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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – December 30, 2021

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

By Kevin Siembieda

The Surprise Package offer is a great way to start the New Year! But you need to act quickly because the sale ends January 17, 2022. It is a great way to treat yourself, try new settings and games, get ideas for new campaigns, replace lost or worn out books, fill holes in your collection, or get a gift for the gamer in your life. Ideal as a gift for a birthday or anniversary, Valentine’s Day, or any gift-giving occasion. And please spread the word so other gamers, especially newcomers, can enjoy these Surprise Packages too.

It is interesting to see sales trends every Surprise Package season. Rifts® is always our Number One seller, but it seems to be hotter than ever. Palladium Fantasy RPG® and Heroes Unlimited game lines were close behind it in that order.

The hot sellers that were a bit of a surprise this year were titles for Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Ninjas & Superspies and After the Bomb®. I think the new hardcover releases of core games reminded people about some of these titles, but Dead Reign® and After the Bomb® were burning hot. I guess folks love zombies and the zombie apocalypse. Meanwhile, I think nostalgia for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness is driving AtB sales. Awesome, because After the Bomb® is a great series of books and enables you to create any type of intelligent, mutant animal. Characters can be used as superhuman crime-fighters in Heroes Unlimited and Ninjas & Superspies or as After the Bomb® mutant inheritors of the planet Earth (think Planet of the Apes with a vast menagerie of humanoid animals), or they can be played as heroes, D-Bees, monsters, or aliens in many of our of other game settings. I am so happy people are rediscovering this Erick Wujcik gem.

I’m also glad so many of you enjoyed the DriveThruRPG PDF sale that ended this morning. Gaming in all forms seems to be bigger than ever and growing! These are both exciting and frustrating times.

Happy New Year! Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve so have fun, but be smart and stay safe. Covid is running rampant here in Michigan and other places so celebrate carefully.

See my Closing Thoughts and another super-sized selection of Surprise Package Comments for more words and thoughts from your fellow gamers and me.

 

Christmas Grab Bags

Surprise Package offer extended for a short time

These are the last couple of weeks to get a Palladium Surprise Package before the sale is over until next Christmas season. Don’t delay.

Is this a Christmas miracle? A mistake? Utter madness, perhaps?

Nah, it has become tradition to extend the Christmas Surprise Package Offer through the end of December and into the New Year! Yes, this means you can still snag one or two if you act quickly. The Sale now ENDS January 17, 2022, and will NOT be extended further. Oh, and you can ship via the less expensive method of Media Mail because you do not need it for a deadline.

A Surprise Package is a nice way to start the New Year, and is a great gift for birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, and any gift-giving occasion. Or start the New Year with a stack of RPGs or sourcebooks you have been meaning to try, or books you need to fill holes in your collection, or to replace battered well-loved books. FYI: Now that it is back in stock you can put the beloved “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover on your Wish List and be considered to receive one. The book is truly fun and special and completely compatible with all Rifts® titles. HOWEVER, for the Surprise Package offer it carries a $60 dollar value. Remember, this special edition of original Rifts® includes a bonus 32 page color section containing the history of Rifts®, a gallery of all Rifts® covers to date (160+), concept drawings and more. (Note: Can also be purchased separately – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30.)

We extend the offer for those of you who have been so busy spending your time and money on your family and friends, that you have not had the opportunity or funds to treat yourself to a well-deserved Christmas Surprise Package.

We also extend it for those of you who cannot get enough of Palladium’s games and want to start the New Year off with a setting or source material to launch a new campaign. And for those of you who can use a Surprise Package as the perfect gift for a birthday, anniversary, or special occasion coming up in January or February. (Valentine’s Day?)

And we extend the Surprise Packages for you Johnny Come-Latelies who were meaning to get one, but how time flies during the holidays even during a pandemic. And because so many states are hot spots and with the new Omicron variant spreading, I have made the extended period longer than usual. (I could have sworn “Omicron” was a Transformer.) It just feels like it is more important than ever to spread the joy of gaming into the New Year. So please, spread the word about the extended Surprise Package sale period, and travel the Megaverse® from the safety of your home.

 

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to ring in the New Year and provide a little joy and laughter. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic, depression, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape into realms of role-playing adventures and this is a fun way to do so. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion. This sale ENDS January 17, 2022.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – available now

This is the Rifts® Ultimate Edition you know and love made available as a softcover edition for those of you who prefer “softcover” books. The softcover is also allowed in correctional institutions that do not normally allow hardcovers. Folks are loving it.

The usual …

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

 

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

BACK IN PRINT – “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative hardcover – available now – still only $50 despite rising paper and printing costs – Cat. No. 800HC30 – and it looks absolutely gorgeous. This popular title sold out in only four months and has been out of print since early September. Well, it is back in stock and it is gorgeous. This collector’s item sports the original Keith Parkinson cover and offers the original 1990s RPG plus an additional 32 page color section, the history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, a gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2021, and more. Can be used with ALL existing Rifts® supplements. 288 pages – a steal at $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now! Note: The limited edition is already a coveted collector’s item. May be requested for the Surprise Package.

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

 

Rifts Black Market

BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Black Market™ (softcover) – available now – 5 Black Market factions including Bandito Arms – 10 Black Market O.C.C.s, new weapons, armor, vehicles, robots, robot animals, the Shadow Boy and TW Ironmage Glitter Boy variants, and more. I am so glad people are discovering this sourcebook because it is truly epic and jam-packed with useful and fun material for players and G.M.s alike. 192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 886 – available now.

Rifts Black Market

 

Rifts Sourcebook One

BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Sourcebook One (softcover) – available now – featuring the first appearance of Archie Three, Triax Robots, a full Archie adventure, the first appearance of the Republicans (NEMA survivors in stasis), robot creation rules and other fun, groundbreaking material. The perfect companion to go with the “Original” Rifts RPG Commemorative Hardcover, Shemarrian Nation™, and the upcoming Titan Robotics™. 160 pages – $22.99 – Cat. No. 801 – Available now.

Rifts Sourcebook One

 

UPDATED List of RPG Hardcovers Available now

 

DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® at PDF prices – 300+ titles

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® #1-84. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue is a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure. Many issues are sold out and only available in digital form.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. This is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark. All of it epic.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes. 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 or those of your favorite comic books. Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks too.

After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals in a comic book world of crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes, or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook by Erick Wujcik. Think James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. The RPG provides 14 character classes and 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.

The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic worldview of humans vs aliens with superior technology.

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!

Systems Failure RPG. A one-shot post-apocalyptic setting where humans fight and hide from enslaving alien invaders known as “The Bugs.”

The Palladium Ancient Weapons Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.

RECON® Deluxe & Revised – by Erick Wujcik and others. Vietnam era RPG and more.

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan. As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more. And more to come in the weeks ahead.

 

Closing Thoughts

We cannot wait till the New Year arrives because we believe it will be the harbinger of a new era of greatness for Palladium Books. I have been building a plan and working at rebuilding and strengthening Palladium Books. Now it’s show time with continuing big moves like bringing in Sean Owen Roberson as my Creative Director and business partner, and putting new releases into your hands. Our new policy is to not over-promise or present release dates until we know the book is done and will soon ship, so no details quite yet.

That said, I can tell you the next several new books coming your way, in no specific order, will be:

 

I wish I could tell you more about the Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Rifts®, and other titles we have in the works (some utter secrets), but you’ll have to wait until they are completed and at the printer later next year.

Enjoy the Surprise Package comments from your fellow gamers, below, grab a Surprise Package while you still can, or a Rifts® 30th Commemorative or other books, and start the New Year off right gaming away! Seriously, stay strong, find ways to escape and blow off a little steam, and try to stay positive and creative. Happy New Year! May it be a calmer, less crazy, less virus filled, and more prosperous one for us all. Until next year, be frosty and game on.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, writer, friend, and surrogate Santa Claus for another couple of weeks – ho, ho, ho

 

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

A.W. in Oxford, Ohio, writes: I’ve been a fan since 1991 or 92 and I’ve been running the same Rifts® campaign since high school, over 25 years! Always satisfied with your writing, art and dedication to role-playing. Thanks for all the years of amazing creative gold! And Merry Christmas from a long-time fan.

[Ditto, A.W., thanks for the years of support. Thrilled you love our games so much, particularly Rifts®. I hope your Christmas was filled with laughter and joy. Keep your imagination burning bright and happy New Year. – Kevin]

 

J.C. in San Fransciso, California, writes (in part): … me and my group of friends are long time gamers of the Palladium Megaverse®. From Fantasy to Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited and Robotech®, we have played it all and have always had a great time! … We love the concepts, the artwork, the stories, the open, endless ideas and imagination that we can put into our campaigns! It has been a long time since we have actually played, and we are looking forward to sharing old memories and laugh, and creating new memories and adventures that we can talk about for years to come … Thank you and happy holidays to Kevin, the staff, and everyone over at Palladium Books! And a happy and prosperous New Year.

[Ah, yes, the endless ideas limited only by your imagination. I’m glad you get it, J.C., and have enjoyed decades of adventure. Thank you for sharing. Keep those beautiful memories and friendships alive while making new ones. Happy New Year! May it be a safe, happy and prosperous one for us all. – Kevin]

 

R.H. in Tonawanda, New York, writes: Hi Guys! This is my second year doing this [Surprise Package] and I’ve been looking forward to it since my box arrived last year. Not only is it a great bargain, but I look forward to the surprise factor almost as much as the books. Thank you so much!

[I love these kinds of comments, R.H., because I try hard to make each Surprise Package special. I hope you enjoyed this one just as much. For those of you who have still never tried one, there is still time to see what the fun and excitement is all about. We extended the Surprise Package offer till January 17, 2022. – Kevin]

 

J.K. in Lake Park, Iowa, writes: I just want to thank everyone there at Palladium, past and present, for all the decades of enjoyment I have gotten. I started with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness back in 1988, and just expanded to the other games over the years. My favorite gem is Rifts®, and has been since I first got a copy of it the year it was released. Happy Holidays to everyone there.

[J.K., we are pleased our games have brought you so many years of enjoyment. Awesome. We expect to bring you many more. – Kevin]

 

D.H. in Walla Walla, Washington, writes: Thank you for that Voodoo, you do so well.

[Sean calls it Palladium’s “secret sauce,” D.H., and you can count on the magic continuing. – Kevin]

 

V.D.S. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writes: Been a huge fan for many years. Love your products and your company. And love the direction you are heading. I look forward to the future.

[Thank you V.D.S., I could not agree more. We are on the right path and the future that is about to be written shall be glorious. Happy New Year. – Kevin]

 

W.M. in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, writes: Rifts® always Rifts®! And other [worlds] that can be traveled to because of the Rifts. Recently the Phase World® setting has caught my attention.

[We appreciate the kind words W.M., and think you will enjoy the Phase World®/Three Galaxies setting just as much. Live long and prosper. – Kevin]

 

J.L. in Pearland, Texas, writes: I’ve been a fan of Palladium for 30+ years. I still have a lot of my original books and have gotten reacquainted with the Rifts® Megaverse®. Thank you for keeping one of my favorite fantasy worlds alive all these years.

[You are welcome J.L., but I have to keep it alive. You see, Rifts® is my favorite setting to write for, and our biggest seller, and I still have many stories to tell in that Megaverse®. I can’t stop! Must write more and wow the fans. As you will see throughout the New Year and the years ahead. – Kevin]

 

C.T. in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, writes (in part): Hello and Happy Holidays Palladium Crew! Hey thank you all again for another fun year, and, of course, for doing the Holiday sale. This is something I look forward to each year. It really is comforting to know that you all are still publishing new material and keeping us current on the existing material. My list this year is totally focused on Rifts® … Honestly, whatever books you all add will be a great surprise … Thank you again, and I look forward to another great year!

[Hey C.T., thank you for the nice comments. I think you’ll be quite pleased with your Surprise Package. We are shooting to make 2022 a memorable year and 2023 even more so. – Kevin]

 

W.B. in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, writes (in part): Getting back [into RPGs] after a decade or two away from gaming. My kids are old enough that I can start playing again …

[Welcome back W.B., the Surprise Package is a great way to get reacquainted. Enjoy and game on! – Kevin]

 

J.G. in Valparaiso, Florida, writes: Favorites: All so far. Are you coming out with a book of gadgets for Heroes Unlimited?

[Keep enjoying our games, J.G. Rifts® and Fantasy are also two of my faves. No gadget book coming for HU anytime soon. – Kevin]

 

D.H. in Leesburg, Florida, writes (in part): Favorites: Heroes Unlimited, Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural. Heard a lot of things about the dark City of Cascade and looking forward to checking it out [in The Rifter® #84]. And definitely looking forward to Titan Robotics release. Shemarrian Nation is one of my faves.

[Hey D.H., Cascade is inspired by the unfinished work of Erick Wujcik. Titan Robotics will not disappoint. – Kevin]

 

J.M. in Glenns Ferry, Idaho, writes: I’m super-excited about the Rifts® 30th Anniversary Hardcover. I still remember when I first saw the Rifts® RPG at my gaming store as a teenager. It really opened my eyes to the possibilities of RPGs. Until then I had been pretty stuck on dungeon fantasy, super-heroes, and space opera. But here was a gem with truly unlimited possibilities. It is still my favorite RPG because you can use it to tell literally any story and pull inspiration from anywhere.

I’ve always loved Palladium Books, but I have to say your excitement is catching on. I’m more thrilled with Palladium than I have been in years. So happy the Rifter is making a return [as a 200+ page Annual] and everything you’ve announced has got me stoked. I’m looking forward to Palladium’s future, so best well wishes, good luck, and God bless to Kevin, Sean, Kathy, Wayne, Alex, and everyone else.

[What a nice comment, J.M. It has taken me a long while to get Palladium back up to fighting weight and strength. With Sean onboard, among others, I think we are going to be able to release a number of titles people have been long awaiting. After that, be prepared to be wowed and excited even more to the endless possibilities of Palladium Books. May the New Year be a great one for you, J.M., and us all. – Kevin]

 

G.H. in Tilton, Illinois, writes: Getting ready to start a few new campaigns (Chaos Earth® and Rifts®), so anything to help flesh that out will be great. Always been very pleased with the Grab Bags in the past. Hope you all have a good holiday season. Looking forward to the release of The Disavowed and the new Chaos Earth books in the future!

[Have fun with those campaigns, G.H. As for the books you mentioned … you know what, you might just see them later next year. Game on! – Kevin]

 

B.S. in Roscoe, Illinois, writes: Love Rifts®. Cannot wait for Antarctica.

[You and me both, B.S. I think it is a pretty great book and nearing completion. – Kevin]

 

J.F. in Round Rock, Texas, writes (in part): I have loved your games since I started with TMNT® and Heroes Unlimited, and once I was introduced to Rifts®, I was hooked. I knew my RPG experience would never be the same. Thank you to the whole staff for such dedication to a game line that literally is only limited by the imagination.

[Your affection for our work, J.F., is clearly heartfelt and genuine. I am happy to say more big things are coming throughout the New Year. – Kevin]

 

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – December 23, 2021

Weekly Update Opening Graphic

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

By Kevin Siembieda

Merry Christmas! Whether you celebrate the holiday or not, all of us at Palladium Books send you warm wishes that you enjoy a weekend filled with quiet (or noisy) joy and merriment with friends and family. Maybe even get in a bit of gaming. We love and appreciate all of you and send you our very best. (And to our Canadian friends, Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day.)

With Christmas just two days away, I try to avoid a lot of hype and selling in this Weekly Update. Instead I like to present a few items and reminders and give you a couple dozen of the fan comments we receive via the Christmas Surprise Packages. They are always fun. It being Christmas, I have included some of the lengthier and more sentimental ones, so I hope you enjoy them.

Two big sales: DriveThruRPG and Palladium Surprise Package offer.

DriveThruRPG.com Christmas Week SALE

It started Monday and runs through the weekend – PDF titles for some of Palladium’s most popular game settings are on sale at DriveThruRPG.com – now through the weekend and into next week. A fun, simple way to get RPGs and sourcebooks delivered right to your computer. And no waiting or shipping costs.

DriveThruRPG.com Sale on …

  • All Rifts® titles
  • All issues of The Rifter®
  • All Palladium Fantasy®
  • All Dead Reign®
  • All items are on sale now thru December 29. Enjoy.

Palladium Books at DriveThruRPG

Christmas Grab Bags

Palladium’s Christmas Surprise Package Offer Extended

Is this a Christmas miracle? A mistake? Utter madness, perhaps?

Nah, it has become tradition to extend the Christmas Surprise Package Offer through the end of December and into the New Year! Yes, this means you can still snag one or two if you act quickly. The Sale now ENDS January 17, 2022, and will NOT be extended further. Oh, and you can ship via the less expensive method of Media Mail because you do not need it for a deadline.

A Surprise Package is a nice way to start the New Year, and is a great gift for birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, and any gift-giving occasion. Or start the New Year with a stack of RPGs or sourcebooks you have been meaning to try, or books you need to fill holes in your collection, or to replace battered well-loved books. FYI: Now that it is back in stock you can put the beloved “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover on your Wish List and be considered to receive one. The book is truly fun and special and completely compatible with all Rifts® titles. HOWEVER, for the Surprise Package offer it carries a $60 dollar value. Remember, this special edition of original Rifts® includes a bonus 32 page color section containing the history of Rifts®, a gallery of all Rifts® covers to date (160+), concept drawings and more. (Note: Can also be purchased separately – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30.)

We extend the offer for those of you who have been so busy spending your time and money on your family and friends, that you have not had the opportunity or funds to treat yourself to a well-deserved Christmas Surprise Package.

We also extend it for those of you who cannot get enough of Palladium’s games and want to start the New Year off with a setting or source material to launch a new campaign. And for those of you who can use a Surprise Package as the perfect gift for a birthday, anniversary, or special occasion coming up in January or February. (Valentine’s Day?)

And we extend the Surprise Packages for you Johnny Come-Latelies who were meaning to get one, but how time flies during the holidays even during a pandemic. And because so many states are hot spots and with the new Omicron variant spreading, I have made the extended period longer than usual. (I could have sworn “Omicron” was a Transformer.) It just feels like it is more important than ever to spread the joy of gaming into the New Year. So please, spread the word about the extended Surprise Package sale period, and travel the Megaverse® from the safety of your home.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to ring in the New Year and provide a little joy and laughter. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic, depression, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape into realms of role-playing adventures and this is a fun way to do so. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion. This sale ENDS January 17, 2022.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – available now

This is the Rifts® Ultimate Edition you know and love made available as a softcover edition for those of you who prefer “softcover” books. The softcover is also allowed in correctional institutions that do not normally allow hardcovers. Folks are loving it.

The usual …

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

BACK IN PRINT – “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative hardcover – available now – still only $50 despite rising paper and printing costs – Cat. No. 800HC30 – and it looks absolutely gorgeous. This popular title sold out in only four months and has been out of print since early September. Well, it is back in stock and it is gorgeous. This collector’s item sports the original Keith Parkinson cover and offers the original 1990s RPG plus an additional 32 page color section, the history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, a gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2021, and more. Can be used with ALL existing Rifts® supplements. 288 pages – a steal at $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now! Note: The limited edition is already a coveted collector’s item. May be requested for the Surprise Package.

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

Rifts Black Market

BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Black Market™ (softcover) – available now – 5 Black Market factions including Bandito Arms – 10 Black Market O.C.C.s, new weapons, armor, vehicles, robots, robot animals, the Shadow Boy and TW Ironmage Glitter Boy variants, and more. I am so glad people are discovering this sourcebook because it is truly epic and jam-packed with useful and fun material for players and G.M.s alike. 192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 886 – available now.

Rifts Black Market

Rifts Sourcebook One

BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Sourcebook One (softcover) – available now – featuring the first appearance of Archie Three, Triax Robots, a full Archie adventure, the first appearance of the Republicans (NEMA survivors in stasis), robot creation rules and other fun, groundbreaking material. The perfect companion to go with the “Original” Rifts RPG Commemorative Hardcover, Shemarrian Nation™, and the upcoming Titan Robotics™. 160 pages – $22.99 – Cat. No. 801 – Available now.

Rifts Sourcebook One

UPDATED List of RPG Hardcovers Available now

NEW! DriveThruRPG.com Christmas Week Sale – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® in PDF form

On Sale! All 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®.

On Sale! All Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. This is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

On Sale! All Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.

On Sale! All issues of The Rifter® #1-84. 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 is a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure. Many issues are sold out and only available in digital form.

The above is just part of the Palladium Megaverse®. There is Heroes Unlimited (superheroes), After the Bomb® (mutant animal heroes), Ninjas & Superspies (the name says it all), Nightbane® (the heroes are monsters), Beyond the Supernatural (modern horror), Splicers® (think the Terminator meets Guyver), The Mechanoid Invasion® (science fiction), Chaos Earth® (the Rifts® prequel), plus ancient weapon books, novels, and paper miniatures – more than 300 products and growing.

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

M.C. in Overland Park, Kansas, writes: Seasons Greetings to all Palladium Staff. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication you put into the products we use. What a gift you are.

[We are all deeply touched by your kind words, M.C. We hope your holiday is a beautiful and joyous one. – Kevin]

J.G. in Fremont, Ohio, writes: I only play Palladium Fantasy®. Merry Christmas to everybody at Palladium Books.

[J.G., I am tempted to say you should expand your interests, but you know what? Palladium Fantasy® is always my go-to game. I love it and I’m always delighted to meet others, like you, who love it just as much. Merry Christmas to you and yours. – Kevin]

S.P. in Eugene, Oregon writes: I love these great ways to start getting friends into the hobby [via the Surprise Package].

[Nice, S.P., keep ‘em coming and Merry Christmas. – Kevin]

A.C. in Eaton, Ohio, writes (in part): Favorites: Rifts®, After the Bomb®, and The Mechanoids®. Rifts® is one of the first RPGs my husband introduced me to when we first started dating 27 years ago. He still loves playing and GMing. His favorite character from Rifts® is a young dragon tech … a Burster is my character. The fun the two of us have had. This [Surprise Package] will be a great gift for him.

[Thank you for sharing, A.C., sounds like a lot of fun. I hope your husband enjoys the Surprise Package you got for him. I did my best to make it fun and exciting. – Kevin]

J.A. in Ashland, Missouri, writes: Hi guys, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Say hi to Julius and be nice to Roberson.

[Julius says hello back, J.A. and I’ll try to be nice to that no-goodnik Sean Roberson. I mean, he is my Business Partner and Creative Director after all. Thanks for the laugh. – Kevin]

A.H. in Wheeling, West Virgina, writes: Rifts! It was the second RPG I ever played. I’ve also always been a big fan of Nightbane® ever since I ran across it in the early 2000s.

[Two of my faves, A.H. Hoping to do much more with the teenage angst of self-discovery and superhero-horror of Nightbane® in a few years. – Kevin]

J.H. in Las Vegas, Nevada, writes: My introduction to Palladium was the original Beyond the Supernatural which I love. I have all the supernatural/horror books … Lately, I’ve been expanding into science fiction and am looking for game genres held specifically in space … Also, I love this gift bag idea.

[I think you’ll like what’s in the Surprise Package, J.H. We encourage you to continue to expand your gaming horizons. Remember, you can combine genres and have horror in any setting and vice versa. – Kevin]

S.S. in Eastlake, Ohio, writes (in part): Merry Christmas you crazy cats! Keep on keeping on. Glad you are making incredibly fun RPGs. But seriously, let’s catch up on those non-Rifts books “coming soon.” You have so many great projects that need the light of day. We are hungry for new product.

[You can count on it, S.S. I think the second half of 2022 will surprise a lot of people. Hmm, so will the first half. Keep the faith. Merry Christmas. – Kevin]

D.T. in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, writes: This year has been hard and I am very grateful to you for all that you give this amazing “family of gamers.” Continue to stay safe, find the sunlight through the clouds, and as is always said, game on!

[Our amazing family of gamers always makes things better, D.T., and we are seeing the sunlight through the clouds right now. It’s all good. I hope your Christmas is joyful and the New Year filled with nothing but sunny days and prosperity. – Kevin]

C.R. in Provo, Texas, writes: Want to say thanks for all the hard work you all do. I’ve been playing Palladium’s games for 30+ years. I love the Rifts® and Heroes Unlimited settings. My book shelf is running out of room.

[Hey C.R., it sounds like you need Santa to bring you a new bookshelf for Christmas, because wait till you see what we have in store for you over the next 30 years. Bwah-ha-ha! Um … I mean … thanks and Merry Christmas. – Kevin]

J.H. in Lakewood, Colorado, writes (in part): My friends and I are long time fans of Palladium Books as Rifts was one of the first tabletop RPGs we ever played back in the early 1990s. That and TMNT®. So many possibilities and such a fantastic setting. If you can’t find something to your liking within these books, then you be a full blown Crazy, ‘cause I don’t know what to tell you. Happy holidays to a small but wonderfully talented team of creators and artists that is Palladium Books. Thanks for all the great memories and a Megaverse® of content!

[What nice things to say, J.H., thank you. I hope you and your friends continue to enjoy prowling the Megaverse® and making memories for many years to come. Stay safe, happy holidays, and never stop weaving stories. And we won’t stop either. – Kevin]

M.P. in Rome, New York, writes: Me and my group have been diehard Palladium supporters since the 1980s. Except for a few forays into other game systems we’ve been playing Palladium’s games straight through. We originally got hooked on TMNT® & Other Strangeness and that led us to Heroes Unlimited and Ninjas & Superspies. Then once Rifts® came out, that became our near exclusive game for almost a decade.

We love the system (granted we’ve flooded it with house rules) and I’m currently running a Nightbane® and Heroes Unlimited mash-up set in a cyberpunk setting.

It’s a true testament to you guys that even after all these years, my group still shows up at least once a week to share these stories and adventures. In fact, just about all my friends, some going back 30 years, I met because of your games. I truly want to thank you Kevin, and your wonderful team through the years, for countless adventures, endless stories and, most of all, great times and memories.

[Thank you, M.P., for the years of support and high praise. A Nightbane® and Heroes Unlimited mash-up is a natural, and I’m surprised I do not hear about that combo much more often. It sounds like you and your friends have enjoyed a lot of fun campaigns over the years. I suspect having a great G.M. has something to do with those 30 years of gaming. You are very lucky to have such a beautiful and rare experience. Keep on spinning awesome adventures, having great times and making memories. – Kevin]

S.B. in Rouses Point, New York, writes: Favorite: Nightbane®, I have all of the books, Rifts® and Fantasy. Thank you for previous years of Grab Bags. I like every game you guys make and appreciate everything you do for us Gamers … you keep this old Gamer very happy. I have been playing your games for 28-30 years and you have helped this veteran fight his depression though the escape into the alternate realities that are your games.

[Thank you, S.B., for the kind words. Happy our games have helped you and many others. Life can be a challenge and we need to be there for each other. Hang tough, game on, and Merry Christmas. – Kevin]

D.R. in Traverse City, Michigan, writes: Rifts®, Rifts®, and more Rifts®. Hey Guys, been a huge fan since I was 12 in the 1990s. Even helped out in 2005-2006 and donated $50 for the super-sweet print with my name on it and got my name entered into the Heroes of the Megaverse® book. I’m very happy that you recovered and are doing well. Thank you for the cherished memories.

[Wow D.R., thanks for sticking with us through thick and thin. That goes for everyone who has been with us on our journey over the years. We could not have survived and made it to today without you. I feel like we are about to begin a new, grand era for Palladium, and I’m happy you will be there to see us rise to new heights of creativity. Game on, always. – Kevin]

D.R. in Shippenville, Pennsylvania, writes: I have recently become the advisor of a gaming club at the college I work at. I first got into Palladium’s games when I was in college and I was hoping to share that experience with some younger gamers who have either never played a tabletop RPG before or are only aware of D&D 5E.

[Thanks for reaching out, D.R., I hope the Surprise Package exceeds your expectations. Thank you for spreading the word about the Palladium Megaverse® and sharing our games with others who might enjoy them. Ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

S.R. in Salem, Oregon, writes (in part): I love your game [Rifts] and it has always held a special place in my heart. My friend Cole introduced me to your game when we were younger and I fell in love with it. For many years me and him would play the game by ourselves, which was a blast! … picked up the game again recently to play with my friends. Your game will forever mean the world to me … Thank you so much for what you do. Have a Merry Christmas!

[Merry Christmas to you and yours, S.R. You are lucky to have had a friend like Cole in your life. I’ve been lucky with incredible friends too. I hope you continue to find warm and happy memories in gaming and make many more to come. Thank you for sharing with me. I’m glad to have so many wonderful people like you among my extended family of gamers. Merry Christmas and the Happiest New Year. – Kevin]

J.B.S. in Redondo Beach, California, writes (in part): I’m purchasing 3 of these Christmas Grab Bags, one for each of my brothers … We grew up playing Rifts® together. My best friend and I introduced the game to them in middle school and I’m proud to say they went on to play even more than I did over the years! We all have a very fond space in our hearts for your MASSIVE contribution to each of our creative minds and I just wish to say thank you to you all from the bottom of my heart … My family is mucho talented … Suffice to say we’ve all become very successful professional writers, producers, directors, and everything in between, and I strongly believe our time playing Rifts® is a huge contributing factor to all our creativity & fantastic problem solving skills. My siblings are seriously brilliant …

… Thank you for all of your work throughout the years, obviously and especially to you, Kevin. Thank you so much for enriching my life with your creativity.

[This may sound odd, J.B.S., but receiving heartfelt letters like this motivates my own creativity all the more. They compel me to push the envelope and surprise and thrill our audience. To write and take chances that will, I hope, wow and inspire generation after generation, like our work has inspired you and your brothers.

I am humbled and delighted to know my work can inspire people in such a profound way. I am constantly astounded by the number of hugely talented (and often famous) game designers, writers, artists, actors, directors, and gamers in every walk of life who have been inspired by my/our work. It makes me proud and glad, because one of my personal missions has been to get others to unleash their imaginations and follow their dreams like I did and as you guys did. As you know, it is so rewarding and fulfilling.

Again, thank you so much for your heartfelt letter. I hope you don’t mind me sharing parts of it here, because I hope it will show others “anything” is possible when you think big and dare to dream. Congratulations to you and your brothers. Continued success in the New Year and beyond. Thanks again for sharing this with me. Btw, please feel free to reach out to me anytime if you would like to chat. Of course, I must close by saying it: Keep those brilliant imaginations burning bright and game on! With appreciation – Kevin]

L.B. Jr. in Modesto, California, writes: Rifts® has been my favorite RPG for 28 years. I started when I was 13 and have been playing ever since.

[Nice! L.B., we are delighted to have kept that imagination burning for all these years. Game on! – Kevin]

B.B. in Victorville, California, writes (in part): They are all good games, but Rifts® is the boss. Kevin gets a happy meal or more Palladium Fantasy.

[Hey B.B., either one sounds good to me. Ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

R.D. in Lathrup Village, Michigan, writes: Thank you and Merry Christmas.

[Right back at you, R.D. May everyone enjoy a wonderful Christmas. – Kevin]

Closing Thoughts – Merry Christmas from everyone here at Palladium Books

We hope you all have the opportunity to spend some time with friends and family, even if it’s by long-distance via Zoom, Skype, Discord, Facebook, email, phone, or text. With a little luck, maybe you’ll even be able to squeeze in a little gaming or time to read. More and more people are running games, via the internet, for friends and family. Give it a try, I think you’ll find it easier than you think and really quite fun. Escape into the Palladium Megaverse® and find relief and laughter as often as you can.

Whatever you do, please reach out to the people who matter most in your life. I have received a number of visits, calls, texts, and even cards and gifts in the mail that made my spirits soar. We all want to feel needed and special, so reach out to those you care about. It is the best gift and it doesn’t require a purchase or shipping, just a call and a little bit of your time, yet it means so much. A precious gift that touches the heart.

I hope Santa Claus is nice to you this Christmas and that you find peace and joy in your lives. Know that I will be thinking of you all and wishing you well from my heart and thoughts. Meanwhile, at home, give the wonderful people you are with a hug, and please stay safe and hang tough. Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – December 16, 2021

Weekly Update Opening Graphic

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

By Kevin Siembieda

This has been a fun, wild week.

 

It is the final 8 days and counting till Christmas and the Christmas Surprise Package sale is scheduled to end Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021 – so orders have been pouring in. Note that orders received by Friday should arrive via UPS in time for Christmas. In fact, orders placed over the weekend and shipped via UPS have a good chance of arriving in time for Christmas at most locations in the contiguous United States (70% likelihood). And if you do not need the Surprise Package for Christmas, shipping via the inexpensive Media Mail is the way to go. That way you can start the New Year with a pile of new RPGs and/or sourcebooks, or novels, or miniatures, or prints, or … See details below. FYI: We will be working through the weekend processing your orders.

 

14 of the reprints we have been waiting for ALL arrived on Wednesday, one after another. Including the “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative hardcover (gorgeous and a must for any serious Rifts® Collector), Rifts® Sourcebook One (softcover), Rifts® Black Market, and Systems Failure™ which sold out the morning the reprint arrived. That made for a very exciting but hectic Wednesday. See details about the books below.

 

I graduated from the elite business program I have been in since the beginning of September. It was exhausting, comprehensive and epic. So glad I was accepted into it. The closing ceremony was insightful, sweet, and touching. I hope to stay in touch with many of my fellow business owners for years to come. See my Closing Thoughts about it and various subjects.

 

Christmas Grab Bags

Christmas Surprise Package – “scheduled” to end Christmas Eve

“I’ve been ordering and receiving a Surprise Package for almost a decade now. Every year is a new amazing surprise. I can’t wait to see what this year brings.”

– J.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

If you have been thinking about ordering one or two as a gift for the gamers in your life or want to snag one for yourself (a great way to try new settings and replace worn out editions), there is still time! Order this weekend and ship via UPS and it should arrive in time for Christmas!

