Month: May 2020

Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 28, 2020

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One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

Greetings and salutations. There is a lot going on in this Update: A new sale, the return of the Rifts® Bestiary Megaverse® Insider offer, several titles back in print, updates, and info, so please, read on.

One sale has ended. I am glad so many of you took advantage of the Dead Reign® sourcebook sale. This is one of my personal favorite game settings. A setting I fear that is sometimes mistaken to be simple and limited. A perception I’m trying to change, especially with sourcebooks like Dark Places™, Endless Dead™, Hell Followed™ and the upcoming In the Face of Death™. I think people should go pretty wild over In the Face of Death™. It is different with a bold new approach (or two) to the setting, characters, and lots of adventure. Not to mention some characters and villains that are pretty out there, in a fun, good way. I am pushing the envelope and Wow Factor in all our game settings.

A new Rifts® SALE begins – Atlantean Adventures. Yeah, I decided to put some Rifts® titles on sale for your enjoyment. Details below.

By the way, the PDF Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural™ Sale continues on DriveThruRPG through June 2.

SPECIAL OFFER: Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two Megaverse® Insider deals are back for a limited time. The Rifts® Bestiary Two Megaverse Insider launched a week before the coronavirus madness struck. So I said we would bring the offer back for those of you who missed out in March due to, well … you know. It is back for a short time. See details below.

The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG and a number of other titles are back in stock; see descriptions below. Read on for all the juicy details.

New Rifts^® SALE – Atlantean Adventures

Recently, a number of people have brought up how much they love the Rifts® Atlanteans and the Splugorth. Me too. Every Atlantean title seems to be inspired. In fact, I was so inspired to write Rifts® World Book 2: Atlantis back in the day, that I cranked it out in three weeks, and it is still one of my favorite books. Of course those three weeks did not include the many months the ideas for Atlantis had been percolating in my head before I put them down on paper. So that’s the new sale: titles with Atlanteans, Splugorth and Atlantis in them, or which have some connection to Atlanteans or Atlantis. Enjoy.

Rifts® World Book 2: Atlantis – truly epic! Atlantis described, the Splugorth and their monstrous minions and slave races, Bio-Wizard weapons and devices, symbiotes, and more.
Rifts® World Books 21: Splynn Dimensional Market™ – where it is said a person can buy whatever he wants, if he is willing to pay the price. A player’s and Game Masters’s dream full of magic, weapons, gear, and enemies! New Splugorth slave races, Bio-Wizard Weapons, Bio-Borgs, TW vehicles, symbiotes, notable merchants and shops, and more.
Rifts® Dimension Book 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans™ – 60+ new Magic Tattoos, 60+ Shadow Magic spells, 50+ Crystal Magic spells, Stone Pyramids mapped and described, the Sunaj Assassins, Atlanteans’ dark history, and loads of secrets.
Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria – Lemurian people and O.C.C.s, living Bio-Armor and vehicles, Biomancy, Biomancy War Steeds, monsters and more.
Rifts® World Book 7: Underseas – The menacing Lord of the Deep, an enemy of Atlanteans and Lemurians, 20 creatures, Ocean Magic, Whale Song magic, the New Navy, aquatic human mutants, and more.
Rifts® World Book 1: Vampire Kingdoms – Everything you need to know about Rifts vampires, their Kingdoms in Mexico, Ciudad Juarez, town creation rules, and more.
Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook – Vampire hunters and their weapons, Reid’s Rangers, the Yucatan Peninsula, werebeasts, Soulcrafting and more.
Rifts® World Book 6: South America – The Anti-Monster, Biomancy, mutants, strange people, notable kingdoms, weapons, Splugorth and secrets.
Rifts® World Book 9: South America 2 – 30+ O.C.C.s/R.C.C.s, the power and magic of the Nazca Lines, the Arkhon aliens, power armor, weapons, and ancient gods.
The Rifter® #52 – Atlanteans, Magic Tattoos, Rune Weapons, Cannibal Magic.
One week only.

Rifts^® Bestiary Volume Two Megaverse^® Insider Offer is BACK for a limited time

We were off to a great start in March, but then the Covid-19 pandemic exploded onto the scene and everything went kablooey. I said then I would re-offer the Megaverse® Insider for Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two, so here is your second chance to participate. Getting your name in a book is always fun, the two variant hardcovers are sweet and always a very limited numbered collectible (under 150 each with Volume One), and you can still get a Benefactor offer if you want one, at least for the moment. You get a ton of stuff and an original piece of concept art among other things. My thanks to those of you who sent me reminders to make the Volume Two Megaverse® Insider available again.

What is a Megaverse® Insider offer? A way to pre-order fun and unique, special Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two related products available ONLY during the limited few weeks that the Megaverse® Insider is running. When it ends, these special items are no longer available, which is what makes you an “Insider.” Only those of you who participate are guaranteed these special collector items at “Insider” prices. And most of the offers automatically get your name published in the credits page of the book as one of our “Insiders.”

Please note that the super-limited bundles are sold on a first come, first served basis and a couple are sold out. Most other categories are limited to only what is actually ordered plus some extra for the Palladium crew, and special events like charity auctions. Making them very limited collectibles. Available only from Palladium Books.

Note: PLEASE SEE the store description for the complete details of each Insider Offer. The short descriptions below are only a brief summary. Thank you and enjoy. – Kevin Siembieda

Inside Help: $5 – Cat. No. 12041 – Inside Help gets your name listed under “Inside Help” in the Insider Acknowledgment section of the book. The Purchaser can list his or her own name or submit the name of a fellow player, Game Master, friend, child, sibling, spouse, parent, or loved one he or she would like to acknowledge.
In Memoriam: $5 – Cat. No. 12042 – List the name of a loved one who has passed away recently or long ago, but whom you would like to acknowledge. This can be a fallen friend, Game Master, player, parent, sibling or other loved one. Their name gets listed under “In Memoriam” in the Insider Acknowledgment section of the book.
A “Real” Character Tribute: $10 – Cat. No. 12043 – List the name of one of YOUR favorite fictional RPG characters (not a literary character from a book, comic or film – but a fictional game character) you have played or one of your fellow gamers has played that you’d like acknowledged.
Cyber-Insider Volume TWO PDF: $16 – Cat. No. 12044 – You get your name listed under “Cyber-Insider” in the Insider Acknowledgment section of the printed book and a PDF copy (not the printed book) at least 6 months before it is made available to the public. Ships around the time that the physical book ships from the Palladium warehouse.
Retro-Cyber-Insider Volume ONE PDF: $16 – Cat. No. 12034 – You get your name listed under “Retro-Cyber-Insider” in the Insider Acknowledgment section of the printed Vol. Two book and a PDF copy (not the printed book) of Volume One within a few days of placing your order. Yes, this is the same book that is available on DriveThruRPG, but it gets your acknowledgment published inside Volume 2 (but not V.2 unless you order it).
Palladium Insider – Color Cover Hardcover: $50 – Cat. No. 12045 – You get a signed, limited edition hardcover featuring a Color Cover plus your name listed in the book in the Palladium Insider section of the printed book. Note: See the store description for complete details at PalladiumBooks.com.
Imperial Purple Beast Insider – Foil Hardcover: $75 – Cat. No. 12046 – You get a signed and numbered, limited edition, Purple Foil Collector’s Hardcover + your name listed under the Imperial Purple Beast Insider of the printed book. Note: See the store description for complete details at PalladiumBooks.com.
Enhanced Imperial Purple Beast Insider – Foil Hardcover & PDF: $90 – Cat. No. 12047 – You get a signed and numbered Purple Foil Collector’s Hardcover Edition, your name listed, and the PDF of Vol. 2. Note: See the store description for complete details at PalladiumBooks.com.
Top Insider Package – $145 – Cat. No. 12048 – You get both Volume Two hardcover books, both signed, the Vol. Two PDF, a dragon head sketch by Siembieda, a limited color print + your name listed in the book. Note: See the store description for complete details at PalladiumBooks.com.
Ultimate Insider Package – $200 – Cat. No. 12049 – You get both hardcover books signed, PDF of Vol. 2, Siembieda dragon head sketch, Walton monster sketch in foil hardcover, 5 limited prints, name listed in book, plus a signed Rifts® Lazlo “Raw Preview.” Note: See the store description for complete details at PalladiumBooks.com.
Benefactor (Limited to a total of 12 Benefactors – 5 remain) – $500 – Cat. No. 12050 – You get both hardcover books signed, a PDF of Vol. 2, Siembieda dragon head sketch, Walton monster sketch in foil hardcover, something Top Secret, 10 limited prints, your name as an unstatted character in the book, name listed in book, signed Rifts® Lazlo “Raw Preview” AND an original concept art sketch. Note: See the store description for complete details at PalladiumBooks.com.
SOLD OUT! Monstrous Benefactor – (Chimera-Builders; limited to 5 people.)
SOLD OUT! Ultimate Benefactor – (Limited to one. A ton of stuff plus build and name a monster, get your face to appear as a person with the creature, the original art, and more.)

BACK IN STOCK: The Mechanoid Invasion^® RPG Trilogy

Dystopian science fiction at its best. This is the very first RPG published by Palladium Books (1981). It presents three settings and three generations of heroes fighting the malevolent, world devouring, Mechanoids. Strange robotic beings who seem to hate and target human occupied worlds and their allies. It was originally released as three small comic book chapters and settings. Each a different generation and a different fight, but they are all collected into this one book. Written and illustrated by Kevin Siembieda, with Erick Wujcik and Bill Loebs contributing.

The Mechanoid Invasion® (1981) – The humans on a colony world struggle against the monstrous mecha that threaten to devour their world.
The Journey™ (1982) – Humans take their battle for survival to the Mechanoids, invading the invaders’ giant spaceships and living between the walls like rats as they seek to learn more about their nemesis and sabotage them from within.
Homeworld™ (1982) – A new generation of humans and their alien allies unite to try to stop world eating aliens, taking the fight to the monsters’ homeworld only to find it (mostly) abandoned. If this sounds similar to Robotech®, bear in mind that it was written BEFORE that famous anime series was created. There must have been something in the global zeitgeist at the time.
The Mechanoids, other aliens, humans, psychics, mutants, and more.
Weapons and equipment, spaceships, maps, and a few surprises.
See the game that helped to launch Palladium Books.
Artwork by Kevin Siembieda. Additional art by William-Messner Loebs, Erick Wujcik and James Osten.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, with additional text and ideas by Erick Wujcik.
Requires some modification to use with Rifts® and other games.
208 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 400. Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Game Master Guide^™

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ is a massive 352 page reference book with short stats and descriptions for every Rifts® robot, power armor, body armor, vehicle, weapon, gadget, skill, experience table, and map that appears in Rifts® World Books 1-23 and Sourcebooks 1-4, plus a bionics index, an O.C.C.s and R.C.C.s index, rules clarifications, combat examples, advice on how to run a game and more.

500+ weapons.
290 pieces of equipment.
180+ vehicles.
100+ suits of body armor.
80+ suits of power armor.
300+ skills, character and D-Bee index, dozens of maps, and more.
352 pages – $28.99 retail – Cat. No. 845 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Conversion Book^™ 3: Dark Conversions^™

Dark Conversions features Undead legions, were-beasts, demons, supernatural menaces, Nigthbane® conversions, plus Elemental beings, the Shifter and Witch revisited, adventure ideas and more.

120+ monsters, including legions of undead.
Nightbane® Conversions for use in Rifts®, Phase World®, and Chaos Earth®.
Conversions for Elemental Beings (Fantasy), Diabolism, Summoning.
192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 852 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

This big, 376 page role-playing game is everything you need to start playing Rifts®. Just add some dice, some players, and a heaping helping of imagination and you are ready to go.

If you have never played the rich, unpredictable, genre-melding Rifts® setting, you are missing epic adventure that never grows old, because anything is possible. No other RPG blends science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural in such a plausible and dynamic way. A setting that lets you play any type and style of game you can imagine. With characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers that challenge the imagination. And those are just a tiny handful of the O.C.C.s you can play in Rifts®. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and other beings available as player characters. All of it set on an Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. So check it out, build your character, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, or psychic.
Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, Scout, Assassin, and more.
140+ magic spells, plus Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and more.
90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different alien, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and other beings, many available as player characters.
There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
376 page hardcover, some color – $41.99 retail – Cat. No. 800HC – available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Island at the Edge of the World^™ (Fantasy)

Island at the Edge of the World™ reveals some of the little known history of the Palladium World, the Time of a Thousand Magicks, the Changeling Inquisition, and dark secrets that could threaten the world. Learn about forgotten Crystal Magic (as powerful as Rune Weapons), the Church of Scar, the legendary Circle of Absolute Elemental Power, and frightening prophecies about the end of the world.

The hidden Crystal Forest and Crystal Palace.
The Psychic Science of Magic and Crystals.
New magic weapons and items.
The Town of a Dozen Fracts, an adventure setting.
The Valley at the Top of the World, an adventure setting.
The Island at the End of the World, an adventure setting.
Ancient ruins and additional places, people, and secrets of note.
First Edition rules. Requires some modification to use with Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Second Edition.
144 pages – $22.99 – Cat. No. 458 – Available now.

UPDATE: In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. Characters include children and teenagers, and heroes driven by madness. Human predators and other villains stalk the ruins of human civilization. Ruins inhabited by the omnipresent hungry dead.

This is a book that pushes the genre and challenges the imagination. It brings to focus a setting of heroic adventure that combines elements of horror, zombies, survival, and madness in a post-apocalyptic world with classic dungeon exploring and epic adventure. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead.

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – at the printer – ships June 10, 2020.

COMING! Creature Feature^™, a Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebook

The manuscript is in. Artwork is being created. And the world of Beyond the Supernatural™ is about to be expanded. This sourcebook builds on material that has appeared in various issues of The Rifter® but there is a ton of new material and information useful to both Game Masters and players.

A gallery of supernatural creatures. Some new. Some familiar, updated and expanded. All terrifying.
Rules clarifications and errata.
Game Master source material and advice on rules, psychic abilities, proximity and threat levels, I.S.P. multipliers, and more.
Advice about running modern horror RPGs and using supernatural creatures in your games.
Lots of adventure ideas, including an updated and expanded full adventure, “The Squatter.”
New background and setting information for the BTS setting and a few surprises.
Written by Steven Dawes, Kevin Siembieda, and others.
Art by Steven Cummings, Nick Bradshaw and others.
160-192 pages – $22.99 or $26.99 depending on final size – Cat. No. 704 – June or July release (tentative).

COMING! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

Coalition Manhunters™ reveals more Coalition States secrets along with new CS characters, more insight about the CS, new psionics, Psi-Battalion, and dangerous villains. All of it building toward something epic. Who watches the watchmen? CS Manhunters.

CS Manhunters are a secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion. The CS Manhunters hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also their own. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, and soldiers are trained killing machines who follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.

CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
CS Manhunter Mind Melters, deadliest of them all.
Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In Production – Shooting for a June release.

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is a high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics that will make gamers salivate. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.

New Giant Robots.
New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
New weapons, gear and vehicles.
Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
Android executives, security and much more.
Wellington Industries, Campaign prompts and more.
Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899. July or August.

COMING: Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

The second big, “monster book” reference for Rifts® of what we anticipate to be three volumes in the series, more if we decide to make ghosts, spirits and Entities and/or Creatures of Magic part of the Bestiary series. Much like Volume One, Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two collects 70-100 monsters and animals plus 12-24 new beasts found across Rifts North America. The anticipated page count is 224-256 pages.

All volumes of the Rifts® Bestiary™ series are a great resource for players and Game Masters alike. Each description is updated, expanded, and highly detailed to present players with exotic and alien creatures as pets, guardians and riding animals, as well as slobbering monsters to battle and fierce beasts for Game Masters to throw at their players. Designed to offer adventure ideas, offers notes on young, adult, male and female creatures, and all provide plenty of ways to enhance your characters and spice up adventures. Each is accompanied by a map that shows at a glance where the beast can be encountered. Ah, but in the presence of Rifts and magic means any of the creatures may appear anywhere in the world, so be on your toes.

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – Summer release.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

This is another book that is going to surprise and wow. New and insane psionics, some taken to the level of super-abilities due to the massive amount of P.P.E. energy surging across the planet and boosting survivors with ambient and alien energy. Some become heroes and defenders of fellow survivors. Some become power-mongers and killers. And still others become just one more monster or madman threatening to destroy humanity. I’m assigning some additional artwork for it this week.

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

I spoke with one of the contributing writers last week and his ideas for Bug Bears sounded fabulous. Because some of this material has appeared in past issues of The Rifter® you may think you know what to expect. You don’t. There is a lot of new and exciting material in this bad boy. Things you never knew and may have been afraid to ask.

MORE Material for Fantasy

Several different freelance writers have submitted additional and unexpected Fantasy material for sourcebooks. Though I have not had a chance to review any of them – too much on my plate at the moment as I stay focused on finishing books already in the pipeline – I am very excited by this turn of events. Palladium Fantasy is on the move! Heck, several game lines are.

