Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – July 2, 2020
One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure
By Kevin Siembieda
Holy Moley, the Fourth of July, Independence Day, is Saturday! If you have plans to go out and have fun with friends and/or family, please be smart and safe. Seriously, wear a mask and employ social distancing measures. If my own recent and unexpected health emergency showed me anything, it is that anything can happen to anyone at any time. Minimize your risks. Take precautions, not just for yourself but to protect those around you. Your lives matter to us, so please stay well.
Palladium has an epic new sale so take a look at that when you have a chance. It offers a little bit of everything to whet your appetites. One sale is for physical books on the Palladium website and the other is for PDF titles on DriveThruRPG.com to get your summer going with a bang.
I am starting to finish entire sections of writing for Rifts® CS Manhunters™. Last night I finished the D-Bee section. And I am currently bouncing back and forth between CS Manhunter O.C.C.s and new psionic abilities and Dog Boys.
I’m in what I call “dynamo-mode” now. Finally. So I am also itching to dive into Rifts® Titan Robotics™, BTS Creature Feature™, and Rifts® Bestiary Vol. Two. Those are the next three most immediate books with several others right behind them. Glad to be back writing like crazy when I’m not dealing with business matters. Like what? Virtual Gen Con for one.
Palladium and Virtual Gen Con. We are hustling and arranging and submitting events and lining up interviews and panel talks, online game events and demos, etc., in short order as the deadline is in a few days, July 6th. Hey, Palladium Game Masters, if you would like to participate in running an online game, do game demos, explain and demonstrate combat and other rules, and similar, PLEASE reach out to Palladium by email (genconpalladiumgames {at} outlook.com), Help Desk or phone (734-721-2903). The same goes for our artists, writers and creators. (Many of you already have my direct email and that of our Gen Con coordinator.)
If you are willing to do a YouTube or podcast interview to discuss any fun subject about Palladium’s games, worlds, and sourcebooks, or want to run a game, do a webinar on art, writing, world building, or gaming, PLEASE reach out to us as soon as possible! Thanks! We need your help to have a fun presence at V-Gen Con!
I also hope gamers will support Gen Con. Having to cancel the 2020 Gen Con Indy had to hurt. If you love Gen Con and want to see them able to return at a physical location when all this stuff is over, please support them in any reasonable way you can. We will do likewise.
REMINDER! Retailers can buy direct from Palladium Books at discount terms. Keep spreading the word to let retailers know if they are having difficulty getting Palladium Books products from distributors, they should contact Palladium Books to buy from us direct! 95%+ of our entire game line is always in stock and ready to ship. Until I put into place something more formal, retailers can call the office at 734-721-2903 and leave a message and phone number on the answering machine, or send an inquiry via the Help Desk, and Palladium will respond pronto. Glad to help. We had two more retailers contact us this week, so continue to spread the word to stores for us! We and the retailers appreciate it. It is a win for them, a win, win for us, and for you and other gamers who want to support their favorite store. We offer terms and discounts that most retailers find attractive. As long as they are a brick and mortar store, we are happy to do business with them.
NOW Shipping – In the Face of Death™, a Dead Reign® Sourcebook – the Zombie Apocalypse re-imagined. And yes, it is part of our summer sale of physical books. Part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead. See the free Sneak Preview on DriveThruRPG. Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle – 160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – Available now.
Big New SALE! Get Gaming Summer Sale
Hey, it is America’s Independence Day, summer is here, and we still need to restrict our activities. RPGs let you escape to travel across the Palladium Megaverse® to adventure anywhere. Play any genre from fantasy or science fiction to horror or super-heroes. Play an alien, a dragon, a hero, a mutant, a cyborg, a wizard, and literally hundreds of other characters in a nice air-conditioned environment, or play outdoors, or in the car on the way to the park or beach. Vent your frustration and anger out on nefarious bad guys as you kick their … um, you get the idea.
Here is a sprawling sale to get you started. A little something for everyone. Each game category offers a core rulebook and a selection of related sourcebooks.
- Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG
- Rifts® Book of Magic™
- Rifts® Adventure Guide™
- Coalition War Campaign™
- The Black Vault™ (101 magic items locked away by the CS & more)
- The Vanguard™ (Mages who secretly support the CS)
- Rifts® Final Siege™ because it presents the leaders and city of Tolkeen, Freehold City of Dragons, TW weapons, 40+ NPCs, Iron Juggernauts and more. Ideal for adventures BEFORE the Coalition Wars® as a base of operations for your characters. Lay the groundwork for events and adventuring before the CS declares war. This is an awesome resource with Tolkeen leaders, merc groups, monsters, magic, city description and maps, war plans and more. An often overlooked, jam-packed adventure resource. Try it, you’ll like it.
- Rifts® Shadows of Evil with other Tolkeen towns, defenses, General Holmes, NPCs, and more.
- Rifts® Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp
- Machinations of Doom™ (Sourcebook and graphic novel)
- The Rifter® #70 (Rifts®, Minion War, Frost Magic, and more)
- The Rifter® #73 (Hidden Nexus, Nexus Born, Fantasy Dragon, Fantasy Adventure, and more)
- The Rifter® #75 (How to play Rifts®, G.M.ing, adventure building, player tips, The Unbidden™ for Chaos Earth® and Minion War, and more)
- The Rifter® #78 (Nexus Zone, Modern Necromancer, and more)
- The Rifter® #79 (Time Travel/Gaming through history, mutants, Doc Feral and more)
- Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG
- Creatures of Chaos Sourcebook
- The Rifter® #80 (Chaos Earth® Nebraska setting and monsters, Fantasy Wayfarers, and more)
- The Rifter® #81 (Chaos Earth® Nebraska O.C.C.s, D-Bees, Fantasy Gnomes, Wolfen Vampires adventure, and more)
- The Rifter® #82 (Rifts® Nebraska Pyromancy and 50+ Pyromancy spells, remembering Erick Wujcik and more)
- After the Bomb® RPG
- Road Hogs™
- Mutants Down Under™
- Mutants in Avalon™
- Dead Reign® RPG
- Fear the Reaper™
- Graveyard Earth™
- In the Face of Death™ (New!)
