Build a Bone-Chilling Game Night + Save 30% Off Horror Titles & More – Weekly Update – Oct 1, 2026

CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF RPG FUN

A LEGACY OF INNOVATION – ONE GAME SYSTEM – ENDLESS ADVENTURE

By Kevin Siembieda and Daniel Lansdown

News briefs …

Blood-chilling Halloween Sale is live! We are offering our Palladium Horror sale early. Filled with scary savings and gruesome fun, and plenty of time for the books you order to arrive in time for you to build the Halloween RPG event (or campaign!) you know you want to do. Dead Reign® is not your typical zombie game and Nightbane® is epic urban fantasy, plus we’ll include select titles from Beyond the Supernatural™, Rifts® and other game lines. See more details below.

Note: There’s a similar PDF Sale taking place on DriveThruRPG.com right now too.

The Worlds of Palladium Exhibit – Extended

Good News Everybody! The Worlds of Palladium Exhibit is still up for visitation at the Detroit Historical Museum for at least another few weeks, possibly longer, so there’s still time to see it. I have not gotten an exact date yet for how long it may remain available for viewing. So before you come to see it, you should probably call the museum first to make sure the exhibit is available for viewing. The comic book exhibit has been taken down.

And when you’re in town, swing by the Palladium office to say hello, get a brief tour of our idea factory, and get some books signed. We are only 30 minutes from the Detroit Historical Museum.

Detroit Historical Museum – 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit, Michigan, 48202 – Telephone: 313-833-1805 – Admission: $15 for adults, $8 for Children 6-12

Open Wednesday thru Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, Sunday 1-5 PM.

Closed Monday and Tuesday.

The Mechanoids® Redux Edition!

Before The Terminator. Before the Matrix. Before Rifts, Phase World, or Aliens Unlimited. There was The Mechanoids.

Did you hear the news?! The Mechanoids Redux Edition: The Complete RPG Collection is part of the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder (launches October 20, 2026), and commemorates Palladium’s 45th Anniversary. This big, 250+ page book will collect the original Mechanoid Trilogy: The Mechanoid Invasion (1981), The Journey (1982), and Homeworld (1983), parts of Rifts Mechanoids Sourcebook (1992), AND the long forgotten The Mechanoids® RPG (1985) that contained an extra hundred pages of source material, artwork, vehicles, weapons, and more.

Sean has called the 1985 Mechanoids RPG “a lost and forgotten gem” – and the Mechanoids “a dark science fiction setting and characters ahead of its time.” Which is why he wants to collect and completely remaster it all into one big, beautiful, Redux Edition with new layout, updates, and full color art. How could I say no?

The Mechanoids® Collection Redux Edition Highlights:

• Written by Kevin Siembieda; an adventure by Erick Wujcik.

• Redux design, layout, and updates, by Sean Owen Roberson.

• 80% of the artwork is by Kevin Siembieda. Remember, most of you have never seen the additional art, characters, gear, or cover from the 1985 RPG, plus I (Kevin) have dug out additional never before seen art that I had created back in the day.

• Additional art by William Messner-Loebs, Newton Ewel, Kevin Long, Mike Gustovich, and James A. Osten.

• Newly colored for the very first time by Luis Antonio Delgado, renowned colorist of the New York Times best-selling graphic novel, The Last Ronin, amongst many other books.

• The Mechanoid Redux Edition – deluxe, full color hardcover.

• 250+ pages – another dream project for me (Kevin) and Sean.

Follow the Glitter Boy Codex Backerkit Page for more details!

Palladium’s Halloween Horror Sale – 30% Off!
Now Through October 14th

Halloween is just around the corner and you’ll need time to build your Halloween gaming event or RPG campaign, which is why we’re running this spine-chilling sale with books across the Megaverse NOW. So don’t be afraid to save some money and create a frightfully fun RPG or horror campaign in time for Halloween or during the long winter months ahead.

Stock up, save 30%, and make your next adventure pulse-pounding!

• Dead Reign RPG HARDCOVER, Zombie Apocalypse – Cat. No. 230HC

• Endless Dead Sourcebook –  Cat. No. 233

• Fear the Reaper Sourcebook –  Cat. No. 234

• Graveyard Earth Sourcebook –  Cat. No. 235

• Hell Followed Sourcebook –  Cat. No. 236

• In the Face of Death – Cat. No. 237

• Beyond the Supernatural RPG – Cat. No. 700

• Nightbane RPG –  Cat. No. 730

• All Nightbane Sourcebooks – Cat. No. 731-736

• Rifts Ultimate Edition RPG – Cat. No. 800HC

• Rifts Vampire Kingdoms – Cat. No. 802E

• Rifts South America – Cat. No. 814

• Rifts Vampires Sourcebook – Cat. No. 884

• Rifts Africa (the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse) – Cat. No. 808

• Rifts Dark Conversions – Cat. No. 852

• Rifts Titan Robotics – Cat. No. 899

• Rifts Cyberworks Collection – Cat. No. 900 HC

• Chaos Earth Resurrection Sourcebook (Mega-Damage zombies!) – Cat. No. 666

• Old Ones (Fantasy Sourcebook) – Cat. No. 453

• Northern Hinterlands (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 467

• Land of the Damned One: Chaos Lands (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 468

• Land of the Damned Two: Eternal Torment (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 469

• Future Visions (Charles Walton Art Book) – Cat. No. 2562

NOTE: These titles and others are also on sale from DriveThruRPG.com

Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex – Launching October 20!