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

Please remember, just because I do not mention or list a specific title in an Update, does not mean it has been removed from the production schedule. All it means is that we are focused and talking about more immediate, upcoming releases, or projects we are excited about that week, or there’s no substantive news to report. We are anxious to put as many books you’ve been waiting for into your hands as possible over the next 18 months, as well as new projects being worked on by freelance writers. That includes Rifts® Antarctica, The Disavowed™, Rifts® CS Arsenal™, Chaos Earth® First Responders™, Land of the Damned™ 3, Rifts® Living Nowhere™, Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebooks, more Fantasy sourcebooks and other titles. So if a book you are waiting for is not mentioned in an Update, it means there is nothing new to report, but it should still be in the pipeline and news for it will be coming in the weeks or months ahead. Right now, we are focused on releases for the next six months, which by our count is 6-7 titles. And many of them are in various stages of final production or development. We are shooting for one or two new physical book releases every month as well as a couple new PDF products on DriveThruRPG.

DriveThruRPG.com – SALE Dead Reign^® the Zombie Apocalypse AND Free In The Face of Death^™ Sourcebook Sneak Preview – Sale ENDS June 2

Free Sneak Preview of our latest, epic, Dead Reign® sourcebook: In The Face of Death™. It is at the printer and ships in a couple of weeks. Which inspired us to put ALL Dead Reign® titles and the Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG (modern horror) on sale. ENDS June 2, 2020.

Dead Reign® RPG – The core rule book. Easy to learn. A lot of fun. Fast action. Play ordinary people or more advanced post-Zombie Apocalypse O.C.C.s. Fight to survive against a unique array of zombies. Everything you would want from a zombie game and much more. Each sourcebook building and expanding upon a familiar yet unique and ever expanding setting.
Civilization Gone™ – More zombies, madmen and danger.
Dark Places™ – More zombies, traveling the sewers and steam tunnels, adventure ideas and danger.
Endless Dead™ – 10 zombies, 5 O.C.C.s, vehicle combat, info about the military, random tables, and more.
Fear the Reaper™ – Code and details about the iconic heroes.
Graveyard Earth™ – World overview, tables and more.
Hell Followed™ – 23 disasters, 11 zombies, 7 O.C.C.s, Masked Lunatics, and more. All easily adapted to other settings.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition is supernatural horror in the modern world. A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will have you wondering if this stuff could be for real. Play ordinary people, psychics or paranormal investigators. 14 Psychic Character Classes. 42 occupations for “ordinary” people. 100+ psychic abilities, creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules, includes more creatures and playing Victim Characters.
Boxed Nightmares™ adventure sourcebook, BTS 1st Edition rules.

Also New on DriveThru: Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One sets a new standard for “monster manuals,” with in-depth descriptions of the creature and its life cycle, a map for each, adventure hooks, notes on young animals (different than the adult and not just lower stats), creatures that can be tamed and used as guard animals, pets, riding animals, and S.D.C. stats for non-Mega-Damage game settings. The latter making this big 256 page sourcebook suitable for almost any world setting where such beasts are possible.

In the works for DriveThru in the weeks ahead: In no particular order, the 3rd Rifts® novel: Treacherous Awakenings™ – the book everyone has been waiting for because it has been out of print for years. It wraps up all the loose ends and is an exciting and satisfying read. We also have a new Rifts® novel in the pipeline from Will Erwin, Duty’s Edge™. And we have not forgotten about collecting The Hammer of the Forge™ (cosmic adventure across Phase World® and the Three Galaxies).

Recent on DriveThru – Rifts® Sonic Boom™. Follow the exploits of a CS platoon sworn to protect humankind from all threats, be they aliens, dragons, masters of magic or fellow humans out for themselves; the second novel in this trilogy, Deception’s Web™, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. All of it building up to the pulse-pounding events of the 3rd novel: Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings (coming soon). The Rifter® #84 offers adventure source material for Rifts® (Golems in the Myst), Heroes Unlimited™ (the City of Cascade by Wujcik and Reed), Palladium Fantasy RPG® (an Elven Kingdom), Beyond the Supernatural™ (an epic adventure, a short story, and a monster), Nightbane® (Spellbound O.C.C.), why The Rifter® is on hiatus, and more.

Also available: Free Garden of the Gods™ (Fantasy) and Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One Sneak Previews, and the Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet: A Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook to enable you to create Fantasy characters quickly (25 minutes!) and help you to update and manage them for years to come.

Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Three: Zombies, Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Two: Civilians and Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume One: Survivors. There are also paper miniatures for Heroes Unlimited™, Palladium Fantasy® and Rifts®. A new, up-to-date, PDF Palladium Books Catalog. Nightbane® Dark Designs™ sourcebook with 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, 18 new Morphus Tables, all other Morphus Tables collected and more. Systems Failure™ RPG, a 160 page RPG that deals with alien invasion and a post-apocalypse setting that is fun and dynamic. Civilization is on the verge of collapse when the so-called “bugs” invade and turn humans into zombie-like slaves. Monsters, heroes and fun. A complete RPG and setting. Rifts® World Book 34: Northern Gun™ Two: 256 pages of technology and fun. 30+ power armors, 30+ body armors, 15 combat vehicles, 45 vehicles (hovercycles, etc.), 10 robot haulers, the Robodome and more. Bizantium and the Northern Islands™: the northernmost part of the Known World, the Cold Born, Necromancy ships made from dead sea serpents, 15 creatures, Random Sea Monster Generator, and more. Rifts® Northern Gun™ One. This fan favorite might be thought of as the big book of giant robots – an in-depth look at Northern Gun, 70+ weapons, 27 robots, NG O.C.C.s, key people and places, and much more. Mysteries of Magic™ Book One: The Heart of Magic™ with Wizards, their Apprentices, nearly 60 new magic spells and remember, magic and monsters in the Fantasy RPG are easily adapted to Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, HU2 and other settings. Wolfen Empire™ Fantasy sourcebook, the Great Northern Wilderness and Killer Winters, 12 Wolfen Tribes, Wolfen military and society, 15+ creatures, 5 full adventures, 101 adventure ideas, random encounter tables, notable people, places, plus FREE Sneak Previews of The Rifter® #80, The Rifter® #81, The Rifter® #82, and more on DriveThruRPG.com.

Rifts® is a genre-bending setting that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse survival, magic, and endless possibilities for adventure. Imagine a near perfect world of advanced technology 100 years in the future. Then imagine that world crashing down overnight in an apocalyptic upheaval not seen since the formation of the planet. A Great Cataclysm caused by the explosive return of magic. Now fast forward 300 years into the future where magic, dragons, and mythic gods coexist with cyborgs, giant robots and super-science rediscovered from humanity’s Golden Age as humans rise from a lengthy Dark Age. But they must contend with countless alien life forms, monsters, and supernatural horrors from beyond the Rifts.
Rifts® core titles we would suggest: Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign and Rifts® Sourcebook One. Note: The Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition and Rifts® Ultimate, 2nd Edition are both available.
80+ Rifts® supplements, most of them available as PDFs with more coming. Where to start? Wherever sounds fun.
Rifts® Dimension Books™: Travel to alien worlds and dimensions via the Rifts for off-world adventure and intrigue.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebook series (all). Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
FREE Sneak Previews for Nightbane® Dark Designs™, Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™, Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity, and many other previews as well as free and low cost items that we make available. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so keep watching for them.
The Rifter® #1-84, ALL issues of The Rifter®. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for 3-6 different Palladium game lines. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure.
Splicers® RPG is like Iron Man meets Game of Thrones with elements of Terminator – except this army of Iron Men are clad in living body armor and wield living, organic weapons and devices. Created in 2004 by writer and game designer Carmen Bellaire, Splicers® was nominated for an Inquest Gamer Magazine Fan Awards Game of the Year, and has since developed a rabid fan base. Science fiction and horror where humans are forced to use genetically engineered, living weapons and organic war machines to battle an insane Artificial Intelligence and her robot legions. Unlike anything you have ever played before!
Splicers®: I Am Legion™ Adventure Sourcebook: 6 new Great Houses, 4 new Host Armors, 6 new War Mounts, 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new killer machines, new Bio-Enhancements, Amalgam creation tables, Legion and a series of adventures that build into a small campaign, and more.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 1st Edition Rules and sourcebooks. A unique world of magic, monsters and heroes. Dozens of nonhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and more. 100,000 years of history.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Rules and many sourcebooks. The expanded world of high fantasy, magic, mystery and heroes of every variety. Includes the Mind Mage and psychic abilities, mages and spells, magic circles and symbols, men-at-arms, scoundrels and a wide range of inhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and many more. 100,000 years of history.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition rule book and sourcebooks. Create any type of superhuman you can desire and bring comic book adventures to life.
Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse). The dead have risen. It is the battle for survival in the zombie apocalypse, but this setting is much more than your typical zombie game. Play ordinary people or special characters better equipped to survive and hunt zombies. Many unusual types of zombies.
Dead Reign® Sourcebooks: 6 sourcebooks from Civilization Gone™ to Hell Followed™ (the latter features stats for 23 disasters, masked lunatics, 11 new zombies, 7 apocalyptic character classes, and more) are available.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules. Supernatural horror in the modern world. Play ordinary people, psychics, paranormal investigators or for something different: Victim Characters!
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition: The complete, revised core game, 14 character classes and 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.
Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. An RPG setting we call superhero horror. Dark conspiracy, a secret, demon invasion starting with world leaders and law enforcement, and it is spreading. The player characters are the Nightbane®, reluctant superhumans who must turn into monsters themselves to unleash their powers and battle the evil that is clear only to them. A dark, sinister and challenging world of horror.
After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Planet of the Apes meets the X-Men! Animal creations, powers and more. Create any type of intelligent mutant animal you can imagine as friend or foe.
Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.
The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic world-view of humans vs aliens with superior technology.
The Palladium Weapon Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.
200+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more.
Heroes Unlimited™ Paper Miniatures – Two sets are now available!
Palladium Fantasy RPG® Paper Miniatures – Volumes #1-6 are available now. More are coming in the weeks ahead.
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Men at Arms – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Coalition Dead Boys – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Adventurers – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Practitioners of Magic (new) – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Extras (new) – $2.99
And more to come in the weeks ahead.

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

My eBay store is one of the few places where you can find original artwork by Charles “Chuck” Walton, Kevin Long, and others, as well as one-of-a-kind negatives from classic Rifts® and other Palladium RPG books (they look awesome framed!), rare Palladium collector hardcovers, signed books, other Palladium memorabilia, toys from my personal collection and other collectibles. Check every couple of weeks because we often post new stuff or offer a new sale. There is a sale on negatives starting today, in fact.

Other one-of-a-kind original artwork available by me (Kevin Siembieda), Kevin Long, Charles Walton II (money goes to the artist), other artists, as well as collectible negatives, prints, limited edition hardcovers, proofreader copies, out of print items, Star Wars toys, Marvel toys and many other toys and collectibles from my personal collection. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

Available now: One-of-a-kind book negatives. Negatives were very popular items at the Palladium Open House and people went crazy over them at Gen Con – including actor Joe Manganiello who scooped up a pile of TMNT negatives, while Palladium’s own Mark Oberle, Carmen Bellaire, Brandon Aten and a whole lot of Palladium gamers went for negatives from Rifts® New West, Lone Star and Free Quebec. Fun.

Negatives are unique and attractive, one-of-a-kind (on rare occasions two-of-a-kind if a page was replaced or a second edition was made) works of art that resemble woodcut art and are very dynamic conversation pieces. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black.

When our printer, McNaughton and Gunn, went completely digital, they asked if Palladium Books wanted the negs, otherwise they would be destroyed. Regrettably, I let a few dozen be destroyed, but the negatives of many books were sent to Palladium. They have sat in our warehouse for years until I started to offer them for sale. I have also started signing the negatives in silver and each comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Each negative comes on a white board inside a plastic magazine bag and looks fabulous framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening in a frame (each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches).

http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

Closing Thoughts

I hope everyone is hanging tough and enjoying the lessening restrictions of Covid-19 stay at home orders. I know a lot of people in the USA went out to visit family or go to the park and even the beach this past weekend. We are all doing okay here at Palladium. I know Wayne went to visit his Mom after a couple months of isolation and Alex went for a drive. Me, I did some yard work at home and at the Palladium office, watched some TV with Kathy, enjoyed a couple of nice home cooked meals, and worked on both Rifts® CS Manhunters™ and the Creature Feature™ BTS sourcebook. Both titles are coming along nicely and are going to be awesome.

I got hot writing Creature Feature™ after assigning artwork and having to read and condense descriptions for the artist. What started out as “notes” turned into several pages of writing and tweaks. Most of the art for Rifts® CS Manhunters™ is already done, though there will be a bit more needed. As I wrote in a Murmur, everything is giving me ideas, but I’m staying focused on Rifts® CS Manhunters™ and then CF. I think Rifts® CS Manhunters™ is only 2 weeks from being finished, and CF should be wrapped up pretty quick too. They will be followed by Rifts® Titan Robotics™ and Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two. Oh, there are a ton of other great books in the pipeline and ideas for many more, but these four are my most immediate summer projects.

Snag yourself one of the Rifts® Bestiary Two Megaverse® Insider Offers while you can as this is a limited offer (personally, I love the limited edition hardcovers). Enjoy the Rifts® Atlantean Sale from Palladium and/or the Dead Reign® and BTS PDF sale on DriveThruRPG (ending soon), check out the free Sneak Preview of In the Face of Death™, and keep those imaginations burning bright. Stay well and game on!

– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, & Gamer

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

More monsters and exotic animals of Rifts® North America as part of an ongoing series of Rifts® Bestiary sourcebooks. The first two or three Rifts® Bestiary™ books will focus on monsters and animals of North America. They collect creatures from all current World Books and Sourcebooks, plus some new creatures by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton, and others. Presented in alphabetical order, with maps showing their range and location at a glance.

Note: The Rifts® Bestiary™ series is more than a few big books of monsters, they are deliberately designed to provide players with a useful, living resource (pet, guard animal, riding animal, food source, etc.) as well as present many and varied opportunities for adventure and fun. Some creatures are helpful, some are inadvertently a threat or danger, while others are slobbering predators or wicked beasts that kill and eat you, or capture you, or sabotage you, or worse.

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America in a second easy to use sourcebook.
Predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Notable Splugorth hunting animals.
Some new creatures, but most are existing creatures.
Updated information where applicable.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Fully illustrated.
Art by Chuck Walton, Siembieda, Cummings, Bradshaw, Atkins, Ashbaugh, and many others.
192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 897. In production. Anticipating Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two to be a summer 2020 release.

In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – at the printer – ships June 10, 2020.

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

A secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion, the CS Manhunters hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also their own. Coalition soldiers, brass, government leaders, and anyone who becomes designated as having gone rogue, AWOL, or turned traitor (including the Disavowed), become targets of CS Manhunters to be tracked down and brought to justice. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, and manhunters are trained killing machines who follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.

More often than not, the assignment is straight-up find and terminate. If your name has been given to a Manhunter squad, your fate is sealed, and no one is untouchable. The CS Manhunters operate in secret, find their target, terminate, and vanish as if they were never there at all. They don’t seek credit or limelight. They serve their country from the blood-soaked shadows.

CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
CS Manhunter Psi-Healer.
CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Psi-Enforcer (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
CS Manhunter Slayer (a variation of the Psi-Slayer or Psi-Warrior).
CS Manhunter Mind Melter, the most insidious and deadliest of them all.
Weapons, gear, and tactics.
Some notable Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda. Art by Nick Bradshaw.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894.

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

The Garden of the Gods™ sourcebook is a toy box of gods, magical blessings, ancient artifacts, and hundreds of opportunities and adventure ideas for players and Game Masters alike.

The Garden of the Gods is a place of miracles and wisdom where people of all occupations and races, nobility and the poor, come to find inspiration, blessings and adventure. Many insist the gods themselves are present and may visit heroes and followers in dreams, visions, or in person as an avatar. The gods also look for champions and assign heroic quests and gifts of knowledge and magic. Here, all gods are equal and many a forgotten god seeks to be rediscovered and worshiped by offering blessings, vision quests, and magical artifacts to potential heroes to champion their name.

There is also an dangerous evil on the island of Lopan. An open wound in the earth known as the Black Pit, as well as dark gods within the Garden itself.

212 Blessings.
101 Magic Artifacts.
45 Forgotten gods.
50+ Curses and dark magic.
100+ Random quests and encounters, and each god offers adventure hooks.
Restore forgotten gods to power. Become a Champion of the Gods.
5 Weapons of destruction created by the Old Ones.
Godly insight, visitations, knowledge and purpose.
The Garden of the Gods and its protectors.
Ghosts, Faeries, mysteries, and ancient secrets.
Rumors of a secret way to the Land of the Damned.
The Black Pit, a place of legend and dark secrets. Is it a counterbalance to the good of the Garden or something more sinister?
Easily adapted to Rifts®, Phase World® and any game system. One game system – a Megaverse® of adventure!™
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 475.

**Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now**

Available now! The “Raw Preview Edition” of LotD-3: The Bleakness™, for Palladium Fantasy RPG®, is an advance copy of the unedited, unillustrated, working manuscript for this new Fantasy World Book. You get to see the unfinished book months before the final title is released. A rare look at the raw manuscript before final edit, rewrites and publication. Limited to a total of 200 copies.

This epic sourcebook presents the forbidden Land of the Damned in all its brutal glory. Includes information about the ancient and forgotten eldritch races, the Minotaur legions, dark magic, the Citadel, countless adventure hooks and ideas, and much, much more. The long awaited final book in the Land of the Damned series, with connections to the Garden of the Gods™ and the upcoming Lopan Fantasy World Book.

