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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

 

* NEW SALE! Half price on almost all art prints. As you know, Palladium Books has some of the best artwork in the industry and we know how much you love to collect them and decorate your game rooms with our prints. Most of them are now on sale at half price. Enjoy.

 

* NEW! The Cyberworks Collection – available now – This book is epic and a must even for those who own every book it collects into one, big, 384 page Archie extravaganza. Why? 1. Everything Archie is at your fingertips. 2. The remastered art and layout is gorgeous. 3. The original Kevin Long cover and Mechanoid end sheets.

The Cyberworks Collection includes the Expanded Rifts® Sourcebook One (with the Republican/NEMA gear and info), Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids®, Rifts® Shemarrian Nation™ Sourcebook plus key Archie, Hagan, Titan, and Shemarrian information from Rifts® Aftermath. Chock full of robots, weapons, and gear. And when we say remastered we mean high res artwork plus updated layout, editing, and tidbits of surprise material. This book is beautiful. See the full description elsewhere.

 

* UPDATE: We have been moving many projects forward: Yin-Sloth™ Expeditions, Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2, Rifts® Antarctica, the Rifts® Titan Robotics™ and Cyberworks Collection Savage Worlds conversion PDFs, and more. That includes our Top Secret big project and some opportunities that have come our way these past several months.

 

* UPDATE: Titan Robotics™ and Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised continue to sell like crazy. Thank you and enjoy. You can see FREE Sneak Previews of Yin-Sloth Jungles, Rifts® Coalition Manhunters, Dead Reign® and Creature Feature on DriveThruRPG right now! We will also post Sneak Previews for Rifts® Titan Robotics™ and Nightbane® RPG in the coming weeks.

 

* What’s hot from Palladium at the moment: All things Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Dead Reign® RPG, Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy/Horror), and all of a sudden, Heroes Unlimited™ (awesome, it’s one of my faves). Oh, and hardcover editions are selling like crazy. Must have seen 20 ship out this week, all different titles too; Fantasy, Heroes Unlimited, Dead Reign®, Nightbane®, Ninjas & Superspies, Chaos Earth®, Rifts® G.M. Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, and … well, everything hardcover. We wonder if this is a result of gamers seeing how nice these hardcovers look at Gen Con and spreading the word.

 

* New opportunities with old friends. I met with Palladium writer/researcher Matthew Balent (Weapons & Armor, Weapons & Castles, Valley of the Pharaohs, etc.) to discuss a couple of possible new projects for the future. Sean and I have been working closely with Mike Majestic on two exciting projects. Yesterday, I spoke with Mike Gustovich and today or tomorrow we’ll be chatting with Freddie Williams II. And those are just some of the people we’ve been working with or lining up for various projects. [There are other big names we can’t announce quite yet. – Sean]

 

* Is it fate? It seems like everywhere we go we find a new great artist or two. We encountered a number of professional artists and several promising newcomers at Gen Con. There’s nothing strange about that because artists are everywhere at Gen Con. However, we are stumbling across them everywhere we go.

So there we were in a food line at the Michigan Renaissance Festival last Saturday. Sean’s daughter and I were in one line, Sean in another. I noticed Sean speaking with the person behind him and getting quite animated. After we get our food we walk over to join Sean and he introduces us to the man he’s been chatting with – a local artist. A fabulous one, at that! What are the odds? It feels like things continue to fall into place with our plans to astonish you with future products.

 

* WARNING: COMING SOON! Palladium’s next Kickstarter will start in October, so please watch for it. This will be the secret project we’ve been quietly putting together for quite some time. You will be thrilled and will not want to miss it.

 

NEW! Art Print SALE – Half price – Limited time offer

Snag yourself one or many Palladium art prints; color and black and white. Prints were a big attraction at our Gen Con booth, so I thought we’d offer a sale on most of our prints. Only those which are limited and we have very few left are not included. Enjoy iconic artwork from your favorite Palladium worlds. Prints make nice gifts for the gamers in your life too.

 

Titan Robotics Kickstarter Update – By Sean Owen Roberson

As noted in past Updates, we processed shipping and associated fees via BackerKit and all Titan Robotics physical rewards were shipped in July. That process took a few weeks, with the last few packages leaving the Palladium warehouse at the end of July, including those bound for our foreign backers.

If you are a domestic USA backer you should have received your package. In fact, many of you have posted or messaged us saying how delighted you are with the quality of packing and the condition of items within. We’re glad you are so pleased!

If you are a foreign backer (including Canada) your items are currently on a boat heading to our fulfillment partners at Spiral Galaxy in the UK. To clarify things for our Canadian fans, in order to match our quoted shipping prices we shipped your packages through Spiral Galaxy – it takes a little longer, but is a fraction of the cost of traditional shipping.

Here is the message we received from Spiral Galaxy: “…the vehicle that came to collect this container to take to port broke down and by the time a replacement vehicle came we had lost our slot on the sailing. I’ve been waiting for confirmation of collection, loading and sailing before coming back to you. I can now confirm that your shipment is on a vessel that has sailed and is expected to dock into the UK on 30/08/2023. That puts delivery to us sometime around the 2nd week of September, assuming no delays.”

To be clear, this is one of those weird delays with an intermediate shipping contractor that is outside of our direct control, or the direct control of Spiral Galaxy in the UK. Updates like this can be frustrating, so I wanted to let y’all know as soon as we had concrete information for you. Also, please keep in mind that low-cost shipping comes with the trade-off of waiting for boats to cross the seven seas – that is the nature of the beast. Once Spiral Galaxy has received and processed your orders in the next few weeks, you will be receiving an email from them with shipping and tracking details for the final leg of your package’s journey. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Palladium via BackerKit, or Spiral Galaxy once they email you.

Savage Worlds Conversions: I’m currently doing final editing and layout of the Titan Robotics and Cyberworks Collection conversion documents for Savage Worlds. I’d hoped to finish before Gen Con, but wasn’t able to. Compared to just converting Titan Robotics, the scope of the combined documents (four books!) covers a massive amount of gear, robots, and characters with bonus content like playable Aberrant Mechanoids, so I appreciate your patience as I finish the task and make sure it is done right.

Thanks again for all the glowing feedback on Rifts® Titan Robotics, the Cyberworks card deck, and the Cyberworks Collection hardcover which is definitely a hidden gem with lots of updated material for old-school fans – especially those who never got Sourcebook One Revised and Expanded or Rifts Aftermath – plus some small extras I slipped in. – Sean Owen Roberson

 

NEW! Rifts^® The Cyberworks^™ Collection Hardcover – Available now

This beautifully re-mastered collection includes the Expanded Rifts® Sourcebook One (with the Republican/NEMA gear and info), Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids® (and Seven Dangers Prophecy), Rifts® Shemarrian Nation Sourcebook, plus key Archie, Hagan, Titan, and Shemarrian information from Rifts® Aftermath.

• The Cyberworks Collection features must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, easy-to-use hardcover edition.
• “Re-mastered” means new, cleaned-up artwork, layout, editing, and tidbits of surprise material.
• Much of the artwork feels like new. Looks great.
• Chock full of robots, weapons, gear, and monsters.
• Rifts® Sourcebook One, Revised & Expanded.
• Rifts® Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids®.
• Rifts® Shemarrian Nation™ Sourcebook.
• Rifts® Aftermath Archie-Three™ source material.
• 5 page index in the back of the book.
• Color end sheets. Fan favorite Kevin Long cover.
• 384 pages – $49.99 retail – color cover hardcover – Cat. No. 900 – available now.

 

Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ Sourcebook – AVAILABLE NOW!

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

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

 

Cyberworks^™ Poker Deck – AVAILABLE NOW!

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

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

 

Yin-Sloth Jungles^™ Expanded and Revised – AVAILABLE NOW

It is at the printer and we are told should arrive July 28, just in time for Gen Con – ships July 28. Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

• 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
• 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
• New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
• New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
• New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
• Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
• The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
• All new maps by Phil Stone.
• Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
• Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
• Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459.

 

COMING SOON for Fantasy! Yin-Sloth Expeditions

In depth world information, villains, monsters, strange gods, a lost city, ancient civilizations, dark magic, several fully fleshed out adventures and ideas for a zillion more. Ideal for players and Game Masters alike. There is no place that offers the same range of adventures as the Yin-Sloth Jungles. August or September release.

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

• Villains, NPCs, magic items, adventures, and fun galore.
• Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
• Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
• Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
• Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
• Explore the Lost City of Kor.
• Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
• Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
• Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
• Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
• Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
• 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
• 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160-192 pages – final size and price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

 

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

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

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

 

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

 

DriveThruRPG – 300+ RPG products – a dozen unique world settings – one game system to bring you endless adventure

NEW! FREE sneak preview of Yin-Sloth Jungles Expanded is available on DriveThru for your viewing enjoyment. A fantasy setting, heroes and creatures unlike any other.

 

Discover the Palladium Megaverse^® …

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

• Rifts® titles. Rifts® is the ultimate setting in which you can combine any number of genres and play any style of gaming you may desire: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, heroic adventure, dimensional travel, modern knights, cyborgs, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic, monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
• The Rifter® #1-85. Each issue is a wealth of source material for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. More than 8,600 pages of source material and counting. Most issues are only available in digital form.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. A rich, original setting in which you can play humans or any number of nonhuman species of people in a world of magic, heroes and wonder. All of it epic.
• Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition titles. Create any type of superhuman you can imagine to build your own super-hero universe.
• After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals as crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes or survivors of a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, super-spies, gizmos, mystic powers, and magic in the main book, plus even more in Mystic China.
• Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks – Urban Fantasy. Only you know the truth. Only you can see the Nightlords and their demonic minions, and you have the power to stop them. But you must transform into a monster yourself in order to use your powers. Trust no one.
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Modern horror; 14 character classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, and more.
• 300+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more. Palladium Books has settings for every genre: Fantasy RPG, science fiction (Rifts®, Splicers®, and The Mechanoids®), super-heroes (Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb), superhero horror (Nightbane®), modern horror (Beyond the Supernatural), zombies (Dead Reign®), The Rifter® sourcebook series, novels, paper minis, and more.

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

Collectibles include Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, art prints, posters, comic books, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend or two for new additions.

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each negative is truly unique and resembles woodcut art.
• It is a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• A one-of-a-kind work of art and a dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative, but still look awesome matted or framed.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – I Love Artwork

I love artwork. All kinds of artwork. One of our quiet, behind the scenes plans is to begin producing full-color books in the future. Not just “color” for the sake of color, but epic, amazing full color books with impressive paintings and color art that will make your eyes pop and mouth water. Of course, we’ll continue to publish books with great black and white art, but color and hardcovers are in our future.

That has meant Sean and myself talking to, and lining up, a lot of great artists. Some are experienced and will be names known to you. Others are new to gaming art, while some are experienced but unknown to the RPG Tabletop and card game industry. All are talented and driven creators. Together we’re going to wow and impress you as Palladium enters into a new era of unfettered creativity.

While other companies are talking about embracing AI generated art and text, Palladium is embracing creative people. To become a place where fellow human beings can showcase their imaginations and talents to your delight and amazement. Well, that’s our goal, anyway, and it has been a thrill finding and working with talented artists.

