One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

Very busy and making a lot of headway. We have progress on all fronts.

SALE extended through the weekend. Folks have been enjoying our Megaverse-spanning Tales of Horror Sale so much – Rifts®, Dead Reign® (the Zombie Apocalypse), Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, and other titles – that I have extended it through the weekend, so enjoy. A similar sale offering PDF titles is also happening on DriveThruRPG. More details below.

UPDATE: Rifts® CS Manhunters™ is in the final stages of editing, with only a couple sections left for me to finish the writing on. Like you, I cannot wait to get this book finished and into your hands. After that it is layout and off to the printer.

UPDATE: Rifts® Lazlo™ Raw Preview Edition is also wrapping up and should go to the printer soon.

UPDATE: BTS Creature Feature™ Sourcebook is the title to be finished and go to printer after Lazlo Raw Preview and Manhunters.

UPDATE: Rifts® Titan Robotics™. This is the next book to follow because it is the most complete, with cover, interior art and much of the writing completed.

COMING: Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Coffee Mug. A new coffee mug for Titan Robotics (and maybe one for Dead Reign®) is coming your way in a few weeks.

COMING/BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® Logo and Palladium Fantasy Dragon Coffee Mugs. With so many people working from home and gaming more than ever (Yay!), there has been an increased demand in coffee mugs. We are temporarily sold out on the Rifts® Logo mug and only have 2-3 Fantasy mugs in stock, so it is time to reprint and maybe add a couple new ones, as noted above.

UPDATE: Rifts® Bestiary Volume Two. Oh yeah, this is going to be so good.

Something Fun! If you have not seen it yet, check out #276 of the Knights of the Dinner Table comic book. Does that cover look familiar? It should. More about it below.

Palladium play mats? That is a first for us. A friend has asked us to participate in their upcoming Kickstarter which will offer horror and fantasy 24x14 inch play mats. Including a few that feature Palladium Books artwork. More details when the Kickstarter goes live in a week or two.

Fantasy Grounds and Rifts®. New for Fantasy Grounds is Rifts® Savage Worlds adventures and support material, but they will also be supporting Palladium Books’ Rifts® and other Palladium game lines. The delay has been entirely mine as I am juggling so much that I have not gotten back to FG about finalizing the contract. My bad. I need to do that today!

Enjoy our sales, please stay safe, and do your best to be productive and positive. I talk about my struggles on that front in Closing Thoughts.

Knights of the Dinner Table #276 – Rifts^® Homage Cover

Rifts® collectors will enjoy the cover to Knights of the Dinner Table® #276. It features a truly awesome homage cover to the original Rifts® RPG. The rocking artwork is by comic book artist Steven Cummings (Wayfarers and various Marvel Comics titles). I know I need to get a couple copies for my collection. Just a little something to make you smile. We all need as many opportunities to smile as we can get.

Rifts^® for Savage Worlds debuts on Fantasy Grounds

We know a lot of you have been waiting to see Rifts® for Savage Worlds on Fantasy Grounds. Well, that time is here. Pinnacle made the announcement in their newsletter last week. Below is a link to it along with links to their new Fantasy Grounds Rifts® features. Enjoy. I am looking into getting Palladium’s own Rifts® and other game settings supported on Fantasy Grounds and expect that to happen soon.

https://www.peginc.com/rifts-the-tomorrow-legion-players-guide-now-on-fantasy-grounds-steam/

Rifts®: The Tomorrow Legion Players Guide

Rifts®: The Tomorrow Legion Players Guide on Steam

Big SALE Extended thru the Weekend – The Tales of Horror SALE spans the Megaverse^® – Rifts^®, Nightbane^®, Dead Reign^®, Chaos Earth^®, BTS, More – Final Weekend, sale ends Tuesday, October 13

Create your own survivors vs the zombie hordes with the Dead Reign® RPG, and battle all manner of supernatural horrors, monsters and aliens across the Megaverse® in Rifts®, Wormwood™, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, and many Palladium RPG settings. Our current sale helps you do that on all those fronts, but time is running out. This sale ends next Tuesday after midnight. Note: Many of the same titles and more are available as PDF titles on sale at DriveThruRPG.com.

Unleash the dark side of your imagination. And have a blast.

• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition – Supernatural horror in a plausible modern world setting that makes sense and will have you wondering if this stuff could be for real! Play ordinary people, psychics, or paranormal investigators. 14 Psychic Character Classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary” people, 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities, creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
• Dead Reign® RPG – Zombie Apocalypse – An alternate Earth where the risen dead have risen to hunt and feed upon the living. 7 unique types of zombies, the danger of the zombie moan, ordinary people as player characters, six distinct Survivor O.C.C.s, everything you need to know about the walking dead and the fundamentals of surviving in a world where the dead reign.
• Dead Reign®: Fear the Reaper™ sourcebook – Everything you could want to know about the heroic Road Reapers – knights errant of post-apocalyptic Earth. Comprehensive background on the Road Reapers, their code, missions, weapons, strategies and tactics.
• Dead Reign®: Graveyard Earth™ sourcebook – A world overview of the Zombie Apocalypse. More zombie gaming materials. World information, settings, survival tips, random tables and 100+ adventure ideas set around the world.
• Dead Reign®: In the Face of Death™ Sourcebook – A big, juicy, 160 page sourcebook that takes a new look at the Zombie Apocalypse setting and pushes the envelope of the genre. Epic city setting, 100+ adventure ideas, new villains, new player characters, kid player characters, Masked Lunatic Heroes, and more.
• Nightbane® RPG – Join the secret war against a demonic invasion most people do not even know has taken place. The demonic Nightlords, their evil Dopplegangers and other demon minions are quietly taking over the world, starting with the most powerful nations. You know it is happening because you are the Nightbane. You can see the true demonic form of these invaders, and you can stop them. The only wrinkle is you must turn into your monstrous supernatural form – your Morphus – to call upon your superhuman and magical powers. Oh, and the government is controlled by the Nightlords and their shape-changing demonic minions hunt the Nightbane.
• Nightbane®: Dark Designs™ – A guide to creating the Nightbane and a sourcebook for players and Game Masters alike. 18 new and comprehensive Morphus Tables. 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, Transformation Transition Table, Talent creation and conversion rules, Appendix of 23 Morphus Tables, Appendix of 53 Talents gathered from the Nightbane® RPG and Sourcebooks, Ancient Nightbane R.C.C. and more.
• Nightbane®: Nightlands™ – 12+ monsters, 12+ demonic and mystical villains, the Nightlands described, and more.
• Nightbane®: Through the Glass Darkly™ – Flesh Sculpting, the terrifying Fleshsculptor O.C.C., Cybermage, Mirrormage and Nemesis R.C.C., plus three new adventures, dozens of adventure hooks, 50 magic spells, talismans, artifacts, Living Pathways and other source material to make you cringe.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Fantasy adventure, sorcerers, knights, Elves and so much more, like Wolfen, Changelings and all manner of human and non-human player characters in a unique world setting. 336 pages.
• Fantasy: Old Ones – Lands of adventure! 50+ locations (cities, towns and forts) all described and mapped, information about the Old Ones, the Illusionist, Monk, and Minotaur, many NPCs, seven adventures, plus adventure ideas and more.
• Fantasy: Baalgor Wastelands™ – The dreaded Wastelands, home to giants and monsters, 18 monsters, ancient ruins, notable people and places, desert survival rules, and tons of adventure ideas.
• Fantasy: Bizantium & the Northern Islands™ – The Kingdom of Bizantium in detail, Ocean Magic, the monstrous Iceborn and their witches, Skinbinders, Necromancers, and Necroilus warships, 15 animals and monsters, the Great Ice Shelf, 7 treasures of the North, and more.
• Fantasy: Yin-Sloth Jungles™ – 9 O.C.C.s, 16 races and monsters, 28 skills, the Yin-Sloth Jungles, the Orcish Empire, notable cities, adventures, and more.
• RECON®, Deluxe Revised RPG – The horror of war set in the Vietnam era. Different game rules, by Joe Martin and Erick Wujcik.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition – If you can imagine it, you can play it. Rifts® is a genre-melding RPG setting unlike any other. Combining science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure filled with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural, dragons and the return of Atlantis, and a whole lot more. Play characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walker mages, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers. All challenge the imagination, and those are just a tiny handful of the characters you can play in Rifts®.
• Rifts® Africa – A realm of danger and magic, and the menace that is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, plus Mind Bleeders and their psionic powers, Necromancy, African magic, the monstrous Phoenix Empire, dark gods, Erin Tarn, Sir Thorpe, a man claiming to be Victor Lazlo, and more.
• Rifts® China One – The Yama Kings and their 11 Kingdoms of Hell on Earth, 34 Chinese demons and ghosts, 20+ curses, Terra Cotta Warriors, Dragon Lands, Demon Villages, and more.
• Rifts® China Two: Heroes of the Celestial Court – 12 Mystic Martial Arts, 12 Mythic Heroes including the Enlightened Demon, plus magic items, magic, the hidden Geo-Front and its O.C.C.s including the Gun Master and Lightning Warrior, and more.
• Rifts® Federation of Magic™ – Lord Dunscon, the Cities of Brass, Dweomer, and Stormspire, 8 magic O.C.C.s, 28 TW weapons, 7 Automatons (the equivalent of magical giant robots), and more.
• Rifts® Madhaven™ – There may be no place in North America more dangerous the haunted ruins of New York City; 7 new monstrous and ghostly Entities, 8 mutant R.C.C.s, 11 monsters, the ruins and tunnels of Manhattan, the magical Knights of the White Rose and the incredible healing power of the mystical White Rose found only in Madhaven. Plus Techno-Wizard devices, weapons and adventure hooks.
• Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames – 50+ Soulmancy spells, demonic weapons and war machines, Hell Pits, 7 Demon Plagues, 7 Lords of Hades, 7 Lords of Dyval, the Kingdom of Monsters and more. The invasion of Rifts Earth has begun. Warring factions of two planes of Hell both intend to conquer Earth, enslave its people, and use the Rifts to ravage the Megaverse unless they are stopped!
• Rifts® Mindwerks™ – 27 monsters and D-Bees, the Brodkil Empire, an evil Millennium Tree, Mindwerks weapons, robots, and MOM Implants on Brodkil, Gene Splicers, Psynetic Crazies, the Kingdom of Tarnow, magic crystals, the Angel of Death, Angel of Vengeance, and more.
• Rifts® Mystic Russia – Setting info, key people and places, demons, monsters, gypsies and magic galore. 18 Archaic Russian Demons, 10 monsters, Russian magic to forge magic weapons, Fire and Bone Magic, Night Witch, Old Believer, Necromancer, 9 Gypsy O.C.C.s, vehicles and more.
• Rifts® Psyscape™ – 11 unique and powerful Psychic O.C.C.s, 28 special psychic abilities, 20 monsters, and more.
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ – Vampires with real bite. Different types of vampires and their hierarchy, minions, and undead abilities. Vampire society within the kingdoms of Mexico, the cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, town creation rules, Hero Vampires, Deluded Vampires, Vampire Hunters, and everything you ever wanted to know about vampires and a whole lot more. Epic adventure and the undead await. Vampires as they should be.
• Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook – Vampire hunters and their weapons, Reid’s Rangers, the Yucatan Peninsula, werebeasts, Soulcrafting and more.
• Rifts® Wormwood™ – A mysterious living planet of unknown origin and purpose. It would be idyllic if not for the corrupting Unholy and the demonic and monstrous creatures that service this being and seek domination of the planet and its human inhabitants. 37 unique Wormwood spells, 50 symbiotic organisms, Magical Blood Stones and crystals, 16 Dark Minions, 20 monsters, 8 player O.C.C.s including the Apok, Holy Terror, Wormspeaker, and more. A world of epic adventure, horror, and the supernatural unlike any other. Concepts by comic book legends Timothy Truman and Flint Henry, and includes a 20 page comic by Truman and Henry. The Dimension Book is written by Kevin Siembieda.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG – The Great Cataclysm as it unfolds, NEMA, their robots and gear, and more. The Golden Age of Science and human civilization is shattered with the return of magic and the Coming of the Rifts. Humanity struggles to survive against impossible odds and the demonic horrors, aliens and monsters emerging from the Rifts.
• Chaos Earth® Creatures of Chaos™ – The name says it all. Nearly 30 Chaos Demons and other menaces, demon plagues, and more.
• Chaos Earth® Rise of Magic™ – Chaos Magic, new magic specific to the Chaos Earth® setting, 100+ unique Chaos Magic spells, New magic O.C.C.s like the Blue Zone Wizard and Chaos Wizard, new evil magic users, the Demon Caller, NEMA and more.
• Chaos Earth® Resurrection – Mechanized, M.D.C. zombies! 12 different mechanized Scrap Zombies, Frankenstein zombie amalgamations, the Black Obelisk zombie factory, a mad man, dark magic, and more.
• Splicers® RPG – A dire setting where metal and technology is deadly to humans. Their alternative? Living weapons and power armor, and genetically engineered war mounts to battle the insane artificial intelligence known as Nexus and her nightmarish legions of robots. Humanity’s salvation rests in the hands of the Splicers – bio-engineered freedom fighters. Think Guyver meet the Terminator with elements of horror.
• Splicers® I Am Legion™ Sourcebook – This big, 256 page adventure sourcebook for Splicers® is jam-packed with 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new Machine enemies, 7 new Bio-Enhancements, 4 new Host Armors, 6 Great Houses, 6 War Mounts, plus Factory Walker, monsters, a sweeping six part adventure, megalomaniacal Machine personality Legion and more.
• Future Visions: The Art of Charles Walton II – Impressive artwork for future Splicers® projects and more. If you enjoy Walton’s art you want this book.
• Mechanoid Trilogy RPG – Dystopian science fiction at its best. This is the very first RPG (1981) published by Palladium Books, about planet devouring villains from outer space. It was originally released as three small comic books or chapters. Each a different generation and a different fight, but they are all collected into this one book. Written and illustrated by Kevin Siembieda, with Erick Wujcik and Bill Loebs contributing.
• Mouse Pad: Old Ones (Fantasy) – Old One and a Minotaur minion.
• Mouse Pad: Dead Reign® – Zombie rising from the grave.
• The Rifter® #45 – Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign®, and more.
• The Rifter® #53 – Rifts®, Archie 3, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane® and more.
• The Rifter® #54 – Rifts®, mutants, strange creatures, Nightbane® and more.
• The Rifter® #78 – The Modern Necromancer, the Nexus Zone, and more.
• The Rifter® #82 – Chaos Earth® Nebraska Pyromancer O.C.C., 50+ new Pyromancy spells; Nightbane® age tables, and more.
• The Rifter® #84 – BTS: Monster and adventure, Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane®, Golems, an Elven Kingdom, HU2: City of Cascade, and more.
• Note: An expanded sale of PDF titles can be found on DriveThruRPG.com so check it out. Both sales end after midnight, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. Your time is running out!

Retailers can order direct from Palladium Books at discount terms

Retailers, are you having trouble getting Palladium products from your distributors? Join the growing number of stores to whom Palladium sells direct. 95-99% of all our game lines are ALWAYS IN STOCK and ready to ship. Palladium has your back!

Until we put into place something more formal, retailers can call the office at 734-721-2903 and leave a message and phone number on the answering machine, or send an inquiry via the Help Desk, and Palladium will respond pronto. Glad to help. As long as you are a brick and mortar store, we are happy to do business with you.

We added another store to our direct sales roster just yesterday, and others have inquired. Retailers and gamers alike, please spread the word to let game stores and comic book shops know if they are having difficulty getting Palladium Books products from distributors, they should contact Palladium Books to buy from us direct! Spread the fun and game on!

NEW! In the Face of Death^™ – Available now

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to the genre

In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. Characters include children and teenagers, and heroes driven by madness. Human predators and other villains stalk the ruins of human civilization. Ruins inhabited by the omnipresent hungry dead.