Limited collector’s edition – only 200 collector copies.
Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
A rare glimpse at the virgin manuscript and a work in progress.
Written by Matthew Clements, based on ideas by Kevin Siembieda.
96 pages – Limited Edition – $20.99 – Cat. No. 470-RAW – available now. Note: The finished book with artwork and more is anticipated to ship in a few months, but you can see what it’s all about right now and even start playing with this special Preview Edition!

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

Learn about Atlantean civilization, the many clans, the mysterious Sunaj, where they are found across the Megaverse, why they hide and why they hate the undead so much. Also discover the power of Shadow Magic, how various types of Stone Pyramids work, and much more.

60+ new Magic Tattoos.
60+ new Shadow Magic spells.
50+ new Crystal Magic spells and the Crystal Mage O.C.C.
Never before revealed Stone Pyramids described and mapped.
Stone Master and Undead Slayer, revisited.
Sunaj Shadow Mage and Shadow Assassin O.C.C.s.
The dark history, shame, and secrets of True Atlanteans.
Learn more about the famous Atlantean Tattooed Warriors, Undead Slayers, Stone Masters and other Atlantean heroes.
The Shadow Dimension and new Shadow Beasts.
Dark secrets of the sinister Sunaj secret society.
Who are the Sunaj and why do they hunt True Atlanteans?
Epic trans-dimensional adventure ideas and source material by Carl Gleba.
192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 890 – Available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

The Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet is a Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook, this sheet saves you time and hassle with each character you create. Available now, directly from Palladium Books AND DriveThruRPG.com – this is a digital, online product only.

Features & Benefits:

The Main Character Sheet Page collects the important data from across multiple tabs and puts it in one place for quick and easy reference.
Separate sheets examine character construction (worktable), Skills, Magic, Psionics, and Combat in greater detail.
Built-in leveling system that calculates skill advancement for you! Experience Tables for over 80 O.C.C.s already programmed.
Recognizes the percentages for nearly 150 skills, plus combat bonuses for over 20 Weapon Proficiencies and 7 Hand to Hand styles.
Calculates the speed and distance a character can run and jump based on character Attributes.
Also calculates how much a character can lift, carry, and throw for humanoids, Giants, and Supernatural Beings.
Add in your own Hand to Hand style, custom Skills, unique Weapon Proficiencies, and Experience Tables.
Estimated time to build a character reduced by 20% or more.
Instructions on how to use the sheet included, as well as a video walkthrough below.
Important Note: This character sheet is built to be used with Microsoft Excel 2010+ and it comes in .XLSX format. Opening this file in other spreadsheet programs is NOT guaranteed to work as intended.
Watch the Overview video here: https://vimeo.com/322271758

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

A storm has rolled in. A psychic storm. With the Coming of the Rifts, survivors are bombarded by terrifying visions and overwhelmed with powers and abilities they never asked for, and often cannot control.

Where do you hide from the madness boiling inside of you?

What would you do when you know evil lurks hidden among your fellow survivors?

Why do the voices of alien creatures speak to you?

How do you cope when the power you unleashed to destroy a monster and save the innocent, destroys everyone but you?

Have you become a hero or another monster born in chaos?

Are these powers your family’s salvation or their damnation?

Find out in Psychic Scream!

In the wake of the Coming of the Rifts, people begin to see ghosts and demons, they unleash lightning from their fingertips, command fire and water, hurl boulders and girders with their minds, and manifest a wide range of mental powers. Psionic abilities fueled by the explosive return of magic and the unchecked flow of dimensional energy that is off the charts.

Psychic abilities more powerful than anything known after the Two Hundred Years Dark Age. Wondrous and lifesaving. But also seething and out of control. The psychics’ own minds bombarded by feelings of dread, visions of horror, and the thoughts and emotions of everyone around them. For many, it is too much, sending them careening into madness. For others, it creates heroes forged from chaos.

Untamed psychic abilities. More powerful than anything known later on Rifts Earth.
New psychic powers and character classes.
New psionic monsters and invaders.
Insanity, side-effects and horror.
Adventure ideas and more. All people, powers and monsters that become myths and legends told about the events during the Two Hundred Years Dark Age.
Written by Taylor White and Kevin Siembieda.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 667.

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.

New Giant Robots.
New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
New weapons, gear and vehicles.
Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
Android executives, security and much more.
Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

The island kingdom described and mapped, rare and ancient magic, trade with the Old Kingdom, Centaurs, Western intrigue, and more.

History and overview.
Key cities and locations.
Lopan O.C.C.s and people of note.
And Old Kingdom City that is a trade partner.
The mysterious and nearly forgotten Mosaic Magic.
New monsters and magic, weapons and gear.
Written by Glen Evans.
192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 476.

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

Rifts® Antarctica is a truly compelling and exotic land beyond what anyone expects. A frozen continent transformed by the power of magic and alien wildlife. Long isolated from the rest of the world, Rifts, D-Shifting events and the threat of war have now brought the distant South Pole within reach. And unearthed something ancient and so dangerous that even the Splugorth fear it and dare not go there.

New alien monsters and D-Bees.
Strange new weapons and vehicles. Some left over from the Golden Age of Humanity, others completely alien.
The Splugorth’s secret outpost. More than it would seem.
A Splugorth zoo and place of secret Bio-Wizard experiments.
Snow and Ice Golems created specifically for the cold environment.
Danger from the elements, Ice Witches, Icecraft, and other horrors.
Vostok City, a city of magic carved from the ice itself.
Cold-weather skills, technology and survival techniques.
Ancient danger and dark secrets.
Written by Matthew Clements, Carmen Bellaire, and Kevin Siembieda.
160 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 898.

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

The Disavowed are so Top Secret that their existence is known only to a handful of the Coalition States’ most elite, top echelon, with Joseph Prosek II the mastermind behind the Disavowed operation, and Colonel Lyboc its shadowy face. Find out who these men and women are. How the Disavowed get away with using magic, traveling to other parts of Rifts Earth and even to other dimensions in pursuit of enemies and strategic information that cannot be had through conventional means. Learn about the secret parameters in which these hard-boiled warriors, secretly hand-picked by Joseph Prosek II, operate, why almost every mission is considered a suicide mission, and why they must forever be the Disavowed.

CS operatives so secret that even the top military and political leaders right up to Emperor Prosek know nothing about them. And if they did know, would they condone their activity or condemn it?
Are the Disavowed heroes or renegades? Assassins or soldiers? Madmen or super-patriots? Or a little of them all?
Unsung heroes who keep the CS safe, or thugs and pawns of a shadow agency within the Coalition government?
What role does the Vanguard play in this group?
How do they reward their D-Bee “teammates” when the mission is over?
What happens to the Disavowed when they have seen or learned too much? Adventure ideas galore and so much more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 892.

**COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook**

Rifts® Heroes of Humanity gave you updated Coalition Army O.C.C.s, ways to upgrade men-at-arms, new O.C.C.s, battle plans and strategies and tactics. CS Heroes of Humanity™ Arsenal provides an array of new Coalition hardware: weapons, armor, additional SAMAS, other power armor, robots, combat vehicles, gear and info.

New CS weapons and gear.
New CS SAMAS and power armor.
New CS robots and combat vehicles.
More secrets and information about the Coalition States.
Wild adventure opportunities, fun and more.
Part of the Minion War™ “Crossover” series.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Clements, Gleba and others.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 893.

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

Could the monsters known as Caterpillar Things be the larval form of the Mothman Monster? Is the Corrival Battler as aggressive and dangerous as adventurers claim? Are Darkhounds really magically mutated Dog Boys? Is that why they see Coalition soldiers as friends and allies? Ee-Bee Gee-Bees are kinda cute, how dangerous can they be? Is it true the animals and people slain by the Death Springer rise as zombies?! What on Rifts Earth is a Field Reaper?

This book reveals it all.

Designed with both Players and Game Masters in mind, with creatures that can be used as pets, companions, riding animals, attack animals, and even unlikely allies, as well as slobbering monsters and catalysts for adventure. Adult, juvenile, and young stages of life give every creature three different levels of power and danger. Presented as a complete ecosystem, with maps and details to bring each animal to life. All provide plenty of spice to add to your characters and adventures.

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail, updated and expanded.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found at a glance.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Powerful art.
Includes basic S.D.C. stats for each creature description.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton and others.
256 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 896 – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

A deluxe, limited, Gold Edition hardcover, signed and numbered by Palladium staff and maybe a few freelancers. It is the same content of unique creatures that can be used as familiars, pets, riding animals, guard animals, and slobbering monsters as the softcover edition in a durable hardcover. Very limited run of only 300 copies, numbered and signed by Kevin Siembieda, Palladium staff members and possibly available contributing artists and writers. Note: Historically, Palladium Books’ Gold Editions have doubled, tripled or increased in value many times over. Valued as cherished collectibles. Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. Please note the slight increase in price to $55.

Gold foil on a black faux leather hardcover.
Sewn and glued for long-lasting durability.
Only 300 signed and numbered copies.
Available only from Palladium Books.
Sold on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
Signed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium staff.
Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail.
Same contents as the softcover edition.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting; basic S.D.C. stats included for each creature description.
256 pages – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 896HC (Volume One). Shipping Now!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

The Rifter® #84 focuses on adventure in dark corners of various world settings. Places where danger threatens, monsters and evildoers lurk in the shadows, and people are in need of heroes. Adventure source material for The Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, and Rifts®. And remember, adventures and source material for one game setting can also be adapted to other world settings with some easy and obvious modifications. Most of all, have fun.

Rifter® #84 Highlights:

The City of Cascade™ by Erick Wujcik and Matt Reed, A modern city in desperate need of heroes.
The Kingdom of Raf-Chalon™ for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans. An Elven Kingdom in the Eastern Territory™.
Golems in the Myst™ for Rifts® by Greg Diaczyk. Techno-Wizard experiments go wrong and Golems run amok.
Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane® RPG by Ian Herbert.
An Adventure for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Kyle Osterberg.
The Dimma, a short story and a scary new monster for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes.
2021 Palladium Open House and other news.
Coming attractions, product descriptions and more.
96 pages – $14.99 retail – Cat. No. 184 – Shipping now!

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 21, 2020

Written by pb_addy on May 21, 2020. Posted in Weekly Updates. No Comments on Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 21, 2020

One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

In the Face of Death™ is different, fun, powerful, and at the printer. It was sent to the printer on Monday and I’m told my June 10th estimate is probably pretty close to when we will get the book.

In the Face of Death™ is truly epic and sweeping in scope. Like Garden of the Gods™, I was super-inspired. The ideas just kept coming and coming, and not the way you might think. I had all sorts of inspiration about the setting, game play, characters, and approaches to playing in the Zombie Apocalypse in ways that I don’t think have ever been done like this before. It was exhilarating for me as a game designer and writer, because I am excited to see how this material will inspire you and your games, and help spawn all sorts of ideas and new campaigns you might have never before considered.

Moreover, many of the ideas for adventures, characters, villains, etc., presented within the In the Face of Death™ sourcebook can be applied to many other settings, especially Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, Rifts® Chaos Earth®, and to a lesser degree Beyond the Supernatural™. Meanwhile, the material about kids as players and player characters, Masked Lunatic Heroes, the template of animal-like Human Predators, and more can be applied to ANY setting from Rifts® to Palladium Fantasy®. I hope In the Face of Death™ makes you look at the zombie apocalypse setting through a new lens that presents an endless wealth of ideas and adventure. See the new description elsewhere in this update.

FREE Sneak Preview of In the Face of Death™ (Zombie Apocalypse setting) on DriveThruRPG.com – so take a look. Please note this sourcebook is all about the people/player characters, courage, and adventure more than zombies. Making it universal and epic in scope.

Dead Reign® SALES! Dead Reign® sourcebooks are on sale in the Palladium online store, and the RPG, sourcebooks and Beyond the Supernatural titles are on sale on DriveThruRPG. See details below.

Update on Creature Feature™, a Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebook. The manuscript has been turned in for rewrite, additions, and final editing. New artwork is also being produced. I think this monster and adventure book is much more than what people are expecting or imagining. More details to follow. I’m excited and hope you are too. See the new description elsewhere in this update. Just one of many BTS titles in development.

Coming Back for a limited time: As promised, the Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two Megaverse® Insider shall be officially reactivated NEXT Week. This will be a limited offer lasting only 2-3 weeks. HOWEVER, it is activated in Palladium’s online store right now for those of you who might want to get a jump on placing your advance order for special Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two products, like the PDF months before it is offered to the public and hardcover collectors’ editions. All orders are charged to your credit card now, but product ships later this summer, probably August. Enjoy.

Update on writing in general: Despite the concerns and tough times resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic (or perhaps because of it), I seem to have newfound focus and clarity of vision for the company, our games, sourcebooks, and the future. Ideas are flowing like water and revelations have been a daily occurrence. That clarity and innovation is continuing with CS Manhunters™ and other titles. I am on fire when it comes to ideas and writing for all our books.

Gen Con® Cancelled. For the first time in the history of the event, Gen Con has been cancelled. I know that is a huge disappointment for everyone, not only gamers, but for the valiant Gen Con staff and its army of volunteers.

I, personally, think it is for the best. For anyone who has been to Gen Con, how on earth can you enforce social distancing in the game rooms, exhibitor’s hall, or anywhere during this epic event? There are thronging multitudes and lines everywhere: in the aisles, at panel talks, gaming events, the auction, food trucks, restaurants, and all the rest, packed with happy gamers from across the globe. I don’t know about you folks, but at least a couple of the Palladium crew come down with “con crud” after every Gen Con.

It is my understanding that Gen Con is looking into hosting a virtual event of some kind online, and of course, is already planning on ways to make the 2021 Gen Con bigger and better than ever.

Palladium Books plans to make available to you special Gen Con releases, offers, and fun during the Gen Con 2020 dates of July 30-August 2 to help make up for this disappointment. Whether this will be through Gen Con as part of their virtual event or independently (or a little of both) is yet to be determined. I will keep you posted.

Dead Reign^® SALE

With In the Face of Death™ at the printer and shipping in a few weeks, we thought it would be fun to put the Dead Reign® Sourcebooks on sale so you can start your zombie campaign now, before this latest sourcebook that expands the setting is released. Also see the FREE Sneak Preview of In the Face of Death™ on DriveThruRPG as well as the PDF sale happening there.

Civilization Gone™ – More zombies, madmen and danger.
Dark Places™ – More zombies, traveling the sewers and steam tunnels, adventure ideas and danger.
Endless Dead™ – 10 zombies, 5 O.C.C.s, vehicle combat, info about the military, random tables, and more.
Fear the Reaper™ – Code and details about the iconic heroes.
Graveyard Earth™ – World overview, tables and more.
Hell Followed™ – 23 disasters, 11 zombies, 7 O.C.C.s, Masked Lunatics, and more. All easily adapted to other settings.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition is supernatural horror in the modern world. A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will have you wondering if this stuff could be for real. Play ordinary people, psychics or paranormal investigators. 14 Psychic Character Classes. 42 occupations for “ordinary” people. 100+ psychic abilities, Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more. Figured with Creature Feature™ in the pipeline we would also offer BTS for sale. Enjoy.
One week only. Now through May 27, 2020. Not likely to be extended.

UPDATE: In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – at the printer – ships June 10, 2020.

COMING! Creature Feature^™, a Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebook

A gallery of supernatural creatures. Some new. Some familiar, updated and expanded. All terrifying.
Rules clarifications and errata.
Game Master source material and advice on rules, psychic abilities, proximity and threat levels, I.S.P. multipliers, and more.
Advice about running modern horror RPGs and using supernatural creatures in your games.
Lots of adventure ideas, including an updated and expanded full adventure, “The Squatter.”
New background and setting information for the BTS setting and a few surprises.
Written by Steven Dawes, Kevin Siembieda, and others.
Art by Steven Cummings, Nick Bradshaw and others.
160-192 pages – $22.99 or $26.99 depending on final size – Cat. No. 704 – June or July release (tentative).

COMING! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
CS Manhunter Mind Melters, deadliest of them all.
Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In Production – Shooting for a June release.

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

New Giant Robots.
New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
New weapons, gear and vehicles.
Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
Android executives, security and much more.
Wellington Industries, Campaign prompts and more.
Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899. July or August.

COMING: Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – Summer release.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

This big, 376 page role-playing game is everything you need to start playing Rifts®. Just add some dice, some players, and a heaping helping of imagination and you are ready to go.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Poker Decks – Available now

Both decks are gorgeous, different, and fun. Between folks stuck at home and the recent release of the four new Rifts® for Savage Worlds® sourcebooks, the Rifts® card decks blew off the shelf. We sent them in for reprint as soon as we could and they arrived yesterday. Both decks are full of powerful, fan favorite artwork and are fun to use or tuck away in your collection. Available now.