These days, I’m best known as a writer, world builder, and game designer, but my first love is, and always will be, creating artwork. Sean has a similar deep appreciation for art. I loved creating borders and some of the art for the BTS Creature Feature sourcebook; and that art was damn good if I say so myself. Sean is insisting, and others are agreeing, that I need to create at least one piece of artwork for every new Palladium title, even if it’s something small or simple. That’s a far cry from the early days when I was doing much of the artwork for many of our books, or more recent years when I art direct but don’t do any of the art. I do love making art, so maybe I’ll take up Sean’s mandate and contribute a little art to every book. It will be fun. [You don’t have a choice, Kevin! – Sean]

I hope you don’t mind me sharing my thoughts about one of the goals we are working toward behind the scenes. Please, enjoy our new releases, Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded, Titan Robotics™, and the collected and remastered source material gathered into the Rifts® Cyberworks Collection. And speaking of artwork, please enjoy our Art Print Sale. You cannot beat a 50% discount for some of the best art in the business. Enjoy a nice weekend and game on.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, writer, and friend

 

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

In case you missed it, here are Gen Con highlights and some additional details and photos.

* The event was awesome. We understand Gen Con had a record breaking 80,000+ attendees. It sure felt like it when trying to navigate the aisles of the exhibitor hall. Unfortunately, Wayne and a number of our helpers caught a bug. As I write this Update Thursday morning, Wayne is still out sick, two weeks later, though he is feeling better. We expect him back next week.

* New releases – Titan Robotics™ and Yin-Sloth Jungles™ (Cat. No. 459) and the newish Rifts Coalition Manhunters™ (Cat. No. 894 and epic), as well as the Original Palladium Fantasy RPG hardcover (Cat. No. 449) and other hardcovers – sold well at Gen Con and back at the office. Of course, there was interest in all our game lines, but Nightbane® and Dead Reign® were especially hot.

* A lot of gamers are discovering and loving the Dead Reign® RPG series – Palladium’s unique approach to zombies and the Zombie Apocalypse. I find that interesting because a few podcasters, YouTubers, and distributors have recently mentioned increased interest in Dead Reign® as well. If you haven’t given it a look, you should. I can tell you it is one of my personal favorites to run.

* There was an unexpected rush on the Collected Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy (Cat. No. 400) the first two days that caught us by surprise. Rifts® novels and all things Rifts® sold well too.

* We discovered Palladium satisfies yet another genre, the Urban Fantasy category, with the entire Nightbane® series. It sold very well. Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, and Rifts® seemed to be attracting the attention of new gamers.

* We had at least two dozen Rifts® gamers come up to us to tell us that New West (or the western trilogy of Lone Star, New West, and Spirit West) was one of their favorite World Books. Was this pure coincidence or was it because the Legion of Myth guys recently criticized Rifts® New West for not being a true World Book? (Sean and I disagreed. It’s a great World Book.) Funny.

* Cosplay is popular at Gen Con and we enjoyed some of that fun at the Palladium booth. Mike Leonard’s son and daughter dressed as a Juicer and Mystic the first day, and as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch a day or so later. There were plenty of other cosplayers with great costumes wandering around the convention halls the entire event.

* Sean and I spoke with an astonishing array of talented artists and creators we hope to work with in the future. We are happy to see so many women being recognized for their stellar work in the field of illustration.

* When not at the booth chatting with fans and signing books (and we did plenty of that), Sean and I were busy networking and discussing business opportunities with writers, artists, and fellow game companies.

* New opportunities with old friends. For the past several months, we have been reconnecting with old friends and creators. More of that took place at Gen Con and continued when we got back home. What does that mean?

Well, it is too soon to reveal specific plans just yet, but I can say we have been connecting with such individuals as Carmen Bellaire, Carl Gleba, Matthew Balent, Phil Reid, Mike Pondsmith, Frank at Studio 2, Ryan McDaniel, and artists Scott Johnson, Mark Evans, Ramon Perez, Freddie Williams II, Mike Gustovich, and Jim Steranko, among others. Of course, we have never stopped talking or working with gents like Matthew Clements, Mark Oberle, Glen Evans, Stephen Cummings, Mark Dudley, Nick Bradshaw, Mike Mumah, Mike Majestic, John Zeleznik, and others.

You’ll get an inkling of what we have been working on behind the scenes in the months ahead. We hope you’ll be as excited and thrilled as we are as various projects get announced closer to their release over the coming months and years. We are working hard to bring you a lot of gaming fun.

* Palladium gamers are the best. Many individuals and groups of gamers came by the Palladium booth to say hello, get autographs, have photos taken with us, and to share how much our games mean to them. It was touching and appreciated. One group reported playing a 25 year long Heroes Unlimited campaign with the same players. Another, a long running TMNT/After the Bomb® campaign, and many reported Rifts® campaigns; some spanning the Megaverse®. Others told us how they are now introducing their children to our RPGs. Still others were new to the Megaverse® having only discovered our games recently.

I’ve said it a million times, but I’ll say it again, Palladium’s role-players are the greatest fans in the world. I mean it. Thank you, everyone, who stopped by to shake hands, chat, pick up the latest releases, back stock, or prints. Your kind words, feedback, suggestions, and smiles mean the world to us. You helped make the 2023 Gen Con fun and special. Thank you and game on.

What else is going on in Palladiumville? Plenty. In addition to recovering from Gen Con, email follow-ups, coordinating various creative projects, and dealing with business matters, we continue to work on upcoming releases such as Yin-Sloth Expeditions, Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two, Rifts® Antarctica™, and The Rifter®.

More Updates and information in the next Weekly Update. Please keep spreading the word about Rifts® Titan Robotics™ (Cat. No. 899), Yin-Sloth Jungles™ EXPANDED Fantasy sourcebook (Cat. No. 459), the upcoming Cyberworks™ Collection (we’re awaiting the second half of this printing), the Cyberworks™ poker deck, and other good stuff. We are delighted everyone is enjoying these releases so much.

Oh, and take a peek at the FREE sneak preview of Yin-Sloth Jungles Expanded available on DriveThru.

Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ Sourcebook – AVAILABLE NOW!

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

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

Cyberworks^™ Poker Deck – AVAILABLE NOW!

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

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

Yin-Sloth Jungles^™ Expanded and Revised – AVAILABLE NOW

It is at the printer and we are told should arrive July 28, just in time for Gen Con – ships July 28. Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

• 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
• 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
• New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
• New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
• New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
• Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
• The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
• All new maps by Phil Stone.
• Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
• Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
• Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459.

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks^™ Collection Hardcover

Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

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

COMING SOON for Fantasy! Yin-Sloth Expeditions

In depth world information, villains, monsters, strange gods, a lost city, ancient civilizations, dark magic, several fully fleshed out adventures and ideas for a zillion more. Ideal for players and Game Masters alike. There is no place that offers the same range of adventures as the Yin-Sloth Jungles. August or September release.

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

• Villains, NPCs, magic items, adventures, and fun galore.
• Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
• Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
• Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
• Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
• Explore the Lost City of Kor.
• Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
• Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
• Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
• Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
• Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
• 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
• 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160-192 pages – final size and price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

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

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

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

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

DriveThruRPG – 300+ RPG products – a dozen unique world settings – one game system to bring you endless adventure

NEW! FREE sneak preview of Yin-Sloth Jungles Expanded is available on DriveThru for your viewing enjoyment. A fantasy setting, heroes and creatures unlike any other.

Discover the Palladium Megaverse^® …

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

• Rifts® titles. Rifts® is the ultimate setting in which you can combine any number of genres and play any style of gaming you may desire: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, heroic adventure, dimensional travel, modern knights, cyborgs, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic, monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
• The Rifter® #1-85. Each issue is a wealth of source material for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. More than 8,600 pages of source material and counting. Most issues are only available in digital form.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. A rich, original setting in which you can play humans or any number of nonhuman species of people in a world of magic, heroes and wonder. All of it epic.
• Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition titles. Create any type of superhuman you can imagine to build your own super-hero universe.
• After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals as crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes or survivors of a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, super-spies, gizmos, mystic powers, and magic in the main book, plus even more in Mystic China.
• Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks – Urban Fantasy. Only you know the truth. Only you can see the Nightlords and their demonic minions, and you have the power to stop them. But you must transform into a monster yourself in order to use your powers. Trust no one.
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Modern horror; 14 character classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, and more.
• 300+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more. Palladium Books has settings for every genre: Fantasy RPG, science fiction (Rifts®, Splicers®, and The Mechanoids®), super-heroes (Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb), superhero horror (Nightbane®), modern horror (Beyond the Supernatural), zombies (Dead Reign®), The Rifter® sourcebook series, novels, paper minis, and more.

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collectibles include Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, art prints, posters, comic books, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend or two for new additions.

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each negative is truly unique and resembles woodcut art.
• It is a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• A one-of-a-kind work of art and a dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative, but still look awesome matted or framed.

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

Closing Thoughts – Connection

Reconnecting with fans, friends, and fellow creators at Gen Con and in recent months has reminded me how blessed and rich my life has been. Oh, sure there have been struggles, loss, and sorrow, but the good and joyful far outweighs the bad. I have lived a good life touched by an array of amazing, kind, talented people. And I continue to meet and befriend new ones. It is astonishing. Humbling and beautiful.

I was reminded of this at Gen Con when Sean would get excited to meet some of my old pals like Jolly Blackburn, Mike Pondsmith, Mike Stackpole, and others. Legendary figures in the industry we all love. When I think about the legends I have had the honor and pleasure of working with or meeting, or have the great privilege to call friends, it is mind boggling to me. I mean, I even met Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Stan Lee! I was buddies with Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and many of the Mirage Studio guys, and was a close friend to Keith Parkinson, Erick Wujcik, and a whole bunch of other legendary folk. Heck, I can pick up the phone right now and call Kevin Eastman, Jim Steranko, Larry Elmore, Joe Manganiello, or Rawson Marshall Thurber. It’s freakin’ amazing and awesome!

I mention this to remind myself and you that people and our experiences with them are more precious than gold. We need to appreciate the time we have with these individuals and enjoy them while we can. We’re all getting older. With age comes fragility, illness, and worse. Some of my dear friends have struggled with illness, and while their spark and creativity remain, their bodies show the passage of time and the trials they have survived. In addition, there are those close to me who are no longer with us. I carry them in my heart where they continue to inspire and make me smile when I call up fond memories of our exploits together. Bittersweet memories of our special times together.

It’s why I am thrilled to be working with valued friends, dear acquaintances, and talents, new and old, whom I admire and enjoy. It’s why I make time for friends and fans alike, because none of us know how much more time we may have to give. Plenty I hope, but none of us knows what tomorrow brings.

So please, live in the moment, enjoy the family, friends, and hobbies you love and whatever brings you joy. Go to events to meet the people you admire. Take photos. Get autographs. Cherish the moment. Most of all, let those people know what they mean to you. They’ll appreciate it and you’ll be glad you seized the opportunity when they are gone.

I can tell you from personal experience that it matters more than you might realize. I, for one, appreciate every handshake, hug, kind word, autograph request, photo op, and squeal of excitement I received from you at Gen Con (and other events). Not because they stroke my ego, but from seeing how much my work has touched your lives and how you touch mine in return. I love that my work – our work – has brought happiness and joy, created lasting friendships, and inspired many to follow their own dreams. It’s amazing, touching, and beautiful. I can’t believe I’m part of something so wonderful. There were a few times at Gen Con and the last Palladium Open House that I was so moved by an act of kindness or something someone said or shared with me that I teared up.

Thank you, my extended Palladium family, for your support, kindness, and love. Thank you for being awesome. You bring so much warmth and joy into my life – all of our lives. I hope we give it right back to you.

