3 Big Sales – Palladium Books® Weekly Update – March 13, 2025

ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE

BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA

3 Big Sales – Palladium Books^® Weekly Update

March 13, 2025

Three Big Sales!

NEW SALE #1: Dark Megaverse® Sale (horror and heroics – 30-50% off) starts today. It ties in with the horror theme of the Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook being offered on Backerkit but also spans other corners of the Megaverse®. Get Nightbane, Dead Reign (the Zombie Apocalypse), Ninjas & Superspies, select Rifts and Fantasy titles at 30-50% off. One week only. See details below.

NEW SALE #2! Nightbane® Audiobook from AudioRPG – If you loved the Dark Designs crowdfunder, you’ll enjoy this one just as much. Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook is one of my favorite Nightbane sourcebooks. I love how the audiobook makes it feel fresh and new. Fun to listen to while on a drive or prepping for a game. If these initial aubiobook crowdfunders do well you can expect audiobooks for Rifts® and more. Only 7 days to get yours.

NEW SALE #3! G.M.’s Day Sale on DriveThruRPG.com – 40% off thousands of PDF titles; including many Palladium Books role-playing games, G.M. guides and select sourcebooks. This is DriveThru’s biggest sale of the year. ONLY 4 days left – Sale ends Monday.

NEWS! What’s hot this week at Palladium? We are also seeing strong interest in Phase World®, Palladium Fantasy, Heroes Unlimited, and Dead Reign® RPGs this week. Check the big new sale.

Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Game Events. See details below. Your help is appreciated.

A Worthy Cause. Please Help if you can. The BRIC crowdfunder to save lives. We know times are tough and money is tight for some of you, but this charity is very important to me and Sean. Even a $5 or $10 contribution helps. All proceeds go directly to this charity and honestly protect and save the lives of children and families in the Congo. Use the link to donate and get more details. Thanks!

NEWS! The making of the Heroes Unlimited RPG goes live today as part of the Official History of Palladium Books on the Palladium YouTube channel. TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG and Robotech are coming soon. Watch for a new episode every other week and enjoy.

NEWS! Live chat with Kevin Siembieda and Sean on Legion of Myth coming soon. Sean is back from his secret mission in Asia so he will be part of the chat this month. No, we cannot discuss what Sean was up to in Asia, but it’s all good. Real good.

SALE! Dark Megaverse^® Sale – 30% to 50% off

Fight the darkness and be a hero with this sale spanning the Megaverse®. Horror-based books on sale at a whopping 30-50% discount. Select PDF books are also on sale on DriveThruRPG.com – enjoy. And check out the Nightbane Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunding campaign.

• Rifts® Conversion Book One

• Rifts® Conversion Book Two: Pantheons of the Megaverse

• Rifts® Dark Conversions

• Rifts® Africa World Book – Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Necromancy & more.

• Rifts® Dimension Book One: Wormwood

• Rifts® Dimension Book: Megaverse Builder

• Nightbane® RPG

• Nightbane® RPG “Bonus” Hardcover

• Nightbane® Nightlands

• Nightbane® Through the Glass Darkly

• Nightbane® Survival Guide – 50% off supersaver

• Nightbane® Dark Designs

• Ninjas & Superspies RPG

• Ninjas & Superspies “Bonus” Hardcover

• Mystic China N&S sourcebook – the dark side of Chinese magic, immortality and demons.

• Dead Reign® RPG – the Zombie Apocalypse Palladium style – 50% off

• Dead Reign® Civilization Gone

• Dead Reign® Dark Places

• Dead Reign® Endless Dead

• Dead Reign Fear the Reaper – 50% off supersaver

• Dead Reign® Graveyard Earth

• Dead Reign® In the Face of Death – epic urban adventures – 50% off supersaver

• Fantasy: Northern Hinterlands

• Fantasy: Land of the Damned: Chaos Lands

• Fantasy: Land of the Damned: Eternal Torment – 50% off supersaver

• NOTE: A similar sale is found on DriveThruRPG.com thru March 19, 2025.

Nightbane^® Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunding on Backerkit – only 7 days left

AudioRPG is cranking out the audiobooks and is offering the Nightbane® Survival Guide sourcebook (one of my personal favorites) as their newest audiobook! It is live. They and we appreciate your support because it’s all leading toward other Palladium game lines like Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, and all the rest. Personally, I think Dead Reign® will make a great audiobook series.

We have been blown away by the quality production and that listening to the audiobook makes the sourcebook feel brand new. It’s a whole new experience. I love ‘em, check it out. The buy-in is only around $25.

An RPG audiobook may sound crazy, but it won’t after you listen to the samples presented in this Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunder taking place on Backerkit by one of Palladium’s new licensing partners. It sounds amazing! We were all blown away by the quality.

• Fun to listen to.

• Relaxing game prep.

• Professional narration.

• Convenient for the busy G.M.

• Hearing the words spoken by a professional narrator makes the book come to life in a whole new way and feel brand new.

• Hearing it also makes you notice game and adventure details you may have missed reading it yourself.

• EVERYONE at Palladium endorses this product 100%. Go to the page and listen for yourself. You’ll be as pleased as we are.

• Dive into the thrilling Urban Fantasy world of Nightbane® with Nightbane Survival Guide.

• Your new adventure starts here when you listen to the Nightbane Survival Guide filled with details about surviving in the world as a Nightbane, the Becoming (the first time they transform into something inhuman), transformation rules, how to make allies and contacts, the hidden war, the Nightbane underground railroad, more on Factions and rules for creating them, adventures, and adventure hooks. Fun for players and Game Masters.