- Heroes Unlimited™ RPG
- Gramercy Island™
- Powers Unlimited™ One
- Powers Unlimited™ Two
- Armageddon Unlimited™ (Stop Armageddon)
- Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG
- Mystic China (Powers, magic, immortals, more; suitable for Heroes Unlimited and maybe even After the Bomb®)
- Nightbane® RPG
- Nightbane® Survival Guide
- Nightbane® Dark Designs™
- Note: See The Rifter® #78 for the Modern Necromancer.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Monsters and Animals™
- Western Empire
- Northern Hinterlands
- Land of the Damned™ One
- Note: See The Rifter® #73 for Fantasy RPG dragon, Forest Adventure, Rifts® & more; The Rifter® #80 for Fantasy Wayfarers O.C.C.s, nomadic thieves; and see The Rifter® #81 for Fantasy Gnomes, Vampire Wolfen adventure with many NPCs (by Kevin Siembieda), G.M. tips, and more. A similar sale is also available for PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com – Enjoy.
A very cool and different Kickstarter I recommend
Trust me and check this out. One of Palladium’s artists, Ben Rodriguez, has created a truly awesome and high quality Horror/Halloween Coloring Book. It features 31 unique images – one for every day of October – and is some of Ben’s most creative and dynamic artwork to date. He did most of the artwork at the Palladium office and I was blown away by the storytelling and artwork with each new completed illustration.
The Horror/Halloween Coloring Book Features:
- Many classic horror and Halloween tropes and images you have seen in movies, TV, comic books, and haunted attractions across America. Some are funny. Some are cute. Many are scary. All are a fun approach to horror.
– Cthulhu haunted mansion.
– Death in the cornfield.
– Killer scarecrow.
– Chainsaw madman.
– Swamp Witch.
– Old West ghost town.
– Monster in the mine.
– Modern Masked Killers.
– Alice in Wonderland gone terribly wrong.
– Killer Clowns.
– Carnival of Doom.
– Death rides a carousel and much more. - 64 page book.
- 31 unique illustrations. One for every day of October.
- A clever little story accompanies each.
- Printed on a quality paper stock perfect for coloring with crayons, color pencils, markers, or watercolor!
- For children and adults alike. A must for every big kid (like me) and fan of Halloween, haunts, and the horror genre.
- The book is printed and ready to ship shortly after the end of the Kickstarter!
- $10.00 for one Horror/Halloween coloring book, typical for an adult coloring book of this quality. Other levels of support offer combo-deals and even the original art.
- That’s right, you can actually buy an original page of art from the coloring book, signed by the artist. Each suitable for framing.
- One of the very best Horror/Halloween themed coloring books I have ever seen! Which is why I am pushing it so hard. Ben outdid himself.
- A great gift for people who love Halloween and horror themes that take a whimsical approach. Ideal for most ages. Kathy and I already each own one of these coloring books and I’m going to buy one of the original pieces of artwork while I can still get one (we have several favorites).
- Please spread the word about this very clever and fun horror/Halloween coloring book. Halloween will be here in no time.
- Hurry and get yours before the Kickstarter ends!
About the Artist: Ben Rodriguez has illustrated independent comic books and magazines, created covers, T-shirts, and prints, as well as done artwork for Palladium Fantasy®, Rifts®, The Rifter®, and other Palladium Books titles. In fact, he is currently working on a secret project for me right now.
For more info or to make a purchase, click on the link below:
NEW! In the Face of Death™ – Now Shipping
A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to the genre
In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. Characters include children and teenagers, and heroes driven by madness. Human predators and other villains stalk the ruins of human civilization. Ruins inhabited by the omnipresent hungry dead.
This is a book that pushes the genre and challenges the imagination. It brings to focus a setting of heroic adventure that combines elements of horror, zombies, survival, and madness in a post-apocalyptic world with classic dungeon exploring and epic adventure. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead.
“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor
- Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
- It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
- Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
- Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
- City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
- Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
- New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
- Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
- Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
- Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
- Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
- 100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
- Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
- Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
- Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
- 160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – Now Shipping.
COMING: Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two – Summer 2020
The second big, “monster book” reference for Rifts® of what we anticipate to be three volumes in the series, more if we decide to make ghosts, spirits and Entities and/or Creatures of Magic part of the Bestiary series. Much like Volume One, Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two collects 70-100 monsters and animals plus 12-24 new beasts found across Rifts North America. The anticipated page count is 224-256 pages.
All volumes of the Rifts® Bestiary™ series are a great resource for players and Game Masters alike. Each description is updated, expanded, and highly detailed to present players with exotic and alien creatures as pets, guardians and riding animals, as well as slobbering monsters to battle and fierce beasts for Game Masters to throw at their players. Designed to offer adventure ideas, offers notes on young, adult, male and female creatures, and all provide plenty of ways to enhance your characters and spice up adventures. Each is accompanied by a map that shows at a glance where the beast can be encountered. Ah, but in the presence of Rifts and magic means any of the creatures may appear anywhere in the world, so be on your toes.
- Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
- Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
- Updated and uniform stat blocks.
- New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
- A map for every creature showing where it is found.
- Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
- Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
- Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
- 256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – Summer release.
BACK IN STOCK – Rifts® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now
This big, 376 page role-playing game is everything you need to start playing Rifts®. Just add some dice, some players, and a heaping helping of imagination and you are ready to go.
If you have never played the rich, unpredictable, genre-melding Rifts® setting, you are missing epic adventure that never grows old, because anything is possible. No other RPG blends science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural in such a plausible and dynamic way. A setting that lets you play any type and style of game you can imagine. With characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers that challenge the imagination. And those are just a tiny handful of the O.C.C.s you can play in Rifts®. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and other beings available as player characters. All of it set on an Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. So check it out, build your character, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.
- 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, or psychic.
- Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, Scout, Assassin, and more.
- 140+ magic spells, plus Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and more.
- 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
- Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different alien, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and other beings, many available as player characters.
- There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
- 376 page hardcover, some color – $41.99 retail – Cat. No. 800HC – available now.
COMING! Creature Feature™, a Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebook
The manuscript is in. Artwork is being created. And the world of Beyond the Supernatural™ is about to be expanded. This sourcebook builds on material that has appeared in various issues of The Rifter® but there is a ton of new material and information useful to both Game Masters and players.
- A gallery of supernatural creatures. Some new. Some familiar, updated and expanded. All terrifying.
- Rules clarifications and errata.
- Game Master source material and advice on rules, psychic abilities, proximity and threat levels, I.S.P. multipliers, and more.
- Advice about running modern horror RPGs and using supernatural creatures in your games.
- Lots of adventure ideas, including an updated and expanded full adventure, “The Squatter.”