Now call your Mom, Dad, sibling, or that friend you haven’t spoken to in a long while and keep the wheel of connection and love turning. Cherish them and the fond memories you share, and game on.

Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, writer, and friend

© 2023 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

We are back from a great Gen Con. As we understand it, Gen Con broke attendance records with approximately 80,000 attendees. The exhibitor hall seemed to be larger too. Every exhibitor we spoke with reported excellent sales, Palladium Books included.

Gen Con was great! We met with old friends, made new friends, reconnected with writers Carl Gleba and Carmen Bellaire (both of whom will resume writing for Palladium), found out Jim Steranko would like to do more work for Palladium, and we met and chatted with a number of talented artists we are excited to work with in the future.

We also enjoyed many surprise visits and time spent with Mike Pondsmith, Michael Stackpole, Jolly and Barbara Blackburn, Dave Kenzer, Rick Meintz, Frank Uchmanowicz, Don Reents, John Zinser, Johnny Roccia, Jodi and Clint Black, Allen Blount, Darrel Hayhurst, Ryan McDaniel, Brandon & Sarah Aten, Mark Dudley, Richard and Richie Cook, various members of the Hall family, the Brown family, Lonnie, among others, and nine-zillion wonderful fans! Thank you all for making the 2023 Gen Con special for us.

Best selling items at Gen Con

Number One Best Seller: Titan Robotics™ and all things Rifts®! We sold lots and lots of Titan Robotics™. Not only was Titan Robotics (Cat. No. 899) flying off the shelves, but many individuals came back to tell us how much they loved the book! We also sold Rifts® Ultimate Edition by the dozens, Coalition Manhunters™ (Cat. No. 894; gamers are finally discovering this epic sourcebook about the Coalition’s Thought Police and psychic assassins and going wild over it), the Rifts® Cyberworks™ Collection, D-Bees of North America, Rifts® Bestiary Volume One, the Rifts® novels (we sold out of a few), and many other Rifts® books. It was great.

2nd Best Seller: Yin-Sloth Jungles™ EXPANDED Fantasy sourcebook (Cat. No. 459)! People are crazy about this much expanded, revised edition soft cover; it is nearly as hot as Titan Robotics!

3rd Best Seller: Original Palladium Fantasy RPG hardcover (Cat. No. 449). Old school gamers came out of the woodwork to buy this bad boy and regale us with tales of decades long first edition campaigns. Actually, all of our hardcover RPGs were selling like crazy, but we nearly sold out of the Original Fantasy RPG hardcover.

4th Best Seller: The entire Nightbane® RPG series – Urban Fantasy (Cat. No. 730). We nearly sold out of every Nightbane® RPG softcover, hardcover, and sourcebook we brought. This one caught us by surprise, because Nightbane® hasn’t had a new release in a few years now, but it was super-hot. I’ve always called Nightbane super-hero horror, but it really falls squarely into the category of fiction known as Urban Fantasy. We looked into it and Nightbane® checks every box for Urban Fantasy: A gritty, fantastical modern world setting, epic world building, magic and the supernatural, with teenage and young adult heroes who share a dark secret and wield magic and supernatural powers against a dark and monstrous supernatural foe. Tragic heroes who struggle to find their place in the world while battling the dark forces that hunt them. The Nightbane heroes have two forms: Their human facade and their fantastic (beautiful or monstrous) Morphus. Not to mention a cast of exotic and fantastic creatures including vampires and others.

We don’t know how folks found out this awesome setting is “urban fantasy,” but we are glad they did. It seemed to start with a couple of gamers asking if Nightbane® was urban fantasy. I was unfamiliar with the term, but explained the key elements of the RPG setting and had them flip through the books. They got very excited and said it was definitely urban fantasy. The next thing we knew, Nightbane® kinda went viral at Gen Con and was selling like hot cakes. We are so glad people are discovering this unique and fun game line. I’m sure Mark Oberle’s keen insight and writings for Nightbane® played a role as well. Cool.

5th Best Seller: Dead Reign® – Our unique Zombie Apocalypse RPG series was also popular with fans old and new alike! Several people bought the entire game line and we sold out of the hardcover core rule book. Palladium’s plausible explanation for zombies, how they function, the array of unique yet plausible zombies, and the scope of the Dead Reign® setting resinated with many gamers.

More Next Week – Wayne caught a bug at Gen Con and is out sick, so I promised to keep this update short. Honestly, we are all a bit worn out, so we’ll try to talk more about Gen Con in Closing Thoughts and in the next Weekly Update. Those of you who took photos of the Palladium booth, me, and the crew, please send them to us at rifter{at}palladiumbooks.com and we’ll try to post a bunch in the next Weekly Update. Again, our thanks to the multitude of fans who came by to say hello, chat, and make purchases. You made this Gen Con special and memorable for me and all of us. – Kevin

Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ Sourcebook – AVAILABLE NOW!

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

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

Cyberworks^™ Poker Deck – AVAILABLE NOW!

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

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

Yin-Sloth Jungles^™ Expanded and Revised – AVAILABLE NOW

It is at the printer and we are told should arrive July 28, just in time for Gen Con – ships July 28. Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

• 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
• 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
• New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
• New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
• New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
• Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
• The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
• All new maps by Phil Stone.
• Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
• Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
• Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459.

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks^™ Collection Hardcover

Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

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

COMING SOON for Fantasy! Yin-Sloth Expeditions

In depth world information, villains, monsters, strange gods, a lost city, ancient civilizations, dark magic, several fully fleshed out adventures and ideas for a zillion more. Ideal for players and Game Masters alike. There is no place that offers the same range of adventures as the Yin-Sloth Jungles. August or September release.

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

• Villains, NPCs, magic items, adventures, and fun galore.
• Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
• Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
• Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
• Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
• Explore the Lost City of Kor.
• Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
• Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
• Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
• Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
• Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
• 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
• 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160-192 pages – final size and price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

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

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

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

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

DriveThruRPG – 300+ RPG products offer a dozen unique world settings from across the Megaverse^® – and they all use one game system to bring you endless adventure.

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

Discover the Palladium Megaverse^® …

• Rifts® titles. Rifts® is the ultimate setting in which you can combine any number of genres and play any style of gaming you may desire: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, heroic adventure, dimensional travel, modern knights, cyborgs, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic, monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
• The Rifter® #1-85. Each issue is a wealth of source material for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. More than 8,600 pages of source material and counting. Most issues are only available in digital form.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. A rich, original setting in which you can play humans or any number of nonhuman species of people in a world of magic, heroes and wonder. All of it epic.
• Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition titles. Create any type of superhuman you can imagine to build your own super-hero universe.
• After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals as crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes or survivors of a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, super-spies, gizmos, mystic powers, and magic in the main book, plus even more in Mystic China.
• Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks – Urban Fantasy. Only you know the truth. Only you can see the Nightlords and their demonic minions, and you have the power to stop them. But you must transform into a monster yourself in order to use your powers. Trust no one.
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Modern horror; 14 character classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, and more.
• 300+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more. Palladium Books has settings for every genre: Fantasy RPG, science fiction (Rifts®, Splicers®, and The Mechanoids®), super-heroes (Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb), superhero horror (Nightbane®), modern horror (Beyond the Supernatural), zombies (Dead Reign®), The Rifter® sourcebook series, novels, paper minis, and more.

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collectibles include Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, art prints, posters, comic books, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend or two for new additions.

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each negative is truly unique and resembles woodcut art.
• It is a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• A one-of-a-kind work of art and a dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative, but still look awesome matted or framed.

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

Closing Thoughts – GEN CON thank you from Sean Owen Roberson

Howdy loyal readers, I just wanted to publicly thank all of you for coming by our booth at Gen Con, picking up new books, and having a friendly chat with us. I quickly lost count of how many times someone walked up to Kevin, quickly shook his hand, and expressed a variation of “Sorry to interrupt Mr. Siembieda, but I just wanted to shake your hand and thank you for many years of joy and gaming.” This was invariably followed up by a personal statement like “your games kept my friends and I out of trouble,” or “you helped me get through tough years,” or “you inspired me to become an artist (or writer or other creative),” or similar variation.

I personally had a blast chatting with many of you, getting to know the attending Palladium freelancers better, and meeting tons of talented artists. I also enjoyed spending time with Jodi Black, Clint Black, Tracey Sizemore, Darrell Hayhurst and others associated with Savage Worlds (PEG Inc), plus Rick Meintz of Chaosium, Jolly Blackburn of Kenzer & Company, Mike Pondsmith of R Talsorian Games (Cyberpunk Red, 2077), Christian Doyle of ZOE, and many others.

A special highlight for my weekend was getting to meet Michael Stackpole, the author of many awesome Battletech and Star Wars novels/comics. As a long-time fan, I was stoked that he went out of his way to talk with me about novel writing, share some of his tools, and chew the fat with me and Kevin.

I was also very pleased to see an old friend of mine at Gen Con, Matthew Eng with Ravensburger. Matt and I were missionary companions in southern Taiwan over twenty years ago, and ended up going to the same university after that. We’ve kept in touch for decades, and it’s great to see his work as the art director on the highly anticipated Disney Lorcana collectible card game.

Best of all, was getting to share Titan Robotics™, Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded, Nightbane®, and other cool books with all of you. Thank you so much for making our time at Gen Con so enjoyable. Your support and fervor mean that we can continue to have a strong presence at the convention and maybe even make a little more money than we spend there … and that is saying something!

Sean Owen Roberson, adventurer, writer, designer

© 2023 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.

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

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

News Bullet Points

* Final Days of 2 big Christmas in July Sales – dozens of physical Rifts® books and hardcovers from PalladiumBooks.com – 300+ PDF titles on DriveThruRPG.com – both sales END Monday!

* Titan Robotics™ Sourcebook (softcover) – available now and flying off the shelves.

* Cyberworks™ Poker Deck – available now – fun and just plain cool. Sean designed it himself and we are very pleased with the premium production quality.

* Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised – available now – super-expanded, re-mastered with new O.C.C.s, creatures, info and an index. It is in hot demand.

* FREE Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised Sneak Preview PDF – available now on DriveThruRPG.com for your curious minds.

* COMING! Cyberworks™ Collection Hardcover – we are waiting for the second half of our delivery from the printer. 384 pages of Archie and Hagan awesomeness. Coming in a few weeks.

* Gen Con is next week – Palladium Books is Booth #903 – We will have copies of the hardcover (limited edition) and softcover Titan Robotics™ Sourcebook, the Cyberworks Collection Color Hardcover (color cover) and ever-popular Gold Hardcovers for both TR and Cyberworks (both very limited editions and available only while supplies last!). But that’s not all! We’ll have the re-mastered and expanded Yin-Sloth Jungles, tons of backstock titles, all hardcovers, prints, art, and more! Plus there are a lot of Palladium personalities to chat with and sign your books; including a rare appearance by writer Carmen Bellaire (Splicers®, Rifts®, Powers Unlimited®, etc.). We hope to see a lot of you visit the Palladium booth! See my Closing Thoughts for more about Gen Con.

 

UPDATE: Titan Robotics Kickstarter. All but a tiny handful of USA Titan Robotics rewards have shipped and many of you have already received them. Enjoy. Rewards for backers outside the USA have been shipped to our international shipping partner, but it will be several weeks before they land and begin to arrive on your doorsteps. By the way, Sean and I will be part of a live unboxing video on Legion of Myth this Sunday afternoon.

 

Please read on for details on the above products and other happenings. We are crazy busy prepping for Gen Con and other coolness.