• The audiobook is perfect for enhancing your Nightbane campaign or exploring its lore on the go.

• The project crowdfunding happens on Backerkit and it is happening right now. Game on and join the RPG audiobook revolution! The campaign only runs for two weeks, so don’t delay.

Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Gen Con Game Events – we need YOU

Palladium is looking for experienced Game Masters to run Palladium RPG events at Gen Con. That can be any of our game worlds using our rules as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds. If you were thinking about running games at Gen Con or want to help out Palladium, please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated room and other perks like a free Game Master badge, and discounts on your purchases at the Palladium Books booth.

To earn a free GM badge, all you need to do is run 4 games with 6 or more players in each game, 4 hours each. This will earn you enough credits with Gen Con to earn a GM badge - $155 value!

We hope to add to our usual crew of Gen Con Game Masters to run Palladium game events for any Palladium setting:

• Rifts®

• Rifts® for Savage Worlds

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness

• After the Bomb®

• Chaos Earth®

• Palladium Fantasy RPG®

• Heroes Unlimited

• Ninjas & Superspies

• Nightbane®

• Dead Reign®

• Beyond the Supernatural and any of our other settings.

We need your commitment, game description and info by February 28. Send to Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Game Masters and Game Event Descriptions NEEDED by March 18, 2025.

(See Gen Con’s website for details about the info needed for each game listing; G.M.’s name, number of players, length of time, name of game, difficulty level, etc.) Submitting your games to us enables Palladium to coordinate and submit them as a batch to Gen Con and guarantees to have your event listed in the onsite Gen Con Program Book. Being listed onsite is very important to have full attendance for your event. This date gives us enough time to compile and send Gen Con everything they need. Thank you!

Prospective Game Masters, please contact Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Now Available!

NEW! Catalog of Palladium Books®, Spring/Summer 2025 – Folks are loving Palladium’s new, printed, color catalog. There’s just something about holding a physical catalog in your hand, especially one as fun and colorful as this one. Due to popular request, we’ve made it available for purchase. The price is what it cost Palladium to print them. Enjoy.

• Full color, 8½ x 11 inch (magazine size), glossy paper stock, beautiful color.

• The 48 page catalog describes and shows nearly the entire RPG library and features the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Edition on the cover and the first few pages.

• $2.50 retail – 48 pages – Cat. No. C2025-1

BACK in Stock: Yin-Sloth Jungles, Updated and Expanded, 2nd Edition Rules – The epic jungle adventure book is back. 15 O.C.C.s (like the Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter), 18 jungle people and monsters, new and expanded Shamans and their magic, the Battle of the Gods, setting overview, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 459. Note: Yin-Sloth Adventures with 30+ maps, notable locations and a lot of adventures and adventure hooks is coming soon.

BACK in Stock: Rifts Vampire Kingdoms – Everything you need to know about Rifts vampires, variant types, vampire abilities, combat notes and henchmen, plus the Hero Vampire, Deluded Vampire, Vampire Hunters, vampire slaying weapons, monsters, town creation rules, the cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and more. $26.99 retail – 224 pages – Cat. No. 802-E.

BACK in Stock: Nightbane® Dark Designs – This Nightbane focused book collects and expands upon Nightbane Morphus Tables (18 in all), plus offers 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, Talent creation and conversion rules, Ancient Nightbane, and more. $24.99 retail – 160 pages – Cat. No. 736.

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®.

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

I am adding new collectibles of all kinds to my Ebay store every few weeks. 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 8x10 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.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

Forward Movement

Sean is back in Michigan after his trip to Asia. We cannot talk about all he was up to overseas, but it all seems to have gone very well. Likewise, we continue to lay the groundwork for upcoming projects, new book releases, a new website, and much more.

We expect to be making a major announcement about the progress of TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux editions and related Kickstarter exclusives as they approach going into manufacturing. Everything is coming together nicely. Note: Gamers and Retailers can still place orders in the TMNT & Other Strangeness Pre-Order Store at the lower Kickstarter prices, but not for very much longer. (Backers, you can still add or change your Kickstarter selections, but do so soon.)

A few visitors, including writer Carmen Bellaire, have had the opportunity to see the finished book layouts and physical samples of some FanRoll items at the Palladium Studio, and love what they’ve seen. Carmen said, “Kev, the books look even better than I imagined. Fans are going to go crazy over these. And those metal Shredder dice are something special. Gotta make sure I ordered a set.”

New books coming soon: We also expect to announce the release of new books very soon – Yin-Sloth Expeditions and Bestiary Volume 2 amongst the first releases of 2025.

Social Media: The Official History of Palladium Books continues to post on the Palladium YouTube Channel every other week and you can expect to see me and Sean back on Legion of Myth, the Glitterbois, and elsewhere.

Nightbane Survival Guide Audiobook is the latest venture by the AudioRPG company to drum up excitement for role-playing game audiobooks. I think the actual Nightbane RPG will be offered next. If they get a good response (they were happy with the Dark Designs crowdfunder), they’ll do all of Palladium’s RPGs, including Fantasy, Dead Reign, and Rifts. We’re impressed with the quality of these audiobooks. Check it out. It’s only around $25 to get in on the ground floor. We think this has tremendous potential.

Enjoy the Dark Megaverse Sale for physical books at PDF prices from the Palladium online store and the GM’s Day Sale on PDF titles at DriveThruRPG for truly big savings. Game on and unleash those imaginations.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend