Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – March 21, 2025

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

BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA

Palladium Books^® – Weekly Update

March 21, 2025

I hope you were able to take advantage of one or more of those big sales that ended Wednesday night. Our thanks to those of you who support our licensing partner AudioRPG’s efforts to bring RPG worlds to a new medium. I think next month’s offer from them will be the Nightbane® RPG itself. If AudioRPG sees enough interest, they’ll finish the Nightbane RPG series and begin to bring other Palladium Role-Playing Game lines to life: Dead Reign®, Palladium Fantasy, and even Rifts® will be considered. We think audiobooks are a dynamic, new media to reach gamers and potential new fans.

REMINDER: Gamers and Retailers can still place pre-orders for the two mainstream Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strange RPG books as well as the Black White and Red editions, the Game Master Screen, and Mutagen Green Dice Set in the TMNT & Other Strangeness Pre-Order Store. And all at the lower Kickstarter prices, but not for very much longer. Order before the Pledge Manager is closed in a few weeks.

Backers, you hold great power! You, and you alone, can still add to your selection of Kickstarter Exclusives and upgrade to higher pledge levels to get limited edition exclusives. But you must do so soon, before the Pledge Manager is closed! The Kickstarter Exclusives are freakin’ awesome and many are super-limited, especially the variant covers. For example, the two Mutagen Green Editions sport brand new artwork by Kevin Eastman AND Peter Laird created specially for these two collector’s editions. A rare and triumphant collaboration by the two legendary Ninja Turtle creators that TMNT super-fans will desire for years to come – if they can even find one on the secondary collector’s market – because they will be so limited and rare! But Backers can still order them for another few weeks. Backers, use your unique position and do NOT miss out on what are certain to become high-priced collector items. You’ll be glad you did whether they become a cherished part of your collection or you sell them later for a profit. Also remember, the exclusive print sets and poker deck are only available for the higher pledge tiers.

OTHER FUN. Please enjoy and spread the word about the Official History of Palladium Books on the Palladium YouTube channel. Each YouTube episode is fun, candid, and offers insight and behind the scenes information from the publisher/creator of your favorite Palladium role-playing games, Kevin Siembieda. Hear fun stories, details and thought processes you probably never heard before. We are now getting into some of our most famous and beloved games: Palladium Fantasy RPG and Secrets of the Defilers have been a big hit. Behind the scenes of Heroes Unlimited RPG is the most recent episode.

COMING on the Official History of Palladium Books with Kevin Siembieda & J-M DeFoggi: Palladium’s era of one blockbuster RPG after another. Each known and loved by fans worldwide.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG – March 27th.

• Robotech – April 10th.

• Watch for a new episode every other week and enjoy.

NEWS! Live chat with Kevin Siembieda and Sean on Legion of Myth, Sunday, March 30th, 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Sean is back as we kick everything into high gear. We’ll talk a bit about the latest at Palladium before diving into Palladium rules as a framework and kit-bashing two games/settings like Nightbane and Palladium Fantasy. Which is so fun. Spread the word and join the conversation.

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 March 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 28, 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 Expeditions 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

Palladium is a buzzing hive of activity

The frenetic energy is off the charts here at Palladium Books as we are all busy putting the finishing touches on all things Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and moving forward with numerous other projects. Yes, that includes Yin-Sloth Expeditions and Bestiary Volume 2 (I have all your Palladium Insider pre-orders on my desk), amongst others.

As I noted earlier, Gamers and Retailers can still place pre-orders for the mainstream books, Game Shield, and Mutagen Green Dice Set in the TMNT & Other Strangeness Pre-Order Store at the lower Kickstarter prices, but not for very much longer.

Backers, you are in the cat-bird seat! You can still add and change your Kickstarter selections to add exclusives or upgrade to higher tiers, before the Pledge Manager is closed. That will be happening soon, so you need to act now. The Kickstarter Exclusives are freakin’ amazing and many are super-limited in quantities, especially the variant covers. At the risk of repeating myself, all the variant covers are beautiful. Kevin Eastman did the variant color cover for the RPG and Sophie Campbell did the variant color cover for Transdimensional Adventures; I love them both and so will you. The two Mutagen Green Editions are impressive because they are a rare collaboration featuring brand new artwork by Kevin Eastman AND Peter Laird created special just for these two collector’s Redux Editions. We were blown away by this beautiful gesture and their artistry. Kevin and Peter still create magic together. This is something you will cherish. Moreover, these editions with variant covers are so limited in quantity, they are likely to become coveted collector’s items. But Backers can still order them for another few weeks. Take advantage of that while you still can. And I personally recommend the metallic Shredder dice set. I just love them and the Mutagen Green Dice. Add to and upgrade your pledge while you still can.

Things are brewing here at Palladium. There are days that we are so excited we can barely contain ourselves. I wish I could tell you all about our plans for long awaited book releases, new business partners, new writers, new freelance artists, new covers, new licensing opportunities, new channels of distribution, and one secret project that even blows my mind! You’ll hear more about it when we see if we can get it off the ground via crowdfunding later this year, after the TMNT & Other Strangeness Kickstarter is fulfilled. I suspect you’ll be seeing 2-3 crowdfunders coming from Palladium this year. You’ll start getting glimpses of these things soon.

Until then, please don’t let politics and the affairs of the world get you down. Find refuge and escape in your favorite Palladium role-playing games. Pull out some of your old books to re-read or purchase a title you don’t have yet to set your imagination on fire. Then, join a game or strike up an RPG campaign for any of Palladium’s world settings. Rifts is epic, but Dead Reign is a great introductory setting for new players and so much fun. I use Dead Reign all the time to introduce new players to the Palladium game system. My personal go to game worlds are Palladium Fantasy, Beyond the Supernatural, and Dead Reign, because they are so fun, familiar (yet unique) and easy to run anytime, anywhere.

I have a lot to get back to, so I need to run. See ya next week for more news and goings on here in Palladiumville. As always, keep those imaginations burning bright and game on.

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