| | CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF RPG FUN A HISTORY OF INNOVATION & RPG FUN – ONE GAME SYSTEM – ENDLESS AVENTURE
By Kevin Siembieda
We are all non-stop busy here in Palladiumville with all types of things in the works that you’ll love.
Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two is getting wrapped up and is packed full of exciting new creatures, beasts, and monstrous beings to expand your adventures.
Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder should be announced soon and is looking great.
Other books in the pipeline are moving along. You can view all our active projects on our Project Status Page.
Negotiations with Paramount for Palladium to create brand new adventure sourcebooks, dice, miniatures, and other goodies for the continuing TMNT & Other Strangeness game line are very promising.
But don’t just wait for new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle sourcebooks, order your copies of the new and improved, 272 page, TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG (also contains the remastered Turtles Go Hollywood and Truckin’ Turtles sourcebooks, plus bonus material), the 256 page Transdimensional Adventures (includes Transdimensional TMNT, TMNT Adventures, and TMNT Guide to the Universe sourcebooks plus bonus material), 4-panel customizable Game Master Screen, and sizzling Mutagen Green Dice Set, today! Or snag ‘em at Gen Con. Don’t be fooled, these aren’t just reprints, these are fully remastered, expanded, and retooled to deliver the best user experience. These premium Redux editions offer a glimpse of the future of our premium products.
Gen Con prep is going well as we set up business meetings and finalize our booth features. Palladium Books Booth 1523 has a dynamic new appearance and boasts the largest line-up of creators in years! Come and get autographs, the latest news, books, prints, dice, and more. Our big question is how many hundreds of the TMNT products do we bring with us so we don’t run out?
The 7 Nightbane red foil special edition hardcovers, in partnership with AudioRPG, are at the printer! Wayne Smith is working with them to make sure the reproduction is perfect. These were crowdfunder exclusives and I can’t wait to see our copies.
Rifts® Licenses. Sean and I have been approving artwork for an upcoming Savage Rifts project with Pinnacle Entertainment, as well as art for Palladium’s Glitter Boy Codex, and some text and stats for Star Anvil’s Phase World Sourcebook.
Visitors from a foreign land. We had a Westland neighbor discover Palladium Books in town, and we had two different families from Canada visit the Palladium Books office, each on different days. Vince and the boys were the most recent. All groups of visitors were delightful and fun. Of course they were, Palladium fans are the greatest. See my Closing Thoughts for more about you, our fans.
And that’s not all, folks. Caleb and Alex are busy in the warehouse shipping distributor orders and your online orders, and Daniel and Wayne have been working away at marketing and social media, as well as working with the incomparable Rex Barkdoll on making improvements on the smooth functionality of the Palladium Books online store and website.
Back in stock Fresh from the printer, more fan favorite RPG sourcebooks are back in stock. For Rifts: Triax & the NGR, Triax 2, and Vampire Kingdoms. For Dead Reign: Hell Followed. For Palladium Fantasy RPG: Eastern Territory, Library of Bletherad, Wolfen Empire, and the RPG itself (we were down to our last 20 copies).
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| Support the Gaming Community at Large Space 1889: After – LIVE on BackerKit
We encourage you to take a look at the successful launch of the Space 1889: After crowdfunder from our dear friend J-M DeFoggi (Palladium Books Youtube Channel) and the wonderful crew at Wise Owl Games. It’s a must for fans of steampunk.
For nearly four decades, Space 1889 has invited players to explore a Victorian vision of the solar system, where ether-fliers sail between planets and scientific ingenuity makes the impossible possible.
Strange Owl Games has brought Space 1889: After to the 5th edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying game, making it easier than ever to discover the Victorian Future while giving longtime fans a new way to experience the setting.
Inside you’ll find: The complete Space 1889: After Core Rulebook for 5E A brand-new Adventure Anthology featuring four adventures across the solar system A spiral-bound Map Book filled with tabletop-ready encounter maps Premium offset-printed collector editions built to last for years of adventure
Thank you for supporting the worlds of Space 1889! We can’t wait to see where your crew travels next. |
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| Update on our Webstore Issues & Upgrades
We are continuing to work on and improve our website. Yesterday, we successfully migrated to a new upgraded server. This new server greatly decreased our website load times, provides much more storage capacity for our product line, forums, and supplementary site for future growth, and improved security features to combat the increased bot traffic experienced by the AI boom.
That said, we are still plugging away at a few minor issues that have intermittently caused problems at checkout or disabled account features (Collections, Wishlist, Waitlists) If you have experienced difficulties placing your order over the last few weeks, please don’t give up on us. Give it another try. We thank you for your understanding and patience.
