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Palladium Books® – Flash Sale & Weekly Update – March 27, 2025

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Weekly Update

ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE

BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA

Palladium Books® – Flash Sale & Weekly Update – March 27, 2025

You still have time to get in on the Flash Sale offering unprecedented discounts. It is inspired by the National Reading Month of March which encourages and celebrates the joy of reading. Consider this sale part of the celebration! RPG sourcebooks 70% and 50% off, and part of our joy about all the good things happening behind the scenes and coming your way in the months ahead.


With this mind-blowing sale, there’s not much more to talk about except, please join the live chat with me (Kevin Siembieda) and Sean Owen Roberson on Legion of Myth at 2:00 PM Sunday, March 30. We are happy to answer your questions, but the main theme of this chat will be using Palladium rules as a framework and kit-bashing two games/settings. Always fun.


Oh, and take a look at Closing Thoughts for what I hope are words of encouragement.


FLASH SALE – Super-Savings 70% and 50% discounts – 6 days only – Sale ends Monday, March 31, 2025.

Palladium has NEVER offered a sale with savings like this (and may never do so again!), but we have a lot to celebrate and we want to share our excitement with you via this sale. These books make a wonderful birthday present or surprise Easter gift for kids and teens who like to read. Spread the word and enjoy.

Most After the Bomb Sourcebooks – because you know you want them! The perfect accessory for After the Bomb RPG, Heroes Unlimited, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness and TMNT Transdimensional Adventures (both coming soon).

● Road Hogs – After the Bomb Sourcebook, Cat. No. 505 – $4.20 – 70% off (save $9.79)!

● Mutants Down Under – After the Bomb Sourcebook, Cat. No. 507 – $4.20 – 70% off (save $9.79)!

● Mutants of the Yucatan – After the Sourcebook, Cat. No. 511 – $4.20 – 70% off (save $9.79)!

● Mutants in Avalon – After the Bomb Sourcebook, Cat. No. 513 – $5.00 – 70% off (save $11.99)!

● Rifts World Book 10: Juicer Uprising (Sean’s choice for a fun read), Cat. No. 820 – $7.50 – 70% off (save $17.49)!

● Rifts Siege on Tolkeen: Final Siege (Kevin’s choice for a fun read), Cat. No. 844 – $8.00 – 70% off (save $18.99)! 40+ NPCs you can use anywhere in Rifts, the city of Tolkeen mapped and described, plus weapons, monsters, and adventures in an often overlooked masterpiece.

● Rifts Machinations of Doom, Sourcebook & Graphic Novel by Ramon K. Perez (Caleb’s choice for a fun read), Cat. No. 871 – $6.90 – 70% off (save $16.09)! Watch for the Perez interview coming.

● The Rifter #85 (Wayne’s choice for a fun read because it spans the Megaverse), Cat. No. 185 – $8.00 – 70% off (save $18.99)! And yes, more annuals are on the horizon.

● Rifts Novel #2: Deception’s Web (part 2 in a trilogy), Cat. No. 302 – $2.99 – 70% off (save $6.96)!

● Rifts Chi-Town Burbs (Short Stories, various authors), Cat. No. 304 – $3.90 – 70% off (save $9.05)!

● Rifts & the Megaverse Art Book (gorgeous Zeleznik art), Cat. No. 2510 – $6.88 – 70% off (save $16.07)!

● Future Visions Art Book (Chuck Walton; fun to color), Cat. No. 2562 – $4.18 – 70% off (save $9.77)!

● Rifts Coloring Book (fun for all ages), Cat. No. 870 – $2.98 – 50% off (save $2.97)!

● Land of the Damned One (Palladium Fantasy), Cat. No. 468 – $13.50 – 50% off (save $13.49)!

● Creature Feature for Beyond the Supernatural (Alex’s choice for a frightfully fun read), Cat. No. 704 – $13.50 – 50% off (save $13.49)! And yes, BTS sourcebooks are coming.

● Graveyard Earth for Dead Reign (Matthew’s choice for a fun read), Cat. No. 235 – $8.50 – 50% off (save $8.49)! The dead shall continue to walk.

The Official History of Palladium Books on YouTube


Please continue to enjoy and spread the word about the Official History of Palladium Books on the Palladium YouTube channel. Every YouTube episode is fun, candid, and offers insight and behind the scenes information from the publisher/creator of your favorite Palladium role-playing games, Kevin Siembieda. Hear fun stories, details and thought processes you probably never heard before. We are now getting into some of our most famous and beloved games: Palladium Fantasy RPG and Secrets of the Defilers have been a big hit. Behind the scenes of Heroes Unlimited RPG is the most recent episode, followed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG releasing today. Did you know that TMNT & Other Strangeness was Mirage Studio’s very first license, or that Kevin introduced Eastman and Laird to licensing agent Mark Freedman who helped take the Turtles mainstream? Get the behind the scenes story straight from the guy who was there.

New Episodes coming on the Official History of Palladium Books with Kevin Siembieda & J-M DeFoggi. Behind the scenes insight into the making of one Palladium blockbuster RPG of the 1980s and 1990s after another.

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG – today, March 27th.

  • Secrets of the Defilers, Part 4: Battle through Hades – April 10th.

  • Robotech – April 24th.

  • Ramon K. Perez interview – fan favorite comic book and game artist Ramon K. Perez – May 8th.

  • Watch for a new episode every other week and enjoy.

Live chat with Kevin Siembieda and Sean on Legion of Myth, Sunday, March 30th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time.


Sean is back and we are kicking everything into high gear. We’ll talk a bit about the latest at Palladium and answer some questions, but the subject of this Sunday’s chat is using Palladium rules as a framework for any setting and kit-bashing two (or more) games/settings like Nightbane and Palladium Fantasy into something truly unique. Which is so fun. Spread the word and join the conversation.

Glitterbois Chats are back starting April


More Glitterbois Chats with Kevin Siembieda are starting up again in April. Keep your

ears open for them.


