My Life As A Gamer: Playing RIFTS Like A Braunstein

Recently on Twitter, Jeffro Johnson mentioned that there was one well-known game that would be fantastic candidate for a truly epic Braunstein-style of play. No less fantastic than Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, more fantastic than Call of Cthulhu, more than Star Wars, and it is not at all owned or control by Death Culists. That game is Palladium Books' Rifts

When I say "epic", I mean it.

Imagine having players play every single major NPC as a Patron. Emperor Prosek? Player-controll Patron. Lord Splynn of Atlantis? Patron. The various major powers of the Three Galaxies? Patrons. The Lords of Hell and Hades? Patrons. Other Gods? Patrons. Naruuni? Patrons. Major governments? Patrons. Cosmo-Knights? Each one a Patron and a character in the ordinary sense.

AD&D can get there, and an all-inclusive HERO campaign can get there, but RIFTS goes there out of the box.

What should be assessed, therefore, is how well Palladium's ruleset does at allowing users to achieve this potential, which is what I will do over the next several days.