The Surprise Package offers you RPG books and miniatures on the cheap, autographs (if you want them), fun, and surprises. Make sure to send a us a Wish List of 12-15 titles you know are in stock and you’ll be thrilled with what arrives. This is our 24th year of doing them and we know what makes the Surprise Packages rewarding for everyone. Only 8 days till Christmas Eve.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion. This sale runs through Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

SHIPPING UPDATE: 8 days till Christmas Eve – but ONLY about 3 days left to order and get delivery guaranteed by Christmas via UPS

Okay, it is crunch time for all you super-busy people like me and you procrastinators out there. IF you NEED any Palladium products or Christmas Surprise Packages as holiday gifts, you NEED to place your orders no later than Sunday and ship via UPS to have any chance to receive it in time for Christmas. UPS and all shippers will be delivering up to next Friday, Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021, so that helps.

  • UPS Ground – December 19 – It should arrive in time for Christmas but we can NOT guarantee it. You are taking a risk.
  • UPS 3-Day Select – December 20 – Will arrive in time for Christmas.
  • UPS 2nd Day Air – December 21.
  • UPS Next Day Air (to arrive December 24) – December 22, remember, we need time to process and pack your order!
  • United States Postal Service: Media Mail – Will NOT arrive in time for Christmas, but if you don’t care if it arrives after Christmas then certainly use Media Mail. Remember, the Surprise Package makes a great gift for any occasion or a nice treat for yourself. Note: If you live in an apartment please remember to include your apartment number. Also Note: Listing out of print items or titles not yet available is a waste of your time as we do NOT have those titles to send you.
  • United States Postal Service (in USA): Priority Mail – Will NOT arrive in time for Christmas.
  • To our friends in Canada and overseas – At this point in time, we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas. Sorry, but you should get it in 2-3 weeks from the date it shipped. Note: Right now, we are finding “overseas” orders are taking 18-34 days to arrive, sometimes longer! Still a Cost Saving Deal: A Surprise Package helps to mitigate overseas shipping costs – take advantage of this while you can. It is, in effect, the equivalent of getting the books you want at retail, plus autographs, and paying the equivalent of only $5-$20 for overseas shipping! MANY overseas customers take advantage of the Surprise Packages for this reason! And it is likely the ONLY way for you to get autographs. Give it a try, we don’t think you will be disappointed.
  • Any orders placed after these dates will arrive AFTER Christmas.
  • Please spread the word so other gamers can enjoy this special seasonal offer. Ho, ho, ho and happy holidays.
  • As always, at Palladium, we will be working overtime through the weekend to process orders as fast as we can so you get them for the holidays. However, after the package leaves the Palladium warehouse, delivery is out of our hands. As we get closer to Christmas, UPS Ground and Priority Mail will be your most reliable and timely methods of shipping. Personally, we suggest UPS. Thank you for your understanding.

 

BACK IN PRINT in time for Christmas & the New Year

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – available now

This is the Rifts® Ultimate Edition you know and love made available as a softcover edition for those of you who prefer “softcover” books. The softcover is also allowed in correctional institutions that do not allow hardcovers. Folks are loving it.

The usual …

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

 

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

BACK IN PRINT – “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative hardcover – available now – still only $50 despite rising paper and printing costs – Cat. No. 800HC30 – and it looks absolutely gorgeous. This popular title sold out in only four months and has been out of print since early September. Well, it is back in stock and it is gorgeous. This collector’s item sports the original Keith Parkinson cover and offers the original 1990s RPG plus an additional 32 page color section, the history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, a gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2021, and more. Can be used with ALL existing Rifts® supplements. 288 pages – a steal at $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now! Note: The limited edition is already a coveted collector’s item. May be requested for the Surprise Package.

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

 

Rifts Black Market

BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Black Market™ (softcover) – available now – 5 Black Market factions including Bandito Arms – 10 Black Market O.C.C.s, new weapons, armor, vehicles, robots, robot animals, the Shadow Boy and TW Ironmage Glitter Boy variants, and more. I am so glad people are discovering this sourcebook because it is truly epic and jam-packed with useful and fun material for players and G.M.s alike. 192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 886 – available now.

Rifts Black Market

 

Rifts Sourcebook One

BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Sourcebook One (softcover) – available now – featuring Archie Three, Triax Robots, a full Archie adventure, the first appearance of the Republicans (NEMA survivors in stasis), robot creation rules and other fun, groundbreaking material. The perfect companion to go with the “Original” Rifts RPG Commemorative Hardcover, Shemarrian Nation™, and the upcoming Titan Robotics™. 160 pages – $22.99 – Cat. No. 801 – Available now.

Rifts Sourcebook One

 

Ninjas & Superspies RPG Hardcover

BACK IN PRINT – Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – 40+ martial arts, plus martial art powers, martial artists, super-spies, gadgets, secrets, and more. 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 525HC – available now.

Ninjas and Superspies RPG Hardcover

 

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

BACK IN PRINT – After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – Create crime-fighting, modern-day, mutant heroes or intelligent mutant animals on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Stats for 100+ mutant animals and rules for creating any type of mutant animal, unique powers, animal psionics, Chimera, the Empire of Humanity, and 6 post-apocalypse adventures. Includes the original, 48 page, After the Bomb® sourcebook. 296 pages total – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 503HC – available now.

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

 

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

BACK IN PRINT – Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover (Zombie Apocalypse) – available now – A great introductory game that is fun and intuitive. Play ordinary people or Apocalyptic heroes. Face Death Cultists, madmen, and an array of different types of zombies. Random tables galore. 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

 

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

BACK IN PRINT – Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – The ultimate magic sourcebook with 700+ magic spells, plus magic tattoos, herbs, wands, staves, talismans, Bio-Wizard weapons, Techno-Wizard devices, and more in a deluxe hardcover! 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

 

UPDATED List of RPG Hardcovers Available Now:

Coming:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

 

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

COMING: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition Rules

This deluxe, foil stamped edition is at the printer, and has been for awhile now. With any luck it will be available sometime in November. We are offering it due to popular demand. It is the original, First Edition rules, expanded with the inclusion of the Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook. The original edition also includes Erick Wujcik’s popular Tombs of Gersidi adventure left out of the 2nd Edition rule book. The cover is a recreation of the original, famous red and black cover of the original RPG. We sold more than 120,000 copies of the first edition rule book back in the day, so we know a lot of people have fond memories of it. Hence, the request for Palladium to offer it in some form. We hope you enjoy the deluxe hardcover. It sure brought back memories for many of us.

  • 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 (ancient vampires and dark magic) written by Erick Wujcik. Maps by Erick Wujcik. Easily adapted to current rules.
  • Depictions of Eastern, Western, Northern, and Old Kingdom coins.
  • Fan favorite artwork by Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook included as “bonus” material appears in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • Recreation of the original cover with red foil stamping into a black faux leatherette hardcover. It should look beautiful.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

 

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

COMING! Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover

The Splicers® RPG plus bonus Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, #32, and #51 offering War Mounts, The Wasteland, and Living Weapons like the Swarm Lord, Hive insects, etc., written by Chris Kluge.

  • The complete RPG + 50 pages of bonus material.
  • Splicers® is unique and different. Think Guyver meets Terminator after the rise of the machines.
  • Humanity armed with genetically engineered living host armor and weapons battle against an insane A.I. and her legion of robots and death machines.
  • Part science fiction, part horror. Epic in scope.
  • 280 pages – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 200HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

 

The Rifter #85 Annual

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85, 2021 Annual

The Rifter® – your favorite portal to the Palladium Books® Megaverse® – is back!

And oh boy, do we have a treat for you – 224 pages of the best content from an entire year’s worth of submissions. This 2021 annual issue has content for use with almost all our game lines including Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.

Highlights include:

  • Soul in Flames: A Rifts® adventure by Barry Wright that captured our imagination so much we put it on the cover!
  • The Colony of Gonarn: Sweeping location and adventure material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans.
  • Vehicle Encounter Tables: An awesome resource by Lloyd Blair for Dead Reign®, but also eminently useful for Systems Failure®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and even Rifts®.
  • Beyond Midnight: Inspired by Boxed Nightmares, this combination of story, creature feature, and plot hooks by Dan Frederick includes adventure seeds for nine Palladium settings.
  • The Redeemer: What does evil-turned-good look like? This O.C.C. by Kyle Osterberg for Nightbane® covers just that.
  • Magical Collectibles: An array of unique arcane items by Christian Bonawandt for use with any Palladium setting.
  • The Glitter Boy Revisited: Two articles by Will Erwin that will have Game Masters and players alike taking a fresh new look at everyone’s favorite chrome power suit.
  • Relics of Empire: New setting, history, and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Ian Herbert.
  • Plus: Short stories, news, coming attractions, product descriptions, and more.
  • 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 185 – Coming this winter.

Rifter® Submission Note: If you were not accepted into this Annual, you may be on the short list for the next. FYI: We get many submissions for Rifts®, and are sitting on some for the 2022 Annual now, so you will have a greater chance of getting published in the next Rifter Annual if you send material for Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Palladium Fantasy® and others, though we get a fair number of submissions for Fantasy too.

The Rifter #85 Annual

 

Do not forget about the various Palladium Coffee Mugs – available now

With so many people still working from home and hot chocolate weather arriving, Palladium’s fun and attractive coffee mugs have been in high demand. See details below.

 

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Dead Reign® (Zombie attack) Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Dead Reign®” logo with three hungry zombies ready to attack. Art designed specifically for this mug by artist Steven Cummings of comic book renown (Wayward® and various Marvel Comics). White on a black mug. Very dynamic.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

 

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts® Titan Robotics Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Rifts® Titan Robotics™” mug features the Rifts logo with the words Titan Robotics below it. Above the logo is one of the new Titan robots from the upcoming book release, standing in a dynamic pose. Art by Steven Cummings.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595.

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

 

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Rifts® LOGO Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand! A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The famous Rifts® logo in white on a black mug.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587.

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

 

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Dragon” Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand. A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The fan favorite “3-Headed Hydra” battling a knight from the iconic, original Palladium Fantasy RPG® cover. Red art on a black mug harkens back to the original RPG red and black cover.
  • Art appears on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with an attractive orange interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589.

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

 

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

 

DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® in PDF form – 300+ titles available

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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

 

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

 

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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

 

More Madcap Podcasts – Real Play Games – Heroes Unlimited Holiday Special

These are the folks who have been bringing you the fun After the Bomb® adventure podcasts that so many have been enjoying. This time they present four episodes from a Heroes Unlimited™ 2nd Edition campaign just in time for the holidays. These folks are gamers and Palladium fans just like you, following a dream to tell and share their own stories from the Palladium Megaverse®. Cool, right? We thank them for doing this and encourage you to give them a listen.

You can also listen to the After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 1. Season Two coming spring 2022 after a venture into the realm of Beyond the Supernatural later this winter.

Learn more and listen to the Heroes Unlimited™ Holiday Special (4 episodes described below) and After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge Season One adventures by using the links below. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

 

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 1 – Superhuman Trafficking!

T’was a day in El Paso fit for a king,
when super-villain Railgun did a questionable thing!
Through Santana’s window, he came with a crash
while downstairs two rival gangs started to clash!
What could possibly happen? Where could they go?
Find out when you hear this podcast, ho-ho!
Expected Release Date: December 3, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Violence.

 

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 2 – A Small Change of Plans

In Ciudad Juarez, our protagonists stop
to take care of themselves and avoid the cops.
While Railgun’s mind dreams of riches to squander
a mysterious force urges Santana to wander.
While out in the desert, some undead embarrassments
subject the duo to uncomfortable harassment.
Hopefully the two can put them to quick ends
with a little woo-woo, and a couple of friends.
Expected Release Date: December 10, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Extreme Violence and Vampire Microaggressions.

 

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 3 – Conservation of Ninjutsu

While en-route to Zurich, our indomitable two
do their best to lay low after terrible news.
But Railgun’s captive Santana is too attractive a target
for the world’s criminal syndicates to just up and forget.
Wakizashis, katanas, and shuriken, oh my!
The Kagemusha Chujiin sure want Railgun to die!
Surviving until Zurich would be really neat,
let’s see if they can do it at 35,000 feet!
Expected Release Date: December 17, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language and Violence.

 

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 4 (Finale) – The Santa-ening

Their adventure’s concluding, destinies unveiled,
in Switzerland, it’s time that our heroes have bailed,
headed up north with a quick-paced flight,
but soon they find themselves a terrible fight.
Pitted against the world’s richest man,
the two hope to save the holiday if they can!
So sit back, relax! It’s a Hell of a fight.
Besides, it’s not like there’s much happening tonight!
The story ends here, folks! We’ve done all the edits!
And if you’d be so kind, please stay through the credits!
Expected Release Date: December 24, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, and Violence.

 

And coming over the next 12-18 months …

  • Beyond the Supernatural 2E – Cozy Caverns Mysteries
  • After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 2
  • Palladium Megaversal system – Baby, I Shrunk these F*$#ing People!
  • Nightbane®
  • Rifts®
  • Still available, After the Bomb®: Pursuit Season 1

Please continue to support and spread the word about Real Play Games and their RPG Podcast: After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge™.

 

Closing Thoughts – A fun week

This was a fun, special week for me for a lot of different reasons. For one, by Tuesday afternoon I had been introduced as an “RPG Legend,” and called a “Sage,” “Superstar,” “an inspiration,” “mentor,” and “amazing.” All in very sweet, kind, and heartfelt situations. It made me laugh, feel proud, and tear up at various times. I am humbled that so many people think so highly of me. On top of that, there were many lovely Surprise Package comments.

Speaking of the Grab Bags, it warms my heart to see so many people purchasing Palladium’s Christmas Surprise Packages as gifts this year for friends, family members, Game Masters, and players. Yes, the idea behind the Surprise Package is it is a great gift for gamers, but more often than not it is pretty clear the majority of purchases are for themselves. That’s awesome and perfectly fine, you deserve to treat yourself, try new settings, etc., I encourage you to do so. After all, the Surprise Package is our gift to YOU.

This year, however, there has been a very noticeable increase of Grab Bag sales that are clearly gifts for other people, and I think that’s great. More than one gaming group has gotten one for their Game Master, several Game Masters have bought them for their players, and there have been a ton of them as gifts from brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, wives, husbands, and friends for the special gamers in their lives. All of which touches my heart and makes me so happy that the spirit of giving is huge this season. And why I think of you as our extended family. Very cool. Thank you for making me proud of my gaming family.

I spoke with a few dear friends this week including Jolly Blackburn, Brandon Aten, and Tom Roache, and Sean and I have enjoyed some nice moments and exciting brainstorming sessions. In fact, I was here till 9:20 PM last night because the ideas and energy were flying. Final analysis, I have a lot of incredible friends.

On a personal level, I graduated the elite business program I had been part of these past 14 or 16 weeks. Talk about an intense, profound, and rewarding experience. The Zoom graduation was full of warm, fuzzy comments, tearful goodbyes, expressions of appreciation, and excitement about the future. Not just Palladium’s future, but for all the businesses of my fellow graduates. These are strange but also exciting times, with bold growth opportunities and promising futures for us all. I wish all of them the best of luck in all their hopes and dreams.

Of course, seeing oodles of orders coming in all week is exciting because it helps our cash flow (always welcomed) and I get to make so many gamers’ holidays extra special. I love Christmas and doing these Grab Bags for you. I was also thrilled to have the next shipment of the Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover finally arrive. It has been out of stock since early September. Well, this beautiful commemorative is back and beautiful. When Sean saw it, he exclaimed, “Wow, it is beautiful. I definitely want my own copy.” So many people have been waiting for this fun, special edition of the “original” Rifts® RPG as a hardcover – complete with the compelling Keith Parkinson Splugorth Slave Barge cover plus an extra 32 color pages, color gallery of 160+ covers, and Palladium/Rifts® history – I am delighted I can finally report it is back in stock. It was supposed to be here sooner, but with the printing crisis it took a couple weeks longer. This beloved piece of nostalgia is once again available for your enjoyment.

I have been sooooo busy with school and work that I still have 90% of my gifts to family, friends, and freelancers to wrap and ship, so I’d better get to it. That means most of you dear people will get my annual Christmas gifts AFTER the holiday this year. Thanks for your understanding.

As you can see, my busy but fun (I love Christmas) week continues with plenty to do. Please enjoy the Surprise Packages and books you may be placing orders for this weekend or already have coming, and happy holidays from all of us at Palladium Books.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

 

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

R.D. in Kirkland, Washington, writes: Love the Grab Bags! Thank you.

[We love doing them, R.D. Enjoy. – Kevin]

 

R.D. in Phoenix, Arizona, writes: Absolutely loved the first Surprise Package. Dying with anticipation for the next. Thank you for doing this! Love and appreciate all you do!

[Thank you, R.D., we cannot do any of this without the love and support of all of you. I love doing this for all the members of our extended RPG family. Merry Christmas! – Kevin]

 

D.H. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, writes: I’ve enjoyed the work everyone [at Palladium] has put into making these games and look forward to seeing the new world books for Rifts®.

[Thank you, D.H., you will not be disappointed with the new Rifts® books coming next year. But not just Rifts®, we’ll be releasing titles for many of our game lines, including Palladium Fantasy®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and others. – Kevin]

 

M.H. in Fishers, Indiana, writes: Going for a second Surprise Package because I was so happy with my first. Returning to Rifts® after 25 years and excited to do this!

[I’m excited for you M.H., because so much excellent material has been released. Using the Surprise Package to snag a bunch is smart. Welcome back and game on! – Kevin]

 

D.S. in Kansas City, Missouri, writes: I have enjoyed Palladium’s games for over 20 years and I see no end to the playability.

[You understand and see the infinite possibilities of the Megaverse, D.S. Thank you and keep that wonderful imagination of yours burning bright. – Kevin]

 

A.S. in Redding, California, writes: I have been playing in your guys’ world my whole life. I have even brought my kids into loving the games. Thank you, guys. Keep up the good work.

[I love this, A.S. Thrilled you and the family enjoy our games so much. Keep those imaginations burning and game on. – Kevin]

 

J.J. in Bloomington, Indiana, writes: [The Surprise Package is] always a highlight of my Christmas. My group and I thoroughly enjoy Rifts® and all of the things that can be done with it. Keep up the awesome work!

[Will do, J.J. We’re just happy you see the full scope of Rifts® and the endless opportunities it has to offer. Keep your imagination burning and the ideas flowing. – Kevin]

 

J.K. in Sierra Vista, Arizona, writes: Thank you for all that you do! You guys have fed my soul with your great intellectual property and the chance to explore ideas and friendships I might never have had the chance to do.

[You are very welcome, J.K., we are all about plumbing the imagination and feeding the soul. There are many more soul-meals to come. Happy holidays. – Kevin]

 

Z.M. in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, writes: Favorites: Rifts® and Heroes Unlimited™. The older books are where we spent most of our time with 1st editions from the 1990s. I am eager to try Dead Reign. Thank you for offering these specials every year. I have participated a few times and I have always been happy with the outcome.

[Happy to do it, Z.M. I think you will love Dead Reign. Have fun with it. – Kevin]

 

P.N. in Brooklyn, New York, writes: I already have all the softcover books, but was impressed by the Nightbane® hardcover I recently ordered, so I thought I’d ask for some more hardcovers.

[Thanks P.N., the hardcovers are very nice, aren’t they? Their availability in the Surprise Packages is limited, though. – Kevin]

 

J.A. in Redmond, Washington, writes: I have a pretty solid Rifts® collection, just looking to fill out some adventure sourcebooks, T-shirts, and other Rifts® stuff. I love Rifts®.

[Using the Surprise Package deal is a great way to do that, J.A. Smart. Enjoy. – Kevin]

 

L.B. in Winchester, Ohio, writes (in part): My Rifts® collection is pretty complete … Rifts® of course, is my current favorite with Palladium Fantasy® close behind.

[Those are two of my faves, L.B. Game on. – Kevin]

 

F.U. in Glonn, Bavaria, Germany, writes: Merry Christmas to the best gaming company and to the best game designer in the world! Keep on rocking, Kevin.

[Holy Moley! What an exuberant and generous compliment! Thank you, so much F.U., I’m am humbled and honored you think so highly of me and my work. Merry Christmas to you and yours. May it be full of joy, laughter, and gaming. Ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

 

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

 

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

 

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

 

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

 

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

 

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

 

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

 

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

 

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

 

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

 

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

 

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Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

 

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

 

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

 

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – December 9, 2021

Weekly Update Opening Graphic

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

By Kevin Siembieda

“I’ve been ordering and receiving a Surprise Package for almost a decade now. Every year is a new amazing surprise. I can’t wait to see what this year brings.”

– J.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico

The focus of this Update is the Christmas Surprise Package sale and product coming back into stock. There is good news on both fronts. The fabulous Palladium Christmas Surprise Package is available through December 24th and we are finally getting some of the long delayed hardcovers back from the printer, with more books arriving next week. Savings and fun just in time for Christmas.

And with Christmas Eve only two weeks away – 15 days – even less when you factor in 4-7 days for shipping and delivery, this is all good news. So check out what’s back in stock, what’s coming next week, and place those orders now to get them in time for the holiday (or just to snag some gaming awesomeness).

BACK IN PRINT: 4 Popular Hardcovers

We’ve been told these four hardcovers are on the truck and should arrive at our warehouse today, just in time for Christmas. Enjoy.

Ninjas & Superspies RPG Hardcover

Ninjas & Superspies RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – 40+ martial arts, plus martial art powers, martial artists, super-spies, gadgets, secrets, and more. 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 525HC – available now.

Ninjas and Superspies RPG Hardcover

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – Create crime-fighting, modern-day, mutant heroes or intelligent mutant animals on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Stats for 100+ mutant animals and rules for creating any type of mutant animal, unique powers, animal psionics, Chimera, the Empire of Humanity, and 6 post-apocalypse adventures. Includes the original, 48 page, After the Bomb® sourcebook. 296 pages total – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 503HC – available now.

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover (Zombie Apocalypse) – A great introductory game that is fun and intuitive. Play ordinary people or Apocalyptic heroes. Face Death Cultists, madmen, and an array of different types of zombies. Random tables galore. 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – The ultimate magic sourcebook with 700+ magic spells, plus magic tattoos, herbs, wands, staves, talismans, Bio-Wizard weapons, Techno-Wizard devices, and more in a deluxe hardcover! 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

BACK IN STOCK Next Week

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

“Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover. This popular title sold out quickly along with the limited, signed edition. Well, we have been told the reprint will arrive sometime next week, between December 13 and 17. This collector’s item sports the original Keith Parkinson cover and offers the original 1990s RPG plus an additional 32 page color section, the history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, a gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2021, and more. Can be used with ALL existing Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – a steal at $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – ships sometime next week. Note: The limited edition is already a coveted collector’s item.

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

Rifts Black Market

Rifts® Black Market (softcover) – 5 Black Market factions including Bandito Arms – 10 Black Market O.C.C.s, new weapons, armor, vehicles, robots, robot animals, the Shadow Boy and TW Ironmage Glitter Boy variants, and more. Epic! 192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 886 – ships sometime next week.

Rifts Black Market

Christmas Grab Bags

Palladium’s Surprise Package offer is the best deal in gaming – Get yours in time for Christmas – order now

If you have been thinking about ordering one or two as a gift for the gamers in your life or want to snag one for yourself (a great way to try new settings and replace worn out editions), there is still time! Order this week, and even over the weekend, and it should arrive in time for Christmas! Guaranteed if shipped via UPS.

The Surprise Package offers you RPG books and miniatures on the cheap, autographs (if you want them), fun, and surprises. Make sure to send a us Wish List of 12-15 titles you know are in stock and you’ll be thrilled with what arrives. This is our 24th year of doing them and we know what makes the Surprises Packages rewarding for everyone. Only 15 days till Christmas Eve.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion. This sale runs through Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

SHIPPING UPDATE: 15 days till Christmas Eve – but ONLY about 9 days left to order and get delivery guaranteed by Christmas via UPS

Those of you buying books and Christmas Surprise Packages as holiday gifts NEED to place your orders no later than the dates below to guarantee delivery in time for Christmas (by December 24, 2021) without incurring additional costs for expedited shipping. These recommendations come from the shipping companies themselves.

  • United States Postal Service: Media Mail – December 8, 2021 and even then there is no guarantee. That said, the USPS seems to be doing a much better job this year so you have a 50/50 chance of receiving your package in time for Christmas even when shipped via Media Mail as late as December 14, but we cannot guarantee delivery for Christmas. Note: If you live in an apartment please remember to include your apartment number. Also Note: Listing out of print items or titles not yet available is a waste of your time as we do NOT have those titles to send you.
  • United States Postal Service (in USA): Priority Mail – December 13.
  • UPS (United Parcel Service): UPS Standard Ground (anywhere in the contiguous USA) – December 16. Last year, UPS was astonishing in its speed and accuracy of shipping. Most UPS “Ground” packages arrive to locations in the contiguous USA within 4-5 days.
  • UPS 3-Day Select – December 20.
  • UPS 2nd Day Air – December 21.
  • UPS Next Day Air (to arrive December 24) – December 22, remember, we need time to process and pack your order!
  • To our friends in Canada and overseas – At this point in time, we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas. Sorry, but you should get it in 2-3 weeks from the date it shipped. Note: Right now, we are finding “overseas” orders are taking 18-34 days to arrive, sometimes longer! Still a Cost Saving Deal: A Surprise Package helps to mitigate overseas shipping costs – take advantage of this while you can. It is, in effect, the equivalent of getting the books you want at retail, plus autographs, and paying the equivalent of only $5-$20 for overseas shipping! MANY overseas customers take advantage of the Surprise Packages for this reason! And it is likely the ONLY way for you to get autographs. Give it a try, we don’t think you will be disappointed.
  • Any orders placed after these dates will arrive AFTER Christmas.
  • Please spread the word so other gamers can enjoy this special seasonal offer. Ho, ho, ho and happy holidays.
  • As always, at Palladium, we will be working overtime and do everything we can to process orders as fast as we can to get them to you for the holidays. However, after the package leaves the Palladium warehouse, delivery is out of our hands. As we get closer to Christmas, UPS Ground and Priority Mail will be your most reliable and timely methods of shipping. Personally, we suggest UPS. Thank you for your understanding.

UPDATED List of RPG Hardcovers Available as of December 9:

Coming:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

NEW! “Softcover” Rifts® Ultimate Edition – available now

The Rifts® Ultimate Edition is available as a softcover RPG for the very first time. This is in direct response to fan requests. It is the exact same book as the hardcover, complete with three color sections.

Rifts® is a fusion of settings and characters that seamlessly merges science fiction, fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling, plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts – tears in space and time – to any location on Earth or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds.

Explore not just exotic and mysterious locations but unique characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, Crazies, and Juicers, to name but a few. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and otherworldly beings – most available as player characters.

Challenge your imagination with opportunities like no other RPG. All of it set on a post-apocalypse Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. Build mysterious characters, battle the forces of evil, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.
  • Also available: The Rifts® Ultimate Edition hardcover ($44.99 retail, Cat. No. 800HC) and the “Original” 1990 Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover (temporarily sold out – back in print around December 15 – $49.99 retail – 32 pages of additional color and fun).

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

COMING: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition Rules

This deluxe, foil stamped edition is at the printer, and has been for awhile now. With any luck it will be available sometime in November. We are offering it due to popular demand. It is the original, First Edition rules, expanded with the inclusion of the Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook. The original edition also includes Erick Wujcik’s popular Tombs of Gersidi adventure left out of the 2nd Edition rule book. The cover is a recreation of the original, famous red and black cover of the original RPG. We sold more than 120,000 copies of the first edition rule book back in the day, so we know a lot of people have fond memories of it. Hence, the request for Palladium to offer it in some form. We hope you enjoy the deluxe hardcover. It sure brought back memories for many of us.

  • 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 (ancient vampires and dark magic) written by Erick Wujcik. Maps by Erick Wujcik. Easily adapted to current rules.
  • Depictions of Eastern, Western, Northern, and Old Kingdom coins.
  • Fan favorite artwork by Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook included as “bonus” material appears in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • Recreation of the original cover with red foil stamping into a black faux leatherette hardcover. It should look beautiful.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

COMING! Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover

The Splicers® RPG plus bonus Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, #32, and #51 offering War Mounts, The Wasteland, and Living Weapons like the Swarm Lord, Hive insects, etc., written by Chris Kluge.

  • The complete RPG + 50 pages of bonus material.
  • Splicers® is unique and different. Think Guyver meets Terminator after the rise of the machines.
  • Humanity armed with genetically engineered living host armor and weapons battle against an insane A.I. and her legion of robots and death machines.
  • Part science fiction, part horror. Epic in scope.
  • 280 pages – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 200HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

The Rifter #85 Annual

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85, 2021 Annual

The Rifter® – your favorite portal to the Palladium Books® Megaverse® – is back!

And oh boy, do we have a treat for you – 224 pages of the best content from an entire year’s worth of submissions. This 2021 annual issue has content for use with almost all our game lines including Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.

Highlights include:

  • Soul in Flames: A Rifts® adventure by Barry Wright that captured our imagination so much we put it on the cover!
  • The Colony of Gonarn: Sweeping location and adventure material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans.
  • Vehicle Encounter Tables: An awesome resource by Lloyd Blair for Dead Reign®, but also eminently useful for Systems Failure®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and even Rifts®.
  • Beyond Midnight: Inspired by Boxed Nightmares, this combination of story, creature feature, and plot hooks by Dan Frederick includes adventure seeds for nine Palladium settings.
  • The Redeemer: What does evil-turned-good look like? This O.C.C. by Kyle Osterberg for Nightbane® covers just that.
  • Magical Collectibles: An array of unique arcane items by Christian Bonawandt for use with any Palladium setting.
  • The Glitter Boy Revisited: Two articles by Will Erwin that will have Game Masters and players alike taking a fresh new look at everyone’s favorite chrome power suit.
  • Relics of Empire: New setting, history, and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Ian Herbert.
  • Plus: Short stories, news, coming attractions, product descriptions, and more.
  • 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 185 – Coming this winter.

Rifter® Submission Note: If you were not accepted into this Annual, you may be on the short list for the next. FYI: We get many submissions for Rifts®, and are sitting on some for the 2022 Annual now, so you will have a greater chance of getting published in the next Rifter Annual if you send material for Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Palladium Fantasy® and others, though we get a fair number of submissions for Fantasy too.

The Rifter #85 Annual

Do not forget about the various Palladium Coffee Mugs – available now

With so many people still working from home and hot chocolate weather arriving, Palladium’s fun and attractive coffee mugs have been in high demand. See details below.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Dead Reign® (Zombie attack) Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Dead Reign®” logo with three hungry zombies ready to attack. Art designed specifically for this mug by artist Steven Cummings of comic book renown (Wayward® and various Marvel Comics). White on a black mug. Very dynamic.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts® Titan Robotics Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Rifts® Titan Robotics™” mug features the Rifts logo with the words Titan Robotics below it. Above the logo is one of the new Titan robots from the upcoming book release, standing in a dynamic pose. Art by Steven Cummings.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595.

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Rifts® LOGO Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand! A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The famous Rifts® logo in white on a black mug.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587.

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Dragon” Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand. A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The fan favorite “3-Headed Hydra” battling a knight from the iconic, original Palladium Fantasy RPG® cover. Red art on a black mug harkens back to the original RPG red and black cover.
  • Art appears on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with an attractive orange interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589.

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® in PDF form – 300+ titles available

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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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

More Madcap Podcasts – Real Play Games – Heroes Unlimited Holiday Special

These are the folks who have been bringing you the fun After the Bomb® adventure podcasts that so many have been enjoying. This time they present four episodes from a Heroes Unlimited™ 2nd Edition campaign just in time for the holidays. These folks are gamers and Palladium fans just like you, following a dream to tell and share their own stories from the Palladium Megaverse®. Cool, right? We thank them for doing this and encourage you to give them a listen.

You can also listen to the After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 1. Season Two coming spring 2022 after a venture into the realm of Beyond the Supernatural later this winter.

Learn more and listen to the Heroes Unlimited™ Holiday Special (4 episodes described below) and After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge Season One adventures by using the links below. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 1 – Superhuman Trafficking!

T’was a day in El Paso fit for a king,
when super-villain Railgun did a questionable thing!
Through Santana’s window, he came with a crash
while downstairs two rival gangs started to clash!
What could possibly happen? Where could they go?
Find out when you hear this podcast, ho-ho!
Expected Release Date: December 3, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Violence.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 2 – A Small Change of Plans

In Ciudad Juarez, our protagonists stop
to take care of themselves and avoid the cops.
While Railgun’s mind dreams of riches to squander
a mysterious force urges Santana to wander.
While out in the desert, some undead embarrassments
subject the duo to uncomfortable harassment.
Hopefully the two can put them to quick ends
with a little woo-woo, and a couple of friends.
Expected Release Date: December 10, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Extreme Violence and Vampire Microaggressions.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 3 – Conservation of Ninjutsu

While en-route to Zurich, our indomitable two
do their best to lay low after terrible news.
But Railgun’s captive Santana is too attractive a target
for the world’s criminal syndicates to just up and forget.
Wakizashis, katanas, and shuriken, oh my!
The Kagemusha Chujiin sure want Railgun to die!
Surviving until Zurich would be really neat,
let’s see if they can do it at 35,000 feet!
Expected Release Date: December 17, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language and Violence.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 4 (Finale) – The Santa-ening

Their adventure’s concluding, destinies unveiled,
in Switzerland, it’s time that our heroes have bailed,
headed up north with a quick-paced flight,
but soon they find themselves a terrible fight.
Pitted against the world’s richest man,
the two hope to save the holiday if they can!
So sit back, relax! It’s a Hell of a fight.
Besides, it’s not like there’s much happening tonight!
The story ends here, folks! We’ve done all the edits!
And if you’d be so kind, please stay through the credits!
Expected Release Date: December 24, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, and Violence.

And coming over the next 12-18 months …

  • Beyond the Supernatural 2E – Cozy Caverns Mysteries
  • After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 2
  • Palladium Megaversal system – Baby, I Shrunk these F*$#ing People!
  • Nightbane®
  • Rifts®
  • Still available, After the Bomb®: Pursuit Season 1

Please continue to support and spread the word about Real Play Games and their RPG Podcast: After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge™.

