Sale, News & Updates – Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 2, 2025

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

BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA

A FREE Book when your order is $10 or more – the Future Visions art book ($13.95 value). This applies to ALL orders and any type of product (miniatures, T-shirts, mugs, poker decks, prints, etc.) when your order is $10 or more, as well as sale items in the Palladium Superhero Sale for more big savings.

Superhero RPG SALE – 20-50% off

Saturday, May 3, 2025, is Free Comic Book Day, and to join that fun, Palladium is offering a super-duper sale on select RPGs and sourcebooks inspired by superheroes and comic books, as well as titles that have a comic strip inside. We even included two RPGs that feature classic comic book threats: Alien invasion (Systems Failure RPG) and zombies (Dead Reign RPG).

NOTE: Get a FREE Future Visions Art of Charles Walton ($13.95 value) when your order is $10 or more.

• Heroes Unlimited RPG SOFTCOVER – Cat. No. 500 – 20% off

• Heroes Unlimited RPG HARDCOVER – Cat. No. 500HC – 20% off

• Heroes Unlimited Game Master’s Guide – Cat. No. 516 – 20% off

• Aliens Unlimited – Cat. No. 515 – 30% off

• Aliens Unlimited Galaxy Guide – Cat. No. 519 – 30% off

• Century Station (100 heroes + source material) – Cat. No. 517 – 30% off

• Gramercy Island (100 villains + prison and source material) – Cat. No. 518 – 30% off

• Powers Unlimited 2 – Cat. No. 522 – 30% off

• Armageddon Unlimited (Minion War crossover) – Cat. No. 527 – 30% off

• Ninjas & Superspies RPG SOFTCOVER – Cat. No. 525 – 20% off

• Ninjas & Superspies RPG HARDCOVER – Cat. No. 525HC – 20% off

• After the Bomb RPG SOFTCOVER – Cat. No. 503-2 – 30% off

• Road Hogs AtB Sourcebook (includes a 9 page comic strip) – Cat. No. 505 – 50% off

• Mutants Down Under AtB Sourcebook – Cat. No. 507 – 50% off

• Mutants of the Yucatan AtB Sourcebook – Cat. No. 511 – 50% off

• Mutants in Avalon AtB Sourcebook – Cat. No. 513 – 50% off

• Mutants in Orbit AtB & Rifts Sourcebook – Cat. No. 514 – 30% off

• Rifts Machinations of Doom, Ramon K. Perez Graphic Novel & Sourcebook (cover, all art, and 70 page comic strip written and drawn by Ramon Perez. RPG source material by Perez and Siembieda) – Cat. No. 871 – 50% off.

• Rifts WB 5: Triax & the NGR (includes two comic strips (one 8 pager by Kevin Long and one 5 pager by Kevin Siembieda) – Cat. No. 810 – 30% off.

• Rifts Coalition Manhunters (includes a 30 page Dog Boy comic strip) – Cat. No. 894 – 30% off.

• Systems Failure RPG (alien invasion apocalypse) – Cat. No. 650 – 30% off.

• Dead Reign RPG SOFTCOVER (Zombie Apocalypse) – Cat. No. 230 – 30% off.

Podcasts & YouTube Fun

The Glitterbois podcast revealing the backstory behind Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, and Systems Failure is now available for your listening enjoyment. We had a lot of fun and laughs during this one, so I know you’ll enjoy it. We’ll try to do another one in May. They also did a recent review on Matthew Balent’s Valley of the Pharoahs 40th Anniversary RPG.

Legion of Myth – April 27th chat with Kevin and Sean has been posted. It was another live chat about how to make O.C.C.s/character classes fun and uniquely your own by being creative and flexible. We touched upon other gaming insight too. We will try to do a new chat every month with LoM so keep your eyes open and join the conversation.

Palladium YouTube Channel featuring the Official History of Palladium Books with Kevin Siembieda & J-M DeFoggi. A new episode every other week. The 1980s Robotech RPG and sourcebooks is the most recent episode and a lot of fun. Always get behind the scenes insight and secrets about the making of your favorite Palladium RPGs and the people behind them, meet creators, and more. Please continue to spread the word about these fun videos and enjoy.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG – available now.

• Secrets of the Defilers, Part 4: Battle through Hades – available now.

• Robotech RPG series – available now.

• The Defilers in Hell (Fantasy adventure) – May 8th.

• Ramon K. Perez artist interview – fan favorite comic book and game artist Ramon K. Perez – May 22nd.

• Ninjas & Superspies RPG – June 5th.

• Julius Rosenstein: Without whom there may have been no Palladium Books – June 19th.

• Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 1st Edition– July 3rd.

• Erick Wujcik Part 1: Meets Kevin Siembieda – July 17.

• Rifts RPG Part 1 – July 31st.

• Erick Wujcik Part 2: Game Designer – August 14.

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

COMING! 20 reprint titles are at the printer

Palladium has sent 20 titles in for reprint. Most should be available before we sell out of our current print run, but a few will be temporarily out of print for a few weeks to a few months.

• Powers Unlimited One will be back in print by the end of May.

• Rifts Book of Magic will be back in print by the end of May.

• The Rifts Cyberworks Hardcover will be back in print in May.

• The Rifts Ultimate Edition SOFTCOVER will be back in print this fall.

Gen Con – July 31 - August 3, 2025 – Come by the Palladium Books Booth

Please swing by the Palladium Booth to chat with me (Kevin Siembieda), Sean Owen Roberson, Wayne Smith (The Rifter), Mark Oberle (writer), Glen Evans (artist), and other Palladium creators and insiders, get autographs, buy new RPG releases and back stock, and have fun.

As many of you know, we don’t do a lot of conventions, but here’s what’s coming up over the next 8 months.

• Gen Con – July/August

• Alliance Open House (Tradeshow) – September

• Granite State Comic Con – September

• I’m probably adding a January 2026 convention.

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

Something new, something big

Last week I talked about not letting our crazy world drive you nuts, but there is so much work and goings on here this past week or so, that it has been absolutely crazy. Mostly in good ways. A number of our projects are coming together and soon to be revealed, but they are each a ton of work – even with wonderful and astute helpers. As always, there are unexpected complications to be dealt with. It’s those complications that have conspired to drive us up a wall. So yes, me, Sean, Wayne, and the rest of the crew are feeling rather strung out.

In an Update a couple weeks ago, My Closing Thoughts teased at things to come. Well, you’ll start seeing those things soon. We – but especially, Sean – have been working on secret projects that we hope will thrill you to no end. All are cool, but one is potentially, really big and something new for Palladium. That announcement will happen in a week or two. Being privy to it all, knowing the caliber of the people we’re working with, and the design work we are seeing, has made us downright giddy some days. It’s all very exciting.

So hang tight, enjoy the Free book with a purchase of $10 or more, let the new Superhero Sale save you money (inspired by Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 3rd), and game on.

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