– Rifts® Poker Deck #1 Color – Cat. No. 2575

– Rifts® Poker Deck #2 Black & White Line Art – Cat. No. 2576

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® W.B. 17: Warlords of Russia^™ – Cat. No. 832 – now shipping

A toy box of whacked out Russian cyborgs, bionics, and weapons, plus the Warlords of Russia, their armies and politics, a glimpse at the Sovietski war machine, 17 new O.C.C.s like the Cossack Reaver, Hero-Knight and Ecto-Hunter, plus 10+ notable cyborgs, world info and more. And make sure you check out companion World Books: Mystic Russia™, Rifts® Sovietski™, Mindwerks™, Triax and the NGR™, and Triax™ Two for adventures across Eastern Europe.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault^™ – Cat. No. 855 – now shipping

Discover rumors about the Coalition States’ legendary Black Vault™. It is said to be a Top Secret depository for rare and powerful magic items and mystic artifacts the CS does not want loose in the world. 101 magic items and secrets await.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Aftermath^™ – Cat. No. 846 – now shipping

The siege on the Kingdom of Tolkeen was just a hint of Coalition Wars® to come. An epic overview of the world after the Siege on Tolkeen™ and before Megaverse® in Flames™. The far reaching impact of the fall of Tolkeen, the rise of the Federation of Magic, and what is going on around the world, including the CS, Lazlo, Archie Three, the brotherhood of Cyber-Knights, and others.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Vampire Kingdoms^™ – Cat. No. 802-E

Vampires with real bite. Different types of vampires and their hierarchy, minions, and undead abilities. Vampire society within the kingdoms of Mexico, the cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, town creation rules, Hero Vampires, Deluded Vampires, Vampire Hunters, and everything you ever wanted to know about vampires and a whole lot more. Epic adventure and the undead await. Vampires as they should be. Also see the epic companion, Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook (Doc Reid’s crusade and much more).

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Book of Magic^™ – Cat. No. 848

900+ magic spells, plus Techno-Wizard devices, Magic Tattoos, Nazca Lines, Whalesongs, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Ley Line Magic, Elemental Magic, Tattoo Magic, Symbiotes, Bio-Wizard Weapons, Rune Weapons, Techno-Wizard devices, herbs, fetishes, talismans, staves, wands, and much more! 352 pages of pure magic.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

MORE Material for Fantasy

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

DriveThruRPG.com – SALE Dead Reign^® the Zombie Apocalypse AND Free In The Face of Death^™ Sourcebook Sneak Preview

Dead Reign® RPG – The core rule book. Easy to learn. A lot of fun. Fast action. Play ordinary people or more advanced post-Zombie Apocalypse O.C.C.s. Fight to survive against a unique array of zombies. Everything you would want from a zombie game and much more. Each sourcebook building and expanding upon a familiar yet unique and ever expanding setting.
Civilization Gone™ – More zombies, madmen and danger.
Dark Places™ – More zombies, traveling the sewers and steam tunnels, adventure ideas and danger.
Endless Dead™ – 10 zombies, 5 O.C.C.s, vehicle combat, info about the military, random tables, and more.
Fear the Reaper™ – Code and details about the iconic heroes.
Graveyard Earth™ – World overview, tables and more.
Hell Followed™ – 23 disasters, 11 zombies, 7 O.C.C.s, Masked Lunatics, and more. All easily adapted to other settings.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition is supernatural horror in the modern world. A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will have you wondering if this stuff could be for real. Play ordinary people, psychics or paranormal investigators. 14 Psychic Character Classes. 42 occupations for “ordinary” people. 100+ psychic abilities, creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules, includes more creatures and playing Victim Characters.
Boxed Nightmares™ adventure sourcebook, BTS 1st Edition rules.

Rifts® is a genre-bending setting that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse survival, magic, and endless possibilities for adventure. Imagine a near perfect world of advanced technology 100 years in the future. Then imagine that world crashing down overnight in an apocalyptic upheaval not seen since the formation of the planet. A Great Cataclysm caused by the explosive return of magic. Now fast forward 300 years into the future where magic, dragons, and mythic gods coexist with cyborgs, giant robots and super-science rediscovered from humanity’s Golden Age as humans rise from a lengthy Dark Age. But they must contend with countless alien life forms, monsters, and supernatural horrors from beyond the Rifts.
Rifts® core titles we would suggest: Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign and Rifts® Sourcebook One. Note: The Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition and Rifts® Ultimate, 2nd Edition are both available.
80+ Rifts® supplements, most of them available as PDFs with more coming. Where to start? Wherever sounds fun.
Rifts® Dimension Books™: Travel to alien worlds and dimensions via the Rifts for off-world adventure and intrigue.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebook series (all). Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
FREE Sneak Previews for Nightbane® Dark Designs™, Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™, Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity, and many other previews as well as free and low cost items that we make available. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so keep watching for them.
The Rifter® #1-84, ALL issues of The Rifter®. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for 3-6 different Palladium game lines. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure.
Splicers® RPG is like Iron Man meets Game of Thrones with elements of Terminator – except this army of Iron Men are clad in living body armor and wield living, organic weapons and devices. Created in 2004 by writer and game designer Carmen Bellaire, Splicers® was nominated for an Inquest Gamer Magazine Fan Awards Game of the Year, and has since developed a rabid fan base. Science fiction and horror where humans are forced to use genetically engineered, living weapons and organic war machines to battle an insane Artificial Intelligence and her robot legions. Unlike anything you have ever played before!
Splicers®: I Am Legion™ Adventure Sourcebook: 6 new Great Houses, 4 new Host Armors, 6 new War Mounts, 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new killer machines, new Bio-Enhancements, Amalgam creation tables, Legion and a series of adventures that build into a small campaign, and more.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 1st Edition Rules and sourcebooks. A unique world of magic, monsters and heroes. Dozens of nonhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and more. 100,000 years of history.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Rules and many sourcebooks. The expanded world of high fantasy, magic, mystery and heroes of every variety. Includes the Mind Mage and psychic abilities, mages and spells, magic circles and symbols, men-at-arms, scoundrels and a wide range of inhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and many more. 100,000 years of history.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition rule book and sourcebooks. Create any type of superhuman you can desire and bring comic book adventures to life.
Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse). The dead have risen. It is the battle for survival in the zombie apocalypse, but this setting is much more than your typical zombie game. Play ordinary people or special characters better equipped to survive and hunt zombies. Many unusual types of zombies.
Dead Reign® Sourcebooks: 6 sourcebooks from Civilization Gone™ to Hell Followed™ (the latter features stats for 23 disasters, masked lunatics, 11 new zombies, 7 apocalyptic character classes, and more) are available.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules. Supernatural horror in the modern world. Play ordinary people, psychics, paranormal investigators or for something different: Victim Characters!
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition: The complete, revised core game, 14 character classes and 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.
Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. An RPG setting we call superhero horror. Dark conspiracy, a secret, demon invasion starting with world leaders and law enforcement, and it is spreading. The player characters are the Nightbane®, reluctant superhumans who must turn into monsters themselves to unleash their powers and battle the evil that is clear only to them. A dark, sinister and challenging world of horror.
After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Planet of the Apes meets the X-Men! Animal creations, powers and more. Create any type of intelligent mutant animal you can imagine as friend or foe.
Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.
The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic world-view of humans vs aliens with superior technology.
The Palladium Weapon Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.
200+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more.
Heroes Unlimited™ Paper Miniatures – Two sets are now available!
Palladium Fantasy RPG® Paper Miniatures – Volumes #1-6 are available now. More are coming in the weeks ahead.
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Men at Arms – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Coalition Dead Boys – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Adventurers – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Practitioners of Magic (new) – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Extras (new) – $2.99
And more to come in the weeks ahead.

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

Closing Thoughts: Memorial Day and You

If the Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us of anything, it is that life is uncertain and precious. Black lives and all lives matter. This coming Monday is Memorial Day. A time set aside to stop and reflect on the men and women who have given their lives in war in the name of our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It does not matter what your politics may be, these good souls have given their lives to the call of duty and fought for the high ideals of our democracy and the United States, and for you and me.

With the coronavirus pandemic – a war of a different sort – fresh in our lives, let us pause and give thanks (and a prayer for those so inclined) to all the people in service – military, police and first responders among them, both past and present, who have sacrificed their lives for us in more than one way. Not just for those who have paid the ultimate price with their own lives, but also for those on the front-line right now, who put their lives at risk to protect and help us.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart and from all of us at Palladium Books. Most of the men and women who have died and who keep fighting the good fight on our behalf are labeled heroes in the media. The sad truth is, you are mostly nameless, faceless warriors, healers, and workers who battle on our behalf without us ever knowing you. Whether you do so on foreign soil or here at home against terror, crime, or a microscopic enemy, I want you to know that you are not forgotten. We salute you and give you our heartfelt thanks and appreciation.

I know, it’s not enough, but it is all most of us can offer you. I know enough people in service and the medical field to also know that you do not do what you do, or sacrifice all that you do, for praise, recognition, or reward. Still, I want you to know we are thinking of you. Praying for you. And are grateful more than words can adequately express for all you do. With respect and appreciation.

– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, & Gamer

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America in a second easy to use sourcebook.
Predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Notable Splugorth hunting animals.
Some new creatures, but most are existing creatures.
Updated information where applicable.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Fully illustrated.
Art by Chuck Walton, Siembieda, Cummings, Bradshaw, Atkins, Ashbaugh, and many others.
192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 897. In production. Anticipating Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two to be a summer 2020 release.

In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – at the printer – ships June 10, 2020.

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
CS Manhunter Psi-Healer.
CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Psi-Enforcer (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
CS Manhunter Slayer (a variation of the Psi-Slayer or Psi-Warrior).
CS Manhunter Mind Melter, the most insidious and deadliest of them all.
Weapons, gear, and tactics.
Some notable Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda. Art by Nick Bradshaw.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894.

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

The Garden of the Gods™ sourcebook is a toy box of gods, magical blessings, ancient artifacts, and hundreds of opportunities and adventure ideas for players and Game Masters alike.

There is also an dangerous evil on the island of Lopan. An open wound in the earth known as the Black Pit, as well as dark gods within the Garden itself.

212 Blessings.
101 Magic Artifacts.
45 Forgotten gods.
50+ Curses and dark magic.
100+ Random quests and encounters, and each god offers adventure hooks.
Restore forgotten gods to power. Become a Champion of the Gods.
5 Weapons of destruction created by the Old Ones.
Godly insight, visitations, knowledge and purpose.
The Garden of the Gods and its protectors.
Ghosts, Faeries, mysteries, and ancient secrets.
Rumors of a secret way to the Land of the Damned.
The Black Pit, a place of legend and dark secrets. Is it a counterbalance to the good of the Garden or something more sinister?
Easily adapted to Rifts®, Phase World® and any game system. One game system – a Megaverse® of adventure!™
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 475.

**Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now**

Limited collector’s edition – only 200 collector copies.
Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
A rare glimpse at the virgin manuscript and a work in progress.
Written by Matthew Clements, based on ideas by Kevin Siembieda.
96 pages – Limited Edition – $20.99 – Cat. No. 470-RAW – available now. Note: The finished book with artwork and more is anticipated to ship in a few months, but you can see what it’s all about right now and even start playing with this special Preview Edition!

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

60+ new Magic Tattoos.
60+ new Shadow Magic spells.
50+ new Crystal Magic spells and the Crystal Mage O.C.C.
Never before revealed Stone Pyramids described and mapped.
Stone Master and Undead Slayer, revisited.
Sunaj Shadow Mage and Shadow Assassin O.C.C.s.
The dark history, shame, and secrets of True Atlanteans.
Learn more about the famous Atlantean Tattooed Warriors, Undead Slayers, Stone Masters and other Atlantean heroes.
The Shadow Dimension and new Shadow Beasts.
Dark secrets of the sinister Sunaj secret society.
Who are the Sunaj and why do they hunt True Atlanteans?
Epic trans-dimensional adventure ideas and source material by Carl Gleba.
192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 890 – Available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

Features & Benefits:

The Main Character Sheet Page collects the important data from across multiple tabs and puts it in one place for quick and easy reference.
Separate sheets examine character construction (worktable), Skills, Magic, Psionics, and Combat in greater detail.
Built-in leveling system that calculates skill advancement for you! Experience Tables for over 80 O.C.C.s already programmed.
Recognizes the percentages for nearly 150 skills, plus combat bonuses for over 20 Weapon Proficiencies and 7 Hand to Hand styles.
Calculates the speed and distance a character can run and jump based on character Attributes.
Also calculates how much a character can lift, carry, and throw for humanoids, Giants, and Supernatural Beings.
Add in your own Hand to Hand style, custom Skills, unique Weapon Proficiencies, and Experience Tables.
Estimated time to build a character reduced by 20% or more.
Instructions on how to use the sheet included, as well as a video walkthrough below.
Important Note: This character sheet is built to be used with Microsoft Excel 2010+ and it comes in .XLSX format. Opening this file in other spreadsheet programs is NOT guaranteed to work as intended.
Watch the Overview video here: https://vimeo.com/322271758

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

Where do you hide from the madness boiling inside of you?

What would you do when you know evil lurks hidden among your fellow survivors?

Why do the voices of alien creatures speak to you?

How do you cope when the power you unleashed to destroy a monster and save the innocent, destroys everyone but you?

Have you become a hero or another monster born in chaos?

Are these powers your family’s salvation or their damnation?

Find out in Psychic Scream!

Untamed psychic abilities. More powerful than anything known later on Rifts Earth.
New psychic powers and character classes.
New psionic monsters and invaders.
Insanity, side-effects and horror.
Adventure ideas and more. All people, powers and monsters that become myths and legends told about the events during the Two Hundred Years Dark Age.
Written by Taylor White and Kevin Siembieda.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 667.

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

New Giant Robots.
New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
New weapons, gear and vehicles.
Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
Android executives, security and much more.
Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

The island kingdom described and mapped, rare and ancient magic, trade with the Old Kingdom, Centaurs, Western intrigue, and more.

History and overview.
Key cities and locations.
Lopan O.C.C.s and people of note.
And Old Kingdom City that is a trade partner.
The mysterious and nearly forgotten Mosaic Magic.
New monsters and magic, weapons and gear.
Written by Glen Evans.
192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 476.

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

New alien monsters and D-Bees.
Strange new weapons and vehicles. Some left over from the Golden Age of Humanity, others completely alien.
The Splugorth’s secret outpost. More than it would seem.
A Splugorth zoo and place of secret Bio-Wizard experiments.
Snow and Ice Golems created specifically for the cold environment.
Danger from the elements, Ice Witches, Icecraft, and other horrors.
Vostok City, a city of magic carved from the ice itself.
Cold-weather skills, technology and survival techniques.
Ancient danger and dark secrets.
Written by Matthew Clements, Carmen Bellaire, and Kevin Siembieda.
160 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 898.

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

CS operatives so secret that even the top military and political leaders right up to Emperor Prosek know nothing about them. And if they did know, would they condone their activity or condemn it?
Are the Disavowed heroes or renegades? Assassins or soldiers? Madmen or super-patriots? Or a little of them all?
Unsung heroes who keep the CS safe, or thugs and pawns of a shadow agency within the Coalition government?
What role does the Vanguard play in this group?
How do they reward their D-Bee “teammates” when the mission is over?
What happens to the Disavowed when they have seen or learned too much? Adventure ideas galore and so much more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 892.

**COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook**

New CS weapons and gear.
New CS SAMAS and power armor.
New CS robots and combat vehicles.
More secrets and information about the Coalition States.
Wild adventure opportunities, fun and more.
Part of the Minion War™ “Crossover” series.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Clements, Gleba and others.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 893.

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

This book reveals it all.

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail, updated and expanded.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found at a glance.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Powerful art.
Includes basic S.D.C. stats for each creature description.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton and others.
256 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 896 – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

Gold foil on a black faux leather hardcover.
Sewn and glued for long-lasting durability.
Only 300 signed and numbered copies.
Available only from Palladium Books.
Sold on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
Signed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium staff.
Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail.
Same contents as the softcover edition.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting; basic S.D.C. stats included for each creature description.
256 pages – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 896HC (Volume One). Shipping Now!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

Rifter® #84 Highlights:

The City of Cascade™ by Erick Wujcik and Matt Reed, A modern city in desperate need of heroes.
The Kingdom of Raf-Chalon™ for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans. An Elven Kingdom in the Eastern Territory™.
Golems in the Myst™ for Rifts® by Greg Diaczyk. Techno-Wizard experiments go wrong and Golems run amok.
Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane® RPG by Ian Herbert.
An Adventure for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Kyle Osterberg.
The Dimma, a short story and a scary new monster for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes.
2021 Palladium Open House and other news.
Coming attractions, product descriptions and more.
96 pages – $14.99 retail – Cat. No. 184 – Shipping now!

Six fan-fave titles back in stock and ready to ship

BACK IN STOCK: Adventures on the High Seas^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 455 – Now Shipping

A big, fun book that sets sail around the known world and visits a dozen island ports including the Isle of the Cyclops, Y-Oda, Zy, the Four Sisters, Forbidden Island, the Floenry Islands, and others, each offering adventure opportunities, plus 12 O.C.C.s, character sheets, ships, Demon Black Ships, and more.

BACK IN STOCK: Civilization Gone^™, a Dead Reign^® Sourcebook – Cat. No. 231 – Now Shipping

Epic source material, a few variant zombies, 12 madmen and psychopaths including the Zombie Lover and Zombie Master, plus Bandits, Raiders, street gangs, house random encounter tables, and more. So much packed into this sourcebook.

BACK IN STOCK: Monsters and Animals^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 454 – Now Shipping

120+ monsters, 200+ animals. Suitable for almost any setting from Fantasy and Heroes Unlimited™ to Rifts® and Phase World®.