Closing Thoughts – Thank you

Thank you for the orders pouring in. Thank you for your kind words and brief comments and suggestions in many of the Christmas Surprise Packages. Thank you for being awesome. Palladium’s fans are the greatest and your kindness comes out this time of year more than ever.

What is especially humbling are the many personal comments about how our games and sourcebooks have helped so many of you to get through difficult, even horrific, times in your life. Others write about the joy our games have brought to you and the friends you’ve made playing them. Still others speak of how our art, writing, and worlds have inspired them to follow their own creative pursuits. All of it is wonderful and humbling. All of it a great reward that inspires us all the more to keep creating and doing our best.

In recent months, the full magnitude of what we have created has become all the more apparent. Though it was never my deliberate intention, I have created a family of gamers that means the world to me. A family I love and who loves us back. Honestly, I cannot find the words to express how deeply you all matter and mean to me. Thank you doesn’t seem to be adequate, but it’s all I have to offer.

Actually, that’s not true. Every book I write or publish comes from the heart. Each one is truly written for you, because your wants and needs and the ideas that will make you squeal for joy are always on our minds when we write. And boy, oh boy, do we have plans for you and Palladium. Book after book. New concepts and surprises at every turn. Things that I cannot yet reveal, but which I can say will transcend anything any other game company has ever achieved when it comes to story and world building. Books and games that will delight and inspire and provide you with new thrilling adventures. Making these books for you is the joy that keeps me young and hungry and pressing forward. I strive to emulate the creators who inspire me most: Walt Disney, Stan Lee, and Steven Spielberg are at the top of that list. With help from Sean, the Palladium crew, and all our creators, we are going big.

In the meanwhile, snag a Christmas Surprise Package for a loved one or to broaden your own creative horizons, enjoy the Grab Bag comments from your fellow gamers, below, and the hardcovers and other titles finally coming back in stock. Stay strong, be happy, and keep those imaginations burning bright through the holidays and always.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

S.K. in Comox, British Columbia, Canada, writes (in part): I have been a fan since the late 80s. I currently have most of the Palladium line up. Favorites: Robotech®, Rifts®, and Fantasy with Nightbane® and Dead Reign® coming in close. From that first book, Robotech® RPG/Macross, I bought with my paper route and lawn mowing money in 1987 to today I continue to love the worlds of Palladium. Through the decades, military service, family, and life, thank you for bringing me years of fun and imagination. Merry Christmas.

[You are so very welcome, S.K. This is what I mean about you all being part of my life and my family; it’s wonderful and amazing. I am thrilled our games have meant so much to you. Have a magical Christmas and game on. – Kevin]

S.A. in Lombard, Illinois, writes: Second year in a row and excited to see what Santa provides. Happy holidays!

[S.A., I think you will enjoy your Surprise Package and it will have you coming back for more. – Kevin]

E.L.P. in Concord, California, writes: Thanks guys for all the dreams you have created that I am about to put into action.

[Dream big and knock ‘em dead, E.L.P., best of luck to you. Glad our work inspires you so. Let us know how things go. – Kevin]

R.K. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, writes (in part): The answer is always Rifts® and not just of the Palladium games library. Over 20 years now playing all kinds of RPGs from many different publishers, Rifts® still reigns supreme. I often ask myself why? And I always seem to settle on the setting and story behind the game. No matter the new systems that appear, the story and content behind Rifts® always carries it to the top of the list.

My first Christmas Surprise Package arrived earlier than expected and I was pleasantly surprised! Incredible value! I guess I still have time to order another.

[Of course you were surprised, R.K., it wouldn’t be much of a Surprise Package if you weren’t. All kidding aside, thank you for the high praise. I hope you enjoy this bag as much as your first. – Kevin]

J.D. in the military, writes: Been a long time since playing, but looking forward to get back into the Megaverse®. Happy holidays and looking forward to the surprise in store.

[Hey J.D., welcome back to the Megaverse®. I tried to build a Surprise Package that might inspire you.]

B.J. in Palm Coast, Florida, writes: Favorites: Palladium Fantasy®, Rifts®, and Nightbane®. I have loved the Christmas Surprise for years. I’ve missed a time or two for various reasons, but always come back. You guys have built such a hell of a game system that I look forward to finally introducing my kids to it.

[I hope they enjoy our worlds as much as you, B.J. I love it when I hear about families gaming together. Enjoy and Merry Christmas. – Kevin]

G.E. in LaPorte, Indiana, writes (in part): Favorites: Palladium Fantasy RPG. It’s that time of the year again when I replace books that I’ve used and abused.

[You’ve got it G.E., Merry Christmas to you and the family. Ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

J.M. in Sarasota, Florida, writes: Been playing in the Megaverse® since the mid-1990s. Working on getting the kids into it. Great fun for the whole family.

[Very cool, J.M. Thanks for the couple decades of your support! Happy to hear that now the whole family is getting to explore the Megaverse®. Enjoy and game on! – Kevin]

J.M.M. in San Diego, California, writes: Thank you for years of entertainment. Keep the imagination going.

[Our pleasure, J.M.M. As for keeping our imaginations going, you ain’t seen nothing yet. – Kevin]

S.G. in London, Ontario, Canada, writes: Here we are again. The X-Mas deal is just too great! I was again very happy and, well, had to do it again. Anything on the list is glorious and greatly appreciated. Thanks again for all of your hard work. Everybody there is doing an incredible job and I really hope you all understand that.

[Aw shucks, S.G., thank you. We try. You will all be seeing a lot of this year’s hard work in next year’s releases. – Kevin]

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

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Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – December 2, 2021

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

By Kevin Siembieda

We are in the thick of the holiday rush. Black Friday and Cyber-Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were huge for Palladium. Our sincere thanks to everyone who placed orders and please keep the orders pouring in.

That means we are doing a lot of order processing, pulling books, packing, and shipping of Christmas Surprise Packages and other orders. Awesome! Please, keep the orders coming, especially if you need them in time for Christmas. I have been trying to make each one special. Packing them with the books you want and adding autographs and little fun surprises like my Dragonhead sketches, prints, and stuff. If you would be so kind to spread the word about the Christmas Surprise Packages to gamers everywhere, we would appreciate it. We want gamers to discover and enjoy the wonder of Palladium’s Megaverse® and enjoy a little holiday good cheer, gamer style.

Otherwise, work seems to be a constant flurry of activity these days: making Surprise Packages special, dealing with all manner of business matters, wheeling and dealing, making presentations, and twisting the arms of printers. All our printers are experiencing supply chain issues, struggling through paper allocations, and delays, but books should be on their way over the next couple weeks. These include the hot Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative that has been out of stock since mid-September. It, plus After the Bomb and Ninjas & Superspies RPG hardcovers, along with Rifts® Black Market and a few other titles should be in our hands over the next couple of weeks. I am doing everything I can to keep product in stock throughout the holidays.

There is some news and updates but we are keeping them to a minimum for now. With Christmas only three weeks away, our focus is on processing and shipping orders. Though I do want to mention that the After the Bomb podcast folks – Real Play Games Podcast – are ready to launch their Heroes Unlimited holiday special series starting tomorrow, and they have some other fun stuff coming soon. Read all about it elsewhere in this update.

Christmas Grab Bags

Get your Surprise Package in time for Christmas – the best deal in gaming – now shipping – available thru December 24, 2021

Give the gamers in your life a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day (for you in Canada), birthdays, anniversaries, graduation and any gift-giving occasion, a gift you know they will love. Or treat yourself. After these past two crazy years you deserve to do something nice for yourself and your gaming pals. The Surprise Package Offer gets you physical game books at PDF prices, and we will sign them if you would like us to.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion. This sale runs through Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

SHIPPING UPDATE: 22 days till Christmas Eve – but ONLY about 7 days left to order and get delivery guaranteed by Christmas via Media Mail

Those of you buying books and Christmas Surprise Packages as holiday gifts NEED to place your orders no later than the dates below to guarantee delivery in time for Christmas (by December 24, 2021) without incurring additional costs for expedited shipping. These recommendations come from the shipping companies themselves.

  • United States Postal Service: Media Mail – December 8, 2021 and even then there is no guarantee. That said, you should get packages shipped via Media Mail as late as December 14. Last year mail delivery was an abomination. So for this year, the US Mail “seems” to be doing much better, but we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas when you use Media Mail.
  • United States Postal Service (in USA): Priority Mail – December 13.
  • UPS Standard Ground (anywhere in the contiguous USA) – December 15. Last year, UPS was astonishing in its speed and accuracy of shipping. Most UPS “Ground” packages arrive anywhere in the contiguous USA within 5 days, often a day or two sooner.
  • UPS 3-Day Select – December 20.
  • UPS 2nd Day Air – December 21.
  • UPS Next Day Air (to arrive December 24) – December 22, remember, we need time to process and pack your order!
  • To our friends in Canada and overseas – December 6 with no guarantee. We suggest ordering no later than December 6, but SOONER is better. At this point in time, we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas. Your package should arrive in time, but if there are delays at Customs, work strike, bad weather, etc., it might miss. Order sooner rather than later. Note: Right now, we are finding overseas orders are taking 18-34 days to arrive, sometimes longer! Cost Saver: A Surprise Package mitigates overseas shipping costs – take advantage of this while you can. It is, in effect, the equivalent of getting the books you want at retail, plus autographs, and paying the equivalent of only $5-$20 for overseas shipping! MANY overseas customers take advantage of the Surprise Packages for this reason! And it is likely the ONLY way for you to get autographs. Give it a try, we don’t think you will be disappointed.
  • Any orders placed after these dates may arrive in time for Christmas but we cannot guarantee it AND you should assume they will NOT arrive in time for Christmas. Please spread the word and place those orders as soon as you can. Ho, ho, ho and happy holidays.
  • 2021 Shipping Note: As always, at Palladium, we will be working overtime and do everything we can to process orders as fast as we can to get them to you for the holidays. However, after the package leaves the Palladium warehouse, delivery is out of our hands. As we get closer to Christmas, UPS Ground and Priority Mail will be your most reliable and timely methods of shipping. Thank you for your understanding.

Palladium Gift Certificates now available

I wanted to remind you that we started to offer Gift Certificates a couple years ago in response to popular demand. Purchase a Palladium Gift Certificate for the gaming friends and loved ones who are difficult to buy for. The prompts should be pretty self-explanatory. You purchase the desired amount, fill out the email info of that person and an optional gift message, and that individual receives an email with info on how to redeem the Gift Certificate and you get a confirmation email. Simple. Gift Certificates are available in the Palladium online store.

Gift Certificates at palladium-store.com

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

NEW! “Softcover” Rifts® Ultimate Edition – available now

The Rifts® Ultimate Edition is available as a softcover RPG for the very first time. This is in direct response to fan requests. It is the exact same book as the hardcover, complete with three color sections.

Rifts® is a fusion of settings and characters that seamlessly merges science fiction, fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling, plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts – tears in space and time – to any location on Earth or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds.

Explore not just exotic and mysterious locations but unique characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, Crazies, and Juicers, to name but a few. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and otherworldly beings – most available as player characters.

Challenge your imagination with opportunities like no other RPG. All of it set on a post-apocalypse Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. Build mysterious characters, battle the forces of evil, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.
  • Also available: The Rifts® Ultimate Edition hardcover ($44.99 retail, Cat. No. 800) and the “Original” 1990 Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover (temporarily sold out – back in print early December, 2021 – $49.99 retail – 32 pages of additional color and fun).

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

COMING: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition Rules

This deluxe, foil stamped edition is at the printer, and has been for awhile now. With any luck it will be available sometime in November. We are offering it due to popular demand. It is the original, First Edition rules, expanded with the inclusion of the Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook. The original edition also includes Erick Wujcik’s popular Tombs of Gersidi adventure left out of the 2nd Edition rule book. The cover is a recreation of the original, famous red and black cover of the original RPG. We sold more than 120,000 copies of the first edition rule book back in the day, so we know a lot of people have fond memories of it. Hence, the request for Palladium to offer it in some form. We hope you enjoy the deluxe hardcover. It sure brought back memories for many of us.

  • 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 (ancient vampires and dark magic) written by Erick Wujcik. Maps by Erick Wujcik. Easily adapted to current rules.
  • Depictions of Eastern, Western, Northern, and Old Kingdom coins.
  • Fan favorite artwork by Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook included as “bonus” material appears in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • Recreation of the original cover with red foil stamping into a black faux leatherette hardcover. It should look beautiful.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

COMING! Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover

The Splicers® RPG plus bonus Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, #32, and #51 offering War Mounts, The Wasteland, and Living Weapons like the Swarm Lord, Hive insects, etc., written by Chris Kluge.

  • The complete RPG + 50 pages of bonus material.
  • Splicers® is unique and different. Think Guyver meets Terminator after the rise of the machines.
  • Humanity armed with genetically engineered living host armor and weapons battle against an insane A.I. and her legion of robots and death machines.
  • Part science fiction, part horror. Epic in scope.
  • 280 pages – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 200HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

The Rifter #85 Annual

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85, 2021 Annual

The Rifter® – your favorite portal to the Palladium Books® Megaverse® – is back!

And oh boy, do we have a treat for you – 224 pages of the best content from an entire year’s worth of submissions. This 2021 annual issue has content for use with almost all our game lines including Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.

Highlights include:

  • Soul in Flames: A Rifts® adventure by Barry Wright that captured our imagination so much we put it on the cover!
  • The Colony of Gonarn: Sweeping location and adventure material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans.
  • Vehicle Encounter Tables: An awesome resource by Lloyd Blair for Dead Reign®, but also eminently useful for Systems Failure®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and even Rifts®.
  • Beyond Midnight: Inspired by Boxed Nightmares, this combination of story, creature feature, and plot hooks by Dan Frederick includes adventure seeds for nine Palladium settings.
  • The Redeemer: What does evil-turned-good look like? This O.C.C. by Kyle Osterberg for Nightbane® covers just that.
  • Magical Collectibles: An array of unique arcane items by Christian Bonawandt for use with any Palladium setting.
  • The Glitter Boy Revisited: Two articles by Will Erwin that will have Game Masters and players alike taking a fresh new look at everyone’s favorite chrome power suit.
  • Relics of Empire: New setting, history, and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Ian Herbert.
  • Plus: Short stories, news, coming attractions, product descriptions, and more.
  • 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 185 – Coming this winter.

Rifter® Submission Note: If you were not accepted into this Annual, you may be on the short list for the next. FYI: We get many submissions for Rifts®, and are sitting on some for the 2022 Annual now, so you will have a greater chance of getting published in the next Rifter Annual if you send material for Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Palladium Fantasy® and others, though we get a fair number of submissions for Fantasy too.

The Rifter #85 Annual

Updated List of RPG Hardcovers Currently Available:

Temporarily out of stock:

Coming:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

Do not forget about the various Palladium Coffee Mugs – available now

With so many people still working from home and hot chocolate weather arriving, Palladium’s fun and attractive coffee mugs have been in high demand. See details below.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Dead Reign® (Zombie attack) Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Dead Reign®” logo with three hungry zombies ready to attack. Art designed specifically for this mug by artist Steven Cummings of comic book renown (Wayward® and various Marvel Comics). White on a black mug. Very dynamic.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts® Titan Robotics Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Rifts® Titan Robotics™” mug features the Rifts logo with the words Titan Robotics below it. Above the logo is one of the new Titan robots from the upcoming book release, standing in a dynamic pose. Art by Steven Cummings.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595.

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Rifts® LOGO Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand! A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The famous Rifts® logo in white on a black mug.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587.

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Dragon” Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand. A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The fan favorite “3-Headed Hydra” battling a knight from the iconic, original Palladium Fantasy RPG® cover. Red art on a black mug harkens back to the original RPG red and black cover.
  • Art appears on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with an attractive orange interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589.

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® at PDF prices – 300+ 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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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

More Madcap Podcasts – Real Play Games – Heroes Unlimited Holiday Special

These are the folks who have been bringing you the fun After the Bomb® adventure podcasts that so many have been enjoying. This time they present four episodes from a Heroes Unlimited™ 2nd Edition campaign just in time for the holidays. These folks are gamers and Palladium fans just like you, following a dream to tell and share their own stories from the Palladium Megaverse®. Cool, right? We thank them for doing this and encourage you to give them a listen.

You can also listen to the After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 1. Season Two coming spring 2022 after a venture into the realm of Beyond the Supernatural later this winter.

Learn more and listen to the Heroes Unlimited™ Holiday Special (4 episodes described below, starts this week) and After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge Season One adventures by using the links below. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 1 – Superhuman Trafficking!

T’was a day in El Paso fit for a king,
when super-villain Railgun did a questionable thing!
Through Santana’s window, he came with a crash
while downstairs two rival gangs started to clash!
What could possibly happen? Where could they go?
Find out when you hear this podcast, ho-ho!
Expected Release Date: December 3, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Violence.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 2 – A Small Change of Plans

In Ciudad Juarez, our protagonists stop
to take care of themselves and avoid the cops.
While Railgun’s mind dreams of riches to squander
a mysterious force urges Santana to wander.
While out in the desert, some undead embarrassments
subject the duo to uncomfortable harassment.
Hopefully the two can put them to quick ends
with a little woo-woo, and a couple of friends.
Expected Release Date: December 10, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Extreme Violence and Vampire Microaggressions.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 3 – Conservation of Ninjutsu

While en-route to Zurich, our indomitable two
do their best to lay low after terrible news.
But Railgun’s captive Santana is too attractive a target
for the world’s criminal syndicates to just up and forget.
Wakizashis, katanas, and shuriken, oh my!
The Kagemusha Chujiin sure want Railgun to die!
Surviving until Zurich would be really neat,
let’s see if they can do it at 35,000 feet!
Expected Release Date: December 17, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language and Violence.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 4 (Finale) – The Santa-ening

Their adventure’s concluding, destinies unveiled,
in Switzerland, it’s time that our heroes have bailed,
headed up north with a quick-paced flight,
but soon they find themselves a terrible fight.
Pitted against the world’s richest man,
the two hope to save the holiday if they can!
So sit back, relax! It’s a Hell of a fight.
Besides, it’s not like there’s much happening tonight!
The story ends here, folks! We’ve done all the edits!
And if you’d be so kind, please stay through the credits!
Expected Release Date: December 24, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, and Violence.

And coming over the next 12-18 months …

  • Beyond the Supernatural 2E – Cozy Caverns Mysteries
  • After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 2
  • Palladium Megaversal system – Baby, I Shrunk these F*$#ing People!
  • Nightbane®
  • Rifts®
  • Still available, After the Bomb®: Pursuit Season 1

Please continue to support and spread the word about Real Play Games and their RPG Podcast: After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge™.

Closing Thoughts – Life is a marvel

I feel like I have been on a roller coaster ride the past week or two. There have been sweet moments of beauty and love and friendship, moments of laughter and good eats, hard work, inspiration, exhaustion, fun (some of that fun provided by you and your Surprise Package comments – some of which are presented below), and worry.

I worry about my dear friends, wonderful staff, and you. Here in Michigan, Covid-19 is running rampant. We are all safe and healthy, but one of our beloved staff members was exposed to Covid-19 by a family member this week. This caused a day and a half of worry, cleaning/disinfecting the office, and all of us running around getting Covid tests. I am thrilled to report that we are all fine. All tested negative and are Covid free, including the person exposed (and in quarantine to be safe). Whew. It was very unnerving to say the least. We all feel like we dodged a bullet, though we still worry about the young lady with Covid and the rest of her family. And no it was not Crystal, our warehouse manager.

Moments of stress have involved my study program and dealings with printers and the seemingly never-ending delays from each and everyone of them. As frustrated as you and I am about all this, they must be going crazy. My heart goes out to them as I patiently await new hardcovers and reprint titles before they go temporarily out of print.

Nice moments have come from good eats and pleasant moments on Thanksgiving, snagging some Black Friday deals, lovely moments with my sweetheart Kathy, and all kinds of wild, inspirational brainstorming between me and Sean. I also managed to watch the first three episodes of the live action Cowboy Bebop series (love it!) and the movie Red Notice on Netflix. Red Notice was written, directed, and produced by a friend, Rawson Marshall Thurber. Yes, the same Mr. Thurber who wrote one of the unproduced Rifts® movie screenplays. Red Notice is a fun caper that romps across the globe, has great lines, and has recently earned the distinction of being Netflix’s most watched movie of all time! As you can imagine, I am over the moon with joy for Rawson’s success. He deserves this.

Like I said, a roller coaster, but I try to focus on all the good stuff. That includes trying to make the holidays special for everyone who orders from Palladium. In addition to our joyful work trying to make every Surprise Package fun and tailored to you, I have been randomly signing books in regular orders as well and tossing in the occasional print.

I hope your holidays are filled with joy and fun, and I’m happy to contribute to that whenever I can. We all are because for some reason we like you – a lot. Enjoy the Grab Bag comments below, stay safe, hang tough, and keep those beautiful imaginations burning bright. Ho, ho, ho.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

T.H. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, writes: I’m restarting a North America campaign in Rifts® before the Tolkeen War. Books that can be used to introduce new players are the best as I am bringing them in from D&D 5E.

[Sounds like a plan T.H., I tried to give you books from your list I thought would help out. I hope you guys have a great campaign. And everyone, keep converting those 5E players to the Palladium Megaverse, Bhuwah-ha-ha … um, I mean, ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

S.G. in London, Ontario, Canada, writes: Here we are again! I promised myself last time was “the last time,” but the Rifts® Ultimate Edition softcover I received was incredible. Thank you. What I am really desperately hoping for is Rifts® Book of Magic. Please if possible to make it a priority. Otherwise anything is great. Thank you again for all the hard work.

[Hah, you’re hooked now S.G., and I’m afraid this new Surprise Package may compel you to order yet another. What can I say, I’m a baaaad man. – Kevin]

R.D. in Phoenix, Arizona, writes: I’ve been playing Fantasy and Rifts® since the late 80s/early 90s. Big fan of the Megaverse® – would love to try Heroes Unlimited™.

[Aww shucks, R.D., thank you for the kind words and decades of support. I think you’ll like your Surprise Package, but somehow Heroes Unlimited did not make it in. It got substituted for other things. I will flog the elf responsible (but I didn’t catch it either and I hate getting flogged). Game on. – Kevin]

J.D.V. in Cornville, Arizonia, writes (in part): Last time I listed Dead Reign® as the game I would like to try and you guys sent a copy. Now I am hooked on Dead Reign®! I like it as much or more than Rifts®, actually. Thank you for that.

[Warning to all readers, As Sean likes to say, Palladium publishes RPG crack. As poor J.D.V. has discovered. All kidding aside, Dead Reign® is a really fun game and one of my personal favorites along with Palladium Fantasy RPG® and Beyond the Supernatural. Moreover, Dead Reign® is a simple, fun introductory RPG. I like running “ordinary” people as the core player characters and have profoundly enjoyed every DR game I have ever run. – Kevin]

E.I. in Belleville New Jersey, writes (in part): My favorite Palladium game is Heroes Unlimited. This year was my son and I first campaign with an experienced Game Master friend. My kid is playing as a T-Rex Hulk mutant that time traveled and I’m a magic mutant dog that used to be a sorcerer’s familiar. We have played for about eight months and it’s a real blast. Thank you for the great game and universe you have helped create. I should have tried this a lot sooner. You win over D&D.

[Wow, E.I., that’s high praise. I am humbled and delighted you guys are having so much fun. Keep those imaginations burning bright. – Kevin]

D.C. in Oxford, Georgia, writes: Favorites: Heroes Unlimited, Rifts®, and Dead Reign®. Looking forward to expanding my Palladium universe. Thanks for all the world creation y’all do. NO ONE is better.

[Thank you, D.C., for the high compliment. I do love nothing more than world building and telling epic stories. A lot of both are coming. – Kevin]

K.S. in Flower Mound, Texas, writes: Last time I ordered your selections were absolutely perfect. My last game session was 100% better than I though it could be. My son also got some amazing books that he was really excited about. Thank you so very much!

[You are very welcome, K.S. Thank you for letting us know how satisfied your were because we work hard to make each and every Surprise Package special. Happy Holidays. – Kevin]

A.C. in Sacramento, California, Writes: Thank you for the many years of enjoyment. My son Grayson is now enjoying the 90 plus Palladium books in our collection.

[A.C., I love hearing a new generation is enjoying our games. Have fun exploring the Megaverse through your son’s eyes. Game on. – Kevin]

H.R. in Lexington, South Carolina, writes: Own all current games. As a side note, I love this time of year, this Grab Bag happens around my birthday.

[Happy birthday, H.R., and game on. – Kevin]

A.B. in Houston, Texas, writes: Hey Kevin, Sean, and Everybody else. I look forward to Rifts Earth’s future developments especially as the Minion War wraps up as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds as it continues.

[Me too, A.B., both Palladium and Pinnacle have big plans for the future of Rifts Earth in our respective playgrounds. – Kevin]

T.L. in Newville, Pennsylvania, writes (in part): I’m looking forward to the Beyond the Supernatural (BTS) series getting a few additions. I love the autographs; they turn my books into gold … I’ve gotten a few of these Surprise Packages before and I love them!

[Thank you for the kind words, T.L. BTS is one of my personal favorite RPGs so I am happy there is support coming for it as well. You will not be disappointed. Happy Holidays. – Kevin]

O.V.Z. in Moscow, Idaho, writes: Just received BTS 2nd Edition core rule book and will probably start a campaign after our Rifts® campaign is complete.

[Hi O.V.Z., I think you will have a blast. As noted above, BTS is one of my favorite settings. Love it. Game on. – Kevin]

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

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Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – December 2, 2021

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

By Kevin Siembieda

We are in the thick of the holiday rush. Black Friday and Cyber-Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were huge for Palladium. Our sincere thanks to everyone who placed orders and please keep the orders pouring in.

That means we are doing a lot of order processing, pulling books, packing, and shipping of Christmas Surprise Packages and other orders. Awesome! Please, keep the orders coming, especially if you need them in time for Christmas. I have been trying to make each one special. Packing them with the books you want and adding autographs and little fun surprises like my Dragonhead sketches, prints, and stuff. If you would be so kind to spread the word about the Christmas Surprise Packages to gamers everywhere, we would appreciate it. We want gamers to discover and enjoy the wonder of Palladium’s Megaverse® and enjoy a little holiday good cheer, gamer style.

Otherwise, work seems to be a constant flurry of activity these days: making Surprise Packages special, dealing with all manner of business matters, wheeling and dealing, making presentations, and twisting the arms of printers. All our printers are experiencing supply chain issues, struggling through paper allocations, and delays, but books should be on their way over the next couple weeks. These include the hot Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative that has been out of stock since mid-September. It, plus After the Bomb and Ninjas & Superspies RPG hardcovers, along with Rifts® Black Market and a few other titles should be in our hands over the next couple of weeks. I am doing everything I can to keep product in stock throughout the holidays.

There is some news and updates but we are keeping them to a minimum for now. With Christmas only three weeks away, our focus is on processing and shipping orders. Though I do want to mention that the After the Bomb podcast folks – Real Play Games Podcast – are ready to launch their Heroes Unlimited holiday special series starting tomorrow, and they have some other fun stuff coming soon. Read all about it elsewhere in this update.

Christmas Grab Bags

Get your Surprise Package in time for Christmas – the best deal in gaming – now shipping – available thru December 24, 2021

Give the gamers in your life a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day (for you in Canada), birthdays, anniversaries, graduation and any gift-giving occasion, a gift you know they will love. Or treat yourself. After these past two crazy years you deserve to do something nice for yourself and your gaming pals. The Surprise Package Offer gets you physical game books at PDF prices, and we will sign them if you would like us to.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion. This sale runs through Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

SHIPPING UPDATE: 22 days till Christmas Eve – but ONLY about 7 days left to order and get delivery guaranteed by Christmas via Media Mail

Those of you buying books and Christmas Surprise Packages as holiday gifts NEED to place your orders no later than the dates below to guarantee delivery in time for Christmas (by December 24, 2021) without incurring additional costs for expedited shipping. These recommendations come from the shipping companies themselves.

  • United States Postal Service: Media Mail – December 8, 2021 and even then there is no guarantee. That said, you should get packages shipped via Media Mail as late as December 14. Last year mail delivery was an abomination. So for this year, the US Mail “seems” to be doing much better, but we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas when you use Media Mail.
  • United States Postal Service (in USA): Priority Mail – December 13.
  • UPS Standard Ground (anywhere in the contiguous USA) – December 15. Last year, UPS was astonishing in its speed and accuracy of shipping. Most UPS “Ground” packages arrive anywhere in the contiguous USA within 5 days, often a day or two sooner.
  • UPS 3-Day Select – December 20.
  • UPS 2nd Day Air – December 21.
  • UPS Next Day Air (to arrive December 24) – December 22, remember, we need time to process and pack your order!
  • To our friends in Canada and overseas – December 6 with no guarantee. We suggest ordering no later than December 6, but SOONER is better. At this point in time, we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas. Your package should arrive in time, but if there are delays at Customs, work strike, bad weather, etc., it might miss. Order sooner rather than later. Note: Right now, we are finding overseas orders are taking 18-34 days to arrive, sometimes longer! Cost Saver: A Surprise Package mitigates overseas shipping costs – take advantage of this while you can. It is, in effect, the equivalent of getting the books you want at retail, plus autographs, and paying the equivalent of only $5-$20 for overseas shipping! MANY overseas customers take advantage of the Surprise Packages for this reason! And it is likely the ONLY way for you to get autographs. Give it a try, we don’t think you will be disappointed.
  • Any orders placed after these dates may arrive in time for Christmas but we cannot guarantee it AND you should assume they will NOT arrive in time for Christmas. Please spread the word and place those orders as soon as you can. Ho, ho, ho and happy holidays.
  • 2021 Shipping Note: As always, at Palladium, we will be working overtime and do everything we can to process orders as fast as we can to get them to you for the holidays. However, after the package leaves the Palladium warehouse, delivery is out of our hands. As we get closer to Christmas, UPS Ground and Priority Mail will be your most reliable and timely methods of shipping. Thank you for your understanding.

Palladium Gift Certificates now available

I wanted to remind you that we started to offer Gift Certificates a couple years ago in response to popular demand. Purchase a Palladium Gift Certificate for the gaming friends and loved ones who are difficult to buy for. The prompts should be pretty self-explanatory. You purchase the desired amount, fill out the email info of that person and an optional gift message, and that individual receives an email with info on how to redeem the Gift Certificate and you get a confirmation email. Simple. Gift Certificates are available in the Palladium online store.

Gift Certificates at palladium-store.com

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

NEW! “Softcover” Rifts® Ultimate Edition – available now

The Rifts® Ultimate Edition is available as a softcover RPG for the very first time. This is in direct response to fan requests. It is the exact same book as the hardcover, complete with three color sections.

Rifts® is a fusion of settings and characters that seamlessly merges science fiction, fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling, plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts – tears in space and time – to any location on Earth or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds.

Explore not just exotic and mysterious locations but unique characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, Crazies, and Juicers, to name but a few. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and otherworldly beings – most available as player characters.

Challenge your imagination with opportunities like no other RPG. All of it set on a post-apocalypse Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. Build mysterious characters, battle the forces of evil, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.
  • Also available: The Rifts® Ultimate Edition hardcover ($44.99 retail, Cat. No. 800) and the “Original” 1990 Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover (temporarily sold out – back in print early December, 2021 – $49.99 retail – 32 pages of additional color and fun).

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

COMING: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition Rules

This deluxe, foil stamped edition is at the printer, and has been for awhile now. With any luck it will be available sometime in November. We are offering it due to popular demand. It is the original, First Edition rules, expanded with the inclusion of the Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook. The original edition also includes Erick Wujcik’s popular Tombs of Gersidi adventure left out of the 2nd Edition rule book. The cover is a recreation of the original, famous red and black cover of the original RPG. We sold more than 120,000 copies of the first edition rule book back in the day, so we know a lot of people have fond memories of it. Hence, the request for Palladium to offer it in some form. We hope you enjoy the deluxe hardcover. It sure brought back memories for many of us.

  • 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 (ancient vampires and dark magic) written by Erick Wujcik. Maps by Erick Wujcik. Easily adapted to current rules.
  • Depictions of Eastern, Western, Northern, and Old Kingdom coins.
  • Fan favorite artwork by Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook included as “bonus” material appears in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • Recreation of the original cover with red foil stamping into a black faux leatherette hardcover. It should look beautiful.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

COMING! Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover

The Splicers® RPG plus bonus Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, #32, and #51 offering War Mounts, The Wasteland, and Living Weapons like the Swarm Lord, Hive insects, etc., written by Chris Kluge.

  • The complete RPG + 50 pages of bonus material.
  • Splicers® is unique and different. Think Guyver meets Terminator after the rise of the machines.
  • Humanity armed with genetically engineered living host armor and weapons battle against an insane A.I. and her legion of robots and death machines.
  • Part science fiction, part horror. Epic in scope.
  • 280 pages – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 200HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

The Rifter #85 Annual

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85, 2021 Annual

The Rifter® – your favorite portal to the Palladium Books® Megaverse® – is back!

And oh boy, do we have a treat for you – 224 pages of the best content from an entire year’s worth of submissions. This 2021 annual issue has content for use with almost all our game lines including Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.

Highlights include:

  • Soul in Flames: A Rifts® adventure by Barry Wright that captured our imagination so much we put it on the cover!
  • The Colony of Gonarn: Sweeping location and adventure material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans.
  • Vehicle Encounter Tables: An awesome resource by Lloyd Blair for Dead Reign®, but also eminently useful for Systems Failure®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and even Rifts®.
  • Beyond Midnight: Inspired by Boxed Nightmares, this combination of story, creature feature, and plot hooks by Dan Frederick includes adventure seeds for nine Palladium settings.
  • The Redeemer: What does evil-turned-good look like? This O.C.C. by Kyle Osterberg for Nightbane® covers just that.
  • Magical Collectibles: An array of unique arcane items by Christian Bonawandt for use with any Palladium setting.
  • The Glitter Boy Revisited: Two articles by Will Erwin that will have Game Masters and players alike taking a fresh new look at everyone’s favorite chrome power suit.
  • Relics of Empire: New setting, history, and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Ian Herbert.
  • Plus: Short stories, news, coming attractions, product descriptions, and more.
  • 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 185 – Coming this winter.

