This is a pretty nice book. It’s a collection of “revised” modules from First Edition. The three modules held within the book are: Riders of the Maelstrom, Death in the Undercity and Tatooine Manhunt. These are pretty good adventures, overall. One is a pretty thorough adventure with the Quarren and Mon Calamari. While I haven’t actually ran any of these adventures, I’d say that they are done pretty good. There are a couple of rather cheesy (in my humble opinion) computer generated pictures for the Tatooine Manhunt. I’m sure these were probably added in with the 2nd edition revision. Fortunately there aren’t too many of these.
One nice thing that this book does have is the fact that it kept the nice layout from first edition modules. The rules of the scenarios are easy to follow and well laid out. There are even some very good maps in these books for floor plans to some ships and bases. These are helpful just by themselves. There are also a couple of templates in here that don’t show up anywhere else: the Mon Calamari Mediator and the Quarren Deep Hunter. Both of these are decent and could be used elsewhere.
Overall, this series of books are very nice to have. They help out those people that can’t get their hands on the actual First Edition modules, and probably end up costing less than getting three separate modules. Granted, you probably lose a little of the added extra from the modules (fold-out maps and handouts) but these are still good books.
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