BACK IN STOCK: Armageddon Unlimited^™ (Heroes Unlimited^™) – Cat. No. 527 – Now Shipping

Can you stop the mad genius Doctor Vilde from bringing the Minion War and the end of the world to the Earth of HU2? New powers, new magic weapons, the Heroic Hellion, NPC villains, adventure, and more.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® World Book 3: Rifts^® England – Cat. No. 807 – Now Shipping

Strange creatures and monsters, Chiang-Ku dragon, magic wands and staves, Temporal Wizard and Raider, Temporal Magic, herbs, Nexus Knights, King Arthur and more.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Merc Ops^™ – Cat. No. 865 – Now Shipping

The name kinda says it all, merc jobs and job brokers, bounties, the 10 Most Wanted, plus weapons and gear and lots of adventure ideas.

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Palladium Books® – A Quick Mini-Update – May 19, 2020

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Palladium Books^® – A Quick Mini-Update – May 19, 2020

One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

Mainly I wanted to let you know that In the Face of Death™ is done. It is marvelous, and it is at the printer! I have not gotten a delivery date yet, but I’m guessing around June 10th.

Someone recently asked me if there was another zombie RPG on the market, and I could not say. I know that there had been a few one-shot zombie role-playing games over the years, and a number of zombie miniature games and video games, but a fully fleshed out Zombie Apocalypse RPG that pushes the envelope and challenges players like Dead Reign® and its sourcebooks, especially ones like Hell Followed™ and In the Face of Death™, I don’t think so.

I hope gamers enjoy In the Face of Death™ as much as I did writing it. Someone who recently saw the book loved it, but was especially impressed by the section about Resources. Saying that it felt real and was a viable survival guide for the real world. I’m not sure if I agree with that, and I do not pretend this is a “survival guide” for anyone but your fictional RPG characters, but it is a fun read and a very rich game resource.

In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse

It is time to fight back and do more than survive. In the Face of Death™ takes an approach to the Zombie Apocalypse unlike any other. This sourcebook is all about unique characters, adventures and heroism that goes beyond just surviving against impossible odds.

In the Face of Death is part survival guide, part cityscape-setting the likes of which you have never before considered or explored, and part adventure book built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and madness. Bold new adventures and heroes for the Zombie Apocalypse that will blow your mind.

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
Living on the rooftops in the heart of the city.
City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – at the printer – ships June 10 (estimated).

COMING! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™
A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

I’m dabbling with a number of new book projects, but my main focus of writing is Coalition Manhunters™. More Coalition States secrets are revealed along with new CS characters, more CS insight, new psionics, Psi-Battalion, and dangerous villains. And all of it is building toward something epic. Who watches the watchmen? CS Manhunters. I think that Coalition Manhunters™ is going to be a fun surprise for people and is the next book to be completed.

CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
CS Manhunter Mind Melters, deadliest of them all.
Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In Production – Shooting for a June release.

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

New Giant Robots.
New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
New weapons, gear and vehicles.
Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
Android executives, security and much more.
Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899. July or August.

COMING: Rifts® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – Summer release.

That’s all for now. Stay safe and game on!

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 14, 2020

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One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

In the Face of Death™, an epic sourcebook for Dead Reign®, has been typeset and is in the layout stage of final production. It should go to the printer on Friday or Monday! This book goes beyond the common tropes of the setting, characters, and adventures for the Zombie Apocalypse. Like Garden of the Gods™, it is filled with material for both players and Game Masters. I was truly inspired while writing it, which is why it grew from a 96 page book to 160 pages of crunchy and fluffy goodness.

I also have been working on Coalition Manhunters™, among other projects, and I remain hot writing and inspired. More Coalition States secrets are revealed and epic characters and dangerous villains are all part of this fun book. Who watches the watchmen? CS Manhunters. More insight on CS psychics, new psionics, Psi-Battalion, and fodder for adventure as we build up to something big brewing.

The power, magic, and majesty of role-playing games

The uncertainty and feeling of helplessness surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic is the worst of what we are all experiencing. Thankfully, we gamers have the power of role-playing games and our imaginations to help us through it, and that is something very powerful, indeed.

I’m not just talking about escaping into our games and exploring the infinite Megaverse®. I’m talking about how RPGs bring us together even under the worst of circumstances. How it creates lasting friendships and powerful memories. Memories, past and present, that bring us joy and laughter, fun and camaraderie the likes of which no other type of game can provide. It is why I love role-playing games and have dedicated my life to making them.

I was recently reminded about the power of role-playing games by the multitude of gamers – most of whom I have never met in person – who have been reaching out to me during these trying times. They have been sending me their thanks and words of appreciation that touch my soul and humble and inspire me.

I have gotten many warm and heartfelt missives, but one from a gent named Shane captures best what I’m talking about. His message was funny and sincere and full of warmth and energy. I loved reading every word, and I want to share it with you. I have shortened it, taking out the personal history, so I hope the words I am sharing are not diminished in any way.

Here, in part, is what Shane wrote, but dozens of you have shared similar sentiments with me. And I know many of you feel the same.

“Hey there team, I just wanted to get a word out to Kevin Siembieda. Hi Kevin, so when I was a kid, my older brother and his friends were playing this game called Rifts® … I have made countless characters, played countless missions and spent so many weekends getting lost in your world. You helped shape my sensibilities and my creativity. You’ve inspired me to make, to play and to balance.

“The effect Rifts® has had on my mind, I couldn’t even extrapolate. In high school, I would doodle characters and NPCs on my tests. In college I traveled home on the weekends to play Rifts® with my friends back East. Now, in this strange time, my old friends are contacting me from around the world, and we are playing Rifts® through video chat and connecting again like we haven’t in years.

“As I’m diving back into the books, re-reading the powers of vampires and more, getting to explore South America for the first time … I was overcome with this sense of gratitude and love, knowing that the adventures we went on meant as much to my friends as they did to me. They didn’t forget and they cared, they enjoyed, they loved these adventures just like I did.

“Now that I’ve opened this box, I now have nine friends contacting me for [new] missions. Some are doing solo, some are groups and some are trying to join other campaigns … Thank you Kevin for putting your heart and soul into the game I love. – S.S.”

You are very welcome Shane, but I don’t know any other way to make these RPGs and sourcebooks than to put my heart and soul into them. Thank you for so eloquently encapsulating the real power of role-playing games: the lasting friendships, the joy, and the wonderful memories that last a lifetime. I am so happy that you and many other gamers are gathering family and friends to reunite with old friends, and make new ones with new adventures filled with heroics and courage, fun and laughter built from the stuff of imagination. The fact that any of it is inspired by my work is humbling and gratifying. My thanks to you and the many other people who have reached out to me. Your kind words mean so much to me and help to fuel my energy to create new books and keep Palladium going.

I know the opening to this Weekly Update is unusual, but I was so touched by Shane’s message that I wanted to share it with you right away, not bury it in the middle of this Update.

When we role-play, we are the architects of more than just an evening of fun and adventure. It brings us together and unites us in profound ways I never imagined when I first started spinning my own tales of adventure way back when. I am humbled and elated that my silly little games and strange worlds can bridge space and time to reunite friends and families, and bring a little joy and laughter in dark and uncertain times. It is amazing to me that such a simple gesture can bring so much joy and love. That I am part of that is humbling beyond words. I’m just glad I can help in some small way. I have always been proud to be a role-playing gamer and storyteller. And I’m proud to be part of your world, your lives, as we travel through the Megaverse® together. Imagination is power. Please keep those glorious imaginations burning bright and make some new memories.

Um, now back to our regularly scheduled Update. For more personal insight, see Closing Thoughts.

Our luck continues to hold. Everyone at Palladium Books is healthy and hanging tough in isolation. I hope all of you are doing well and I pray that the easing of Stay-at-Home sanctions in many states goes well without serious incident. We need to reopen businesses in a smart and measured way. Fingers crossed for everyone!

I have been working away on my many fronts and my writing has been red hot. Inspired by you, your kind words, and continuing support via purchases of books and PDF titles. Thank you. New books are getting finished, artwork is rolling in, and I am toiling away for all our benefit.

Gamers really enjoyed our two sales, especially the Monsters & Aliens SALE on DriveThruRPG.com, so I will try to dream up a new sale in a week or two. The PDF of Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One remains a hot commodity and books across the board are selling well. Which is nice to see and very encouraging.

UPDATE: Low Stock product going to the printer. I will be sending in several titles for short run reprinting so we do not run out of things when distributors roll back into action next week. That includes Island at the Edge of the World (Fantasy) which sold out last weekend and The Mechanoid Invasion® RPG Trilogy that has been out of print for a while.

UPDATE: USPS Mail Service slow but steady: I have noticed the US Mail has been inconsistent and slow at times. I assume this is due to the situation with the coronavirus and the zillions of packages being delivered daily. So please be patient and understanding. Wait a few (3-5) extra days (make that 12-14 if sent by Media Mail). However, if it has been longer than that, please reach out to Palladium via the Help Desk or by phone (734-721-2903) and I will look into the matter as quickly as I can. I have noticed Media Mail, which usually takes 3-6 days to most locations, has been taking 3-16 days. Faster types of mail seem to be off by only a few extra days, and UPS seems to be as reliable as usual, or off by only 1-2 days. Note: If you call the office, you are almost certain to get the answering machine. Leave a message and your phone number and someone will get back to you.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

This big, 376 page role-playing game is everything you need to start playing Rifts®. Just add some dice, some players, and a heaping helping of imagination and you are ready to go.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Poker Decks – Available now

– Rifts® Poker Deck #1 Color – Cat. No. 2575

– Rifts® Poker Deck #2 Black & White Line Art – Cat. No. 2576

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® W.B. 17: Warlords of Russia^™ – Cat. No. 832 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault^™ – Cat. No. 855 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Aftermath^™ – Cat. No. 846 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Vampire Kingdoms^™ – Cat. No. 802-E

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Book of Magic^™ – Cat. No. 848

UPDATE: In the Face of Death^™ (Zombie Apocalypse) – in final production

In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide and part cityscape setting that I believe is unlike anything you have ever quite seen or considered before in a zombie RPG. I hope In the Face of Death™ makes you look at the zombie apocalypse setting in a new and expanded way that presents to you an endless wealth of ideas and adventure. The zombie element really puts such a fun and deadly twist on the traditional post-apocalypse game setting. One where survival after the collapse of human civilization is complicated by the fact that undead creatures lurk EVERYWHERE. It is like the movie A Quiet Place only even more horrifying and suspenseful. It combines elements of survival in a post-apocalyptic world, horror, zombies, madness, and classic dungeon exploring with a touch of something different and unique. This is a book that pushes the genre and builds a world of adventure built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and madness. It is very close to completion.

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
Survival in the urban environment.
Living on the rooftops in the heart of the city.
Urban homesteads, resources, defenses, traps, and more.
Death Cults, a different type of danger.
Bad people, Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, and more.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero, as player characters.
Kids, teenagers, and young survivors as player characters.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas to take your zombie campaign to new heights.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Nick Bradshaw.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle. Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – in final production.

COMING: Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

This is the second big, “monster book” reference for Rifts®. We anticipate three volumes in the series, more if we decide to make ghosts, spirits and Entities and/or Creatures of Magic part of the Bestiary series. Much like Volume One, Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two collects 70-100 monsters and animals plus 12-24 new beasts found across Rifts North America. The anticipated page count is 224-256 pages.

Each description is updated, expanded, and highly detailed to present players with exotic and alien creatures as pets, guardians and riding animals, as well as slobbering monsters to battle and fierce beasts for Game Masters to throw at their players. Each is designed to offer adventure ideas, offers notes on young, adult, male and female creatures, and is accompanied by a map that shows at a glance where the beast can be encountered.

You have seen Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One so you know what you can expect in Volume TWO, though we have some fun surprises planned for it. Much of the artwork is completed, the descriptions have been gathered, and the rewriting and expansions started. We are anticipating a summer 2020 release (Gen Con?). As soon as it is finished and arrives back from the printer, we ship it to you!

All volumes of the Rifts® Bestiary™ series are a great resource for players and Game Masters alike, with creatures that can be used as familiars, pets, riding animals, guard animals, and in some cases, even unlikely allies. Others are slobbering monsters or ravenous predators that include humans and D-Bees among their prey. All provide you plenty of ways to enhance your characters and spice up adventures. And each has a map that shows at a glance exactly where to find these beasts. Ah, but with the Rifts and beings like the Shifter and the Splugorth, any creature may appear anywhere in the world, so be on your toes.

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
224-256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – summer release, but taking orders now.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™

I think that Secrets of the Coalition™ States: Coalition Manhunters™ is also gonna be a fun surprise for people and is the next book to be completed. It provides a glimpse into the Coalition States’ Psi-Battalion and one of its top secret Special Ops divisions: the CS Manhunters. A group that can be played as new villains/antagonists or heroes depending on your game’s perspective. And I know folks are going to like the psionics. I’m assigning some additional artwork for it this week.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

UPDATE: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

When I needed a break from CS Manhunters™, I have been working on Rifts® Titan Robotics™ which is going to be truly epic. Titan Robotics™ is a high-tech toy box of new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics that will make gamers salivate. Both books will surprise you.

UPDATE: Creature Feature^™ – A Beyond the Supernatural^™ Sourcebook

Creature Feature™, a sourcebook for Beyond the Supernatural™, is going to be awesome. I have been chatting back and forth with author, Steven Dawes, who also sent me a section of rules clarifications to look over and it is excellent stuff. The writing is crisp and clear, and Steven’s enthusiasm and love for BTS is evident in every word. Btw, as I mentioned in a Murmur from the Megaverse, that is the secret of writing a great RPG or sourcebook, letting your love for the setting and its players spill out onto the page. This is definitely more than a collection of Rifter articles. Steven has been rewriting and expanding the original material. I am very excited, and this is just the first of four Beyond the Supernatural™ books that Steven is talking about doing. That does not include my own Beyond Arcanum™ (boy, do I have ideas boiling for it) and Tomes Grotesque™ sourcebooks.

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

MORE Material for Fantasy

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

DriveThruRPG.com – Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One is hot!

New on DriveThru: Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One sets a new standard for “monster manuals,” with in-depth descriptions of the creature and its life cycle, a map for each, adventure hooks, notes on young animals (different than the adult and not just lower stats), creatures that can be tamed and used as guard animals, pets, riding animals, and S.D.C. stats for non-Mega-Damage game settings. The latter making this big 256 page sourcebook suitable for almost any world setting where such beasts are possible.

Rifts® is a genre-bending setting that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse survival, magic, and endless possibilities for adventure. Imagine a near perfect world of advanced technology 100 years in the future. Then imagine that world crashing down overnight in an apocalyptic upheaval not seen since the formation of the planet. A Great Cataclysm caused by the explosive return of magic. Now fast forward 300 years into the future where magic, dragons, and mythic gods coexist with cyborgs, giant robots and super-science rediscovered from humanity’s Golden Age as humans rise from a lengthy Dark Age. But they must contend with countless alien life forms, monsters, and supernatural horrors from beyond the Rifts.
Rifts® core titles we would suggest: Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign and Rifts® Sourcebook One. Note: The Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition and Rifts® Ultimate, 2nd Edition are both available.
80+ Rifts® supplements, most of them available as PDFs with more coming. Where to start? Wherever sounds fun.
Rifts® Dimension Books™: Travel to alien worlds and dimensions via the Rifts for off-world adventure and intrigue.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebook series (all). Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
FREE Sneak Previews for Nightbane® Dark Designs™, Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™, Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity, and many other previews as well as free and low cost items that we make available. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so keep watching for them.
The Rifter® #1-84, ALL issues of The Rifter®. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for 3-6 different Palladium game lines. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure.
Splicers® RPG is like Iron Man meets Game of Thrones with elements of Terminator – except this army of Iron Men are clad in living body armor and wield living, organic weapons and devices. Created in 2004 by writer and game designer Carmen Bellaire, Splicers® was nominated for an Inquest Gamer Magazine Fan Awards Game of the Year, and has since developed a rabid fan base. Science fiction and horror where humans are forced to use genetically engineered, living weapons and organic war machines to battle an insane Artificial Intelligence and her robot legions. Unlike anything you have ever played before!
Splicers®: I Am Legion™ Adventure Sourcebook: 6 new Great Houses, 4 new Host Armors, 6 new War Mounts, 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new killer machines, new Bio-Enhancements, Amalgam creation tables, Legion and a series of adventures that build into a small campaign, and more.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 1st Edition Rules and sourcebooks. A unique world of magic, monsters and heroes. Dozens of nonhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and more. 100,000 years of history.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Rules and many sourcebooks. The expanded world of high fantasy, magic, mystery and heroes of every variety. Includes the Mind Mage and psychic abilities, mages and spells, magic circles and symbols, men-at-arms, scoundrels and a wide range of inhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and many more. 100,000 years of history.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition rule book and sourcebooks. Create any type of superhuman you can desire and bring comic book adventures to life.
Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse). The dead have risen. It is the battle for survival in the zombie apocalypse, but this setting is much more than your typical zombie game. Play ordinary people or special characters better equipped to survive and hunt zombies. Many unusual types of zombies.
Dead Reign® Sourcebooks: 6 sourcebooks from Civilization Gone™ to Hell Followed™ (the latter features stats for 23 disasters, masked lunatics, 11 new zombies, 7 apocalyptic character classes, and more) are available.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules. Supernatural horror in the modern world. Play ordinary people, psychics, paranormal investigators or for something different: Victim Characters!
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition: The complete, revised core game, 14 character classes and 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.
Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. An RPG setting we call superhero horror. Dark conspiracy, a secret, demon invasion starting with world leaders and law enforcement, and it is spreading. The player characters are the Nightbane®, reluctant superhumans who must turn into monsters themselves to unleash their powers and battle the evil that is clear only to them. A dark, sinister and challenging world of horror.
After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Planet of the Apes meets the X-Men! Animal creations, powers and more. Create any type of intelligent mutant animal you can imagine as friend or foe.
Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.
The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic world-view of humans vs aliens with superior technology.
The Palladium Weapon Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.
200+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more.
Heroes Unlimited™ Paper Miniatures – Two sets are now available!
Palladium Fantasy RPG® Paper Miniatures – Volumes #1-6 are available now. More are coming in the weeks ahead.
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Men at Arms – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Coalition Dead Boys – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Adventurers – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Practitioners of Magic (new) – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Extras (new) – $2.99
And more to come in the weeks ahead.