Rifter® Submission Note: If you were not accepted into this Annual, you may be on the short list for the next. FYI: We get many submissions for Rifts®, and are sitting on some for the 2022 Annual now, so you will have a greater chance of getting published in the next Rifter Annual if you send material for Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Palladium Fantasy® and others, though we get a fair number of submissions for Fantasy too.

The Rifter #85 Annual

Updated List of RPG Hardcovers Currently Available:

Temporarily out of stock:

Coming:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

Do not forget about the various Palladium Coffee Mugs – available now

With so many people still working from home and hot chocolate weather arriving, Palladium’s fun and attractive coffee mugs have been in high demand. See details below.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Dead Reign® (Zombie attack) Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Dead Reign®” logo with three hungry zombies ready to attack. Art designed specifically for this mug by artist Steven Cummings of comic book renown (Wayward® and various Marvel Comics). White on a black mug. Very dynamic.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts® Titan Robotics Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Rifts® Titan Robotics™” mug features the Rifts logo with the words Titan Robotics below it. Above the logo is one of the new Titan robots from the upcoming book release, standing in a dynamic pose. Art by Steven Cummings.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595.

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Rifts® LOGO Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand! A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The famous Rifts® logo in white on a black mug.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587.

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Dragon” Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand. A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The fan favorite “3-Headed Hydra” battling a knight from the iconic, original Palladium Fantasy RPG® cover. Red art on a black mug harkens back to the original RPG red and black cover.
  • Art appears on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with an attractive orange interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589.

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® at PDF prices – 300+ 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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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

More Madcap Podcasts – Real Play Games – Heroes Unlimited Holiday Special

These are the folks who have been bringing you the fun After the Bomb® adventure podcasts that so many have been enjoying. This time they present four episodes from a Heroes Unlimited™ 2nd Edition campaign just in time for the holidays. These folks are gamers and Palladium fans just like you, following a dream to tell and share their own stories from the Palladium Megaverse®. Cool, right? We thank them for doing this and encourage you to give them a listen.

You can also listen to the After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 1. Season Two coming spring 2022 after a venture into the realm of Beyond the Supernatural later this winter.

Learn more and listen to the Heroes Unlimited™ Holiday Special (4 episodes described below, starts this week) and After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge Season One adventures by using the links below. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 1 – Superhuman Trafficking!

T’was a day in El Paso fit for a king,
when super-villain Railgun did a questionable thing!
Through Santana’s window, he came with a crash
while downstairs two rival gangs started to clash!
What could possibly happen? Where could they go?
Find out when you hear this podcast, ho-ho!
Expected Release Date: December 3, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Violence.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 2 – A Small Change of Plans

In Ciudad Juarez, our protagonists stop
to take care of themselves and avoid the cops.
While Railgun’s mind dreams of riches to squander
a mysterious force urges Santana to wander.
While out in the desert, some undead embarrassments
subject the duo to uncomfortable harassment.
Hopefully the two can put them to quick ends
with a little woo-woo, and a couple of friends.
Expected Release Date: December 10, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, Extreme Violence and Vampire Microaggressions.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 3 – Conservation of Ninjutsu

While en-route to Zurich, our indomitable two
do their best to lay low after terrible news.
But Railgun’s captive Santana is too attractive a target
for the world’s criminal syndicates to just up and forget.
Wakizashis, katanas, and shuriken, oh my!
The Kagemusha Chujiin sure want Railgun to die!
Surviving until Zurich would be really neat,
let’s see if they can do it at 35,000 feet!
Expected Release Date: December 17, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language and Violence.

NEW! Heroes Unlimited™: Hostage for the Holidays: Episode 4 (Finale) – The Santa-ening

Their adventure’s concluding, destinies unveiled,
in Switzerland, it’s time that our heroes have bailed,
headed up north with a quick-paced flight,
but soon they find themselves a terrible fight.
Pitted against the world’s richest man,
the two hope to save the holiday if they can!
So sit back, relax! It’s a Hell of a fight.
Besides, it’s not like there’s much happening tonight!
The story ends here, folks! We’ve done all the edits!
And if you’d be so kind, please stay through the credits!
Expected Release Date: December 24, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Gore, and Violence.

And coming over the next 12-18 months …

  • Beyond the Supernatural 2E – Cozy Caverns Mysteries
  • After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 2
  • Palladium Megaversal system – Baby, I Shrunk these F*$#ing People!
  • Nightbane®
  • Rifts®
  • Still available, After the Bomb®: Pursuit Season 1

Please continue to support and spread the word about Real Play Games and their RPG Podcast: After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge™.

Closing Thoughts – Life is a marvel

I feel like I have been on a roller coaster ride the past week or two. There have been sweet moments of beauty and love and friendship, moments of laughter and good eats, hard work, inspiration, exhaustion, fun (some of that fun provided by you and your Surprise Package comments – some of which are presented below), and worry.

I worry about my dear friends, wonderful staff, and you. Here in Michigan, Covid-19 is running rampant. We are all safe and healthy, but one of our beloved staff members was exposed to Covid-19 by a family member this week. This caused a day and a half of worry, cleaning/disinfecting the office, and all of us running around getting Covid tests. I am thrilled to report that we are all fine. All tested negative and are Covid free, including the person exposed (and in quarantine to be safe). Whew. It was very unnerving to say the least. We all feel like we dodged a bullet, though we still worry about the young lady with Covid and the rest of her family. And no it was not Crystal, our warehouse manager.

Moments of stress have involved my study program and dealings with printers and the seemingly never-ending delays from each and everyone of them. As frustrated as you and I am about all this, they must be going crazy. My heart goes out to them as I patiently await new hardcovers and reprint titles before they go temporarily out of print.

Nice moments have come from good eats and pleasant moments on Thanksgiving, snagging some Black Friday deals, lovely moments with my sweetheart Kathy, and all kinds of wild, inspirational brainstorming between me and Sean. I also managed to watch the first three episodes of the live action Cowboy Bebop series (love it!) and the movie Red Notice on Netflix. Red Notice was written, directed, and produced by a friend, Rawson Marshall Thurber. Yes, the same Mr. Thurber who wrote one of the unproduced Rifts® movie screenplays. Red Notice is a fun caper that romps across the globe, has great lines, and has recently earned the distinction of being Netflix’s most watched movie of all time! As you can imagine, I am over the moon with joy for Rawson’s success. He deserves this.

Like I said, a roller coaster, but I try to focus on all the good stuff. That includes trying to make the holidays special for everyone who orders from Palladium. In addition to our joyful work trying to make every Surprise Package fun and tailored to you, I have been randomly signing books in regular orders as well and tossing in the occasional print.

I hope your holidays are filled with joy and fun, and I’m happy to contribute to that whenever I can. We all are because for some reason we like you – a lot. Enjoy the Grab Bag comments below, stay safe, hang tough, and keep those beautiful imaginations burning bright. Ho, ho, ho.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

T.H. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, writes: I’m restarting a North America campaign in Rifts® before the Tolkeen War. Books that can be used to introduce new players are the best as I am bringing them in from D&D 5E.

[Sounds like a plan T.H., I tried to give you books from your list I thought would help out. I hope you guys have a great campaign. And everyone, keep converting those 5E players to the Palladium Megaverse, Bhuwah-ha-ha … um, I mean, ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

S.G. in London, Ontario, Canada, writes: Here we are again! I promised myself last time was “the last time,” but the Rifts® Ultimate Edition softcover I received was incredible. Thank you. What I am really desperately hoping for is Rifts® Book of Magic. Please if possible to make it a priority. Otherwise anything is great. Thank you again for all the hard work.

[Hah, you’re hooked now S.G., and I’m afraid this new Surprise Package may compel you to order yet another. What can I say, I’m a baaaad man. – Kevin]

R.D. in Phoenix, Arizona, writes: I’ve been playing Fantasy and Rifts® since the late 80s/early 90s. Big fan of the Megaverse® – would love to try Heroes Unlimited™.

[Aww shucks, R.D., thank you for the kind words and decades of support. I think you’ll like your Surprise Package, but somehow Heroes Unlimited did not make it in. It got substituted for other things. I will flog the elf responsible (but I didn’t catch it either and I hate getting flogged). Game on. – Kevin]

J.D.V. in Cornville, Arizonia, writes (in part): Last time I listed Dead Reign® as the game I would like to try and you guys sent a copy. Now I am hooked on Dead Reign®! I like it as much or more than Rifts®, actually. Thank you for that.

[Warning to all readers, As Sean likes to say, Palladium publishes RPG crack. As poor J.D.V. has discovered. All kidding aside, Dead Reign® is a really fun game and one of my personal favorites along with Palladium Fantasy RPG® and Beyond the Supernatural. Moreover, Dead Reign® is a simple, fun introductory RPG. I like running “ordinary” people as the core player characters and have profoundly enjoyed every DR game I have ever run. – Kevin]

E.I. in Belleville New Jersey, writes (in part): My favorite Palladium game is Heroes Unlimited. This year was my son and I first campaign with an experienced Game Master friend. My kid is playing as a T-Rex Hulk mutant that time traveled and I’m a magic mutant dog that used to be a sorcerer’s familiar. We have played for about eight months and it’s a real blast. Thank you for the great game and universe you have helped create. I should have tried this a lot sooner. You win over D&D.

[Wow, E.I., that’s high praise. I am humbled and delighted you guys are having so much fun. Keep those imaginations burning bright. – Kevin]

D.C. in Oxford, Georgia, writes: Favorites: Heroes Unlimited, Rifts®, and Dead Reign®. Looking forward to expanding my Palladium universe. Thanks for all the world creation y’all do. NO ONE is better.

[Thank you, D.C., for the high compliment. I do love nothing more than world building and telling epic stories. A lot of both are coming. – Kevin]

K.S. in Flower Mound, Texas, writes: Last time I ordered your selections were absolutely perfect. My last game session was 100% better than I though it could be. My son also got some amazing books that he was really excited about. Thank you so very much!

[You are very welcome, K.S. Thank you for letting us know how satisfied your were because we work hard to make each and every Surprise Package special. Happy Holidays. – Kevin]

A.C. in Sacramento, California, Writes: Thank you for the many years of enjoyment. My son Grayson is now enjoying the 90 plus Palladium books in our collection.

[A.C., I love hearing a new generation is enjoying our games. Have fun exploring the Megaverse through your son’s eyes. Game on. – Kevin]

H.R. in Lexington, South Carolina, writes: Own all current games. As a side note, I love this time of year, this Grab Bag happens around my birthday.

[Happy birthday, H.R., and game on. – Kevin]

A.B. in Houston, Texas, writes: Hey Kevin, Sean, and Everybody else. I look forward to Rifts Earth’s future developments especially as the Minion War wraps up as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds as it continues.

[Me too, A.B., both Palladium and Pinnacle have big plans for the future of Rifts Earth in our respective playgrounds. – Kevin]

T.L. in Newville, Pennsylvania, writes (in part): I’m looking forward to the Beyond the Supernatural (BTS) series getting a few additions. I love the autographs; they turn my books into gold … I’ve gotten a few of these Surprise Packages before and I love them!

[Thank you for the kind words, T.L. BTS is one of my personal favorite RPGs so I am happy there is support coming for it as well. You will not be disappointed. Happy Holidays. – Kevin]

O.V.Z. in Moscow, Idaho, writes: Just received BTS 2nd Edition core rule book and will probably start a campaign after our Rifts® campaign is complete.

[Hi O.V.Z., I think you will have a blast. As noted above, BTS is one of my favorite settings. Love it. Game on. – Kevin]

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

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Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

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Palladium Books® – Black Friday Sale starts now – November 24, 2021

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

By Kevin Siembieda

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It has been another year full of challenges and craziness, so you might think there is not a lot to be thankful about. But if you and your family remain healthy and happy (at least for the most part) then I would say you have a lot for which to be thankful. I know I sure do. I’m feeling blessed and very thankful for the greatest gifts of all: the friends and family who mean the world to me. And you are counted among those friends and family members. The many kind comments and helpful suggestions in the Surprise Package orders make us smile and feel proud every single day. This being Thanksgiving, you can see a super-sized number of them after my Closing Thoughts later in this Update.

Three Sales to be thankful about. Enjoy.

To show our appreciation, here are three sales that run through Cyber-Monday.

SALE #1 – Palladium’s Black Friday & Cyber-Monday SALE starts right now – today thru Wednesday, December 1. The majority of the following game lines are on sale at big savings, while supplies last. Sorry, other than RUE, hardcovers are not part of the sale.

Thanksgiving/Black Friday Sale – now thru the weekend

SALE #2 – Christmas Surprise Package offer – Best deal in gaming – $95-$100 worth of goodies (often more) for $55 (plus shipping and handling). Books are signed if you want them to be. It is just 4 weeks till Christmas and Kwanzaa, and only 4 days till Hanukkah (starts November 28)! Less time when you account for the time to process and ship orders, so this weekend and next are the perfect time to place your holiday orders. Offer ends December 24, 2020. A great gift for any holiday, birthdays, anniversaries, a nice treat for yourself (you deserve it), or a way to try new settings, and fill your collection. See what people are saying about the Surprise Packages and our games in the comment section after my Closing Thoughts. Enjoy.

SALE #3 – Kevin’s Toys, Art and Collectibles SALE – now through December 7, 2021. Negatives at half-price, but also on sale are toys (Star Wars, Marvel and DC superheroes, etc.), Palladium collectibles, and a variety of proofreader copies, hardcover Printer Proofs and more all on sale now through December 7. Check it out at: http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

And keep your eyes on DriveThruRPG.com for likely Black Friday and Cyber-Monday deals.

Christmas Grab Bags

Get your Surprise Package now

Give the gamers in your life a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day (for you in Canada and elsewhere), birthdays, anniversaries, graduation and any gift-giving occasion. Or treat yourself. After this crazy year, you deserve to do something nice for yourself. It’s like getting physical game books at PDF prices, and we will sign them if you would like us to.

The best deal in gaming – the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package – now shipping

Give the gamers in your life a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day (for you in Canada and elsewhere), birthdays, anniversaries, graduation and any gift-giving occasion, a gift you know they will love. Or treat yourself. After these past two crazy years, you deserve to do something nice for yourself and your gaming pals. The Surprise Package Offer gets you physical game books at PDF prices, and we will sign them if you would like us to.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

SHIPPING UPDATE: 30 days till Christmas Eve – but ONLY about 15 days left to order and get delivery guaranteed by Christmas via Media Mail

Those of you buying books and Christmas Surprise Packages as holiday gifts NEED to place your orders no later than the dates below to guarantee delivery in time for Christmas (by December 24, 2021) without incurring additional costs for expedited shipping. These recommendations come from the shipping companies themselves.

  • United States Postal Service: Media Mail – December 8, 2021 and even then there is no guarantee. That said, you should get packages shipped via Media Mail as late as December 14. Last year mail delivery was an abomination. So for this year, the US Mail “seems” to be doing much better, but we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas when you use Media Mail.
  • United States Postal Service (in USA): Priority Mail – December 13.
  • UPS Standard Ground (anywhere in the contiguous USA) – December 15. Last year, UPS was astonishing in its speed and accuracy of shipping. Most UPS “Ground” packages arrive anywhere in the contiguous USA within 5 days, often a day or two sooner.
  • UPS 3-Day Select – December 20.
  • UPS 2nd Day Air – December 21.
  • UPS Next Day Air (to arrive December 24) – December 22, remember, we need time to process and pack your order!
  • To our friends in Canada and overseas – December 6 with no guarantee. We suggest ordering no later than December 6, but SOONER is better. At this point in time, we cannot guarantee delivery in time for Christmas. Your package should arrive in time, but if there are delays at Customs, work strike, bad weather, etc., it might miss. Order sooner rather than later. Note: Right now, we are finding overseas orders are taking 18-34 days to arrive, sometimes longer! Cost Saver: A Surprise Package mitigates overseas shipping costs – take advantage of this while you can. It is, in effect, the equivalent of getting the books you want at retail, plus autographs, and paying the equivalent of only $5-$20 for overseas shipping! MANY overseas customers take advantage of the Surprise Packages for this reason! And it is likely the ONLY way for you to get autographs. Give it a try, we don’t think you will be disappointed.
  • Any orders placed after these dates may arrive in time for Christmas but we cannot guarantee it AND you should assume they will NOT arrive in time for Christmas. Please spread the word and place those orders as soon as you can. Ho, ho, ho and happy holidays.
  • 2021 Shipping Note: As always, at Palladium, we will be working overtime and do everything we can to process orders as fast as we can to get them to you for the holidays. However, after the package leaves the Palladium warehouse, delivery is out of our hands. As we get closer to Christmas, UPS Ground and Priority Mail will be your most reliable and timely methods of shipping. Thank you for your understanding.

Palladium Gift Certificates now available

I wanted to remind you that we started to offer Gift Certificates a couple years ago in response to popular demand. Purchase a Palladium Gift Certificate for the gaming friends and loved ones who are difficult to buy for. The prompts should be pretty self-explanatory. You purchase the desired amount, fill out the email info of that person and an optional gift message, and that individual receives an email with info on how to redeem the Gift Certificate and you get a confirmation email. Simple. Gift Certificates are available in the Palladium online store.

Gift Certificates at palladium-store.com

BACK IN STOCK for the Holidays only – Systems Failure RPG – BTS Boxed Nightmares – Nightbane®: Shadows of Light sourcebook

Whew, these titles are flying off the shelf, so I guess we were right to do a limited run for the holidays like we did a few years ago. Get ‘em while you can. Available on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. Also available as PDF books on DriveThruRPG.

Systems Failure RPG

Systems Failure™ RPG: It is time to fight back, kill some bugs, and take our world back! In this invasion setting you battle a plague of bugs – alien bugs – that drink electrical energy and have plunged the world into crisis. This fun, standalone post-apocalypse game was designed at the start of the New Millennium and poked fun at the Y2K fears about the end of the world in 2000. The game is a blast whether you play it deadly serious or with a touch of humor. Kill the bugs! $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 650 – Shipping now.

Systems Failure RPG at palladium-store.com

Boxed Nightmares

Boxed Nightmares, a Beyond the Supernatural sourcebook: Six adventures, monsters, and many adventure ideas. Scary fun. $18.99 retail – Cat. No. 701 – Shipping now.

Boxed Nightmares at palladium-store.com

Nightbane Shadows of Light

Shadows of Light, a Nightbane® Sourcebook: The angel-like Athanatos, Fallen Guardians, the Reapers, info about various factions, a vampire conspiracy, a Pittsburgh adventure, and more. $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 734 – Shipping now.

Nightbane Shadows of Light at palladium-store.com

Updated List of RPG Hardcovers Currently Available:

Temporarily out of stock:

Coming:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

Do not forget about the various Palladium Coffee Mugs – available now

With so many people still working from home and hot chocolate weather arriving, Palladium’s fun and attractive coffee mugs have been in high demand. See details below.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Dead Reign® (Zombie attack) Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Dead Reign®” logo with three hungry zombies ready to attack. Art designed specifically for this mug by artist Steven Cummings of comic book renown (Wayward® and various Marvel Comics). White on a black mug. Very dynamic.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594.

Dead Reign 16 Ounce Mug

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts® Titan Robotics Coffee Mug – now shipping

A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Everyone loves these mugs.

  • The “Rifts® Titan Robotics™” mug features the Rifts logo with the words Titan Robotics below it. Above the logo is one of the new Titan robots from the upcoming book release, standing in a dynamic pose. Art by Steven Cummings.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595.

Titan Robotics 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Rifts® LOGO Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand! A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The famous Rifts® logo in white on a black mug.
  • Art is located on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with a bright blue interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587.

Rifts Logo 16 Ounce Mug

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Fan Favorite: Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Dragon” Coffee Mug – now shipping

Back due to popular demand. A nice, large, 16 ounce coffee mug with large artwork that appears on both sides of the mug, and the mug has a color interior, adding a vivid splash of color to your morning or game time beverage. Fans have been loving these mugs.

  • The fan favorite “3-Headed Hydra” battling a knight from the iconic, original Palladium Fantasy RPG® cover. Red art on a black mug harkens back to the original RPG red and black cover.
  • Art appears on the front and back of the mug.
  • Glossy black exterior with an attractive orange interior.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589.

Palladium Fantasy Dragon 16 Ounce Mug

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® at PDF prices – 300+ 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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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).

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Closing Thoughts – Happy Thanksgiving from all of us to all of you

I have so much to be thankful for I could fill a book. I do want to say I’m thankful for the Palladium crew, newbies Crystal Willard and Sean Owen Roberson, my sweetheart Kathy and countless others. Of course, that includes all of you.

This year has been a difficult one for many of our extended families who have suffered the loss of their loved ones. The most recent being Joyce Jackson. She will be missed. Never forget that it is people who bring us the greatest joy. Tell those you love how much they mean to you and that you are thankful they are part of your life. Spend time with them whether it is in person or by phone or text, or Zoom, or Skype, or Facebook Messenger, or whatever your favorite communication system may be, but do it. Do it this weekend. Do it at Christmas time. And do it often.

Life is what you make it. I choose to make mine beautiful. Filled with friends and family, art and creativity, and all the things that bring me joy. I am forever grateful for my wonderful life and for all of you who are an important part of it. I hope your Thanksgiving weekend is full of joy and glad tidings. Try not to drink too much, or eat too much, or spend too much at all those Black Friday sales. Be happy, you deserve it.

Please do not forget about little ol’ Palladium Books when you are doing your holiday shopping. Take advantage of our sprawling Palladium Books Black Friday and Cyber-Monday Sales as well as the epic Christmas Surprise Package offer. We appreciate your support, and our sales and the Surprise Packages are our way of showing our appreciation of you throughout the years. The Surprise Packages, in particular, are as special to us as they are to you, so please spread the word far and wide so gamers everywhere may enjoy a little Palladium Books magic this holiday season and into the New Year.

Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving. Ho, ho, ho …

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

D.M.V. in Fort Morgan, Colorado, writes (in part): Favorites: After the Bomb®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Rifts® and TMNT®. Our Transdimensional TMNT campaign, started during the Pandemic, is now running for 18 months strong! The players are facing off against Vampire Ronald Regan in an alternate version of 1984… Meanwhile, back on the Mutant Animal’s prime Earth, the Allosaurs have tracked down the location of one of their missing Dimensional-hopping helicopters. The one our characters have “borrowed.”

I love it D.M.V., love it. Thank you for sharing and keep that beautiful imagination burning bright. – Kevin]

B.S. in Roscoe, Illinois, writes: Favorites: Rifts®, Rifts®, Rifts® and Heroes Unlimited. Been a huge fan since it came out in 1990. Thank you for all the memories I’ve had with my friends.

[Our pleasure, B.S. May there be many more adventures to come. Game on. – Kevin]

K.G. in Saint Paul, Minnesota, writes: Looking forward to getting my buddies together to play again after 25 years. Been waiting for the sale! Thanks. Big fans.

[Now that’s something to be thankful about, K.G. May all your adventures end well and be full of fun and friendship. – Kevin]

T.D. in Portland, Oregon, writes: Merry Christmas Team. Thanks for all of the support and continued good vibes during these interesting times. Looking forward to unboxing these and the adventures they bring. Safe holidays and game on!

[Hey, that’s my line! Just kidding, T.D. May your holidays be safe and filled with fun gaming adventures. – Kevin]

D.M. in Ogden, Utah, writes: I am so excited for the future of Palladium Books. You can feel the chemistry watching Kevin and Sean on the streams.

[Amen, D.M., and it is all real. Sean and I are like gaming brothers full of ideas and energy to build Palladium and carry it to new heights. I haven’t known chemistry like this since Erick Wujcik, bless his soul. So thankful I found Sean and that he agreed to join us here at Palladium for the foreseeable future. – Kevin]

K.S. in Flower Mound, Texas, writes (in part): I have played Rifts® many times. It really never gets old. Nightbane® is another favorite. Who wouldn’t want autographs from the awesome staff? I have played Rifts® RPG for many years and it is always a joy. I am going to start my first game (long time DM) with my wife, oldest son, and a couple of friends. One of which I have gamed with for years… Your products have brought much joy to my life and I hope to pass that on to the next generation! I actually learned about y’all in a Cable or X-Force comic back in high school in the 1990s.

[Gahhhh, you are making me feel old, K.S. Nah, I love it. And I’m glad you have enjoyed our games for the last three decades. Not only that, but you are now passing that love of RPGs on to your wife and a new generation. Cool. Game on and happy holidays. – Kevin]

S.P. in Eugene, Oregon writes: Love these Grab Bags. A great Christmas idea. Love your system and all the content you guys put out. Happy Holidays to the Palladium Family.

[Ditto, S.P., Happy Holidays to you and yours. So glad to hear you enjoy our work so much. New content the last few years has been too light for my taste, but that is all about to change. Stay tuned and game on. – Kevin]

D.O. in Anoka, Minnesota, writes (in part): Kevin Siembieda and Palladium changed my life … It was Rifts® that … inspired me to push through my struggles … So anything you guys send me will be cherished. I just wanted to thank all of you because I would never have had the inspiration to push myself to become the person I am today. Merry Christmas!

[Based on this Surprise Package comment, D.O., you became a very fine person. Thank you for sharing your story with us. We are humbled. I hope you don’t mind my posting a bit of it here in the Thanksgiving Weekly Update. One of the great blessings, for which I am forever grateful, is how our books and stories resonate with so many people in such a positive way. Miraculously, they have helped a great many people through difficult times. I an thankful that our fantastic tales bring such joy and inspire so many. Somehow I am always amazed to hear that, though I don’t know why. You see, my work and you, Palladium’s extended RPG family, have helped me through a number of difficult times in my own life. So I get it. But I am still astonished by the miracle that it is. Merry Christmas and my thanks to all of you from all of us. – Kevin]

S.G. in London, Ontario, Canada, writes: I just wanted to thank you all for the previous Christmas Surprise Package. It was incredible! I had to order another. I would really love Rifts® Machinations of Doom. I can show it off and try to hook some more friends. You all are doing an incredible job and thanks for all of the hard work.

[You’ve got it, S.G. I think this second Surprise Package will rock your world even more than the first. Fun fact: Artist Ramon K. Perez is Canadian and lives in Toronto, Ontario. Machinations of Doom was his very first graphic novel. Of course, he has gone on to illustrate Spider-Man, Thunder Cats, and a whole lot more, picking up a coveted Eisner Ward along the way. We love Ramon, one of the many friends I am thankful to have in my life. – Kevin]

A.A. in West Valley City, Utah, writes: I love the hardcover books, especially the gold editions.

[Happy to hear it, A.A. I am grateful to those of you who encouraged us to offer more hardcovers. Very glad I listened to you when the opportunity appeared. Sorry that paper shortages and delays at the printer have slowed the release of our two new hardcovers, “Original” Palladium Fantasy with 1st edition rules and Splicers®. We are told soon, but no exact release date yet. – Kevin]

K.M.G. in Lafayette, Louisiana, writes: I would love to see you guys offer some 3D printable files for Rifts® characters and monsters. I love playing games with miniatures and it is very hard to find miniatures for this game.

[Hey K.M.G., you never know what the future may hold regarding miniatures. Thanks for the suggestion and happy holidays. – Kevin]

D.L. in Corona, California, writes (in part): Thank you for all the amazing support you have given gamers in prison … May all your hits be crits!”

[You are welcome, D.L. I’m glad our games fuel your imaginations, help pass the time in a fun and creative way, and keep folks out of trouble. Stay safe, happy holidays, and game on. – Kevin]

B.L. in Watertown, Massachusetts, writes: Thank you for another Christmas Surprise Package! I’m looking forward to what you folks bring in 2022.

[Hey, B.L., our pleasure. As for 2022 … us too. Lol. I think you will be pleased right out of the gate. With Sean onboard, it frees a chunk of my time to spend writing. Not only that, but he’s an outstanding writer in his own right and he and I have been cultivating a new crop of writers and artists. Our goal, getting back to Palladium’s glory days of lots of releases throughout the year. That starts with many of the titles people have been waiting for. At the top on that list Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2, Titan Robotics, and Land of the Damned 3 (Fantasy). Cannot wait. And that’s just the beginning. – Kevin]

B.T. in Oceanside, California, writes: Started getting Palladium Books in 1988 with TMNT from a local comic shop in Gurnee, Illinois. Then got Rifts® and Robotech® the next year. Bought all of the Rifts® world books up to the 20s but never played, just consumed the worlds you and your team built. Then, within the last 5 years, got into RPGs again and found friends that had played your games way back when! Getting back into it and consuming your Palladium Fantasy RPG® and looking to get into Heroes Unlimited. Thank you for creating such amazing worlds and keeping a spark of creativity going throughout my life.

[That’s my mission in life, B.T., to get people to unleash and explore the power of imagination. To be storytellers and to follow your dreams. Keep your imaginations burning bright and enjoy the new adventures ahead for you. – Kevin]

Game Note: Yes, people still play the beloved Palladium Ninja Turtles® RPG and Robotech®, however, you’ll have to find these wonderful titles elsewhere as Palladium no longer has the license for either one. Both have been out of print for some years. Requesting them in your Wish List will only bring disappointment. – Kevin

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

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Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – November 18, 2021

Weekly Update Opening Graphic

Explore the Megaverse® – One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

Christmas Surprise Package mania! Orders are pouring in from long-time players, first-time Grab Bag buyers, and customers completely new to Palladium’s Megaverse. People are buying Surprise Packages for their children, spouses, siblings, and friends.

And why not? The Christmas Surprise Package is the perfect gift for any gamer or as a treat for yourself. It is a great way to try new settings, get fun reading material and autographs from Palladium creators, fill holes in your collection, and be pleasantly surprised with negatives, pencils, pens, bookmarks, prints, and more. And all on the cheap! I think I have done more of my trademark dragonhead drawings and notes than any previous Surprise Package season and we are only halfway through it. Note: The Rifts Ultimate Edition “softcover” ($34.99 retail, Cat. No. 800SE) is available for Surprise Package requests.

A lot of you are coming back for a second and third Surprise Package, so we must be doing a good job of giving you what you want. On a personal note, we enjoy your brief comments, kind sentiments, holiday wishes, and helpful ideas and suggestions. It is the time of joyful sharing, gift-giving, and family – and the Palladium community is our awesome extended family. Thank you for your support and warm words of love and encouragement. See a new batch of Comments from Fans Like You in every Weekly Update right after my Closing Thoughts. I’ll be providing a double dose of them next week for Thanksgiving.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

Help Palladium reach your fellow gamers by spreading the word about these Christmas Surprise Packages so they too can enjoy the benefits of this singular offer. It is truly the best deal for gamers in the industry. That goes double for you podcasters, YouTubers, and social media gurus, please let your viewers/listeners know about the Surprise Packages in time for Christmas. We appreciate your effort and so will those who get their box of fun, Palladium-style Christmas cheer.

 

NEW! Sean Owen Roberson interview with Juce on the YouTube channel MasterTheGameRPG. The interview streamed live Monday evening and is available for viewing right now. Sean talks about his journey into professional game design with Rifts® for Savage Worlds and his ongoing work at Palladium Books. In case you were wondering, Sean continues to manage the Rifts® for Savage Worlds game line for Pinnacle as well as his duties as Creative Director and Partner at Palladium. I haven’t had the chance to see the whole interview but the half I did see was pretty fun and informative. A must if you want to know more about my new business partner helping me move Palladium forward in big ways yet to be revealed. Btw, I will do a MasterTheGameRPG.com interview sometime after the first of the year. I wanted to do it sooner, but my insane schedule does not make that possible until early 2022.

 

NEW! Flash Sale for Palladium art prints – see details below! A few days only.

 

NEW! A heartfelt congratulations to long-time Palladium fan and pal, director, and writer, Rawson Marshall Thurber on the success of his latest movie, Red Notice. It is the most watched new movie to debut on Netflix in the history of the streamer. 148.7 million hours watched in the first four days following its release on November 12. This action thriller stars The Rock, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds. Check it out. I hope to watch it this weekend. Rawson is a great human being, hugely talented, and deserves this success. Keep killing it, Rawson.

 

UPDATE: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition hardcover (first edition rules given the deluxe treatment) and Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition hardcover have been added to the Palladium online store. Both have been at the printer for awhile and theoretically should ship in November or December, but we do not know and they might not ship until January. We were supposed to have both books (and the After the Bomb Hardcover reprint) as of last week, but that was not the case. Our hardcover printer has been experiencing extreme supply chain challenges and cannot give us an exact ship day. Fingers crossed for their arrival before Christmas. Available for pre-order now.

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition RPG Commemorative Hardcover

 

UPDATE: Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover is on schedule to arrive around December 10th and we will ship orders as soon as it arrives, so do not hesitate to place your orders now. Available for pre-order now.

Rifts 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

 

Keeping books in stock. Another 13 titles have been sent in for reprint so we don’t run out. That said, Rifts® Black Market is temporarily out of print but should be available around December 10th. Though I cannot give you any hard and fast release dates yet, I want you to know what is happening here behind the scenes. Sean and I have been putting into place procedures that should keep product flowing nicely in the year to come.

 

UPDATE: The big, 224 page Rifter® #85 Annual gets closer to being sent to the printer every day. And it is awesome. Cool articles about Glitter Boys and new G.B. gear, Palladium Fantasy realms to explore and adventure in, source material for Heroes Unlimited, Beyond the Supernatural, Nightbane and more. We are still hoping The Rifter® #85 Annual will be a December release.

The Rifter #85 Annual

 

Placing Orders for Christmas – please do so sooner than later

– and if you want to ship via Media Mail, we suggest you do so before November 24 in order to receive it in time for Christmas

As mentioned in previous Updates, the US Postal Service was unreliable and slow as a snail last holiday season. We do not know what to expect this year, but it will probably be more of the same. Thus, we cannot guarantee packages shipped via Media Mail will arrive in time for the Holidays for orders placed after Black Friday. We have seen inconsistent service, delays, and the occasional lost package from the US Post Office for 18 months now, so you use Media Mail at your own risk. Media Mail is the least expensive method of shipping in the US, but it is also one of the lowest priority classifications of mail.