 

Palladium Christmas in July Super-Sale

– Final Days – Sale ends Monday evening

On sale from PalladiumBooks.com – Rifts® RPG, World Books, Sourcebooks, Dimension Books, plus most RPG hardcover rule books are also on sale – Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, After the Bomb® RPG, Nightbane® RPG, Dead Reign®, Beyond the Supernatural, Chaos Earth®, Splicers® – and more all at spectacular prices.

This is one of the biggest sales of the year. Take advantage of this great chance to stock up for birthday and anniversary presents, or to treat yourself. See all the joyful details below. ENDS at 8:00 PM eastern time on Monday.

• Palladium Hardcover RPGs – Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Nightbane®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign®, Splicers®, etc.!
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition Hardcover – Rifts® has been described as Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings only bigger! 376 pages – Cat. No. 800HC.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition Softcover – 376 pages – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Most Rifts® World Books – From Rifts® Atlantis and Splynn Dimensional Market to the Siege on Tolkeen and the Minion War series.
• Most Rifts® Sourcebooks – From Sourcebook One – featuring Archie-3, the CS, the Republicans (NEMA), and a complete adventure – to the Rifts® Primer, Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Bestiary One and more.
• Most Rifts® Dimension Books – Space opera adventure.
• All Chaos Earth® Books – Survive the Great Cataclysm.
• Mystic China – The Ninjas & Superspies sourcebook by Erick Wujcik.
• I Am Legion – The Splicers® adventure sourcebook.
• The Rifter® #84 and #85 – both epic.
• And while you’re at it, maybe pick up some hot Palladium Fantasy titles like Dragons & Gods, Garden of the Gods, or Lopan and Land of the South Winds Raw Previews.
• Available while supplies last.

 

DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July Super-Sale FINAL DAYS

DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July Sale – A super-sale of nearly ALL 300+ Palladium PDF products is taking place right now. Plus scores of other publishers and thousands of RPG titles are also on sale. Take a peek at the DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July sale right now!

 

Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ Sourcebook – AVAILABLE NOW!

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

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

 

Cyberworks^™ Poker Deck – AVAILABLE NOW!

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

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

 

Yin-Sloth Jungles^™ Expanded and Revised – AVAILABLE NOW!

Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

• 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
• 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
• New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
• New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
• New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
• Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
• The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
• All new maps by Phil Stone.
• Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
• Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
• Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459. Available now!

 

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks^™ Collection Hardcover

Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

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

 

COMING SOON for Fantasy! Yin-Sloth Expeditions

In depth world information, villains, monsters, strange gods, a lost city, ancient civilizations, dark magic, several fully fleshed out adventures and ideas for a zillion more. Ideal for players and Game Masters alike. There is no place that offers the same range of adventures as the Yin-Sloth Jungles. August or September release.

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

• Villains, NPCs, magic items, adventures, and fun galore.
• Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
• Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
• Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
• Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
• Explore the Lost City of Kor.
• Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
• Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
• Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
• Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
• Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
• 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
• 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160-192 pages – final size and price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

 

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

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

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

 

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

 

DriveThruRPG.com SALE – Christmas in July Sale – one of the biggest sales of the year

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

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

• Rifts® titles. Rifts® is the ultimate setting in which you can combine any number of genres and play any style of gaming you may desire: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, heroic adventure, dimensional travel, modern knights, cyborgs, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic, monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
• The Rifter® #1-85. Each issue is a wealth of source material for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. More than 8,600 pages of source material and counting. Most issues are only available in digital form.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. A rich, original setting in which you can play humans or any number of nonhuman species of people in a world of magic, heroes and wonder. All of it epic.
• Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition titles. Create any type of superhuman you can imagine to build your own super-hero universe.
• After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals as crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes or survivors of a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, super-spies, gizmos, mystic powers, and magic in the main book, plus even more in Mystic China.
• Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. Only you know the truth. Only you can see the Nightlords and their demonic minions, and you have the power to stop them. But you must transform into a monster yourself in order to use your powers. Trust no one.
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Modern horror; 14 character classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, and more. 
• 300+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more. Palladium Books has settings for every genre: Fantasy RPG, science fiction (Rifts®, Splicers®, and The Mechanoids®), super-heroes (Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb), superhero horror (Nightbane®), modern horror (Beyond the Supernatural), zombies (Dead Reign®), The Rifter® sourcebook series, novels, paper minis, and more.

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

Collectibles include Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, art prints, posters, comic books, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend or two for new additions.

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each negative is truly unique and resembles woodcut art.
• It is a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• A one-of-a-kind work of art and a dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative, but still look awesome matted or framed.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – GEN CON Booth 903 – See you there?

For us, Gen Con is only a few days away. We load up the truck on Monday and drive out Tuesday morning. We unload and start setting up Tuesday at the convention center and finish up Wednesday. We may also squeeze in a few meetings with people. Thursday morning the convention opens to the public and it is a whirlwind of meetings, greetings, selling books and signing autographs.

Gen Con is more than a fun convention for us, it’s also a fun business experience. We get to see what books and game lines are selling. What’s hot, what’s not, what you are looking forward to most from us and other game companies, what we are doing right, and what we are not doing so well.

We get to chat with you and get your opinions and feedback on all manner of subjects. Of course, we also get to talk to other business people, writers, artists, and game designers. In short, Gen Con is a great place to find new talent and make connections.

Yes, we sell product, but the cost for us to attend is so high that profit is often thin. Besides seeing you, our fans, we primarily go for the valuable market research and the chance to make new contacts and reestablish old ones.

Like you, we get to see and purchase (or trade for) new games, meet new people, and hang out with old friends. Don’t get me wrong, although Gen Con is a lot of work, we also have a lot of fun. In fact, we always come back home energized and full of new ideas.

So if you are attending Gen Con, please come and visit us at the Palladium Books booth, #903 right in the front of the exhibitors’ hall near Asmodee and Upper Deck. We’ll share what news we can, chat a bit, and you can get the newest releases, books, miniatures, art prints, original art, negatives, card decks, and more. This year we will have a half dozen new releases:

• Titan Robotics softcover
• Titan Robotics Hardcover (color cover art, very limited)
• Titan Robotics “Gold” Hardcover (even more limited)
• The Cyberworks Collection (a limited amount for Gen Con)
• The Cyberworks Collection “Gold” Hardcover (very limited)
• The Cyberworks Card Deck (new and awesome)
• Yin-Sloth Jungles Revised and Expanded (hot off the presses from the printer!)
• BTS commemorative hardcover and ALL the other hardcovers
• And a ton of back stock titles, art, and more.

Please Note: The special, limited editions of Titan Robotics and Cyberworks are all very limited Kickstarter special items available on a first-come-first-served basis, while supplies last. Once they are gone, they are gone forever.

 

I’m happy to report we have one of the biggest line-ups of Palladium creators at Gen Con this year, including a rare appearance by author Carmen Bellaire (Powers Unlimited®, Rifts® Merctown, Rifts® Black Market, Splicers® RPG, and more). This is a great time to chat with him and a unique opportunity to get his autograph.

• Kevin Siembieda (Founder, writer & game designer)
• Sean Owen Roberson (Creative Director, writer & game designer; Titan Robotics, Savage Rifts®, and more.)
• Carmen Bellaire (Writer; Splicers, Rifts®, Powers Unlimited®)
• Mark Oberle (Writer; Nightbane®, Rifts® Lazlo, and more.)
• Glen Evans (Writer, Palladium Fantasy and The Rifter®)
• Mike Leonard (Artist and writer)
• Sam Leonard (in Cosplay)
• Wayne Smith (Editor and staff; The Rifter® and more.)
• Crystal Willard (Staff)

 

So please come on over, buy the latest releases, get rare collectables and autographs, and have some fun with me and the Palladium crew. The Palladium booth is #903 and located right at one of the main, center entrances of the Exhibitors’ Hall near Asmodee and Upper Deck.

For those of you who aren’t attending Gen Con, enjoy the two Christmas in July sales, the new releases, check out the FREE Sneak Preview of Yin-Sloth Jungles, and please enjoy your weekend.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Friend

 

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

2 Huge Christmas in July Sales

On sale from PalladiumBooks.com – 60+ Rifts® titles, World Books, Dimension Books, and Sourcebooks, plus most hardcover rule books to ALL our major RPG game lines – Rifts®, superheroes, fantasy, science fiction, horror, zombies, mutant animal mayhem, and more at spectacular prices. This sale brings you some of the biggest savings of the year. Great for birthday and anniversary presents. See all the joyful details below.

• Most Palladium Hardcover RPGs – Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Nightbane®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign®, Splicers®, etc.!
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition Hardcover – Rifts® has been described as Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings only bigger! 376 pages – Cat. No. 800HC.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition Softcover – 376 pages – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Most Rifts® World Books – From Rifts® Atlantis and Splynn Dimensional Market to the Siege on Tolkeen and the Minion War series.
• Most Rifts® Sourcebooks – From Sourcebook One – featuring Archie-3, the CS, the Republicans (NEMA), and a complete adventure – to the Rifts® Primer, Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Bestiary One and more.
• Most Rifts® Dimension Books – Space opera adventure.
• All Chaos Earth® Books – Survive the Great Cataclysm.
• Mystic China – The Ninjas & Superspies sourcebook by Erick Wujcik.
• I Am Legion – The Splicers® adventure sourcebook.
• The Rifter® #84 and #85 – both epic.
• And while you’re at it, maybe pick up some hot Palladium Fantasy titles like Dragons & Gods, Garden of the Gods, or Lopan and Land of the South Winds Raw Previews.
• Available while supplies last.

300+ Palladium PDF titles in DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July SALE

DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July Sale – A super-sale of nearly ALL 300+ Palladium PDF products is taking place right now. Plus scores of other publishers and thousands of RPG titles are also on sale. Take a peek at the DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July sale right now!

COMING SOON for Fantasy! Yin-Sloth Jungles Expanded and Revised. It is at the printer and we are told should arrive July 28, just in time for Gen Con. 224 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 459 – Ships July 28. See complete description elsewhere in this Update.

COMING SOON for Fantasy! Yin-Sloth Expeditions – In depth world information, villains, monsters, strange gods, a lost city, ancient civilizations, dark magic, several fully fleshed out adventures and ideas for a zillion more. Ideal for players and Game Masters alike. There is no place that offers the same range of adventures as the Yin-Sloth Jungles. August or September release. See complete description elsewhere in this Update.

UPDATE: Now Shipping: Titan Robotics Rewards. Rewards to hundreds of USA Backers began shipping last week and have continued to ship every day this week. The full pallet of rewards earmarked for Backers outside the USA should be sent to our shipping agent in a day or two. Wayne’s hammering out all the paperwork details now, though it will take several weeks before those rewards reach individuals.

A surprise for our Top Tier Titan Robotics Backers – Originally we promised our Top Backers would receive an original piece of Rifts® art, but not artwork specific to Titan Robotics. We hope you will be pleasantly surprised to learn that we managed to purchase original Titan art from Steven Cummings so you are all now getting original art, by one artist or another, that appears in Titan Robotics! AND your packages went out a day or two ago, so they should be arriving by the end of this week or early next week. Why did we do that? Simple, you are important to us and we want to make this and every Kickstarter something truly special for all our Backers. We think you’ll love the work and quality that went into each book, the card deck, art prints, etc. Thank you for your support, and special thanks to artist Steven Cummings – you can see more of his outstanding work online here:

http://artstation.com/sutesuke

GEN CON is only 2 weeks away – August 3-6 – Indianapolis

Come to the Palladium Books Booth #903 right in the front of the exhibitors’ hall near Asmodee and Upper Deck to get the newest releases, books, miniatures, art prints, original art, negatives, and more. Titan Robotics, The Cyberworks Collection, Yin-Sloth Jungles Revised and Expanded, BTS commemorative hardcover, other hardcovers, card decks, and a ton of back stock titles will all be available while supplies last.