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

Closing Thoughts

I think I was born to be a storyteller. It is in my blood. My DNA. As a storyteller and game designer, I love to create worlds for others to visit and explore. I love helping gamers find and spin their own stories of adventure, courage, and friendship.

I’m compelled to do it. Everything gives me ideas for new games, new worlds and endless heroes and adventure.

I cannot describe to you how happy I get when I’m on a roll writing. Often the ideas come so fast and hot that they don’t even feel like my own. I jokingly say it feels like aliens are beaming transmissions into my brain and all I can do is try to write them down as fast and complete as I can before the transmission ends for the day. Crazy, right? But let me tell you, those frequent moments are an amazing joyride for me. An adrenaline fueled ride filled with excitement and wonder that powers my imagination.

The whole time I’m thinking of you. Thinking about how you will love to play this character or that, or how much a new concept or idea will send you on new epic adventures or wow you. I imagine how excited you’ll be to encounter a particular monster or villain, or to get a new power, and how your heroes will use it to do good, or how that may lead to more adventures. I get excited, like a child on Christmas morning, when a new setting, idea, concept, or approach to character development, gaming, or storytelling manifests out of thin air. I love it when I know I’m presenting something that will inflame your imaginations and inspire you to carry your own adventures to new heights and new places.

It may sound odd, but I always have you in my mind as I write. It is the Game Master side of me looking for new ways to intrigue and delight or horrify you. I have not seen most of the Palladium Defilers in decades, and yet they are here with me every single day as I write. I see their young twenty-something smiling faces and think about how they would react to what I’m writing. I am always thinking of them and you, and how much they and you will like and respond to new ideas, characters, powers, and challenges. I smile as I write material that I know will make you – yes, grown men and women – squeal with delight. They and you inspire me to push and challenge myself. To think of new approaches to role-playing and to push the envelope. I want to surprise and thrill you. I want to give you ways to breathe new life and laughter and epic adventure into our games. Shane was right earlier in this Update, I do pour my heart and soul into every book, because I love what I do and because it is a required part of the magic in making these games. I love everything about role-playing games, from running them to designing them and handing them off to you so you can weave your own adventures.

I am grateful and thrilled to be the catalyst of bountiful and joyful memories and friendships. I am humbled and still awed that my words and art touch people so deeply, and that they inspire other people to game, write, draw, design games, create their own worlds and legions of heroes, and to pursue their own creative course. That, my friends, is more RPG magic.

Though I grew up poor, my parents taught me to dream and encouraged me to follow those dreams. I hope I am paying that gift forward to all of you. Please, stay positive, stay safe, and dare to pursue your dreams. That journey can be hard work and challenging, but the results can be astonishing and wondrous. Remember, you are not isolated, trapped, or alone. Your friends and family and complete strangers are ready to go on adventures with you in realms of role-playing and imagination. Go there often and enjoy every moment.

– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, & Gamer

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America in a second easy to use sourcebook.
Predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Notable Splugorth hunting animals.
Some new creatures, but most are existing creatures.
Updated information where applicable.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Fully illustrated.
Art by Chuck Walton, Siembieda, Cummings, Bradshaw, Atkins, Ashbaugh, and many others.
192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 897. In production. Anticipating Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two to be a summer 2020 release.

NEW! In the Face of Death^™ – A Dead Reign^® Sourcebook – In final production

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
Survival in the urban environment.
Living on the rooftops in the heart of the city.
Urban homesteads, resources, defenses, traps, and more.
Death Cults, a different type of danger.
Bad people, Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, and more.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero, as player characters.
Kids, teenagers, and young survivors as player characters.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas to take your zombie campaign to new heights.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Nick Bradshaw.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle. Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – in final production.

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
CS Manhunter Psi-Healer.
CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Psi-Enforcer (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
CS Manhunter Slayer (a variation of the Psi-Slayer or Psi-Warrior).
CS Manhunter Mind Melter, the most insidious and deadliest of them all.
Weapons, gear, and tactics.
Some notable Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda. Art by Nick Bradshaw.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894.

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

The Garden of the Gods™ sourcebook is a toy box of gods, magical blessings, ancient artifacts, and hundreds of opportunities and adventure ideas for players and Game Masters alike.

There is also an dangerous evil on the island of Lopan. An open wound in the earth known as the Black Pit, as well as dark gods within the Garden itself.

212 Blessings.
101 Magic Artifacts.
45 Forgotten gods.
50+ Curses and dark magic.
100+ Random quests and encounters, and each god offers adventure hooks.
Restore forgotten gods to power. Become a Champion of the Gods.
5 Weapons of destruction created by the Old Ones.
Godly insight, visitations, knowledge and purpose.
The Garden of the Gods and its protectors.
Ghosts, Faeries, mysteries, and ancient secrets.
Rumors of a secret way to the Land of the Damned.
The Black Pit, a place of legend and dark secrets. Is it a counterbalance to the good of the Garden or something more sinister?
Easily adapted to Rifts®, Phase World® and any game system. One game system – a Megaverse® of adventure!™
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 475.

**Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now**

Limited collector’s edition – only 200 collector copies.
Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
A rare glimpse at the virgin manuscript and a work in progress.
Written by Matthew Clements, based on ideas by Kevin Siembieda.
96 pages – Limited Edition – $20.99 – Cat. No. 470-RAW – available now. Note: The finished book with artwork and more is anticipated to ship in a few months, but you can see what it’s all about right now and even start playing with this special Preview Edition!

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

60+ new Magic Tattoos.
60+ new Shadow Magic spells.
50+ new Crystal Magic spells and the Crystal Mage O.C.C.
Never before revealed Stone Pyramids described and mapped.
Stone Master and Undead Slayer, revisited.
Sunaj Shadow Mage and Shadow Assassin O.C.C.s.
The dark history, shame, and secrets of True Atlanteans.
Learn more about the famous Atlantean Tattooed Warriors, Undead Slayers, Stone Masters and other Atlantean heroes.
The Shadow Dimension and new Shadow Beasts.
Dark secrets of the sinister Sunaj secret society.
Who are the Sunaj and why do they hunt True Atlanteans?
Epic trans-dimensional adventure ideas and source material by Carl Gleba.
192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 890 – Available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

Features & Benefits:

The Main Character Sheet Page collects the important data from across multiple tabs and puts it in one place for quick and easy reference.
Separate sheets examine character construction (worktable), Skills, Magic, Psionics, and Combat in greater detail.
Built-in leveling system that calculates skill advancement for you! Experience Tables for over 80 O.C.C.s already programmed.
Recognizes the percentages for nearly 150 skills, plus combat bonuses for over 20 Weapon Proficiencies and 7 Hand to Hand styles.
Calculates the speed and distance a character can run and jump based on character Attributes.
Also calculates how much a character can lift, carry, and throw for humanoids, Giants, and Supernatural Beings.
Add in your own Hand to Hand style, custom Skills, unique Weapon Proficiencies, and Experience Tables.
Estimated time to build a character reduced by 20% or more.
Instructions on how to use the sheet included, as well as a video walkthrough below.
Important Note: This character sheet is built to be used with Microsoft Excel 2010+ and it comes in .XLSX format. Opening this file in other spreadsheet programs is NOT guaranteed to work as intended.
Watch the Overview video here: https://vimeo.com/322271758

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

Where do you hide from the madness boiling inside of you?

What would you do when you know evil lurks hidden among your fellow survivors?

Why do the voices of alien creatures speak to you?

How do you cope when the power you unleashed to destroy a monster and save the innocent, destroys everyone but you?

Have you become a hero or another monster born in chaos?

Are these powers your family’s salvation or their damnation?

Find out in Psychic Scream!

Untamed psychic abilities. More powerful than anything known later on Rifts Earth.
New psychic powers and character classes.
New psionic monsters and invaders.
Insanity, side-effects and horror.
Adventure ideas and more. All people, powers and monsters that become myths and legends told about the events during the Two Hundred Years Dark Age.
Written by Taylor White and Kevin Siembieda.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 667.

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

New Giant Robots.
New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
New weapons, gear and vehicles.
Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
Android executives, security and much more.
Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

The island kingdom described and mapped, rare and ancient magic, trade with the Old Kingdom, Centaurs, Western intrigue, and more.

History and overview.
Key cities and locations.
Lopan O.C.C.s and people of note.
And Old Kingdom City that is a trade partner.
The mysterious and nearly forgotten Mosaic Magic.
New monsters and magic, weapons and gear.
Written by Glen Evans.
192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 476.

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

New alien monsters and D-Bees.
Strange new weapons and vehicles. Some left over from the Golden Age of Humanity, others completely alien.
The Splugorth’s secret outpost. More than it would seem.
A Splugorth zoo and place of secret Bio-Wizard experiments.
Snow and Ice Golems created specifically for the cold environment.
Danger from the elements, Ice Witches, Icecraft, and other horrors.
Vostok City, a city of magic carved from the ice itself.
Cold-weather skills, technology and survival techniques.
Ancient danger and dark secrets.
Written by Matthew Clements, Carmen Bellaire, and Kevin Siembieda.
160 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 898.

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

CS operatives so secret that even the top military and political leaders right up to Emperor Prosek know nothing about them. And if they did know, would they condone their activity or condemn it?
Are the Disavowed heroes or renegades? Assassins or soldiers? Madmen or super-patriots? Or a little of them all?
Unsung heroes who keep the CS safe, or thugs and pawns of a shadow agency within the Coalition government?
What role does the Vanguard play in this group?
How do they reward their D-Bee “teammates” when the mission is over?
What happens to the Disavowed when they have seen or learned too much? Adventure ideas galore and so much more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 892.

**COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook**

New CS weapons and gear.
New CS SAMAS and power armor.
New CS robots and combat vehicles.
More secrets and information about the Coalition States.
Wild adventure opportunities, fun and more.
Part of the Minion War™ “Crossover” series.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Clements, Gleba and others.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 893.

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

This book reveals it all.

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail, updated and expanded.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found at a glance.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Powerful art.
Includes basic S.D.C. stats for each creature description.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton and others.
256 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 896 – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

Gold foil on a black faux leather hardcover.
Sewn and glued for long-lasting durability.
Only 300 signed and numbered copies.
Available only from Palladium Books.
Sold on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
Signed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium staff.
Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail.
Same contents as the softcover edition.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting; basic S.D.C. stats included for each creature description.
256 pages – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 896HC (Volume One). Shipping Now!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

Rifter® #84 Highlights:

The City of Cascade™ by Erick Wujcik and Matt Reed, A modern city in desperate need of heroes.
The Kingdom of Raf-Chalon™ for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans. An Elven Kingdom in the Eastern Territory™.
Golems in the Myst™ for Rifts® by Greg Diaczyk. Techno-Wizard experiments go wrong and Golems run amok.
Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane® RPG by Ian Herbert.
An Adventure for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Kyle Osterberg.
The Dimma, a short story and a scary new monster for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes.
2021 Palladium Open House and other news.
Coming attractions, product descriptions and more.
96 pages – $14.99 retail – Cat. No. 184 – Shipping now!

Six fan-fave titles back in stock and ready to ship

BACK IN STOCK: Adventures on the High Seas^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 455 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Civilization Gone^™, a Dead Reign^® Sourcebook – Cat. No. 231 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Monsters and Animals^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 454 – Now Shipping

120+ monsters, 200+ animals. Suitable for almost any setting from Fantasy and Heroes Unlimited™ to Rifts® and Phase World®.

BACK IN STOCK: Armageddon Unlimited^™ (Heroes Unlimited^™) – Cat. No. 527 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® World Book 3: Rifts^® England – Cat. No. 807 – Now Shipping

Strange creatures and monsters, Chiang-Ku dragon, magic wands and staves, Temporal Wizard and Raider, Temporal Magic, herbs, Nexus Knights, King Arthur and more.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Merc Ops^™ – Cat. No. 865 – Now Shipping

The name kinda says it all, merc jobs and job brokers, bounties, the 10 Most Wanted, plus weapons and gear and lots of adventure ideas.

This press release may be reprinted, reposted, linked and shared for the sole purpose of advertising, promotion and sales solicitation.

Final Days of 2 Sales – Palladium Books® – May 11, 2020

Written by pb_addy on May 11, 2020. Posted in Weekly Updates. No Comments on Final Days of 2 Sales – Palladium Books® – May 11, 2020

One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

I do not want you to miss out on these two sales, both of which END after midnight on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, and will NOT be extended. Please spread the word. We are thrilled to see many new customers and first-time people trying Rifts®, Chaos Earth® RPG, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and others, and hope to see those numbers continue to grow.

Yes, I continue to sign random books as I pull and pack them every morning as a sign of appreciation. Hopefully, it puts a little smile on your face and makes you feel special, because you are!

Rifts^® SALE – Extended to END after midnight on May 13, 2020

Several different physical book titles are on sale at PalladiumBooks.com, including the core rule book.

Rifts® Ultimate Edition – If you can imagine it, you can play it. Rifts® is a genre-melding RPG setting unlike any other. Combining science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure filled with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural, dragons and the return of Atlantis, and a whole lot more. Play characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walker mages, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers all challenge the imagination. And those are just a tiny handful of the characters you can play in Rifts®.
Rifts® Bestiary Volume One – Loads of creatures and adventure ideas.
Rifts® Juicer Uprising™ – Juicer Variants and other info, plus adventures.
Rifts® Australia – Adventures Down Under.
Rifts® The Vanguard – Secrets of the Coalition and magic revealed.
Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ – Sourcebook and graphic novel.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG – Survive the Great Cataclysm and fight for the future of Rifts Earth.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ – Zombies done Rifts® style.
Nightbane® RPG – Modern horror set in a world of dark conspiracy where the monsters are the heroes. Trust nobody. You play the Nightbane, humans born with a connection to magic and the supernatural. That link enables the Nightbane to see the demonic Nightlords and their evil Dopplegangers that are secretly, quietly invading Earth (think Invasion of the Body Snatchers). But to fight them and their demonic minions you must transform into a monster yourself. A monster you design yourself.
Nightlands™, a Nightbane® sourcebook – 12+ monsters, 12+ demonic and mystical villains, the Nightlands described, and more.
Nightbane® Survival Guide™ – More about the Nightbane® and factions.
Sale ENDS after midnight, May 13, at PalladiumBooks.com – see the Weekly Update for other news and updates.

Monsters & Aliens SALE – on DriveThruRPG.com – ENDS after midnight, Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Expand your monster collection with these select titles, each featuring a plethora of idea generating monsters, demons, aliens and creatures from across the Megaverse. All easily adapted to any Palladium setting (and with a bit more work, to other game systems). The sale ENDS after midnight, May 13, 2020. Enjoy and game on.

Monsters & Animals™ (Fantasy) – 120+ monsters, 200+ animals.
Dragons & Gods™ (Fantasy) – 40 gods, 20 Demon Lords, 14 dragons, Elementals, the deific powers of the gods, magic weapons, and more.
Land of the Damned One™: Chaos Lands™ (Fantasy) – Lots of monsters and magic items.
Nightbane® RPG – Modern horror set in a world of dark conspiracy where the monsters are the heroes. Trust nobody. You play the Nightbane, humans born with a connection to magic and the supernatural. That link enables the Nightbane to see the demonic Nightlords and their evil Dopplegangers that are secretly, quietly invading Earth (think Invasion of the Body Snatchers). But to fight them and their demonic minions, you must transform into a monster yourself. A monster you design yourself.
Nightlands™ Nightbane® sourcebook – 12+ monsters, 12+ demonic and mystical villains, the Nightlands described, and more.
Aliens Unlimited™, a Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook – 85 aliens, 15 alien monsters, alien weapons and more.
Aliens Unlimited™ Galaxy Guide – More aliens and their worlds, space combat, spaceship and planet creation rules, and more.
Rifts® Conversion Book™ One – Monster conversion stats from Fantasy, 40 player races and much more.
Rifts® Conversion Book™ Two – 150+ gods and god pretenders, and more.
Rifts® Conversion Book™ Three – Undead legions, were-beasts and more.
Rifts® New West™ – All kinds of strange beasts.
Rifts® Spirit West™ – Beasts, spirits and gods inspired by native American myths and legends.
Rifts® D-Bees of North America – Nearly 100 intelligent humanoid aliens known on Rifts Earth as D-Bees (“Dimensional Beings”).
Rifts® Mindwerks™ Sourcebook – Monsters, Gene-Splicers, & much more.
Rifts® Dimension Book 10: Hades – A plane of Hell with dozens of demons, monsters, and dark magic.
Rifts® Dimension Book 11: Dyval – A different, rival plane of Hell and more demons, monsters and dark magic.
Rifts® World Book 35: Megaverse® in Flames™ – Demonic invasion.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® Creatures of Chaos Sourcebook – Archaic demons unleashed by the Great Cataclysm™.
Sale ENDS after midnight May 13, 2020. Game on!
Also see our sale of physical books at PalladiumBooks.com.