Last year, packages ordered via Media Mail in mid-November, December, and January (i.e. Christmas rush) took 8-16 weeks to be delivered instead of the usual 4-12 days. It was insane.

This year the US Postal Service and Media Mail appears to be doing better, at least so far, but even now we are seeing spotty problems with delivery at various locations across the USA. If you do not need your order quickly or in time for Christmas or other holidays in that general time frame, then use Media Mail. When ordering gifts for others, especially after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, we strongly recommend UPS.

Though pricey, last year UPS, and that includes UPS Ground, was the most reliable method of shipping even a week before Christmas. UPS Ground arrives to ALL states, except Alaska and Hawaii, in 3-5 business days. And the package is automatically insured for $100 in case of loss or damage.

 

Flash Sale – Art Extravaganza – Now thru Monday, November 22, 2021

Here’s more sales mania – steep discount on most art prints and art books for five days only. Sale ends Monday, after midnight. Time to adorn your gaming space, office, bedroom, or basement with gorgeous art prints in time for the holidays or the next year’s new adventure campaign.

  • Most art prints on sale.
  • Rifts® and the Megaverse: The Art of John Zeleznik softcover.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom – graphic novel and sourcebook by Ramon Perez.
  • Future Visions: The Art of Charles Walton.
  • And just to catch your attention, the new, Rifts® Ultimate Edition “softcover.”
  • Sale ends after midnight, November 22, 2021. Ho, ho, ho.

Sale Items at PalladiumBooks.com

 

Christmas Grab Bags

The best deal in gaming – the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package – now shipping

Give the gamers in your life a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day (for you in Canada and elsewhere), birthdays, anniversaries, graduation and any gift-giving occasion, a gift you know they will love. Or treat yourself. After these past two crazy years, you deserve to do something nice for yourself and your gaming pals. The Surprise Package Offer gets you physical game books at PDF prices, and we will sign them if you would like us to.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

COMING: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition Rules

This deluxe, foil stamped edition is at the printer, and has been for awhile now. With any luck it will be available sometime in November. We are offering it due to popular demand. It is the original, First Edition rules, expanded with the inclusion of the Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook. The original edition also includes Erick Wujcik’s popular Tombs of Gersidi adventure left out of the 2nd Edition rule book. The cover is a recreation of the original, famous red and black cover of the original RPG. We sold more than 120,000 copies of the first edition rule book back in the day, so we know a lot of people have fond memories of it. Hence, the request for Palladium to offer it in some form. We hope you enjoy the deluxe hardcover. It sure brought back memories for many of us.

  • 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 (ancient vampires and dark magic) written by Erick Wujcik. Maps by Erick Wujcik. Easily adapted to current rules.
  • Depictions of Eastern, Western, Northern, and Old Kingdom coins.
  • Fan favorite artwork by Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook included as “bonus” material appears in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • Recreation of the original cover with red foil stamping into a black faux leatherette hardcover. It should look beautiful.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

 

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

COMING! Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover

The Splicers® RPG plus bonus Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, #32, and #51 offering War Mounts, The Wasteland, and Living Weapons like the Swarm Lord, Hive insects, etc., written by Chris Kluge.

  • The complete RPG + 50 pages of bonus material.
  • Splicers® is unique and different. Think Guyver meets Terminator after the rise of the machines.
  • Humanity armed with genetically engineered living host armor and weapons battle against an insane A.I. and her legion of robots and death machines.
  • Part science fiction, part horror. Epic in scope.
  • 280 pages – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 200HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

 

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

NEW! “Softcover” Rifts® Ultimate Edition – available now

Rifts® is a fusion of settings and characters that seamlessly merges science fiction, fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling, plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts – tears in space and time – to any location on Earth or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds.

Explore not just exotic and mysterious locations but unique characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, Crazies, and Juicers, to name but a few. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and otherworldly beings – most available as player characters.

Challenge your imagination with opportunities like no other RPG. All of it set on a post-apocalypse Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. Build mysterious characters, battle the forces of evil, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.
  • Also available: The Rifts® Ultimate Edition hardcover ($44.99 retail, Cat. No. 800) and the “Original” 1990 Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover (temporarily sold out – back in print early December, 2021 – $49.99 retail – 32 pages of additional color and fun).

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

 

The Rifter #85 Annual

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85, 2021 Annual

The Rifter® – your favorite portal to the Palladium Books® Megaverse® – is back!

And oh boy, do we have a treat for you – 224 pages of the best content from an entire year’s worth of submissions. This 2021 annual issue has content for use with almost all our game lines including Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.

Highlights include:

  • Soul in Flames: A Rifts® adventure by Barry Wright that captured our imagination so much we put it on the cover!
  • The Colony of Gonarn: Sweeping location and adventure material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans.
  • Vehicle Encounter Tables: An awesome resource by Lloyd Blair for Dead Reign®, but also eminently useful for Systems Failure®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and even Rifts®.
  • Beyond Midnight: Inspired by Boxed Nightmares, this combination of story, creature feature, and plot hooks by Dan Frederick includes adventure seeds for nine Palladium settings.
  • The Redeemer: What does evil-turned-good look like? This O.C.C. by Kyle Osterberg for Nightbane® covers just that.
  • Magical Collectibles: An array of unique arcane items by Christian Bonawandt for use with any Palladium setting.
  • The Glitter Boy Revisited: Two articles by Will Erwin that will have Game Masters and players alike taking a fresh new look at everyone’s favorite chrome power suit.
  • Relics of Empire: New setting, history, and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Ian Herbert.
  • Plus: Short stories, news, coming attractions, product descriptions, and more.
  • 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 185 – Coming this winter.

Rifter® Submission Note: If you were not accepted into this Annual, you may be on the short list for the next. FYI: We get many submissions for Rifts®, and are sitting on some for the 2022 Annual now, so you will have a greater chance of getting published in the next Rifter Annual if you send material for Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Palladium Fantasy® and others, though we get a fair number of submissions for Fantasy too.

The Rifter #85 Annual

 

Systems Failure RPG

Systems Failure RPG – BACK IN STOCK for the holidays – available now

Systems Failure™ RPG is an often overlooked gem. When Sean Roberson read it he went wild over it. “Kev, this is a complete game and fun! I had no idea. You can play this as an ongoing campaign and have a great time. And I love the art too.” – You will fall in love with it too.

When the cities fell, and everything went “off-line,” all seemed lost. Anarchy reigned. All that is left are families struggling to survive and the survivalists, nature-lovers, rowdy farmers, gun fanatics, eggheads, and backwoods wackos living on the fringe – either people out in the boonies or preppers ready for the collapse of civilization.

Join the fight as unlikely heroes battling to save a post-collapse world in an action-packed role-playing game that can be played straight and serious, or with a touch of satire and humor. Reclaim the world for God-fearing humans and go destroy the Bugs!

Oh, and there are the “Bugs” – alien, insect-like things that feed on electricity and turn humans into mindless slaves. Things are worse than anyone could have imagined, but these survivors aren’t ready to give up. And they mean business. America (then the world) will be free!

  • A complete, stand-alone role-playing game.
  • The Villains: Monstrous invaders from another dimension drawn to all things electronic. Deadly and weird.
  • Unlikely Heroes: Play outcasts, nutcases, and survivalists.
  • 11 O.C.C.s including the Exterminator, Freebooter, Wacko, Survivalist, Splatterpunk, NORAD Psychic, and more.
  • Plenty of world information and adventure ideas.
  • Written by Bill Coffin from concepts by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Conversion notes for Rifts® and other Palladium settings.
  • 144 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 650. Available now as a physical book from PalladiumBooks.com and as a PDF from DriveThruRPG.com.

Systems Failure RPG at palladium-store.com

 

Boxed Nightmares

Boxed Nightmares – BACK IN STOCK

This is the 96 page adventure sourcebook created for Beyond the Supernatural, 1st Edition rules but is easily adaptable to BTS-2 and maybe even Nightbane®. It includes six BTS adventures, Jack the Ripper, Tasmanian Devils, monsters, source material and adventure ideas.

The original 16 page tabloid that came with it is now printed in the back of the sourcebook. It ties in to the adventures in the sourcebook and offers clues or insight to them and well as silly fun. Many of the articles are funny and offer adventure ideas.

  • Written by Kevin Siembieda. Artwork by Kevin Long.
  • $18.99 – 114 pages – Cat. No. 701 – available as a physical book from PalladiumBooks.com and as a PDF from DriveThruRPG.com.

Boxed Nightmares at palladium-store.com

 

Nightbane RPG Hardcover

NEW! Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Nightbane® RPG Hardcover and Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG Hardcover are flying off our warehouse shelves. Both hardcovers offer additional “bonus” material and look fabulous.

At first, people thought Dark Day – the day the sun did not rise anywhere on the planet – was the end of the world. When the sun rose again, everything looked the same, but it wasn’t. Some people have disappeared. Others seem different, darker, crueler, and the world seems more malevolent and dangerous.

Only the newly awakened Nightbane understand that governments and the authorities around the world are being quietly taken over by the sinister Nightlords and their Doppleganger minions. Demonic creatures from a mirror dimension filled with evil and dark magic. Only the Nightbane, born human but who learn they are something else, something more than human, and other creatures that live in the shadows such as vampires and Guardians, dare stand against the gathering darkness.

  • A role-playing game of modern horror, conspiracy, and self-discovery. A new genre we call superhero-horror.
  • You play the Nightbane®. Mostly young, seemingly ordinary people, who since Dark Day can transform into frightening or beautiful monsters blessed (or cursed) with superhuman powers and magic.
  • Nightbane® creation tables – each a different, horrific humanoid or strangely beautiful being who wields powers they must learn to master or fall prey to the Nightlords and their demonic legions. Powers they can only unleash in their monstrous Morphus form.
  • Nightbane “Talents” are supernatural and magical abilities.
  • Nearly a dozen other player characters including the Sorcerer, Mystic, Vampire, Wampyre, Guardian and others.
  • Magic, psionic abilities, and supernatural powers.
  • Nightlords and their minions: the Hunters, Hounds, Hollow Men, etc.
  • Wicked Dopplegangers, mirror travel, magic, and more.
  • The hellish Nightlands™, madmen, and adventure ideas.
  • Compatible with Beyond the Supernatural™, and adaptable to Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Dead Reign®, and the entire Palladium Megaverse®.
  • 60 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 304 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 730HC – available now. (Also available as a 240 page softcover RPG; $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 730).

Nightbane RPG Hardcover

 

Chaos Earth RPG Hardcover

NEW! Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Great Cataclysm as it unfolds! The Golden Age of Science and human civilization is shattered with the return of magic and the Coming of the Rifts. Humanity struggles to survive against impossible odds as ley lines appear and Rifts tear open the fabric of space and time to unleash all manner of alien invaders, demonic horrors, and monsters. Natural disasters – storms, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis – topple cities and create panic and chaos on a global scale.

You play survivors or the heroes of NEMA (the Northern Eagle Military Alliance) as you battle against the elements, madness, the demonic, the alien, the monstrous, and the magical amidst the devastation. You are equipped with Chromium Guardsmen (Glitter Boys), Silver Eagles (SAMAS), and a host of giant robots, power armor and advanced technology, but is it enough to stand against a rising tide of enemies and invading horrors from other worlds?

You and other survivors are humanity’s last and only hope to survive the apocalypse that will become known as the Great Cataclysm. These are the heroes you play in an ever-changing, nightmare world that can only be described as Chaos Earth.

  • A complete RPG and the origins of Rifts® Earth.
  • Overview of the Great Cataclysm as it unfolds.
  • Introduction to NEMA and its weapons and resources.
  • 11 different character classes, including robot pilots, the Para-Arcane, Demon and Witch Hunters, Chromium Guardsmen & more.
  • Robots, power armor, vehicles, weapons, and equipment.
  • Monsters, chaos and adventure. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 30 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 660HC – available now. (Also available as a 160 page softcover RPG; $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 660).

Chaos Earth RPG Hardcover

 

List of RPG Hardcovers Currently Available:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

 

Retailers can buy direct from Palladium

Help Your Game Store Find Palladium RPG Products! With game stores opening back up we are happy to report that our distributors are doing a good job at stocking our many titles. If your store is having trouble ordering Palladium titles from distributors or they find getting product from their distributors is too slow, tell them they can buy wholesale directly from Palladium Books. We usually succeed at keeping most of our 200+ titles in stock at all times. You might also point them to Alliance, Studio 2, and Universal Distribution (Canada), who are all doing an especially good job keeping Palladium titles in stock and available. A few store owners reached out to us just this past week, thanks to your efforts, so keep up the good work!

Brick and mortar stores can request the Retailer Terms by contacting Palladium via the Help Desk on our website or by telephone (734-721-2903). Thank you for your help on this front. Please keep spreading the word. Thank you.

 

After the Bomb® Podcast is a hit among fans – new episodes are coming

This is why I love the Palladium family of fans. The Palladium community has worked together to create something special. Thanks to your help supporting and promoting the fun Real Play Games Podcast it is a hit and growing. They are already moving into securing advertisement deals and charting on Canadian Spotify well ahead of their projections. And these folks are gamers and Palladium fans just like you following a dream. How cool is that? Thank you for doing this.

They have wrapped After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 1 and are in the planning stages for Season 2, which will pick up with characters selected by the podcast audience. It is interesting to note that almost none of the podcast players had any prior experience with Palladium’s Megaversal game system prior to running the After the Bomb® podcast, but now they’re hooked. They like it so much they have slated SIX Palladium games for recording over the course of the next year!

You can learn more and listen to After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge adventures by using the links below. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

 

NEW! After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 8 – 2xDs? Nuts! As the battle rages across the Land of Caster, the Empire ups the threat level, deploying deadly power-suited attackers as they attempt to purge the remaining mutant animals from the area, but the Fursome Foursome, Piero, and the Rodent Cartel aren’t planning on going down without a fight! Death-defying dodges! Evil birds! Axe tossing! Exclamation points! You’ll get at least some of these when you tune into the episode!
Expected Release Date: October 8, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Drug Use, Violence

 

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 9 – The Battle of Hershey Avenue. Whether you call it a sky-van or a helpercopter, whatever it is spells a lot of trouble for the Fursome Foursome and their allies, and not everyone’s going to make it out of this one fully intact. This one is for all the marbles, and the reverberations that come from this will change things not just now, but in the future. Is GM John going to bump off your favorite mutant animal? Better check and see on this one!
Expected Release Date: October 22, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Violence

 

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 10 – Homes: Lost, Sought, and Found. In the aftermath of the battle between the Empire of Humanity and the Rodent Cartel, the Fursome Foursome finds themselves at a crossroads. The ramifications of the things they learn and the choices they make will shape the future in ways both large and small, and when we pick back up on them next, there’ll be new faces and new stories to get to know, right alongside your old favorites. There’s no such thing as a goodbye with the promise that you’ll meet again.
Expected Release Date: November 5, 2021
Content Warnings: Alcohol and Drug Use, Adult Language

 

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Discussion Bonus Show. Game Master John and the whole cast take some time to answer listener questions from email and Twitter, the gang talks about some of the background information behind their characterizations, speculate on some things that came up in game, and just have a fun time chatting about the game we just played before we roll into another one in two weeks. Also, we somehow get back into the mutant kangaroo boob thing again, that just seems like it’s going to be a running thing.
Expected Release Date: November 19, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language

 

Heroes Unlimited 2E Christmas Special is just one. When the megavillain speedster Railgun is contracted to abduct and ensure the safety of Santana Villarosa, a popular Youtube doll refurbisher, he’ll have to face hired killers, ninja, the Gnomes of Zurich, the forces of Dracula Jr. and more to see to it that she’ll make it home for the holidays! We start recording this one in mid-October and ideally will have a weekly set of releases for the first four weeks of December 2021.

 

And coming over the next 12-18 months …

  • After the Bomb: Purrsuit Season 2
  • Beyond the Supernatural 2E – Cozy Caverns Mysteries
  • Palladium Megaversal system – Baby, I Shrunk these F*$#ing People!
  • Nightbane®
  • Rifts®

Please continue to support and spread the word about Real Play Games and their RPG Podcast: After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge™.

 

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

 

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

NEW! After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

Create any type of intelligent, humanoid, mutant animal from a turtle or raccoon to an elephant or lion. The RPG presents stats for 100+ mutant animals, plus rules for creating any mutant animal you can imagine, and each sourcebook offers dozens more.

Play your mutant animals as super-heroes, vigilantes, or mutants on the run in the Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Heroes of the Megaverse® or Skraypers™ settings. Or as mutants or monsters in Nightbane®. (You could make a mutant animal the Nightbane’s Morphus!) In Palladium Fantasy® your mutant animal could be one of the forgotten archaic races, a visitor from another world, a creation of magic, or a monster. In Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Phase World® and the Three Galaxies, The Mechanoids®, Aliens Unlimited™, Splicers® and similar RPGs, use the creation rules to make new D-Bees, aliens, mutants, or monsters. Or play in the AtB post-apocalyptic Earth setting that makes Planet of the Apes seem tame. Whatever the setting, playing anthropomorphic animal characters is a blast.

  • 100+ mutant animal stats included.
  • Mutant animal creation rules to mutate ANY animal.
  • 52 Mutant Animal Powers.
  • 33 Mutant Animal Psionic Powers.
  • New Animal Chimeras and their abilities.
  • New back story to the After the Bomb® world of mutants.
  • The post-apocalyptic Earth setting of “After the Bomb” is just one use for your mutant animal heroes.
  • A complete RPG written by Erick Wujcik. His last great work and a sometimes overlooked RPG masterpiece. These are the Mutant Animal Creation Rules you know and love taken to new heights.
  • Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™, Aliens Unlimited™, Nightbane®, N&S, Rifts® and any game setting where mutants or aliens are appropriate.
  • 72 pages of “bonus” material includes the original After the Bomb® sourcebook and Yucatan Adventures from the old Game Shield.
  • 296 pages (72 bonus pages) – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 503HC – now shipping. Also available as a 224 page softcover book ($26.99 retail – Cat. No. 503).

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

 

Ninjas & Superspies RPG Hardcover

NEW! Ninjas & Superspies RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG is the ultimate guide to martial arts with 40 different martial art forms and 48 mystic martial arts powers alone, but there is so much more. Asian combat skills accurately portrayed, each with its own unique fighting style, methods of attack and defense presented on an epic scale, complete with legendary mystic powers. Spies, Cyber Agents, Gadgeteers, secret organizations creation rules, secret identities, gimmick weapons and clothing, cyber-disguises, implants, and more. Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™ RPG and even Nightbane®, Rifts®, and other settings. A complete game PLUS 44 pages of bonus material gathered from The Rifter®.

  • 40+ types of hand to hand combat — effectively offering 40 types of martial arts character classes!
  • 17 Occupational Character Classes for spies, mercenaries, martial artists and special operatives.
  • 48 mystic martial art powers.
  • Dim Mak, Chi Mastery, the Arts of Invisibility and more.
  • Bionic implants, disguises, weapons, & equipment.
  • Secret identities, spy agencies, and creation rules for secret organizations.
  • Complete stand-alone RPG with skills, weapons, rules and guidelines for using other Palladium settings.
  • Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™, Rifts®, Rifts® China, and the entire Palladium Megaverse®!
  • 44 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 525HC – RPG by Erick Wujcik – now shipping. Also available as a 176 page softcover book ($22.99 retail – Cat. No. 525). And see Mystic China for an astonishing and fun sourcebook with more mystical martial arts abilities, magic, demons, immortals and more.

Ninjas and Superspies RPG Hardcover

 

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

NEW! Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover – The Zombie Apocalypse – available now

The dead have risen and it would seem to be the end of the world.

Civilization crumbles in a matter of days as hundreds of millions of people die and rise as the walking dead. The hundreds of millions of people who fall to the zombies also rise to join the growing legions of undead. Then the world goes silent.

You are on your own. The army is MIA. There is no government. No law. No television, radio or Internet. No media, cell phones or communications of any kind. Cities and towns have gone dark, and zombies fill the streets.

Death Cults have risen, promising protection from the walking dead.

Retro-Savages have forsaken technology and sacrifice the living to the zombies in hopes of bringing an end to the nightmare.

Brave human survivors refuse to lie down and die! They come from all walks of life. Their common goal: survival as they struggle to forge safe havens away from the cities, rescue other survivors and battle the walking dead without respite. For now at least, the planet belongs to the dead.

Dead Reign® is an excellent introductory game that is easy to learn, fast to play, and fun to read. If you are looking for a zombie game that truly captures the feel of survival after the apocalypse and the nightmare of being stalked by zombies, Dead Reign® is it. Game mechanics are designed to create a real sense of escalating terror and dread when the zombies swarm. Sourcebooks expand the world, player options, and adventure ideas as well as new zombies and dangers.

  • Six Apocalyptic Character Classes (O.C.C.) including the Reaper, Shepherd of the Damned, Hound Master, Apocalyptic Soldier, Scrounger and Ordinary People.
  • Seven types of zombies plus the Half-Living. (Sourcebooks offer many more.)
  • Secrets of the Dead: Everything you need to know about zombies and need to ask.
  • Death Cults, their Priests, power over zombies and goals.
  • Random tables galore and the fundamentals of survival.
  • Strong setting, world overview and many adventure ideas.
  • A complete role-playing game. 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 230HC – now shipping. Also available as a 224 page softcover RPG ($26.99 retail – Cat. No. 230).

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

 

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative “Hardcover”

The “original,” 256 page Rifts® RPG from 1990 plus an extra 32 additional pages of color at the back of the book. This new section includes the history and people behind the making of Rifts®, a gallery of ALL Rifts® covers to date (160+ of them including those coming soon), never before seen concept art, other artwork and fun. Note: This is a different rule book than the expanded 376 page Rifts® Ultimate Edition (RUE), but the original remains completely compatible with RUE and all World Books and sourcebooks.

Rifts® merges science fiction with fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling and plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts to any location on Earth, or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds. And just as you can travel to other worlds, aliens and the monstrous travel to Earth and stalk the innocent.

Rifts® is a fusion of ideas, settings, genres, and characters unlike any game on the market. An endless Megaverse® of adventure™ in which if you can imagine it, you can play it. Are you up to the challenge?

The Rifts® Commemorative 30th Anniversary Hardcover is the original first edition Rifts® rule book (1990) that started a phenomenon. It is a complete RPG suitable for use with ALL existing Rifts® World Books, Sourcebooks, and Dimension Books. It is an earlier and somewhat simpler edition given the deluxe treatment. Expanded with bonus art, an additional 32 color pages, color end sheets, history about the making of Rifts®, notes, concept drawings, color concepts, photographs, and a gallery of every Rifts® cover published between 1990 and the end of 2021. The cover features the famous Keith Parkinson painting of the Splugorth Slave Barge. Provided to you due to popular demand.

  • The “original” Rifts® RPG (1990) back in print for the first time in 16 years.
  • Color cover of the famous Splugorth Slave Barge by Keith Parkinson.
  • A color gallery of 160+ Rifts® covers.
  • An extra 32 pages of color.
  • More comprehensive contents pages.
  • Concept art and pencil illustrations often with notes by the artist.
  • History of Rifts®, personal notes, commentary, and nostalgic material.
  • Color end sheets.
  • Countless memories, and loads of fun.
  • A simpler, earlier version of the core rules.
  • A complete role-playing game suitable for use with ALL existing Rifts® World Books, Sourcebooks, and Dimension Books.
  • Available in stores and from Palladium Books.
  • This is NOT the signed or numbered limited edition, but we are happy to sign copies at conventions and the Palladium Open House. The print run is likely to be limited to a few thousand copies.
  • 288 pages – $49.99 retail – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Temporarily out of stock, available in December. Also see the 376 page Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG for the current Rifts® rule set.

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

 

Rifts Coalition Manhunters

UPDATE: Rifts® CS Manhunters – Bigger, Bolder, Epic, 190+ pages

The Rifts® CS Manhunters Sourcebook has grown into a 192-224 page, epic sourcebook that is now part Coalition States adventure sourcebook and part psionics sourcebook, with the psionic elements being in the limelight in a similar vein as the Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook was for bionics, only with an emphasis on how the Coalition States use psychics. There are revisits, clarifications, and expansions of some of the classic psionic abilities, and 50+ new psionic powers that are fun and intuitive. Only a handful are limited to the Manhunters. As for the CS Manhunters … I think they will quickly become the new villain you love to hate. In addition, the sourcebook provides insight about CS psychics, Dog Boys, Kill Hounds, Psi-Stalkers, the Minion War, CS citizens, and Emperor Prosek. I love this book and I’m confident you will too.

Rifts® CS Manhunters presents dark secrets of the Coalition States involving CS psychics, the super secret Psi-Ops Division (the thought police of Emperor Prosek), and the deadly super-patriots that are the enigmatic CS Manhunters. Includes 50+ NEW psionic abilities with real punch, insight into the Dog Boys and Kill Hounds, meanings revealed about the Seven Dangers Prophecy (first introduced in Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids®), and gadgets and implants, and surprises. All of it building toward something epic.

  • New Coalition Psychic O.C.C.s.
  • 50+ new psionic abilities and revisits of some favorites.
  • CS Manhunter Divner and Precog.
  • CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
  • CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
  • CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
  • CS Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
  • CS Manhunter Mind Melters, the deadliest of them all.
  • CS Manhunter squads and special operations.
  • Secrets of Psi-Ops Division and insight about Coalition psychics.
  • Deciphering the Seven Dangers Prophecy.
  • The impact of the demon plagues unleashed by the Minion War.
  • Player Characters, NPCs, background info, adventure ideas, and more.
  • 192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In final production.

Pre-Order Rifts CS Manhunters

 

Creature Feature

UPDATE: Creature Feature, a Beyond the Supernatural sourcebook

This is going to be another fun adventure sourcebook. The manuscript will go into editing and rewrites as soon as I finish CS Manhunters and most of the artwork is done. Though I may add a few illustrations and already have artists lined up. Creature Feature™ 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.

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Rifts Titan Robotics

UPDATE: Rifts® Titan Robotics

Here it is, the reveal of the new cover. I hope you like it. I love that it presents the iconic Titan Robotics Combat Robot with a new big gun that hints at what else awaits you inside the book. I also enjoy the combat scene, smoke, and haze of war. Like Northern Gun and the Manistique Imperium, Titan Robotics sells freely to adventurers, mercenaries, and anyone who has the cash. Hence, the owners of these big ‘bots clashing with Coalition Forces.

This is why I call Rifts® Titan Robotics™ a high-tech toy box filled with many new types of Titan Robotics power armors, giant robots, vehicles, weapons, and gear. Some are big bruisers while others are small and sleek. As fun as these new tech toys are, Rifts® Titan Robotics™ delves into the company’s many secrets, including ARCHIE-3’s plans and program to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics and his current schemes and plans for the future. All of which provides fodder for adventure.

  • 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 Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others. Cover by Mike Majestic.
  • Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda.
  • 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

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Rifts Bestiary Volume Two

UPDATE: Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two

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).

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DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® at PDF prices – 300+ 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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

 

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

 

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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

Some exciting things happened this week for friends of Palladium and we, ourselves, are in a constant state of enthusiasm and excitement due to the Christmas Surprise Packages. (Love, love, love doing them and making you squeal for joy like a child on Christmas morning.) Also happy to see new book releases progressing and plans for our future falling into place.

Sean was excited about doing the MasterTheGameRPG interview. Afterward Sean was telling me how he so wanted to reveal all sorts of info about the many books and the exciting plans and procedures we are putting into place here at Palladium. It killed him to have to bite his tongue due to “his” policy that we do not announce books until they are completely finished and/or at the printer. I enjoyed teasing him about “his” policy, but the truth is, it is a good one that I agree with to better manage your expectations. More so than ever with constant delays from our various printers due to supply chain issues.

We got a little taste of winter here in Michigan this week with cold temperatures and an inch of snow this past Monday. It melted away the next morning, but it was a reminder that the winter holidays are just around the corner. Of course, this being Michigan where the weather can change at the drop of a hat, it was back up to 60 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday, but back down into highs of temps in the 40s and lows below freezing today and for the foreseeable future. I’m afraid winter has arrived a bit early in Palladiumville.

I implore you all to place orders and Surprise Package requests that you need in time for Christmas soon. We do not anyone to be disappointed for the holidays because of slow mail delivery.

Enjoy the Art Flash Sale (get prints cheap), keep snapping up the Surprise Packages and hardcovers, and we wish you safe travels for Thanksgiving Day next week. May your holidays be filled with love, laughter, and gaming.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

 

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

A.D. in Irvine, California, writes: Favorites: Rifts®, Nightbane®, Ninjas & Superspies, Heroes Unlimited, Palladium Fantasy®. This is my first time ordering the Christmas Surprise Package, so I figured why not order two? I’m looking forward to whatever surprises are in store! Thanks for putting this whole thing together, it really helps brighten up these dark times. Merry Christmas.

[Merry Christmas to you and yours, A.D. May it be full of joyful surprises and love. I hope you enjoyed your first two Surprise Packages. The whole concept behind them is to brighten Christmas for good little gamers around the world. Enjoy and hang tough. More illuminating fun will be coming your way. – Kevin]

 

J.B. in San Antonio, Texas, writes: I’m so excited. Thank y’all for offering it this year.

[J.B., you are very welcome. We’ll be offering the Surprise Package for as long as I’m at the helm of Palladium Books. We love spreading holiday cheer with our games to gamers around the world. – Kevin]

 

K.W. in Portland, Oregon, writes (in part): Really new to the Palladium Books Megaverse®. Thanks to my friends at the Glitterbois podcast I have become more interested and intrigued by Palladium Books. That said, my collection is very limited and hopefully growing more as funds become available. Coming from the world of D&D I am enthralled by what Palladium does and just how META the settings and gameplay are. Also love the art.

[Welcome to the Palladium Megaverse, K.W. We hope you remain enthralled and having fun. – Kevin]

 

D.C. in West Bend, Wisconsin, writes: Favorites are Beyond the Supernatural and Rifts®. I love the Surprise Package and look forward to it every year. I enjoy having my books autographed by all y’all at Palladium. I still use my original Chi-Town Library pencils to game with. Any and all specials you want to include would be most appreciated. Thank you.

[Thanks for all the love, D.C. It’s the reason why we do these every year. Enjoy and game on. – Kevin]

 

S.W. in Tucson, Arizona, writes: Favorites: Rifts® for sure tops my list, but I love a lot of Palladium Books’ games. Just wanted to say that this is my first time doing one of your Christmas gift grabs and I think it is awesome.

[Rifts® tops a lot of people’s list, S.W., so you are in good company. First time trying the Grab Bag, eh? Well, I think you will love the two Surprise Packages coming your way. Our way of making the holiday season a little more exciting for our fellow gamers. Merry Christmas. May the season bring you nothing but joy. Ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

 

D.V. in Defiance, Missouri, writes (in part): Trying to fill out my Dead Reign® collection. Throwing in CE: Resurrection for fun. Trying to theme this Grab Bag around horror, specifically zombies … I also love Palladium Fantasy, but own all except for the published Garden of the Gods, only got the Raw version of that.

[Hey D.V., I think you’ll enjoy the Surprise Package, especially Garden of the Gods. It is quite different and expanded from the Raw edition. In fact, it is one of the best books Matthew and I have ever collaborated on. – Kevin]

 

B.S. in Roscoe, Illinois, writes: Thank you for all the memories with my friends.

[You are very welcome, B.S. That’s the awesome thing about role-playing games, they create bonds of friendship that often last a lifetime. Thrilled we are part of those fun-filled memories. – Kevin]

 

D.H. in Walla Walla, Washington, writes: Favorites: Hard to choose. Liking the aspects of Beyond the Supernatural. Looking forward to playing Chaos Earth®. Thank you for all the effort you all put into [these worlds].

[Hey D.H., I’m right there with you. Whenever I am asked which is my favorite RPG, I can’t pick just one. There is something special about each and every one. And as the Publisher and guy who had a hand in the creation of each, it’s like a parent being asked to pick a favorite child. You can’t. You love them all. I think that is the secret of Palladium’s success and longevity: For us, the creation process of writing and world building is a labor of love and it is pure joy. We love making these worlds as much as you enjoy playing in them. Storytelling is in our blood. So keep your imagination burning bright and we’ll do the same. – Kevin]

 

D.T. in San Antonio, Texas, writes: Happy Halloween to you talented Ladies and Gents at the epicenter of the world’s greatest RPG company!

[Thanks D.T., obviously Halloween has come and gone as we rapidly approach Thanksgiving. Thank you, it was nice. Your lovely exclamation that Palladium is the “epicenter of the world’s greatest RPG company” made us all smile and blush with pride. Loved it so much so that I had to share it here. lol. We are humbled and warmed by your kind words and will work hard to live up to your high regard for us. Happy holidays. – Kevin at the epicenter]

 

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

 

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

 

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

 

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

 

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

 

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

 

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

 

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

 

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

 

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

 

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

 

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Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

 

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

 

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

 

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – November 11, 2021

Weekly Update Opening Graphic

Explore the Megaverse® – One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

First of all a shout out and our heartfelt thanks to all the veterans out there. This is Veteran’s Day and I would like to acknowledge your service and sacrifice. A good percentage of Palladium gamers are current or ex-military personnel. I’m just glad our RPGs can bring military folks overseas a bit of escape, relief, and a touch of home.

I hope everyone out there is staying positive and hopeful. I know prices are rising, and some of our favorite and necessary things are in short supply or completely unavailable. On top of that, some days the world feels frantic, ugly, and overwhelming. Hang tight. Find what brings you joy and peace. Maybe that’s gaming or a long walk, or feeding the squirrels or the birds, or reading a book, or hanging with friends. Don’t forget that playing RPGs is a wonderful way to connect with friends and family, and escape your worries for a few hours filled with laughter. These days you can play those games in person or from afar via the Internet. Do it. Find those invaluable gems of camaraderie and fun and enjoy every minute. Heck, you may not even have to leave your house. I’m sure most of you can pull a dozen different games off your shelf right now. Probably more like 50 or 100 games and settings to choose from. Do it. Enjoy yourselves.