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Kickstarter Backers


You, and you alone, can still add to your selection of Kickstarter Exclusives and upgrade to higher pledge levels to get limited edition exclusives. But you must do so soon, before the Pledge Manager is closed! The Kickstarter Exclusives are freakin’ awesome and many are super-limited, especially the variant covers. For example, the two Mutagen Green Editions sport brand new artwork by Kevin Eastman AND Peter Laird created specially for these two collector’s editions. A rare and triumphant collaboration by the two legendary Ninja Turtle creators that TMNT super-fans will desire for years to come – if they can even find one on the secondary collector’s market – because they will be so limited and rare! But Backers can still order them for another few weeks. Backers, use your unique position and do NOT miss out on what are certain to become high-priced collector items. You’ll be glad you did whether they become a cherished part of your collection or you sell them later for a profit. Also remember, the exclusive print sets and poker deck are only available for the higher pledge tiers.

Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Gen Con Game Events – we need YOU

Palladium is looking for experienced Game Masters to run Palladium RPG events at Gen Con. That can be any of our game worlds using our rules as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds. If you were thinking about running games at Gen Con or want to help out Palladium, please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated room and other perks like a free Game Master badge, and discounts on your purchases at the Palladium Books booth.


To earn a free GM badge, all you need to do is run 4 games with 6 or more players in each game, 4 hours each. This will earn you enough credits with Gen Con to earn a GM badge – $155 value!


We hope to add to our usual crew of Gen Con Game Masters to run Palladium game events for any Palladium setting:

  • Rifts®

  • Rifts® for Savage Worlds

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness

  • After the Bomb®

  • Chaos Earth®

  • Palladium Fantasy RPG®

  • Heroes Unlimited

  • Ninjas & Superspies

  • Nightbane®

  • Dead Reign®

  • Beyond the Supernatural and any of our other settings.


We need your commitment, game description and info by March 28. Send to Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com


Game Masters and Game Event Descriptions NEEDED by March 28, 2025.


(See Gen Con’s website for details about the info needed for each game listing; G.M.’s name, number of players, length of time, name of game, difficulty level, etc.) Submitting your games to us enables Palladium to coordinate and submit them as a batch to Gen Con and guarantees to have your event listed in the onsite Gen Con Program Book. Being listed onsite is very important to have full attendance for your event. This date gives us enough time to compile and send Gen Con everything they need. Thank you!


Prospective Game Masters, please contact Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com

Now Available!

Palladium Spring-Summer 2025 Catalog

NEW! Catalog of Palladium Books®, Spring/Summer 2025 – Folks are loving Palladium’s new, printed, color catalog. There’s just something about holding a physical catalog in your hand, especially one as fun and colorful as this one. Due to popular request, we’ve made it available for purchase. The price is what it cost Palladium to print them. Enjoy.

  • Full color, 8½ x 11 inch (magazine size), glossy paper stock, beautiful color.

  • The 48 page catalog describes and shows nearly the entire RPG library and features the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Edition on the cover and the first few pages.

  • $2.50 retail – 48 pages – Cat. No. C2025-1

BACK in Stock: Yin-Sloth Jungles, Updated and Expanded, 2nd Edition Rules – The epic jungle adventure book is back. 15 O.C.C.s (like the Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter), 18 jungle people and monsters, new and expanded Shamans and their magic, the Battle of the Gods, setting overview, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 459. Note: Yin-Sloth Adventures with 30+ maps, notable locations and a lot of adventures and adventure hooks is coming soon.

Rifts Vampire Kingdoms

BACK in Stock: Rifts Vampire Kingdoms – Everything you need to know about Rifts vampires, variant types, vampire abilities, combat notes and henchmen, plus the Hero Vampire, Deluded Vampire, Vampire Hunters, vampire slaying weapons, monsters, town creation rules, the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and more. $26.99 retail – 224 pages – Cat. No. 802-E.

Nightbane Dark Designs

BACK in Stock: Nightbane® Dark Designs – This Nightbane focused book collects and expands upon Nightbane Morphus Tables (18 in all), plus offers 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, Talent creation and conversion rules, Ancient Nightbane, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 736.

300+ RPG products on DriveThru – a dozen unique world settings – one game system – endless possibilities. No other game company offers game worlds for so many different genres. Best of all, learn to play one Palladium RPG and you can play them all, because each uses the same basic core rules and combat. There are differences, but the fundamentals are the same. This also means you can bring characters, villains, monsters, powers, magic, weapons, gear, and adventure ideas from one setting into another or mash them together!


In addition to PDF titles for entire game lines like Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign® (zombies), Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy), Rifts Chaos Earth®, Systems Failure™, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® #1-85, and others, there are Game Master and player aids, character generators, paper minis, map packs, and FREE Previews of books like Creature Feature™, Dead Reign, Coalition Manhunters, Titan Robotics™, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, World Books, Dimension Books, and more to give you a glimpse of what’s in the book. Enjoy endless adventures across the Megaverse®.

Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store

I am adding new collectibles of all kinds to my Ebay store every few weeks. Some are Palladium negatives, rare and out of print books, original Palladium artwork, prints, posters, as well as other collectible toys, action figures, Nightmare Before Christmas items, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, books, and other good stuff – including Erick Wujcik’s rare and sought after Amberzine #12-15. Check in every week or so to see what’s new. All items come from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection.


One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed.

  • Each negative is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.

  • Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.

  • Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).

  • Each is signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

  • Each negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made).

  • Looks great matted or framed! Fits an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8 ½ x 11 inches.

  • Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment. The negatives of many books are sold out or were never available.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

You are not alone


I talk with many people of all ages and every walk of life. It disturbs me that so many feel lost and afraid, especially those who despair and fear for the future of our world. Please don’t despair. I promise you the human spirit is more resilient and stronger than you imagine. The majority of people I see are good and caring. Please don’t let political rhetoric, greed, and fear-mongering isolate you or make you fret. Though the media might suggest otherwise, the good outweighs the bad and the ugly, especially if you, yourself, seek out beauty and joy.


Here’s a secret: You, yes you, hold the power to change the world. I mean it. Do so by example. By being the change you want to see.