Also on DriveThruRPG.com – Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume One – selling like crazy. Shouldn’t you see what all the excitement is about?

Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One sets a new standard for “monster manuals,” with in-depth descriptions of the creature and its life cycle, a map for each, adventure hooks, notes on young animals (different than the adult and not just lower stats), creatures that can be tamed and used as guard animals, pets, riding animals, and S.D.C. stats for non-Mega-Damage game settings. The latter making this big 256 page sourcebook suitable for almost any world setting where such beasts are possible.

News Bits

At the moment, I’m trying to follow up on a bunch of correspondences. I have had many good moments writing and working on books. Mainly Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™, but also Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume 2, Creature Feature™ BTS Sourcebook and a few others.

UPDATE: In the Face of Death™: It should go to the printer by the end of the week! I cannot wait to get this book in your hands and share the many new and alternative ideas about gaming in the Zombie Apocalypse. There are new ideas and angles about the city setting, characters, Heroic Masked Lunatics, villains, and the types of adventures you can experience.

UPDATE: BTS Creature Feature™: I assigned out a major hunk of art for BTS Creature Feature™ which presents something like a dozen supernatural beasties, adventure ideas, rules clarifications, and a bunch of other good stuff for the Beyond the Supernatural™ setting. That also meant a number of calls and back and forth time with the author, Steven Dawes. One of my favorite people. This will be a fun book.

UPDATE: USPS Mail Service: I have been packing and shipping almost every morning, but the US Mail has been inconsistent and sometimes slow. I am speaking to packages shipped via the United States Postal Service, especially Media Mail. I have noticed even with mail delivered to Palladium Books that some letters and packages arrive quickly and on time, while others are postmarked from 3-4 weeks ago! I myself missed a couple of sale opportunities because the mailing arrived the day after the sale. Grrr.

In most cases, just wait a few (3-5) extra days (make that 12-14 if sent by Media Mail). However, if it has been longer than that, please reach out to Palladium via the Help Desk or phone (734-721-2903) and I will look into the matter. I have noticed Media Mail, which usually takes 3-6 days to most locations, has been taking 3-16 days. Faster types of mail seem to be off by only a few extra days, and UPS seems to be as reliable as usual, or off by only 1-2 days.

If you call the office, you are almost certain to get the answering machine. Leave a message and your phone number and someone will get back to you.

UPDATE: Health: As far as any of us know, the Palladium crew remains healthy and virus free. I try to walk at least 30 minutes every day, sometimes more, and follow the recommended distancing, mask, etc. the couple of times I leave the confines of home or the Palladium office. I feel like we are all doing well and I hope the same goes for all of you.

UPDATE: Current SALES are coming to an end Wednesday after midnight. I will probably offer another DriveThruRPG PDF sale in a week or two. Meanwhile, do not miss out on these current sales. I continue to randomly sign physical books.

More news and stuff coming in the Weekly Update.

This press release may be reprinted, reposted, linked and shared for the sole purpose of advertising, promotion and sales solicitation.

Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 7, 2020

Written by pb_addy on May 6, 2020. Posted in Weekly Updates. No Comments on Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 7, 2020

One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

This week has been just as busy as last week. The big difference is I have been writing my heart out. I spend 2-4 hours pulling, signing, and packing book orders every morning. Which is my pleasure. I greatly appreciate your support and I am happy to randomly sign books for you. I hope people have been enjoying that little surprise. So please keep those orders coming in!

Most of the rest of my days have been spent writing like crazy. I went in and retooled a small, 20 page section of In the Face of Death™ for Dead Reign® – which is now entering the typesetting and layout phase so it should go to the printer by the end of next week – but mostly I have been working on Coalition Manhunters™.

In the Face of Death™: Did I mention this sourcebook has expanded to be 160 pages? Well it has. I could not help myself. The ideas for kid player characters for children and adults to play, the Masked Lunatic Heroes, the setting, and all kinds of adventure hooks demanded I make it bigger. Your gain because it is pretty epic if I do say so myself.

2 Sales Extended. Everyone is enjoying them so much I decided to extend both sales for one more week.

– The Rifts® SALE on the Palladium Website – extended one week – with Rifts® Ultimate Edition being part of that sale. And because it is a fun setting with heroes that are part human and part monster, I included a few Nightbane® RPG titles. Nightbane® offers many unique RPG opportunities and is easily adapted to Heroes Unlimited™, Rifts®, Phase World®, and Chaos Earth®. Complete details below.

– Monsters & Aliens SALE on DriveThruRPG.com – extended one week. This fun sale features a wide range of titles and world settings filled with monsters and aliens to go hand in hand with the monstrously fun Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One being made available on DriveThruRPG. Remember, all Palladium titles use the same fundamental game system allowing you to drop in one “beast” or “alien” from one game setting into another with ease (no or little conversion required). See details below.

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume One “PDF” on DriveThruRPG.com selling like hot cakes

I have to admit, I am surprised at how well the Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One PDF is selling on DriveThruRPG. It has always been a hot selling item as a physical book, but because it was available as a PDF in the Megaverse Insider Offer, I did not expect sales to be so vibrant. Then again, it is an awesome sourcebook. Enjoy.

Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One sets a new standard for “monster manuals,” with in-depth descriptions of the creature and its life cycle, a map for each, adventure hooks, notes on young animals (different than the adult and not just lower stats), creatures that can be tamed and used as guard animals, pets, and riding animals, and S.D.C. stats for non-Mega-Damage game settings. The latter making this big 256 page sourcebook suitable for almost any world setting where such beasts are possible.

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® coffee mug and Rifts^® Glitter Boy Mouse Pad are NOT sold out – available now

In a Murmur from the Megaverse® earlier this week, I erroneously stated they were both sold out. I was mistaken. Close, but we still have about 8 of each item. Julius has his own, um, unique system in the warehouse, so I did not realize a handful of each were stowed away at a location where I would not expect to find them. I stumbled across one and then the other restocking shelves.

My apologies for the misunderstanding. Please enjoy the Fantasy, Rifts® and Property of the Coalition coffee mugs as well as the Glitter Boy (Chaos Earth® cover) mouse pad. Meanwhile, I will keep them in mind for sending into reprint in the future, and maybe a new coffee mug to go along with them.

Rifts^® SALE – Extended One Week

To celebrate RUE being back in stock, I put together a quick little Rifts® sale. And because it is a fun setting with heroes that are part human and part monster, I included a few Nightbane® RPG titles in keeping with the monster theme of the DriveThruRPG sale. Besides, having just finished the zombie book, consulting on BTS Creature Feature, and dabbling with Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two in between other work, I rather have monsters on the mind. In fact, I have been thinking a lot about Nightbane® lately. It offers so many unique RPG modern horror opportunities and is easily adapted to Heroes Unlimited or Rifts®.

Rifts® Ultimate Edition – If you can imagine it, you can play it. Rifts® is a genre-melding RPG setting unlike any other. Combining science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure filled with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural, dragons and the return of Atlantis, and a whole lot more. Play characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walker mages, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers. All challenge the imagination, and those are just a tiny handful of the characters you can play in Rifts®.
Rifts® Bestiary Volume One – Loads of creatures and adventure ideas.
Rifts® Juicer Uprising – Juicer Variants and other info, plus adventures.
Rifts® Australia – Adventures Down Under.
Rifts® The Vanguard – Secrets of the Coalition and magic revealed.
Rifts® Machinations of Doom – Sourcebook and graphic novel.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG – Survive the Great Cataclysm and fight for the future of Rifts Earth.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® Resurrection – Zombies done Rifts® style.
Nightbane® RPG – Modern horror set in a world of dark conspiracy where the monsters are the heroes. Trust nobody. You play the Nightbane, humans born with a connection to magic and the supernatural. That link enables the Nightbane to see the demonic Nightlords and their evil Dopplegangers that are secretly, quietly invading Earth (think Invasion of the Body Snatchers). But to fight them and their demonic minions you must transform into a monster yourself. A monster you design yourself.
Nightlands™, a Nightbane® sourcebook – 12+ monsters, 12+ demonic and mystical villains, the Nightlands described, and more.
Nightbane® Survival Guide – More about the Nightbane® and factions.
Also see the larger and completely different sale on DriveThruRPG for Rifts®, Nightbane®, and other PDF titles.
Sale ends after midnight Wednesday, May 13, 2020.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

This big, 376 page role-playing game is everything you need to start playing Rifts®. Just add some dice, some players, and a heaping helping of imagination and you are ready to go.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Poker Decks – Available now

– Rifts® Poker Deck #1 Color – Cat. No. 2575

– Rifts® Poker Deck #2 Black & White Line Art – Cat. No. 2576

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® W.B. 17: Warlords of Russia^™ – Cat. No. 832 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault^™ – Cat. No. 855 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Aftermath^™ – Cat. No. 846 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Vampire Kingdoms^™ – Cat. No. 802-E

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Book of Magic^™ – Cat. No. 848

UPDATE: In the Face of Death^™ (Zombie Apocalypse) – in final production

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
Survival in the urban environment.
Living on the rooftops in the heart of the city.
Urban homesteads, resources, defenses, traps, and more.
Death Cults, a different type of danger.
Bad people, Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, and more.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero, as player characters.
Kids, teenagers, and young survivors as player characters.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas to take your zombie campaign to new heights.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Nick Bradshaw.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle. Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – in final production.

COMING: Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
224-256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – summer release, but taking orders now.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

UPDATE: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

UPDATE: Creature Feature^™ – A Beyond the Supernatural^™ Sourcebook

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

MORE Material for Fantasy

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

DriveThruRPG.com – Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One is hot!
Monsters & Aliens SALE – Extended one week

Monsters & Aliens SALE! Expand your monster collection with these select titles, each featuring a plethora of idea generating monsters, demons, aliens and creatures from across the Megaverse. All easily adapted to any Palladium setting (and with a bit more work, to other game systems).

Monsters & Animals™ (Fantasy) – 120+ monsters, 200+ animals.
Dragons & Gods™ (Fantasy) – 40 gods, 20 Demon Lords, 14 dragons, Elementals, the deific powers of the gods, magic weapons, and more.
Land of the Damned™ One: Chaos Lands™ (Fantasy) – Lots of monsters and magic items.
Nightbane® RPG – Modern horror set in a world of dark conspiracy where the monsters are the heroes. Trust nobody. You play the Nightbane, humans born with a connection to magic and the supernatural. That link enables the Nightbane to see the demonic Nightlords and their evil Dopplegangers that are secretly, quietly invading Earth (think Invasion of the Body Snatchers). But to fight them and their demonic minions, you must transform into a monster yourself. A monster you design yourself.
Nightlands™ Nightbane® sourcebook – 12+ monsters, 12+ demonic and mystical villains, the Nightlands described, and more.
Aliens Unlimited™, a Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook – 85 aliens, 15 alien monsters, alien weapons and more.
Aliens Unlimited™ Galaxy Guide – More aliens and their worlds, space combat, spaceship and planet creation rules, and more.
Rifts® Conversion Book™ One – Monster conversion stats from Fantasy, 40 player races and much more.
Rifts® Conversion Book™ Two – 150+ gods and god pretenders, and more.
Rifts® Conversion Book™ Three – Undead legions, were-beasts and more.
Rifts® New West™ – All kinds of strange beasts.
Rifts® Spirit West™ – Beasts, spirits and gods inspired by native American myths and legends.
Rifts® D-Bees of North America – Nearly 100 intelligent humanoid aliens known on Rifts Earth as D-Bees (“Dimensional Beings”).
Rifts® Mindwerks™ Sourcebook – Monsters, Gene-Splicers, & much more.
Rifts® Dimension Book 10: Hades – A plane of Hell with dozens of demons, monsters, and dark magic.
Rifts® Dimension Book 11: Dyval – A different, rival plane of Hell and more demons, monsters and dark magic.
Rifts® World Book 35: Megaverse® in Flames™ – Demonic invasion.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® Creatures of Chaos Sourcebook – Archaic demons unleashed by the Great Cataclysm™.
Sale ends after midnight Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Enjoy.
There is different sale for physical books happening on the Palladium Books website, too.

Rifts® is a genre-bending setting that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse survival, magic, and endless possibilities for adventure. Imagine a near perfect world of advanced technology 100 years in the future. Then imagine that world crashing down overnight in an apocalyptic upheaval not seen since the formation of the planet. A Great Cataclysm caused by the explosive return of magic. Now fast forward 300 years into the future where magic, dragons, and mythic gods coexist with cyborgs, giant robots and super-science rediscovered from humanity’s Golden Age as humans rise from a lengthy Dark Age. But they must contend with countless alien life forms, monsters, and supernatural horrors from beyond the Rifts.
Rifts® core titles we would suggest: Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign and Rifts® Sourcebook One. Note: The Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition and Rifts® Ultimate, 2nd Edition are both available.
80+ Rifts® supplements, most of them available as PDFs with more coming. Where to start? Wherever sounds fun.
Rifts® Dimension Books™: Travel to alien worlds and dimensions via the Rifts for off-world adventure and intrigue.
Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebook series (all). Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
FREE Sneak Previews for Nightbane® Dark Designs™, Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™, Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity, and many other previews as well as free and low cost items that we make available. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so keep watching for them.
The Rifter® #1-84, ALL issues of The Rifter®. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for 3-6 different Palladium game lines. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure.
Splicers® RPG is like Iron Man meets Game of Thrones with elements of Terminator – except this army of Iron Men are clad in living body armor and wield living, organic weapons and devices. Created in 2004 by writer and game designer Carmen Bellaire, Splicers® was nominated for an Inquest Gamer Magazine Fan Awards Game of the Year, and has since developed a rabid fan base. Science fiction and horror where humans are forced to use genetically engineered, living weapons and organic war machines to battle an insane Artificial Intelligence and her robot legions. Unlike anything you have ever played before!
Splicers®: I Am Legion™ Adventure Sourcebook: 6 new Great Houses, 4 new Host Armors, 6 new War Mounts, 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new killer machines, new Bio-Enhancements, Amalgam creation tables, Legion and a series of adventures that build into a small campaign, and more.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 1st Edition Rules and sourcebooks. A unique world of magic, monsters and heroes. Dozens of nonhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and more. 100,000 years of history.
Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Rules and many sourcebooks. The expanded world of high fantasy, magic, mystery and heroes of every variety. Includes the Mind Mage and psychic abilities, mages and spells, magic circles and symbols, men-at-arms, scoundrels and a wide range of inhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and many more. 100,000 years of history.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks.
Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition rule book and sourcebooks. Create any type of superhuman you can desire and bring comic book adventures to life.
Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse). The dead have risen. It is the battle for survival in the zombie apocalypse, but this setting is much more than your typical zombie game. Play ordinary people or special characters better equipped to survive and hunt zombies. Many unusual types of zombies.
Dead Reign® Sourcebooks: 6 sourcebooks from Civilization Gone™ to Hell Followed™ (the latter features stats for 23 disasters, masked lunatics, 11 new zombies, 7 apocalyptic character classes, and more) are available.
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules. Supernatural horror in the modern world. Play ordinary people, psychics, paranormal investigators or for something different: Victim Characters!
Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition: The complete, revised core game, 14 character classes and 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.
Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. An RPG setting we call superhero horror. Dark conspiracy, a secret, demon invasion starting with world leaders and law enforcement, and it is spreading. The player characters are the Nightbane®, reluctant superhumans who must turn into monsters themselves to unleash their powers and battle the evil that is clear only to them. A dark, sinister and challenging world of horror.
After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Planet of the Apes meets the X-Men! Animal creations, powers and more. Create any type of intelligent mutant animal you can imagine as friend or foe.
Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.
The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic world-view of humans vs aliens with superior technology.
The Palladium Weapon Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.
200+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more.
Heroes Unlimited™ Paper Miniatures – Two sets are now available!
Palladium Fantasy RPG® Paper Miniatures – Volumes #1-6 are available now. More are coming in the weeks ahead.
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Men at Arms – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Coalition Dead Boys – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Adventurers – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Practitioners of Magic (new) – $2.99
Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Extras (new) – $2.99
And more to come in the weeks ahead.

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

Closing Thoughts

Alex went on an enthusiastic rant the other day, exclaiming how Palladium Books was the new House of Ideas! (I believe Marvel Comics referred to itself as such back in the 1970s.) He went on about how our books – especially the recent releases like Garden of the Gods™, Rifts® Bestiary, and our many upcoming titles – were filled, page after page, with new angles and ideas. And not just cool ideas but what he called: “Pure fun, action, and entertainment.”

It was fun to see Alex so excited. He loves Garden of the Gods™ (and so does everyone else), he went bonkers over the ideas and unexpected journey I take people on with In the Face of Death™ (about to enter the typesetting and layout phase), but Alex is a tech guy, so he cannot wait for Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™, Titan Robotics™, The Disavowed™ and CS Arsenal™, to name just a few. And he bugs me about their progress on a frequent basis.

