Jackmoore

Hey Jack, I used to play a good deal of Rifts and had a lot of fun playing and as the GM. The game is a good kitchen sink game where anything goes. So without a good GM and some players with some sense, the game can easily get out of hand. The thing that I don't like about the game is that it started out as a post-apocalyptical game of exploration and survival but has since turned into something else altogether, not that, that is entirely a bad thing. The number of attacks thing is a hold-over from a bygone era. I would just give every character a single attack or action every 5 seconds and see how that works. I also think that the game could do with a serious rules update, but that it won't happend because of the backlash against WotC for releasing 3e and nor 4e. Anyway you are the second Rifts player from the Dallas area that I've ran across in the last two days. You should contact Genesplicer.

Actualy, Palladium itself has already offered an alternative for the two spells per melee. Low level spels, 1 through 6 I belave, can be cast in two actions, mid level, 7 through 10 I think, take 4 actions, and high level spels, anythoing over 10th, take eight actions. The funny thing is, that my last group made an almost identical adjustment to the rules before they even came out with that. The alternate rules are in ederation of Magic, not sure of the page referance.

Also, I know exactly what kirksmithicus means about common sense. We had one player who loved to combine multiple cross overs in a single character. Ever see an FF7 cetra salor scout Starfleet officer Borg? I have. He was an excelent RPer, one of the groups best in fact, but we did ocasionaly have to restrain his 'creativity,' like when he wanted to try and convert the whole magic system into a FF7 materia style.