Rifts Conversion Book 1

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Summary: Great Conversion Book! Clarifications on everything!
Review: Dozens of monsters, racial characters, and NPC's for your campaign. Small and Large powerhouses of every shape and size. It gives you alot of decisions when creating your campaign and adds an element of unexpectedness when something suddenly pops up. Provides lots of tables for random percentage role from robot hit tables to energy rifle and pistol availability on the Black Market. Also provides conversions for every major Palladium book on the market!!

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Summary: A recommended resource for combining role-gaming campaigns
Review: Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, Rifts Conversion: Book One by Kevin Siembieda is a straightforward player manual for blending source materials for role-playing games based upon the Palladium Fantasy multiverse, and which includes the rules for combining aspects of game universes such as Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, as well as over 100 monsters, stats for over 40 optional player races from giants to wolfen, and much, much more. Rifts Conversion: Book One is an excellent and highly recommended resource for combining role-gaming campaigns and play styles under a seamless and balanced set of rules.

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Summary: The Conversion Book is Essential to Running a Rifts Campaign
Review: This book is aboslutely essential to running a successful Rifts campaign. Don't let the title throw you off. Only a few chapters of the book (less than half of the overall book) actually cover conversion rules from other Palladium systems. The rest of the book is a virtual bestiary, a Monsters Manual for Rifts! The book has a huge assortment of creatures for a GM to use against his players, and the monsters vary wildly in power, from ones perfect as first-level adversaries, to adult horned dragons! Stats are included for all of them, of course. The only reason I give this book a nine instead of a ten is because it failed to provide conversion rules from any other non-Palladium RPG. But overall, I found the book extremely valuable.