- New background and setting information for the BTS setting and a few surprises.
- Written by Steven Dawes, Kevin Siembieda, and others.
- Art by Steven Cummings, Nick Bradshaw and others.
- 160-192 pages – $22.99 or $26.99 depending on final size – Cat. No. 704 – June or July release (tentative).
COMING! Rifts® CS Manhunters™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook
Coalition Manhunters™ reveals more Coalition States secrets along with new CS characters, more insight about the CS, new psionics, Psi-Battalion, and dangerous villains. All of it building toward something epic. Who watches the watchmen? CS Manhunters.
CS Manhunters are a secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion. The CS Manhunters hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also their own. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, and soldiers are trained killing machines who follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.
- CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
- Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
- CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
- CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
- CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
- CS Manhunter Mind Melters, deadliest of them all.
- Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
- 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In Production – Shooting for a June release.
COMING! Rifts® Titan Robotics™
Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is a high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics that will make gamers salivate. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.
- New Giant Robots.
- New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
- 30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
- New weapons, gear and vehicles.
- Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
- Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
- New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
- Android executives, security and much more.
- Wellington Industries, Campaign prompts and more.
- Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
- Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
- 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899. July or August.
UPDATE: Rifts® Chaos Earth® Psychic Scream™
This is another book that is going to surprise and wow. New and insane psionics, some taken to the level of super-abilities due to the massive amount of P.P.E. energy surging across the planet and boosting survivors with ambient and alien energy. Some become heroes and defenders of fellow survivors. Some become power-mongers and killers. And still others become just one more monster or madman threatening to destroy humanity. I’m assigning some additional artwork for it this week.
UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook
I spoke with one of the contributing writers last week and his ideas for Bug Bears sounded fabulous. Because some of this material has appeared in past issues of The Rifter® you may think you know what to expect. You don’t. There is a lot of new and exciting material in this bad boy. Things you never knew and may have been afraid to ask.
MORE Material for Fantasy
Several different freelance writers have submitted additional and unexpected Fantasy material for sourcebooks. Though I have not had a chance to review any of them – too much on my plate at the moment as I stay focused on finishing books already in the pipeline – I am very excited by this turn of events. Palladium Fantasy is on the move! Heck, several game lines are.
UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal™ and Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebooks
Please remember, just because I do not mention or list a specific title in an Update, does not mean it has been removed from the production schedule. All it means is that we are focused and talking about more immediate, upcoming releases, or projects we are excited about that week, or there’s no substantive news to report. We are anxious to put as many books you’ve been waiting for into your hands as possible over the next 18 months, as well as new projects being worked on by freelance writers. That includes Rifts® Antarctica, The Disavowed™, Rifts® CS Arsenal™, Chaos Earth® First Responders™, Land of the Damned™ 3, Rifts® Living Nowhere™, Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebooks, more Fantasy sourcebooks and other titles. So if a book you are waiting for is not mentioned in an Update, it means there is nothing new to report, but it should still be in the pipeline and news for it will be coming in the weeks or months ahead. Right now, we are focused on releases for the next six months, which by our count is 6-7 titles. And many of them are in various stages of final production or development. We are shooting for one or two new physical book releases every month as well as a couple new PDF products on DriveThruRPG.
New On DriveThru – Big Sale + Rifts® Novel 3: Treacherous Awakenings™ and FREE After the Bomb® Map Pack
Hey, it is America’s Independence Day, summer is here, and we still need to restrict our activities. RPGs let you escape to travel across the Palladium Megaverse® to adventure anywhere. Play any genre from fantasy or science fiction to horror or super-heroes. Play an alien, a dragon, a hero, a mutant, a cyborg, a wizard, and literally hundreds of other characters in a nice air-conditioned environment, or play outdoors, or in the car on the way to the park or beach. Vent your frustration and anger out on nefarious bad guys as you kick their … um, you get the idea.
Here is a sprawling sale to get you started. A little something for everyone. Each game category offers a core rulebook and a selection of related sourcebooks.
- Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG
- Rifts® Book of Magic™
- Rifts® Adventure Guide™
- Coalition War Campaign™
- The Black Vault™ (101 magic item locked away by the CS & more)
- The Vanguard™ (Mages who secretly support the CS)
- Rifts® Final Siege™ because it presents the leaders and city of Tolkeen, Freehold City of Dragons, TW weapons, 40+ NPCs, Iron Juggernauts and more. Ideal for adventures BEFORE the Coalition Wars® as a base of operations for your characters. Lay the groundwork for events and adventuring before the CS declares war. This is an awesome resource with Tolkeen leaders, merc groups, monsters, magic, city description and maps, war plans and more. An often overlooked, jam-packed adventure resource. Try it, you’ll like it.
- Rifts® Shadows of Evil with other Tolkeen towns, defenses, General Holmes, NPCs, and more.
- Rifts® Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp
- Machinations of Doom™ (Sourcebook and graphic novel)
- The Rifter® #70 (Rifts®, Minion War, Frost Magic, and more)
- The Rifter® #73 (Hidden Nexus, Nexus Born, Fantasy Dragon, Fantasy Adventure, and more)
- The Rifter® #75 (How to play Rifts®, G.M.ing, adventure building, player tips, The Unbidden™ for Chaos Earth® and Minion War, and more)
- The Rifter® #78 (Nexus Zone, Modern Necromancer, and more)
- The Rifter® #79 (Time Travel/Gaming through history, mutants, Doc Feral and more)
- Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG
- Creatures of Chaos Sourcebook
- The Rifter® #80 (Chaos Earth® Nebraska setting and monsters, Fantasy Wayfarers, and more)
- The Rifter® #81 (Chaos Earth® Nebraska O.C.C.s, D-Bees, Fantasy Gnomes, Wolfen Vampires adventure, and more)
- The Rifter® #82 (Rifts® Nebraska Pyromancy and 50+ Pyromancy spells, remembering Erick Wujcik and more)
- After the Bomb® RPG
- Road Hogs™
- Mutants Down Under™
- Mutants in Avalon™
- Dead Reign® RPG
- Fear the Reaper™
- Graveyard Earth™
- Heroes Unlimited™ RPG
- Gramercy Island™
- Powers Unlimited™ One
- Powers Unlimited™ Two
- Armageddon Unlimited™ (Stop Armageddon)
- Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG
- Mystic China (Powers, magic, immortals, more; suitable for Heroes Unlimited and maybe even After the Bomb®)
- Nightbane® RPG
- Nightbane® Survival Guide
- Nightbane® Dark Designs™
- Note: See The Rifter® #78 for the Modern Necromancer.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Monsters and Animals™
- Western Empire
- Northern Hinterlands
- Land of the Damned™ One
- Note: See The Rifter® #73 for Fantasy RPG dragon, Forest Adventure, Rifts® & more; The Rifter® #80 for Fantasy Wayfarers O.C.C.s, nomadic thieves; and see The Rifter® #81 for Fantasy Gnomes, Vampire Wolfen adventure with many NPCs (by Kevin Siembieda), G.M. tips, and more. A similar sale is also available for physical books from PalladiumBooks.com – Enjoy.
