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Did you play a full campaign with them? How did it go?

Well, I 've run a campaign which all of the players were non-humans set in the U.S. west coast. Considering humans are one of hundreds of intelligent being on rifts earth it makes sense. Since we stayed away from coalition lands entirely the players did not have to deal with any large scale prejudice. The only player that had anyone react to him was playing a hatchling dragon, but even then it was not a kill at first sight situation. IT depends on mainly how the d.m. and players want to run the game.

Sure you could emphasize how d-bee's are treated in some areas, but this gets old real fast and players in general don't want to have to hide their identities or be on the run all the time. This causes players to quite real quick. ON a last note one of the players was using a robot character similar to data in star trek and the player actually liked trying to play the character as trying to discover new things about the society of "organics" that he found himself in.

I have only run a few game with two different gaming groups. In each one there was one human character, but there were other human like character like one player was an atlantean stone master.

"all robot" What do you mean by this?

All borgs? All Bot/PA Drivers? All Androids?

The more I think about it, the more I really like the idea of an all d-bee game. Especially if you drop them a wee bit outside CS territory; just far enough where there could be some unofficial interactions without worrying about a kill squad showing up.

All robot pilots - yes. We ran a bunch in Robotech games, so this was nothing new when we swapped over to Rifts. The first Rifts campaign we were all either Robot Pilots or Power Armour pilots.

All D-bee? Yeah definitely ran all d-bee campaigns. Mostly human-like enough to pass or adept enough to disguise.

I don't really see a problem with all d-bees, even in coalition territory - I mean the 'burbs' are full of d-bees, right? The coalition isn't hunt and kill every d-bee on sight; or if they are they are not very good at it.

I mean, even if you just limit yourself to Rifts Earth and treat the Coalition as genocidal maniacs who kill any and all d-bees on sight, the Coalition States are a tiny, minute fraction of the world you have available to you to play in. I'm not really sure why just the mere idea of an all d-bee group is baffling.

That said, I do find groups where everyone is the same basic type of class rather boring. Whether it be robot pilots, magicians, psychics, or anything else, you don't really get the opportunity to stand out or bring something unique to the party unless everyone finds some really hyper-specialized class within the group (a psi-ghost vs. a psi-tech for example). But if everyone's, say, a Mind Melter or something, that's going to be pretty boring, at least for me. Robot pilots fall pretty close to that side of the fence, as most robots/power armor are just variants of one another.