender_X]

The only group I had consisted of:
a Cyber-knight
City-rat
Tecno-wizard
Dragon hatchling
Robotech VF pilot(macross)
Ley Line walker
That's all I remember at the time. I think they didn't like the mix of tech and magic. My brother ran the cyber-knight and liike me was a big fan of them. He also liked the special forces OCC from Mercs.

[Scooter the Outlaw]

My group also has cross-classing rules. However, most people don't live lone enough to use them, but nonetheless we have an interesting group that has recently began to lean more and more towards munchkinism.

Mystic Cyber-Knight
Psi-Stalker Bounty Hunter
Psi-Slayer Professional Gambler
Psi-Druid Body Fixer
Changeling Forger
Grackle Tooth Gunfighter
Shifter

In a side group we have, the team is smaller and people are more specialized towards doing one thing for the collective.
Techno-Wizard
Wired Gunslinger
Commando
Simvan Monster Rider

[Blight]

The current campaign I'm in consists of a bk merc, mind melter, juicer scout, bounty hunter, demi-god, and an operator/vampire hunter.

ok i'm stumped BK merc,.. Works for the Buger King "you'll have it your way or else!"
should have read on. Nice to meet another Eward fan. " Leave it to the executioner to invite death to the party"

[Ice Dragon]

Ice Dragon Hatchling
Amazon Demigodess
Full Conversion Borg
Dog Boy - German Shepard with SAMAS.

[Zer0 Kay]

My group line-up
Gnome Mage
Grackle Tooth Gun Fighter
Ex-CS Fixer
and a Holy Terror who disguised himself as a guy in CS Deadboy armor by using his invisibilty and skills for ventriliquism and puppeteering as well as carpentry to make a giant puppet.

They discovered a NEMA cryogenic research center... well actually fell into it.

The group discovered the truth about Dwain the Holy Terror so he gave up the farce. After helping the NEMA personell out of cryo and rebuilding the facility he went out to see if he could find a mount to support his weight, and hasn't been seen since.

The last cryo tube to be opened was locked up to prevent the emergence of a demon who possessed a member of the research team. In reality that demon is a:

Nightspawn Tinker Gizmoteer who has no control over his transformation.

[Greg Diaczyk]

My existing group/campaign is technically a Rifts game that includes:

True Atlantean Ley Line Walker
True Atlantean Demon Queller
Human Psyscape Psi-Ghost
Neo-Human
Human Rogue Scholar (more of a swashbuckling pirate/confidence man)

We had a Human Juicer Assassin, but he had to move away and the Character remained as an NPC (with some rather humorous antics based upon the original character concepts and e-mails from the originally player).

We also had a Dwarven Techno-Wizard who's player had to leave as work moved around his schedule and thus could no longer game. His character had a rune battle axe that (on a roll of a natural 1) went crazy, got possessed by the rune weapon and the other players haven't seen since....

There have also been a couple memorable NPC's: True Atlantean Mystic Knight, Elven Cyber-Knight, Human Metal Warrior (Rifts China 2), Dragon Hatchling and a Human looking D-Bee Momano Headhunter who tagged along with the group for a while or are still part of the group.

Power level: All are SDC creatures, some (like the Demon Queller & Neo-Human) can temporarily turn into MDC, but the rest rely on magic, technology or psionics for protection. They have encounter a vary degree of villains and monsters, everything from a pack of ravenous wild dogs/wolves (all SDC) to a high level Sunaj Assassin with over 1000 MDC (in total).

Good game, good group!

We are however taking a break for the summer as a newbie GM tries his stuff out and play tests some new rules for HU2 I've written for the Rifter (soon to be submitted...) So this should be fun!

[Danger]

Wow, some strange groups. I take it most people playing RIFTS are power gamers?

I don't consider myself a power gamer, nope.