Also NEW: Rifts® Novel 3: Treacherous Awakenings™ is the pulse-pounding and satisfying conclusion to the Rifts® trilogy by Adam Chilson. It is available as a PDF on DriveThruRPG.com right now! $9.99 – Cat. No. 303. The other two novels, Rifts® Sonic Boom and Rifts® Deception’s Web, are also available as PDFs from DriveThru for your reading pleasure along with nearly 300 RPG titles with more stuff coming your way. Note: We also plan to make it available as our first Print On Demand title from DriveThruRPG in the near future. Watch for it.
Also NEW on DriveThru: FREE After the Bomb® Map Pack. Our thanks to the customer who recently reminded me the Map of Mutant Animal Kingdoms and the Empire of Humanity (North American East Coast) was accidentally omitted from the After the Bomb® RPG. We will make sure it is included in the next printing. Moreover, a FREE After the Bomb® Map Pack (5 maps around the world from the various AtB sourcebooks) is now available on DriveThruRPG.
Also on DriveThru: The FREE Sneak Previews for In the Face of Death, Garden of the Gods™ (Fantasy), Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One and many other FREE Previews of Palladium’s sourcebooks. And remember, the PDF of Rifts® Bestiary Vol. One was made available a month or so ago.
In the works for DriveThru in the weeks ahead: In no particular order, Duty’s Edge™, a new Rifts® novel in the pipeline from Will Erwin, the collected The Hammer of the Forge™ (cosmic adventure across Phase World® and the Three Galaxies), and more.
Recent on DriveThruRPG – Rifts® Sonic Boom™. Follow the exploits of a CS platoon sworn to protect humankind from all threats, be they aliens, dragons, masters of magic or fellow humans out for themselves; the second novel in this trilogy, Deception’s Web™, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. All of it building up to the pulse-pounding events of the 3rd novel: Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™. The Rifter® #84 offers adventure source material for Rifts® (Golems in the Myst), Heroes Unlimited™ (the City of Cascade by Wujcik and Reed), Palladium Fantasy RPG® (an Elven Kingdom), Beyond the Supernatural™ (an epic adventure, a short story, and a monster), Nightbane® (Spellbound O.C.C.), why The Rifter® is on hiatus, and more.
Also available: Free Garden of the Gods™ (Fantasy) and Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One Sneak Previews, and the Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet: A Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook to enable you to create Fantasy characters quickly (25 minutes!) and help you to update and manage them for years to come.
Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Three: Zombies, Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Two: Civilians and Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume One: Survivors. There are also paper miniatures for Heroes Unlimited™, Palladium Fantasy® and Rifts®. A new, up-to-date, PDF Palladium Books Catalog. Nightbane® Dark Designs™ sourcebook with 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, 18 new Morphus Tables, all other Morphus Tables collected and more. Systems Failure™ RPG, a 160 page RPG that deals with alien invasion and a post-apocalypse setting that is fun and dynamic. Civilization is on the verge of collapse when the so-called “bugs” invade and turn humans into zombie-like slaves. Monsters, heroes and fun. A complete RPG and setting. Rifts® World Book 34: Northern Gun™ Two: 256 pages of technology and fun. 30+ power armors, 30+ body armors, 15 combat vehicles, 45 vehicles (hovercycles, etc.), 10 robot haulers, the Robodome and more. Bizantium and the Northern Islands™: the northernmost part of the Known World, the Cold Born, Necromancy ships made from dead sea serpents, 15 creatures, Random Sea Monster Generator, and more. Rifts® Northern Gun™ One. This fan favorite might be thought of as the big book of giant robots – an in-depth look at Northern Gun, 70+ weapons, 27 robots, NG O.C.C.s, key people and places, and much more. Mysteries of Magic™ Book One: The Heart of Magic™ with Wizards, their Apprentices, nearly 60 new magic spells and remember, magic and monsters in the Fantasy RPG are easily adapted to Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, HU2 and other settings. Wolfen Empire™ Fantasy sourcebook, the Great Northern Wilderness and Killer Winters, 12 Wolfen Tribes, Wolfen military and society, 15+ creatures, 5 full adventures, 101 adventure ideas, random encounter tables, notable people, places, plus FREE Sneak Previews of The Rifter® #80, The Rifter® #81, The Rifter® #82, and more on DriveThruRPG.com.
- Rifts® is a genre-bending setting that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse survival, magic, and endless possibilities for adventure. Imagine a near perfect world of advanced technology 100 years in the future. Then imagine that world crashing down overnight in an apocalyptic upheaval not seen since the formation of the planet. A Great Cataclysm caused by the explosive return of magic. Now fast forward 300 years into the future where magic, dragons, and mythic gods coexist with cyborgs, giant robots and super-science rediscovered from humanity’s Golden Age as humans rise from a lengthy Dark Age. But they must contend with countless alien life forms, monsters, and supernatural horrors from beyond the Rifts.
- Rifts® core titles we would suggest: Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign and Rifts® Sourcebook One. Note: The Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition and Rifts® Ultimate, 2nd Edition are both available.
- 80+ Rifts® supplements, most of them available as PDFs with more coming. Where to start? Wherever sounds fun.
- Rifts® Dimension Books™: Travel to alien worlds and dimensions via the Rifts for off-world adventure and intrigue.
- Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebook series (all). Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
- FREE Sneak Previews for Nightbane® Dark Designs™, Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™, Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity, and many other previews as well as free and low cost items that we make available. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so keep watching for them.
- The Rifter® #1-84, ALL issues of The Rifter®. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for 3-6 different Palladium game lines. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure.