This is a book that pushes the genre and challenges the imagination. It brings to focus a setting of heroic adventure that combines elements of horror, zombies, survival, and madness in a post-apocalyptic world with classic dungeon exploring and epic adventure. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead.

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

• Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
• It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
• Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
• Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
• City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
• Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
• New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
• Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
• Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
• Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
• Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
• 100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
• Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
• Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
• Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
• 160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

This big, 376 page role-playing game is everything you need to start playing Rifts®. Just add some dice, some players, and a heaping helping of imagination and you are ready to go.

If you have never played the rich, unpredictable, genre-melding Rifts® setting, you are missing epic adventure that never grows old, because anything is possible. No other RPG blends science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural in such a plausible and dynamic way. A setting that lets you play any type and style of game you can imagine. With characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers that challenge the imagination. And those are just a tiny handful of the O.C.C.s you can play in Rifts®. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and other beings available as player characters. All of it set on an Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. So check it out, build your character, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

• 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, or psychic.
• Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, Scout, Assassin, and more.
• 140+ magic spells, plus Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and more.
• 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
• Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different alien, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and other beings, many available as player characters.
• There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
• 376 page hardcover, some color – $41.99 retail – Cat. No. 800HC – available now.

COMING SOON! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

Hey, I’m as frustrated as you are that this awesome book (BTS Creature Feature, too) is not done yet, but it will be soon. It has been rough being short-handed and juggling so much, but it will be worth the wait. Rifts® CS Manhunters™ is packed with good stuff. I will try to offer a few snippets in my Murmurs from the Megaverse® and social media.

Coalition Manhunters™ reveals more Coalition States secrets about the super-secret CS Manhunters. So secret that most people have never heard of them, and those who have do not believe they really exist. But that’s not all – there are new psionic abilities, new CS characters available as player characters and NPC villains, more insight about the CS and Psi-Battalion, and more. All of it building toward something epic.

Who watches the watchmen? CS Manhunters. A secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion who hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also traitors within the Coalition States. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, Dog Boys, and CS soldiers are trained hunters of men and cold-blooded killing machines. They follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.

• New Coalition Psychic O.C.C.s.
• New psionic abilities and revisits of some favorites.
• CS Manhunter Divner and Precog.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
• CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
• CS Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
• CS Manhunter Mind Melters, the deadliest of them all.
• CS Manhunter squads and special operations.
• Insight on the Coalition’s infamous Psi-Battalion.
• The impact of the demon plagues from the Minion War.
• Non-Player Characters, background info, adventure ideas, and more.
• 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In production and nearing completion.

COMING! Creature Feature^™, a Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebook

The manuscript is in. Artwork is being created. And the world of Beyond the Supernatural™ is about to be expanded. This sourcebook builds on material that has appeared in various issues of The Rifter® but there is a ton of new material and information useful to both Game Masters and players.

• A gallery of supernatural creatures. Some new. Some familiar, updated and expanded. All terrifying.
• Rules clarifications and errata.
• Game Master source material and advice on rules, psychic abilities, proximity and threat levels, I.S.P. multipliers, and more.
• Advice about running modern horror RPGs and using supernatural creatures in your games.
• Lots of adventure ideas, including an updated and expanded full adventure, “The Squatter.”
• New background and setting information for the BTS setting and a few surprises.
• Written by Steven Dawes, Kevin Siembieda, and others.
• Art by Steven Cummings, Nick Bradshaw and others.
• 160-192 pages – $22.99 or $26.99 depending on final size – Cat. No. 704.

COMING! Rifts^® Lazlo Raw Preview Edition

I spoke with the co-author, Mark Oberle, a few times the last couple of weeks, so I can tell you that his manuscript, to be offered as a Raw Preview, is almost done and sounds pretty awesome. He is continuing to expand upon the original concepts and I think he is nailing it. As I have said, I believe Lazlo will end up being a 2-4 book series, because there is just so much for this important location. This will be just the first book. In fact, I gave Mark the green light to start on one of the next Lazlo books as soon as he is done with this manuscript. The Raw Preview will be a September release for sure.

What is a Raw Preview Edition? It is the unfinished, unedited, advance manuscript subject to rewrites and expansion. It gets a limited print run of around 200-300 copies and is fun for collectors to have something rare and unique, and is especially handy for writers and game designers (and curious gamers) because they get a glimpse into the development process at Palladium when they compare what is in the Raw Preview and what sees print in the final book, what gets expanded, dropped out, etc. In this case, writer Mark Oberle has been building Lazlo from material written by Matthew Clements and notes from me. It should be pretty darn good. And remember, Rifts® Lazlo is likely to be 2-4 books. That is how comprehensive we want to make Lazlo. Heck, fans have waited 30 years, we do not want to disappoint. The Raw Preview is looking like it will be 160-192 pages all by itself.

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is a high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics that will make gamers salivate. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.

• New Giant Robots.
• New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
• 30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
• New weapons, gear and vehicles.
• Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
• Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
• New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
• Android executives, security and much more.
• Wellington Industries, Campaign prompts and more.
• Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
• Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
• 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two

The second big, “monster book” reference for Rifts® of what we anticipate to be three volumes in the series, more if we decide to make ghosts, spirits and Entities and/or Creatures of Magic part of the Bestiary series. Much like Volume One, Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two collects 70-100 monsters and animals plus 12-24 new beasts found across Rifts North America. The anticipated page count is 224-256 pages.

All volumes of the Rifts® Bestiary™ series are a great resource for players and Game Masters alike. Each description is updated, expanded, and highly detailed to present players with exotic and alien creatures as pets, guardians and riding animals, as well as slobbering monsters to battle and fierce beasts for Game Masters to throw at their players. Designed to offer adventure ideas, offers notes on young, adult, male and female creatures, and all provide plenty of ways to enhance your characters and spice up adventures. Each is accompanied by a map that shows at a glance where the beast can be encountered. Ah, but in the presence of Rifts and magic means any of the creatures may appear anywhere in the world, so be on your toes.

• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
• Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
• Updated and uniform stat blocks.
• New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
• A map for every creature showing where it is found.
• Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
• Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
• Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
• 256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – Fall release.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

This is another book that is going to surprise and wow. New and insane psionics, some taken to the level of super abilities due to the massive amount of P.P.E. energy surging across the planet and boosting survivors with ambient and alien energy. Some become heroes and defenders of fellow survivors. Some become power-mongers and killers. And still others become just one more monster or madman threatening to destroy humanity. I’m assigning some additional artwork for it this week.

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

I spoke with one of the contributing writers last week and his ideas for Bug Bears sounded fabulous. Because some of this material has appeared in past issues of The Rifter® you may think you know what to expect. You don’t. There is a lot of new and exciting material in this bad boy. Things you never knew and may have been afraid to ask.

MORE Material for Fantasy

Several different freelance writers have submitted additional and unexpected Fantasy material for sourcebooks. Though I have not had a chance to review any of them – too much on my plate at the moment as I stay focused on finishing books already in the pipeline – I am very excited by this turn of events. Palladium Fantasy is on the move! Heck, several game lines are.

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

Please remember, just because I do not mention or list a specific title in an Update, does not mean it has been removed from the production schedule. All it means is that we are focused and talking about more immediate, upcoming releases, or projects we are excited about that week, or there’s no substantive news to report. We are anxious to put as many books you’ve been waiting for into your hands as possible over the next 18 months, as well as new projects being worked on by freelance writers. That includes Rifts® Antarctica, The Disavowed™, Rifts® CS Arsenal™, Chaos Earth® First Responders™, Land of the Damned™ 3, Rifts® Living Nowhere™, Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebooks, more Fantasy sourcebooks and other titles. So if a book you are waiting for is not mentioned in an Update, it means there is nothing new to report, but it should still be in the pipeline and news for it will be coming in the weeks or months ahead. Right now, we are focused on releases for the next six months, which by our count is 6-7 titles. And many of them are in various stages of final production or development. We are shooting for one or two new physical book releases every month as well as a couple new PDF products on DriveThruRPG.

DriveThruRPG.com – Tales of Horror SALE that spans the Megaverse^® – EXTENDED thru the weekend (ends Tuesday, October 13, 2020)

Battle supernatural evil, zombies, or invading aliens with Palladium Books’ Tales of Horror Sale in different settings and genres: Rifts®, Dead Reign® the Zombie Apocalypse, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, & more.

Gaming in scary and suspenseful settings is a lot of fun to play, and nobody offers more in the horror genre than Palladium Books. From the supernatural and dark magic to zombies and alien invasions, Palladium has it all. So what are you waiting for? Start battling supernatural evil, zombies or invading aliens with these awesome games and sourcebooks in our Tales of Horror Sale! Extended through the weekend. And I highly recommend Rifts® Wormwood™ for something truly different and fun.

• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition – Modern horror.
• Beyond the Supernatural, 1st Edition rules – The original 1989 incarnation with more creatures and Erick Wujcik’s infamous Victim Character rules and adventure ideas.
• Boxed Nightmares, BTS 1st Edition rules sourcebook – Five adventures plus hooks and ideas for many more, plus a few monsters.
• Dead Reign® RPG – Zombie Apocalypse – An alternate Earth where the risen dead have risen to hunt and feed upon the living. 7 unique types of zombies, the danger of the zombie moan, ordinary people as player characters, six distinct Survivor O.C.C.s, everything you need to know about the walking dead and the fundamentals of surviving in a world where the dead reign.
• Dead Reign®: Fear the Reaper™ sourcebook
• Dead Reign®: Graveyard Earth™ sourcebook
• Dead Reign® Paper Minis
• Nightbane® RPG – Super-hero horror.
• Nightbane®: Dark Designs™
• Nightbane®: Nightlands™
• Nightbane®: Through the Glass Darkly™
• Nightbane®: Shadows of Light™
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Epic fantasy with human and nonhuman character and 100,000 years of history.
• Fantasy: Old Ones
• Fantasy: Baalgor Wastelands™
• Fantasy: Bizantium & the Northern Islands™
• Fantasy: Yin-Sloth Jungles™
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition – Multi-genre, science fiction, fantasy, horror, post apocalypse, heroic adventure in a post apocalypse setting with infinite possibilities.
• Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition – The original, multi-genre game that became an instant classic.
• Rifts® Africa
• Rifts® China One
• Rifts® China Two
• Rifts® Federation of Magic™
• Rifts® Madhaven™
• Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames
• Rifts® Mindwerks™
• Rifts® Mystic Russia
• Rifts® Psyscape™
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™
• Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook
• Rifts® Wormwood™ – Science-fantasy horror.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG – Science fiction horror.
• Chaos Earth® Creatures of Chaos™
• Chaos Earth® Rise of Magic™
• Chaos Earth® Resurrection
• Splicers® RPG – Science fiction horror, gene-splicing and more.
• Splicers®: I Am Legion Sourcebook
• Mechanoid Trilogy RPG – Alien invasion.
• Systems Failure™ RPG – Alien invasion, post-apocalypse.
• RECON®, Deluxe, Revised RPG – The horror of war set in the Vietnam era. Different game rules, by Joe Martin and Erick Wujcik.
• The Rifter® #4
• The Rifter® #11
• The Rifter® #14
• The Rifter® #20
• The Rifter® #28
• The Rifter® #44
• The Rifter® #45
• The Rifter® #46
• The Rifter® #49
• The Rifter® #53
• The Rifter® #54
• The Rifter® #58
• The Rifter® #63
• The Rifter® #64
• The Rifter® #67
• The Rifter® #71-72
• The Rifter® #78
• The Rifter® #82
• The Rifter® #84
• Note: A similar sale offering physical books can be found at PalladiumBooks.com so check it out. Sale ends after midnight, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. Enjoy. This sale will not be extended further.

We are looking to provide a few more novels and a sneak preview of upcoming books in the weeks ahead and maybe some adventure stuff. I have been speaking with people about the possibility of doing PDF adventures, maps, and other player and Game Master support items. Keep your eyes open. In the meanwhile, take advantage of sales to try new settings and new avenues for adventure.

Reminder: Rifts® Index One and Two, as well as Rifts® Novel 3: Treacherous Awakenings are available as PDF titles along with the first two novels and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG Titles. Gen Con Online talked about Rifts®, Rifts® Bestiary, Rifts® Dimension Books, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Heroes Unlimited™, and other Palladium game lines, ALL of which are available as PDFs from DriveThru and most of which are available as physical books from Palladium directly.

Recent Release – Rifts® Novel 3: Treacherous Awakenings™, the pulse-pounding and satisfying conclusion to the Rifts® trilogy by Adam Chilson. It is available as a PDF on DriveThruRPG.com right now! $9.99 – Cat. No. 303. The other two novels, Rifts® Sonic Boom and Rifts® Deception’s Web, are also available as PDFs from DriveThru for your reading pleasure along with more than 300 RPG titles with more stuff coming your way. Note: We also plan to make it available as our first Print On Demand title from DriveThruRPG in the near future. Watch for it.

Also recent on DriveThru: FREE After the Bomb® Map Pack. Our thanks to the customer who recently reminded me the Map of Mutant Animal Kingdoms and the Empire of Humanity (North American East Coast) was accidentally omitted from the After the Bomb® RPG. We will make sure it is included in the next printing. Moreover, a FREE After the Bomb® Map Pack (5 maps around the world from the various AtB sourcebooks) is now available on DriveThruRPG.

Also on DriveThru: The FREE Sneak Previews for In the Face of Death, Garden of the Gods™ (Fantasy), Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One and many other FREE Previews of Palladium’s sourcebooks. And remember, the PDF of Rifts® Bestiary Vol. One was made available a month or so ago.

In the works for DriveThru in the weeks ahead: In no particular order, Duty’s Edge™, a new Rifts® novel in the pipeline from Will Erwin, the collected The Hammer of the Forge™ (cosmic adventure across Phase World® and the Three Galaxies), and more.

Recent on DriveThruRPG – Rifts® Sonic Boom™. Follow the exploits of a CS platoon sworn to protect humankind from all threats, be they aliens, dragons, masters of magic or fellow humans out for themselves; the second novel in this trilogy, Deception’s Web™, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. All of it building up to the pulse-pounding events of the 3rd novel: Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™. The Rifter® #84 offers adventure source material for Rifts® (Golems in the Myst), Heroes Unlimited™ (the City of Cascade by Wujcik and Reed), Palladium Fantasy RPG® (an Elven Kingdom), Beyond the Supernatural™ (an epic adventure, a short story, and a monster), Nightbane® (Spellbound O.C.C.), why The Rifter® is on hiatus, and more.

Also available: Free Garden of the Gods™ (Fantasy) and Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One Sneak Previews, and the Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet: A Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook to enable you to create Fantasy characters quickly (25 minutes!) and help you to update and manage them for years to come.

Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Three: Zombies, Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Two: Civilians and Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume One: Survivors. There are also paper miniatures for Heroes Unlimited™, Palladium Fantasy® and Rifts®. A new, up-to-date, PDF Palladium Books Catalog. Nightbane® Dark Designs™ sourcebook with 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, 18 new Morphus Tables, all other Morphus Tables collected and more. Systems Failure™ RPG, a 160 page RPG that deals with alien invasion and a post-apocalypse setting that is fun and dynamic. Civilization is on the verge of collapse when the so-called "bugs" invade and turn humans into zombie-like slaves. Monsters, heroes and fun. A complete RPG and setting. Rifts® World Book 34: Northern Gun™ Two: 256 pages of technology and fun. 30+ power armors, 30+ body armors, 15 combat vehicles, 45 vehicles (hovercycles, etc.), 10 robot haulers, the Robodome and more. Bizantium and the Northern Islands™: the northernmost part of the Known World, the Cold Born, Necromancy ships made from dead sea serpents, 15 creatures, Random Sea Monster Generator, and more. Rifts® Northern Gun™ One. This fan favorite might be thought of as the big book of giant robots – an in-depth look at Northern Gun, 70+ weapons, 27 robots, NG O.C.C.s, key people and places, and much more. Mysteries of Magic™ Book One: The Heart of Magic™ with Wizards, their Apprentices, nearly 60 new magic spells and remember, magic and monsters in the Fantasy RPG are easily adapted to Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, HU2 and other settings. Wolfen Empire™ Fantasy sourcebook, the Great Northern Wilderness and Killer Winters, 12 Wolfen Tribes, Wolfen military and society, 15+ creatures, 5 full adventures, 101 adventure ideas, random encounter tables, notable people, places, plus FREE Sneak Previews of The Rifter® #80, The Rifter® #81, The Rifter® #82, and more on DriveThruRPG.com.