As always, we are happy to sign your books and chat for a bit. So please, come on over to get books, autographs, the latest news, and to say hello.

Palladium Creators at Booth 903 include:

• Kevin Siembieda (Founder, writer & game designer)
• Sean Owen Roberson (writer & game designer)
• Carmen Bellaire (writer)
• Mark Oberle (writer)
• Glen Evans (writer)
• Mike Leonard (artist and writer)
• Sam Leonard (Glitter Boy?!)
• Wayne Smith (Editor and staff)
• Crystal Willard (Staff)

The Palladium Booth is #903 and located right at the main, center entrance of the Exhibitors’ Hall near Asmodee and Upper Deck. See you there.

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.

COMING SOON! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ Sourcebook

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

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

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks Collection Hardcover

Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

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

COMING SOON! Cyberworks Poker Deck

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

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

At the Printer! Yin-Sloth Jungles^™, 2nd Edition, Expanded and Revised

We hope to have advance copies available at Gen Con! Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

• 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
• 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
• New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
• New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
• New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
• Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
• The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
• All new maps by Phil Stone.
• Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
• Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
• Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459. At the printer!

COMING SOON! Yin-Sloth^™ Expeditions

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

• Villains, NPCs, magic items, adventures, and fun galore.
• Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
• Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
• Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
• Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
• Explore the Lost City of Kor.
• Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
• Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
• Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
• Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
• Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
• 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
• 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160-192 pages – price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

Have you read Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™?

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

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

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

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

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

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

DriveThruRPG.com SALE – Christmas in July Sale – one of the biggest sales of the year

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

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

• Rifts® titles. Rifts® is the ultimate setting in which you can combine any number of genres and play any style of gaming you may desire: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, heroic adventure, dimensional travel, modern knights, cyborgs, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic, monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
• The Rifter® #1-85. Each issue is a wealth of source material for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. More than 8,600 pages of source material and counting. Most issues are only available in digital form.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. A rich, original setting in which you can play humans or any number of nonhuman species of people in a world of magic, heroes and wonder. All of it epic.
• Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition titles. Create any type of superhuman you can imagine to build your own super-hero universe.
• After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals as crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes or survivors of a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, super-spies, gizmos, mystic powers, and magic in the main book, plus even more in Mystic China.
• Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. Only you know the truth. Only you can see the Nightlords and their demonic minions, and you have the power to stop them. But you must transform into a monster yourself in order to use your powers. Trust no one.
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Modern horror; 14 character classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, and more. 
• 300+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more. Palladium Books has settings for every genre: Fantasy RPG, science fiction (Rifts®, Splicers®, and The Mechanoids®), super-heroes (Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb), superhero horror (Nightbane®), modern horror (Beyond the Supernatural), zombies (Dead Reign®), The Rifter® sourcebook series, novels, paper minis, and more.

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collectibles include Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, art prints, posters, comic books, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend or two for new additions.

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each negative is truly unique and resembles woodcut art.
• It is a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• A one-of-a-kind work of art and a dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative, but still look awesome matted or framed.

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

Closing Thoughts – Sound of Freedom

If you see one movie this year, make it Sound of Freedom. It is a superb, action adventure movie – well-acted, powerfully written, superbly directed, with astonishing casting, and it is based on an unbelievable true story. It has to be one of the best dramas I’ve seen in years. Sound of Freedom pits unexpected heroes against impossible odds on a heart-wrenching mission to a save a child’s life. I didn’t know anything about this story before I saw it, so I don’t want to say too much, because it blew me away. Sean knew the story and it still left him in tears (me too). Just go see it. It will also help inform you why the BRIC charity is so dear to our hearts.

If you’re going to see a few other movies in the coming weeks, I would recommend Across the Spiderverse and the latest installment of Mission Impossible. I’m also hearing good things about the new TMNT animated movie. But Sound of Freedom should be on your must see list. In theaters now AND tickets are available for FREE!

https://www.angel.com/pay-it-forward/sound-of-freedom

Otherwise, we are pounding away on shipping Titian Robotics rewards, prepping for Gen Con and moving other book titles forward. Enjoy the sales and have a nice weekend.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Friend

© 2023 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

Thank you for your support of Palladium’s Zombie Fighter Sale enabling you to battle the undead across the Megaverse®. Ghoulish fun.

 

COMING! Yin-Sloth Jungles 2nd Edition, Expanded and Revised has been sent to the printer. So has Rifts® New West, temporarily out of stock. We hope to have both at Gen Con.

COMING! Yin-Sloth Expeditions! Yin-Sloth Expeditions is in the final stages of writing tweaks and editing before it goes into layout. As explained in last week’s Update, our love and passion for Yin-Sloth Jungles™ caused our expansion and revisions to grow. Everyone involved wanted it to be the best we could make and before we knew it, we were staring at a 320+ page book. Rather than cut out half of these awesome expansions of places, people, magic, and adventures, we decided to split the material into two epic world books. Each filled with more fascinating details, fun, and loads of opportunities for players and Game Masters alike.

The two releases will be slightly staggered. Yin-Sloth Jungles™ will ship first and we hope to have advance copies at Gen Con, and Expeditions should be available a month or so later. See the new book descriptions below to learn what you can expect in both Yin-Sloth Jungles™, 2nd Edition, Expanded and Revised and Yin-Sloth™ Expeditions.

 

UPDATE: Titan Robotics™ Rewards now shipping. It has been all hands on deck as Titan Robotics® backer rewards get pulled, double-checked, packed, labeled, and shipped. And it is why we are keeping this Update short.

We have already processed shipping charges through BackerKit, but about a dozen charges failed for one reason or another. Please verify your charges went through via BackerKit. If you have not updated your credit card in BackerKit, please do so now, especially if you are located outside the USA – otherwise you will end up being charged much more for shipping and none of us wants to see that happen.

For those of you waiting for the Rifts® Titan Robotics Savage Worlds digital rewards – they are coming soon. The Savage Rifts team has done their review and Sean is giving them his final review and tweaks as he does layout.

All of the physical rewards look amazing. We are very proud of the quality and can’t wait for you to see the rewards yourself. Our thanks to all of you for your enthusiasm and support in this adventure.

 

COMING SOON! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ Sourcebook

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

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

 

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks Collection Hardcover

Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

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

 

COMING SOON! Cyberworks Poker Deck

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

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

 

At the Printer! Yin-Sloth Jungles^™, 2nd Edition, Expanded and Revised

We hope to have advance copies available at Gen Con! Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

• 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
• 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
• New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
• New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
• New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
• Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
• The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
• All new maps by Phil Stone.
• Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
• Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
• Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459. At the printer!

 

COMING SOON! Yin-Sloth^™ Expeditions

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

• Villains, NPCs, magic items, adventures, and fun galore.
• Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
• Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
• Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
• Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
• Explore the Lost City of Kor.
• Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
• Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
• Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
• Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
• Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
• 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
• 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160-192 pages – price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

 

Gen Con^® Indy – only 3 weeks away – August 3-6 – Palladium Books Booth #903

New releases at Gen Con! We will have all our new releases: Titan Robotics, The Cyberworks Collection, the Cyberworks poker deck and even a few dozen of the limited edition gold foil hardcover books (while supplies last!); and with any luck, some advance copies of the Revised and Expanded Yin-Sloth Jungles.

Plenty of Backstock. We are also bringing nearly our entire game line, plus miniatures, poker decks, art prints, one-of-a-kind negatives, perhaps some original artwork, and other goodies. Please remember, we can only bring so many copies of titles and may run out. Sold on a first come, first served basis.

Many Palladium Creators at Palladium Booth #903: We have a larger than usual roster of Palladium personalities this year too, and we are all happy to sign your books and chat for a bit.

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

 

Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ is a blast and on sale

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

 

DriveThruRPG – 300+ RPG products offer a dozen unique world settings from across the Megaverse^® – and they all use one game system to bring you endless adventure.

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

– Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.
• Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books. He is also the game designer and often the author or co-author of the book from which the negative originates. And some negatives bear his artwork.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• Each signed negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made) that resembles woodcut art, and a very dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment.
• We have been making the negatives available, in no particular order, for a number of years, and will continue to do so. However, cutting them loose, signing and bagging is a time consuming process.
• Note: The negatives from the TMNT RPG, TMNT Adventures, and some Rifts® titles are already sold out. Moreover, the negatives from many titles were destroyed, so when you see one you like, get it when you can. Enjoy.

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

Other collectibles include art prints, posters, comic books, Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – It’s all coming together

We have been working hard on so many projects, but it’s all coming together. We are thrilled to be shipping Titan Robotics rewards to our Kickstarter backers and soon Titan Robotics products will be available to everyone via our online store and we’ll have ‘em at Gen Con. Yin-Sloth Jungles is now two big beautiful books filled with awesomeness, and the first one is at the printer. I’m doing the finishing touches on Yin-Sloth Expeditions among other things. Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2 and Rifts® Antarctica will follow later this year along with a few surprises (we hope).

Gen Con is around the corner, but we are all looking forward to it. We’ll have a lot of new products along with a zillion back stock books, and the largest line-up of creators in a long time. We hope to see some of you there. Remember, we are always happy to sign your books and chat awhile, time permitting. Please visit our booth #903, right near one of the main entrances.

That’s it for now. Stay healthy, happy, and enjoy a great weekend.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Friend

 

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

We hope gamers across America were able to enjoy a long weekend for the Independence Day holiday. Sean and I ran out to see Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and loved it. Go see it, especially if you enjoyed the first Spider-Verse movie. As for me, I took advantage of the quiet office and worked the weekend through the fourth and made a lot of progress on various fronts.

We knew many of you would be out having fun in the sun, so we are extending the sale thru the weekend – it ends Tuesday. Get details below.

News & Updates – There’s some big news about Yin-Sloth Jungles™ below, as well as progress with Titan Robotics fulfilment and other things, so please read on.

 

SALE! Zombie Fighter Sale – 20-50% discounts – time is running out

Battling zombies and fighting for survival is much more fun than you might think. Really! Find out for yourself with this Megaverse® spanning sale.

It was inspired when I noticed many similarities in Walking Dead: Dead City and Palladium’s Dead Reign®: In the Face of Death and Hell Followed sourcebooks – Zip-lines from one skyscraper to the next, what we call Rat Runs, falling zombies, insane survivors, children/teen characters, cult and gang-like survivor groups, and we suspect you will be seeing many other similarities yet to come. Could their writers have been inspired by our In the Face of Death sourcebook? Maybe.

You can enjoy your own big city Zombie Apocalypse adventures at locales like Manhattan and Chicago with Palladium’s Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks like In the Face of Death and Hell Followed. Heck, you’ll love all the titles in our Dead Reign® RPG series. And now we’re making that journey easier for you with our pulse-pounding Zombie Fighter Sale, below. Enjoy.