Be the light. Be the kinder, better, more caring person you wish for the world. Wear a smile, be empathetic, be patient and just. Win one person over at a time by your good example. You can make a difference by striving to be the best you can be. You don’t have to get up on a soapbox, preach, protest, or say a word. All you need to do is be your best you and try to be appreciative, respectful and empathetic toward others. Kindness and compassion are contagious and breed reciprocal positivity.


Does that sound too simple or naive? It’s not. We and the world around us are what we make them. I knew a woman who transformed her Michigan backyard into a tropical paradise every spring and brought boundless joy to thousands of children and adults throughout the month of October. She did it by being true to herself and letting her light shine via quiet acts of kindness and generous creativity. This one, unassuming person touched and inspired friends, family, and complete strangers with simple words and actions that made the people around her feel seen and appreciated. She gifted them with joyful moments they’ll carry always.


She wasn’t a politician, educator, doctor, or inventor. In fact, she would have told you that she was nobody. At least not anybody important. And yet, there’s an army of people to whom she was very important.


I speak of Kathy Simmons, who passed away one year ago. No matter how grim or dire her situation – and she had plenty of them throughout her life – she found a way to laugh and survive without harming a soul. Mom, Dad, Erick Wujcik, and Julius Rosenstein were the same way. They never let hardship crush their spirit. Somehow, they always managed to find and embrace joy in life’s simplest pleasures no matter how dark or threatening the storm clouds.


Kathy and these other amazing “nobodies” – who were everything to me – taught me how to live, love, hold joy and laughter in my heart, and keep going no matter what. I use my memories of them and lessons learned through their example to fuel the courage to try to be my best self.


If we can do it, you can do it too. I know you can. Please don’t let the stress of life and the pettiness, cruelty, and unfairness that can sometimes accompany it, dampen your spirit and take away your joy. Hold close to you the people and things that bring you happiness. Never let anyone convince you that they aren’t important. Never believe the things that light up your imagination and bring you joy and camaraderie are stupid and worthless. Lose yourself in those stupid games that make you laugh and your heart sing. Hold on to the precious friends and the memories of wondrous adventures they have brought into your life.


And never forget that you are not nobody. Know that you are, indeed, special and important in the universe. Which is how one person can make a profound difference, whether that difference affects a single soul or millions.


– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend

Copyright © 2025 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.


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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – March 21, 2025

Written by pb_addy on . Posted in Weekly Updates.

Weekly Update

ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE

BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA

Palladium Books® – Weekly Update

March 21, 2025

I hope you were able to take advantage of one or more of those big sales that ended Wednesday night. Our thanks to those of you who support our licensing partner AudioRPG’s efforts to bring RPG worlds to a new medium. I think next month’s offer from them will be the Nightbane® RPG itself. If AudioRPG sees enough interest, they’ll finish the Nightbane RPG series and begin to bring other Palladium Role-Playing Game lines to life: Dead Reign®, Palladium Fantasy, and even Rifts® will be considered. We think audiobooks are a dynamic, new media to reach gamers and potential new fans.

REMINDER: Gamers and Retailers can still place pre-orders for the two mainstream Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strange RPG books as well as the Black White and Red editions, the Game Master Screen, and Mutagen Green Dice Set in the TMNT & Other Strangeness Pre-Order Store. And all at the lower Kickstarter prices, but not for very much longer. Order before the Pledge Manager is closed in a few weeks.

Backers, you hold great power! You, and you alone, can still add to your selection of Kickstarter Exclusives and upgrade to higher pledge levels to get limited edition exclusives. But you must do so soon, before the Pledge Manager is closed! The Kickstarter Exclusives are freakin’ awesome and many are super-limited, especially the variant covers. For example, the two Mutagen Green Editions sport brand new artwork by Kevin Eastman AND Peter Laird created specially for these two collector’s editions. A rare and triumphant collaboration by the two legendary Ninja Turtle creators that TMNT super-fans will desire for years to come – if they can even find one on the secondary collector’s market – because they will be so limited and rare! But Backers can still order them for another few weeks. Backers, use your unique position and do NOT miss out on what are certain to become high-priced collector items. You’ll be glad you did whether they become a cherished part of your collection or you sell them later for a profit. Also remember, the exclusive print sets and poker deck are only available for the higher pledge tiers.

OTHER FUN. Please enjoy and spread the word about the Official History of Palladium Books on the Palladium YouTube channel. Each YouTube episode is fun, candid, and offers insight and behind the scenes information from the publisher/creator of your favorite Palladium role-playing games, Kevin Siembieda. Hear fun stories, details and thought processes you probably never heard before. We are now getting into some of our most famous and beloved games: Palladium Fantasy RPG and Secrets of the Defilers have been a big hit. Behind the scenes of Heroes Unlimited RPG is the most recent episode.

COMING on the Official History of Palladium Books with Kevin Siembieda & J-M DeFoggi: Palladium’s era of one blockbuster RPG after another. Each known and loved by fans worldwide.

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG – March 27th.

  • Robotech – April 10th.

  • Watch for a new episode every other week and enjoy.

NEWS! Live chat with Kevin Siembieda and Sean on Legion of Myth, Sunday, March 30th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Sean is back as we kick everything into high gear. We’ll talk a bit about the latest at Palladium before diving into Palladium rules as a framework and kit-bashing two games/settings like Nightbane and Palladium Fantasy. Which is so fun. Spread the word and join the conversation.

Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Gen Con Game Events – we need YOU

Palladium is looking for experienced Game Masters to run Palladium RPG events at Gen Con. That can be any of our game worlds using our rules as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds. If you were thinking about running games at Gen Con or want to help out Palladium, please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated room and other perks like a free Game Master badge, and discounts on your purchases at the Palladium Books booth.


To earn a free GM badge, all you need to do is run 4 games with 6 or more players in each game, 4 hours each. This will earn you enough credits with Gen Con to earn a GM badge – $155 value!


We hope to add to our usual crew of Gen Con Game Masters to run Palladium game events for any Palladium setting:

  • Rifts®

  • Rifts® for Savage Worlds

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness

  • After the Bomb®

  • Chaos Earth®

  • Palladium Fantasy RPG®

  • Heroes Unlimited

  • Ninjas & Superspies

  • Nightbane®

  • Dead Reign®

  • Beyond the Supernatural and any of our other settings.