• Rifts® is a genre-bending setting that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse survival, magic, and endless possibilities for adventure. Imagine a near perfect world of advanced technology 100 years in the future. Then imagine that world crashing down overnight in an apocalyptic upheaval not seen since the formation of the planet. A Great Cataclysm caused by the explosive return of magic. Now fast forward 300 years into the future where magic, dragons, and mythic gods coexist with cyborgs, giant robots and super-science rediscovered from humanity's Golden Age as humans rise from a lengthy Dark Age. But they must contend with countless alien life forms, monsters, and supernatural horrors from beyond the Rifts.
• Rifts® core titles we would suggest: Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign and Rifts® Sourcebook One. Note: The Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition and Rifts® Ultimate, 2nd Edition are both available.
• 80+ Rifts® supplements, most of them available as PDFs with more coming. Where to start? Wherever sounds fun.
• Rifts® Dimension Books™: Travel to alien worlds and dimensions via the Rifts for off-world adventure and intrigue.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebook series (all). Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
• FREE Sneak Previews for Nightbane® Dark Designs™, Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™, Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity, and many other previews as well as free and low cost items that we make available. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so keep watching for them.
• The Rifter® #1-84, ALL issues of The Rifter®. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for 3-6 different Palladium game lines. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure.
• Splicers® RPG is like Iron Man meets Game of Thrones with elements of Terminator – except this army of Iron Men are clad in living body armor and wield living, organic weapons and devices. Created in 2004 by writer and game designer Carmen Bellaire, Splicers® was nominated for an Inquest Gamer Magazine Fan Awards Game of the Year, and has since developed a rabid fan base. Science fiction and horror where humans are forced to use genetically engineered, living weapons and organic war machines to battle an insane Artificial Intelligence and her robot legions. Unlike anything you have ever played before!
• Splicers®: I Am Legion™ Adventure Sourcebook: 6 new Great Houses, 4 new Host Armors, 6 new War Mounts, 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new killer machines, new Bio-Enhancements, Amalgam creation tables, Legion and a series of adventures that build into a small campaign, and more.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 1st Edition Rules and sourcebooks. A unique world of magic, monsters and heroes. Dozens of nonhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and more. 100,000 years of history.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Rules and many sourcebooks. The expanded world of high fantasy, magic, mystery and heroes of every variety. Includes the Mind Mage and psychic abilities, mages and spells, magic circles and symbols, men-at-arms, scoundrels and a wide range of inhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and many more. 100,000 years of history.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition rule book and sourcebooks. Create any type of superhuman you can desire and bring comic book adventures to life.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse). The dead have risen. It is the battle for survival in the zombie apocalypse, but this setting is much more than your typical zombie game. Play ordinary people or special characters better equipped to survive and hunt zombies. Many unusual types of zombies.
• Dead Reign® Sourcebooks: 6 sourcebooks from Civilization Gone™ to Hell Followed™ (the latter features stats for 23 disasters, masked lunatics, 11 new zombies, 7 apocalyptic character classes, and more) are available.
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules. Supernatural horror in the modern world. Play ordinary people, psychics, paranormal investigators or for something different: Victim Characters!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition: The complete, revised core game, 14 character classes and 42 occupations for "ordinary people," 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.
• Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. An RPG setting we call superhero horror. Dark conspiracy, a secret, demon invasion starting with world leaders and law enforcement, and it is spreading. The player characters are the Nightbane®, reluctant superhumans who must turn into monsters themselves to unleash their powers and battle the evil that is clear only to them. A dark, sinister and challenging world of horror.
• After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Planet of the Apes meets the X-Men! Animal creations, powers and more. Create any type of intelligent mutant animal you can imagine as friend or foe.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.
• The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic world-view of humans vs aliens with superior technology.
• The Palladium Weapon Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.
• 200+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more.
• Heroes Unlimited™ Paper Miniatures – Two sets are now available!
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® Paper Miniatures – Volumes #1-6 are available now. More are coming in the weeks ahead.
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Men at Arms – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Coalition Dead Boys – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Adventurers – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Practitioners of Magic (new) – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Extras (new) – $2.99
• And more to come in the weeks ahead.

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

My eBay store is one of the few places where you can find original artwork by Charles "Chuck" Walton, Kevin Long, and others, as well as one-of-a-kind negatives from classic Rifts® and other Palladium RPG books (they look awesome framed!), rare Palladium collector hardcovers, signed books, other Palladium memorabilia, toys from my personal collection and other collectibles. Check every couple of weeks because we often post new stuff or offer a new sale. There is a sale on negatives starting today, in fact.

Other one-of-a-kind original artwork available by me (Kevin Siembieda), Kevin Long, Charles Walton II (money goes to the artist), other artists, as well as collectible negatives, prints, limited edition hardcovers, proofreader copies, out of print items, Star Wars toys, Marvel toys and many other toys and collectibles from my personal collection. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

Available now: One-of-a-kind book negatives. Negatives were very popular items at the Palladium Open House and people went crazy over them at Gen Con – including actor Joe Manganiello who scooped up a pile of TMNT negatives, while Palladium's own Mark Oberle, Carmen Bellaire, Brandon Aten and a whole lot of Palladium gamers went for negatives from Rifts® New West, Lone Star and Free Quebec. Fun.

Negatives are unique and attractive, one-of-a-kind (on rare occasions two-of-a-kind if a page was replaced or a second edition was made) works of art that resemble woodcut art and are very dynamic conversation pieces. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then "ganged" on a massive sheet of Mylar 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black.

When our printer, McNaughton and Gunn, went completely digital, they asked if Palladium Books wanted the negs, otherwise they would be destroyed. Regrettably, I let a few dozen be destroyed, but the negatives of many books were sent to Palladium. They have sat in our warehouse for years until I started to offer them for sale. I have also started signing the negatives in silver and each comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Each negative comes on a white board inside a plastic magazine bag and looks fabulous framed! Fits in an 8x10 inch matt opening in a frame (each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches).

http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

Closing Thoughts

I always try to be as positive and encouraging in these Weekly Updates as possible, but things have been rough at times. Covid-19 has messed with our business and our heads. It has put more duties and responsibilities upon me than ever before. For example, I spend 1-2 hours pulling orders and signing books every morning. I am more than happy to do so because I know getting a little note from me and signed books has surprised and made a lot of people happy. These days making people smile and feel special even for a minute is more important than ever. I learned early in life that people and relationships are most important in life, and I care about you.

I have also been dealing with business and health issues. Most of the business issues are positive and helpful opportunities for building a bigger, better, stronger company. My health appears to be good too, just a few painful and scary hiccups. More than that, they all take a bit of an emotional toll, adding stress and more work to my already busy schedule and stealing away time.

Then again, some books are just a pain in the neck. I feel great about Rifts® CS Manhunters (and all the books in the pipeline), however, it has been rough going for me at times. Even when I’m on fire I have found myself going back to do rewrite after rewrite. In part because I want the book to be great and wow you. In part, because so much of it involves rules and game mechanics which always takes time and requires clear descriptions. And in part because some books become unexpectedly challenging and time consuming. Rifts® CS Manhunters is one of those.

Lastly, it has been difficult being creative some days. There is so much fear and uncertainty, violence and hate in the world that some days it chokes creativity right out of you. Instead of writing your heart out, you want to cry, or scream, or sit with your worries for the state of our world and the people you care about.

I hate it. The hate and fear and stupidity. I despise the “them or us” rhetoric and name calling that fills the media and the Internet. I know lots and lots of people. Republicans, Democrats, and everything in between. I know them all to be wonderful people. Okay, most are wonderful people. Not right wing racists or left wing anarchist commies. Neither is looking to tear down human civilization as we know it! They are all good, kind, hard working people who care and want what’s best for everyone. It is difficult some days to remember that, but we must. Even when we fall into a pit of hate or fear or debilitating darkness, we need to pull ourselves out to find the good and the beautiful and keep going, because life is beautiful.

It sucks, for sure. Some days are bright and sunny and productive, others are gray and life seems to weigh you down. Those days are hard to deal with, but you must. Every single day I try to do my best. Some days I succeed at that better than others, but I always try. I always keep plugging along. I also try to remember the multitude of good people, in the good world, that I personally know to help keep me grounded – not the shitstorm of chaos and discord others want to paint for us. I continue to try to do what I know is right and good. What I know is kind and caring. As do most people I know. I hope you are managing to do the same. Hang tough.

I have never stopped working my hardest to keep Palladium Books going and to give you new books that will rock your world and set your imaginations ablaze. Great stuff, as well as fun items like the coffee mugs (new and old), play mats, the Rifts® Poker Decks, and some other ideas we are kicking around. You are not alone nor forgotten. We are all working through these challenging times. Very soon Palladium will be providing you with new books and avenues of adventure to carry you away to your happy place gaming. I’m feeling positive today. I hope you are too. Please stay safe and hang tough.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming

More monsters and exotic animals of Rifts® North America as part of an ongoing series of Rifts® Bestiary sourcebooks. The first two or three Rifts® Bestiary™ books will focus on monsters and animals of North America. They collect creatures from all current World Books and Sourcebooks, plus some new creatures by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton, and others. Presented in alphabetical order, with maps showing their range and location at a glance.

Note: The Rifts® Bestiary™ series is more than a few big books of monsters, they are deliberately designed to provide players with a useful, living resource (pet, guard animal, riding animal, food source, etc.) as well as present many and varied opportunities for adventure and fun. Some creatures are helpful, some are inadvertently a threat or danger, while others are slobbering predators or wicked beasts that kill and eat you, or capture you, or sabotage you, or worse.

• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America in a second easy to use sourcebook.
• Predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
• Notable Splugorth hunting animals.
• Some new creatures, but most are existing creatures.
• Updated information where applicable.
• Updated and uniform stat blocks.
• A map for every creature showing where it is found.
• Fully illustrated.
• Art by Chuck Walton, Siembieda, Cummings, Bradshaw, Atkins, Ashbaugh, and many others.
• 192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 897. In production. Anticipating Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two to be a Fall 2020 release.

In the Face of Death^™ – Now Shipping!

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. Characters include children and teenagers, and heroes driven by madness. Human predators and other villains stalk the ruins of human civilization. Ruins inhabited by the omnipresent hungry dead.

This is a book that pushes the genre and challenges the imagination. It brings to focus a setting of heroic adventure that combines elements of horror, zombies, survival, and madness in a post-apocalyptic world with classic dungeon exploring and epic adventure. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead.

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

• Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
• It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
• Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
• Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
• City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
• Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
• New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
• Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
• Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
• Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
• Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
• 100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
• Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
• Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
• Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
• 160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – shipping now.

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

A secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion, the CS Manhunters hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also their own. Coalition soldiers, brass, government leaders, and anyone who becomes designated as having gone rogue, AWOL, or turned traitor (including the Disavowed), become targets of CS Manhunters to be tracked down and brought to justice. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, and manhunters are trained killing machines who follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.

More often than not, the assignment is straight-up find and terminate. If your name has been given to a Manhunter squad, your fate is sealed, and no one is untouchable. The CS Manhunters operate in secret, find their target, terminate, and vanish as if they were never there at all. They don’t seek credit or limelight. They serve their country from the blood-soaked shadows.

• CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
• Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Healer.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator (Mind Melter).
• CS Manhunter Psi-Enforcer (Mind Melter).
• CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
• CS Manhunter Slayer (a variation of the Psi-Slayer or Psi-Warrior).
• CS Manhunter Mind Melter, the most insidious and deadliest of them all.
• Weapons, gear, and tactics.
• Some notable Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda. Art by Nick Bradshaw.
• 96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894.

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

The Garden of the Gods™ sourcebook is a toy box of gods, magical blessings, ancient artifacts, and hundreds of opportunities and adventure ideas for players and Game Masters alike.

The Garden of the Gods is a place of miracles and wisdom where people of all occupations and races, nobility and the poor, come to find inspiration, blessings and adventure. Many insist the gods themselves are present and may visit heroes and followers in dreams, visions, or in person as an avatar. The gods also look for champions and assign heroic quests and gifts of knowledge and magic. Here, all gods are equal and many a forgotten god seeks to be rediscovered and worshiped by offering blessings, vision quests, and magical artifacts to potential heroes to champion their name.

There is also an dangerous evil on the island of Lopan. An open wound in the earth known as the Black Pit, as well as dark gods within the Garden itself.

• 212 Blessings.
• 101 Magic Artifacts.
• 45 Forgotten gods.
• 50+ Curses and dark magic.
• 100+ Random quests and encounters, and each god offers adventure hooks.
• Restore forgotten gods to power. Become a Champion of the Gods.
• 5 Weapons of destruction created by the Old Ones.
• Godly insight, visitations, knowledge and purpose.
• The Garden of the Gods and its protectors.
• Ghosts, Faeries, mysteries, and ancient secrets.
• Rumors of a secret way to the Land of the Damned.
• The Black Pit, a place of legend and dark secrets. Is it a counterbalance to the good of the Garden or something more sinister?
• Easily adapted to Rifts®, Phase World® and any game system. One game system – a Megaverse® of adventure!™
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
• 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 475.

Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now

Available now! The “Raw Preview Edition” of LotD-3: The Bleakness™, for Palladium Fantasy RPG®, is an advance copy of the unedited, unillustrated, working manuscript for this new Fantasy World Book. You get to see the unfinished book months before the final title is released. A rare look at the raw manuscript before final edit, rewrites and publication. Limited to a total of 200 copies.

This epic sourcebook presents the forbidden Land of the Damned in all its brutal glory. Includes information about the ancient and forgotten eldritch races, the Minotaur legions, dark magic, the Citadel, countless adventure hooks and ideas, and much, much more. The long awaited final book in the Land of the Damned series, with connections to the Garden of the Gods™ and the upcoming Lopan Fantasy World Book.

• Limited collector’s edition – only 200 collector copies.
• Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
• A rare glimpse at the virgin manuscript and a work in progress.
• Written by Matthew Clements, based on ideas by Kevin Siembieda.
• 96 pages – Limited Edition – $20.99 – Cat. No. 470-RAW – available now. Note: The finished book with artwork and more is anticipated to ship in a few months, but you can see what it’s all about right now and even start playing with this special Preview Edition!

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

Learn about Atlantean civilization, the many clans, the mysterious Sunaj, where they are found across the Megaverse, why they hide and why they hate the undead so much. Also discover the power of Shadow Magic, how various types of Stone Pyramids work, and much more.

• 60+ new Magic Tattoos.
• 60+ new Shadow Magic spells.
• 50+ new Crystal Magic spells and the Crystal Mage O.C.C.
• Never before revealed Stone Pyramids described and mapped.
• Stone Master and Undead Slayer, revisited.
• Sunaj Shadow Mage and Shadow Assassin O.C.C.s.
• The dark history, shame, and secrets of True Atlanteans.
• Learn more about the famous Atlantean Tattooed Warriors, Undead Slayers, Stone Masters and other Atlantean heroes.
• The Shadow Dimension and new Shadow Beasts.
• Dark secrets of the sinister Sunaj secret society.
• Who are the Sunaj and why do they hunt True Atlanteans?
• Epic trans-dimensional adventure ideas and source material by Carl Gleba.
• 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 890 – Available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

The Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet is a Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook, this sheet saves you time and hassle with each character you create. Available now, directly from Palladium Books AND DriveThruRPG.com – this is a digital, online product only.

