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Palladium Books – Weekly Update – June 15, 2023

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

 

SALE! Summer Reading Sale! 20-50% off

Issues of The Rifter®, novels, MOP, art books, and select titles on sale for your reading and gaming enjoyment. Nice gifts for gamers’ birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, etc., or as a treat for yourself. (Probably not enough time to get it for Father’s Day, but better late than never!)

DriveThruRPG.com SALE of the same titles as above plus ALL issues of The Rifter®, #1-85, are all on sale as PDF books. Enjoy.

UPDATE: Titan Robotics Kickstarter shipping prep is underway! Print sets are being collated and bagged, shipping cartons are being built, Titan Robotics products are arriving (and looking great!), Kickstarter fulfillment company Quartmaster Logistics is coordinating. Shipping soon!

UPDATE: Titan Robotics Kickstarter shipping cost – Soon you will see the shipping cost charged to your credit card on file in Backerkit. We are using Quatermaster Logistics to provide you the least expensive but reliable shipping and quality worldwide service.

FINAL HOURS: A Kickstarter that saves lives: Relief in the Congo for God’s Children from Human Trafficking (RIGHT) is a charity close to all of our hearts here at Palladium Books. It protects children, teens, and young adults from slavery by warlords and educates them in a work trade. Please help if you can. A pledge as small as $5 or $10 can make a profound difference to these children and young adults. Thank you.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2037321212/bric-complete-enclosure-wall

 

Dragons and Gods

BACK IN STOCK: Dragons & Gods (Fantasy) – This fan-favorite provides 40 gods, 20 demonic lords, 14 dragons, plus deific powers, deific realms, Elementals, Rune Weapons, M.D.C. conversion notes, and more. The perfect companion for the Expanded & Revised Yin-Sloth Jungles and Garden of the Gods sourcebooks. 232 pages – Cat. No. 451 – available now.

 

Rifts Atlantis

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® World Book 2: Atlantis – Epic, scary, fun. Discover the majesty and horror of Atlantis under the rule of the Splugorth. Overview of Splugorth controlled Atlantis, True Atlanteans, Atlantean Tattoo Magic, 56 magic tattoos, the Sunaj assassin, Stone Master, Stone Magic, the Splugorth, 14 Minions of Splugorth, 20+ D-Bee slaves, Bio-Wizardry, 20 Bio-Wizard augmentations, 10 micro-parasites, 7 parasites, 6 symbiotic organisms, 12 Bio-Wizardry weapons, 9 Rune Weapons, Rune Statues, power armor, and more epic fun – 160 pages – Cat. No. 804 – available now. And don’t forget about Rifts® World Book 21: Splynn Dimensional Market and Dimension Book 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans for more information about Atlantis and True Atlanteans.

 

Rifts Africa

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® World Book 4: Africa – A realm of wonder, danger, and magic, the menace of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse looms over the land and puts the entire world at risk. Mind Bleeders and their psionic powers, Necromancy, African magic, the monstrous Phoenix Empire, Egyptian dark gods, Erin Tarn, Sir Thorpe, and more – 160 pages – Cat. No. 808 – available now.

 

Titan Robotics and Cyberworks

COMING SOON! Rifts® Titan Robotics Sourcebook – Shrouded in secrecy and rumor, the true story of Titan Robotics™ is finally revealed. Part a high-tech toy box, part Secrets of Archie Three, part adventure book with whole new ways to play, and filled with new types of Titan Robotics power armors, giant robots, vehicles, weapons, and gear. Join a Titan Robotics Courier Team and delve into the company’s many secrets, including ARCHIE-3’s plans and program to monitor and manipulate the outside world.