We need your commitment, game description and info by March 28. Send to Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com


Game Masters and Game Event Descriptions NEEDED by March 28, 2025.


(See Gen Con’s website for details about the info needed for each game listing; G.M.’s name, number of players, length of time, name of game, difficulty level, etc.) Submitting your games to us enables Palladium to coordinate and submit them as a batch to Gen Con and guarantees to have your event listed in the onsite Gen Con Program Book. Being listed onsite is very important to have full attendance for your event. This date gives us enough time to compile and send Gen Con everything they need. Thank you!


Prospective Game Masters, please contact Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com

Now Available!

Palladium Spring-Summer 2025 Catalog

NEW! Catalog of Palladium Books®, Spring/Summer 2025 – Folks are loving Palladium’s new, printed, color catalog. There’s just something about holding a physical catalog in your hand, especially one as fun and colorful as this one. Due to popular request, we’ve made it available for purchase. The price is what it cost Palladium to print them. Enjoy.

  • Full color, 8½ x 11 inch (magazine size), glossy paper stock, beautiful color.

  • The 48 page catalog describes and shows nearly the entire RPG library and features the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Edition on the cover and the first few pages.

  • $2.50 retail – 48 pages – Cat. No. C2025-1

BACK in Stock: Yin-Sloth Jungles, Updated and Expanded, 2nd Edition Rules – The epic jungle adventure book is back. 15 O.C.C.s (like the Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter), 18 jungle people and monsters, new and expanded Shamans and their magic, the Battle of the Gods, setting overview, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 459. Note: Yin-Sloth Adventures with 30+ maps, notable locations and a lot of adventures and adventure hooks is coming soon.

Rifts Vampire Kingdoms

BACK in Stock: Rifts Vampire Kingdoms – Everything you need to know about Rifts vampires, variant types, vampire abilities, combat notes and henchmen, plus the Hero Vampire, Deluded Vampire, Vampire Hunters, vampire slaying weapons, monsters, town creation rules, the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and more. $26.99 retail – 224 pages – Cat. No. 802-E.

Nightbane Dark Designs

BACK in Stock: Nightbane® Dark Designs – This Nightbane focused book collects and expands upon Nightbane Morphus Tables (18 in all), plus offers 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, Talent creation and conversion rules, Ancient Nightbane, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 736.

300+ RPG products on DriveThru – a dozen unique world settings – one game system – endless possibilities. No other game company offers game worlds for so many different genres. Best of all, learn to play one Palladium RPG and you can play them all, because each uses the same basic core rules and combat. There are differences, but the fundamentals are the same. This also means you can bring characters, villains, monsters, powers, magic, weapons, gear, and adventure ideas from one setting into another or mash them together!


In addition to PDF titles for entire game lines like Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign® (zombies), Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy), Rifts Chaos Earth®, Systems Failure™, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® #1-85, and others, there are Game Master and player aids, character generators, paper minis, map packs, and FREE Previews of books like Creature Feature™, Dead Reign, Coalition Manhunters, Titan Robotics™, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, World Books, Dimension Books, and more to give you a glimpse of what’s in the book. Enjoy endless adventures across the Megaverse®.

Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store

I am adding new collectibles of all kinds to my Ebay store every few weeks. Some are Palladium negatives, rare and out of print books, original Palladium artwork, prints, posters, as well as other collectible toys, action figures, Nightmare Before Christmas items, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, books, and other good stuff – including Erick Wujcik’s rare and sought after Amberzine #12-15. Check in every week or so to see what’s new. All items come from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection.


One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed.

  • Each negative is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.

  • Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.

  • Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).

  • Each is signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

  • Each negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made).

  • Looks great matted or framed! Fits an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8 ½ x 11 inches.

  • Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment. The negatives of many books are sold out or were never available.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

Palladium is a buzzing hive of activity


The frenetic energy is off the charts here at Palladium Books as we are all busy putting the finishing touches on all things Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and moving forward with numerous other projects. Yes, that includes Yin-Sloth Expeditions and Bestiary Volume 2 (I have all your Palladium Insider pre-orders on my desk), amongst others.


As I noted earlier, Gamers and Retailers can still place pre-orders for the mainstream books, Game Shield, and Mutagen Green Dice Set in the TMNT & Other Strangeness Pre-Order Store at the lower Kickstarter prices, but not for very much longer.


Backers, you are in the cat-bird seat! You can still add and change your Kickstarter selections to add exclusives or upgrade to higher tiers, before the Pledge Manager is closed. That will be happening soon, so you need to act now. The Kickstarter Exclusives are freakin’ amazing and many are super-limited in quantities, especially the variant covers. At the risk of repeating myself, all the variant covers are beautiful. Kevin Eastman did the variant color cover for the RPG and Sophie Campbell did the variant color cover for Transdimensional Adventures; I love them both and so will you. The two Mutagen Green Editions are impressive because they are a rare collaboration featuring brand new artwork by Kevin Eastman AND Peter Laird created special just for these two collector’s Redux Editions. We were blown away by this beautiful gesture and their artistry. Kevin and Peter still create magic together. This is something you will cherish. Moreover, these editions with variant covers are so limited in quantity, they are likely to become coveted collector’s items. But Backers can still order them for another few weeks. Take advantage of that while you still can. And I personally recommend the metallic Shredder dice set. I just love them and the Mutagen Green Dice. Add to and upgrade your pledge while you still can.


Things are brewing here at Palladium. There are days that we are so excited we can barely contain ourselves. I wish I could tell you all about our plans for long awaited book releases, new business partners, new writers, new freelance artists, new covers, new licensing opportunities, new channels of distribution, and one secret project that even blows my mind! You’ll hear more about it when we see if we can get it off the ground via crowdfunding later this year, after the TMNT & Other Strangeness Kickstarter is fulfilled. I suspect you’ll be seeing 2-3 crowdfunders coming from Palladium this year. You’ll start getting glimpses of these things soon.


