#94 – Rifts Inspiration from Marvel's Avengers
Join us for a fun thought experiment, in which we take the characters from Marvel's Avengers (primarily the MCU versions) and use them as root inspirations for a similarly-focused adventurer team in the Rifts role-playing game. We are very specifically _not_ just re-creating them in the system, but instead looking through the Rifts catalog for options to create characters using those heroes as thematic templates. Included is a deeper discussion on how the seeming lack of balance in the game can actually wor
Join us for a fun thought experiment, in which we take the characters from Marvel's Avengers (primarily the MCU versions) and use them as root inspirations for a similarly-focused adventurer team in the Rifts role-playing game. We are very specifically not just re-creating them in the system, but instead looking through the Rifts catalog for options to create characters using those heroes as thematic templates. Included is a deeper discussion on how the seeming lack of balance in the game can actually work in the story at your table just as well as it would an Avengers movie.
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Links of Note:
- Rifts RPG 1st Edition, Digital
- Rifts RPG Ultimate Edition, Digital
- Rifts Ultimate Edition, Hardcover
- Rifts Conversion Book Two: Pantheons of the Megaverse, Digital
Credits:
- Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
- Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
- Episode Length (We support chapters!): 34:11
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