RIFTS - The Fuzion Edition
Last Updated: 12-29-98
In order to use this material, you will need the Atomik Magic, Atomik Cybernetics, and Atomic Psionics
Plug-ins from the The Atomik Fuzion Web Site.
Character Points
- The way I see it, there is no way to balance out character points as given in the Rifts basic rules.
Some of the OCC's are just more powerful than others. So what follows is an attempt to make interesting
characters that fulfill the basic ideas in Rifts, not an exact conversion.
- Base Points: Characteristics: 50
- Options (Skills, Perks and Talents): 50
- Special Points: 50.
- Use the "special Points" to buy Equipment, Power Armor and Vehicles, Magic and Psionics. This gives
humans a balanceing factor against mages, Psychics, Cyborgs, etc. It also answers the questions that I
always have had about starting with PA's - if you buy you have it, if not, you will have to acquire it
during game play.
Attributes
- Use the 10 basic Fuzion Stats
- Stats are scaled as per fuzion, obviously, some characters will exceed 10. Hopefully,
Stats will not exceed 20!
A quick conversion formula for stats is: Rifts Stat/3 = Fuzion Stat
Skills
- Create a skill list?
- Allow skill specializations?
- Skills are scaled as per Fuzion
As a start on special Abilities, you may want to look at the
The Atomik Fuzion Web Site
Psy Powers
The Atomik Psionics Plug-in is,
in my opinion, the best way to handle psionics. Psionics cost OP as listed, not PP. Minor
Psionics are best represented by low power levels and skills
- Use appropriate Night's Edge psy skill or build with talents
and Powers.
- Night's Edge takes precedence for assigning these.
- Night's Edge powers cost 1 end per 5 points of Difficulty.
- Use Power skill is by Rifts Psi Catagory: Sensitive,
Physical, Healer, Bleeder, Nega.
- Super Psionics should be built with Champions: The New
Millenium with EC's or Multipowers as appropriate. Each Super Psionic
Power is a seperate Use Power SKill.
Magic
- Use seperate magic skills by type: Shifter, Mystic, LIne Walker,
Temporal, etc.
- Mage class special abilities should be designed with Fuzion
powers plugin.
- build individual spells with Champions: the New Millenium
Mecha
- Build with Mekton Zeta Plus and Convert over using BGC:
Before and After
- Size and weight should be a indication of scale.
Personal Equipment
- make a list of basic equipment in Fuzion terms
- Give both DC and Fraction Kills values
Cybernetics
- Use the Cyberpunk 2020 cybernetics list.
- Use Empathy cost as listed
- use Cyberpsychosis rules from Dark Metropolis
- Assign a Option Point cost to purchase cybernetics as beginning
character
Racial Character Classes
- RCC's should be represented by a package to purchase. Purchase of the
package is "all or nother".
- The majority of characters should be human based
Occupational Character Classes
- Design Fuzion-style occupations for these.