Until then, please don’t let politics and the affairs of the world get you down. Find refuge and escape in your favorite Palladium role-playing games. Pull out some of your old books to re-read or purchase a title you don’t have yet to set your imagination on fire. Then, join a game or strike up an RPG campaign for any of Palladium’s world settings. Rifts is epic, but Dead Reign is a great introductory setting for new players and so much fun. I use Dead Reign all the time to introduce new players to the Palladium game system. My personal go to game worlds are Palladium Fantasy, Beyond the Supernatural, and Dead Reign, because they are so fun, familiar (yet unique) and easy to run anytime, anywhere.


I have a lot to get back to, so I need to run. See ya next week for more news and goings on here in Palladiumville. As always, keep those imaginations burning bright and game on.


– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend

Copyright © 2025 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.


Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Powers Unlimited®, Palladium Books®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Phase World®, Nightbane®, Megaverse®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars®, Chaos Earth®, Dead Reign®, and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc.; Beyond the Supernatural, Coalition States, Garden of the Gods, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Minion War, Mysteries of Magic, Psychic Scream, SAMAS, Thundercloud Galaxy, Three Galaxies, Vampire Kingdoms, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.

TMNT © 2025 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nickelodeon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.

3 Big Sales – Palladium Books® Weekly Update – March 13, 2025

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Weekly Update

ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE

BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA

3 Big Sales – Palladium Books® Weekly Update

March 13, 2025

Three Big Sales!

Nightbane Dark Designs

NEW SALE #1: Dark Megaverse® Sale (horror and heroics – 30-50% off) starts today. It ties in with the horror theme of the Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook being offered on Backerkit but also spans other corners of the Megaverse®. Get Nightbane, Dead Reign (the Zombie Apocalypse), Ninjas & Superspies, select Rifts and Fantasy titles at 30-50% off. One week only. See details below.

Nightbane Dark Designs

NEW SALE #2! Nightbane® Audiobook from AudioRPG – If you loved the Dark Designs crowdfunder, you’ll enjoy this one just as much. Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook is one of my favorite Nightbane sourcebooks. I love how the audiobook makes it feel fresh and new. Fun to listen to while on a drive or prepping for a game. If these initial aubiobook crowdfunders do well you can expect audiobooks for Rifts® and more. Only 7 days to get yours.

NEW SALE #3! G.M.’s Day Sale on DriveThruRPG.com – 40% off thousands of PDF titles; including many Palladium Books role-playing games, G.M. guides and select sourcebooks. This is DriveThru’s biggest sale of the year. ONLY 4 days left – Sale ends Monday.

NEWS! What’s hot this week at Palladium? We are also seeing strong interest in Phase World®, Palladium Fantasy, Heroes Unlimited, and Dead Reign® RPGs this week. Check the big new sale.

Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Game Events. See details below. Your help is appreciated.

A Worthy Cause. Please Help if you can. The BRIC crowdfunder to save lives. We know times are tough and money is tight for some of you, but this charity is very important to me and Sean. Even a $5 or $10 contribution helps. All proceeds go directly to this charity and honestly protect and save the lives of children and families in the Congo. Use the link to donate and get more details. Thanks!

NEWS! The making of the Heroes Unlimited RPG goes live today as part of the Official History of Palladium Books on the Palladium YouTube channel. TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG and Robotech are coming soon. Watch for a new episode every other week and enjoy.

NEWS! Live chat with Kevin Siembieda and Sean on Legion of Myth coming soon. Sean is back from his secret mission in Asia so he will be part of the chat this month. No, we cannot discuss what Sean was up to in Asia, but it’s all good. Real good.

Dark Megaverse Sale

SALE! Dark Megaverse® Sale – 30% to 50% off

Fight the darkness and be a hero with this sale spanning the Megaverse®. Horror-based books on sale at a whopping 30-50% discount. Select PDF books are also on sale on DriveThruRPG.com – enjoy. And check out the Nightbane Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunding campaign.

Nightbane Dark Designs

Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunding on Backerkit – only 7 days left

AudioRPG is cranking out the audiobooks and is offering the Nightbane® Survival Guide sourcebook (one of my personal favorites) as their newest audiobook! It is live. They and we appreciate your support because it’s all leading toward other Palladium game lines like Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, and all the rest. Personally, I think Dead Reign® will make a great audiobook series.


We have been blown away by the quality production and that listening to the audiobook makes the sourcebook feel brand new. It’s a whole new experience. I love ‘em, check it out. The buy-in is only around $25.


An RPG audiobook may sound crazy, but it won’t after you listen to the samples presented in this Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunder taking place on Backerkit by one of Palladium’s new licensing partners. It sounds amazing! We were all blown away by the quality.

  • Fun to listen to.

  • Relaxing game prep.

  • Professional narration.

  • Convenient for the busy G.M.

  • Hearing the words spoken by a professional narrator makes the book come to life in a whole new way and feel brand new.

  • Hearing it also makes you notice game and adventure details you may have missed reading it yourself.

  • EVERYONE at Palladium endorses this product 100%. Go to the page and listen for yourself. You’ll be as pleased as we are.

  • Dive into the thrilling Urban Fantasy world of Nightbane® with Nightbane Survival Guide.

  • Your new adventure starts here when you listen to the Nightbane Survival Guide filled with details about surviving in the world as a Nightbane, the Becoming (the first time they transform into something inhuman), transformation rules, how to make allies and contacts, the hidden war, the Nightbane underground railroad, more on Factions and rules for creating them, adventures, and adventure hooks. Fun for players and Game Masters.

  • The audiobook is perfect for enhancing your Nightbane campaign or exploring its lore on the go.

  • The project crowdfunding happens on Backerkit and it is happening right now. Game on and join the RPG audiobook revolution! The campaign only runs for two weeks, so don’t delay.

Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Gen Con Game Events – we need YOU

Palladium is looking for experienced Game Masters to run Palladium RPG events at Gen Con. That can be any of our game worlds using our rules as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds. If you were thinking about running games at Gen Con or want to help out Palladium, please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated room and other perks like a free Game Master badge, and discounts on your purchases at the Palladium Books booth.


To earn a free GM badge, all you need to do is run 4 games with 6 or more players in each game, 4 hours each. This will earn you enough credits with Gen Con to earn a GM badge – $155 value!


We hope to add to our usual crew of Gen Con Game Masters to run Palladium game events for any Palladium setting:

  • Rifts®

  • Rifts® for Savage Worlds

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness

  • After the Bomb®

  • Chaos Earth®

  • Palladium Fantasy RPG®

  • Heroes Unlimited

  • Ninjas & Superspies

  • Nightbane®

  • Dead Reign®

  • Beyond the Supernatural and any of our other settings.


We need your commitment, game description and info by February 28. Send to Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com


Game Masters and Game Event Descriptions NEEDED by March 18, 2025.


(See Gen Con’s website for details about the info needed for each game listing; G.M.’s name, number of players, length of time, name of game, difficulty level, etc.) Submitting your games to us enables Palladium to coordinate and submit them as a batch to Gen Con and guarantees to have your event listed in the onsite Gen Con Program Book. Being listed onsite is very important to have full attendance for your event. This date gives us enough time to compile and send Gen Con everything they need. Thank you!


Prospective Game Masters, please contact Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com

Now Available!

Palladium Spring-Summer 2025 Catalog

NEW! Catalog of Palladium Books®, Spring/Summer 2025 – Folks are loving Palladium’s new, printed, color catalog. There’s just something about holding a physical catalog in your hand, especially one as fun and colorful as this one. Due to popular request, we’ve made it available for purchase. The price is what it cost Palladium to print them. Enjoy.

  • Full color, 8½ x 11 inch (magazine size), glossy paper stock, beautiful color.

  • The 48 page catalog describes and shows nearly the entire RPG library and features the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Edition on the cover and the first few pages.

  • $2.50 retail – 48 pages – Cat. No. C2025-1

BACK in Stock: Yin-Sloth Jungles, Updated and Expanded, 2nd Edition Rules – The epic jungle adventure book is back. 15 O.C.C.s (like the Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter), 18 jungle people and monsters, new and expanded Shamans and their magic, the Battle of the Gods, setting overview, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 459. Note: Yin-Sloth Adventures with 30+ maps, notable locations and a lot of adventures and adventure hooks is coming soon.

Rifts Vampire Kingdoms

BACK in Stock: Rifts Vampire Kingdoms – Everything you need to know about Rifts vampires, variant types, vampire abilities, combat notes and henchmen, plus the Hero Vampire, Deluded Vampire, Vampire Hunters, vampire slaying weapons, monsters, town creation rules, the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and more. $26.99 retail – 224 pages – Cat. No. 802-E.

Nightbane Dark Designs

BACK in Stock: Nightbane® Dark Designs – This Nightbane focused book collects and expands upon Nightbane Morphus Tables (18 in all), plus offers 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, Talent creation and conversion rules, Ancient Nightbane, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 736.

300+ RPG products on DriveThru – a dozen unique world settings – one game system – endless possibilities. No other game company offers game worlds for so many different genres. Best of all, learn to play one Palladium RPG and you can play them all, because each uses the same basic core rules and combat. There are differences, but the fundamentals are the same. This also means you can bring characters, villains, monsters, powers, magic, weapons, gear, and adventure ideas from one setting into another or mash them together!


In addition to PDF titles for entire game lines like Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign® (zombies), Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy), Rifts Chaos Earth®, Systems Failure™, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® #1-85, and others, there are Game Master and player aids, character generators, paper minis, map packs, and FREE Previews of books like Creature Feature™, Dead Reign, Coalition Manhunters, Titan Robotics™, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, World Books, Dimension Books, and more to give you a glimpse of what’s in the book. Enjoy endless adventures across the Megaverse®.

Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store

I am adding new collectibles of all kinds to my Ebay store every few weeks. Some are Palladium negatives, rare and out of print books, original Palladium artwork, prints, posters, as well as other collectible toys, action figures, Nightmare Before Christmas items, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, books, and other good stuff – including Erick Wujcik’s rare and sought after Amberzine #12-15. Check in every week or so to see what’s new. All items come from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection.


One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed.

  • Each negative is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.

  • Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.

  • Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).

  • Each is signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

  • Each negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made).

  • Looks great matted or framed! Fits an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8 ½ x 11 inches.

  • Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment. The negatives of many books are sold out or were never available.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

Forward Movement


Sean is back in Michigan after his trip to Asia. We cannot talk about all he was up to overseas, but it all seems to have gone very well. Likewise, we continue to lay the groundwork for upcoming projects, new book releases, a new website, and much more.


We expect to be making a major announcement about the progress of TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux editions and related Kickstarter exclusives as they approach going into manufacturing. Everything is coming together nicely. Note: Gamers and Retailers can still place orders in the TMNT & Other Strangeness Pre-Order Store at the lower Kickstarter prices, but not for very much longer. (Backers, you can still add or change your Kickstarter selections, but do so soon.)


A few visitors, including writer Carmen Bellaire, have had the opportunity to see the finished book layouts and physical samples of some FanRoll items at the Palladium Studio, and love what they’ve seen. Carmen said, “Kev, the books look even better than I imagined. Fans are going to go crazy over these. And those metal Shredder dice are something special. Gotta make sure I ordered a set.”


New books coming soon: We also expect to announce the release of new books very soon – Yin-Sloth Expeditions and Bestiary Volume 2 amongst the first releases of 2025.


Social Media: The Official History of Palladium Books continues to post on the Palladium YouTube Channel every other week and you can expect to see me and Sean back on Legion of Myth, the Glitterbois, and elsewhere.


Nightbane Survival Guide Audiobook is the latest venture by the AudioRPG company to drum up excitement for role-playing game audiobooks. I think the actual Nightbane RPG will be offered next. If they get a good response (they were happy with the Dark Designs crowdfunder), they’ll do all of Palladium’s RPGs, including Fantasy, Dead Reign, and Rifts. We’re impressed with the quality of these audiobooks. Check it out. It’s only around $25 to get in on the ground floor. We think this has tremendous potential.