This delights me to no end, because it means I am hitting my marks and achieving the goal I announced some time ago: To produce books that will blow your minds! I have been pulling out all the stops and trying to push the envelope with ideas and wow factor. And it’s not just me. It is all of Palladium’s writers and artists as well. Despite the worries and concerns about the coronavirus, there is a sizzling, dynamic energy in the air here at Palladium Books. I’m excited, Alex is excited, heck, everyone is excited about what we are working on and what is coming. That’s thrilling for me and keeps me pumped up and pounding out what I think is some of my best work.

In the Face of Death™ will be heading to the printer soon. Creature Feature™ for BTS should follow it. And I am dividing my work between Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ and Rifts® Titan Robotics™, along with my duties maintaining the fundamental operations of Palladium Books.

Somehow, even in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and an uncertain future for us all, I feel energized. My creativity is in overdrive and I feel like great times are ahead for Palladium. Something bigger, brighter, and better than ever before. Is that crazy?

I’m feeling the way I did in the late 1980s when Palladium was breaking out with TMNT and Robotech® and I was secretly working on Rifts®. Maybe I feel this way because I have been alone at the office immersed in writing and the creative process these past several weeks? My little bits of down time are spent with the delightful Kathy Simmons or watching some of my favorite TV shows or reading. Or maybe it is because I have the clearest idea of what’s in the pipeline and how cool it all is? Or maybe it is the support and love all of you have been showing Palladium with strong online and PDF orders, and wonderful messages being sent to me via various means? It could also be the electric enthusiasm I’m seeing from fellow creators and fans alike. I suspect it is a combination of all of these things. Whatever it is, I’m in the creative zone, writing up a storm, and coming up with cool ideas. Even ideas for new books!

I will be writing on a particular subject, or walking, or showering, and suddenly, new ideas are zinging at me out of thin air in exciting bursts of inspiration or insight. There are times when I wonder if Erick Wujcik or Keith Parkinson, or Rob Justice, or Kevin Lowry, or my Dad are feeding me ideas from the great beyond, because some of these angles and concepts feel so fresh and unique, or suddenly obvious yet nobody is doing them. I am having a great time at the moment writing and bringing you new worlds of wonderment that I hope will continue to blow your minds and give you countless new adventures.

Thank you for the love and support. Right back at you, from me and the guys. The Palladium crew continues to report being virus free, as am I, and I pray most of you as well. Please enjoy the two extended sales, one on the Palladium Books website the other on DriveThruRPG.com. Be excited about gaming and stretching those wonderful imaginations, and I will try to get you some new, mind-blowing sourcebooks as quick as I can.

– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, & Gamer

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America in a second easy to use sourcebook.
Predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Notable Splugorth hunting animals.
Some new creatures, but most are existing creatures.
Updated information where applicable.
Updated and uniform stat blocks.
A map for every creature showing where it is found.
Fully illustrated.
Art by Chuck Walton, Siembieda, Cummings, Bradshaw, Atkins, Ashbaugh, and many others.
192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 897. In production. Anticipating Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two to be a summer 2020 release.

NEW! In the Face of Death^™ – A Dead Reign^® Sourcebook – In final production

Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
Survival in the urban environment.
Living on the rooftops in the heart of the city.
Urban homesteads, resources, defenses, traps, and more.
Death Cults, a different type of danger.
Bad people, Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, and more.
Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero, as player characters.
Kids, teenagers, and young survivors as player characters.
100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas to take your zombie campaign to new heights.
Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Nick Bradshaw.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle. Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.
160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – in final production.

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
CS Manhunter Psi-Healer.
CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Psi-Enforcer (Mind Melter).
CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
CS Manhunter Slayer (a variation of the Psi-Slayer or Psi-Warrior).
CS Manhunter Mind Melter, the most insidious and deadliest of them all.
Weapons, gear, and tactics.
Some notable Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda. Art by Nick Bradshaw.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894.

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

The Garden of the Gods™ sourcebook is a toy box of gods, magical blessings, ancient artifacts, and hundreds of opportunities and adventure ideas for players and Game Masters alike.

There is also an dangerous evil on the island of Lopan. An open wound in the earth known as the Black Pit, as well as dark gods within the Garden itself.

212 Blessings.
101 Magic Artifacts.
45 Forgotten gods.
50+ Curses and dark magic.
100+ Random quests and encounters, and each god offers adventure hooks.
Restore forgotten gods to power. Become a Champion of the Gods.
5 Weapons of destruction created by the Old Ones.
Godly insight, visitations, knowledge and purpose.
The Garden of the Gods and its protectors.
Ghosts, Faeries, mysteries, and ancient secrets.
Rumors of a secret way to the Land of the Damned.
The Black Pit, a place of legend and dark secrets. Is it a counterbalance to the good of the Garden or something more sinister?
Easily adapted to Rifts®, Phase World® and any game system. One game system – a Megaverse® of adventure!™
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 475.

**Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now**

Limited collector’s edition – only 200 collector copies.
Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
A rare glimpse at the virgin manuscript and a work in progress.
Written by Matthew Clements, based on ideas by Kevin Siembieda.
96 pages – Limited Edition – $20.99 – Cat. No. 470-RAW – available now. Note: The finished book with artwork and more is anticipated to ship in a few months, but you can see what it’s all about right now and even start playing with this special Preview Edition!

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

60+ new Magic Tattoos.
60+ new Shadow Magic spells.
50+ new Crystal Magic spells and the Crystal Mage O.C.C.
Never before revealed Stone Pyramids described and mapped.
Stone Master and Undead Slayer, revisited.
Sunaj Shadow Mage and Shadow Assassin O.C.C.s.
The dark history, shame, and secrets of True Atlanteans.
Learn more about the famous Atlantean Tattooed Warriors, Undead Slayers, Stone Masters and other Atlantean heroes.
The Shadow Dimension and new Shadow Beasts.
Dark secrets of the sinister Sunaj secret society.
Who are the Sunaj and why do they hunt True Atlanteans?
Epic trans-dimensional adventure ideas and source material by Carl Gleba.
192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 890 – Available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

Features & Benefits:

The Main Character Sheet Page collects the important data from across multiple tabs and puts it in one place for quick and easy reference.
Separate sheets examine character construction (worktable), Skills, Magic, Psionics, and Combat in greater detail.
Built-in leveling system that calculates skill advancement for you! Experience Tables for over 80 O.C.C.s already programmed.
Recognizes the percentages for nearly 150 skills, plus combat bonuses for over 20 Weapon Proficiencies and 7 Hand to Hand styles.
Calculates the speed and distance a character can run and jump based on character Attributes.
Also calculates how much a character can lift, carry, and throw for humanoids, Giants, and Supernatural Beings.
Add in your own Hand to Hand style, custom Skills, unique Weapon Proficiencies, and Experience Tables.
Estimated time to build a character reduced by 20% or more.
Instructions on how to use the sheet included, as well as a video walkthrough below.
Important Note: This character sheet is built to be used with Microsoft Excel 2010+ and it comes in .XLSX format. Opening this file in other spreadsheet programs is NOT guaranteed to work as intended.
Watch the Overview video here: https://vimeo.com/322271758

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

Where do you hide from the madness boiling inside of you?

What would you do when you know evil lurks hidden among your fellow survivors?

Why do the voices of alien creatures speak to you?

How do you cope when the power you unleashed to destroy a monster and save the innocent, destroys everyone but you?

Have you become a hero or another monster born in chaos?

Are these powers your family’s salvation or their damnation?

Find out in Psychic Scream!

Untamed psychic abilities. More powerful than anything known later on Rifts Earth.
New psychic powers and character classes.
New psionic monsters and invaders.
Insanity, side-effects and horror.
Adventure ideas and more. All people, powers and monsters that become myths and legends told about the events during the Two Hundred Years Dark Age.
Written by Taylor White and Kevin Siembieda.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 667.

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

New Giant Robots.
New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
New weapons, gear and vehicles.
Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
Android executives, security and much more.
Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

The island kingdom described and mapped, rare and ancient magic, trade with the Old Kingdom, Centaurs, Western intrigue, and more.

History and overview.
Key cities and locations.
Lopan O.C.C.s and people of note.
And Old Kingdom City that is a trade partner.
The mysterious and nearly forgotten Mosaic Magic.
New monsters and magic, weapons and gear.
Written by Glen Evans.
192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 476.

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

New alien monsters and D-Bees.
Strange new weapons and vehicles. Some left over from the Golden Age of Humanity, others completely alien.
The Splugorth’s secret outpost. More than it would seem.
A Splugorth zoo and place of secret Bio-Wizard experiments.
Snow and Ice Golems created specifically for the cold environment.
Danger from the elements, Ice Witches, Icecraft, and other horrors.
Vostok City, a city of magic carved from the ice itself.
Cold-weather skills, technology and survival techniques.
Ancient danger and dark secrets.
Written by Matthew Clements, Carmen Bellaire, and Kevin Siembieda.
160 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 898.

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

CS operatives so secret that even the top military and political leaders right up to Emperor Prosek know nothing about them. And if they did know, would they condone their activity or condemn it?
Are the Disavowed heroes or renegades? Assassins or soldiers? Madmen or super-patriots? Or a little of them all?
Unsung heroes who keep the CS safe, or thugs and pawns of a shadow agency within the Coalition government?
What role does the Vanguard play in this group?
How do they reward their D-Bee “teammates” when the mission is over?
What happens to the Disavowed when they have seen or learned too much? Adventure ideas galore and so much more.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 892.

**COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook**

New CS weapons and gear.
New CS SAMAS and power armor.
New CS robots and combat vehicles.
More secrets and information about the Coalition States.
Wild adventure opportunities, fun and more.
Part of the Minion War™ “Crossover” series.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Clements, Gleba and others.
96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 893.

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

This book reveals it all.

Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail, updated and expanded.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
A map for every creature showing where it is found at a glance.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Powerful art.
Includes basic S.D.C. stats for each creature description.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton and others.
256 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 896 – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

Gold foil on a black faux leather hardcover.
Sewn and glued for long-lasting durability.
Only 300 signed and numbered copies.
Available only from Palladium Books.
Sold on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
Signed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium staff.
Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
80+ creatures described in detail.
Same contents as the softcover edition.
New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
Easily adapted to any Palladium setting; basic S.D.C. stats included for each creature description.
256 pages – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 896HC (Volume One). Shipping Now!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

Rifter® #84 Highlights:

The City of Cascade™ by Erick Wujcik and Matt Reed, A modern city in desperate need of heroes.
The Kingdom of Raf-Chalon™ for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans. An Elven Kingdom in the Eastern Territory™.
Golems in the Myst™ for Rifts® by Greg Diaczyk. Techno-Wizard experiments go wrong and Golems run amok.
Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane® RPG by Ian Herbert.
An Adventure for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Kyle Osterberg.
The Dimma, a short story and a scary new monster for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes.
2021 Palladium Open House and other news.
Coming attractions, product descriptions and more.
96 pages – $14.99 retail – Cat. No. 184 – Shipping now!

Six fan-fave titles back in stock and ready to ship

BACK IN STOCK: Adventures on the High Seas^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 455 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Civilization Gone^™, a Dead Reign^® Sourcebook – Cat. No. 231 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Monsters and Animals^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 454 – Now Shipping

120+ monsters, 200+ animals. Suitable for almost any setting from Fantasy and Heroes Unlimited™ to Rifts® and Phase World®.

BACK IN STOCK: Armageddon Unlimited^™ (Heroes Unlimited^™) – Cat. No. 527 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® World Book 3: Rifts^® England – Cat. No. 807 – Now Shipping

Strange creatures and monsters, Chiang-Ku dragon, magic wands and staves, Temporal Wizard and Raider, Temporal Magic, herbs, Nexus Knights, King Arthur and more.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Merc Ops^™ – Cat. No. 865 – Now Shipping

The name kinda says it all, merc jobs and job brokers, bounties, the 10 Most Wanted, plus weapons and gear and lots of adventure ideas.

This press release may be reprinted, reposted, linked and shared for the sole purpose of advertising, promotion and sales solicitation.

Month: May 2020

Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 28, 2020

One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

New Rifts® SALE – Atlantean Adventures

Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two Megaverse® Insider Offer is BACK for a limited time

BACK IN STOCK: The Mechanoid Invasion® RPG Trilogy

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Game Master Guide™

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Conversion Book™ 3: Dark Conversions™

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

BACK IN STOCK: Island at the Edge of the World™ (Fantasy)

UPDATE: In the Face of Death™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

COMING! Creature Feature™, a Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebook

COMING! Rifts® CS Manhunters™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook

COMING! Rifts® Titan Robotics™

COMING: Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

UPDATE: Rifts® Chaos Earth® Psychic Scream™

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

MORE Material for Fantasy

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal™ and Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebooks

DriveThruRPG.com – SALE Dead Reign® the Zombie Apocalypse AND Free In The Face of Death™ Sourcebook Sneak Preview – Sale ENDS June 2

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

Closing Thoughts

Rifts® Bestiary™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

In the Face of Death™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

COMING! Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook

NEW! Garden of the Gods™, Palladium Fantasy® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

Land of the Damned™ Three: The Bleakness™ Raw Preview – available now

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Dimension Book™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans™

Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet

Features & Benefits:

Psychic Scream™ – Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook

COMING: Rifts® Titan Robotics™

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

COMING: Rifts® Antarctica

COMING! Rifts® The Disavowed™ – Secrets of the Coalition States™

COMING! Heroes of Humanity™ Arsenal – Rifts® Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook

Rifts® Bestiary™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

Rifts® Bestiary™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

UPDATE: The Rifter® #84 – available and shipping now

Rifter® #84 Highlights:

Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 21, 2020

One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

Dead Reign® SALE

UPDATE: In the Face of Death™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

COMING! Creature Feature™, a Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebook

COMING! Rifts® CS Manhunters™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook

COMING! Rifts® Titan Robotics™

COMING: Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts® Poker Decks – Available now

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® W.B. 17: Warlords of Russia™ – Cat. No. 832 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault™ – Cat. No. 855 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Aftermath™ – Cat. No. 846 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ – Cat. No. 802-E

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Book of Magic™ – Cat. No. 848

UPDATE: Rifts® Chaos Earth® Psychic Scream™

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

MORE Material for Fantasy

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal™ and Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebooks

DriveThruRPG.com – SALE Dead Reign® the Zombie Apocalypse AND Free In The Face of Death™ Sourcebook Sneak Preview

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

Closing Thoughts: Memorial Day and You

Rifts® Bestiary™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

In the Face of Death™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

COMING! Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook

NEW! Garden of the Gods™, Palladium Fantasy® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

Land of the Damned™ Three: The Bleakness™ Raw Preview – available now

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Dimension Book™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans™

Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet

Features & Benefits:

Psychic Scream™ – Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook

COMING: Rifts® Titan Robotics™

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

COMING: Rifts® Antarctica

New Rifts^® SALE – Atlantean Adventures

Rifts^® Bestiary Volume Two Megaverse^® Insider Offer is BACK for a limited time

BACK IN STOCK: The Mechanoid Invasion^® RPG Trilogy

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Game Master Guide^™

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Conversion Book^™ 3: Dark Conversions^™

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

BACK IN STOCK: Island at the Edge of the World^™ (Fantasy)

UPDATE: In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

COMING! Creature Feature^™, a Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebook

COMING! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

COMING: Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

DriveThruRPG.com – SALE Dead Reign^® the Zombie Apocalypse AND Free In The Face of Death^™ Sourcebook Sneak Preview – Sale ENDS June 2

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

**Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now**

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

**COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook**

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

Dead Reign^® SALE

UPDATE: In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

COMING! Creature Feature^™, a Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebook

COMING! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

COMING: Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Poker Decks – Available now

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® W.B. 17: Warlords of Russia^™ – Cat. No. 832 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault^™ – Cat. No. 855 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Aftermath^™ – Cat. No. 846 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Vampire Kingdoms^™ – Cat. No. 802-E

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Book of Magic^™ – Cat. No. 848

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

DriveThruRPG.com – SALE Dead Reign^® the Zombie Apocalypse AND Free In The Face of Death^™ Sourcebook Sneak Preview

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020

In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – Ships June 10 (maybe sooner)

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

**Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now**

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

**COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook**

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

BACK IN STOCK: Adventures on the High Seas^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 455 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Civilization Gone^™, a Dead Reign^® Sourcebook – Cat. No. 231 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Monsters and Animals^™ (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 454 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Armageddon Unlimited^™ (Heroes Unlimited^™) – Cat. No. 527 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® World Book 3: Rifts^® England – Cat. No. 807 – Now Shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Merc Ops^™ – Cat. No. 865 – Now Shipping

Palladium Books^® – A Quick Mini-Update – May 19, 2020

In the Face of Death^™ – at the printer – A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse

COMING! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™
A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

COMING: Rifts® Bestiary^™ Volume Two – Summer 2020

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Poker Decks – Available now

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® W.B. 17: Warlords of Russia^™ – Cat. No. 832 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault^™ – Cat. No. 855 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Aftermath^™ – Cat. No. 846 – now shipping

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Vampire Kingdoms^™ – Cat. No. 802-E

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Book of Magic^™ – Cat. No. 848

UPDATE: In the Face of Death^™ (Zombie Apocalypse) – in final production