Features & Benefits:

• The Main Character Sheet Page collects the important data from across multiple tabs and puts it in one place for quick and easy reference.
• Separate sheets examine character construction (worktable), Skills, Magic, Psionics, and Combat in greater detail.
• Built-in leveling system that calculates skill advancement for you! Experience Tables for over 80 O.C.C.s already programmed.
• Recognizes the percentages for nearly 150 skills, plus combat bonuses for over 20 Weapon Proficiencies and 7 Hand to Hand styles.
• Calculates the speed and distance a character can run and jump based on character Attributes.
• Also calculates how much a character can lift, carry, and throw for humanoids, Giants, and Supernatural Beings.
• Add in your own Hand to Hand style, custom Skills, unique Weapon Proficiencies, and Experience Tables.
• Estimated time to build a character reduced by 20% or more.
• Instructions on how to use the sheet included, as well as a video walkthrough below.
• Important Note: This character sheet is built to be used with Microsoft Excel 2010+ and it comes in .XLSX format. Opening this file in other spreadsheet programs is NOT guaranteed to work as intended.
• Watch the Overview video here: https://vimeo.com/322271758

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

A storm has rolled in. A psychic storm. With the Coming of the Rifts, survivors are bombarded by terrifying visions and overwhelmed with powers and abilities they never asked for, and often cannot control.

Where do you hide from the madness boiling inside of you?

What would you do when you know evil lurks hidden among your fellow survivors?

Why do the voices of alien creatures speak to you?

How do you cope when the power you unleashed to destroy a monster and save the innocent, destroys everyone but you?

Have you become a hero or another monster born in chaos?

Are these powers your family’s salvation or their damnation?

Find out in Psychic Scream!

In the wake of the Coming of the Rifts, people begin to see ghosts and demons, they unleash lightning from their fingertips, command fire and water, hurl boulders and girders with their minds, and manifest a wide range of mental powers. Psionic abilities fueled by the explosive return of magic and the unchecked flow of dimensional energy that is off the charts.

Psychic abilities more powerful than anything known after the Two Hundred Years Dark Age. Wondrous and lifesaving. But also seething and out of control. The psychics’ own minds bombarded by feelings of dread, visions of horror, and the thoughts and emotions of everyone around them. For many, it is too much, sending them careening into madness. For others, it creates heroes forged from chaos.

• Untamed psychic abilities. More powerful than anything known later on Rifts Earth.
• New psychic powers and character classes.
• New psionic monsters and invaders.
• Insanity, side-effects and horror.
• Adventure ideas and more. All people, powers and monsters that become myths and legends told about the events during the Two Hundred Years Dark Age.
• Written by Taylor White and Kevin Siembieda.
• 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 667.

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.

• New Giant Robots.
• New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
• 30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
• New weapons, gear and vehicles.
• Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
• Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
• New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
• Android executives, security and much more.
• Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
• Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
• Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
• 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

The island kingdom described and mapped, rare and ancient magic, trade with the Old Kingdom, Centaurs, Western intrigue, and more.

• History and overview.
• Key cities and locations.
• Lopan O.C.C.s and people of note.
• And Old Kingdom City that is a trade partner.
• The mysterious and nearly forgotten Mosaic Magic.
• New monsters and magic, weapons and gear.
• Written by Glen Evans.
• 192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 476.

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

Rifts® Antarctica is a truly compelling and exotic land beyond what anyone expects. A frozen continent transformed by the power of magic and alien wildlife. Long isolated from the rest of the world, Rifts, D-Shifting events and the threat of war have now brought the distant South Pole within reach. And unearthed something ancient and so dangerous that even the Splugorth fear it and dare not go there.

• New alien monsters and D-Bees.
• Strange new weapons and vehicles. Some left over from the Golden Age of Humanity, others completely alien.
• The Splugorth’s secret outpost. More than it would seem.
• A Splugorth zoo and place of secret Bio-Wizard experiments.
• Snow and Ice Golems created specifically for the cold environment.
• Danger from the elements, Ice Witches, Icecraft, and other horrors.
• Vostok City, a city of magic carved from the ice itself.
• Cold-weather skills, technology and survival techniques.
• Ancient danger and dark secrets.
• Written by Matthew Clements, Carmen Bellaire, and Kevin Siembieda.
• 160 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 898.

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

The Disavowed are so Top Secret that their existence is known only to a handful of the Coalition States’ most elite, top echelon, with Joseph Prosek II the mastermind behind the Disavowed operation, and Colonel Lyboc its shadowy face. Find out who these men and women are. How the Disavowed get away with using magic, traveling to other parts of Rifts Earth and even to other dimensions in pursuit of enemies and strategic information that cannot be had through conventional means. Learn about the secret parameters in which these hard-boiled warriors, secretly hand-picked by Joseph Prosek II, operate, why almost every mission is considered a suicide mission, and why they must forever be the Disavowed.

• CS operatives so secret that even the top military and political leaders right up to Emperor Prosek know nothing about them. And if they did know, would they condone their activity or condemn it?
• Are the Disavowed heroes or renegades? Assassins or soldiers? Madmen or super-patriots? Or a little of them all?
• Unsung heroes who keep the CS safe, or thugs and pawns of a shadow agency within the Coalition government?
• What role does the Vanguard play in this group?
• How do they reward their D-Bee “teammates” when the mission is over?
• What happens to the Disavowed when they have seen or learned too much? Adventure ideas galore and so much more.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
• 96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 892.

COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

Rifts® Heroes of Humanity gave you updated Coalition Army O.C.C.s, ways to upgrade men-at-arms, new O.C.C.s, battle plans and strategies and tactics. CS Heroes of Humanity™ Arsenal provides an array of new Coalition hardware: weapons, armor, additional SAMAS, other power armor, robots, combat vehicles, gear and info.

• New CS weapons and gear.
• New CS SAMAS and power armor.
• New CS robots and combat vehicles.
• More secrets and information about the Coalition States.
• Wild adventure opportunities, fun and more.
• Part of the Minion War™ “Crossover” series.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, Clements, Gleba and others.
• 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 893.

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

Could the monsters known as Caterpillar Things be the larval form of the Mothman Monster? Is the Corrival Battler as aggressive and dangerous as adventurers claim? Are Darkhounds really magically mutated Dog Boys? Is that why they see Coalition soldiers as friends and allies? Ee-Bee Gee-Bees are kinda cute, how dangerous can they be? Is it true the animals and people slain by the Death Springer rise as zombies?! What on Rifts Earth is a Field Reaper?

This book reveals it all.

Designed with both Players and Game Masters in mind, with creatures that can be used as pets, companions, riding animals, attack animals, and even unlikely allies, as well as slobbering monsters and catalysts for adventure. Adult, juvenile, and young stages of life give every creature three different levels of power and danger. Presented as a complete ecosystem, with maps and details to bring each animal to life. All provide plenty of spice to add to your characters and adventures.

• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
• 80+ creatures described in detail, updated and expanded.
• New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
• A map for every creature showing where it is found at a glance.
• Easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Powerful art.
• Includes basic S.D.C. stats for each creature description.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton and others.
• 256 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 896 – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

A deluxe, limited, Gold Edition hardcover, signed and numbered by Palladium staff and maybe a few freelancers. It is the same content of unique creatures that can be used as familiars, pets, riding animals, guard animals, and slobbering monsters as the softcover edition in a durable hardcover. Very limited run of only 300 copies, numbered and signed by Kevin Siembieda, Palladium staff members and possibly available contributing artists and writers. Note: Historically, Palladium Books’ Gold Editions have doubled, tripled or increased in value many times over. Valued as cherished collectibles. Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. Please note the slight increase in price to $55.

• Gold foil on a black faux leather hardcover.
• Sewn and glued for long-lasting durability.
• Only 300 signed and numbered copies.
• Available only from Palladium Books.
• Sold on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
• Signed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium staff.
• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
• 80+ creatures described in detail.
• Same contents as the softcover edition.
• New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
• Easily adapted to any Palladium setting; basic S.D.C. stats included for each creature description.
• 256 pages – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 896HC (Volume One). Shipping Now!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

The Rifter® #84 focuses on adventure in dark corners of various world settings. Places where danger threatens, monsters and evildoers lurk in the shadows, and people are in need of heroes. Adventure source material for The Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, and Rifts®. And remember, adventures and source material for one game setting can also be adapted to other world settings with some easy and obvious modifications. Most of all, have fun.

Rifter® #84 Highlights:

• The City of Cascade™ by Erick Wujcik and Matt Reed, A modern city in desperate need of heroes.
• The Kingdom of Raf-Chalon™ for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans. An Elven Kingdom in the Eastern Territory™.
• Golems in the Myst™ for Rifts® by Greg Diaczyk. Techno-Wizard experiments go wrong and Golems run amok.
• Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane® RPG by Ian Herbert.
• An Adventure for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Kyle Osterberg.
• The Dimma, a short story and a scary new monster for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes.
• 2021 Palladium Open House and other news.
• Coming attractions, product descriptions and more.
• 96 pages – $14.99 retail – Cat. No. 184 – Shipping now!

BACK IN STOCK: The Mechanoid Invasion^® RPG Trilogy

Dystopian science fiction at its best. This is the very first RPG published by Palladium Books (1981). It presents three settings and three generations of heroes fighting the malevolent, world devouring, Mechanoids. Strange robotic beings who seem to hate and target human occupied worlds and their allies. It was originally released as three small comic book chapters and settings. Each a different generation and a different fight, but they are all collected into this one book. Written and illustrated by Kevin Siembieda, with Erick Wujcik and Bill Loebs contributing.

• The Mechanoid Invasion® (1981) – The humans on a colony world struggle against the monstrous mecha that threaten to devour their world.
• The Journey™ (1982) – Humans take their battle for survival to the Mechanoids, invading the invaders’ giant spaceships and living between the walls like rats as they seek to learn more about their nemesis and sabotage them from within.
• Homeworld™ (1982) – A new generation of humans and their alien allies unite to try to stop world eating aliens, taking the fight to the monsters’ homeworld only to find it (mostly) abandoned. If this sounds similar to Robotech®, bear in mind that it was written BEFORE that famous anime series was created. There must have been something in the global zeitgeist at the time.
• The Mechanoids, other aliens, humans, psychics, mutants, and more.
• Weapons and equipment, spaceships, maps, and a few surprises.
• See the game that helped to launch Palladium Books.
• Artwork by Kevin Siembieda. Additional art by William-Messner Loebs, Erick Wujcik and James Osten.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, with additional text and ideas by Erick Wujcik.
• Requires some modification to use with Rifts® and other games.
• 208 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 400. Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Game Master Guide^™

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ is a massive 352 page reference book with short stats and descriptions for every Rifts® robot, power armor, body armor, vehicle, weapon, gadget, skill, experience table, and map that appears in Rifts® World Books 1-23 and Sourcebooks 1-4, plus a bionics index, an O.C.C.s and R.C.C.s index, rules clarifications, combat examples, advice on how to run a game and more.

• 500+ weapons.
• 290 pieces of equipment.
• 180+ vehicles.
• 100+ suits of body armor.
• 80+ suits of power armor.
• 300+ skills, character and D-Bee index, dozens of maps, and more.
• 352 pages – $28.99 retail – Cat. No. 845 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Conversion Book^™ 3: Dark Conversions^™

Dark Conversions features Undead legions, were-beasts, demons, supernatural menaces, Nigthbane® conversions, plus Elemental beings, the Shifter and Witch revisited, adventure ideas and more.

• 120+ monsters, including legions of undead.
• Nightbane® Conversions for use in Rifts®, Phase World®, and Chaos Earth®.
• Conversions for Elemental Beings (Fantasy), Diabolism, Summoning.
• 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 852 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Island at the Edge of the World^™ (Fantasy)

Island at the Edge of the World™ reveals some of the little known history of the Palladium World, the Time of a Thousand Magicks, the Changeling Inquisition, and dark secrets that could threaten the world. Learn about forgotten Crystal Magic (as powerful as Rune Weapons), the Church of Scar, the legendary Circle of Absolute Elemental Power, and frightening prophecies about the end of the world.

• The hidden Crystal Forest and Crystal Palace.
• The Psychic Science of Magic and Crystals.
• New magic weapons and items.
• The Town of a Dozen Fracts, an adventure setting.
• The Valley at the Top of the World, an adventure setting.
• The Island at the End of the World, an adventure setting.
• Ancient ruins and additional places, people, and secrets of note.
• First Edition rules. Requires some modification to use with Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Second Edition.
• 144 pages – $22.99 – Cat. No. 458 – Available now.

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One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

We have been exploring a number of exciting prospects for new products and looking into a new licensing opportunity that, if we can pull it off, will thrill and delight you. I will offer the fun details on all fronts after we nail down details.

Tales of Horror SALE! It is October First, so naturally we thought this is a great time to offer you a big, new, scary-fun sale. Filled with opportunities to battle supernatural evil, dark magic, alien invaders, and other terrors. Includes selections for Rifts®, Dead Reign® (the Zombie Apocalypse), Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, and the Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy.

A similar and expanded sale for PDFs is also happening on DriveThruRPG. Yep, the same terrifying fun settings and titles, plus several additional PDF titles and products on sale at DriveThruRPG.

Since my last Weekly Update I am sorry to report that I had a bad week writing. It happens. Regrettably, you cannot turn your creativity or emotions on or off, and I was just feeling down and in a slump. I wrote, but struggled with it, doing rewrite after rewrite, and feeling more and more frustrated. That means little progress was made on getting Rifts® CS Manhunters into final layout this week (so darn close, too), or getting work done on Creature Feature. I did focus on other areas of work the best I could, so things did get done. The good news is I am finally writing pretty well this morning. Thank goodness my writing slumps are rare and seldom last more than a week or two. Whew. I know writers who have slumps that last months at a time, even a year. Talk about scary. I’m thrilled my overactive imagination has never sputtered for that long and I am already back to writing.

Keep the faith, because all the books that are coming will put a big smile on your face whether you are a player or Game Master. And they all open up new avenues for adventure that should set your imaginations ablaze. Yep, good stuff.

UPDATE: Rifts® Lazlo Raw Edition – Author Mark Oberle tells me he should have his Rifts® Lazlo manuscript to us soon. That means it and Rifts® CS Manhunters should both see October release. Creature Feature in November. Other release dates will appear as I polish off books and get a better feel for where I’m at and when they will hit store shelves.

UPDATE: Rifts® for Savage Worlds debuts on Fantasy Grounds! Pinnacle made the announcement in their newsletter a couple days ago. Here is the link to it:

https://www.peginc.com/rifts-the-tomorrow-legion-players-guide-now-on-fantasy-grounds-steam

We know a lot of you have been waiting to see Rifts® for Savage Worlds on Fantasy Grounds, so enjoy. As you know, we are also looking into getting Palladium specific Rifts® and other game settings supported on Fantasy Grounds. Working on it.

I am working on putting a number of fun things in place for you as we expand the Palladium Megaverse®. At this moment, however, I am focused back on finishing books. Enjoy our horror sale and happy gaming.

Tales of Horror Sale

Are you in the mood to be scared ... the fun way? You should be, it is October. Halloween is coming and so are The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, TWD: World Beyond, Lovecraft Country, Supernatural, and a slew of other shows and movies telling tales of horror and the supernatural. All likely to get you yearning to play horror games.

Horror game settings are a lot of fun to play, and nobody offers more in the horror genre than Palladium Books. From the supernatural and dark magic to zombies and alien invasions, Palladium has it all. So what are you waiting for? Start battling supernatural evil, zombies or invading aliens with these awesome games and sourcebooks in our Tales of Horror Sale! One week only. And I highly recommend Wormwood for a truly weird and fun horror setting.

• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition – Supernatural horror in a plausible modern world setting that makes sense and will have you wondering if this stuff could be for real! Play ordinary people, psychics, or paranormal investigators. 14 Psychic Character Classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary” people, 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities, creatures of darkness, the Lazlo Agency, and more.
• Dead Reign® RPG – Zombie Apocalypse – An alternate Earth where the risen dead have risen to hunt and feed upon the living. 7 unique types of zombies, the danger of the zombie moan, ordinary people as player characters, six distinct Survivor O.C.C.s, everything you need to know about the walking dead and the fundamentals of surviving in a world where the dead reign.
• Dead Reign®: Fear the Reaper™ sourcebook – Everything you could want to know about the heroic Road Reapers – knights errant of post-apocalyptic Earth. Comprehensive background on the Road Reapers, their code, missions, weapons, strategies and tactics.
• Dead Reign®: Graveyard Earth™ sourcebook – A world overview of the Zombie Apocalypse. More zombie gaming materials. World information, settings, survival tips, random tables and 100+ adventure ideas set around the world.
• Dead Reign®: In the Face of Death™ Sourcebook – A big, juicy, 160 page sourcebook that takes a new look at the Zombie Apocalypse setting and pushes the envelope of the genre. Epic city setting, 100+ adventure ideas, new villains, new player characters, kid player characters, Masked Lunatic Heroes, and more.
• Nightbane® RPG – Join the secret war against a demonic invasion most people do not even know has taken place. The demonic Nightlords, their evil Dopplegangers and other demon minions are quietly taking over the world, starting with the most powerful nations. You know it is happening because you are the Nightbane. You can see the true demonic form of these invaders, and you can stop them. The only wrinkle is you must turn into your monstrous supernatural form – your Morphus – to call upon your superhuman and magical powers. Oh, and the government is controlled by the Nightlords and their shape-changing demonic minions hunt the Nightbane.
• Nightbane®: Dark Designs™ – A guide to creating the Nightbane and a sourcebook for players and Game Masters alike. 18 new and comprehensive Morphus Tables. 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, Transformation Transition Table, Talent creation and conversion rules, Appendix of 23 Morphus Tables, Appendix of 53 Talents gathered from the Nightbane® RPG and Sourcebooks, Ancient Nightbane R.C.C. and more.
• Nightbane®: Nightlands™ – 12+ monsters, 12+ demonic and mystical villains, the Nightlands described, and more.
• Nightbane®: Through the Glass Darkly™ – Flesh Sculpting, the terrifying Fleshsculptor O.C.C., Cybermage, Mirrormage and Nemesis R.C.C., plus three new adventures, dozens of adventure hooks, 50 magic spells, talismans, artifacts, Living Pathways and other source material to make you cringe.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Fantasy adventure, sorcerers, knights, Elves and so much more, like Wolfen, Changelings and all manner of human and non-human player characters in a unique world setting. 336 pages.
• Fantasy: Old Ones – Lands of adventure! 50+ locations (cities, towns and forts) all described and mapped, information about the Old Ones, the Illusionist, Monk, and Minotaur, many NPCs, seven adventures, plus adventure ideas and more.
• Fantasy: Baalgor Wastelands™ – The dreaded Wastelands, home to giants and monsters, 18 monsters, ancient ruins, notable people and places, desert survival rules, and tons of adventure ideas.
• Fantasy: Bizantium & the Northern Islands™ – The Kingdom of Bizantium in detail, Ocean Magic, the monstrous Iceborn and their witches, Skinbinders, Necromancers, and Necroilus warships, 15 animals and monsters, the Great Ice Shelf, 7 treasures of the North, and more.
• Fantasy: Yin-Sloth Jungles™ – 9 O.C.C.s, 16 races and monsters, 28 skills, the Yin-Sloth Jungles, the Orcish Empire, notable cities, adventures, and more.
• RECON®, Deluxe Revised RPG – The horror of war set in the Vietnam era. Different game rules, by Joe Martin and Erick Wujcik.
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition – If you can imagine it, you can play it. Rifts® is a genre-melding RPG setting unlike any other. Combining science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure filled with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural, dragons and the return of Atlantis, and a whole lot more. Play characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walker mages, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers. All challenge the imagination, and those are just a tiny handful of the characters you can play in Rifts®.
• Rifts® Africa – A realm of danger and magic, and the menace that is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, plus Mind Bleeders and their psionic powers, Necromancy, African magic, the monstrous Phoenix Empire, dark gods, Erin Tarn, Sir Thorpe, a man claiming to be Victor Lazlo, and more.
• Rifts® China One – The Yama Kings and their 11 Kingdoms of Hell on Earth, 34 Chinese demons and ghosts, 20+ curses, Terra Cotta Warriors, Dragon Lands, Demon Villages, and more.
• Rifts® China Two: Heroes of the Celestial Court – 12 Mystic Martial Arts, 12 Mythic Heroes including the Enlightened Demon, plus magic items, magic, the hidden Geo-Front and its O.C.C.s including the Gun Master and Lightning Warrior, and more.
• Rifts® Federation of Magic™ – Lord Dunscon, the Cities of Brass, Dweomer, and Stormspire, 8 magic O.C.C.s, 28 TW weapons, 7 Automatons (the equivalent of magical giant robots), and more.
• Rifts® Madhaven™ – There may be no place in North America more dangerous the haunted ruins of New York City; 7 new monstrous and ghostly Entities, 8 mutant R.C.C.s, 11 monsters, the ruins and tunnels of Manhattan, the magical Knights of the White Rose and the incredible healing power of the mystical White Rose found only in Madhaven. Plus Techno-Wizard devices, weapons and adventure hooks.
• Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames – 50+ Soulmancy spells, demonic weapons and war machines, Hell Pits, 7 Demon Plagues, 7 Lords of Hades, 7 Lords of Dyval, the Kingdom of Monsters and more. The invasion of Rifts Earth has begun. Warring factions of two planes of Hell both intend to conquer Earth, enslave its people, and use the Rifts to ravage the Megaverse unless they are stopped!
• Rifts® Mindwerks™ – 27 monsters and D-Bees, the Brodkil Empire, an evil Millennium Tree, Mindwerks weapons, robots, and MOM Implants on Brodkil, Gene Splicers, Psynetic Crazies, the Kingdom of Tarnow, magic crystals, the Angel of Death, Angel of Vengeance, and more.
• Rifts® Mystic Russia – Setting info, key people and places, demons, monsters, gypsies and magic galore. 18 Archaic Russian Demons, 10 monsters, Russian magic to forge magic weapons, Fire and Bone Magic, Night Witch, Old Believer, Necromancer, 9 Gypsy O.C.C.s, vehicles and more.
• Rifts® Psyscape™ – 11 unique and powerful Psychic O.C.C.s, 28 special psychic abilities, 20 monsters, and more.
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ – Vampires with real bite. Different types of vampires and their hierarchy, minions, and undead abilities. Vampire society within the kingdoms of Mexico, the cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, town creation rules, Hero Vampires, Deluded Vampires, Vampire Hunters, and everything you ever wanted to know about vampires and a whole lot more. Epic adventure and the undead await. Vampires as they should be.
• Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook – Vampire hunters and their weapons, Reid’s Rangers, the Yucatan Peninsula, werebeasts, Soulcrafting and more.
• Rifts® Wormwood™ – A mysterious living planet of unknown origin and purpose. It would be idyllic if not for the corrupting Unholy and the demonic and monstrous creatures that service this being and seek domination of the planet and its human inhabitants. 37 unique Wormwood spells, 50 symbiotic organisms, Magical Blood Stones and crystals, 16 Dark Minions, 20 monsters, 8 player O.C.C.s including the Apok, Holy Terror, Wormspeaker, and more. A world of epic adventure, horror, and the supernatural unlike any other. Concepts by comic book legends Timothy Truman and Flint Henry, and includes a 20 page comic by Truman and Henry. The Dimension Book is written by Kevin Siembieda.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG – The Great Cataclysm as it unfolds, NEMA, their robots and gear, and more. The Golden Age of Science and human civilization is shattered with the return of magic and the Coming of the Rifts. Humanity struggles to survive against impossible odds and the demonic horrors, aliens and monsters emerging from the Rifts.
• Chaos Earth® Creatures of Chaos™ – The name says it all. Nearly 30 Chaos Demons and other menaces, demon plagues, and more.
• Chaos Earth® Rise of Magic™ – Chaos Magic, new magic specific to the Chaos Earth® setting, 100+ unique Chaos Magic spells, New magic O.C.C.s like the Blue Zone Wizard and Chaos Wizard, new evil magic users, the Demon Caller, NEMA and more.
• Chaos Earth® Resurrection – Mechanized, M.D.C. zombies! 12 different mechanized Scrap Zombies, Frankenstein zombie amalgamations, the Black Obelisk zombie factory, a mad man, dark magic, and more.
• Splicers® RPG – A dire setting where metal and technology is deadly to humans. Their alternative? Living weapons and power armor, and genetically engineered war mounts to battle the insane artificial intelligence known as Nexus and her nightmarish legions of robots. Humanity’s salvation rests in the hands of the Splicers – bio-engineered freedom fighters. Think Guyver meet the Terminator with elements of horror.
• Splicers® I Am Legion™ Sourcebook – This big, 256 page adventure sourcebook for Splicers® is jam-packed with 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new Machine enemies, 7 new Bio-Enhancements, 4 new Host Armors, 6 Great Houses, 6 War Mounts, plus Factory Walker, monsters, a sweeping six part adventure, megalomaniacal Machine personality Legion and more.
• Future Visions: The Art of Charles Walton II – Impressive artwork for future Splicers® projects and more. If you enjoy Walton’s art you want this book.
• Mechanoid Trilogy RPG – Dystopian science fiction at its best. This is the very first RPG (1981) published by Palladium Books, about planet devouring villains from outer space. It was originally released as three small comic books or chapters. Each a different generation and a different fight, but they are all collected into this one book. Written and illustrated by Kevin Siembieda, with Erick Wujcik and Bill Loebs contributing.
• Mouse Pad: Old Ones (Fantasy) – Old One and a Minotaur minion.
• Mouse Pad: Dead Reign® – Zombie rising from the grave.
• The Rifter® #45 – Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign®, and more.
• The Rifter® #53 – Rifts®, Archie 3, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane® and more.
• The Rifter® #54 – Rifts®, mutants, strange creatures, Nightbane® and more.
• The Rifter® #78 – The Modern Necromancer, the Nexus Zone, and more.
• The Rifter® #82 – Chaos Earth® Nebraska Pyromancer O.C.C., 50+ new Pyromancy spells; Nightbane® age tables, and more.
• The Rifter® #84 – BTS: Monster and adventure, Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane®, Golems, an Elven Kingdom, HU2: City of Cascade, and more.
• Note: An expanded sale of PDF titles can be found on DriveThruRPG.com so check it out. Both are one week only!

NEW! Glitter Boy^™ Resin Miniature – Available now

Standing nearly 3 inches tall, this dynamically posed new Glitter Boy resin miniature is gorgeous and ready to ship. New, in that it is the first time it is being made physically available – thank you Carmen Bellaire and Rogue Heroes LLC.

• Dynamic pose.
• 2 1/2 inches tall.
• Sturdy, detailed, lightweight, gray resin miniature.
• Quick and easy to build. Fun to paint.
• Sculpted by Ben Calvert-Lee.
• 250 are available now on a first come, first served basis. We will try to have more made in time for Christmas, but cannot guarantee it.
• $34.99 retail – Cat. No. MI8046. Now shipping!

Note: The facility we use to make short runs of miniatures was slow to ramp back up after being shut down by the Covid-19 related Stay-At-Home order, and it took us nearly four months to get these 250 minis. If this initial release proves to be as in demand as we think it will be, we will try to have more made in time for Christmas, and maybe see if we can release other minis originally designed for the ill-fated Rogue Heroes Rifts® boardgame. Time will tell, but you can enjoy this bad boy right now.

NEW(ish)! Rifts^® Primer & Adventures^™ – Available now

You requested adventures, now you’ve got adventures galore. This new release offers the How To Play Rifts® Primer with Game Master and player advice on running Rifts® and creating adventures from The Rifter® #75, PLUS the many adventures from the 60 page booklet that accompanied the 1990s Rifts® Game Master Shield and Adventures, plus the panels of the Game Shield for your reference. But that’s not all! I, Kevin Siembieda, wrote two additional, lengthy, Hook, Line, and Sinker adventures and new 101 adventure ideas. The latter is done in a similar vein to what we did in Garden of the Gods (Fantasy), so there are actually more than 101 ideas. Also see the Rifts® Index and Adventures Volume One (back in print) and Rifts® Index Volume Two for more adventures and adventure hooks.

• How to Play Rifts® by Carl Gleba and Kevin Siembieda.
• How to create adventures by Carl Gleba and Kevin Siembieda.
• Four full adventures and maps.
• 20 Hook, Line and Sinker™ adventures.
• New 101 Rifts® adventure hooks/ideas circa 109-110 P.A.
• Rifts® character sheets.
• G.M. Screen Tables, lists and data from the 1990s Rifts® Game Shield and Adventures.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, Carl Gleba, and others.
• 128 pages – $18.99 – Cat. No. 824 – Available now.

BACK IN PRINT! Rifts^® Index & Adventures^™ Vol. One – Available now

This sourcebook offers more adventures and an index. Back in print after being unavailable for 15+ years, it presents more than 40 pages of adventures and offers a ton of Hook, Line & Sinker™ adventures. Many involving the Army of the Coalition States. Plus an Index for Rifts® World Books 1-6, Sourcebooks 1 and 3, Rifts® Conversion Books 1 & 2, Rifts® Mercenaries, Dimension Books 1 and 2, and the original Rifts® RPG, First Edition rules. Worth it for the 30 plus adventure hooks alone.

• Back for the first time in nearly 20 years! A must for Rifts® collectors.
• 40+ pages of adventures: Five adventures and NPCs.
• 25 Hook, Line and Sinker™ adventures.
• An index of early Rifts® titles.
• 96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 823 – Available now.

Rifts^® Index and Adventures Vol. Two – Available now

This sourcebook offers more adventures and an index for Rifts® World Books 6-15 (Underseas, Japan, South America 2, Juicers, CS War Campaign, Lone Star, New West, Spirit West), as well as Rifts® Sourcebook 2: The Mechanoids® and SB 4: Coalition Navy, and Rifts® Phase World®. Worth it for all those adventure hooks alone.

• 50 pages of adventures: Two full adventures and NPCs.
• 23 Hook, Line and Sinker™ adventures.
• An index of 17 early Rifts® titles, listed above.
• 128 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 831 – Available now.

BACK IN PRINT! Rifts^® Novel 3: Treacherous Awakenings – Available now

Yes, the third novel in the Rifts® Trilogy is again available in print! The epic conclusion is satisfying and fun.

• 5 x 8 inch paperback.
• Written by Adam Chilson.
• 426 pages – $15.99 – Cat. No. 303 – now shipping!
• Note: All three novels are also available as updated and re-edited PDF editions from DriveThruRPG.com.

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We added another store to our direct sales roster just yesterday, and others have inquired. Retailers and gamers alike, please spread the word to let game stores and comic book shops know if they are having difficulty getting Palladium Books products from distributors, they should contact Palladium Books to buy from us direct! Spread the fun and game on!

NEW! In the Face of Death^™ – Available now

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to the genre

In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. Characters include children and teenagers, and heroes driven by madness. Human predators and other villains stalk the ruins of human civilization. Ruins inhabited by the omnipresent hungry dead.

This is a book that pushes the genre and challenges the imagination. It brings to focus a setting of heroic adventure that combines elements of horror, zombies, survival, and madness in a post-apocalyptic world with classic dungeon exploring and epic adventure. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead.

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

• Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
• It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
• Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
• Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
• City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
• Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
• New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
• Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
• Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
• Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
• Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
• 100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
• Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
• Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
• Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
• 160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK – Rifts^® Ultimate Edition – Cat. No. 800HC – Available now

This big, 376 page role-playing game is everything you need to start playing Rifts®. Just add some dice, some players, and a heaping helping of imagination and you are ready to go.

If you have never played the rich, unpredictable, genre-melding Rifts® setting, you are missing epic adventure that never grows old, because anything is possible. No other RPG blends science fiction, fantasy, horror, and post-apocalyptic adventure with demons and aliens, robots and cyborgs, magic and the supernatural in such a plausible and dynamic way. A setting that lets you play any type and style of game you can imagine. With characters like Dragon Hatchlings, Cyber-Knights, Glitter Boys, Ley Line Walkers, Techno-Wizards, and Juicers that challenge the imagination. And those are just a tiny handful of the O.C.C.s you can play in Rifts®. Not to mention hundreds of different alien, supernatural, magical, and other beings available as player characters. All of it set on an Earth that is both familiar and as alien as a thousand different planets. So check it out, build your character, start a campaign, and watch your characters become legends.

