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| | Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – February 6, 2025 |
|  | If you act fast enough, you still have a last chance to take advantage of the Nightbane® sale on the Palladium website (PalladiumBooks.com) and PDF sale on DriveThruRPG.com – both sales end after midnight today, February 6. |
| | | |  | The fun Nightbane®: Dark Designs Audiobook crowdfunder ends today at 1:00 PM Eastern Time, February 6th. Our thanks to everyone who supported the offering. We were all blown away by the quality and how it makes the books sound brand new and fun. This is just the beginning of the RPG audiobook revolution. If our experiments into this medium go well, you can expect to see many more Palladium RPGs and sourcebooks made into audiobooks. |
| | | NEWS! Legion of Myth live chat with Kevin Siembieda – Sunday, February 16, 2025. I believe our chat will revolve around using Palladium’s Hook, Line and Sinker adventure outlines and designing and running adventures. Sean is out of the country on business, so it will be just me, MaxLiao, Heathdog, and the many of you who tune in live to ask questions. Please join the fun. The chat starts at 2:00 PM till about 4:00 PM but the show will be recorded and made available after the live broadcast. |
| | NEWS! What’s hot this week at Palladium? Nightbane® and its sourcebooks are all on sale (but that sale ends after midnight, tonight, so act quickly). Other hot selling game lines this week are Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy, and After the Bomb®. |
| | NEWS! Retailers, visit Palladium Books at the GAMA Trade Show, Booth #1176, to get more information about TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux edition, and see samples, ask questions, and place orders. Of course, you can place orders right now by going to the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Pre-Order Store and get superior savings. Retailer Packages are located at the bottom of the page. You must be able to prove you are a brick and mortar store to qualify. |
| | |  | UPDATE! TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux nears completion. The remastering and layout of the RPG and Transdimensional Adventures hardcovers by Sean Owen Roberson are complete and look incredible. The core rule book topped out at 272 pages. Yes, that’s 16 additional bonus pages in the RPG. Transdimensional Adventures hit its anticipated 252 page target size. Between the two books there are: 20 new mutant animals. 3 new animal powers, plus special abilities under some mutant animal descriptions. New and expanded tables for mutant animal creation, speed, and others. A brand new mutant NPC. Stats for Karai. (New art by Kevin Eastman!) Stats for the Fugitoid. (First time ever!) Rules clarifications galore and every page remastered with new typesetting and layout. 20 additional vehicles, vehicle creation tables and rules for land, water, air and space vehicles. Expanded vehicle combat and chase rules. 3 TMNT comic strips (28 pages total) that were originally created exclusively for the TMNT RPG and the first two sourcebooks, and seldom reprinted elsewhere. 32 pages of tribute art by comic book and gaming luminaries. Dozens of written remembrances. Never before and seldom seen concept artwork and notes from Peter Laird from back in the 1980s. The history and behind the scenes story of the making of the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG. Index and more. All in glorious full color by top professionals that include Sophie Campbell, Jeremy Colwell, Luis Antonio Delgado, and Mike Majestic. Moreover, many of the Tribute artists such as Ciro Nieli, Fero Pe, Ramon K. Perez, David Peterson, Eric Talbot, and others colored their own art to their exact specifications. We pulled out all the stops to make these books something every TMNT fan will love and cherish. And don’t even get me started on the Black, White and Red Edition Hardcovers with grayscale tones and reds by Jeremy Colwell. I found these renditions to be jaw dropping. They harken back to the original black and white Mirage Studio comic books in a dynamic and beautiful way. And yes, all 4 Turtles wear red masks just as they did in those early comics. Meanwhile, Sean is putting the finishing touches on the poker decks, print sets, miniatures, and other Kickstarter exclusives. The same goes for Fan Roll. We are very close to sending everything to the printer and manufacturers.