 

On Sale …

• Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 230HC.
• Dead Reign® RPG Softcover – 7 unique zombies, play ordinary people or special survivor O.C.C.s., equipment, and more; everything you need to start your survival campaign. Cat. No. 230.
• Dead Reign® Civilization Gone – Madmen, bandits, encounter tables and more. A fan fave. Cat. No. 231.
• Dead Reign® Dark Places – 4 weird zombies, urban underground, encounter tables and more. Another fan fave. Cat. No. 232.
• Dead Reign® Endless Dead – 11 new zombies, new O.C.C.s., military bases, vehicle combat, random tables, and more. Cat. No. 233.
• Dead Reign® Fear the Reaper – Focus on the zombie fighters known as The Road Reapers, combat notes, Terror Zombie, and more. Cat. No. 234.
• Dead Reign® Graveyard Earth – World overview. Cat. No. 235.
• Dead Reign® Hell Followed – 11 wild new zombies, 7 O.C.C.s, 23 disasters with damage stats, 8 conspiracy theories, masked lunatics, and more. An epic 160 pages! Cat. No. 236.
• Dead Reign® In the Face of Death – Kid player characters and O.C.C.s, survival guidelines for big cities and the suburbs, life on the rooftops, zip lines, Rat Runs, death cults, new villains, 100+ adventure hooks and other scenarios, random tables, dungeon crawl through skyscrapers, and more. Cat. No. 237.

More Undead Adventures on Sale:

• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 660HC.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG Softcover – The Great Cataclysm begins. Cat. No. 660.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® Resurrection – Mega-Damage zombies! Cat. No. 666.
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms – Title says it all. Cat. No. 802-E.
• Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook – Techno-Wizard weapons, Soulmancy magic and weapons, Doc Reid and Reid’s Rangers, Werebeasts, Yucatan Peninsula and more. Cat. No. 884.
• Rifts® Africa – Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Mind Bleeder, Necromancer, Egyptian deities and minions, and more. Cat. No. 808.
• Rifts® Mystic Russia – Bone Magic, Necromancer Revisited, Fire Magic, Nature Magic, Russian Demons, and more – Cat. No. 833.
• Rifts® Dark Conversions – Packed with vampires, undead, and monstrous adversaries. Cat. No. 852.
• Palladium Fantasy®: Dragons & Gods – 14 dragons, 40+ deities, 20+ Demon Lords, Elementals, magic weapons, and more. Cat. No. 451.
• Palladium Fantasy®: Old Ones – 50 mapped locations, full of adventures and fun, as long as you don’t wake the Old Ones. Cat. No. 453.
• Palladium Fantasy®: Western Empire – Vampires, the Empire of Sin, and more. Cat. No. 462.
• Palladium Fantasy®: LOD 2 Eternal Torment – 15 undead, 15 Beasts of Chaos, curses, 100+ adventure hooks and more! Cat. No. 469.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – Extra stuff – 288 pages – Cat. No. 200HC.
• Splicers® RPG Softcover – Necroborgs, Necrobots, and other horrors serve a deranged A.I. with many personalities and battle heroes clad in living body armor and wielding living weapons.
• Splicers® I Am Legion sourcebook – More machine horror and multi-part adventure – 256 pages – Cat. No. 201.
• The Rifter® #82 – Chaos Earth Pyromancy and Fire Magic spells, Erick Wujcik remembered, Rifts® Bestiary preview. Cat. No. 182.
• The Rifter® #85 – Because it’s a great issue with Dead Reign® vehicle loot tables and source material for Rifts®, Fantasy, and many Palladium settings – 224 pages – Cat. No. 185.

 

DriveThruRPG.com SALE

Expand your digital library with PDF books of the titles listed above on sale at DriveThruRPG.com while you still can – this sale also ends on July 11. Enjoy.

 

Update: Titan Robotics^™ Kickstarter Rewards shipping next week

Howdy Rifters – all the shipping issues have been worked out and everything is being packed up to ship. Orders for the USA will start shipping next.

What we need from some of you is your updated credit card information in Backerkit so we can charge you for the shipping. This is especially important if you are a backer from outside the USA because stragglers will have to be shipped by a different method and pay 3-5 times MORE than the prices listed in the Kickstarter! So please check your emails for a message from Backerkit regarding your shipping, or log into Backerkit and verify your payment status.

Don’t forget these fun little extras …

• Titan Robotics has 32 pages of additional content at no extra charge for backers – the book’s 160 pages grew to 192 pages during my final edit. Enjoy 🙂
• We added a “Bonus” Color Art Print of the Revised Sourcebook 1 cover included for everyone who backed at a level that gets art prints. I feel like this really rounds out the color print set.
• Digital Book Rewards have been sent out to all backers, including the remastered titles (new page linked Table of Contents, rear Index, proofreading update, revised layout, etc.):
•             Rifts® Sourcebook: Titan Robotics
•             Rifts® Sourcebook One – Revised & Expanded
•             Rifts® Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids®
•             Rifts® Sourcebook: Shemarrian Nation
• Other Digital Rewards are in final review and layout, and should be delivered around the time physical items ship (they could not be created until Titan Robotics was finalized). They include:
•             Titan Courier Team Introductory Adventure PDF
•             Savage Titan Robotics Conversion PDF
•             Savage Cyberworks Conversion PDF

All of the physical rewards look amazing. We are very proud of the quality and can’t wait for you to see the rewards yourself. We will provide more updates when we charge shipping through BackerKit. I want to thank all of you for your faith and support in this entire endeavor.

– Sean Owen Roberson

 

COMING SOON! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ Sourcebook

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

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

 

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks Collection Hardcover

Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

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

 

COMING SOON! Cyberworks Poker Deck

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

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

 

News! Yin-Sloth Jungles^™ is now 2 books

Dang, Yoda was right, ever in motion is the future. I had been wrestling with this idea for a while now, but a discussion with Sean convinced me that to do this fan favorite Fantasy title the justice it deserves, we had to expand it into TWO books. Yes, two, big books just like I did with Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms and Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook a few years ago.

How did this happen? Well, Yin-Sloth Jungles™ is one of John Klinkel’s and my favorite settings, and all that love and passion for Palladium Fantasy poured out to make it bigger and more fascinating. So much bigger that to cram all this crunchy and fluffy goodness into one book I would either have to cut half of it out or release Yin-Sloth Jungles™ as a 320+ page sourcebook. Ah, but there was a better solution: turn it into two beautiful books. The releases will probably be slightly staggered. Yin-Sloth Jungles™ will ship first and we hope to have advance copies at Gen Con, and Expeditions a month or so later.

Please read the two new book descriptions that follow to learn what you can expect in both Yin-Sloth Jungles™, 2nd Edition, Expanded and Revised and Yin-Sloth™ Expeditions.

 

Yin-Sloth Jungles^™, 2nd Edition, Expanded and Revised!

We hope to have advance copies available at Gen Con! Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

• 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
• 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
• New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
• New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
• New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
• Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
• The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
• All new maps by Phil Stone.
• Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
• Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
• Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459 – in final layout right now! Goes to the printer next week.

 

Yin-Sloth^™ Expeditions

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

• Adventures, villains, NPCs, and fun galore.
• Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
• Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
• Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
• Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
• Explore the Lost City of Kor.
• Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
• Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
• Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
• Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
• Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
• 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
• 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
• 160-192 pages – price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

 

Gen Con^® Indy – only 4 weeks away – August 3-6 – Palladium Books Booth #903

New releases at Gen Con! We will have all our new releases: Titan Robotics, The Cyberworks Collection, the Cyberworks poker deck and even a few dozen of the limited edition gold foil hardcover books (while supplies last!); and with any luck, some advance copies of the Revised and Expanded Yin-Sloth Jungles.

Plenty of Backstock. We are also bringing nearly our entire game line, plus miniatures, poker decks, art prints, one-of-a-kind negatives, perhaps some original artwork, and other goodies. Please remember, we can only bring so many copies of titles and may run out. Sold on a first come, first served basis.

Many Palladium Creators at Palladium Booth #903: We have a larger than usual roster of Palladium personalities this year too, and we are all happy to sign your books and chat for a bit.

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

 

Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ is a blast and on sale

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

 

NEW sale on DriveThruRPG — Zombie Fighter Sale!

Fight zombies, other undead, and the forces of darkness with this sale. Battling zombies and fighting for humanity is much more fun than you might think. Find out for yourself with this sale.

• Dead Reign® RPG
• Dead Reign® Civilization Gone™
• Dead Reign® Dark Places™
• Dead Reign® Endless Dead™
• Dead Reign® Fear the Reaper
• Dead Reign® Graveyard Earth™
• Dead Reign® Hell Followed™
• Dead Reign® In the Face of Death
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® Resurrection™
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms
• Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook
• Rifts® Africa
• Rifts® Mystic Russia
• Rifts® Dark Conversions
• Palladium Fantasy®: Dragons & Gods™
• Palladium Fantasy®: Old Ones™
• Palladium Fantasy®: Western Empire™
• Palladium Fantasy®: LOD 2 Eternal Torment™
• Splicers® RPG
• Splicers® I Am Legion sourcebook
• The Rifter® #82
• The Rifter® #85

Note: Also see the sale for physical books at PalladiumBooks.com for some great deals.

 

300+ RPG products offer a dozen unique world settings from across the Megaverse – and they all use one game system to bring you endless adventure.

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

– Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.
• Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books. He is also the game designer and often the author or co-author of the book from which the negative originates. And some negatives bear his artwork.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• Each signed negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made) that resembles woodcut art, and a very dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment.
• We have been making the negatives available, in no particular order, for a number of years, and will continue to do so. However, cutting them loose, signing and bagging is a time consuming process.
• Note: The negatives from the TMNT RPG, TMNT Adventures, and some Rifts® titles are already sold out. Moreover, the negatives from many titles were destroyed, so when you see one you like, get it when you can. Enjoy.

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

Other collectibles include art prints, posters, comic books, Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – USA Independence Day

This week everyone here at Palladium Books celebrated July 4th, with this year marking 247 since the original 13 colonies freed themselves from the rule of the British monarchy. These days we think of those brave people as free, rebellious spirits. In reality, their lives were ruled by the dictates of Britain’s royal family and their allied “noble” families. They were trapped in a very dark society and culture designed to control them and extract wealth for their lords.

After winning their rebellion, these “Americans” had the chance to create a completely new form of government. This constitutional republic – including a group of democratically elected representatives – was successful enough that it became the blueprint for most free nations from then to the present day.

However, the society these suddenly “free” people inherited was imperfect. Over time, the strength of American culture, ideals, and system of government has slowly brought about change and improvement to our nation’s social structure and fabric. Generation by generation, the old ways have given way to new ones. It hasn’t always been perfect – progress is often “two steps forward, one step back” – but good things rarely come easy.

Like most Americans, my heritage is a patchwork. Mine includes Native American, English, French, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and most recently, German immigrants. If you are a fan of history like me you will know that, at one time or another, these people were all very excited to kill each other. The fact that in the USA they coexisted and intermarried is pretty amazing. Regardless of your family tree’s origins, I’m glad to share this American heritage with you, or welcome you to join the American experiment if you feel so inclined.

Either way, whether you are living in the USA or abroad, I just want to say that I’m glad to know that we are all united in a determination to forge a better present and future. For my part, I’ve been a missionary, served in the military as a Chinese cultural expert and translator, and now I do my best to write books that uplift and games that bring joy. I’m sure you have your own unique gifts and talents. You should share them.

As Kevin often writes, some days that gift is just a friendly smile or compliment given to others in passing. Other times it is long, hard work serving your local community or nation. For all of those things, for each good act great or small, thank you.