• 30+ player characters to choose from; tech, magic, or psychic.
• Cyborgs, robot and power armor pilots, Scout, Assassin, and more.
• 140+ magic spells, plus Techno-Wizards, Shifters, and more.
• 90 psionic powers and psychic characters.
• Sourcebooks offer hundreds of different alien, supernatural beings, creatures of magic, and other beings, many available as player characters.
• There has never been another RPG quite like Rifts®.
• 376 page hardcover, some color – $41.99 retail – Cat. No. 800HC – available now.

COMING SOON! Rifts^® CS Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

Hey, I’m as frustrated as you are that this awesome book (BTS Creature Feature, too) is not done yet, but it will be soon. It has been rough being short-handed and juggling so much, but it will be worth the wait. Rifts® CS Manhunters™ is packed with good stuff. I will try to offer a few snippets in my Murmurs from the Megaverse® and social media.

Coalition Manhunters™ reveals more Coalition States secrets about the super-secret CS Manhunters. So secret that most people have never heard of them, and those who have do not believe they really exist. But that’s not all – there are new psionic abilities, new CS characters available as player characters and NPC villains, more insight about the CS and Psi-Battalion, and more. All of it building toward something epic.

Who watches the watchmen? CS Manhunters. A secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion who hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also traitors within the Coalition States. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, Dog Boys, and CS soldiers are trained hunters of men and cold-blooded killing machines. They follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.

• New Coalition Psychic O.C.C.s.
• New psionic abilities and revisits of some favorites.
• CS Manhunter Divner and Precog.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator and Psi-Enforcer.
• CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Healers and CS Slayers.
• CS Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
• CS Manhunter Mind Melters, the deadliest of them all.
• CS Manhunter squads and special operations.
• Insight on the Coalition’s infamous Psi-Battalion.
• The impact of the demon plagues from the Minion War.
• Non-Player Characters, background info, adventure ideas, and more.
• 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894 – In production and nearing completion.

COMING! Creature Feature^™, a Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebook

The manuscript is in. Artwork is being created. And the world of Beyond the Supernatural™ is about to be expanded. This sourcebook builds on material that has appeared in various issues of The Rifter® but there is a ton of new material and information useful to both Game Masters and players.

• A gallery of supernatural creatures. Some new. Some familiar, updated and expanded. All terrifying.
• Rules clarifications and errata.
• Game Master source material and advice on rules, psychic abilities, proximity and threat levels, I.S.P. multipliers, and more.
• Advice about running modern horror RPGs and using supernatural creatures in your games.
• Lots of adventure ideas, including an updated and expanded full adventure, “The Squatter.”
• New background and setting information for the BTS setting and a few surprises.
• Written by Steven Dawes, Kevin Siembieda, and others.
• Art by Steven Cummings, Nick Bradshaw and others.
• 160-192 pages – $22.99 or $26.99 depending on final size – Cat. No. 704.

COMING! Rifts^® Lazlo Raw Preview Edition

I spoke with the co-author, Mark Oberle, a few times the last couple of weeks, so I can tell you that his manuscript, to be offered as a Raw Preview, is almost done and sounds pretty awesome. He is continuing to expand upon the original concepts and I think he is nailing it. As I have said, I believe Lazlo will end up being a 2-4 book series, because there is just so much for this important location. This will be just the first book. In fact, I gave Mark the green light to start on one of the next Lazlo books as soon as he is done with this manuscript. The Raw Preview will be a September release for sure.

What is a Raw Preview Edition? It is the unfinished, unedited, advance manuscript subject to rewrites and expansion. It gets a limited print run of around 200-300 copies and is fun for collectors to have something rare and unique, and is especially handy for writers and game designers (and curious gamers) because they get a glimpse into the development process at Palladium when they compare what is in the Raw Preview and what sees print in the final book, what gets expanded, dropped out, etc. In this case, writer Mark Oberle has been building Lazlo from material written by Matthew Clements and notes from me. It should be pretty darn good. And remember, Rifts® Lazlo is likely to be 2-4 books. That is how comprehensive we want to make Lazlo. Heck, fans have waited 30 years, we do not want to disappoint. The Raw Preview is looking like it will be 160-192 pages all by itself.

COMING! Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™ – Summer 2020

Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is a high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics that will make gamers salivate. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.

• New Giant Robots.
• New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
• 30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
• New weapons, gear and vehicles.
• Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
• Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
• New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
• Android executives, security and much more.
• Wellington Industries, Campaign prompts and more.
• Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
• Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
• 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two – Fall 2020

The second big, “monster book” reference for Rifts® of what we anticipate to be three volumes in the series, more if we decide to make ghosts, spirits and Entities and/or Creatures of Magic part of the Bestiary series. Much like Volume One, Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two collects 70-100 monsters and animals plus 12-24 new beasts found across Rifts North America. The anticipated page count is 224-256 pages.

All volumes of the Rifts® Bestiary™ series are a great resource for players and Game Masters alike. Each description is updated, expanded, and highly detailed to present players with exotic and alien creatures as pets, guardians and riding animals, as well as slobbering monsters to battle and fierce beasts for Game Masters to throw at their players. Designed to offer adventure ideas, offers notes on young, adult, male and female creatures, and all provide plenty of ways to enhance your characters and spice up adventures. Each is accompanied by a map that shows at a glance where the beast can be encountered. Ah, but in the presence of Rifts and magic means any of the creatures may appear anywhere in the world, so be on your toes.

• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America organized into big, easy to use sourcebooks.
• Updated and expanded descriptions and information for each existing monster.
• Updated and uniform stat blocks.
• New exotic creatures – predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
• A map for every creature showing where it is found.
• Easily adapted to any Palladium setting – Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Phase World®, the Three Galaxies™, The Mechanoids®, Heroes Unlimited™/Aliens Unlimited™, and others.
• Basic S.D.C. stats included with each creature description.
• Fully illustrated, with art by Charles Walton II, Ramon Perez, Robert Atkins, and many others. Written by Kevin Siembieda.
• 256 pages each volume – $26.99 – Cat. No. 897 (Volume Two) – Fall release.

UPDATE: Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Psychic Scream^™

This is another book that is going to surprise and wow. New and insane psionics, some taken to the level of super abilities due to the massive amount of P.P.E. energy surging across the planet and boosting survivors with ambient and alien energy. Some become heroes and defenders of fellow survivors. Some become power-mongers and killers. And still others become just one more monster or madman threatening to destroy humanity. I’m assigning some additional artwork for it this week.

UPDATE: Forgotten People – A Fantasy RPG Sourcebook

I spoke with one of the contributing writers last week and his ideas for Bug Bears sounded fabulous. Because some of this material has appeared in past issues of The Rifter® you may think you know what to expect. You don’t. There is a lot of new and exciting material in this bad boy. Things you never knew and may have been afraid to ask.

MORE Material for Fantasy

Several different freelance writers have submitted additional and unexpected Fantasy material for sourcebooks. Though I have not had a chance to review any of them – too much on my plate at the moment as I stay focused on finishing books already in the pipeline – I am very excited by this turn of events. Palladium Fantasy is on the move! Heck, several game lines are.

UPDATE: Other titles – like CS Arsenal^™ and Beyond the Supernatural^™ sourcebooks

Please remember, just because I do not mention or list a specific title in an Update, does not mean it has been removed from the production schedule. All it means is that we are focused and talking about more immediate, upcoming releases, or projects we are excited about that week, or there’s no substantive news to report. We are anxious to put as many books you’ve been waiting for into your hands as possible over the next 18 months, as well as new projects being worked on by freelance writers. That includes Rifts® Antarctica, The Disavowed™, Rifts® CS Arsenal™, Chaos Earth® First Responders™, Land of the Damned™ 3, Rifts® Living Nowhere™, Beyond the Supernatural™ sourcebooks, more Fantasy sourcebooks and other titles. So if a book you are waiting for is not mentioned in an Update, it means there is nothing new to report, but it should still be in the pipeline and news for it will be coming in the weeks or months ahead. Right now, we are focused on releases for the next six months, which by our count is 6-7 titles. And many of them are in various stages of final production or development. We are shooting for one or two new physical book releases every month as well as a couple new PDF products on DriveThruRPG.

New on DriveThruRPG.com SALE – Tales of Horror Sale

Battle supernatural evil, zombies, or invading aliens with Palladium Books’ Tales of Horror Sale in different settings and genres: Rifts®, Dead Reign® the Zombie Apocalypse, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, Palladium Fantasy®, Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, & more.

Gaming in scary and suspenseful settings is a lot of fun to play, and nobody offers more in the horror genre than Palladium Books. From the supernatural and dark magic to zombies and alien invasions, Palladium has it all. So what are you waiting for? Start battling supernatural evil, zombies or invading aliens with these awesome games and sourcebooks in our Tales of Horror Sale! One week only. And I highly recommend Rifts® Wormwood™ for something truly different and fun.

• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition – Modern horror.
• Beyond the Supernatural, 1st Edition rules – The original 1989 incarnation with more creatures and Erick Wujcik’s infamous Victim Character rules and adventure ideas.
• Boxed Nightmares, BTS 1st Edition rules sourcebook – Five adventures plus hooks and ideas for many more, plus a few monsters.
• Dead Reign® RPG – Zombie Apocalypse – An alternate Earth where the risen dead have risen to hunt and feed upon the living. 7 unique types of zombies, the danger of the zombie moan, ordinary people as player characters, six distinct Survivor O.C.C.s, everything you need to know about the walking dead and the fundamentals of surviving in a world where the dead reign.
• Dead Reign®: Fear the Reaper™ sourcebook
• Dead Reign®: Graveyard Earth™ sourcebook
• Dead Reign® Paper Minis
• Nightbane® RPG – Super-hero horror.
• Nightbane®: Dark Designs™
• Nightbane®: Nightlands™
• Nightbane®: Through the Glass Darkly™
• Nightbane®: Shadows of Light™
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Epic fantasy with human and nonhuman character and 100,000 years of history.
• Fantasy: Old Ones
• Fantasy: Baalgor Wastelands™
• Fantasy: Bizantium & the Northern Islands™
• Fantasy: Yin-Sloth Jungles™
• Rifts® Ultimate Edition – Multi-genre, science fiction, fantasy, horror, post apocalypse, heroic adventure in a post apocalypse setting with infinite possibilities.
• Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition – The original, multi-genre game that became an instant classic.
• Rifts® Africa
• Rifts® China One
• Rifts® China Two
• Rifts® Federation of Magic™
• Rifts® Madhaven™
• Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames
• Rifts® Mindwerks™
• Rifts® Mystic Russia
• Rifts® Psyscape™
• Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™
• Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook
• Rifts® Wormwood™ – Science-fantasy horror.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG – Science fiction horror.
• Chaos Earth® Creatures of Chaos™
• Chaos Earth® Rise of Magic™
• Chaos Earth® Resurrection
• Splicers® RPG – Science fiction horror, gene-splicing and more.
• Splicers®: I Am Legion Sourcebook
• Mechanoid Trilogy RPG – Alien invasion.
• Systems Failure™ RPG – Alien invasion, post-apocalypse.
• RECON®, Deluxe, Revised RPG – The horror of war set in the Vietnam era. Different game rules, by Joe Martin and Erick Wujcik.
• The Rifter® #4
• The Rifter® #11
• The Rifter® #14
• The Rifter® #20
• The Rifter® #28
• The Rifter® #44
• The Rifter® #45
• The Rifter® #46
• The Rifter® #49
• The Rifter® #53
• The Rifter® #54
• The Rifter® #58
• The Rifter® #63
• The Rifter® #64
• The Rifter® #67
• The Rifter® #71-72
• The Rifter® #78
• The Rifter® #82
• The Rifter® #84
• Note: A similar sale offering physical books can be found at PalladiumBooks.com so check it out. Sale ends the morning of October 8, 2020. Enjoy.

We are looking to provide a few more novels and a sneak preview of upcoming books in the weeks ahead and maybe some adventure stuff. I have been speaking with people about the possibility of doing PDF adventures, maps, and other player and Game Master support items. Keep your eyes open. In the meanwhile, take advantage of sales to try new settings and new avenues for adventure.

Reminder: Rifts® Index One and Two, as well as Rifts® Novel 3: Treacherous Awakenings are available as PDF titles along with the first two novels and 300+ other Palladium Books RPG Titles. Gen Con Online talked about Rifts®, Rifts® Bestiary, Rifts® Dimension Books, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Heroes Unlimited™, and other Palladium game lines, ALL of which are available as PDFs from DriveThru and most of which are available as physical books from Palladium directly.

Recent Release – Rifts® Novel 3: Treacherous Awakenings™, the pulse-pounding and satisfying conclusion to the Rifts® trilogy by Adam Chilson. It is available as a PDF on DriveThruRPG.com right now! $9.99 – Cat. No. 303. The other two novels, Rifts® Sonic Boom and Rifts® Deception’s Web, are also available as PDFs from DriveThru for your reading pleasure along with more than 300 RPG titles with more stuff coming your way. Note: We also plan to make it available as our first Print On Demand title from DriveThruRPG in the near future. Watch for it.

Also recent on DriveThru: FREE After the Bomb® Map Pack. Our thanks to the customer who recently reminded me the Map of Mutant Animal Kingdoms and the Empire of Humanity (North American East Coast) was accidentally omitted from the After the Bomb® RPG. We will make sure it is included in the next printing. Moreover, a FREE After the Bomb® Map Pack (5 maps around the world from the various AtB sourcebooks) is now available on DriveThruRPG.

Also on DriveThru: The FREE Sneak Previews for In the Face of Death, Garden of the Gods™ (Fantasy), Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One and many other FREE Previews of Palladium’s sourcebooks. And remember, the PDF of Rifts® Bestiary Vol. One was made available a month or so ago.

In the works for DriveThru in the weeks ahead: In no particular order, Duty’s Edge™, a new Rifts® novel in the pipeline from Will Erwin, the collected The Hammer of the Forge™ (cosmic adventure across Phase World® and the Three Galaxies), and more.

Recent on DriveThruRPG – Rifts® Sonic Boom™. Follow the exploits of a CS platoon sworn to protect humankind from all threats, be they aliens, dragons, masters of magic or fellow humans out for themselves; the second novel in this trilogy, Deception’s Web™, reveals a conspiracy within the Coalition military that could spell disaster for our protagonists. All of it building up to the pulse-pounding events of the 3rd novel: Rifts® Treacherous Awakenings™. The Rifter® #84 offers adventure source material for Rifts® (Golems in the Myst), Heroes Unlimited™ (the City of Cascade by Wujcik and Reed), Palladium Fantasy RPG® (an Elven Kingdom), Beyond the Supernatural™ (an epic adventure, a short story, and a monster), Nightbane® (Spellbound O.C.C.), why The Rifter® is on hiatus, and more.

Also available: Free Garden of the Gods™ (Fantasy) and Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume One Sneak Previews, and the Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet: A Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook to enable you to create Fantasy characters quickly (25 minutes!) and help you to update and manage them for years to come.

Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Three: Zombies, Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume Two: Civilians and Dead Reign® Paper Miniatures Volume One: Survivors. There are also paper miniatures for Heroes Unlimited™, Palladium Fantasy® and Rifts®. A new, up-to-date, PDF Palladium Books Catalog. Nightbane® Dark Designs™ sourcebook with 60 new Common Talents, 38 new Elite Talents, 18 new Morphus Tables, all other Morphus Tables collected and more. Systems Failure™ RPG, a 160 page RPG that deals with alien invasion and a post-apocalypse setting that is fun and dynamic. Civilization is on the verge of collapse when the so-called "bugs" invade and turn humans into zombie-like slaves. Monsters, heroes and fun. A complete RPG and setting. Rifts® World Book 34: Northern Gun™ Two: 256 pages of technology and fun. 30+ power armors, 30+ body armors, 15 combat vehicles, 45 vehicles (hovercycles, etc.), 10 robot haulers, the Robodome and more. Bizantium and the Northern Islands™: the northernmost part of the Known World, the Cold Born, Necromancy ships made from dead sea serpents, 15 creatures, Random Sea Monster Generator, and more. Rifts® Northern Gun™ One. This fan favorite might be thought of as the big book of giant robots – an in-depth look at Northern Gun, 70+ weapons, 27 robots, NG O.C.C.s, key people and places, and much more. Mysteries of Magic™ Book One: The Heart of Magic™ with Wizards, their Apprentices, nearly 60 new magic spells and remember, magic and monsters in the Fantasy RPG are easily adapted to Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, HU2 and other settings. Wolfen Empire™ Fantasy sourcebook, the Great Northern Wilderness and Killer Winters, 12 Wolfen Tribes, Wolfen military and society, 15+ creatures, 5 full adventures, 101 adventure ideas, random encounter tables, notable people, places, plus FREE Sneak Previews of The Rifter® #80, The Rifter® #81, The Rifter® #82, and more on DriveThruRPG.com.

• Rifts® is a genre-bending setting that combines science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalypse survival, magic, and endless possibilities for adventure. Imagine a near perfect world of advanced technology 100 years in the future. Then imagine that world crashing down overnight in an apocalyptic upheaval not seen since the formation of the planet. A Great Cataclysm caused by the explosive return of magic. Now fast forward 300 years into the future where magic, dragons, and mythic gods coexist with cyborgs, giant robots and super-science rediscovered from humanity's Golden Age as humans rise from a lengthy Dark Age. But they must contend with countless alien life forms, monsters, and supernatural horrors from beyond the Rifts.
• Rifts® core titles we would suggest: Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Game Master Guide, Rifts® Book of Magic, Rifts® Adventure Guide, D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 11: Coalition War Campaign and Rifts® Sourcebook One. Note: The Rifts® RPG, 1st Edition and Rifts® Ultimate, 2nd Edition are both available.
• 80+ Rifts® supplements, most of them available as PDFs with more coming. Where to start? Wherever sounds fun.
• Rifts® Dimension Books™: Travel to alien worlds and dimensions via the Rifts for off-world adventure and intrigue.
• Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebook series (all). Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
• FREE Sneak Previews for Nightbane® Dark Designs™, Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™, Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity, and many other previews as well as free and low cost items that we make available. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so keep watching for them.
• The Rifter® #1-84, ALL issues of The Rifter®. Each issue is a wealth of source material and ideas for 3-6 different Palladium game lines. Most are easily adapted to ANY Palladium game setting. Each issue a gem. 8,500 pages of source material and ideas for heroes, villains, monsters, magic, gear, and adventure.
• Splicers® RPG is like Iron Man meets Game of Thrones with elements of Terminator – except this army of Iron Men are clad in living body armor and wield living, organic weapons and devices. Created in 2004 by writer and game designer Carmen Bellaire, Splicers® was nominated for an Inquest Gamer Magazine Fan Awards Game of the Year, and has since developed a rabid fan base. Science fiction and horror where humans are forced to use genetically engineered, living weapons and organic war machines to battle an insane Artificial Intelligence and her robot legions. Unlike anything you have ever played before!
• Splicers®: I Am Legion™ Adventure Sourcebook: 6 new Great Houses, 4 new Host Armors, 6 new War Mounts, 19 new Bio-Weapons, 15 new killer machines, new Bio-Enhancements, Amalgam creation tables, Legion and a series of adventures that build into a small campaign, and more.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 1st Edition Rules and sourcebooks. A unique world of magic, monsters and heroes. Dozens of nonhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and more. 100,000 years of history.
• Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition Rules and many sourcebooks. The expanded world of high fantasy, magic, mystery and heroes of every variety. Includes the Mind Mage and psychic abilities, mages and spells, magic circles and symbols, men-at-arms, scoundrels and a wide range of inhuman player characters including Wolfen, Bearmen, Ogres, Orcs and many more. 100,000 years of history.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG first edition rule book and sourcebooks.
• Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition rule book and sourcebooks. Create any type of superhuman you can desire and bring comic book adventures to life.
• Dead Reign® RPG (Zombie Apocalypse). The dead have risen. It is the battle for survival in the zombie apocalypse, but this setting is much more than your typical zombie game. Play ordinary people or special characters better equipped to survive and hunt zombies. Many unusual types of zombies.
• Dead Reign® Sourcebooks: 6 sourcebooks from Civilization Gone™ to Hell Followed™ (the latter features stats for 23 disasters, masked lunatics, 11 new zombies, 7 apocalyptic character classes, and more) are available.
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 1st Edition Rules. Supernatural horror in the modern world. Play ordinary people, psychics, paranormal investigators or for something different: Victim Characters!
• Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, 2nd Edition: The complete, revised core game, 14 character classes and 42 occupations for "ordinary people," 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, the Lazlo Agency, world setting and rules.
• Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. An RPG setting we call superhero horror. Dark conspiracy, a secret, demon invasion starting with world leaders and law enforcement, and it is spreading. The player characters are the Nightbane®, reluctant superhumans who must turn into monsters themselves to unleash their powers and battle the evil that is clear only to them. A dark, sinister and challenging world of horror.
• After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Planet of the Apes meets the X-Men! Animal creations, powers and more. Create any type of intelligent mutant animal you can imagine as friend or foe.
• Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. James Bond meets Enter the Dragon. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, and super-spies with gadgets, gizmos and advanced weapons.
• The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy RPG is a long time, cult favorite with a fatalistic world-view of humans vs aliens with superior technology.
• The Palladium Weapon Series of real world weapons, armor and castles throughout history. Designed for use with ANY game system.
• 200+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more.
• Heroes Unlimited™ Paper Miniatures – Two sets are now available!
• Palladium Fantasy RPG® Paper Miniatures – Volumes #1-6 are available now. More are coming in the weeks ahead.
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Men at Arms – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Coalition Dead Boys – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Adventurers – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Practitioners of Magic (new) – $2.99
• Rifts® Paper Miniatures: Extras (new) – $2.99
• And more to come in the weeks ahead.

Palladium Collectibles, Negatives, Artwork, other Collectibles and Toys are always available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store along with other good things

My eBay store is one of the few places where you can find original artwork by Charles "Chuck" Walton, Kevin Long, and others, as well as one-of-a-kind negatives from classic Rifts® and other Palladium RPG books (they look awesome framed!), rare Palladium collector hardcovers, signed books, other Palladium memorabilia, toys from my personal collection and other collectibles. Check every couple of weeks because we often post new stuff or offer a new sale. There is a sale on negatives starting today, in fact.

Other one-of-a-kind original artwork available by me (Kevin Siembieda), Kevin Long, Charles Walton II (money goes to the artist), other artists, as well as collectible negatives, prints, limited edition hardcovers, proofreader copies, out of print items, Star Wars toys, Marvel toys and many other toys and collectibles from my personal collection. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend for new additions.

Available now: One-of-a-kind book negatives. Negatives were very popular items at the Palladium Open House and people went crazy over them at Gen Con – including actor Joe Manganiello who scooped up a pile of TMNT negatives, while Palladium's own Mark Oberle, Carmen Bellaire, Brandon Aten and a whole lot of Palladium gamers went for negatives from Rifts® New West, Lone Star and Free Quebec. Fun.

Negatives are unique and attractive, one-of-a-kind (on rare occasions two-of-a-kind if a page was replaced or a second edition was made) works of art that resemble woodcut art and are very dynamic conversation pieces. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then "ganged" on a massive sheet of Mylar 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black.

When our printer, McNaughton and Gunn, went completely digital, they asked if Palladium Books wanted the negs, otherwise they would be destroyed. Regrettably, I let a few dozen be destroyed, but the negatives of many books were sent to Palladium. They have sat in our warehouse for years until I started to offer them for sale. I have also started signing the negatives in silver and each comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Each negative comes on a white board inside a plastic magazine bag and looks fabulous framed! Fits in an 8x10 inch matt opening in a frame (each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches).

http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

Closing Thoughts

I and others are busy working on ways to expand and enhance your gaming experiences. That goes from new sourcebooks, games, and miniatures to new mediums such as Fantasy Grounds and social media. A great many things are in development, so hang tight. We appreciate your understanding and support.

Try not to let the chaos of our world get you down. I’m back to writing. Stay safe and keep those imaginations burning bright.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. Two – Coming Fall 2020

More monsters and exotic animals of Rifts® North America as part of an ongoing series of Rifts® Bestiary sourcebooks. The first two or three Rifts® Bestiary™ books will focus on monsters and animals of North America. They collect creatures from all current World Books and Sourcebooks, plus some new creatures by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton, and others. Presented in alphabetical order, with maps showing their range and location at a glance.

Note: The Rifts® Bestiary™ series is more than a few big books of monsters, they are deliberately designed to provide players with a useful, living resource (pet, guard animal, riding animal, food source, etc.) as well as present many and varied opportunities for adventure and fun. Some creatures are helpful, some are inadvertently a threat or danger, while others are slobbering predators or wicked beasts that kill and eat you, or capture you, or sabotage you, or worse.

• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America in a second easy to use sourcebook.
• Predators, exotic riding animals, beasts of burden, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
• Notable Splugorth hunting animals.
• Some new creatures, but most are existing creatures.
• Updated information where applicable.
• Updated and uniform stat blocks.
• A map for every creature showing where it is found.
• Fully illustrated.
• Art by Chuck Walton, Siembieda, Cummings, Bradshaw, Atkins, Ashbaugh, and many others.
• 192-224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 897. In production. Anticipating Rifts® Bestiary™ Volume Two to be a Fall 2020 release.

In the Face of Death^™ – Now Shipping!

A Dead Reign® Sourcebook that re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse while remaining true to classic tropes

In the Face of Death™ is part survival guide, part cityscape, and part heroic adventure the likes of which you have never quite seen before in a zombie RPG. Adventure is built upon human ingenuity, courage, hope, and insanity. Characters include children and teenagers, and heroes driven by madness. Human predators and other villains stalk the ruins of human civilization. Ruins inhabited by the omnipresent hungry dead.

This is a book that pushes the genre and challenges the imagination. It brings to focus a setting of heroic adventure that combines elements of horror, zombies, survival, and madness in a post-apocalyptic world with classic dungeon exploring and epic adventure. In the Face of Death™ helps make Dead Reign® into A Quiet Place meets Mad Max in the world of Dawn of the Dead.

“Pure fun, action, and excitement. A sourcebook packed with new ideas unlike any I have ever seen. This is what role-playing games and imagination are all about.” – Alex Marciniszyn, Editor

• Rethinking the Zombie Apocalypse.
• It is time to fight back and do more than survive.
• Life on the rooftops and in the heart of the city.
• Resources, defenses, traps, urban homesteads, and more.
• City survival tactics, traps, resources, and Rat Runs.
• Parkour, Zombie Survival Training, and other skills.
• New O.C.C.s like the Rat Runner and Urban Explorer.
• Kids and teenagers as player characters and kid O.C.C.s.
• Heroic Masked Lunatics – a new type of hero as player characters.
• Predators and villains like Gutter Rats, Flesh Peddlers, Skinners, and more.
• Dungeon crawl-style exploration through the ruins of human civilization.
• 100+ adventure hooks and dozens of additional ideas.
• Death Cults, their orientation and practices.
• Adaptable to other settings like Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Heroes Unlimited™, Nightbane®, and more.
• Cover by E.M. Gist. Interior art by Bradshaw, Cummings, Mumah, and Ashbaugh.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Mark Oberle.
• 160 pages – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 237 – shipping now.

COMING! Rifts^® Coalition Manhunters^™ – A Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

A secret division within the Coalition’s Psi-Battalion, the CS Manhunters hunt not only the most dangerous spies and fugitives, but also their own. Coalition soldiers, brass, government leaders, and anyone who becomes designated as having gone rogue, AWOL, or turned traitor (including the Disavowed), become targets of CS Manhunters to be tracked down and brought to justice. This elite force of psychics, Kill Hounds, and manhunters are trained killing machines who follow orders without question and kill without hesitation.

More often than not, the assignment is straight-up find and terminate. If your name has been given to a Manhunter squad, your fate is sealed, and no one is untouchable. The CS Manhunters operate in secret, find their target, terminate, and vanish as if they were never there at all. They don’t seek credit or limelight. They serve their country from the blood-soaked shadows.

• CS Manhunter squads and special operatives.
• Manhunter Killhound and Dog Boy O.C.C.s.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Healer.
• CS Manhunter Psi-Interrogator (Mind Melter).
• CS Manhunter Psi-Enforcer (Mind Melter).
• CS Manhunter Bursters and Zappers.
• CS Manhunter Slayer (a variation of the Psi-Slayer or Psi-Warrior).
• CS Manhunter Mind Melter, the most insidious and deadliest of them all.
• Weapons, gear, and tactics.
• Some notable Non-Player Characters, adventure ideas, and more.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda. Art by Nick Bradshaw.
• 96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 894.

NEW! Garden of the Gods^™, Palladium Fantasy^® Sourcebook – Shipping now!

The Garden of the Gods™ sourcebook is a toy box of gods, magical blessings, ancient artifacts, and hundreds of opportunities and adventure ideas for players and Game Masters alike.

The Garden of the Gods is a place of miracles and wisdom where people of all occupations and races, nobility and the poor, come to find inspiration, blessings and adventure. Many insist the gods themselves are present and may visit heroes and followers in dreams, visions, or in person as an avatar. The gods also look for champions and assign heroic quests and gifts of knowledge and magic. Here, all gods are equal and many a forgotten god seeks to be rediscovered and worshiped by offering blessings, vision quests, and magical artifacts to potential heroes to champion their name.

There is also an dangerous evil on the island of Lopan. An open wound in the earth known as the Black Pit, as well as dark gods within the Garden itself.

• 212 Blessings.
• 101 Magic Artifacts.
• 45 Forgotten gods.
• 50+ Curses and dark magic.
• 100+ Random quests and encounters, and each god offers adventure hooks.
• Restore forgotten gods to power. Become a Champion of the Gods.
• 5 Weapons of destruction created by the Old Ones.
• Godly insight, visitations, knowledge and purpose.
• The Garden of the Gods and its protectors.
• Ghosts, Faeries, mysteries, and ancient secrets.
• Rumors of a secret way to the Land of the Damned.
• The Black Pit, a place of legend and dark secrets. Is it a counterbalance to the good of the Garden or something more sinister?
• Easily adapted to Rifts®, Phase World® and any game system. One game system – a Megaverse® of adventure!™
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
• 224 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 475.

Land of the Damned^™ Three: The Bleakness^™ Raw Preview – available now

Available now! The “Raw Preview Edition” of LotD-3: The Bleakness™, for Palladium Fantasy RPG®, is an advance copy of the unedited, unillustrated, working manuscript for this new Fantasy World Book. You get to see the unfinished book months before the final title is released. A rare look at the raw manuscript before final edit, rewrites and publication. Limited to a total of 200 copies.

This epic sourcebook presents the forbidden Land of the Damned in all its brutal glory. Includes information about the ancient and forgotten eldritch races, the Minotaur legions, dark magic, the Citadel, countless adventure hooks and ideas, and much, much more. The long awaited final book in the Land of the Damned series, with connections to the Garden of the Gods™ and the upcoming Lopan Fantasy World Book.

• Limited collector’s edition – only 200 collector copies.
• Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
• A rare glimpse at the virgin manuscript and a work in progress.
• Written by Matthew Clements, based on ideas by Kevin Siembieda.
• 96 pages – Limited Edition – $20.99 – Cat. No. 470-RAW – available now. Note: The finished book with artwork and more is anticipated to ship in a few months, but you can see what it’s all about right now and even start playing with this special Preview Edition!