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| | | TMNT & Other Strangeness Backers – You can expect a Kickstarter Update with additional art and information soon. If you have not yet updated or filled out your BackerKit Survey – which informs us of exactly which products you want, your current address, and offers the soon to end opportunity to change and upgrade your pledge – please do so now. Thank you. By the way, when a few recent visitors at the Palladium Studio dropped by and saw some of the samples, finished pages, and tribute art, they decided they needed to add several more Kickstarter Exclusives like the variant book cover editions (very limited), dice tower, the dice tray, and the Shredder dice (I love those too), while they still could. Follow their lead, because everything is gorgeous, high quality, and certain to become instant collector items, especially the variant covers, dice, and miniatures. |
| | | NEWS! A new Kickstarter Campaign you might find interesting – Dead Flesh RPG. It is a zombie game written by Palladium Books freelance writer Dan Frederick with art by Big Nick Bradshaw (Dead Reign® RPG series). As the name suggests, this is an RPG that deals with the zombie apocalypse. It sounds fun so check it out. Palladium gamers who already play Dead Reign® may find additional zombies, resources, and adventure ideas to fuel their current Dead Reign campaign. |
| | |  | FINAL Hours – Nightbane® SALE – ENDS after midnight, today, February 6 – Save 20-30% on physical books |
| | | | FINAL Hours – Nightbane® PDF SALE on DriveThruRPG.com – ENDS tonight after midnight, February 6 |
| The PDFs of the Nightbane® titles listed above are on sale at DriveThruRPG.com for a limited time. Both sales end with the two week crowdfunding campaign for the Nightbane® audiobook. |
| | |  | NEW! Nightbane® Automated Character Sheet
Now available on DriveThruRPG.com – The Nightbane Automated Character Sheet follows a similar format as the popular Rifts® Automated Character Sheet designed by Greg Diaczyk. Microsoft Excel-based system for creating, updating, and tracking your Nightbane RPG characters quickly and easily. Once you know the system, you can have characters up and ready in 10-15 minutes! Create your human Facade and Nightbane Morphus in minutes. Offers a vast range of Morphus choices. Select from scores of Common and Elite Nightbane Talents. Spells, psionics, and more. $5.00 – Available now on DriveThruRPG.com and coming soon on PalladiumBooks.com – Created by Greg Diaczyk.
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| | | 300+ RPG products on DriveThru – a dozen unique world settings – one game system – endless possibilities. No other game company offers game worlds for so many different genres. Best of all, learn to play one Palladium RPG and you can play them all, because each uses the same basic core rules and combat. There are differences, but the fundamentals are the same. This also means you can bring characters, villains, monsters, powers, magic, weapons, gear, and adventure ideas from one setting into another or mash them together!
In addition to PDF titles for entire game lines like Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign® (zombies), Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy), Rifts Chaos Earth®, Systems Failure™, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® #1-85, and others, there are Game Master and player aids, character generators, paper minis, map packs, and FREE Previews of books like Creature Feature™, Dead Reign, Coalition Manhunters, Titan Robotics™, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, World Books, Dimension Books, and more to give you a glimpse of what’s in the book. Enjoy endless adventures across the Megaverse®.
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| | | Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store |
| I am adding new collectibles of all kinds to my Ebay store in time for the holiday season. Some are Palladium negatives, rare and out of print books, original Palladium artwork, prints, posters, as well as other collectible toys, action figures, Nightmare Before Christmas items, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, books, and other good stuff – including Erick Wujcik’s rare and sought after Amberzine #12-15. Check in every week or so to see what’s new. All items come from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection.
One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. Each negative is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have. Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure. Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004). Each is signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Each negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made). Looks great matted or framed! Fits an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8 ½ x 11 inches. Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment. The negatives of many books are sold out or were never available.
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Grief is a crazy thing. The late, great Julius Rosenstein’s brother, Dave, dropped by to visit me at the Palladium Studio this week. It has been two years and a couple months since Julius died, and he said he is still deeply grieving the loss of his brother. The two were very close and had lived together for many years, so everything in the house reminds him of Julius. I know the feeling. However, I’m pleased to say that while I think about Kathy often every day, and miss her mightily, I am feeling much more like my old self and not locked in debilitating grief. Best of all, I’m feeling the urge to write. Not just an urge, I can’t wait to finish books like Yin-Sloth Expeditions and start new ones! I even took a bit of time over the weekend to make some notes and write an opening to an upcoming book when the ideas came to me in a rush of inspiration. I look forward to diving back into writing and bringing you new books, but I have to deal with some important business matters first. Grrrrr. Soon.
Doing the Palladium YouTube videos and various podcasts are getting me geared up for writing books as they have been quite inspirational. J-M DeFoggi and I did our first gaming discussion video this week. The fundamentals of designing an RPG campaign for you and your players and game design for a book are very much the same. So we talked about how to get started, where to find ideas, and a number of other aspects of campaign/adventure building. It was a blast and I think folks will enjoy this series of conversations. Not sure when they’ll go live. It may be quite some time. Note that many of our monthly chats with the gents at Legion of Myth involve game play and game mastering, many based on questions from viewers. My next live chat with LoM is Sunday, February 16th. More coming from the Glitterbois podcast too.
There’s a lot going on here in Palladiumville as we close in on sending the TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux titles and Kickstarter Exclusives to manufacturing. Plus we have a vast number of other exciting projects and business propositions going on behind the scenes. I’ll talk more about them when I can. New product releases should start appearing in March.
I hope to see some of you at the GAMA Trade Show (February 24-28) and a lot more of you at Gen Con (yes, we are already dealing with Gen Con prep; July 31-August 3), and Granite State Comic Con (mid-September where gamers, TMNT fans, and comic book fans gather in great numbers).
That’s it for now. Keep your imagination burning bright and orders coming in.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend |
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