– Sean Owen Roberson, Writer, Designer, Adventurer

 

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

Hi, everyone. Have any of you noticed similarities in Walking Dead: Dead City and Palladium’s Dead Reign®: In the Face of Death sourcebook? Zip-lines from one skyscraper to the next, what we call Rat Runs, falling zombies, insane survivors, children/teen characters, cult and gang-like survivor groups, and we suspect you will be seeing many others yet to come. Could their writers have been inspired by our In the Face of Death sourcebook? Maybe.

You can enjoy your own big city Zombie Apocalypse adventures at locales like Manhattan and Chicago with Palladium’s Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks like In the Face of Death and Hell Followed. Heck, you’ll love all the titles in our Dead Reign® RPG series. And now we’re making that journey easier for you with our pulse-pounding Zombie Fighter Sale, below. Enjoy.

 

SALE! Zombie Fighter Sale – 20-50% discounts

Battling zombies and fighting for survival is much more fun than you might think. Really! Find out for yourself with this sale.

• Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 230HC.
• Dead Reign® RPG Softcover – 7 unique zombies, play ordinary people or special survivor O.C.C.s., equipment, and more; everything you need to start your survival campaign. Cat. No. 230.
• Dead Reign® Civilization Gone – Madmen, bandits, encounter tables and more. A fan fave. Cat. No. 231.
• Dead Reign® Dark Places – 4 weird zombies, urban underground, encounter tables and more. Another fan fave. Cat. No. 232.
• Dead Reign® Endless Dead – 11 new zombies, new O.C.C.s., military bases, vehicle combat, random tables, and more. Cat. No. 233.
• Dead Reign® Fear the Reaper – Focus on the zombie fighters known as The Road Reapers, combat notes, Terror Zombie, and more. Cat. No. 234.
• Dead Reign® Graveyard Earth – World overview. Cat. No. 235.
• Dead Reign® Hell Followed – 11 wild new zombies, 7 O.C.C.s, 23 disasters with damage stats, 8 conspiracy theories, masked lunatics, and more. An epic 160 pages! Cat. No. 236.
• Dead Reign® In the Face of Death – Kid player characters and O.C.C.s, survival guidelines for big cities and the suburbs, life on the rooftops, zip lines, Rat Runs, death cults, new villains, 100+ adventure hooks and other scenarios, random tables, dungeon crawl through skyscrapers, and more. Cat. No. 237.

More Undead Adventures on Sale:

• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 660HC.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG Softcover – The Great Cataclysm begins. Cat. No. 660.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® Resurrection – Mega-Damage zombies! Cat. No. 666.
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms – Title says it all. Cat. No. 802-E.
• Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook – Techno-Wizard weapons, Soulmancy magic and weapons, Doc Reid and Reid’s Rangers, Werebeasts, Yucatan Peninsula and more. Cat. No. 884.
• Rifts® Africa – Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Mind Bleeder, Necromancer, Egyptian deities and minions, and more. Cat. No. 808.
• Rifts® Mystic Russia – Bone Magic, Necromancer Revisited, Fire Magic, Nature Magic, Russian Demons, and more – Cat. No. 833.
• Rifts® Dark Conversions – Packed with vampires, undead and monstrous adversaries. Cat. No. 852.
• Palladium Fantasy®: Dragons & Gods – 14 dragons, 40+ deities, 20+ Demon Lords, Elementals, magic weapons, and more. Cat. No. 451.
• Palladium Fantasy®: Old Ones – 50 mapped location, full adventures and fun, as long as you don’t wake the Old Ones. Cat. No. 453.
• Palladium Fantasy®: Western Empire – Vampires, the Empire of Sin, and more. Cat. No. 462.
• Palladium Fantasy®: LOD 2 Eternal Torment – 15 undead, 15 Beasts of Chaos, curses, 100+ adventure hooks and more! Cat. No. 469.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – Extra stuff – 288 pages – Cat. No. 200HC.
• Splicers® RPG Softcover – Necroborgs, Necrobots, and other horrors serve a deranged A.I. with many personalities and battle heroes clad in living body armor and use living weapons.
• Splicers® I Am Legion sourcebook – More machine horror and multi-part adventure – 256 pages – Cat. No. 201.
• The Rifter® #82 – Chaos Earth Pyromancy and Fire Magic spells, Erick Wujcik remembered, Rifts® Bestiary preview. Cat. No. 182.
• The Rifter® #85 – Because it’s a great issue with source material for Rifts®, Fantasy, and many Palladium settings – 224 pages – Cat. No. 185.

 

Update: Titan Robotics Kickstarter

Howdy Rifters, I have bad news and good news. As I have mentioned in previous updates, shipping fulfillment is one of those things Kevin and I have been nervous about with the volatile worldwide logistics situation.

After coordinating closely with our shipping partners Quartermaster Logistics since November 2022, providing them with rock-solid shipping projections, and sharing their quoted prices with you, it turns out they cannot fulfill shipping for you at anywhere near those rates. They made no effort to fix the situation. That is the bad news, and trust me, as unhappy as you may be to hear this, you are not as unhappy as Kevin and I are.

The good news! It took some scrambling and long hours on our part, but we have arranged a new fulfilment partner to provide you shipping at comparable rates, and fulfillment is only being shortly delayed. Shipping will be charged in the next few business days. As you know, we have received all physical rewards at the Palladium Books warehouse and are a good way through boxing everything up. It’s a LOT of books and items and they look great.

 

More Good News!

• Titan Robotics has 32 pages of additional content at no extra charge for backers — the book’s 160 pages grew to 192 pages during my final edit. Enjoy 🙂
• We added a “Bonus” Color Art Print of the Revised Sourcebook 1 cover included for everyone who backed at a level that gets art prints. I feel like this really rounds out the color print set.
• Digital Book Rewards have been sent out to all backers, including the remastered titles (new page linked Table of Contents, rear Index, proofreading update, revised layout, etc.):
•             Rifts® Sourcebook: Titan Robotics
•             Rifts® Sourcebook One – Revised & Expanded
•             Rifts® Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids®
•             Rifts® Sourcebook: Shemarrian Nation
• Other Digital Rewards are in final review and layout, and should be delivered around the time physical items ship (they could not be created until Titan Robotics was finalized). They include:
•             Titan Courier Team Introductory Adventure PDF
•             Savage Titan Robotics Conversion PDF
•             Savage Cyberworks Conversion PDF

 

At a small company like ours, it has required “all hands on deck” and lots of extra hours to push forward through this challenge. While this bump in the road has delayed shipping – which is very frustrating as we were on track with our June 2023 projections – the delay is short. A special shout out to Wayne Smith who has gone above and beyond the call of duty, our friend Frank at Studio 2, and the great folks at Spiral Galaxy. We also have lessons learned for future projects. Most of all, the physical rewards look amazing. We are very proud of the quality and can’t wait for you to see the rewards yourself. We will provide more updates when we charge shipping through BackerKit. I want to thank all of you for your faith and support in this entire endeavor.

– Sean Owen Roberson

 

UPDATE: Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2. This sequel to the Rifts® fan favorite Volume One is in active production.

 

COMING! Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised 2nd Edition is like an epic, new book that will wow and please fantasy fans. Coming in the weeks ahead.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ is a blast and on sale

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

 

NEW sale on DriveThruRPG — Zombie Fighter Sale!

Fight zombies, other undead, and the forces of darkness with this sale. Battling zombies and fighting for humanity is much more fun than you might think. Find out for yourself with this sale.

• Dead Reign® RPG
• Dead Reign® Civilization Gone™
• Dead Reign® Dark Places™
• Dead Reign® Endless Dead™
• Dead Reign® Fear the Reaper
• Dead Reign® Graveyard Earth™
• Dead Reign® Hell Followed™
• Dead Reign® In the Face of Death
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® Resurrection™
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms
• Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook
• Rifts® Africa
• Rifts® Mystic Russia
• Rifts® Dark Conversions
• Palladium Fantasy®: Dragons & Gods™
• Palladium Fantasy®: Old Ones™
• Palladium Fantasy®: Western Empire™
• Palladium Fantasy®: LOD 2 Eternal Torment™
• Splicers® RPG
• Splicers® I Am Legion sourcebook
• The Rifter® #82
• The Rifter® #85

Note: Also see the sale for physical books at PalladiumBooks.com for some great deals.

 

300+ RPG products offer a dozen unique world settings from across the Megaverse – and they all use one game system to bring you endless adventure.

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

– Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.
• Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books. He is also the game designer and often the author or co-author of the book from which the negative originates. And some negatives bear his artwork.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• Each signed negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made) that resembles woodcut art, and a very dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment.
• We have been making the negatives available, in no particular order, for a number of years, and will continue to do so. However, cutting them loose, signing and bagging is a time consuming process.
• Note: The negatives from the TMNT RPG, TMNT Adventures, and some Rifts® titles are already sold out. Moreover, the negatives from many titles were destroyed, so when you see one you like, get it when you can. Enjoy.

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

Other collectibles include art prints, posters, comic books, Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – Fun and Laughter

I don’t know about you, but I like to break up my serious RPG games with fun and laughter. It might be part of the game woven into my description of a character or event, or a G.M. comment or joke as a side comment. It doesn’t matter, as long as there is some levity and even downright silliness to break up the heavy drama. Most Marvel movies do that exceptionally well. Gentle moments are nice too, like when Spider-Man returned from oblivion meets Tony Stark/Iron Man on the battlefield in Avengers Endgame. The two stop and hug each other in a surrogate father and son moment that is beautiful, followed by a touch of levity when Spidey says, “This is nice.”

As Game Master, I will sometimes pause the action to compliment a player on a brilliant or heroic maneuver or a great roll or shocking bit of luck. “Yep, your life was passing before your eyes, and then your puny little scholar teammate ROLLS A NATURAL TWENTY to take down the bad guy who was about to kill you. By the way, nice shot, Tex, make sure so and so buys your character a meal and a drink when this is over. Well, assuming you all survive, because the battle is far from over.” And then I dive back into the action. The point is to have a nice moment to briefly pause and let the players catch their breath, and make people smile or laugh before we jump back into deadly action.

Remember, role-playing should be about having fun, usually with friends and family. Let your hair down, try new things, be silly or funny at times, and have a blast.

If I have a complaint about Walking Dead: Dead City, and the last few seasons of Walking Dead, it’s that everything is super-serious and grim. My goodness, I don’t think Maggie has smiled in years in that show. She is so sad, serious and ruthless that it’s hard to watch. And it is not how we human beings are. Throughout human history we use levity to survive the grim times and sad moments. The last several years of my Mom’s life were spent fighting a losing battle with cancer. It’s sad and tragic to watch the person you adore slipping away before your eyes, but we laughed so much. I loved making my mother laugh and forget about her battle (all of our battle) even if it were for just a minute. It is what helped us all get through those tough times. Same thing during the Crisis of Treachery and other tough times. I made the whole staff laugh and lighten up with comments like, “They’ll need to pound a stake through my heart to kill Palladium. And that ain’t happening.”

Laughter is what helps us humans get through hard times and sadness. As we have been dealing with the unexpected global shipping issues for Titan Robotics, we were all exhausted and frustrated and the situation uncertain, when I said something (I don’t remember what) that made everyone burst into laughter. Leading to hugs and Sean, still chuckling, to say, “I love you, Man.” We laugh all the time at Palladium. To the point that I’ll grin and paraphrase a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “ Palladium Books, it’s a silly place.” Ahem.

Enjoy our current RPG sale with 20-50% discounts and laugh it up over the American Independence Day long weekend. Sean, Wayne, Alex, and I will be working through the weekend to pack and ready for shipping all those beautiful Titan Robotics Kickstarter rewards for you our backers. But there will be plenty of laughs and silliness to go around.

