We’re all tired and it’s getting late, so I’ll try to keep this Press Release short.
Everything is moving forward. We’re still behind where I’d like us to be, but everything is moving forward.
The Coalition and Triax T-shirts will be ready to pick up and ship on Monday, June 2, 2008.
Four books are in for reprint, with four more earmarked for reprinting soon.
The corrections, new additional text and artwork for the Deluxe Robotech® RPG are finished and it will go to the printer next week. I’ll be starting paste-up this weekend.
I’ve started work on the Rifts® Chi-Town ‘Burbs™ anthology book,as well as coordinating work on the The Rifter® #43 Swimsuit Spectacular. Artwork has been coming in (some of it at the last minute or a little late) and is looking fantastic. I hope to assign art to writers this weekend.
Progress is also moving forward with our secret project (thank goodness). If it all works out, we’ll be making Jason Marker full time, and bringing in Josh Hilden to round out our staff.
Meanwhile, I’ve gotten a pile of artwork (30+ pieces) from the two main artists for Dead Reign™ (Palladium’s zombie RPG) which is outstanding! Disgusting, but outstanding.
Jason Marker continues to work on various Robotech® projects with an emphasis on the Robotech® The Masters Saga™ sourcebook. Meanwhile, the Manning brothers are already starting on artwork for the Macross Saga™ sourcebook. So we are rockin’ and rolling.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher
A new Palladium Collectibles Auction starts Saturday, May 31, and has some of the most unusual and rare, unique, and coveted items yet. Some of the 30 items include the following:
- A copy of the DGC Inquirer, a spoof of the Detroit Gaming Center’s monthly “DGC Dispatch” – written and produced by Kevin Siembieda’s own Defilers, April 1981, a DGC bumper sticker (1980), and one of the rare, cool, G.M. Easel Binders (art by Siembieda) produced by Kevin S. and Erick Wujcik for sale at the DGC. This G.M. Easel Binder was owned and used by Erick Wujcik and is from his personal possessions. Awesome and as rare as they get!!! Signed by Siembieda.
- Castle Amber™ Pencil and 11x14 Nine Princes in Amber™ Audio-Book Poster signed by Roger Zelazny!!!! From Erick Wujcik’s personal collection.
- A water damaged copy of Amber Diceless RPG (signed by Erick Wujcik) and a 11x14 Nine Princes in Amber™ Audio-Book Poster signed by Roger Zelazny! From Erick Wujcik’s personal collection.
– Amberzine™ #11 & #12-15.
- 20th Anniversary Tote Bag package.
– Rifts® Coalition War Campaign proofreader copy (signed).
- Other proofreader copies (signed).
– Rifts® Ultimate Gold Edition #89 (signed and numbered), from the Palladium archives. Numbers under 100 are reserved for Palladium staff, investors and auctions.
- Rifts® Ultimate Gold Edition, Printer Proof (signed); there were only a handful of these. From the Palladium archives.
- Palladium Books® Dice Bags (Rifts®, Fantasy, Real Gamers).
- A variety of rare and very limited edition Palladium T-Shirts.
– Some out of print issues of The Rifter®, weird keepsakes and more. Click here for more details.
Starts Saturday, May 31, 2008.
Black on grey T-shirt, this shirt could be a real world undergarment of a CS soldier. And now it can be yours!
Yellow/gold triangle with the word Triax in red on a black T-shirt. The first in a series of shirts that will offer company logos. (Naruni Enterprises, Northern Gun, Wilk’s, and others will be coming.)
What’s next for Rifts® T-Shirts? Probably Wilk’s Laser Technologies, Naruni Enterprises and Northern Gun. Hmmm, and we should probably do some shirts for other RPG lines too.
As far as we know, the following titles are on schedule and should be available to ship Friday, June 6, 2008.
Next in line: Aliens Unlimited™ – Rifts® Japan – Rifts® Lone Star – are probably the books to follow in a few weeks.
Editing and writing has started on this product. This 6x9 inch trade paperback will offer a collection of short stories done special for this book. Stories are by Kevin Siembieda and a host of known Palladium writers.
Each story shows what it’s like to live in the shadowy no-man’s land of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs. A collection of hopeful people waiting for admission into one of the fortified city havens of the Coalition States, and the people who prey upon them. The Chi-Town ‘Burbs are the most famous of these tent cities that officially don’t exist, and therefore have no formal government or laws. Refugees, D-Bees, fugitives, and outlaws of every stripe make their home in the ‘Burbs or visit to sell their wares or get a little R&R.
It is up, fun, selling well (over a 100 copies sold in a week) and has met with customer satisfaction. Have you gotten your digital copy yet? If you have, and you enjoyed it, spread the word!
Available only as a digital download! A must for ALL fans of The Rifter®.
therifter.com will be Palladium’s online version of The Rifter® publication where fan writers and artists will be able to post appropriate Palladium-based (and all-age appropriate) material online for Palladium fans, worldwide, to see and share. Cool. We hope to get it up and running in a few weeks.
Femme fatales statted out for various Palladium RPGs. Each full page pin-up is of a sexy but dangerous lady illustrated by one of Palladium’s fan fave artists and described and statted by one of our freelance writers for settings from Rifts® to After the Bomb®.
The Rifter® is your doorway to unlimited imagination and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. It offers new heroes, powers, weapons, magic and adventure for your games. It presents new villains, monsters and dangers to battle, and new ideas to consider.
The Rifter® #43 – Summer
Rifts® Anthology: Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™ – Summer
Robotech® The Macross Saga™ – Summer
Robotech® The Masters Saga™ – Summer
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG “Deluxe Edition” – Summer
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 11: Dyval™, Hell Unleashed – Summer
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12: Dimensional Outbreak™ – Summer
Rifts® Heroes of the Megaverse® (Minion War) – Summer or Fall
Heroes Unlimited™/Rifts®: Armageddon Unlimited™ (Minion War) – Fall
Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames™ – Fall
Dead Reign™ RPG – Fall
Mysteries of Magic™ – Summer or Fall
Nightbane® Sourcebook – Fall
And More!
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