Whenever I check out a new game I always roll up between five and twenty blackbirds characters for the setting. Often times I don't even get a chance to play the game, as with Rifts or Trinity Aeon.

I always hoped they'd swallow their pride and put out a D20 version of Rifts. I mean, even if you hate D20 it's worth it for the crossover potential alone! You could run into anything from a drug-crazed half-ork to a jedi knight.

Rifts is a post-holocaust game wherein detonation of hydrogen bombs on earth along the mystical ley lines opened up portals to other worlds and dimentions. As such, Earth became a mish-mash of cultures and confederacies and magic came back into the world, existing side by side with high technology much like Shadowrun. I always thought a D20 crossover guide would be a natural choice for the series.

Personally, I like Nightbane better. Nightbane is about a group of young persons who discover they aren't human when the sun, moon and stars disappear for 24 hours in the year 2000.

These people are actually shape-shifters, who can manifest their personality onto their bodies, thus becoming stronger/faster and usually MUCH scarier.

At the same time, the rulers from where these shape-shifters originally came from decide to invade Earth, but they do so using cold-war tactics.

Basically, the characters are to deal with the invasion, while trying to come to grips with their new monstrous forms.

It was. And although it can be fairly munchkin at times, there's good opportunities for RPing.

It's by the same person who wrote Witchcraft (with the exception of the last book).

Sadly, the only books that actually talk about the protagonists are the main book, and the second book. The third deals strictly with bad-guys. The 4th deals with moratal wizards. And the last is basically about angels... (Ya...)