- Splicers® RPG is like Iron Man meets Game of Thrones with elements of Terminator – except this army of Iron Men are clad in living body armor and wield living, organic weapons and devices. Created in 2004 by writer and game designer Carmen Bellaire, Splicers® was nominated for an Inquest Gamer Magazine Fan Awards Game of the Year, and has since developed a rabid fan base. Science fiction and horror where humans are forced to use genetically engineered, living weapons and organic war machines to battle an insane Artificial Intelligence and her robot legions. Unlike anything you have ever played before!
- Splicers®: I Am Legion™ Adventure Sourcebook: 6 new Great Houses, 4 new Host Armors, 6 new War Mounts, 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new killer machines, new Bio-Enhancements, Amalgam creation tables, Legion and a series of adventures that build into a small campaign, and more.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 1st Edition Rules and sourcebooks. A unique world of magic, monsters and heroes. Dozens of nonhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and more. 100,000 years of history.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Rules and many sourcebooks. The expanded world of high fantasy, magic, mystery and heroes of every variety. Includes the Mind Mage and psychic abilities, mages and spells, magic circles and symbols, men-at-arms, scoundrels and a wide range of inhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and many more. 100,000 years of history.
- Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks.
- Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition rule book and sourcebooks. Create any type of superhuman you can desire and bring comic book adventures to life.
- Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse). The dead have risen. It is the battle for survival in the zombie apocalypse, but this setting is much more than your typical zombie game. Play ordinary people or special characters better equipped to survive and hunt zombies. Many unusual types of zombies.
- Dead Reign® Sourcebooks: 6 sourcebooks from Civilization Gone™ to Hell Followed™ (the latter features stats for 23 disasters, masked lunatics, 11 new zombies, 7 apocalyptic character classes, and more) are available.
- Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules. Supernatural horror in the modern world. Play ordinary people, psychics, paranormal investigators or for something different: Victim Characters!
- Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition: The complete, revised core game, 14 character classes and 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.
- Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. An RPG setting we call superhero horror. Dark conspiracy, a secret, demon invasion starting with world leaders and law enforcement, and it is spreading. The player characters are the Nightbane®, reluctant superhumans who must turn into monsters themselves to unleash their powers and battle the evil that is clear only to them. A dark, sinister and challenging world of horror.
- After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Planet of the Apes meets the X-Men! Animal creations, powers and more. Create any type of intelligent mutant animal you can imagine as friend or foe.
- Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.
- The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic world-view of humans vs aliens with superior technology.
- The Palladium Weapon Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.
- 200+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more.
- Heroes Unlimited™ Paper Miniatures – Two sets are now available!
- Palladium Fantasy RPG® Paper Miniatures – Volumes #1-6 are available now. More are coming in the weeks ahead.
- Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Men at Arms – $2.99
- Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Coalition Dead Boys – $2.99
- Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Adventurers – $2.99
- Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Practitioners of Magic (new) – $2.99
- Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Extras (new) – $2.99
- And more to come in the weeks ahead.
Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things
My eBay store is one of the few places where you can find original artwork by Charles “Chuck” Walton, Kevin Long, and others, as well as one-of-a-kind negatives from classic Rifts® and other Palladium RPG books (they look awesome framed!), rare Palladium collector hardcovers, signed books, other Palladium memorabilia, toys from my personal collection and other collectibles. Check every couple of weeks because we often post new stuff or offer a new sale. There is a sale on negatives starting today, in fact.
Other one-of-a-kind original artwork available by me (Kevin Siembieda), Kevin Long, Charles Walton II (money goes to the artist), other artists, as well as collectible negatives, prints, limited edition hardcovers, proofreader copies, out of print items, Star Wars toys, Marvel toys and many other toys and collectibles from my personal collection. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.
Available now: One-of-a-kind book negatives. Negatives were very popular items at the Palladium Open House and people went crazy over them at Gen Con – including actor Joe Manganiello who scooped up a pile of TMNT negatives, while Palladium’s own Mark Oberle, Carmen Bellaire, Brandon Aten and a whole lot of Palladium gamers went for negatives from Rifts® New West, Lone Star and Free Quebec. Fun.
Negatives are unique and attractive, one-of-a-kind (on rare occasions two-of-a-kind if a page was replaced or a second edition was made) works of art that resemble woodcut art and are very dynamic conversation pieces. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black.
When our printer, McNaughton and Gunn, went completely digital, they asked if Palladium Books wanted the negs, otherwise they would be destroyed. Regrettably, I let a few dozen be destroyed, but the negatives of many books were sent to Palladium. They have sat in our warehouse for years until I started to offer them for sale. I have also started signing the negatives in silver and each comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Each negative comes on a white board inside a plastic magazine bag and looks fabulous framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening in a frame (each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches).
http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles
Closing Thoughts
Whew, it has been a madhouse over here with the new sale, Virtual Gen Con prep, trying to finish 2-3 books, a brewing surprise, a heat wave, and all kinds of other craziness. If you can help Palladium with Virtual Gen Con, that’s great and please contact us before July 6. Otherwise, enjoy the New Sale and, for Americans, the Fourth of July Weekend. Just celebrate smart and safe, okay? As for me, I may try to take one day off (I could use the break), but I have books to finish and I am hot writing so I will probably work through the weekend. Take care and game on.
– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, & Gamer
Rifts® Bestiary™ Vol. Two – Coming Summer 2020
More monsters and exotic animals of Rifts® North America as part of an ongoing series of Rifts® Bestiary sourcebooks. The first two or three Rifts® Bestiary™ books will focus on monsters and animals of North America. They collect creatures from all current World Books and Sourcebooks, plus some new creatures by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton, and others. Presented in alphabetical order, with maps showing their range and location at a glance.
Note: The Rifts® Bestiary™ series is more than a few big books of monsters, they are deliberately designed to provide players with a useful, living resource (pet, guard animal, riding animal, food source, etc.) as well as present many and varied opportunities for adventure and fun. Some creatures are helpful, some are inadvertently a threat or danger, while others are slobbering predators or wicked beasts that kill and eat you, or capture you, or sabotage you, or worse.
- Monsters and animals of Rifts North America in a second easy to use sourcebook.
- Predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
- Notable Splugorth hunting animals.
- Some new creatures, but most are existing creatures.
- Updated information where applicable.
- Updated and uniform stat blocks.
- A map for every creature showing where it is found.
- Fully illustrated.
- Art by Chuck Walton, Siembieda, Cummings, Bradshaw, Atkins, Ashbaugh, and many others.