Known Error at Checkout When Using a Saved Credit Card
At checkout, if you find yourself unable to proceed with your order by clicking the “Place Order” button, this error is linked to the Square credit card processing application. It is only affecting accounts with saved credit cards however. To bypass this, please manually enter your card at checkout. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are awaiting a fix to be implemented by the Square Support Team. |
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| | The Making of the Dead Reign RPGNew on Palladium Books’ YouTube Channel
I didn’t know I was a zombie guy until I had to work on this RPG. It was a fun, if unexpected, journey and I’ve enjoyed every terror-filled moment. Listen to the Dead Reign video for the complete story. And if you get a hankering to try the Dead Reign RPG, it and its sourcebooks are available at PalladiumBooks.com |
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Visit Palladium Books at GEN CON – Booth 1523Indianapolis, IN – starts July 30th
We’ll be there with hundreds of our RPG titles from Rifts and Phase World to Nightbane, Palladium Fantasy, and all the rest, plus some original art, negatives, dice, and more. And we’ll sign books and chat with you for a while. See a sneak peek of Rifts Bestiary Vol. 2 and the Glitter Boy Codex.
See the Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG books and dice for yourself and discover why gamers and TMNT fans are raving about them. A blast to play, beautiful to look at, easy to learn, and endless fun. Whether you’re a comic fan or 100% pure gamer, these books and dice are for you.
Use the Gen Con Coupon Book to get special discounts on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Transdimensional Adventures sourcebook, Game Master Reference Screen, and Mutagen Green dice set as well as all After the Bomb titles, while supplies last. Sold on a first come, first served basis.
Meet and chat with Palladium creators: Kevin Siembieda, game designer and founder of Palladium Books Sean Owen Roberson, game designer, business partner, and Creative Director Daniel Lansdown, Office and Marketing Manager (IDW TMNT game designer) Wayne Smith, Editor and so much more Caleb Nelson, order processing and Lord of the Warehouse Matthew Clements, writer (Northern Gun, Dead Reign) Mark Oberle, writer (Nightbane, Dead Reign, Rifts) Glen Evans, writer (Palladium Fantasy, The Rifter) Mike Leonard (The Rifter, paper minis)
All are happy to sign your books and chat with you for a little while.
Don’t Miss Our Gen Con Q&A Panels!
Join Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson for two special opportunities to learn more about Palladium Books, hear behind-the-scenes stories, and ask your questions directly.
TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux Q&A Friday at 4:00 PM Eastern Time ICC Room 212
Learn more about the recently released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Redux tabletop role-playing game, discover the history behind the original game, and hear how it influenced many of today’s game designers and creators.
Kevin and Sean will discuss the game, its legacy, and the creation of the New Editions, followed by questions from the audience.
Rifts®, the Megaverse® and Beyond Q&A Saturday at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Crowne Plaza — Conrail Station
Explore the many worlds of Palladium Books with Kevin and Sean.
Find out what is happening across Palladium’s game lines, hear about exciting titles currently in development, and ask questions about Rifts®, the Megaverse®, and anything else Palladium.
There may even be a few special guests! |
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| Dive Into The Megaverse® at DriveThruRPG.com
DriveThruRPG.com always has 300+ Palladium RPG products – 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! There are also G.M. and player aids, character generators, paper miniatures, character sheets, and FREE Previews of select books, The Rifter® #1-85, and more. Explore the Megaverse®. |
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| Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store
Palladium collectibles, books, artwork, and negatives, as well as action figures, toys, and other items from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection are available from this Ebay store! New items added regularly.
One-of-a-kind Palladium Books 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. Last year at Granite State Comic Con, Kevin Eastman had TMNT negatives from the first comic book on display. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. These are the photographic negatives being sold as individual works of art and collectibles. When matted or framed on a white background they look like dynamic wood cut prints. |
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| | | Closing Thoughts – Palladium Fans are the Greatest!
Gamers, in general, are good people, but Palladium Books fans are the greatest of them all. I was reminded of that from recent visits by three different groups of fans who dropped by to see the Palladium office and warehouse. They are always pleased and excited to see all the sights and sounds of our playful work environment. They take photo ops with the life size Leonardo Ninja Turtle in the warehouse, the Star Wars Stormtrooper at the front door, and Xenomorph in my office. Visitors marvel at the art and prints hanging on the walls and the toys that litter the shelves of each of our offices. I think they are surprised to see we are fan boys and nerds just like them.
Visitors always enjoy meeting me and the available Palladium staff, and getting books signed. Most are very kind and considerate, heaping praise upon our decades of innovation in the role-playing game industry. It’s beautiful to see the childlike glee in their eyes and joy on their faces as they talk about their favorite Palladium books, characters, and adventures.
I think we enjoy these brief visits as much as they do, because we are filled with renewed energy after each visit and eager to get back to creating new worlds of wonder. Thank you, to them and all our dear friends who play Palladium’s games, for your love and support. You are more than fans to us, you are members of our extended family. Your joy and kind words inspire us all to keep writing and designing the role-playing games and sourcebooks we know you’ll love. We look forward to seeing throngs of you at Gen Con, so please don’t hesitate to drop by Booth 1523 to chat awhile, get autographs, and buy new books.
I’d also like to remind you that there is still time to see one of the greatest honors of my lifetime, the Worlds of Palladium exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum in downtown Detroit. It’s wonderful and so is the Comic Book exhibit next door. You have till September 13th before both exhibits come down. And hey, while you’re in town to see the exhibit, swing by the Palladium office to say hello, get a brief tour, books signed, and chat a spell.
– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend |
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