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Summary: So far the best of the three GT:Alien Races books!
Review: The book is well written and contains 5 sections, each dealing with one of five alien races - in this case the two major races Hivers and Droyne, the mysterious Ancients and two strange minor races (Inheritors and Lithkind). Each section has an in-depth description of the race, its history and culture and its relations to other races, adventure seeds, racial templates and some equipment and starships. Also included comes a set of cardboard Droyne coins, that can be used in their casting ceremonies (rules and suggestions for their use and a table that can be used instead of the coins are included in the Droyne section).Of course the two major races (each gets about 50 of the book's 144 pages, the Hivers section including short descriptions and templates for some of the other races from the Federation, like the Ithklur and the Gurvin) and the Ancients (about 20 pages) are coverd more in detail than the two minor races (ten pages each). Still even they contain a lot of good background information and offer many adventure possibilities to any campaign set near the 2000 worlds and the Hiver Federation. I found the book to be extremely usefull, especially (as they contain a lot of stuff I will probably use in my GURPS Traveller campaign) the Droyne and Ancients sections. I don't know if there is a lot of new information (as compared to supplements from Classic Traveller and other editions of the game), but if you are playing GURPS Traveller and intend to include any of these races in your campaign, this book is well worth its price. In my opinion it's the best of the three GT:Alien Races-books so far published by Steve Jackson Games.
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