- 192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 897. In production. Anticipating Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two to be a summer 2020 release.
In the Face of Death™ – Now Shipping!
A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes
In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. Characters include children and teenagers, and heroes driven by madness. Human predators and other villains stalk the ruins of human civilization. Ruins inhabited by the omnipresent hungry dead.
This is a book that pushes the genre and challenges the imagination. It brings to focus a setting of heroic adventure that combines elements of horror, zombies, survival, and madness in a post-apocalyptic world with classic dungeon exploring and epic adventure. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead.
“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor
- Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
- It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
- Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
- Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
- City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
- Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
- New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
- Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
- Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
- Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
- Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
- 100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
- Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
- Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
- Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
- 160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – shipping now.
COMING! Rifts® Coalition Manhunters™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook
A secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion, the CS Manhunters hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also their own. Coalition soldiers, brass, government leaders, and anyone who becomes designated as having gone rogue, AWOL, or turned traitor (including the Disavowed), become targets of CS Manhunters to be tracked down and brought to justice. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, and manhunters are trained killing machines who follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.
More often than not, the assignment is straight-up find and terminate. If your name has been given to a Manhunter squad, your fate is sealed, and no one is untouchable. The CS Manhunters operate in secret, find their target, terminate, and vanish as if they were never there at all. They don’t seek credit or limelight. They serve their country from the blood-soaked shadows.
- CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
- Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
- CS Manhunter Psi-Healer.
- CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator (Mind Melter).
- CS Manhunter Psi-Enforcer (Mind Melter).
- CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
- CS Manhunter Slayer (a variation of the Psi-Slayer or Psi-Warrior).
- CS Manhunter Mind Melter, the most insidious and deadliest of them all.
- Weapons, gear, and tactics.
- Some notable Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda. Art by Nick Bradshaw.
- 96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894.
NEW! Garden of the Gods™, Palladium Fantasy® Sourcebook – Shipping now!
The Garden of the Gods™ sourcebook is a toy box of gods, magical blessings, ancient artifacts, and hundreds of opportunities and adventure ideas for players and Game Masters alike.
The Garden of the Gods is a place of miracles and wisdom where people of all occupations and races, nobility and the poor, come to find inspiration, blessings and adventure. Many insist the gods themselves are present and may visit heroes and followers in dreams, visions, or in person as an avatar. The gods also look for champions and assign heroic quests and gifts of knowledge and magic. Here, all gods are equal and many a forgotten god seeks to be rediscovered and worshiped by offering blessings, vision quests, and magical artifacts to potential heroes to champion their name.
There is also an dangerous evil on the island of Lopan. An open wound in the earth known as the Black Pit, as well as dark gods within the Garden itself.
- 212 Blessings.
- 101 Magic Artifacts.
- 45 Forgotten gods.
- 50+ Curses and dark magic.
- 100+ Random quests and encounters, and each god offers adventure hooks.
- Restore forgotten gods to power. Become a Champion of the Gods.
- 5 Weapons of destruction created by the Old Ones.
- Godly insight, visitations, knowledge and purpose.
- The Garden of the Gods and its protectors.
- Ghosts, Faeries, mysteries, and ancient secrets.
- Rumors of a secret way to the Land of the Damned.
- The Black Pit, a place of legend and dark secrets. Is it a counterbalance to the good of the Garden or something more sinister?
- Easily adapted to Rifts®, Phase World® and any game system. One game system – a Megaverse® of adventure!™
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
- 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 475.
Land of the Damned™ Three: The Bleakness™ Raw Preview – available now
Available now! The “Raw Preview Edition” of LotD-3: The Bleakness™, for Palladium Fantasy RPG®, is an advance copy of the unedited, unillustrated, working manuscript for this new Fantasy World Book. You get to see the unfinished book months before the final title is released. A rare look at the raw manuscript before final edit, rewrites and publication. Limited to a total of 200 copies.
This epic sourcebook presents the forbidden Land of the Damned in all its brutal glory. Includes information about the ancient and forgotten eldritch races, the Minotaur legions, dark magic, the Citadel, countless adventure hooks and ideas, and much, much more. The long awaited final book in the Land of the Damned series, with connections to the Garden of the Gods™ and the upcoming Lopan Fantasy World Book.
- Limited collector’s edition – only 200 collector copies.
- Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
- A rare glimpse at the virgin manuscript and a work in progress.
- Written by Matthew Clements, based on ideas by Kevin Siembieda.
- 96 pages – Limited Edition – $20.99 – Cat. No. 470-RAW – available now. Note: The finished book with artwork and more is anticipated to ship in a few months, but you can see what it’s all about right now and even start playing with this special Preview Edition!
BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Dimension Book™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans™
Learn about Atlantean civilization, the many clans, the mysterious Sunaj, where they are found across the Megaverse, why they hide and why they hate the undead so much. Also discover the power of Shadow Magic, how various types of Stone Pyramids work, and much more.
- 60+ new Magic Tattoos.
- 60+ new Shadow Magic spells.
- 50+ new Crystal Magic spells and the Crystal Mage O.C.C.
- Never before revealed Stone Pyramids described and mapped.
- Stone Master and Undead Slayer, revisited.
- Sunaj Shadow Mage and Shadow Assassin O.C.C.s.
- The dark history, shame, and secrets of True Atlanteans.
- Learn more about the famous Atlantean Tattooed Warriors, Undead Slayers, Stone Masters and other Atlantean heroes.
- The Shadow Dimension and new Shadow Beasts.
- Dark secrets of the sinister Sunaj secret society.
- Who are the Sunaj and why do they hunt True Atlanteans?
- Epic trans-dimensional adventure ideas and source material by Carl Gleba.
- 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 890 – Available now.
Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet
The Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet is a Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook, this sheet saves you time and hassle with each character you create. Available now, directly from Palladium Books AND DriveThruRPG.com – this is a digital, online product only.
Features & Benefits:
- The Main Character Sheet Page collects the important data from across multiple tabs and puts it in one place for quick and easy reference.
- Separate sheets examine character construction (worktable), Skills, Magic, Psionics, and Combat in greater detail.
- Built-in leveling system that calculates skill advancement for you! Experience Tables for over 80 O.C.C.s already programmed.
- Recognizes the percentages for nearly 150 skills, plus combat bonuses for over 20 Weapon Proficiencies and 7 Hand to Hand styles.