Please, don’t let the holiday stress add to your worries, either. Maybe this year you give out a bit fewer or smaller gifts. It is truly the thought that counts. Use opportunities like Palladium’s Surprise Package offer to get gifts of a single book for a lot of people or to treat yourself. I’m sure you deserve it. Strategically plan your Surprise Package Wish List and maybe you’ll be able to give an RPG gift to 3-4 of your gaming pals with just one Grab Bag. And don’t overly fret about gifts for your loved ones. I grew up poor, so we appreciated everything we were gifted, even the littlest of things, and especially the gift of love and friendship. Your time, like running a game or calling a gaming buddy, or sending out a Christmas card (a Rifts® Christmas card perhaps?) is guaranteed to make that other person smile and feel special.

We continue to work hard to keep product in stock. Rifts® Black Market is temporarily out of stock, but we recently sent it and another 11 titles to the printer. They should be back in stock around December 8. The Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative hardcover should also be back around then. As for the other hardcovers, we cannot make any promises. That printer informed me just yesterday that there are likely to be delays; anywhere from a few to several weeks. In short, they don’t know when our reprints and two new releases will ship. Fingers crossed that it will be sometime in November, but we don’t know. They assure me they are doing their best. It doesn’t help that a major paper mill in Canada is temporarily shutdown when paper allocation was already brutal.

For a bit of fun, read the Surprise Package Comments from Fans Like You, after my Closing Thoughts. And please keep those orders for books and Surprise Packages coming in. Oh, and spread the word about them. That goes double for you podcasters, YouTubers, and social media mavens, please let the whole gaming world know about Palladium’s Christmas Surprise Packages. It will help a lot and mean a great deal to us. Thanks!

A question for you, our customers. More than one Palladium fan has suggested we do softcover and hardcover editions of “all” upcoming new releases like Rifts® CS Manhunters, Titan Robotics, Creature Feature, etc. I was surprised by that even though I know a lot of you do like and want hardcover books. What do you think? Please let us know via the Help Desk, postings in Palladium message boards, and in your Surprise Package comment section. Thanks.

I am sorry, but I am so busy I have to run out to a business meeting (good things brewing) which means the amount of new updates and news is light this week. Read on to learn more about the best holiday deal in gaming (that would be the Surprise Package) and other tidbits you might have missed. Oh, and don’t forget to take a peek at Palladium’s PDF products on DriveThruRPG.com – especially practical for those of you living outside the United States. Game on.

 

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

COMING: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition Rules

This deluxe, foil stamped edition is at the printer, and has been for awhile now. With any luck it will be available sometime in November. We are offering it due to popular demand. It is the original, First Edition rules, expanded with the inclusion of the Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook. The original edition also includes Erick Wujcik’s popular Tombs of Gersidi adventure left out of the 2nd Edition rule book. The cover is a recreation of the original, famous red and black cover of the original RPG. We sold more than 120,000 copies of the first edition rule book back in the day, so we know a lot of people have fond memories of it. Hence, the request for Palladium to offer it in some form. We hope you enjoy the deluxe hardcover. It sure brought back memories for many of us.

  • 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 (ancient vampires and dark magic) written by Erick Wujcik. Maps by Erick Wujcik. Easily adapted to current rules.
  • Depictions of Eastern, Western, Northern, and Old Kingdom coins.
  • Fan favorite artwork by Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook included as “bonus” material appears in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • Recreation of the original cover with red foil stamping into a black faux leatherette hardcover. It should look beautiful.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

 

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

COMING! Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover

The Splicers® RPG plus bonus Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, #32, and #51 offering War Mounts, The Wasteland, and Living Weapons like the Swarm Lord, Hive insects, etc., written by Chris Kluge.

  • The complete RPG + 50 pages of bonus material.
  • Splicers® is unique and different. Think Guyver meets Terminator after the rise of the machines.
  • Humanity armed with genetically engineered living host armor and weapons battle against an insane A.I. and her legion of robots and death machines.
  • Part science fiction, part horror. Epic in scope.
  • 280 pages – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 200HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

 

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

NEW! “Softcover” Rifts® Ultimate Edition – available now

Rifts® is a fusion of settings and characters that seamlessly merges science fiction, fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling, plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts – tears in space and time – to any location on Earth or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds.

Explore not just exotic and mysterious locations but unique characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, Crazies, and Juicers, to name but a few. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and otherworldly beings – most available as player characters.

Challenge your imagination with opportunities like no other RPG. All of it set on a post-apocalypse Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. Build mysterious characters, battle the forces of evil, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.
  • Also available: The Rifts® Ultimate Edition hardcover ($44.99 retail, Cat. No. 800) and the “Original” 1990 Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover (temporarily sold out – back in print early December, 2021 – $49.99 retail – 32 pages of additional color and fun).

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

 

The Rifter #85 Annual

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85, 2021 Annual

The Rifter® – your favorite portal to the Palladium Books® Megaverse® – is back!

And oh boy, do we have a treat for you – 224 pages of the best content from an entire year’s worth of submissions. This 2021 annual issue has content for use with almost all our game lines including Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.

Highlights include:

  • Soul in Flames: A Rifts® adventure by Barry Wright that captured our imagination so much we put it on the cover!
  • The Colony of Gonarn: Sweeping location and adventure material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans.
  • Vehicle Encounter Tables: An awesome resource by Lloyd Blair for Dead Reign®, but also eminently useful for Systems Failure®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and even Rifts®.
  • Beyond Midnight: Inspired by Boxed Nightmares, this combination of story, creature feature, and plot hooks by Dan Frederick includes adventure seeds for nine Palladium settings.
  • The Redeemer: What does evil-turned-good look like? This O.C.C. by Kyle Osterberg for Nightbane® covers just that.
  • Magical Collectibles: An array of unique arcane items by Christian Bonawandt for use with any Palladium setting.
  • The Glitter Boy Revisited: Two articles by Will Erwin that will have Game Masters and players alike taking a fresh new look at everyone’s favorite chrome power suit.
  • Relics of Empire: New setting, history, and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Ian Herbert.
  • Plus: Short stories, news, coming attractions, product descriptions, and more.
  • 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 185 – Coming this autumn.

Rifter® Submission Note: If you were not accepted into this Annual, you may be on the short list for the next. FYI: We get many submissions for Rifts®, and are sitting on some for the 2022 Annual now, so you will have a greater chance of getting published in the next Rifter Annual if you send material for Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Palladium Fantasy® and others, though we get a fair number of submissions for Fantasy too.

 

Placing Orders for Christmas – please do so sooner than later

– and if you want to ship via Media Mail, we suggest you do so before November 22 in order to receive it in time for Christmas

As mentioned in previous Updates, the US Postal Service was unreliable and slow as a snail last holiday season. We do not know what to expect this year, but it will probably be more of the same. Thus, we cannot guarantee packages shipped via Media Mail will arrive in time for the Holidays for orders placed after Black Friday. We have seen inconsistent service, delays, and the occasional lost package from the US Post Office for 18 months now, so you use Media Mail at your own risk. Media Mail is the least expensive method of shipping in the US, but it is also one of the lowest priority classifications of mail. Last year, packages ordered via Media Mail in mid-November, December, and January (i.e. Christmas rush) took 8-12 weeks to be delivered instead of the usual 4-12 days. It was insane and US Mail service continues to be spotty. If you do not need your order quickly or in time for Christmas, then use Media Mail. When ordering gifts for others, especially as Thanksgiving and Black Friday approaches, we strongly recommend UPS.

Though pricey, last year UPS, and that includes UPS Ground, was the most reliable method of shipping even a week before Christmas. UPS Ground arrives to ALL states, except Alaska and Hawaii, in 3-5 business days. And the package is automatically insured for $100 in case of loss or damage.

 

UPDATE: Supply chain issues, printing delays and shortages

So far Palladium has been on top of keeping our books in stock, but we are certain some titles will temporarily sell out before Christmas. For example: The popular Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover is sold out now and though we sent it to the printer weeks ago, we do not expect it back in stock before December 10th or 12th. And that’s assuming all goes well with no unexpected delays. Hardcover titles are the most vulnerable as they take longer to print and all of our printers are presently overwhelmed and experiencing delays. Another reason to place orders for the books you know you want as gifts for the holidays sooner than later. We do not want to disappoint anyone.

 

Christmas Grab Bags

The best deal in gaming – the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package – now shipping

Give the gamers in your life a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day (for you in Canada and elsewhere), birthdays, anniversaries, graduation and any gift-giving occasion, a gift you know they will love. Or treat yourself. After these past two crazy years, you deserve to do something nice for yourself and your gaming pals. The Surprise Package Offer gets you physical game books at PDF prices, and we will sign them if you would like us to.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

Systems Failure RPG

Systems Failure RPG – BACK IN STOCK for the holidays – available now

Systems Failure™ RPG is an often overlooked gem. When Sean Roberson read it he went wild over it. “Kev, this is a complete game and fun! I had no idea. You can play this as an ongoing campaign and have a great time. And I love the art too.” – You will fall in love with it too.

When the cities fell, and everything went “off-line,” all seemed lost. Anarchy reigned. All that is left are families struggling to survive and the survivalists, nature-lovers, rowdy farmers, gun fanatics, eggheads, and backwoods wackos living on the fringe – either people out in the boonies or preppers ready for the collapse of civilization.

Join the fight as unlikely heroes battling to save a post-collapse world in an action-packed role-playing game that can be played straight and serious, or with a touch of satire and humor. Reclaim the world for God-fearing humans and go destroy the Bugs!

Oh, and there are the “Bugs” – alien, insect-like things that feed on electricity and turn humans into mindless slaves. Things are worse than anyone could have imagined, but these survivors aren’t ready to give up. And they mean business. America (then the world) will be free!

  • A complete, stand-alone role-playing game.
  • The Villains: Monstrous invaders from another dimension drawn to all things electronic. Deadly and weird.
  • Unlikely Heroes: Play outcasts, nutcases, and survivalists.
  • 11 O.C.C.s including the Exterminator, Freebooter, Wacko, Survivalist, Splatterpunk, NORAD Psychic, and more.
  • Plenty of world information and adventure ideas.
  • Written by Bill Coffin from concepts by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Conversion notes for Rifts® and other Palladium settings.
  • 144 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 650. Available now as a physical book from PalladiumBooks.com and as a PDF from DriveThruRPG.com.

Systems Failure RPG at palladium-store.com

 

Boxed Nightmares

Boxed Nightmares – BACK IN STOCK

This is the 96 page adventure sourcebook created for Beyond the Supernatural, 1st Edition rules but is easily adaptable to BTS-2 and maybe even Nightbane®. It includes six BTS adventures, Jack the Ripper, Tasmanian Devils, monsters, source material and adventure ideas.

The original 16 page tabloid that came with it is now printed in the back of the sourcebook. It ties in to the adventures in the sourcebook and offers clues or insight to them and well as silly fun. Many of the articles are funny and offer adventure ideas.

  • Written by Kevin Siembieda. Artwork by Kevin Long.
  • $18.99 – 114 pages – Cat. No. 701 – available as a physical book from PalladiumBooks.com and as a PDF from DriveThruRPG.com.

Boxed Nightmares at palladium-store.com

 

Nightbane RPG Hardcover

NEW! Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Nightbane® RPG Hardcover and Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG Hardcover are flying off our warehouse shelves. Both hardcovers offer additional “bonus” material and look fabulous.

At first, people thought Dark Day – the day the sun did not rise anywhere on the planet – was the end of the world. When the sun rose again, everything looked the same, but it wasn’t. Some people have disappeared. Others seem different, darker, crueler, and the world seems more malevolent and dangerous.

Only the newly awakened Nightbane understand that governments and the authorities around the world are being quietly taken over by the sinister Nightlords and their Doppleganger minions. Demonic creatures from a mirror dimension filled with evil and dark magic. Only the Nightbane, born human but who learn they are something else, something more than human, and other creatures that live in the shadows such as vampires and Guardians, dare stand against the gathering darkness.

  • A role-playing game of modern horror, conspiracy, and self-discovery. A new genre we call superhero-horror.
  • You play the Nightbane®. Mostly young, seemingly ordinary people, who since Dark Day can transform into frightening or beautiful monsters blessed (or cursed) with superhuman powers and magic.
  • Nightbane® creation tables – each a different, horrific humanoid or strangely beautiful being who wields powers they must learn to master or fall prey to the Nightlords and their demonic legions. Powers they can only unleash in their monstrous Morphus form.
  • Nightbane “Talents” are supernatural and magical abilities.
  • Nearly a dozen other player characters including the Sorcerer, Mystic, Vampire, Wampyre, Guardian and others.
  • Magic, psionic abilities, and supernatural powers.
  • Nightlords and their minions: the Hunters, Hounds, Hollow Men, etc.
  • Wicked Dopplegangers, mirror travel, magic, and more.
  • The hellish Nightlands™, madmen, and adventure ideas.
  • Compatible with Beyond the Supernatural™, and adaptable to Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Dead Reign®, and the entire Palladium Megaverse®.
  • 60 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 304 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 730HC – available now. (Also available as a 240 page softcover RPG; $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 730).

Nightbane RPG Hardcover

 

Chaos Earth RPG Hardcover

NEW! Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Great Cataclysm as it unfolds! The Golden Age of Science and human civilization is shattered with the return of magic and the Coming of the Rifts. Humanity struggles to survive against impossible odds as ley lines appear and Rifts tear open the fabric of space and time to unleash all manner of alien invaders, demonic horrors, and monsters. Natural disasters – storms, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis – topple cities and create panic and chaos on a global scale.

You play survivors or the heroes of NEMA (the Northern Eagle Military Alliance) as you battle against the elements, madness, the demonic, the alien, the monstrous, and the magical amidst the devastation. You are equipped with Chromium Guardsmen (Glitter Boys), Silver Eagles (SAMAS), and a host of giant robots, power armor and advanced technology, but is it enough to stand against a rising tide of enemies and invading horrors from other worlds?

You and other survivors are humanity’s last and only hope to survive the apocalypse that will become known as the Great Cataclysm. These are the heroes you play in an ever-changing, nightmare world that can only be described as Chaos Earth.

  • A complete RPG and the origins of Rifts® Earth.
  • Overview of the Great Cataclysm as it unfolds.
  • Introduction to NEMA and its weapons and resources.
  • 11 different character classes, including robot pilots, the Para-Arcane, Demon and Witch Hunters, Chromium Guardsmen & more.
  • Robots, power armor, vehicles, weapons, and equipment.
  • Monsters, chaos and adventure. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 30 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 660HC – available now. (Also available as a 160 page softcover RPG; $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 660).

Chaos Earth RPG Hardcover

 

List of RPG Hardcovers Currently Available:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

 

Retailers can buy direct from Palladium

Help Your Game Store Find Palladium RPG Products! With game stores opening back up we are happy to report that our distributors are doing a good job at stocking our many titles. If your store is having trouble ordering Palladium titles from distributors or they find getting product from their distributors is too slow, tell them they can buy wholesale directly from Palladium Books. We usually succeed at keeping most of our 200+ titles in stock at all times. You might also point them to Alliance, Studio 2, and Universal Distribution (Canada), who are all doing an especially good job keeping Palladium titles in stock and available. A few store owners reached out to us just this past week, thanks to your efforts, so keep up the good work!

Brick and mortar stores can request the Retailer Terms by contacting Palladium via the Help Desk on our website or by telephone (734-721-2903). Thank you for your help on this front. Please keep spreading the word. Thank you.

 

After the Bomb® Podcast is a hit among fans – new episodes are coming

This is why I love the Palladium family of fans. The Palladium community has worked together to create something special. Thanks to your help supporting and promoting the fun Real Play Games Podcast it is a hit and growing. They are already moving into securing advertisement deals and charting on Canadian Spotify well ahead of their projections. And these folks are gamers and Palladium fans just like you following a dream. How cool is that? Thank you for doing this.

They have wrapped After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 1 and are in the planning stages for Season 2, which will pick up with characters selected by the podcast audience. It is interesting to note that almost none of the podcast players had any prior experience with Palladium’s Megaversal game system prior to running the After the Bomb® podcast, but now they’re hooked. They like it so much they have slated SIX Palladium games for recording over the course of the next year!

You can learn more and listen to After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge adventures by using the links below. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

 

NEW! After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 8 – 2xDs? Nuts! As the battle rages across the Land of Caster, the Empire ups the threat level, deploying deadly power-suited attackers as they attempt to purge the remaining mutant animals from the area, but the Fursome Foursome, Piero, and the Rodent Cartel aren’t planning on going down without a fight! Death-defying dodges! Evil birds! Axe tossing! Exclamation points! You’ll get at least some of these when you tune into the episode!
Expected Release Date: October 8, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Drug Use, Violence

 

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 9 – The Battle of Hershey Avenue. Whether you call it a sky-van or a helpercopter, whatever it is spells a lot of trouble for the Fursome Foursome and their allies, and not everyone’s going to make it out of this one fully intact. This one is for all the marbles, and the reverberations that come from this will change things not just now, but in the future. Is GM John going to bump off your favorite mutant animal? Better check and see on this one!
Expected Release Date: October 22, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Violence

 

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 10 – Homes: Lost, Sought, and Found. In the aftermath of the battle between the Empire of Humanity and the Rodent Cartel, the Fursome Foursome finds themselves at a crossroads. The ramifications of the things they learn and the choices they make will shape the future in ways both large and small, and when we pick back up on them next, there’ll be new faces and new stories to get to know, right alongside your old favorites. There’s no such thing as a goodbye with the promise that you’ll meet again.
Expected Release Date: November 5, 2021
Content Warnings: Alcohol and Drug Use, Adult Language

 

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Discussion Bonus Show. Game Master John and the whole cast take some time to answer listener questions from email and Twitter, the gang talks about some of the background information behind their characterizations, speculate on some things that came up in game, and just have a fun time chatting about the game we just played before we roll into another one in two weeks. Also, we somehow get back into the mutant kangaroo boob thing again, that just seems like it’s going to be a running thing.
Expected Release Date: November 19, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language

 

Heroes Unlimited 2E Christmas Special is just one. When the megavillain speedster Railgun is contracted to abduct and ensure the safety of Santana Villarosa, a popular Youtube doll refurbisher, he’ll have to face hired killers, ninja, the Gnomes of Zurich, the forces of Dracula Jr. and more to see to it that she’ll make it home for the holidays! We start recording this one in mid-October and ideally will have a weekly set of releases for the first four weeks of December 2021.

 

And coming over the next 12-18 months …

  • After the Bomb: Purrsuit Season 2
  • Beyond the Supernatural 2E – Cozy Caverns Mysteries
  • Palladium Megaversal system – Baby, I Shrunk these F*$#ing People!
  • Nightbane®
  • Rifts®

Please continue to support and spread the word about Real Play Games and their RPG Podcast: After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge™.

 

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

 

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

NEW! After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

Create any type of intelligent, humanoid, mutant animal from a turtle or raccoon to an elephant or lion. The RPG presents stats for 100+ mutant animals, plus rules for creating any mutant animal you can imagine, and each sourcebook offers dozens more.

Play your mutant animals as super-heroes, vigilantes, or mutants on the run in the Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Heroes of the Megaverse® or Skraypers™ settings. Or as mutants or monsters in Nightbane®. (You could make a mutant animal the Nightbane’s Morphus!) In Palladium Fantasy® your mutant animal could be one of the forgotten archaic races, a visitor from another world, a creation of magic, or a monster. In Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Phase World® and the Three Galaxies, The Mechanoids®, Aliens Unlimited™, Splicers® and similar RPGs, use the creation rules to make new D-Bees, aliens, mutants, or monsters. Or play in the AtB post-apocalyptic Earth setting that makes Planet of the Apes seem tame. Whatever the setting, playing anthropomorphic animal characters is a blast.

  • 100+ mutant animal stats included.
  • Mutant animal creation rules to mutate ANY animal.
  • 52 Mutant Animal Powers.
  • 33 Mutant Animal Psionic Powers.
  • New Animal Chimeras and their abilities.
  • New back story to the After the Bomb® world of mutants.
  • The post-apocalyptic Earth setting of “After the Bomb” is just one use for your mutant animal heroes.
  • A complete RPG written by Erick Wujcik. His last great work and a sometimes overlooked RPG masterpiece. These are the Mutant Animal Creation Rules you know and love taken to new heights.
  • Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™, Aliens Unlimited™, Nightbane®, N&S, Rifts® and any game setting where mutants or aliens are appropriate.
  • 72 pages of “bonus” material includes the original After the Bomb® sourcebook and Yucatan Adventures from the old Game Shield.
  • 296 pages (72 bonus pages) – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 503HC – now shipping. Also available as a 224 page softcover book ($26.99 retail – Cat. No. 503).

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

 

Ninjas & Superspies RPG Hardcover

NEW! Ninjas & Superspies RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG is the ultimate guide to martial arts with 40 different martial art forms and 48 mystic martial arts powers alone, but there is so much more. Asian combat skills accurately portrayed, each with its own unique fighting style, methods of attack and defense presented on an epic scale, complete with legendary mystic powers. Spies, Cyber Agents, Gadgeteers, secret organizations creation rules, secret identities, gimmick weapons and clothing, cyber-disguises, implants, and more. Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™ RPG and even Nightbane®, Rifts®, and other settings. A complete game PLUS 44 pages of bonus material gathered from The Rifter®.

  • 40+ types of hand to hand combat — effectively offering 40 types of martial arts character classes!
  • 17 Occupational Character Classes for spies, mercenaries, martial artists and special operatives.
  • 48 mystic martial art powers.
  • Dim Mak, Chi Mastery, the Arts of Invisibility and more.
  • Bionic implants, disguises, weapons, & equipment.
  • Secret identities, spy agencies, and creation rules for secret organizations.
  • Complete stand-alone RPG with skills, weapons, rules and guidelines for using other Palladium settings.
  • Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™, Rifts®, Rifts® China, and the entire Palladium Megaverse®!
  • 44 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 525HC – RPG by Erick Wujcik – now shipping. Also available as a 176 page softcover book ($22.99 retail – Cat. No. 525). And see Mystic China for an astonishing and fun sourcebook with more mystical martial arts abilities, magic, demons, immortals and more.

Ninjas and Superspies RPG Hardcover

 

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

NEW! Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover – The Zombie Apocalypse – available now

The dead have risen and it would seem to be the end of the world.

Civilization crumbles in a matter of days as hundreds of millions of people die and rise as the walking dead. The hundreds of millions of people who fall to the zombies also rise to join the growing legions of undead. Then the world goes silent.

You are on your own. The army is MIA. There is no government. No law. No television, radio or Internet. No media, cell phones or communications of any kind. Cities and towns have gone dark, and zombies fill the streets.

Death Cults have risen, promising protection from the walking dead.

Retro-Savages have forsaken technology and sacrifice the living to the zombies in hopes of bringing an end to the nightmare.

Brave human survivors refuse to lie down and die! They come from all walks of life. Their common goal: survival as they struggle to forge safe havens away from the cities, rescue other survivors and battle the walking dead without respite. For now at least, the planet belongs to the dead.

Dead Reign® is an excellent introductory game that is easy to learn, fast to play, and fun to read. If you are looking for a zombie game that truly captures the feel of survival after the apocalypse and the nightmare of being stalked by zombies, Dead Reign® is it. Game mechanics are designed to create a real sense of escalating terror and dread when the zombies swarm. Sourcebooks expand the world, player options, and adventure ideas as well as new zombies and dangers.

  • Six Apocalyptic Character Classes (O.C.C.) including the Reaper, Shepherd of the Damned, Hound Master, Apocalyptic Soldier, Scrounger and Ordinary People.
  • Seven types of zombies plus the Half-Living. (Sourcebooks offer many more.)
  • Secrets of the Dead: Everything you need to know about zombies and need to ask.
  • Death Cults, their Priests, power over zombies and goals.
  • Random tables galore and the fundamentals of survival.
  • Strong setting, world overview and many adventure ideas.
  • A complete role-playing game. 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 230HC – now shipping. Also available as a 224 page softcover RPG ($26.99 retail – Cat. No. 230).

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

 

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative “Hardcover”

The “original,” 256 page Rifts® RPG from 1990 plus an extra 32 additional pages of color at the back of the book. This new section includes the history and people behind the making of Rifts®, a gallery of ALL Rifts® covers to date (160+ of them including those coming soon), never before seen concept art, other artwork and fun. Note: This is a different rule book than the expanded 376 page Rifts® Ultimate Edition (RUE), but the original remains completely compatible with RUE and all World Books and sourcebooks.

Rifts® merges science fiction with fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling and plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts to any location on Earth, or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds. And just as you can travel to other worlds, aliens and the monstrous travel to Earth and stalk the innocent.

Rifts® is a fusion of ideas, settings, genres, and characters unlike any game on the market. An endless Megaverse® of adventure™ in which if you can imagine it, you can play it. Are you up to the challenge?

The Rifts® Commemorative 30th Anniversary Hardcover is the original first edition Rifts® rule book (1990) that started a phenomenon. It is a complete RPG suitable for use with ALL existing Rifts® World Books, Sourcebooks, and Dimension Books. It is an earlier and somewhat simpler edition given the deluxe treatment. Expanded with bonus art, an additional 32 color pages, color end sheets, history about the making of Rifts®, notes, concept drawings, color concepts, photographs, and a gallery of every Rifts® cover published between 1990 and the end of 2021. The cover features the famous Keith Parkinson painting of the Splugorth Slave Barge. Provided to you due to popular demand.

  • The “original” Rifts® RPG (1990) back in print for the first time in 16 years.
  • Color cover of the famous Splugorth Slave Barge by Keith Parkinson.
  • A color gallery of 160+ Rifts® covers.
  • An extra 32 pages of color.
  • More comprehensive contents pages.
  • Concept art and pencil illustrations often with notes by the artist.
  • History of Rifts®, personal notes, commentary, and nostalgic material.
  • Color end sheets.
  • Countless memories, and loads of fun.
  • A simpler, earlier version of the core rules.
  • A complete role-playing game suitable for use with ALL existing Rifts® World Books, Sourcebooks, and Dimension Books.
  • Available in stores and from Palladium Books.
  • This is NOT the signed or numbered limited edition, but we are happy to sign copies at conventions and the Palladium Open House. The print run is likely to be limited to a few thousand copies.
  • 288 pages – $49.99 retail – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Temporarily out of stock, available in December. Also see the 376 page Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG for the current Rifts® rule set.

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

 

Rifts Coalition Manhunters

UPDATE: Rifts® CS Manhunters – Bigger, Bolder, Epic, 190+ pages

The Rifts® CS Manhunters Sourcebook has grown into a 192-224 page, epic sourcebook that is now part Coalition States adventure sourcebook and part psionics sourcebook, with the psionic elements being in the limelight in a similar vein as the Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook was for bionics, only with an emphasis on how the Coalition States use psychics. There are revisits, clarifications, and expansions of some of the classic psionic abilities, and 50+ new psionic powers that are fun and intuitive. Only a handful are limited to the Manhunters. As for the CS Manhunters … I think they will quickly become the new villain you love to hate. In addition, the sourcebook provides insight about CS psychics, Dog Boys, Kill Hounds, Psi-Stalkers, the Minion War, CS citizens, and Emperor Prosek. I love this book and I’m confident you will too.

Rifts® CS Manhunters presents dark secrets of the Coalition States involving CS psychics, the super secret Psi-Ops Division (the thought police of Emperor Prosek), and the deadly super-patriots that are the enigmatic CS Manhunters. Includes 50+ NEW psionic abilities with real punch, insight into the Dog Boys and Kill Hounds, meanings revealed about the Seven Dangers Prophecy (first introduced in Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids®), and gadgets and implants, and surprises. All of it building toward something epic.

  • New Coalition Psychic O.C.C.s.
  • 50+ new psionic abilities and revisits of some favorites.
  • CS Manhunter Divner and Precog.
  • CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
  • CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
  • CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
  • CS Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
  • CS Manhunter Mind Melters, the deadliest of them all.
  • CS Manhunter squads and special operations.
  • Secrets of Psi-Ops Division and insight about Coalition psychics.
  • Deciphering the Seven Dangers Prophecy.
  • The impact of the demon plagues unleashed by the Minion War.
  • Player Characters, NPCs, background info, adventure ideas, and more.
  • 192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In final production.

Pre-Order Rifts CS Manhunters

 

Creature Feature

UPDATE: Creature Feature, a Beyond the Supernatural sourcebook

This is going to be another fun adventure sourcebook. The manuscript will go into editing and rewrites as soon as I finish CS Manhunters and most of the artwork is done. Though I may add a few illustrations and already have artists lined up. Creature Feature™ 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.

Pre-Order Creature Feature

 

Rifts Titan Robotics

UPDATE: Rifts® Titan Robotics

Here it is, the reveal of the new cover. I hope you like it. I love that it presents the iconic Titan Robotics Combat Robot with a new big gun that hints at what else awaits you inside the book. I also enjoy the combat scene, smoke, and haze of war. Like Northern Gun and the Manistique Imperium, Titan Robotics sells freely to adventurers, mercenaries, and anyone who has the cash. Hence, the owners of these big ‘bots clashing with Coalition Forces.

This is why I call Rifts® Titan Robotics™ a high-tech toy box filled with many new types of Titan Robotics power armors, giant robots, vehicles, weapons, and gear. Some are big bruisers while others are small and sleek. As fun as these new tech toys are, Rifts® Titan Robotics™ delves into the company’s many secrets, including ARCHIE-3’s plans and program to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics and his current schemes and plans for the future. All of which provides fodder for adventure.

  • 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 Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others. Cover by Mike Majestic.
  • Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda.
  • 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

Pre-Order Rifts Titan Robotics

 

Rifts Bestiary Volume Two

UPDATE: Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two

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).

Pre-Order Rifts Bestiary Two

 

DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® at PDF prices – 300+ 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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

 

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

 

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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

This week has been a busy one, processing and shipping orders, signing books for the Christmas Surprise Packages, and a ton of business operational stuff in the present and for the future. I have gotten little sleep this week, but as Erick Wujcik would say, “It’s all good.”

I am thrilled to see the number of new gamers discovering the Palladium Megaverse® as well as many players returning to gaming after a hiatus for one reason or another. They are both very exciting. Welcome, everyone! The more the merrier. Try new games, new world settings, new setting or genre combinations, experiment and have fun. Likewise, take a look at your old favorite game settings like After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural, and Ninjas & Superspies. Mercenary based Rifts® campaigns appear to be popular based on the rush on Rifts® Black Market and the number of mercenary titles being purchased and requested in Surprise Packages. Space themes too, with requests for the Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy, Phase World® and the Three Galaxies. Or how about that ancient copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® RPG or Robotech®? It doesn’t matter what, just open up an old or new RPG, start reading, and build that one-shot adventure or start a new campaign. Have a little gaming fun to fix what ails you or to forget your troubles. Trust me, it works like a charm. Note: For those of you who do not know, Palladium no longer publishes the TMNT or Robotech RPGs, but if you have them, play them. They are both fun settings.

Don’t let the holidays stress you out and keep those imaginations burning bright. May you live long and prosper.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

 

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where our Surprise Package customers can offer comments and suggestions with their order. We do so because we want to know what you think, and what you want, and we appreciate your suggestions and insights. The idea to do hardcover editions of core books came from fan comments in the Grab Bags.

Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling of these comments in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange times. Please use our games to find escape from the pandemic and other worries. Use them to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each comment. Happy holidays. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

 

J.D.V. in Cornville, Arizona, writes: I just received my first gift box [Surprise Package] and was quite impressed by the contents and loved seeing all the signatures! Thank you.

[That’s what it is all about, J.D.V., surprising you with the contents and autographs and making you smile. Happy holidays and keep that imagination burning bright. – Kevin]

 

R.O. in Jacksonville, Florida, writes: Favorite: Nightbane®, Rifts®, and Heroes Unlimited. First time trying this [Surprise Package]. Looking forward to what happens.

[Hi R.O., and welcome to the fun and excitement of Palladium’s Christmas Surprise Package offer. I hope your Surprise Package meets your expectations. I’m confident it will. Enjoy. – Kevin]

 

B.C. in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, writes: Rifts® has become my go-to Palladium game. It allows my players to pretty much play what they want under one system. I’m purchasing two Christmas Surprise Packages this year as my collection is filling up nicely and I’m hoping again this year to fill another void of books across the Megaverse®. Thanks so much for all your hard work. Please stay safe. I hope everyone is well over the coming holidays.

[Thank you, B.C., for your warm regards. So far, everyone here is healthy and doing okay. Enjoy the two Grab Bags and the holidays. – Kevin]

 

D.W. in Prineville, Oregon, writes: Heroes Unlimited so far. Love the whole Megaverse® and all the worlds and world building. Thanks for these Surprise Packages.

[Hey D.W., I hope you get to enjoy the rest of the Megaverse® because it is just as compelling and fun. I know you’ll enjoy the Surprise Package. – Kevin]

 

J.L. in Murray City, Utah, writes: Favorites: Everything Rifts® and want to build my collection up. Super-excited about the new pre-order books. I like to collect autographs and the hardcover collector editions of your books. Most all of the out of print ones I see priced astronomically on ebay. I love Rifts® and refuse to play non-Palladium games. Palladium is the palladium standard! I’m a huge fan of the Coalition States as they resonate with me …

[Thank you, J.L. for the kind words. What can I say, those collector’s editions and other out of print titles are hot commodities with genuine value. I was floored by how much some of them and Palladium’s old TMNT and Robotech® titles sell for. Wow. If you love the CS, you’ll be thrilled with CS Manhunters, The Disavowed, and CS Arsenal. – Kevin]

 

S.S. in Atascocita, Texas, writes (in part) … Trying to rebuild my collection after a long time off. Snapped up our Ninjas & Superspies hardcover and After the Bomb® hardback and was quite pleased. Also excited for Rifts® Manhunters.