Enjoy the Dark Megaverse Sale for physical books at PDF prices from the Palladium online store and the GM’s Day Sale on PDF titles at DriveThruRPG for truly big savings. Game on and unleash those imaginations.


– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend

Copyright © 2025 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.


Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Powers Unlimited®, Palladium Books®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Phase World®, Nightbane®, Megaverse®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars®, Chaos Earth®, Dead Reign®, and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc.; Beyond the Supernatural, Coalition States, Garden of the Gods, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Minion War, Mysteries of Magic, Psychic Scream, SAMAS, Thundercloud Galaxy, Three Galaxies, Vampire Kingdoms, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.

TMNT © 2025 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nickelodeon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and all related titles, logos, and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.

Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – March 6, 2025

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Weekly Update

ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE

BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA

Palladium Books® – Weekly Update

March 6, 2025

Nightbane Dark Designs

The GAMA Trade Show was an interesting and fun experience. We saw a lot of excitement for TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux and other upcoming products for various Palladium game lines, namely Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, and Beyond the Supernatural. There were some very nice moments with pals Mike and Lisa Pondsmith of R.Talsorian Games, Brandon Aten and Matthew Orr of Wet Ink Games, Christina from LongPack, as well as with friends Shawn and Lisa Hall, Blake, Doug, Ryan, other pals and various retailers and fans.


Our arrival to Louisville started with a surprise upgrade to what Wayne and I called our luxury suite. It was followed by a pleasant evening and delicious home cooked meal at the home of Shawn and Lisa Hall. The zaniest night of the week, however, was with the madmen at GamesQuest and Ark Transportation – specifically Nigel Matthews, Peter, Jeff Sheets, and Kyle Paxton. We just hit it off and enjoyed a raucous evening filled with good food, spirits and laughter. Our waitress Bobbi Jo was fun too, and I would soon discover that the front manager at the hotel was a big gamer thrilled to have all the rooms of his hotel filled by fellow gamers. Funny.


Thursday, the Exhibit Hall was painfully slow. Very few retailers for some reason, but that gave me and the R. Talsorian folks a chance to talk and catch up at their booth without interruption for at least 45 minutes. When I came back to the Palladium booth I had a surprising and nice Dynamite moment, before it was time to pack up and leave. The slow hours also gave me time to talk about the craft of writing with Shawn and Lisa, both aspiring authors. Our trip was bookended by the Halls taking me and Wayne to the Texas Roadhouse for our last dinner in Louisville.


We found downtown Louisville is a nice location for a convention. It felt safe and offered plenty of excellent dining places at every turn. The warm temperatures in Louisville made me long for the arrival of spring especially after returning to a cold and wintery Michigan. Thankfully the drive back home was uneventful, other than I caught another darn cold. It must be one of those years for me. Anyway, we’re back at the Palladium Studio working away.

Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Gen Con Game Events – we need YOU

Palladium is looking for experienced Game Masters to run Palladium RPG events at Gen Con. That can be any of our game worlds using our rules as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds. If you were thinking about running games at Gen Con or want to help out Palladium, please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated room and other perks like a free Game Master badge, and discounts on your purchases at the Palladium Books booth.


To earn a free GM badge, all you need to do is run 4 games with 6 or more players in each game, 4 hours each. This will earn you enough credits with Gen Con to earn a GM badge – $155 value!


We hope to add to our usual crew of Gen Con Game Masters to run Palladium game events for any Palladium setting:

  • Rifts®

  • Rifts® for Savage Worlds

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness

  • After the Bomb®

  • Chaos Earth®

  • Palladium Fantasy RPG®

  • Heroes Unlimited

  • Ninjas & Superspies

  • Nightbane®

  • Dead Reign®

  • Beyond the Supernatural and any of our other settings.


We need your commitment, game description and info by February 28. Send to Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com


Game Masters and Game Event Descriptions NEEDED by March 18, 2025.


(See Gen Con’s website for details about the info needed for each game listing; G.M.’s name, number of players, length of time, name of game, difficulty level, etc.) Submitting your games to us enables Palladium to coordinate and submit them as a batch to Gen Con and guarantees to have your event listed in the onsite Gen Con Program Book. Being listed onsite is very important to have full attendance for your event. This date gives us enough time to compile and send Gen Con everything they need. Thank you!


Prospective Game Masters, please contact Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com

News Bits

NEW! Audio RPG launches its Nightbane® Survival Guide crowdfunder on Backerkit today! Join the RPG Audiobook revolution and order yours today. See complete details below.

NEWS! What’s hot this week at Palladium? All hardcovers, but we are also seeing strong interest in Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, and Dead Reign® RPGs this week. Our thanks to everyone who participated in the hardcover sale that ended Wednesday.

A Worthy Cause. Please Help if you can. The BRIC crowdfunder to save lives. We know times are tough and money is tight for some of you, but this charity is very important to me and Sean. Even a $5 or $10 contribution helps. All proceeds go directly to this charity and honestly protect and save the lives of children and families in the Congo. Use the link to donate and get more details. Thanks!

NEWS! A new episode of the Official History of Palladium Books posted last week. It is another tale of the Defiliers focusing on The Hitler Mouse saga. Yes, you heard that correctly, a mouse. Not an After the Bomb or TMNT & Other Strangeness mutant mouse, but a little ol’ mouse on the verge of destroying the Defilers and taking over the world. Tune in for the whole crazy story. Next week’s episode is all about the Heroes Unlimited RPG. Every episode is fun, friendly, and reveals the making of a specific game line and other bits of Palladium history. TMNT and Robotech are coming soon. Watch for a new episode every other week and enjoy.

NEWS! Live chat with Kevin Siembieda (and Sean if he’s up to it) and the guys at Legion of Myth coming in March. Sean will be back from his secret mission in Asia and if he’s recovered from adjusting to the time zone difference, will join our monthly chat. No we cannot discuss what Sean was up to in Asia, but it’s all good. Real good.