- Calculates the speed and distance a character can run and jump based on character Attributes.
- Also calculates how much a character can lift, carry, and throw for humanoids, Giants, and Supernatural Beings.
- Add in your own Hand to Hand style, custom Skills, unique Weapon Proficiencies, and Experience Tables.
- Estimated time to build a character reduced by 20% or more.
- Instructions on how to use the sheet included, as well as a video walkthrough below.
- Important Note: This character sheet is built to be used with Microsoft Excel 2010+ and it comes in .XLSX format. Opening this file in other spreadsheet programs is NOT guaranteed to work as intended.
- Watch the Overview video here: https://vimeo.com/322271758
Psychic Scream™ – Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook
A storm has rolled in. A psychic storm. With the Coming of the Rifts, survivors are bombarded by terrifying visions and overwhelmed with powers and abilities they never asked for, and often cannot control.
Where do you hide from the madness boiling inside of you?
What would you do when you know evil lurks hidden among your fellow survivors?
Why do the voices of alien creatures speak to you?
How do you cope when the power you unleashed to destroy a monster and save the innocent, destroys everyone but you?
Have you become a hero or another monster born in chaos?
Are these powers your family’s salvation or their damnation?
Find out in Psychic Scream!
In the wake of the Coming of the Rifts, people begin to see ghosts and demons, they unleash lightning from their fingertips, command fire and water, hurl boulders and girders with their minds, and manifest a wide range of mental powers. Psionic abilities fueled by the explosive return of magic and the unchecked flow of dimensional energy that is off the charts.
Psychic abilities more powerful than anything known after the Two Hundred Years Dark Age. Wondrous and lifesaving. But also seething and out of control. The psychics’ own minds bombarded by feelings of dread, visions of horror, and the thoughts and emotions of everyone around them. For many, it is too much, sending them careening into madness. For others, it creates heroes forged from chaos.
- Untamed psychic abilities. More powerful than anything known later on Rifts Earth.
- New psychic powers and character classes.
- New psionic monsters and invaders.
- Insanity, side-effects and horror.
- Adventure ideas and more. All people, powers and monsters that become myths and legends told about the events during the Two Hundred Years Dark Age.
- Written by Taylor White and Kevin Siembieda.
- 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 667.
COMING: Rifts® Titan Robotics™
Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.
- New Giant Robots.
- New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
- 30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
- New weapons, gear and vehicles.
- Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
- Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
- New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
- Android executives, security and much more.
- Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
- Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
- Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
- 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.
COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook
The island kingdom described and mapped, rare and ancient magic, trade with the Old Kingdom, Centaurs, Western intrigue, and more.
- History and overview.
- Key cities and locations.
- Lopan O.C.C.s and people of note.
- And Old Kingdom City that is a trade partner.
- The mysterious and nearly forgotten Mosaic Magic.
- New monsters and magic, weapons and gear.
- Written by Glen Evans.
- 192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 476.
COMING: Rifts® Antarctica
Rifts® Antarctica is a truly compelling and exotic land beyond what anyone expects. A frozen continent transformed by the power of magic and alien wildlife. Long isolated from the rest of the world, Rifts, D-Shifting events and the threat of war have now brought the distant South Pole within reach. And unearthed something ancient and so dangerous that even the Splugorth fear it and dare not go there.
- New alien monsters and D-Bees.
- Strange new weapons and vehicles. Some left over from the Golden Age of Humanity, others completely alien.
- The Splugorth’s secret outpost. More than it would seem.
- A Splugorth zoo and place of secret Bio-Wizard experiments.
- Snow and Ice Golems created specifically for the cold environment.
- Danger from the elements, Ice Witches, Icecraft, and other horrors.
- Vostok City, a city of magic carved from the ice itself.
- Cold-weather skills, technology and survival techniques.
- Ancient danger and dark secrets.
- Written by Matthew Clements, Carmen Bellaire, and Kevin Siembieda.
- 160 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 898.
COMING! Rifts® The Disavowed™ – Secrets of the Coalition States™
The Disavowed are so Top Secret that their existence is known only to a handful of the Coalition States’ most elite, top echelon, with Joseph Prosek II the mastermind behind the Disavowed operation, and Colonel Lyboc its shadowy face. Find out who these men and women are. How the Disavowed get away with using magic, traveling to other parts of Rifts Earth and even to other dimensions in pursuit of enemies and strategic information that cannot be had through conventional means. Learn about the secret parameters in which these hard-boiled warriors, secretly hand-picked by Joseph Prosek II, operate, why almost every mission is considered a suicide mission, and why they must forever be the Disavowed.
- CS operatives so secret that even the top military and political leaders right up to Emperor Prosek know nothing about them. And if they did know, would they condone their activity or condemn it?
- Are the Disavowed heroes or renegades? Assassins or soldiers? Madmen or super-patriots? Or a little of them all?
- Unsung heroes who keep the CS safe, or thugs and pawns of a shadow agency within the Coalition government?
- What role does the Vanguard play in this group?
- How do they reward their D-Bee “teammates” when the mission is over?
- What happens to the Disavowed when they have seen or learned too much? Adventure ideas galore and so much more.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
- 96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 892.
COMING! Heroes of Humanity™ Arsenal – Rifts® Secrets of the Coalition States™ Sourcebook
Rifts® Heroes of Humanity gave you updated Coalition Army O.C.C.s, ways to upgrade men-at-arms, new O.C.C.s, battle plans and strategies and tactics. CS Heroes of Humanity™ Arsenal provides an array of new Coalition hardware: weapons, armor, additional SAMAS, other power armor, robots, combat vehicles, gear and info.
- New CS weapons and gear.
- New CS SAMAS and power armor.
- New CS robots and combat vehicles.
- More secrets and information about the Coalition States.
- Wild adventure opportunities, fun and more.
- Part of the Minion War™ “Crossover” series.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda, Clements, Gleba and others.
- 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 893.
Rifts® Bestiary™, Volume One – Shipping Now!
Could the monsters known as Caterpillar Things be the larval form of the Mothman Monster? Is the Corrival Battler as aggressive and dangerous as adventurers claim? Are Darkhounds really magically mutated Dog Boys? Is that why they see Coalition soldiers as friends and allies? Ee-Bee Gee-Bees are kinda cute, how dangerous can they be? Is it true the animals and people slain by the Death Springer rise as zombies?! What on Rifts Earth is a Field Reaper?
This book reveals it all.
