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Well Im gonna buy another book soon and was wondering what book the masses thought I should get? It doesn't have to be a rifts book either just I mostly am a rifts player so I posted it here. I mostly use books from other role plays as ideas and conversions for rifts.

Something not inherently a gaming text but that could be useful as source material for gaming. Like a book on conspiracies, cryptozoology, folklore, etc..

Well, first of all do you have all of Palladium's books?
HU2, After The Bomb, Palladium Fantasy, Ninjas & Superspies, and Robotech all make great Rifts sourcebooks/dimension books.

Second, go to your local gaming shop and see what they have in the way of old D&D modules and issues of Dragon Magazine or Dungeon. Since D20 came out, lots of people have been selling their old stuff for cheap. It won't matter to you that it's obsolete since you plan on just converting or sifting through for ideas. Some of those old adventures have awesome ideas that could transfer to other games, and the old Dragon Magazines have good articles on gaming, GMing, traps, dungeon ideas, character ideas, monsters (The "Ecology of..." are usually really good), and stuff for all sorts of genres of game.

Third, if you haven't read them already, read the following novels:
-The Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
-The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, by George R. R. Martin
-Any of Charles de Lint's modern fantasy books of short stories
-"Santiago", "Soothsayer", "Widowmaker", "A Miracle of Rare Design", "Ivory", "The Dark Lady", and pretty much any other novel by Mike Resnick
-The "Book of Swords" series, by Fred Saberhagan (Including "Empire of The East", if you can find it)
-"Armor", by John Steakley
-"Starship Troopers", by Heinlein

That'll probably keep you busy for the weekend...

If you're talking a new fiction book, try the Dark Tower by Stephen King, one of my personal favorites, I'm reading the last book right now. It's an interesting, very weird world Roland the Gunslinger lives in, but very rich, very cool.

I agree with Killer Cybord on 'A Song of Fire and Ice' by George RR Martin. Love this series, no black/white good/bad.

I also like the Farseer series by Robin Hobb. And the Rhapsody(sp?) series by...can't remember her name. And the Sword Dancer series by Jennifer Roberson.

Grymhammer

Thanks for all the responses. Ill definitly going to search around for those books.

RPG books... Buy nightbane... at least the main books.
not RPG... William gibson novels are super good... maybe robot series asimov.

Larsen wrote:Well Im gonna buy another book soon and was wondering what book the masses thought I should get? It doesn't have to be a rifts book either just I mostly am a rifts player so I posted it here. I mostly use books from other role plays as ideas and conversions for rifts.

I would say to wait for Splicers. From what I am hearing a game with much potential.