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Dimension Book^™ 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans^™

Learn about Atlantean civilization, the many clans, the mysterious Sunaj, where they are found across the Megaverse, why they hide and why they hate the undead so much. Also discover the power of Shadow Magic, how various types of Stone Pyramids work, and much more.

• 60+ new Magic Tattoos.
• 60+ new Shadow Magic spells.
• 50+ new Crystal Magic spells and the Crystal Mage O.C.C.
• Never before revealed Stone Pyramids described and mapped.
• Stone Master and Undead Slayer, revisited.
• Sunaj Shadow Mage and Shadow Assassin O.C.C.s.
• The dark history, shame, and secrets of True Atlanteans.
• Learn more about the famous Atlantean Tattooed Warriors, Undead Slayers, Stone Masters and other Atlantean heroes.
• The Shadow Dimension and new Shadow Beasts.
• Dark secrets of the sinister Sunaj secret society.
• Who are the Sunaj and why do they hunt True Atlanteans?
• Epic trans-dimensional adventure ideas and source material by Carl Gleba.
• 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 890 – Available now.

Palladium Fantasy RPG^® Interactive Character Sheet

The Palladium Fantasy RPG® Interactive Character Sheet is a Microsoft Excel-based character management system. Packed with features and data collected from every official Palladium Fantasy sourcebook, this sheet saves you time and hassle with each character you create. Available now, directly from Palladium Books AND DriveThruRPG.com – this is a digital, online product only.

Features & Benefits:

• The Main Character Sheet Page collects the important data from across multiple tabs and puts it in one place for quick and easy reference.
• Separate sheets examine character construction (worktable), Skills, Magic, Psionics, and Combat in greater detail.
• Built-in leveling system that calculates skill advancement for you! Experience Tables for over 80 O.C.C.s already programmed.
• Recognizes the percentages for nearly 150 skills, plus combat bonuses for over 20 Weapon Proficiencies and 7 Hand to Hand styles.
• Calculates the speed and distance a character can run and jump based on character Attributes.
• Also calculates how much a character can lift, carry, and throw for humanoids, Giants, and Supernatural Beings.
• Add in your own Hand to Hand style, custom Skills, unique Weapon Proficiencies, and Experience Tables.
• Estimated time to build a character reduced by 20% or more.
• Instructions on how to use the sheet included, as well as a video walkthrough below.
• Important Note: This character sheet is built to be used with Microsoft Excel 2010+ and it comes in .XLSX format. Opening this file in other spreadsheet programs is NOT guaranteed to work as intended.
• Watch the Overview video here: https://vimeo.com/322271758

Psychic Scream^™ – Rifts^® Chaos Earth^® Sourcebook

A storm has rolled in. A psychic storm. With the Coming of the Rifts, survivors are bombarded by terrifying visions and overwhelmed with powers and abilities they never asked for, and often cannot control.

Where do you hide from the madness boiling inside of you?

What would you do when you know evil lurks hidden among your fellow survivors?

Why do the voices of alien creatures speak to you?

How do you cope when the power you unleashed to destroy a monster and save the innocent, destroys everyone but you?

Have you become a hero or another monster born in chaos?

Are these powers your family’s salvation or their damnation?

Find out in Psychic Scream!

In the wake of the Coming of the Rifts, people begin to see ghosts and demons, they unleash lightning from their fingertips, command fire and water, hurl boulders and girders with their minds, and manifest a wide range of mental powers. Psionic abilities fueled by the explosive return of magic and the unchecked flow of dimensional energy that is off the charts.

Psychic abilities more powerful than anything known after the Two Hundred Years Dark Age. Wondrous and lifesaving. But also seething and out of control. The psychics’ own minds bombarded by feelings of dread, visions of horror, and the thoughts and emotions of everyone around them. For many, it is too much, sending them careening into madness. For others, it creates heroes forged from chaos.

• Untamed psychic abilities. More powerful than anything known later on Rifts Earth.
• New psychic powers and character classes.
• New psionic monsters and invaders.
• Insanity, side-effects and horror.
• Adventure ideas and more. All people, powers and monsters that become myths and legends told about the events during the Two Hundred Years Dark Age.
• Written by Taylor White and Kevin Siembieda.
• 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 667.

COMING: Rifts^® Titan Robotics^™

Rifts® Titan Robotics™ is high-tech toy box presenting new types of armor, sleek power armor, giant robots, vehicles, and weapons sold by Titan Robotics. Ah, but Titan Robotics is much more than just another weapons manufacturer, it is the secret operation of ARCHIE-3 and all part of his plan to monitor and manipulate the outside world. Learn about Archie’s androids that run Titan Robotics, his current schemes and plans for the future. Probably a 160 page World Book around $22.99 retail, but may expand into 192 pages.

• New Giant Robots.
• New Power Armor, equipment and accessories.
• 30+ power armors and robots, plus other equipment.
• New weapons, gear and vehicles.
• Titan Robotics Corporation and structure.
• Archie’s secret kingdom and plans for the future.
• New O.C.C.s and key Non-Player Characters (NPCs).
• Android executives, security and much more.
• Wellington Industries, campaign prompts and more.
• Art by Zeleznik, Walton, Cummings, Atkins, and others.
• Written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda. Cover by Zeleznik.
• 160-192 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail (or $26.99) – Cat. No. 899.

COMING: The Island of Lopan Sourcebook, a fantasy sourcebook

The island kingdom described and mapped, rare and ancient magic, trade with the Old Kingdom, Centaurs, Western intrigue, and more.

• History and overview.
• Key cities and locations.
• Lopan O.C.C.s and people of note.
• And Old Kingdom City that is a trade partner.
• The mysterious and nearly forgotten Mosaic Magic.
• New monsters and magic, weapons and gear.
• Written by Glen Evans.
• 192 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 476.

COMING: Rifts^® Antarctica

Rifts® Antarctica is a truly compelling and exotic land beyond what anyone expects. A frozen continent transformed by the power of magic and alien wildlife. Long isolated from the rest of the world, Rifts, D-Shifting events and the threat of war have now brought the distant South Pole within reach. And unearthed something ancient and so dangerous that even the Splugorth fear it and dare not go there.

• New alien monsters and D-Bees.
• Strange new weapons and vehicles. Some left over from the Golden Age of Humanity, others completely alien.
• The Splugorth’s secret outpost. More than it would seem.
• A Splugorth zoo and place of secret Bio-Wizard experiments.
• Snow and Ice Golems created specifically for the cold environment.
• Danger from the elements, Ice Witches, Icecraft, and other horrors.
• Vostok City, a city of magic carved from the ice itself.
• Cold-weather skills, technology and survival techniques.
• Ancient danger and dark secrets.
• Written by Matthew Clements, Carmen Bellaire, and Kevin Siembieda.
• 160 pages (tentative) – $22.99 retail – Cat. No. 898.

COMING! Rifts^® The Disavowed^™ – Secrets of the Coalition States^™

The Disavowed are so Top Secret that their existence is known only to a handful of the Coalition States’ most elite, top echelon, with Joseph Prosek II the mastermind behind the Disavowed operation, and Colonel Lyboc its shadowy face. Find out who these men and women are. How the Disavowed get away with using magic, traveling to other parts of Rifts Earth and even to other dimensions in pursuit of enemies and strategic information that cannot be had through conventional means. Learn about the secret parameters in which these hard-boiled warriors, secretly hand-picked by Joseph Prosek II, operate, why almost every mission is considered a suicide mission, and why they must forever be the Disavowed.

• CS operatives so secret that even the top military and political leaders right up to Emperor Prosek know nothing about them. And if they did know, would they condone their activity or condemn it?
• Are the Disavowed heroes or renegades? Assassins or soldiers? Madmen or super-patriots? Or a little of them all?
• Unsung heroes who keep the CS safe, or thugs and pawns of a shadow agency within the Coalition government?
• What role does the Vanguard play in this group?
• How do they reward their D-Bee “teammates” when the mission is over?
• What happens to the Disavowed when they have seen or learned too much? Adventure ideas galore and so much more.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda and Matthew Clements.
• 96 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 892.

COMING! Heroes of Humanity^™ Arsenal – Rifts^® Secrets of the Coalition States^™ Sourcebook

Rifts® Heroes of Humanity gave you updated Coalition Army O.C.C.s, ways to upgrade men-at-arms, new O.C.C.s, battle plans and strategies and tactics. CS Heroes of Humanity™ Arsenal provides an array of new Coalition hardware: weapons, armor, additional SAMAS, other power armor, robots, combat vehicles, gear and info.

• New CS weapons and gear.
• New CS SAMAS and power armor.
• New CS robots and combat vehicles.
• More secrets and information about the Coalition States.
• Wild adventure opportunities, fun and more.
• Part of the Minion War™ “Crossover” series.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, Clements, Gleba and others.
• 96-128 pages – $17.99 retail – Cat. No. 893.

Rifts^® Bestiary^™, Volume One – Shipping Now!

Could the monsters known as Caterpillar Things be the larval form of the Mothman Monster? Is the Corrival Battler as aggressive and dangerous as adventurers claim? Are Darkhounds really magically mutated Dog Boys? Is that why they see Coalition soldiers as friends and allies? Ee-Bee Gee-Bees are kinda cute, how dangerous can they be? Is it true the animals and people slain by the Death Springer rise as zombies?! What on Rifts Earth is a Field Reaper?

This book reveals it all.

Designed with both Players and Game Masters in mind, with creatures that can be used as pets, companions, riding animals, attack animals, and even unlikely allies, as well as slobbering monsters and catalysts for adventure. Adult, juvenile, and young stages of life give every creature three different levels of power and danger. Presented as a complete ecosystem, with maps and details to bring each animal to life. All provide plenty of spice to add to your characters and adventures.

• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
• 80+ creatures described in detail, updated and expanded.
• New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects, and more.
• A map for every creature showing where it is found at a glance.
• Easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Powerful art.
• Includes basic S.D.C. stats for each creature description.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, Charles Walton and others.
• 256 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 896 – Shipping Now!

Rifts^® Bestiary^™ Vol. One – “Gold Edition” Hardcover – Signed and Numbered – Now Shipping!

A deluxe, limited, Gold Edition hardcover, signed and numbered by Palladium staff and maybe a few freelancers. It is the same content of unique creatures that can be used as familiars, pets, riding animals, guard animals, and slobbering monsters as the softcover edition in a durable hardcover. Very limited run of only 300 copies, numbered and signed by Kevin Siembieda, Palladium staff members and possibly available contributing artists and writers. Note: Historically, Palladium Books’ Gold Editions have doubled, tripled or increased in value many times over. Valued as cherished collectibles. Sold on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last. Please note the slight increase in price to $55.

• Gold foil on a black faux leather hardcover.
• Sewn and glued for long-lasting durability.
• Only 300 signed and numbered copies.
• Available only from Palladium Books.
• Sold on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
• Signed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium staff.
• Monsters and animals of Rifts North America.
• 80+ creatures described in detail.
• Same contents as the softcover edition.
• New predators, exotic riding animals, alien horrors, giant insects and more.
• Easily adapted to any Palladium setting; basic S.D.C. stats included for each creature description.
• 256 pages – $55.00 retail – Cat. No. 896HC (Volume One). Shipping Now!

UPDATE: The Rifter^® #84 – available and shipping now

The Rifter® #84 focuses on adventure in dark corners of various world settings. Places where danger threatens, monsters and evildoers lurk in the shadows, and people are in need of heroes. Adventure source material for The Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, Beyond the Supernatural™, Nightbane®, and Rifts®. And remember, adventures and source material for one game setting can also be adapted to other world settings with some easy and obvious modifications. Most of all, have fun.

Rifter® #84 Highlights:

• The City of Cascade™ by Erick Wujcik and Matt Reed, A modern city in desperate need of heroes.
• The Kingdom of Raf-Chalon™ for Palladium Fantasy RPG® by Glen Evans. An Elven Kingdom in the Eastern Territory™.
• Golems in the Myst™ for Rifts® by Greg Diaczyk. Techno-Wizard experiments go wrong and Golems run amok.
• Spellbound O.C.C. for Nightbane® RPG by Ian Herbert.
• An Adventure for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Kyle Osterberg.
• The Dimma, a short story and a scary new monster for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes.
• 2021 Palladium Open House and other news.
• Coming attractions, product descriptions and more.
• 96 pages – $14.99 retail – Cat. No. 184 – Shipping now!

BACK IN STOCK: The Mechanoid Invasion^® RPG Trilogy

Dystopian science fiction at its best. This is the very first RPG published by Palladium Books (1981). It presents three settings and three generations of heroes fighting the malevolent, world devouring, Mechanoids. Strange robotic beings who seem to hate and target human occupied worlds and their allies. It was originally released as three small comic book chapters and settings. Each a different generation and a different fight, but they are all collected into this one book. Written and illustrated by Kevin Siembieda, with Erick Wujcik and Bill Loebs contributing.

• The Mechanoid Invasion® (1981) – The humans on a colony world struggle against the monstrous mecha that threaten to devour their world.
• The Journey™ (1982) – Humans take their battle for survival to the Mechanoids, invading the invaders’ giant spaceships and living between the walls like rats as they seek to learn more about their nemesis and sabotage them from within.
• Homeworld™ (1982) – A new generation of humans and their alien allies unite to try to stop world eating aliens, taking the fight to the monsters’ homeworld only to find it (mostly) abandoned. If this sounds similar to Robotech®, bear in mind that it was written BEFORE that famous anime series was created. There must have been something in the global zeitgeist at the time.
• The Mechanoids, other aliens, humans, psychics, mutants, and more.
• Weapons and equipment, spaceships, maps, and a few surprises.
• See the game that helped to launch Palladium Books.
• Artwork by Kevin Siembieda. Additional art by William-Messner Loebs, Erick Wujcik and James Osten.
• Written by Kevin Siembieda, with additional text and ideas by Erick Wujcik.
• Requires some modification to use with Rifts® and other games.
• 208 pages – $26.99 – Cat. No. 400. Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Game Master Guide^™

The Rifts® Game Master Guide™ is a massive 352 page reference book with short stats and descriptions for every Rifts® robot, power armor, body armor, vehicle, weapon, gadget, skill, experience table, and map that appears in Rifts® World Books 1-23 and Sourcebooks 1-4, plus a bionics index, an O.C.C.s and R.C.C.s index, rules clarifications, combat examples, advice on how to run a game and more.

• 500+ weapons.
• 290 pieces of equipment.
• 180+ vehicles.
• 100+ suits of body armor.
• 80+ suits of power armor.
• 300+ skills, character and D-Bee index, dozens of maps, and more.
• 352 pages – $28.99 retail – Cat. No. 845 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts^® Conversion Book^™ 3: Dark Conversions^™

Dark Conversions features Undead legions, were-beasts, demons, supernatural menaces, Nigthbane® conversions, plus Elemental beings, the Shifter and Witch revisited, adventure ideas and more.

• 120+ monsters, including legions of undead.
• Nightbane® Conversions for use in Rifts®, Phase World®, and Chaos Earth®.
• Conversions for Elemental Beings (Fantasy), Diabolism, Summoning.
• 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 852 – Available now.

BACK IN STOCK: Island at the Edge of the World^™ (Fantasy)

Island at the Edge of the World™ reveals some of the little known history of the Palladium World, the Time of a Thousand Magicks, the Changeling Inquisition, and dark secrets that could threaten the world. Learn about forgotten Crystal Magic (as powerful as Rune Weapons), the Church of Scar, the legendary Circle of Absolute Elemental Power, and frightening prophecies about the end of the world.

• The hidden Crystal Forest and Crystal Palace.
• The Psychic Science of Magic and Crystals.
• New magic weapons and items.
• The Town of a Dozen Fracts, an adventure setting.
• The Valley at the Top of the World, an adventure setting.
• The Island at the End of the World, an adventure setting.
• Ancient ruins and additional places, people, and secrets of note.
• First Edition rules. Requires some modification to use with Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Second Edition.
• 144 pages – $22.99 – Cat. No. 458 – Available now.

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