– Kevin Siembieda, your silly friend and RPG publisher

 

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

 

They say a photo is worth a thousand words, so here’s a photo and a few accompanying words. All Titan Robotics™ and Cyberworks™ Kickstarter items are in and being packed up to send to our fulfilment partner. As soon as we get the shipping costs from them (any day now), Palladium will charge your cards for shipping costs, and send everything off to them and they’ll get everything shipped around the world! Then many of these products will become available for wider sales and distribution. And they are all gorgeous! We are excited to be shipping these great books, cards, and prints to you.

 

The summer reading sale was very well received. It ended this morning and gave a lot of people novels, games, and sourcebooks to enjoy over the summer. More good stuff to come.

 

Thank you for supporting BRIC: A Kickstarter that saves lives. The Relief in the Congo for God’s Children from Human Trafficking made and slightly exceeded its modest goal of $1,000. This worthy charity protects children, teens, and young adults from slavery by warlords and educates them for the future.

 

UPDATE: Titan Robotics Kickstarter shipping soon! All the books, poker decks, and prints are in, and look fantastic (the remastered Cyberworks collection feels like new and looks beautiful!). They are all being packed up to be sent to our fulfillment partner and onward to our many backers worldwide.

 

UPDATE: Titan Robotics™ Kickstarter shipping cost – As soon as we get the final shipping costs (soon), we will charge your credit card on file in Backerkit and ship ‘em out to our freight forwarder.

For the rest of our anxious fans, this means Titan Robotics™, the Cyberworks™ Collection, Cyberworks™ Poker Deck, etc. will be made available to the public and mass distribution in a few weeks.

 

UPDATE: Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2. This sequel to the Rifts® fan favorite Volume One is in active production.

 

COMING! Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised 2nd Edition is like an epic, new book that will wow and please fantasy fans. Coming in the weeks ahead.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ is a blast and on sale

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

 

DriveThruRPG — 300+ RPG products offer a dozen unique world settings from across the Megaverse – and they all use one game system to bring you endless adventure.

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

– Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.
• Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books. He is also the game designer and often the author or co-author of the book from which the negative originates. And some negatives bear his artwork.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• Each signed negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made) that resembles woodcut art, and a very dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment.
• We have been making the negatives available, in no particular order, for a number of years, and will continue to do so. However, cutting them loose, signing and bagging is a time consuming process.
• Note: The negatives from the TMNT RPG, TMNT Adventures, and some Rifts® titles are already sold out. Moreover, the negatives from many titles were destroyed, so when you see one you like, get it when you can. Enjoy.

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

Other collectibles include art prints, posters, comic books, Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – RPG joy

Dang, we love role-playing games! There ain’t nothin’ like ‘em. Making RPGs and bringing you the games and sourcebooks you want is our number one goal. We’ve pushed a lot of other stuff off our plates and we are laser focused on making books. We love the medium, love what we do, and are having a blast working on upcoming releases.

A lot of professionals will say they love what they do, but it’s absolutely true at Palladium Books. Even when Sean or I are tired or frustrated or feeling under the weather, we enjoy coming to work to weave some magic and write. Just the other day Sean was saying how his move to Palladium was absolutely correct for him. That he loves coming to work. Loves writing and publishing, and that it brings him joy. Moreover, every accomplishment, large or small, only brings more excitement and joy.

I know that feeling well, because I feel exactly the same. Always have. It is a strangely magical experience to create something out of thin air via your imagination. To weave books and games that generations of gamers have enjoyed. Part of the joy and magic comes from working with other talented people – writing partners, freelance artists and writers, and Palladium fans. All people who challenge and inspire us creators to push the envelope and take our work to the next level.

Sean and I often find ourselves in a state of happiness and excitement even when locked away in our offices pounding away on the keyboard, especially after we’ve just inspired each other about something. Every new idea, every time we find the best words to convey that idea, a suggestion to make the ideas (or book) better or expanded, is a joyful and exciting moment.

And fun. Yes, it is work being a wordsmith and game designer, but it’s fun. As much fun as playing a game! We have fun being creative and writing and creating new stories. There’s a sense of playfulness and momentum and achievement for us that is almost undefinable. There are moments when you just stop and cheer or lean back in your chair and think to yourself: “That’s it!” “I love it.” “The fans will love it!” “Perfect.” “Fantastic.” And then you thank God for blessing you with one great idea after another, and for your many talents. There are days that I wonder why I have been so blessed with so many gifts and extraordinary friends and talents like Sean and Wayne and Rex and all our writers and artists and insightful fans. Some days I’m astonished by everything we’ve accomplished these past 42 years and thrilled about all the great game material Sean and I have planned for the future.

There are moments every week where Sean turns to me and says something like, “Kevin, I’m so glad to be here. I love working with you.” Or, “Man, we make a great team. I mean it. People have no idea what’s coming.” And I make similar exclamations about him, or to Wayne, or Alex, etc.

In the end, our sense of fun and love for creating role-playing games is why we have RPGs and sourcebooks that are 20-40 years old and still selling; because all that love, excitement, and fun seeps into every page. Freakin’ awesome, right? Our other secret? Me, Sean, all of us, we’re fan boy gamers just like you and we create the kinds of games we know you want to see and that we love to play ourselves.

You will continue to see all kinds of exciting books and even new products coming your way in the near future and in the months to come. Because we have been breaking our backs behind the scenes and having a ton of fun while doing so, which translates into dynamic products that will blow your minds. Please keep your imaginations burning bright and game on, my friends.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Friend

 

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

 

SALE! Summer Reading Sale! 20-50% off

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

• All available issues of The Rifter®
• Magic of Palladium (MOP; the predecessor of The Rifter®)
• All Rifts® novels
• Rifts® Sonic Boom (Part 1 of trilogy)
• Rifts® Deception’s Web (Part 2 of trilogy)
• Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings (Part 3 of trilogy)
• Rifts® Duty’s Edge (stand-alone novel)
• Rifts® Hammer of the Forge: The Cosmo-Knight (Part 1)
• Rifts® Hammer of the Forge: The Reckoning (Part 2)
• Rifts® Anthology Collection (11 stories)
• Rifts® Path of the Storm (a proposed movie script)
• Rifts® Machinations of Doom (Ramon Perez graphic novel & sourcebook)
• Rifts® Coalition Manhunters (foundational book on CS society, highly recommended by Sean!)
• Systems Failure RPG (Bug-eyed monster invasion & survival)
• Dead Reign® RPG (zombie apocalypse, survival, survivor factions & a great read!)
• Beyond the Supernatural RPG 1st Edition Rules Hardcover (a great read)
• Gramercy Island Heroes Unlimited sourcebook (a fun read)
• Mystic China sourcebook (fun read & adaptable to HU, BTS, and Rifts®!)
• Nightbane® Survival Guide (fan fave & a great read!)
• I Am Legion Splicers® sourcebook (a fun read, epic adventure)
• Garden of the Gods Palladium Fantasy® sourcebook (epic & a great read!)
• Compendium of Modern Weapons (back by fan request – lock & load)
• Rifts® & the Megaverse® Art of John Zeleznik (awesome art; color)
• Future Visions: The Art of Charles Walton (fuel for the imagination)

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

 

Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ is a blast and on sale

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

List of Palladium Books^® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

• NEW! “Original” Beyond the Supernatural RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – This is the original 1st Edition rules (1988) in a deluxe hardcover format. The first time ever as a hardcover and includes the original O.C.C.s, monsters, and magic. 28 monsters, adventures, G.M. tips, Erick Wujcik’s infamous “victim character” rules, and 32 bonus pages of adventure material for BTS-2. The cover is a blood red foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette. 288 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 699HC – Available now!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 700HC.
• BACK IN STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative “Bonus” Foil Hardcover (1st Edition rules) – Holiday demand cleaned the shelves of this fan favorite hardcover, but it is back in stock. This is the original 1st Edition Rules RPG including Tombs of Gersidi and the first Fantasy sourcebook: The Arms of Nargash-Tor. The cover is a classy crimson foil image, imprinted on black faux leatherette to replicate the original red and black RPG fans love. 320 pages – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 336 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 450HC – Our second best selling new hardcover after the Rifts® 30th Anniversary edition.
• “Original” Rifts® RPG 30th Anniversary Commemorative Hardcover – available now! This collector’s item sports the original Parkinson cover, an additional 32 page color section, history of Rifts®, unpublished concept art, gallery of all Rifts® covers through 2020, and more. Can be used with ALL Rifts® supplements – 288 pages – $49.99 – Cat. No. 800HC30 – Available now.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition RPG Hardcover – 376 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 800HC – epic.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition “Softcover” is a new format. RUE has only ever been available as a hardcover, and it still is, but it is now also available as a softcover – 376 pages – $34.99 – Cat. No. 800SE.
• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 845HC.
• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 848HC – available now.
• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 849HC.
• Chaos Earth® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – 192 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 660HC – 30 extra pages of bonus material – available now!
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, 2nd Edition Hardcover – 352 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 500HC.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 525HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 296 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 503HC – includes bonus material – available now.
• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – available now – 304 pages – $39.99 – Cat. No. 730HC – 60 extra pages of bonus material – available now.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse) Hardcover – available now – BACK in stock – 224 pages – $36.99 – Cat. No. 230HC – available now.
• Splicers® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – The Splicers® RPG plus 50 pages of extra material gathered from The Rifter®. 280 pages – $44.99 – Cat. No. 200HC – available now.

 

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

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

• ALL issues of The Rifter®
• Magic of Palladium (MOP; the predecessor of The Rifter®)
• All Rifts® novels
• Rifts® Sonic Boom (Part 1 of trilogy)
• Rifts® Deception’s Web (Part 2 of trilogy)
• Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings (Part 3 of trilogy)
• Rifts® Duty’s Edge (stand-alone novel)
• Rifts® Hammer of the Forge: The Cosmo-Knight (Part 1)
• Rifts® Hammer of the Forge: The Reckoning (Part 2)
• Rifts® Anthology Collection (11 stories)
• Rifts® Path of the Storm (a proposed movie script)
• Rifts® Machinations of Doom (Ramon Perez Graphic novel & sourcebook)
• Rifts® Coalition Manhunters
• Systems Failure RPG
• Dead Reign® RPG (zombie apocalypse)
• Beyond the Supernatural RPG 1st Edition Rules
• Beyond the Supernatural RPG 2nd Edition Rules
• Gramercy Island Heroes Unlimited sourcebook
• Mystic China sourcebook
• Nightbane® Survival Guide
• I Am Legion Splicers® sourcebook
• Garden of the Gods Palladium Fantasy® sourcebook
• Compendium of Contemporary Weapons

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

– Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

• Each is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.
• Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
• Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
• Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books. He is also the game designer and often the author or co-author of the book from which the negative originates. And some negatives bear his artwork.
• Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• Each signed negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made) that resembles woodcut art, and a very dynamic conversation piece.
• Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
• Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
• Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment.
• We have been making the negatives available, in no particular order, for a number of years, and will continue to do so. However, cutting them loose, signing and bagging is a time consuming process.
• Note: The negatives from the TMNT RPG, TMNT Adventures, and some Rifts® titles are already sold out. Moreover, the negatives from many titles were destroyed, so when you see one you like, get it when you can. Enjoy.

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

Other collectibles include art prints, posters, comic books, Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – It’s all coming together

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Friend

 

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