Context on where I'm coming from: I've never played Rifts. If you were to check my post history you'd see I'd posted my attempt at a Sohei Warrior Monk (out of the Japan WB) a couple years ago, so I spent time refreshing my memory rather than learning from scratch. I have the most actual experience with Pathfinder 1E, Starfinder, and Shadowrun 5th edition (though as with Rifts I look into a variety of systems and have played a few others). I prefer systems that have as clear of a RAW answer to a given situation as possible, which means I have to be a bit flexible to even engage with Rifts as a system. I'm mostly interested in the more out there stuff Rifts has to offer, not so much the more down to earth classes, in this case Atlantis-related things.
How I Did Chargen: I really have no interest in rolling dice during character creation. I don't want anything about a character's long term mechanical ability to come down to a randomized die roll. Even in a system that is openly unbalanced between OCCs, I'd rather be able to pick my attributes and not have to worry about being screwed over for PPE because I rolled badly one time. Fortunately, since these characters are not for anything specific, I could do whatever I wanted. Here's how I worked things:
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As for the characters, it took me many hours to parse the rules on how exactly things were supposed to go (or failing that how I wanted things to be played) and make my choices. Hopefully there aren't too many mistakes made here
Also I'm leaving out a bunch of periods from attribute abbreviations and so on in this writeup, as well as the calculations of skill values since that's a lot of extra typing.Character 1: Mirka the Altaran Warrior Woman (and escaped slave)
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Character 2: [Name Pending
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Wireframe Backstory Notes: I don't have anything really definitive, I was mostly just interested in building the characters mechanically, and I'm pretty tired of typing at this point, but the thought is this:
Mirka is an especially beautiful Altaran (by traditional human standards I guess? whatever PB means). The extra attention this garnered her in addition to the usual slave driving was unbearable, and drove her to trying to escape her masters even though she knew it meant likely death. As luck would have it, as she made a run for it she ran into our True Atlantean character here, who ended up helping her escape Atlantis. Mirka is an ammeter pulp romance writer, though she writes in Braile since she's blind and has done her best to hide her hobby from everyone she can. I find it especially funny that the art for the Tattooed Voyager OCC pictures them standing over an unconscious Altaran Warrior Woman. They both have some skills and abilities to hopefully try and blend in with whatever society they visit (probably NA since that's the default setting for Rifts and I want to try it
).Like I noted at the top, I have plenty of thought about this system and setting from this process and all the lurking I did on this forum recently, but this typing took a lot of time already so I don't think I can type any of that out right now. Thanks to anyone who looked through all this and replied