  • Visit the gleaming steel and metal of a Titan Robotics™ showroom, and test-drive their newest models.
  • 18 giant robots.
  • 12 power armors.
  • Weapons, gear and notable vehicles.
  • Gunny’s Depots – arms dealer and part of Titan’s hidden network.
  • Play a Syntharoid sentient human replica android.
  • Play a Titan Dispatcher and join a Titan Robotics Courier Team.
  • Discover ARCHIE and Hagan’s hidden agendas and secret operations.
  • Explore Titan’s shadowy web of informants and how it prospers and grows.
  • Explore alternative time lines, campaign prompts, adventure outlines, intrigue, espionage, and more.
  • Art by Steven Cummings, Charles Walton, and others.
  • Written by Sean Owen Roberson and Matthew Clements.
  • 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 899.

 

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks Collection Hardcover – Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

  • Rifts® Sourcebook One, Revised & Expanded.
  • Rifts® Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids®.
  • Rifts® Shemarrian Nation™ Sourcebook.
  • Rifts® Aftermath Archie-Three™ source material.
  • 5 page index in the back of the book.
  • Color end sheets.
  • 384 pages – $49.99 retail – color cover hardcover – Cat. No. 900. Coming soon.

 

COMING SOON! Cyberworks Poker Deck – The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

  • 52 cards, plus red and black Jokers.
  • Face cards feature iconic Rifts® Cyberworks/Archie 3 artwork (Spades: Cyberworks, Hearts: Shemarrians, Clubs: Mechanoids, Diamonds: Titan Robotics).
  • Number cards feature a color energy swirl in the suit and a circuit board pattern.
  • Textured linen cards for a nice touch and durability.
  • Professional quality playing cards.
  • 52 cards plus two Jokers – $14.99 per deck – Cat. No. 2609 – coming soon.

 

COMING SOON! Yin-Sloth Jungles, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded! This book has been heavily revised and expanded for epic fun and adventure that Palladium Fantasy® fans will love.

 

  • All new, updated, and expanded 16 O.C.C.s.
  • All new, updated, and expanded 18 Jungle People and monsters.
  • All new, 30+ maps by artist Phil Stone.
  • Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately (and probably as a black and white double page spread in the book).
  • New and expanded Shaman Chant magic rituals.
  • Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, and history.
  • Expanded settings and new material throughout.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
  • Final page count yet to be determined but probably 224 pages (tentative) – $26.99 retail (tentative) – Cat. No. 459 – Coming soon.

 

See you at Gen Con® Indy – August 3-6 – Palladium Books Booth #903

Gen Con will be here before you know it. We are happy to report that we have the same great booth location as last year, near one of the main exhibitor hall entrances near Asmodee and Upper Deck. We will have new releases and nearly our entire game line as well as miniatures, original artwork, one-of-a-kind negatives and Palladium creators to chat and sign your books. This year’s guest list includes:

  • Founder, Publisher, Game Designer & Writer – Kevin Siembieda
  • Creative Director, Game Designer & Writer – Sean Owen Roberson (Titan Robotics, Rifts® for Savage Worlds)
  • Writer – Carmen Bellaire (Rifts® MercTown, Black Market, Powers Unlimited)
  • Writer – Glen Evans (Bizantium, Lopan, and more)
  • Writer – Mark Oberle (Nightbane Survival Guide, Dark Designs)
  • Writer, Artist & Cosplayer – Madman Mike Leonard
  • Editor/Rifter® – Wayne Smith
  • Sales/Warehouse Manager – Crystal Willard
  • And others

 

Rifts Coalition Manhunters

Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ is a blast and on sale

People are discovering Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ and they are loving it. Recently, a number of gamers, including two freelancers, raved to me about the book, telling me it was a great read and they thought it was outstanding; so much so that it should be considered an essential core rule book as important as Rifts® Sourcebook One, Atlantis, Triax, and Coalition War Campaign™, among others. They were thrilled with the section about the Seven Dangers first introduced in Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids®, and love the scope and insight into the Coalition States, its citizens, and its secret police. I’m glad people are discovering this epic sourcebook, so I put it on sale.

Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ contains new source material about the Coalition war machine, CS society, CS thought police, psychics as the Coalition’s secret weapon, 80+ new and balanced psionic abilities that will blow your mind, the role of Dog Boys and Kill Hounds, and of course, the Coalition Manhunters – their existence so secret most people don’t believe they are real. ON SALE! To help more people discover Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ I have included it in our current sale. Enjoy. Note: This book has nothing to do with the old Rifts® Manhunter book published under license by a third party company in the 1990s.

 

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

BACK in STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition – Available now

The ever popular Original Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative Bonus Hardcover (first edition rules) is back in print. It is a deluxe, foil stamped edition that presents the original, First Edition Fantasy rules, expanded with the inclusion of the long out-of-print Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook and Tombs of Gersidi.

  • The complete, original RPG – the game that started Palladium Books.
  • First Edition rules are easily adaptable to current Fantasy titles.
  • Includes The Tombs of Gersidi adventure and setting.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook is included as “bonus” material back in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Easily adapted to all 2nd Edition rules and sourcebooks.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now!

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

 

List of Palladium Books® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

 

Summer Reading Sale

SALE! DriveThruRPG — All Rifters®, Novels, and select other titles

Issues of The Rifter®, novels, MOP, art books, and select titles are on sale for your reading and gaming enjoyment. All make nice gifts for gamers’ birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, etc., or as a treat for yourself.

Note: A similar sale of physical books at PDF prices on PalladiumBooks.com is happening right now too.

300+ RPG products, a dozen unique world settings, one game system and endless adventure. 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!

 

The new Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive NPC Sheet is a Microsoft Excel-based system for creating Non-Player Characters quickly and easily. Once you know the system, you can have NPCs up and ready in minutes! Great for making a quick NPC at the last moment, or saving time when designing the big bad of an adventure.

  • Design compatible with the Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet.
  • 20,000+ preset NPC combinations ready to go in less than a minute.
  • 15 nonhuman Palladium Fantasy races and 23 O.C.C.s.
  • 300+ Wizard and Warlock spells programmed with quick stats.
  • 70+ psionics, options for Minor Psionics, and more.
  • $4.00 – Available on DriveThruRPG.com and PalladiumBooks.com – Created by Travis Guerrero.

 

Also Available – FREE Creature Feature™ Preview provides you a glimpse of what you will find in this epic book. There also FREE Sneak Previews of Rifts® Coalition Manhunters, Northern Gun 1 & 2, Hell Followed, and select other titles. Those are just some of the 300+ Palladium RPG titles available as PDF books.

300+ titles and nearly every game genre available now – and more is coming. Discover the Palladium Megaverse® right now.

– Rifts® titles. Rifts® is the ultimate setting in which you can combine any number of genres and play any style of gaming you may desire: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, heroic adventure, dimensional travel, modern knights, cyborgs, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic, monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

– Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. 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.

– The Rifter® #1-85. Each issue is a wealth of source material for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. More than 8,600 pages of source material and counting. Most issues are only available in digital form.

– Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. A rich, original setting in which you can play humans or any number of nonhuman species of people in a world of magic, heroes and wonder. All of it epic.

– Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.

– Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition titles. Create any type of superhuman you can imagine to build your own super-hero universe.

– After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals as crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes or survivors of a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth.

– Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, super-spies, gizmos, mystic powers, and magic in the main book, plus even more in Mystic China.

– Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. Only you know the truth. Only you can see the Nightlords and their demonic minions, and you have the power to stop them. But you must transform into a monster yourself in order to use your powers. Trust no one.

– Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Modern horror; 14 character classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, and more.

– 300+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more. Palladium Books has settings for every genre: Fantasy RPG, science fiction (Rifts®, Splicers®, and The Mechanoids®), super-heroes (Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb), superhero horror (Nightbane®), modern horror (Beyond the Supernatural), zombies (Dead Reign®), The Rifter® sourcebook series, novels, paper minis, and more.

Palladium PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

* Heroes Unlimited™ Christmas Special and the Cozy Caverns Beyond the Supernatural RPG adventure podcasts from the creative minds at www.realplaygamespod.com.