[Hey, S.S., welcome back! I think you’ll be glad to have returned to the Palladium Megaverse. I’m pleased you are liking the hardcover editions. You can thank your fellow gamers, because it was my listening to fan suggestions that got me to offer the hardcovers you and everyone are enjoying so much. Keep the suggestions coming, everyone, and game on. – Kevin]

 

J.M. in Lawton, Oklahoma, writes: More hardback books and please put the new books in hardback. Thank you.

[Hey J.M., you are not the first or only person to suggest we should release all new titles in hardback, and we appreciate the suggestion. However, the verdict is still out on that subject. We don’t know about that. Maybe. What do the rest of you think? Should we release “all” titles or at least 160+ page books as both softcover and hardcover editions? Do you want to see titles like Rifts® CS Manhunters (224 pages, packed with psionics and CS goodness), Rifts® Titan Robotics, Antarctica, Land of the Damned 3, etc., as softcover and hardcover, or just softcover? Let us know. – Kevin]

 

K.T. in Windsor, Colorado, writes (in part): Favorites: After the Bomb® but I think I own everything and Rifts® … I love these gift bags and everything that comes with them. The lore in Rifts® is my favorite part.

[Thank you for the kind words, K.T., and years of support. We love doing the Surprise Packages and hope you enjoy yours. Ho, ho, ho. – Kevin]

 

W.S. in Fairbanks, Alaska, writes: Rifts® is my favorite. Robotech® was my second. 🙁 Thanks and keep the world build up!

[Will do, W.S. We miss Robotech® too. I think you will enjoy the move to the Palladium Fantasy RPG®. – Kevin]

 

D.E. in Toledo, Ohio, writes (in part): I used to play The Mechanoid Invasion® with the three books we bought from Mind Games (store) Toledo, around 1985. Then we played TMNT®. I had a Rat mutant based on Snake Pliskin from the movie Escape from New York. Recently, I bought a copy of Palladium Fantasy and fell in love with it … It’s good to be back.

[Awesome, D.E., it’s good to have you back. I hope you find a game group and enjoy many adventures. – Kevin]

 

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

 

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

 

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

 

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

 

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

 

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

 

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

 

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

 

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

 

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

 

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

 

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

 

Now Shipping

Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

 

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

 

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

 

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Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – November 5, 2021

Weekly Update Opening Graphic

Explore the Megaverse® – One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

We are rocking now. Does it feel like the holiday season is starting to kick in? It sure does for us. Counting today it is only 8 Fridays before Christmas, so the best (and most fun) deal in gaming – the Surprise Packages – are in full swing now, and orders are pouring in. Awesome. We are glad to see so many of you ordering early. Smart.

The headline of the Sunday Detroit Free Press (October 24) was: Is Santa Still Coming to Town? The article talked about the supply chain troubles, including bottlenecks along various points in the transportation system, product stuck at ports, the failings of the US Postal Service, and shortages of paper products, toys, certain foods, holiday sweaters, and even Christmas trees! You can see evidence of this for yourself with scattered sections of empty shelves in many stores. The advice of everyone is to buy what you know you want as early as possible and expect there to be shortages and shipping delays, especially as we get closer the holidays. Note: If you want to use the least expensive method of shipping – Media Mail – we recommend you place Media Mail orders now! We cannot guarantee Media Mail orders shipped after November 22nd will arrive in time for Christmas. You have been warned. On the other hand, UPS was spectacular last year and we expect that same excellent service in 2021.

As I have informed you, I have been working hard to avoid shortages of Palladium products by sending dozens of books in early for reprint spread out between four printers, weeks and even months ahead of schedule. I am glad we have done so, because we are experiencing some printing delays, especially with hardcovers. As feared, a few titles are running painfully low: After the Bomb® RPG Hardcover, Cat. No. 503HC, Ninjas & Superspies RPG Hardcover, Cat. No. 525HC, and Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover, Cat. No. 848HC. All three have been at the printers for weeks. New printings are “supposed” to arrive in mid-November, but we have been unable to get confirmation of exact ship dates. That makes me nervous, but maybe we’ll be okay.

The hugely popular Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative (Cat. No. 800HC30) was sent in for reprint back in September as soon as it sold out. We are told it remains on schedule to ship early December. (Note: We still have around 10 copies of Rifts 30th put aside for Surprise Packages, but they are going fast). Fingers crossed that we get all three of these titles in time for Christmas. We are doing everything we can on our end.

Likewise, the Splicers® RPG Bonus Hardcover Edition and “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative Bonus Edition Hardcover are both at the printer and supposed to be available some time in November, but we cannot guarantee it.

Speaking of shortages, VIP Thursday admissions for the 2022 Palladium Open House (POH) are also selling pretty quickly now. We are not sure if there will be any VIP slots available after the first of the year. Weekend admissions should be available well into the New Year and even at the door. Yes, we are planning to hold the 2022 Palladium Open House next April, barring any unforeseen issues or health crises. I need to update the info on our website, but I have been swamped. Both of our hotels are taking reservations. Again, better to reserve early than wait.

We are looking for Game Masters to run game events at the POH. If that might include YOU, please start thinking about the details of your games: The title/name of the event, a brief written description, how many players, the length of the game in hours (try to be accurate so players can block in other events on the schedule), and we strongly advise providing “pre-rolled characters” for the players. We will also need to know the Palladium game setting (Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited, Dead Reign®, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Phase World®, etc.), as we are looking for events for all our game worlds. And yes, that can include Rifts® for Savage Worlds®, TMNT®, and Robotech® even though we do not publish them anymore (or ourselves). Game Masters contact us at: palladium-gm {at} palladiumbooks.com

More About the 2022 Palladium Open House. 1. Game Masters who run three or more games over the event get a free G.M. T-shirt and a 30% discount on the purchase of most products throughout the weekend (some exclusions apply like limited editions, original art, auction items, items sold by our guest creators, etc.). We appreciate your effort to bring fun to POH attendees from around the world. Game Masters contact us at: palladium-gm {at} palladiumbooks.com

2. I believe both hotels offer the group rate for a day or two before (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – Thursday is VIP day starting around noon) and after the POH (Monday, Tuesday). It has become something of a tradition to have a dozen or so crazy … I mean wonderful gamers arrive a day or two ahead of time to help Palladium with setup for the event, and a day after to help with tear down and clean-up. Monday after the POH is usually quiet and slow paced compared to the week prior while you get to hang out with the blurry-eyed and fatigued Palladium staff. Arriving a day or two early and a day later may also provide a less expensive cost to fly in for the POH from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, 15-20 minutes from the Palladium offices. Coming in to help a day or two early gives you the pleasure of lending a helping hand, plus meeting and hanging with some of us a bit early. HOWEVER, we are very busy and will put you to work setting up, sweeping floors, scrubbing toilets, folding T-Shirts, etc.). WARNING! You will see the frazzled, grumpy, already tired, Kevin Siembieda barking orders, probably at you. Lol.

Hmmm, this appears to be a train of thought Weekly Update as I am juggling a zillion tasks in my jammed-packed schedule and my mind is all over the place as I write this. Read on, because who knows what news and info may be imparted next.

Btw, new Surprise Package Comments from fans like you are presented after Closing Thoughts.

More people are discovering and liking the “softcover” edition of Rifts®. The book looks great and makes Rifts® available for prisons and institutions that do not allow hardcovers. Spread the word.

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85 Annual is nearing completion. Interior art has been assigned. Preliminary, basic layout is done, and final edits and rewrites are being handled. Most of it by Sean Roberson with assistance from editor Alex Marciniszyn. Will the Rifter Annual be available in time for Christmas? We sure hope so, but that is likely to depend on the printer’s schedule. We will keep you posted.

Meanwhile, Wayne is working on new hardcovers, DriveThru offerings, computer upgrades, and troubleshooting, while I am working on so many things my head is swimming. That includes coordinating, selecting and signing hundreds of books for the ever popular Christmas Surprise Packages, making sure printers are on track, and a hundred other demands during the busy holiday season. But here’s the thing, it is all good. Great, even! The level of excitement here, among the Palladium staff, is off the charts. I will keep you posted as things progress.

UPDATE: Rifts® CS Manhunters. This epic and much awaited title seems certain to become an early 2022 release, with printers being overwhelmed and dealing with supply shortages. Of course we will work hard to get the fastest turn-around we can.

The inside scoop. One reason Rifts® CS Manhunters and a few other titles have experienced delays is because I, Kevin Siembieda, have been accepted into an elite business program that started at the beginning of September and lasts into December. Between it, the arrival of business and creative partner Sean Owen Roberson, the printing crisis, and the holiday season, I have been busier than I have ever been in my life. Leaving me little time to be creative and write. This may sound disappointing in the short-term, but it is huge for Palladium’s future. It is critical to our long-term plans and the successful implementation of our five year growth plan that will blow your minds. I can tell you, the level of strategic discussions, planning, and networking that has been taking place is epic and exhilarating.

Sean being here in person to see me in action has him teasing me about what he calls my “my superhuman energy level and ingenuity.” Actually, I like it so he can tease me on that front all he wants. I have always had a high P.E. attribute stat and stamina, especially when I am highly motivated and being creative. And in case you are wondering, business planning and strategy (which includes determining new releases and coordinating artists and writers) is very creative and fun for me. And for Sean, as well. His energy level, enthusiasm, and commitment to Palladium is tremendous and we are fueling the energy and ideas of each other and those around us. That said, I cannot wait until I can pour the majority of my energy back into writing, finishing books, and getting them into your hands.

A Question for you, our customers. More than one Palladium fan has suggested we do softcover and hardcover editions of “all” upcoming new releases like Rifts® CS Manhunters, Titan Robotics, Creature Feature, etc. I was surprised by that even though I know a lot of you do like and want hardcover books. What do you think? Please let us know via Help Desk, postings in Palladium message boards, and in your Surprise Package comment section. Thanks.

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

NEW, COMING SOON: “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition Rules

This deluxe, foil stamped edition is at the printer, and has been for awhile now. With any luck it will be available sometime in November. We are offering it due to popular demand. It is the original, first Edition rules, expanded with the inclusion of the Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook. The original edition also includes Erick Wujcik’s popular Tombs of Gersidi adventure left out of the 2nd Edition rule book. The cover is a recreation of the original, famous red and black cover of the original RPG. We sold more than 120,000 copies of the first edition rule book back in the day, so we know a lot of people have fond memories of it. Hence, the request for Palladium to offer it in some form. We hope you enjoy the deluxe hardcover. It sure brought back memories for many of us.

  • 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 (ancient vampires and dark magic) written by Erick Wujcik. Maps by Erick Wujcik. Easily adapted to current rules.
  • Depictions of Eastern, Western, Northern, and Old Kingdom coins.
  • Fan favorite artwork by Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook included as “bonus” material appears in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • Recreation of the original cover with red foil stamping into a black faux leatherette hardcover. It should look beautiful.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Splicers RPG Bonus Edition Hardcover

NEW, COMING SOON: Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover

The Splicers® RPG plus bonus Splicers® material from The Rifter® #30, #32, and #51 offering War Mounts, The Wasteland, and Living Weapons like the Swarm Lord, Hive insects, etc., written by Chris Kluge.

  • The complete RPG + 50 pages of bonus material.
  • 280 pages – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 200HC – at the printer. Release date not yet confirmed by the printer. Hopefully in time for Christmas.

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

NEW! “Softcover” Rifts® Ultimate Edition – available now

Rifts® is a fusion of settings and characters that seamlessly merges science fiction, fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling, plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts – tears in space and time – to any location on Earth or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds.

Explore not just exotic and mysterious locations but unique characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, Crazies, and Juicers, to name but a few. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and otherworldly beings – most available as player characters.

Challenge your imagination with opportunities like no other RPG. All of it set on a post-apocalypse Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. Build mysterious characters, battle the forces of evil, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

  • 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, and psychic.
  • Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, scouts, assassins, and more.
  • Weapons, armor, vehicles, and equipment.
  • 140+ magic spells for magic characters like Ley Line Walkers, Mystics, Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and others.
  • 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
  • World overview, the Coalition States, and more.
  • Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different aliens, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and locations for adventure.
  • There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
  • 376 pages – 3 color sections, 24 pages total. The softcover book is identical to the hardcover edition.
  • Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. 800SE – available now. May be requested for the Surprise Package.
  • Also available: The Rifts® Ultimate Edition hardcover ($44.99 retail, Cat. No. 800) and the “Original” 1990 Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover (temporarily sold out – back in print early December, 2021 – $49.99 retail – 32 pages of additional color and fun).

Rifts Ultimate Softcover Edition

The Rifter #85 Annual

UPDATE: The Rifter® #85, 2021 Annual

The Rifter® – your favorite portal to the Palladium Books® Megaverse® – is back!

And oh boy, do we have a treat for you – 224 pages of the best content from an entire year’s worth of submissions. This 2021 annual issue has content for use with almost all our game lines including Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™, and more.

Highlights include:

  • Soul in Flames: A Rifts® adventure by Barry Wright that captured our imagination so much we put it on the cover!
  • The Colony of Gonarn: Sweeping location and adventure material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans.
  • Vehicle Encounter Tables: An awesome resource by Lloyd Blair for Dead Reign®, but also eminently useful for Systems Failure®, Chaos Earth®, Beyond the Supernatural™, and even Rifts®.
  • Beyond Midnight: Inspired by Boxed Nightmares, this combination of story, creature feature, and plot hooks by Dan Frederick includes adventure seeds for nine Palladium settings.
  • The Redeemer: What does evil-turned-good look like? This O.C.C. by Kyle Osterberg for Nightbane® covers just that.
  • Magical Collectibles: An array of unique arcane items by Christian Bonawandt for use with any Palladium setting.
  • The Glitter Boy Revisited: Two articles by Will Erwin that will have Game Masters and players alike taking a fresh new look at everyone’s favorite chrome power suit.
  • Relics of Empire: New setting, history, and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Ian Herbert.
  • Plus: Short stories, news, coming attractions, product descriptions, and more.
  • 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 185 – Coming this autumn.

Rifter® Submission Note: If you were not accepted into this Annual, you may be on the short list for the next. FYI: We get many submissions for Rifts®, and are sitting on some for the 2022 Annual now, so you will have a greater chance of getting published in the next Rifter Annual if you send material for Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb®, Palladium Fantasy® and others, though we get a fair number of submissions for Fantasy too.

Placing Orders for Christmas – please do so sooner than later

– and if you want to ship via Media Mail, we suggest you do so before November 22 in order to receive it in time for Christmas

As mentioned in previous Updates, the US Postal Service was unreliable and slow as a snail last holiday season. We do not know what to expect this year, but it will probably be more of the same. Thus, we cannot guarantee packages shipped via Media Mail will arrive in time for the Holidays for orders placed after Black Friday. We have seen inconsistent service, delays, and the occasional lost package from the US Post Office for 18 months now, so you use Media Mail at your own risk. Media Mail is the least expensive method of shipping in the US, but it is also one of the lowest priority classifications of mail. Last year, packages ordered via Media Mail in mid-November, December, and January (i.e. Christmas rush) took 8-12 weeks to be delivered instead of the usual 4-12 days. It was insane and US Mail service continues to be spotty. If you do not need your order quickly or in time for Christmas, then use Media Mail. When ordering gifts for others, especially as Thanksgiving and Black Friday approaches, we strongly recommend UPS.

Though pricey, last year UPS, and that includes UPS Ground, was the most reliable method of shipping even a week before Christmas. UPS Ground arrives to ALL states, except Alaska and Hawaii, in 3-5 business days. And the package is automatically insured for $100 in case of loss or damage.

UPDATE: Supply chain issues, printing delays and shortages

So far Palladium has been on top of keeping our books in stock, but we are certain some titles will temporarily sell out before Christmas. For example: The popular Rifts® 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover is sold out now and though we sent it to the printer weeks ago, we do not expect it back in stock before December 10th or 12th. And that’s assuming all goes well with no unexpected delays. Hardcover titles are the most vulnerable as they take longer to print and all of our printers are presently overwhelmed and experiencing delays. Another reason to place orders for the books you know you want as gifts for the holidays sooner than later. We do not want to disappoint anyone.

Christmas Grab Bags

The best deal in gaming – the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package – now shipping

Give the gamers in your life a gift for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day (for you in Canada and elsewhere), birthdays, anniversaries, graduation and any gift-giving occasion, a gift you know they will love. Or treat yourself. After these past two crazy years, you deserve to do something nice for yourself and your gaming pals. The Surprise Package Offer gets you physical game books at PDF prices, and we will sign them if you would like us to.

What is a Christmas Surprise Package?

A smile and a hug that comes in a box filled with signed game books from available Palladium staff and freelancers. And God knows this year continues to be so crazy, we need something fun like the Christmas Surprise Package to bring a little joy and laughter into our lives. With so many people suffering from the fallout of the pandemic and related doldrums, frustration, and in some cases, money issues, they need to escape to realms of role-playing adventures. Not to mention the huge savings and autographs available via a Palladium Christmas Surprise Package.

A Surprise Package is your way to get physical books (and autographs if you want them) for PDF prices! $95-$100+ worth of Palladium products for only $55 (plus shipping and handling)! That can nab you four or more items when these days one core rule book can cost you that alone.

These Surprise Packages are our way of saying thank you for your support and showing you our love and appreciation. It’s a surprise because you never know exactly what you’re going to get or who will sign your books, because we pick from your Wish List and may surprise you with stuff you are not expecting. Extra items may include other RPGs, sourcebooks, issues of the Rifter®, novels, miniatures, prints, art books, greeting cards, T-shirts, negatives, and other items. Some books may be slightly damaged (scuffs, scratches, dings, a crunched corner, etc.) so we can send you more.

Truly the best deal in gaming, Palladium’s 24th Annual Christmas Surprise Package gets you $95-$105, sometimes MORE, worth of product for ONLY $55 (plus shipping and handling), as gifts for others or for yourself. That’s physical books at PDF prices. And if you want them signed we will sign each and every one of them.

Christmas Surprise Packages are not just for Christmas. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, or you are looking for that special gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or any special occasion that falls between now and the end of the year, a Surprise Package may be the ideal way to go. You get a ton of stuff on the cheap, you can get a bunch of autographs (if you want ‘em), and you look like you spent a fortune.

This is also a great way to try that game setting you’ve wondered about – Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Systems Failure, Mechanoid Invasion®, Rifts®, After the Bomb®, etc. – or to get something for your favorite Game Master. Or perhaps, to get your player group to consider a new game or setting.

Your “Wish List” is vital – the Palladium Surprise Packages are designed to simulate the joy and surprise of the Christmas Season of Giving. To do this, you submit a list of 12-15 Palladium products (or more) FOR EACH Surprise Package you order. This list of 12-15 items for EACH Grab Bag is critical, because you will not know which items we will select to send you. That makes it just like a Christmas gift because it really is a surprise. Surrogate Santa, Kevin, personally hand-picks every item for every Grab Bag, and may toss in something extra like a limited edition print, or a negative, or similar collector’s item, or an issue of The Rifter®, or something else he thinks you’ll enjoy.

Autographed books. For those of you who want them (which are most people), Kevin and available members of the Palladium staff, and any freelancers we can lasso at the time, are happy to autograph each and every book in your Surprise Package. This is the only way many fans across the country and overseas can ever get signed books.

Send us your brief comments. There is a special form and format to fill out for Christmas Surprise Packages. It includes a place where you can offer your brief comments, suggestions, greetings and salutations.

First-timers are always nervous until they see the great value in their first Surprise Package. A typical Grab Bag has $95-$105 worth of product, sometimes more! Yes, sometimes more, for only $55 plus shipping and handling. Many people order 2-3. Some order 4-6, and some maniacs order even more! It makes sense, because it is a great way to fill holes in your own collection, treat yourself, get autographs, try new games and settings, rebuild your collection, replace worn out books, and get your gaming pals gifts you know they will love. PLEASE spread the word about this great offer.

To those of you outside the USA, the X-Mas Surprise Package is a way to get books and circumvent the damn high cost of shipping from the United States, since you are getting $95-$105 (often more) worth of product and only paying $55 plus a small handling charge. Shipping via Priority Mail International (required for packages weighing 4 or more pounds) to most locations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and many other countries is around $50-$60 US dollars. HOWEVER, because the cost of the product is so low, that’s the equivalent of paying retail for the products and only $0-$30 for shipping. A very good deal. Plus you get autographs if you want them! X-Mas Surprise Packages are the way to go for those of you outside the USA. Please take advantage of it to get all those products you’ve wished you could get except the shipping was too prohibitive. We feel your pain. Game on!

Please spread the word. The Christmas Surprise Package is only publicized by word of mouth, on Palladium’s website, and social media, so please tell everyone you know. Buy one for every gamer you know. They make astonishing gifts for every occasion.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

Systems Failure RPG

Systems Failure RPG – BACK IN STOCK for the holidays – available now

Systems Failure™ RPG is an often overlooked gem. When Sean Roberson read it he went wild over it. “Kev, this is a complete game and fun! I had no idea. You can play this as an ongoing campaign and have a great time. And I love the art too.” – You will fall in love with it too.

When the cities fell, and everything went “off-line,” all seemed lost. Anarchy reigned. All that is left are families struggling to survive and the survivalists, nature-lovers, rowdy farmers, gun fanatics, eggheads, and backwoods wackos living on the fringe – either people out in the boonies or preppers ready for the collapse of civilization.

Join the fight as unlikely heroes battling to save a post-collapse world in an action-packed role-playing game that can be played straight and serious, or with a touch of satire and humor. Reclaim the world for God-fearing humans and go destroy the Bugs!

Oh, and there are the “Bugs” – alien, insect-like things that feed on electricity and turn humans into mindless slaves. Things are worse than anyone could have imagined, but these survivors aren’t ready to give up. And they mean business. America (then the world) will be free!

  • A complete, stand-alone role-playing game.
  • The Villains: Monstrous invaders from another dimension drawn to all things electronic. Deadly and weird.
  • Unlikely Heroes: Play outcasts, nutcases, and survivalists.
  • 11 O.C.C.s including the Exterminator, Freebooter, Wacko, Survivalist, Splatterpunk, NORAD Psychic, and more.
  • Plenty of world information and adventure ideas.
  • Written by Bill Coffin from concepts by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Conversion notes for Rifts® and other Palladium settings.
  • 144 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 650. Available now as a physical book from PalladiumBooks.com and as a PDF from DriveThruRPG.com.

Systems Failure RPG at palladium-store.com

Boxed Nightmares

Boxed Nightmares – BACK IN STOCK for the holidays by next week Friday

This is the 96 page adventure sourcebook created for Beyond the Supernatural, 1st Edition rules but is easily adaptable to BTS-2 and maybe even Nightbane®. It includes six BTS adventures, Jack the Ripper, Tasmanian Devils, monsters, source material and adventure ideas.

The original 16 page tabloid that came with it is now printed in the back of the sourcebook. It ties in to the adventures in the sourcebook and offers clues or insight to them and well as silly fun. Many of the articles are funny and offer adventure ideas.

  • Written by Kevin Siembieda. Artwork by Kevin Long.
  • $17.99 – 114 pages – Cat. No. 701 – available as a physical book from PalladiumBooks.com and as a PDF from DriveThruRPG.com.

Boxed Nightmares at palladium-store.com

Nightbane RPG Hardcover

NEW! Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Nightbane® RPG Hardcover and Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG Hardcover are flying off our warehouse shelves. Both hardcovers offer additional “bonus” material and look fabulous.

At first, people thought Dark Day – the day the sun did not rise anywhere on the planet – was the end of the world. When the sun rose again, everything looked the same, but it wasn’t. Some people have disappeared. Others seem different, darker, crueler, and the world seems more malevolent and dangerous.

Only the newly awakened Nightbane understand that governments and the authorities around the world are being quietly taken over by the sinister Nightlords and their Doppleganger minions. Demonic creatures from a mirror dimension filled with evil and dark magic. Only the Nightbane, born human but who learn they are something else, something more than human, and other creatures that live in the shadows such as vampires and Guardians, dare stand against the gathering darkness.

  • A role-playing game of modern horror, conspiracy, and self-discovery. A new genre we call superhero-horror.
  • You play the Nightbane®. Mostly young, seemingly ordinary people, who since Dark Day can transform into frightening or beautiful monsters blessed (or cursed) with superhuman powers and magic.
  • Nightbane® creation tables – each a different, horrific humanoid or strangely beautiful being who wields powers they must learn to master or fall prey to the Nightlords and their demonic legions. Powers they can only unleash in their monstrous Morphus form.
  • Nightbane “Talents” are supernatural and magical abilities.
  • Nearly a dozen other player characters including the Sorcerer, Mystic, Vampire, Wampyre, Guardian and others.
  • Magic, psionic abilities, and supernatural powers.
  • Nightlords and their minions: the Hunters, Hounds, Hollow Men, etc.
  • Wicked Dopplegangers, mirror travel, magic, and more.
  • The hellish Nightlands™, madmen, and adventure ideas.
  • Compatible with Beyond the Supernatural™, and adaptable to Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Dead Reign®, and the entire Palladium Megaverse®.
  • 60 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 304 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 730HC – available now. (Also available as a 240 page softcover RPG; $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 730).

Nightbane RPG Hardcover

Chaos Earth RPG Hardcover

NEW! Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Great Cataclysm as it unfolds! The Golden Age of Science and human civilization is shattered with the return of magic and the Coming of the Rifts. Humanity struggles to survive against impossible odds as ley lines appear and Rifts tear open the fabric of space and time to unleash all manner of alien invaders, demonic horrors, and monsters. Natural disasters – storms, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis – topple cities and create panic and chaos on a global scale.

You play survivors or the heroes of NEMA (the Northern Eagle Military Alliance) as you battle against the elements, madness, the demonic, the alien, the monstrous, and the magical amidst the devastation. You are equipped with Chromium Guardsmen (Glitter Boys), Silver Eagles (SAMAS), and a host of giant robots, power armor and advanced technology, but is it enough to stand against a rising tide of enemies and invading horrors from other worlds?

You and other survivors are humanity’s last and only hope to survive the apocalypse that will become known as the Great Cataclysm. These are the heroes you play in an ever-changing, nightmare world that can only be described as Chaos Earth.

  • A complete RPG and the origins of Rifts® Earth.
  • Overview of the Great Cataclysm as it unfolds.
  • Introduction to NEMA and its weapons and resources.
  • 11 different character classes, including robot pilots, the Para-Arcane, Demon and Witch Hunters, Chromium Guardsmen & more.
  • Robots, power armor, vehicles, weapons, and equipment.
  • Monsters, chaos and adventure. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 30 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 660HC – available now. (Also available as a 160 page softcover RPG; $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 660).

Chaos Earth RPG Hardcover

List of RPG Hardcovers Currently Available:

Note: As per our new policy and the unpredictable print times, we will not be releasing estimated release dates for these last three hardcovers and upcoming new releases.

Retailers can buy direct from Palladium

Help Your Game Store Find Palladium RPG Products! With game stores opening back up we are happy to report that our distributors are doing a good job at stocking our many titles. If your store is having trouble ordering Palladium titles from distributors or they find getting product from their distributors is too slow, tell them they can buy wholesale directly from Palladium Books. We usually succeed at keeping most of our 200+ titles in stock at all times. You might also point them to Alliance, Studio 2, and Universal Distribution (Canada), who are all doing an especially good job keeping Palladium titles in stock and available. A few store owners reached out to us just this past week, thanks to your efforts, so keep up the good work!

Brick and mortar stores can request the Retailer Terms by contacting Palladium via the Help Desk on our website or by telephone (734-721-2903). Thank you for your help on this front. Please keep spreading the word. Thank you.

After the Bomb® Podcast is a hit among fans – new episodes are coming

This is why I love the Palladium family of fans. The Palladium community has worked together to create something special. Thanks to your help supporting and promoting the fun Real Play Games Podcast it is a hit and growing. They are already moving into securing advertisement deals and charting on Canadian Spotify well ahead of their projections. And these folks are gamers and Palladium fans just like you following a dream. How cool is that? Thank you for doing this.

They have wrapped After the Bomb®: Purrsuit Season 1 and are in the planning stages for Season 2, which will pick up with characters selected by the podcast audience. It is interesting to note that almost none of the podcast players had any prior experience with Palladium’s Megaversal game system prior to running the After the Bomb® podcast, but now they’re hooked. They like it so much they have slated SIX Palladium games for recording over the course of the next year!

You can learn more and listen to After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge adventures by using the links below. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

NEW! After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 8 – 2xDs? Nuts! As the battle rages across the Land of Caster, the Empire ups the threat level, deploying deadly power-suited attackers as they attempt to purge the remaining mutant animals from the area, but the Fursome Foursome, Piero, and the Rodent Cartel aren’t planning on going down without a fight! Death-defying dodges! Evil birds! Axe tossing! Exclamation points! You’ll get at least some of these when you tune into the episode!
Expected Release Date: October 8, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Drug Use, Violence

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 9 – The Battle of Hershey Avenue. Whether you call it a sky-van or a helpercopter, whatever it is spells a lot of trouble for the Fursome Foursome and their allies, and not everyone’s going to make it out of this one fully intact. This one is for all the marbles, and the reverberations that come from this will change things not just now, but in the future. Is GM John going to bump off your favorite mutant animal? Better check and see on this one!
Expected Release Date: October 22, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Violence

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge: Episode 10 – Homes: Lost, Sought, and Found. In the aftermath of the battle between the Empire of Humanity and the Rodent Cartel, the Fursome Foursome finds themselves at a crossroads. The ramifications of the things they learn and the choices they make will shape the future in ways both large and small, and when we pick back up on them next, there’ll be new faces and new stories to get to know, right alongside your old favorites. There’s no such thing as a goodbye with the promise that you’ll meet again.
Expected Release Date: November 5, 2021
Content Warnings: Alcohol and Drug Use, Adult Language

After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Discussion Bonus Show. Game Master John and the whole cast take some time to answer listener questions from email and Twitter, the gang talks about some of the background information behind their characterizations, speculate on some things that came up in game, and just have a fun time chatting about the game we just played before we roll into another one in two weeks. Also, we somehow get back into the mutant kangaroo boob thing again, that just seems like it’s going to be a running thing.
Expected Release Date: November 19, 2021
Content Warnings: Adult Language

Heroes Unlimited 2E Christmas Special is just one. When the megavillain speedster Railgun is contracted to abduct and ensure the safety of Santana Villarosa, a popular Youtube doll refurbisher, he’ll have to face hired killers, ninja, the Gnomes of Zurich, the forces of Dracula Jr. and more to see to it that she’ll make it home for the holidays! We start recording this one in mid-October and ideally will have a weekly set of releases for the first four weeks of December 2021.

And coming over the next 12-18 months …

  • After the Bomb: Purrsuit Season 2
  • Beyond the Supernatural 2E – Cozy Caverns Mysteries
  • Palladium Megaversal system – Baby, I Shrunk these F*$#ing People!
  • Nightbane®
  • Rifts®

Please continue to support and spread the word about Real Play Games and their RPG Podcast: After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of Knowledge™.

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

Still Hot! Rifts® Automated Character Sheet for EXCEL

The next step in character data collection! This EXCEL template provides automation to your Rifts® character creation process. Done in Microsoft Excel, this character template will allow you to build your character with substantial ease and speed. Ideal for the new gamer who doesn’t know all of the Palladium Books® rules just yet, it’s also a highly effective tool for Game Masters and advanced players alike who make multiple characters, NPCs or just like to min/max or theory craft characters between games.

  • Dice Roller: A simple dice roller is on the main page of the character sheet to help with character creation or in-game dice rolling needs.
  • Automated Attributes and Stat Block: All the bonuses and features from attributes are presented in a large stat block allowing you to easily see your bonus to save vs Psionics, Mind Control, etc. You can pick your strength type (Normal, Augmented, Robotic or Supernatural) to determine your carrying and lifting capacity and even your M.D. punch damage if your strength is high enough and of the right type.
  • Automated Combat Stats: The main page holds a section where you can pull up data for your various combat stats, from hand to hand abilities such as Strike, Parry, Dodge and Disarm, to W.P. bonuses including those of the W.P. Sharpshooting variety. This section draws upon all of your character’s selection of skills and abilities and even offers customization from odd O.C.C. or racial abilities.
  • Automated Psionics: All psionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 12: Psyscape™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on psionics for your character. Each psionic ability’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Spells: All Common Invocations, Necromancy, Ocean Magic and Biomancy spells (yes, all the Lemurian Biomancer spells too!) can be selected from a dropdown menu that then populates tables with the information on spells for your character. Each spell’s data including damage, M.D.C. and range also automatically increases based on the character’s level of experience.
  • Automated Skills: All skills from the Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® World Book 25: China 2 – Heroes of the Celestial Court™ and Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria can be selected and then automatically add bonuses from prerequisites and related skills. Physical skills that provide bonuses also add those bonuses directly to attributes and combat stats. Bonuses that require dice rolls are denoted and can then be manually rolled and added to the character sheet. Custom percent bonuses such as O.C.C. bonuses can also be added to individual skills.
  • Automated Cybernetics & Bionics: All cybernetics and bionics from Rifts® Ultimate Edition along with some favorites from other books can be selected from dropdown menus which then tabulate bonuses and add them to your combat stats. Prices also sum up so an enterprising Headhunter can keep track of his hardware and upgrades. Simple cybernetic body part diagrams even allow players to allocate the locations of their various cybernetic and bionic components.
  • Freeform O.C.C. and Racial Power Section: A section for non-standard powers, special O.C.C. or racial abilities allows the player to add custom skills and powers that can be linked to those features to draw upon the character’s level of experience, I.Q. bonus or other stats so powers grow as the character advances.
  • Character Building Section: On the main page of the document is a section to help you build your character, from customizing attributes, to adding non-standard bonuses from O.C.C. or racial abilities, to an optional point buy system for attributes.
  • Helpful Hints and Suggestions: Red triangular tabs appear throughout the document. Hovering over the red tab with the mouse cursor will reveal useful data from sourcebooks, hints, suggestions and other information, such as what a particular stat means, how it’s used in the game and what things can add bonuses or affect it. There is also a page with overview instructions on how to use the sheet, and a number of instructional videos will be posted via Palladium TV on the ins and outs of the character sheet. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/a89XzAV37sE
  • Portrait: A special sheet is set up so you can add an image to the document for a custom portrait for your character. That image is then displayed on the main page and is protected from accidental movement or deletion from the main page.
  • Password Protected: Several pages of the document are password protected so players won’t accidently delete formulas and ruin the character sheet’s automated features. The password is provided so players can customize the sheet to their liking then protect the sheet again so they don’t undo all their hard work.
  • Note: The file is best used in Microsoft EXCEL 2016 or above. Some data may be lost if not using Microsoft EXCEL, such as when using similar products like Open Office.
  • Available from PalladiumBooks.com AND DriveThruRPG.com – make them characters!