[Dr. Doom III]

The group including NPCs

Male Wormwood Human Temporal Warrior
Female Chang-Ku Temporal Wizard
Male Full Conversion Borg Triax Monster
Male Asgardian Dwarf Rune Master
Male human Operator
Female human T-(wo)man
Female Silver Bell faerie
Male Human Juicer
Male Mutant Fox Gunslinger

[Danger]

Current New West Campaign

Human Techno-Wizard - Captain Nathaniel Robert Hayes III (That's me! )
Human Psi-Slinger - William 'Billy' Law
Human Hellfire & Brimstone Preacher - Josephine Winchester
Human Justice Ranger - Wyatt (No last name yet)
Human Shifter - Alister Greyson (I keep joking that his first name should be Richard. )

Previous Characters

Human Earth Warlock - Jebidiah Stone (Now playing the Shifter)
Human Gambler - Alibaster (don't recall last name)
Human Cyberknight - Catherine (don't recall last name)

[Zer0 Kay]

My group line-up
Gnome Mage
Grackle Tooth Gun Fighter
Ex-CS Fixer
and a Holy Terror who disguised himself as a guy in CS Deadboy armor by using his invisibilty and skills for ventriliquism and puppeteering as well as carpentry to make a giant puppet.

They discovered a NEMA cryogenic research center... well actually fell into it.

The group discovered the truth about Dwain the Holy Terror so he gave up the farce. After helping the NEMA personell out of cryo and rebuilding the facility he went out to see if he could find a mount to support his weight, and hasn't been seen since.

The last cryo tube to be opened was locked up to prevent the emergence of a demon who possessed a member of the research team. In reality that demon is a:

Nightspawn Tinker Gizmoteer who has no control over his transformation.

Just a slight correction:
Gnome Burster (The little gal loves to burn things).

And Zer0 can't play just a normal juicer or nothing, oh no... He has to play the RIFTS version of Bruce Banner with his Nightspawn. Of course he's not just MDC, he has 52 freakin skills. At least he's not toting around that 'dummy' anymore like he was doing with the holy terror.

You shouldn't have corrected me. I didn't realize she was a burster, you could have left me beleiving she was just a mage.

Hey I should add an extra weakness that he can't use any technical skills while in his morphous would that be more "balanced"?

Hey and like you said it is after all a "Bruce Banner" I'd hate to just give him one or two technical skills and call him a scientist. He's got a ton of modern weapons but when have you seen him use one and with his other weaknesses when would he ever be able to, what maybe the first turn of combat?

[Zer0 Kay]

My group line-up
Gnome Mage
Grackle Tooth Gun Fighter
Ex-CS Fixer
and a Holy Terror who disguised himself as a guy in CS Deadboy armor by using his invisibilty and skills for ventriliquism and puppeteering as well as carpentry to make a giant puppet.

They discovered a NEMA cryogenic research center... well actually fell into it.

The group discovered the truth about Dwain the Holy Terror so he gave up the farce. After helping the NEMA personell out of cryo and rebuilding the facility he went out to see if he could find a mount to support his weight, and hasn't been seen since.

The last cryo tube to be opened was locked up to prevent the emergence of a demon who possessed a member of the research team. In reality that demon is a:

Nightspawn Tinker Gizmoteer who has no control over his transformation.

Just a slight correction:
Gnome Burster (The little gal loves to burn things).

And Zer0 can't play just a normal juicer or nothing, oh no... He has to play the RIFTS version of Bruce Banner with his Nightspawn. Of course he's not just MDC, he has 52 freakin skills. At least he's not toting around that 'dummy' anymore like he was doing with the holy terror.

You shouldn't have corrected me. I didn't realize she was a burster, you could have left me beleiving she was just a mage.

Hey I should add an extra weakness that he can't use any technical skills while in his morphous would that be more "balanced"?

Hey and like you said it is after all a "Bruce Banner" I'd hate to just give him one or two technical skills and call him a scientist. He's got a ton of modern weapons but when have you seen him use one and with his other weaknesses when would he ever be able to, what maybe the first turn of combat?

Theres a vast, vast, VAST ocean of difference betweein two skills, and 52. I mean, how many skills does a rogue scientist get? But he's a cool character nonetheless and you haven't really abused his power so far.

...So far....

Which power the nightspawn or the gizmoteer?