Coming this summer from Real Play Games Podcast: A dozen plus episodes of After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of the Heart, with other good stuff in development like a new story arc for the Beyond the Supernatural inspired Cozy Cavern Mysteries, and more.

 

* Rifts® Live Play Podcast is available for your viewing enjoyment – Rifts®: Ghost in the Machine. It is produced and Game Mastered by none other than long-time Palladium freelance artist, Mark Dudley. You can find the first several episodes on Imaginos TV. Click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9OKt2SBYwybo_sV8zmdOBSQ1eaJP3rj9

 

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

I am adding new collectibles and Palladium negatives over the next several weeks, so check ‘em out. Alex and I will try to post new items on a regular basis, so check in every week or so to see what’s new.

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. 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. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

  • Each 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 signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books. He is also the game designer and often the author or co-author of the book from which the negative originates. And some negatives bear his artwork.
  • Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
  • Each signed 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) that resembles woodcut art, and a very dynamic conversation piece.
  • Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
  • Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ 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.
  • We have been making the negatives available, in no particular order, for a number of years, and will continue to do so. However, cutting them loose, signing and bagging is a time consuming process.
  • Note: The negatives from the TMNT RPG, TMNT Adventures, and some Rifts® titles are already sold out. Moreover, the negatives from many titles were destroyed, so when you see one you like, get it when you can. Enjoy.

Original art – My Ebay store is one of the few places where you can find original artwork by me (Kevin Siembieda), Kevin Long, Charles Walton, and others, as well as one-of-a-kind negatives from classic Palladium books (they look awesome framed), and other Palladium memorabilia. Some are concept sketches, others are finished works of art, as well as a selection of prints and posters.

Other collectibles include art prints, posters, comic books, Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. 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.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – It’s all coming together

Very soon, the various Titan Robotics and Cyberworks Collection products will be shipping to our Kickstarter Backers. We will announce as soon as everything has been packaged and shipped to Quartermaster Logistics, our Kickstarter fulfilment company. Sean and I don’t want to suggest a date because we have met with a number of delays internally already; we had hoped to surprise you by shipping in May, but it didn’t happen due to printer delays. We are finding the book printing business is still a little crazy and unpredictable with shifting schedules and sometimes product issues. (Pssst, we have now received advance copies of ALL Kickstarter products and they look incredible! The remastered Cyberworks Collection will blow you away. The gold foil editions, the poker decks, the art prints, everything looks beautiful. We are so pleased.) [Kevin isn’t kidding, we are super-stoked! – Sean]

After Kickstarter packages have shipped, the following products will become available in the Palladium online store and to retailers:

  • Titan Robotics softcover – Cat. No. 899 – those of you backers who have seen the PDF already know how awesome this book is.
  • The Cyberworks Collection hardcover (color cover) – Cat. No. 900
  • Cyberworks Poker Deck – Cat. No. 2609
  • Yin-Sloth Jungles Expanded & Revised, 2nd Edition Rules is about to go to the printer. This is a great book, if I do say so myself. The foundation was strong to begin with as the original book written by me and Patrick Novak was solid and a fan favorite for decades. Ah, but the new, very expanded edition is epic. Each O.C.C. is fun and playable with loads of new details. Each creature and jungle people is likewise expanded, fun and playable, so is the history. Plus ALL the maps are new and attractive. People and places are updated, and in some cases, like the city of Freedara, are very new and fun. Lore updates set up the upcoming Land of the South Winds. I loved expanding this book with John Klinkel and for our many Fantasy fans; you are going to love this – like new – edition of the book. Cat. No. 459.

Followed by Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2, Rifts® Antarctica, and … don’t want to say just yet, but there is more to come.

Plus Palladium’s new website will be revealed soon and we hope to have a big Gen Con announcement or two – we are actively working on soooo many cool books and projects behind the scenes. Once we get going, we hope to have product coming out at an increased pace, with more offered via Kickstarter and ever improving turnaround times.

So enjoy the new sale of physical books and PDFs and game on.
 

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Friend

 

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