Palladium Spring-Summer 2025 Catalog

NEW! Catalog of Palladium Books®, Spring/Summer 2025 – Folks are loving Palladium’s new, printed, color catalog. There’s just something about holding a physical catalog in your hand, especially one as fun and colorful as this one. Due to popular request, we’ve made it available for purchase. The price is what it cost Palladium to print them. Enjoy.

  • Full color, 8½ x 11 inch (magazine size), glossy paper stock, beautiful color.

  • The 48 page catalog describes and shows nearly the entire RPG library and features the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Edition on the cover and the first few pages.

  • $2.50 retail – 48 pages – Cat. No. C2025-1

BACK in Stock: Yin-Sloth Jungles, Updated and Expanded, 2nd Edition Rules – The epic jungle adventure book is back. 15 O.C.C.s (like the Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter), 18 jungle people and monsters, new and expanded Shamans and their magic, the Battle of the Gods, setting overview, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 459. Note: Yin-Sloth Adventures with 30+ maps, notable locations and a lot of adventures and adventure hooks is coming soon.

Rifts Vampire Kingdoms

BACK in Stock: Rifts Vampire Kingdoms – Everything you need to know about Rifts vampires, variant types, vampire abilities, combat notes and henchmen, plus the Hero Vampire, Deluded Vampire, Vampire Hunters, vampire slaying weapons, monsters, town creation rules, the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and more. $26.99 retail – 224 pages – Cat. No. 802-E.

Nightbane Dark Designs

BACK in Stock: Nightbane® Dark Designs – This Nightbane focused book collects and expands upon Nightbane Morphus Tables (18 in all), plus offers 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, Talent creation and conversion rules, Ancient Nightbane, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 736.

Nightbane Dark Designs

Nightbane® Survival Guide – Audiobook Crowdfunder has gone live – March 6, 2025

AudioRPG is cranking out the audiobooks and is offering the Nightbane® Survival Guide sourcebook (one of my personal favorites) as their newest audiobook! It is live. They and we appreciate your support because it’s all leading toward other Palladium game lines like Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, and all the rest. Personally, I think Dead Reign® will make a great audiobook series.


We have been blown away by the quality production and that listening to the audiobook makes the sourcebook feel brand new. It’s a whole new experience. I love ‘em, check it out. The buy-in is only around $25.


An RPG audiobook may sound crazy, but it won’t after you listen to the samples presented in this Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunder taking place on Backerkit by one of Palladium’s new licensing partners. It sounds amazing! We were all blown away by the quality.

  • Fun to listen to.

  • Relaxing game prep.

  • Professional narration.

  • Convenient for the busy G.M.

  • Hearing the words spoken by a professional narrator makes the book come to life in a whole new way and feel brand new.

  • Hearing it also makes you notice game and adventure details you may have missed reading it yourself.

  • EVERYONE at Palladium endorses this product 100%. Go to the page and listen for yourself. You’ll be as pleased as we are.

  • Dive into the thrilling Urban Fantasy world of Nightbane® with Nightbane Survival Guide.

  • Your new adventure starts here when you listen to the Nightbane Survival Guide filled with details about surviving in the world as a Nightbane, the Becoming (the first time they transform into something inhuman), transformation rules, how to make allies and contacts, the hidden war, the Nightbane underground railroad, more on Factions and rules for creating them, adventures, and adventure hooks. Fun for players and Game Masters.

  • The audiobook is perfect for enhancing your Nightbane campaign or exploring its lore on the go.

  • The project crowdfunding happens on Backerkit and it is happening right now. Game on and join the RPG audiobook revolution! The campaign only runs for two weeks, so don’t delay.

300+ RPG products on DriveThru – a dozen unique world settings – one game system – endless possibilities. No other game company offers game worlds for so many different genres. Best of all, learn to play one Palladium RPG and you can play them all, because each uses the same basic core rules and combat. There are differences, but the fundamentals are the same. This also means you can bring characters, villains, monsters, powers, magic, weapons, gear, and adventure ideas from one setting into another or mash them together!


In addition to PDF titles for entire game lines like Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign® (zombies), Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy), Rifts Chaos Earth®, Systems Failure™, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® #1-85, and others, there are Game Master and player aids, character generators, paper minis, map packs, and FREE Previews of books like Creature Feature™, Dead Reign, Coalition Manhunters, Titan Robotics™, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, World Books, Dimension Books, and more to give you a glimpse of what’s in the book. Enjoy endless adventures across the Megaverse®.

Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store

I am adding new collectibles of all kinds to my Ebay store every few weeks. Some are Palladium negatives, rare and out of print books, original Palladium artwork, prints, posters, as well as other collectible toys, action figures, Nightmare Before Christmas items, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, books, and other good stuff – including Erick Wujcik’s rare and sought after Amberzine #12-15. Check in every week or so to see what’s new. All items come from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection.


One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed.

  • Each negative is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.

  • Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.

  • Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).

  • Each is signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

  • Each negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made).

  • Looks great matted or framed! Fits an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8 ½ x 11 inches.

  • Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment. The negatives of many books are sold out or were never available.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

Boiling beneath the surface


So much is boiling below the surface here in Palladiumville. We are busy all the time working on one thing or another.


As the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux editions and related Kickstarter exclusives approach going into manufacturing, everything is coming together nicely. Distributor orders are starting to come in, retailers are taking advantage of the Kickstarter Retailer Package still available in the TMNT & Other Strangeness Pre-Order Store and individual gamers who missed the Kickstarter can still get the core books and select items at the lower Kickstarter prices too, though not for very much longer. (Backers, you can still add or change your Kickstarter selections, but do so soon.)


I met with our printer rep and shipping partner at the GAMA trade show to discuss logistics and things are looking good. A few Backers swung by the Palladium Booth to see samples and were quite thrilled with what they saw. That included one of our top tier Backers who said he’s even more excited than before.


Secret projects, new business partners, and long awaited books (Rifts Bestiary Volume 2, Rifts Antarctica, Yin-Sloth Expeditions, BTS: Beyond Arcanum, etc.) are also coming along. When we are able to announce many of the unnamed products, I think you’ll be pleased and, in some cases, very pleasantly surprised.


Keep the faith and game on.


– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend

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