Designed with both Players and Game Masters in mind, with creatures that can be used as pets, companions, riding animals, attack animals, and even unlikely allies, as well as slobbering monsters and catalysts for adventure. Adult, juvenile, and young stages of life give every creature three different levels of power and danger. Presented as a complete ecosystem, with maps and details to bring each animal to life. All provide plenty of spice to add to your characters and adventures.
- Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
- 80+ creatures described in detail, updated and expanded.
- New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
- A map for every creature showing where it is found at a glance.
- Easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Powerful art.
- Includes basic S.D.C. stats for each creature description.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton and others.
- 256 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 896 – Shipping Now!
Rifts® Bestiary™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!
A deluxe, limited, Gold Edition hardcover, signed and numbered by Palladium staff and maybe a few freelancers. It is the same content of unique creatures that can be used as familiars, pets, riding animals, guard animals, and slobbering monsters as the softcover edition in a durable hardcover. Very limited run of only 300 copies, numbered and signed by Kevin Siembieda, Palladium staff members and possibly available contributing artists and writers. Note: Historically, Palladium Books’ Gold Editions have doubled, tripled or increased in value many times over. Valued as cherished collectibles. Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. Please note the slight increase in price to $55.
- Gold foil on a black faux leather hardcover.
- Sewn and glued for long-lasting durability.
- Only 300 signed and numbered copies.
- Available only from Palladium Books.
- Sold on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
- Signed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium staff.
- Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
- 80+ creatures described in detail.
- Same contents as the softcover edition.
- New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
- Easily adapted to any Palladium setting; basic S.D.C. stats included for each creature description.
- 256 pages – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 896HC (Volume One). Shipping Now!
UPDATE: The Rifter® #84 – available and shipping now
The Rifter® #84 focuses on adventure in dark corners of various world settings. Places where danger threatens, monsters and evildoers lurk in the shadows, and people are in need of heroes. Adventure source material for The Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, and Rifts®. And remember, adventures and source material for one game setting can also be adapted to other world settings with some easy and obvious modifications. Most of all, have fun.
Rifter® #84 Highlights:
- The City of Cascade™ by Erick Wujcik and Matt Reed, A modern city in desperate need of heroes.
- The Kingdom of Raf-Chalon™ for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans. An Elven Kingdom in the Eastern Territory™.
- Golems in the Myst™ for Rifts® by Greg Diaczyk. Techno-Wizard experiments go wrong and Golems run amok.
- Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane® RPG by Ian Herbert.
- An Adventure for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Kyle Osterberg.
- The Dimma, a short story and a scary new monster for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes.
- 2021 Palladium Open House and other news.
- Coming attractions, product descriptions and more.
- 96 pages – $14.99 retail – Cat. No. 184 – Shipping now!
BACK IN STOCK: The Mechanoid Invasion® RPG Trilogy
Dystopian science fiction at its best. This is the very first RPG published by Palladium Books (1981). It presents three settings and three generations of heroes fighting the malevolent, world devouring, Mechanoids. Strange robotic beings who seem to hate and target human occupied worlds and their allies. It was originally released as three small comic book chapters and settings. Each a different generation and a different fight, but they are all collected into this one book. Written and illustrated by Kevin Siembieda, with Erick Wujcik and Bill Loebs contributing.
- The Mechanoid Invasion® (1981) – The humans on a colony world struggle against the monstrous mecha that threaten to devour their world.
- The Journey™ (1982) – Humans take their battle for survival to the Mechanoids, invading the invaders’ giant spaceships and living between the walls like rats as they seek to learn more about their nemesis and sabotage them from within.
- Homeworld™ (1982) – A new generation of humans and their alien allies unite to try to stop world eating aliens, taking the fight to the monsters’ homeworld only to find it (mostly) abandoned. If this sounds similar to Robotech®, bear in mind that it was written BEFORE that famous anime series was created. There must have been something in the global zeitgeist at the time.
- The Mechanoids, other aliens, humans, psychics, mutants, and more.
- Weapons and equipment, spaceships, maps, and a few surprises.
- See the game that helped to launch Palladium Books.
- Artwork by Kevin Siembieda. Additional art by William-Messner Loebs, Erick Wujcik and James Osten.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda, with additional text and ideas by Erick Wujcik.
- Requires some modification to use with Rifts® and other games.
- 208 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 400. Available now.
BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Game Master Guide™
The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ is a massive 352 page reference book with short stats and descriptions for every Rifts® robot, power armor, body armor, vehicle, weapon, gadget, skill, experience table, and map that appears in Rifts® World Books 1-23 and Sourcebooks 1-4, plus a bionics index, an O.C.C.s and R.C.C.s index, rules clarifications, combat examples, advice on how to run a game and more.
- 500+ weapons.
- 290 pieces of equipment.
- 180+ vehicles.
- 100+ suits of body armor.
- 80+ suits of power armor.
- 300+ skills, character and D-Bee index, dozens of maps, and more.
- 352 pages – $28.99 retail – Cat. No. 845 – Available now.
BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Conversion Book™ 3: Dark Conversions™
Dark Conversions features Undead legions, were-beasts, demons, supernatural menaces, Nigthbane® conversions, plus Elemental beings, the Shifter and Witch revisited, adventure ideas and more.
- 120+ monsters, including legions of undead.
- Nightbane® Conversions for use in Rifts®, Phase World®, and Chaos Earth®.
- Conversions for Elemental Beings (Fantasy), Diabolism, Summoning.
- 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 852 – Available now.
BACK IN STOCK: Island at the Edge of the World™ (Fantasy)
Island at the Edge of the World™ reveals some of the little known history of the Palladium World, the Time of a Thousand Magicks, the Changeling Inquisition, and dark secrets that could threaten the world. Learn about forgotten Crystal Magic (as powerful as Rune Weapons), the Church of Scar, the legendary Circle of Absolute Elemental Power, and frightening prophecies about the end of the world.
- The hidden Crystal Forest and Crystal Palace.
- The Psychic Science of Magic and Crystals.
- New magic weapons and items.
- The Town of a Dozen Fracts, an adventure setting.
- The Valley at the Top of the World, an adventure setting.
- The Island at the End of the World, an adventure setting.
- Ancient ruins and additional places, people, and secrets of note.
- First Edition rules. Requires some modification to use with Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Second Edition.
- 144 pages – $22.99 – Cat. No. 458 – Available now.
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