Rifts Automated Character Sheet on PalladiumBooks.com

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

NEW! After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

Create any type of intelligent, humanoid, mutant animal from a turtle or raccoon to an elephant or lion. The RPG presents stats for 100+ mutant animals, plus rules for creating any mutant animal you can imagine, and each sourcebook offers dozens more.

Play your mutant animals as super-heroes, vigilantes, or mutants on the run in the Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Heroes of the Megaverse® or Skraypers™ settings. Or as mutants or monsters in Nightbane®. (You could make a mutant animal the Nightbane’s Morphus!) In Palladium Fantasy® your mutant animal could be one of the forgotten archaic races, a visitor from another world, a creation of magic, or a monster. In Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Phase World® and the Three Galaxies, The Mechanoids®, Aliens Unlimited™, Splicers® and similar RPGs, use the creation rules to make new D-Bees, aliens, mutants, or monsters. Or play in the AtB post-apocalyptic Earth setting that makes Planet of the Apes seem tame. Whatever the setting, playing anthropomorphic animal characters is a blast.

  • 100+ mutant animal stats included.
  • Mutant animal creation rules to mutate ANY animal.
  • 52 Mutant Animal Powers.
  • 33 Mutant Animal Psionic Powers.
  • New Animal Chimeras and their abilities.
  • New back story to the After the Bomb® world of mutants.
  • The post-apocalyptic Earth setting of “After the Bomb” is just one use for your mutant animal heroes.
  • A complete RPG written by Erick Wujcik. His last great work and a sometimes overlooked RPG masterpiece. These are the Mutant Animal Creation Rules you know and love taken to new heights.
  • Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™, Aliens Unlimited™, Nightbane®, N&S, Rifts® and any game setting where mutants or aliens are appropriate.
  • 72 pages of “bonus” material includes the original After the Bomb® sourcebook and Yucatan Adventures from the old Game Shield.
  • 296 pages (72 bonus pages) – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 503HC – now shipping. Also available as a 224 page softcover book ($26.99 retail – Cat. No. 503).

After the Bomb RPG Hardcover

Ninjas & Superspies RPG Hardcover

NEW! Ninjas & Superspies RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

The Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG is the ultimate guide to martial arts with 40 different martial art forms and 48 mystic martial arts powers alone, but there is so much more. Asian combat skills accurately portrayed, each with its own unique fighting style, methods of attack and defense presented on an epic scale, complete with legendary mystic powers. Spies, Cyber Agents, Gadgeteers, secret organizations creation rules, secret identities, gimmick weapons and clothing, cyber-disguises, implants, and more. Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™ RPG and even Nightbane®, Rifts®, and other settings. A complete game PLUS 44 pages of bonus material gathered from The Rifter®.

  • 40+ types of hand to hand combat — effectively offering 40 types of martial arts character classes!
  • 17 Occupational Character Classes for spies, mercenaries, martial artists and special operatives.
  • 48 mystic martial art powers.
  • Dim Mak, Chi Mastery, the Arts of Invisibility and more.
  • Bionic implants, disguises, weapons, & equipment.
  • Secret identities, spy agencies, and creation rules for secret organizations.
  • Complete stand-alone RPG with skills, weapons, rules and guidelines for using other Palladium settings.
  • Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™, Rifts®, Rifts® China, and the entire Palladium Megaverse®!
  • 44 pages of “bonus” material gathered from The Rifter®.
  • 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 525HC – RPG by Erick Wujcik – now shipping. Also available as a 176 page softcover book ($22.99 retail – Cat. No. 525). And see Mystic China for an astonishing and fun sourcebook with more mystical martial arts abilities, magic, demons, immortals and more.

Ninjas and Superspies RPG Hardcover

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

NEW! Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover – The Zombie Apocalypse – available now

The dead have risen and it would seem to be the end of the world.

Civilization crumbles in a matter of days as hundreds of millions of people die and rise as the walking dead. The hundreds of millions of people who fall to the zombies also rise to join the growing legions of undead. Then the world goes silent.

You are on your own. The army is MIA. There is no government. No law. No television, radio or Internet. No media, cell phones or communications of any kind. Cities and towns have gone dark, and zombies fill the streets.

Death Cults have risen, promising protection from the walking dead.

Retro-Savages have forsaken technology and sacrifice the living to the zombies in hopes of bringing an end to the nightmare.

Brave human survivors refuse to lie down and die! They come from all walks of life. Their common goal: survival as they struggle to forge safe havens away from the cities, rescue other survivors and battle the walking dead without respite. For now at least, the planet belongs to the dead.

Dead Reign® is an excellent introductory game that is easy to learn, fast to play, and fun to read. If you are looking for a zombie game that truly captures the feel of survival after the apocalypse and the nightmare of being stalked by zombies, Dead Reign® is it. Game mechanics are designed to create a real sense of escalating terror and dread when the zombies swarm. Sourcebooks expand the world, player options, and adventure ideas as well as new zombies and dangers.

  • Six Apocalyptic Character Classes (O.C.C.) including the Reaper, Shepherd of the Damned, Hound Master, Apocalyptic Soldier, Scrounger and Ordinary People.
  • Seven types of zombies plus the Half-Living. (Sourcebooks offer many more.)
  • Secrets of the Dead: Everything you need to know about zombies and need to ask.
  • Death Cults, their Priests, power over zombies and goals.
  • Random tables galore and the fundamentals of survival.
  • Strong setting, world overview and many adventure ideas.
  • A complete role-playing game. 224 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 230HC – now shipping. Also available as a 224 page softcover RPG ($26.99 retail – Cat. No. 230).

Dead Reign RPG Hardcover

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative “Hardcover”

The “original,” 256 page Rifts® RPG from 1990 plus an extra 32 additional pages of color at the back of the book. This new section includes the history and people behind the making of Rifts®, a gallery of ALL Rifts® covers to date (160+ of them including those coming soon), never before seen concept art, other artwork and fun. Note: This is a different rule book than the expanded 376 page Rifts® Ultimate Edition (RUE), but the original remains completely compatible with RUE and all World Books and sourcebooks.

Rifts® merges science fiction with fantasy, horror, heroic adventure, and other genres in a thrilling and plausible setting that will set your imagination on fire. Travel the Rifts to any location on Earth, or leap across the dimensional divide to visit alien worlds and dimensions in a matter of seconds. And just as you can travel to other worlds, aliens and the monstrous travel to Earth and stalk the innocent.

Rifts® is a fusion of ideas, settings, genres, and characters unlike any game on the market. An endless Megaverse® of adventure™ in which if you can imagine it, you can play it. Are you up to the challenge?

The Rifts® Commemorative 30th Anniversary Hardcover is the original first edition Rifts® rule book (1990) that started a phenomenon. It is a complete RPG suitable for use with ALL existing Rifts® World Books, Sourcebooks, and Dimension Books. It is an earlier and somewhat simpler edition given the deluxe treatment. Expanded with bonus art, an additional 32 color pages, color end sheets, history about the making of Rifts®, notes, concept drawings, color concepts, photographs, and a gallery of every Rifts® cover published between 1990 and the end of 2021. The cover features the famous Keith Parkinson painting of the Splugorth Slave Barge. Provided to you due to popular demand.

  • The “original” Rifts® RPG (1990) back in print for the first time in 16 years.
  • Color cover of the famous Splugorth Slave Barge by Keith Parkinson.
  • A color gallery of 160+ Rifts® covers.
  • An extra 32 pages of color.
  • More comprehensive contents pages.
  • Concept art and pencil illustrations often with notes by the artist.
  • History of Rifts®, personal notes, commentary, and nostalgic material.
  • Color end sheets.
  • Countless memories, and loads of fun.
  • A simpler, earlier version of the core rules.
  • A complete role-playing game suitable for use with ALL existing Rifts® World Books, Sourcebooks, and Dimension Books.
  • Available in stores and from Palladium Books.
  • This is NOT the signed or numbered limited edition, but we are happy to sign copies at conventions and the Palladium Open House. The print run is likely to be limited to a few thousand copies.
  • 288 pages – $49.99 retail – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Temporarily out of stock, available in December. Also see the 376 page Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG for the current Rifts® rule set.

Original Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover

Rifts Coalition Manhunters

UPDATE: Rifts® CS Manhunters – Bigger, Bolder, Epic, 190+ pages

The Rifts® CS Manhunters Sourcebook has grown into a 192-224 page, epic sourcebook that is now part Coalition States adventure sourcebook and part psionics sourcebook, with the psionic elements being in the limelight in a similar vein as the Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook was for bionics, only with an emphasis on how the Coalition States use psychics. There are revisits, clarifications, and expansions of some of the classic psionic abilities, and 50+ new psionic powers that are fun and intuitive. Only a handful are limited to the Manhunters. As for the CS Manhunters … I think they will quickly become the new villain you love to hate. In addition, the sourcebook provides insight about CS psychics, Dog Boys, Kill Hounds, Psi-Stalkers, the Minion War, CS citizens, and Emperor Prosek. I love this book and I’m confident you will too.

Rifts® CS Manhunters presents dark secrets of the Coalition States involving CS psychics, the super secret Psi-Ops Division (the thought police of Emperor Prosek), and the deadly super-patriots that are the enigmatic CS Manhunters. Includes 50+ NEW psionic abilities with real punch, insight into the Dog Boys and Kill Hounds, meanings revealed about the Seven Dangers Prophecy (first introduced in Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids®), and gadgets and implants, and surprises. All of it building toward something epic.

  • New Coalition Psychic O.C.C.s.
  • 50+ new psionic abilities and revisits of some favorites.
  • CS Manhunter Divner and Precog.
  • CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
  • CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
  • CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
  • CS Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
  • CS Manhunter Mind Melters, the deadliest of them all.
  • CS Manhunter squads and special operations.
  • Secrets of Psi-Ops Division and insight about Coalition psychics.
  • Deciphering the Seven Dangers Prophecy.
  • The impact of the demon plagues unleashed by the Minion War.
  • Player Characters, NPCs, background info, adventure ideas, and more.
  • 192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In final production.

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Creature Feature

UPDATE: Creature Feature, a Beyond the Supernatural sourcebook

This is going to be another fun adventure sourcebook. The manuscript will go into editing and rewrites as soon as I finish CS Manhunters and most of the artwork is done. Though I may add a few illustrations and already have artists lined up. Creature Feature™ 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.

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Rifts Titan Robotics

UPDATE: Rifts® Titan Robotics

Here it is, the reveal of the new cover. I hope you like it. I love that it presents the iconic Titan Robotics Combat Robot with a new big gun that hints at what else awaits you inside the book. I also enjoy the combat scene, smoke, and haze of war. Like Northern Gun and the Manistique Imperium, Titan Robotics sells freely to adventurers, mercenaries, and anyone who has the cash. Hence, the owners of these big ‘bots clashing with Coalition Forces.

This is why I call Rifts® Titan Robotics™ a high-tech toy box filled with many new types of Titan Robotics power armors, giant robots, vehicles, weapons, and gear. Some are big bruisers while others are small and sleek. As fun as these new tech toys are, Rifts® Titan Robotics™ delves into the company’s many secrets, including ARCHIE-3’s plans and program to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics and his current schemes and plans for the future. All of which provides fodder for adventure.

  • 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 Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others. Cover by Mike Majestic.
  • Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda.
  • 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

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Rifts Bestiary Volume Two

UPDATE: Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two

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).

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DriveThruRPG.com – Discover the Palladium Megaverse® at PDF prices – 300+ 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, sleuth, modern knights, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic and monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.

Companion Rifts® titles include bold settings like Wormwood™, Skraypers™, and Phase World® and the Three Galaxies in our ongoing Dimension Book series, and the Great Cataclysm that created Rifts Earth in the ongoing Chaos Earth® series.

Palladium Fantasy RPG® is 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. A world with 100,000 years of history. Some of it quite dark.

Heroes Unlimited™, the name rather says it all. Play any type of superhuman hero, vigilante, anti-hero, or villain in our modern world or on alien planets. Also see Ninjas & Superspies.

After the Bomb®, create and play anthropomorphic, intelligent mutant animals in a comic book world of mutant heroes or in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth where humans teeter on the edge of extinction and mutant animals are becoming the noble survivors to inherit our world.

Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. Play ordinary people or post-apocalyptic O.C.C.s or Masked Lunatic heroes.

Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. You are the monsters … and the heroes. Embark on a quest of self-discovery and empowerment while locked in a secret war against the Nightlords and their demonic and human minions. Monsters only you, the Nightbane, can see, but only when you transform into your inhuman Morphus. A supernatural and monstrous alter-ego that can see the invading monsters and possesses the power to destroy them. That’s why the Night Princes have been assigned to hunt down and either turn or destroy every last one of the Nightbane. Trust no one. Even your parents, teachers, or friends might be wicked Dopplegangers in league with the Nightlords.

Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Your first step into the realm of modern horror. And the rest of the expanding Megaverse® with The Mechanoid Invasion®, Systems Failure, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® series, and more.

Erick Wujcik’s “Lost first RPG” Sector 57. It is Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published) – a tournament game, actually. I played it way back when with Erick and it was fun. I think you will enjoy it, and it is a fun piece of history. ALL proceeds go directly to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.

As most of you know, Erick would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Amber Diceless, and contribute to a number of other RPGs and sourcebooks.

Sector 57 is written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by me, Kevin Siembieda. Making it Erick’s and my first published collaboration. The tournament has space travelers find a derelict alien spacecraft to explore and answer questions like is it safe to fly and take as their own? What happened to the crew? Is there danger lurking onboard? Can you figure out how to pilot the spaceship? We are selling it for the original 1980 price of $5.00 making it a deal. Available only as a PDF from DriveThruRPG. Enjoy.

Coming to DriveThruRPG.com – The Original RECON by Joe F. Martin (1982), RECON® Supplement One: Sayaret, RECON® Module Two: Hearts & Minds, and if we can swing it, San Succi, the big newspaper style module and maps. In addition to releasing these as individual PDF products, Palladium also intends to collect and release them as a special, deluxe, hardcover RPG and sourcebook in the months ahead.

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 (Dead Reign® and Beyond the Supernatural), plus The Rifter® sourcebook series (by fans like you), novels, paper minis, and more.

Rifts® Novels: Duty’s Edge – The lone surviving soldier from a New German Republic Special Forces operation struggles to complete the mission on his own. A stand-alone Rifts® novel complete in itself. 236 pages, Cat. No. 308. The Cosmo-Knight and The Reckoning (Phase World®, the Three Galaxies, and Cosmo-Knights), the Rifts® trilogy of novels: Sonic Boom, Deception’s Web, and Treacherous Awakenings, as well as the Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs (11 authors), Machinations of Doom (graphic novel by Ramon K. Perez), and Path of the Storm (a proposed Rifts® movie script) and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG titles.

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 – Stay positive and find joy in gaming

There is a lot of news and info in this Weekly Update so I am going to keep my Closing Thoughts short. Be everything you can be. Push your imagination to new limits, be creative, and most of all, find joy and be happy. We can do that with friends and family through gaming and our vibrant imaginations. They are a way to find joy, peace and friendship better than anything else I can think of. Take advantage of it, especially during the holiday season. But really, all the time.

I’m on a creative high and full of positive excitement, so forgive me if I am sounding a little too Pollyanna in these musings, but it is true. Role-playing gamers are better equipped to unleash our imaginations to find a little peace and joy with friends than most segments of the global population. Use those special powers to connect with friends and loved ones, find a moment’s escape, and to enjoy what matters most in life – people and fun. The world is what we make it. Make yours a little brighter, safer and more cheerful through gaming.

That’s it for now. Please continue to enjoy our games and the Christmas Surprise Package offer, and find time to get in some reading and game. Hey, online gaming can be more fun than you might imagine, give it a try. Till next week’s Update, we’ll be thinking of you as we work on new game products for you.

Oh, and enjoy reading the newest selection of Surprise Package comments from fans just like you, below.

– Kevin Siembieda, Surrogate Santa, Gamer, Friend

Surprise Package comments from fans like you

Every year there is a section where the customer can offer comments and suggestions with his or her Surprise Package order. Every year, in acknowledgment of our fans, and because they are fun to read, we offer a sampling in the Weekly Updates. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have stuck with Palladium through thick and thin and now these new strange days. Please help use our games to find escape from the pandemic and to bring a little joy, laughter, and adventure to the holiday season.

I want you to know that your comments and support mean the world to all of us. Everyone at Palladium enjoys reading your brief comments and they always brighten our day. Thank you for making us smile and feel useful. As always, I have tried to write a short response [in brackets] to each. – Kevin Siembieda, that Publisher guy.

Christmas Surprise Package at palladium-store.com

L.C. in Sarasota, Florida, writes: My Second Surprise Package! I was really happy with what I got in the last one. More importantly, I was so pleased with the care you took in packing the books that I now only order directly from Palladium. I use a forwarding service in Florida. The final stop of these books: Japan.

[Arigato gozaimasu, L.C. I am thrilled you are so happy with the Surprise Packages and the quality of our packaging. Palladium’s new warehouse person, Crystal (assisted by semi-retired Julius), is outstanding and shares our belief in top customer service. This is why we call her “Lord of the Warehouse.” Enjoy and game on. – Kevin]

D.C. Jr. in Oxford, Georgia, writes (in part): Favorites: They are all amazing … I plan on making a third [Surprise Package] order based around Nightbane®.

[Delighted you and so many others are enjoying the Christmas Surprise Packages. That’s what they are designed for: to make gamers smile and happy. Thank you for your warm words and happy holidays. – Kevin]

J.W. in Verona, Wisconsin, writes: Favorites: Rifts®. Want more Three Galaxies. Can’t wait for your upcoming releases! Keep up the great work.

[J.W., we can’t wait for the new releases either. Sooo much great stuff that you are going to love, starting with the big, 224 page Rifter® #85 Annual and quickly followed by BTS Creature Feature and Rifts® CS Manhunters, among others. As for more material for the Phase World®/Three Galaxies setting, let me simply say that it is part of Sean’s and my plans for the future. Live long and prosper. – Kevin]

P.F. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, writes: Favorites: Palladium Fantasy® and Rifts®. Keep up the great work! Can’t wait for new material. Also, a hardcover of Beyond the Supernatural RPG “first’ edition. I’d buy it.

[New material is coming and it will blow your socks off. As for a hardcover edition of BTS, first edition … we are considering it, but I think we’ll wait and see how the first edition of Palladium Fantasy sells before we take that leap. Thanks for your suggestion and feedback. It is much appreciated. – Kevin]

J.B. in Anchorage, Alaska, writes: I LOVE Palladium Books! Rifts® is my absolute favorite game setting. The crazy combo of Magic, Science Fiction, Dimensional Horror, and all the unique worldbuilding just continues to amaze me! I constantly go back and reread books just for fun, and to get ides on how to challenge my own players. Keep up the amazing work everyone. So excited for what comes in the future.

[First, J.B., thank you for the high praise. We are tickled pink that you and so many others enjoy our worlds of wonder so much. We hear from a lot of people who love rereading our books and find new ideas for their own games and campaigns every time. Cool. As for the future … you ain’t seen nothing yet. We are working on book after book that will continue to astonish and provide plenty of Wow Factor. Keep that imagination burning bright. – Kevin]

T.G. in Jackson, Michigan, writes: Favorites: Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited … I’ve tried them all. Thank you to Kevin and crew, as always. I hope your Halloween was great and here’s wishing you all a very happy Thanksgiving. Much love and all the very best to the gaming industry’s finest.

[Right back at you, T.G. Your kind words and warm wishes are much appreciated. Our Halloween was quiet and very nice, thank you. Much love to you and everyone in the Palladium gaming family. Happy holidays from all of us to all of you. – Kevin]

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Available now

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ hardcover 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 – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 845HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Game Master Guide Hardcover

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Available now

Nearly 1,000 magic spells and 400 magic weapons and devices from across Rifts Earth, plus magic tattoos, herbs, stones, and more. 352 pages of pure magic.

  • 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy and more.
  • Plus Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.
  • 290+ Techno-Wizard weapons and items, including TW Bionics, Automatons, and Iron Juggernauts.
  • 80+ other magic items, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, Fetishes.
  • Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, Symbiotes, and herbs.
  • Magic stones, talismans, magic items of Japan, and more.
  • Millennium Tree wands, staves and armor.
  • 352 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Book of Magic Hardcover

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

NEW! Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Available now

Inside information to create and run RPG adventures: How to get started, building on ideas, character archetypes, tables for creating Rifts towns and cities, mercenary companies, traveling shows, and player created organizations, plus random Rift tables, information about the Chi-Town ‘Burbs, 32 ‘Burb adventure ideas, another 101 adventure hooks, and still more adventure ideas, and additional player and Game Master tips by Kevin Siembieda, Erick Wujcik, and Bill Coffin.

  • 150+ adventure ideas.
  • Game Master and player tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Adventure creation tips from Kevin Siembieda.
  • Why and how to use alignments by Kevin Siembieda.
  • Tricks of running a large group, G.M. tools, and more.
  • Additional Player and G.M. tips from Wujcik and Coffin.
  • Overview and info about the CS Chi-Town ‘Burbs.
  • 32 adventure ideas in the ‘Burbs.
  • Random Dimensional Rifts & other tables.
  • Tables for creating towns, merc companies, and traveling shows.
  • 192 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 849HC – available now. Also available in softcover.

Rifts Adventure Guide Hardcover

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

HARDCOVER Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition – available now

A fantasy setting like no other, rich in history and inviting adventure. Not only are you able to play iconic fantasy heroes like the Wizard, Knight, Paladin, Ranger, Thief, Assassin, and others, but also characters such as the Mind Mage, Druid, Diabolist, Summoner and many others. Moreover, play an array of nonhuman characters from Elves and Dwarves to Wolfen, Changelings, Kobolds, Orcs, Ogres, and many others.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • 25+ Occupational Character Classes (O.C.C.s).
  • 14+ inhuman player races (more in sourcebooks).
  • 300+ magic spells.
  • 60 magical Wards. 50 magic circles.
  • Dozens of magic items potions and more.
  • 70+ psychic powers, the Mind Mage, and more.
  • Weapons, gear, demons and adventure ideas.
  • New sourcebooks like Land of the Damned 3, Lopan, and others are coming.
  • 336 pages – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 450HC – available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG Hardcover

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Heroes Unlimited RPG, 2nd Edition – available now

The Heroes Unlimited™ RPG has been a hit RPG for 30+ years because it enables you to create any type of comic book hero you can imagine. Make characters pulled right from any comic book you grew up with and love, or design your own league of extraordinary heroes.

If you seek comic book heroic adventure, Heroes Unlimited™ does the job on an epic scale. Plus a dozen sourcebooks provide you with more super abilities, hero categories, bad guys and adventures.

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo on the hardcover.
  • Create any type of hero you can imagine.
  • 101 super abilities plus a multitude of sub-powers within them, bonuses and special combat capabilities.
  • 100+ magic spells plus enchanted weapons and objects.
  • 72 psychic powers.
  • Enchanted weapons that instill super abilities.
  • Mega-Heroes and immortals.
  • Alien super beings.
  • Bionics and cyborgs.
  • Psionics and Psychics.
  • Robots and power armor.
  • Masters of magic, wizards and spell casters.
  • Mutants and Super Soldiers possessing super abilities.
  • Inventors, super-geniuses and super-vehicles.
  • Special Training: Martial arts, Sleuths, weapons, more.
  • Cover by comic book legend Jim Steranko.
  • Art by Ramon K. Perez, Paulo Parente, Mike Gustovich, and others.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda.
  • 352 pages for a complete RPG – $39.99 retail – Cat. No. 500HC – available now.

Heroes Unlimited RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

HARDCOVER Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition – Available now

Supernatural horror in the modern world that feels plausible and real. Your characters are the few who know the supernatural is real because they have experienced it face to face. Some are psychics, some are experts in the paranormal or the arcane, and others are ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people who are never the same after their own close encounter. All of these unlikely heroes stand against supernatural evil in a world of disbelievers who brand them as practitioners of fringe science or lunatics. Only they know the truth: supernatural evil is real and dangerous. And someone has to take a stand to protect the innocent from supernatural evil in whatever hidden form it may take. Are you ready to join the battle?

  • The hardcover is exactly the same as the softcover edition.
  • Color cover, same art, variant logo, hardcover.
  • A plausible modern horror setting that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills.
  • 14 Psychic Character Classes.
  • 42 occupations for “ordinary” people.
  • 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities.
  • Creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
  • New sourcebooks are coming soon.
  • 256 pages – $36.99 retail – Cat. No. 700HC – available now.

Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Hardcover

NEW! Miniature Releases – Available now

You have been asking about new miniatures and we are providing. All miniatures come in a plastic bag. The newest three are:

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack

Rifts® Glitter Boy™ & Pilot (original) Miniature Pack – 1st time available in resin – 28 mm resin – $19.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8001. Five Pieces: 1. Complete G.B. body and a small base, 2. right arm and Boom Gun, 3. backpack/thrusters, 4. ammo drum and belt, and 5. pilot. The ever-popular, classic Glitter Boy and Pilot (1993 RAFM) – now in resin for the first time (prior releases were pewter figures). Available now.

Classic Glitter Boy and Pilot Miniature Pack at palladium-store.com

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® CS Firebreather Dead Boy™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8047. Five pieces: 1. the body, 2. right arm and gun, 3. left arm, 4. antenna, 5. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts CS Firebreather Dead Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature

NEW! Rifts® Juicer™ Miniature – true scale 32 mm resin – $9.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8048. Three pieces: 1. the complete body, 2. crossed swords on the back that fit so snugly that you may not even need to glue it, 3. custom base. Detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Juicer 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature

And don’t forget about the Deluxe Rifts® Glitter Boy Resin Miniature – released in fall 2020 – 32 mm resin – $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046 – a gorgeous, detailed and dynamic figure. Available now.

Rifts Glitter Boy 32mm Resin Miniature at palladium-store.com

Rifts Duty's Edge Novel

Rifts® Novels – Available now

All Rifts® novels are available from the Palladium Books online store as physical books as well as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. All are a fun read and highly recommended. Enjoy.

  • All novels are 5 x 8 inches in size unless otherwise indicated.
  • Page count and price varies.
  • Available as physical books from palladiumbooks.com and as PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com
  • Rifts® Duty’s Edge is the story of a lone survivor of a New German Republic Special Forces operation who struggles to complete the mission on his own. A mission to destroy wicked monsters and cut off a vital line of support to the Gargoyle Empire. A mission that could save many lives. Of course, it is a journey that takes many twists and turns as one determined individual hopes to beat impossible odds. Set in the Middle East. 236 pages – $12.99 retail – Cat. No. 308 – the newest, stand alone novel.
  • 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.
  • Rifts® Deception’s Web™, the second novel in this trilogy, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. Note: Smaller size, 4 x 6 inches.
  • Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding conclusion of the third novel in this epic trilogy by Adam Chilson.
  • Rifts Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™. Rifts® short stories by 11 authors including Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, Mark Oberle, Braden Campbell, Taylor White, Jason Richards, and others. Note: Slightly larger size, 6 x 9 inches.
  • Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Graphic Novel & Sourcebook. The comic is by acclaimed Eisner Award winning artist Ramon K. Perez, source material by Siembieda and Perez. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Path of the Storm was a Rifts® movie script written on spec. Note: 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume One: The Cosmo-Knight. The adventures of Caleb Vulcan, newly minted Knight of the Cosmic Forge.
  • Rifts® Hammer of the Forge™, Volume Two: The Reckoning. The epic conclusion of the Hammer of the Forge story.

Rifts Novels on palladium-store.com

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Whether you drink coffee, hot cocoa, soda-pop, or whatever your beverage of choice may be, this fun mug reminds you of your favorite pastime and that new possibilities exist with every roll of the dice.

The large, 16 ounce Gamer mug presents the word “Gamer” in a box with dice cascading down from above. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Freddie Williams II (art directed by Kevin Siembieda). The mug has an orange interior to add a nice splash of color.

  • A must for every proud gamer!
  • Dice and the word “Gamer” highlighted in a box.
  • Glossy black exterior with an orange interior.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2596 – available now.

Gamer 16 Ounce Mug at palladium-store.com

Property of the Coalition States Mug

BACK IN STOCK! Property of the Coalition States 16 Ounce Mug – available now

Back due to popular demand! The iconic Property of the Coalition States and notorious CS Death’s Head insignia printed white on a glossy black, 16 ounce coffee mug, with a blood red interior for a splash of color. The design appears on both sides of the mug. Created by Wayne Smith and Kevin Long (art directed by Kevin Siembieda).

  • The infamous words “Property of the Coalition States” and the notorious Death’s Head logo and lightning bolts (indicating CS special forces) in white.
  • Glossy black exterior with a blood red interior color.
  • Art and words are located on both sides of the mug.
  • 16 ounce ceramic mug.
  • Dishwasher and microwave safe.
  • $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2588 – available now.

Property of the Coalition States Mug at palladium-store.com

Other Mugs Available Now

Everyone loves these mugs. Isn’t it time you started your collection? I like to use them to as a secret code to reflect my mood to those around me. To my thinking the Gamer mug means I’m feeling playful. Rifts® Property of the Coalition States: I’m a soldier in the trenches and working hard. Dead Reign®: Back off or I will eat you alive. Fantasy Dragon: My imagination is on fire. Rifts Logo: Feeling the infinite possibilities. Rifts® Titan Robotics: I’m feeling mighty. Of course, they represent something else to each of you or just represent one of your favorite games, like a normal person.

  • Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Mug A dynamic Titan robot and the Rifts® logo. Art by Steven Cummings. White on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2595 – available now.
  • Rifts® Logo Coffee Mug The famous Rifts® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blue interior. Logo by Kevin Long. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2587 – available now.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® Dragon Mug The famous red on black 3-headed hydra battling a knight from the iconic original Palladium Fantasy RPG cover. Art by Kevin Siembieda. Red on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with an attractive orange interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2589 – available now.
  • Dead Reign® (Zombie Attack) Mug A trio of hungry zombies and the Dead Reign® logo in white on a glossy black, 16 ounce ceramic mug with a blood red interior for a splash of color. Art by Steven Cummings. Dishwasher and microwave safe. $10.99 retail – Cat. No. 2594 – available now.

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Rifts Notepad

NEW! Rifts® Notepad

A 5×7 inch notepad featuring the Rifts® logo and color art of the “Coalition Strike Force” print by Kevin Long across the top. It looks great on your desk or gaming table. Perfect for taking notes and feeling that Rifts vibe. Practical and fun.

  • 50 sheets per pad – $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2597 – available now.

Rifts Notepad on PalladiumBooks.com

NEW! 5 Gaming Pencils – 4 Rifts® Pencils and 1 Fantasy Pencil

Practical and fun conversation pieces that will make you the envy of your gaming group (at least until they buy their own). These pencils are different from the fan fave, Chi-Town ‘Burbs pencil of the past. Each new pencil is imprinted with much larger, bolder type, and a dynamic insignia image, and two change color! All are No. 2 pencils. These pencils and the notepad are some of the silly, little, fun things I hinted at as coming in past Updates.

Why do them? Because we all need fun things that make us smile and just feel good. And these pencils and the notepad do exactly that. Everyone here went crazy over them. I probably should not admit this, but I love glancing over and seeing them on my desk. They make me smile and feel like souvenirs I acquired on my dimensional travels. What a fan boy geek, right? But true all the same. I hope you enjoy them just as much. Note: In my opinion, the photos do not do them justice; not the same as holding one in your hand.

Rifts Coalition States Office of the Emperor Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Coalition States – Office of the Emperor – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2598 – available now. Black colored pencil, white printing, CS skull and lightning bolt insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Colition States Office of the Emperor Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lone Star Engineering the Future Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Lone Star Complex – Engineering the Future – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2599 – available now. Dark blue colored pencil, white printing, CS Lone Star skull in a star insignia, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: Chi-Town Library – Knowledge is Power – $1.60 each – Cat. No. 2600 – available now. Yellow colored pencil, black printing, image of an open book/rising sun, pink eraser at the end. No. 2 pencil lead.

Rifts Chi-Town Library Knowledge is Power Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil

Rifts® Pencil: City of Lazlo – Council of Learning – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2601 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from powder blue to white. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing, roaring dragonhead insignia, black eraser at the end.

Rifts Lazlo Council of Learning Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Palladium Fantasy Library of Bletherad Pencil

Palladium Fantasy Pencil: Library of Bletherad – Your Source of Knowledge – $1.80 each – Cat. No. 2602 – available now. A “magic” pencil that changes color from green to yellow. (The heat of your fingers and hand causes the color to change.) Black printing with the Ward image for “Knowledge,” black eraser at the end.

Library of Bletherad Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Notepad and Five Pencil Set

Rifts® Notepad & 5 Pencil SET – $11.00 retail for the set – save $2.40 – Cat. No. 2603 – available now.

Rifts Lone Star Pencil on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Soft Touch Pen with Stylus

Rifts® Pen & Stylus – And don’t forget about the Rifts® Pen with Stylus for use with a smartphone – Rifts Logo and the words “Unleash your imagination” printed white on a navy blue ballpoint pen. Black ink. $5.00 each – Cat. No. 2586.

Rifts Pen with Stylus on PalladiumBooks.com

Rifts Poker Cards Deck One Full Color Rifts Poker Cards Deck Two Line Art

Rifts® Card Decks – it might be time to snag one or both of our Rifts® poker decks while you are at it. $11.99 each – Full Color Deck Cat. No. 2575; Black and White Art (color card backing, classic black and white art) Cat. No. 2576. See the complete description of each in the Palladium online store.

Rifts Full Color Poker Deck on PalladiumBooks.com

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