Tuesday, October 20, 2026.

That’s when the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder goes LIVE on BackerKit.

You won’t want to wait until then though, you can get $30 worth of extra goodies with a $5 reservation on the Pre-Launch Page before we go live!

And as we get closer to launch, the Pre-Launch Page is going to continue revealing more artwork, more lore, more Glitter Boy variants, and surprises.

The Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex is a newly written and illustrated sourcebook devoted to one of the most iconic characters in Rifts® – the Glitter Boy pilot and their legendary chromium power armor the USA-G10.

Expect Glitter Boy suit modifications, new and variant weapons, new gear, adventure ideas, never-before-revealed Glitter Boy history, famous Glitter Boy groups, notorious individuals, powerful new artwork, and plenty of ways for players and Game Masters to make these legendary war machines their own.

You’ll be able to choose between the Glitter Boy Codex Softcover, featuring classic black-and-white interior artwork by Steven Cummings, and the full-color Glitter Boy Codex Hardcover, making it the landmark first full-color Rifts® sourcebook. Artwork by Steven Cummings with colors by Michael Majestic.

And there is much more.

We’re working on the customizable Rifts® Game Master Screen, custom dice sets, Rifts playmats, a new metal collector coin, Glitter Boy prints, the return of the fan-favorite full-color Rifts® Poker Deck on upgraded linen card stock, and other surprises that we are not ready to reveal just yet.

Plus, The Mechanoids Redux Edition: The Complete RPG Collection is coming to this crowdfunder to celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Palladium Books.

If you haven’t joined the Pre-Launch Page yet, now is the time. A $5 Pre-Launch Reservation unlocks a special $30 Rifts Surprise Bundle when you back the campaign at launch. Each Surprise Bundle will be hand-curated by the Palladium team and be sure to delight any Rifts fan. 

Previous Palladium crowdfunder backers will also receive a bonus art print when backing this campaign.

Between now and October 20, keep watching the Pre-Launch Page. We have plenty more to show you.

Don’t  miss it! Kevin and Sean will be reveal a special crowdfunding reward during the Legion of Myth Live Stream this Sunday, September 27th. And it’s big.

Follow. Reserve & Mark October 20th to your calendars – it’s time to suit up!

Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo (PAGE)

will be here before you know it – January 14-17, 2027

This is another fun and rapidly growing convention. A must for gamers in the northeastern U.S., especially old school gamers!

Last year it had nearly 100 guests – many of them legends in the role-playing game industry. Including little ol’ me, Kevin Siembieda, Matthew Balent, Matt Forbeck, Frank Mentzer, Zeb Cook, Ed Stark, Jeff Dee, Darlene, Harold Johnson, Professor Dungeon Master, Kelsey Dionne (Shadowdark), Chris Arneson, and dozens more.

I will be back as a guest, and I’m scheduled for two panel talks with J-M DeFoggi. I believe Jim Zub, writer of Conan for Titan Comics, is one of the new guests this year. The Saturday Night auction is amazing too.

Live Streams & Social Media Fun

Kevin & Sean have been busy sharing the news!

Friday Night Live by the Philadelphia Area Game Expo – A fun online chat with Kevin Siembieda. Check out the Friday Night Live on the Philadelphia Area Game Expo website/YouTube Channel.

I did a fun livestream on the show with Ron Meischler, Phil Wert, Jennifer Cash the Blind Bard, and fellow guest Rob Aldermann at Pulp Hummock Press (his Overlords of Steel RPG crowdfunder, it looks very interesting).  We had a blast talking about a lot of different subjects.

Also check out the most recent Legion of Myth chats.  Sean and Kevin had a very fun time talking about the Glitter Boy crowdfunder and The Mechanoids RPG Redux edition reveal.

And that’s not all. Palladium Books YouTube channel now has new weekly posts! There’s a new chat with Sean Owen Roberson about the GB Codex last week, Kevin Siembieda talks about The Mechanoids this week,  and coming this month Rifts Mercenaries, Kevin’s take on Palladium Alignments, a new bit about the history of Palladium Books,  Northern Gun, and more. Each is fun and provides new insight about our many games and sourcebooks.

Don’t forget to follow us on social media to watch our reels too. Plus, Daniel is about to start a fun weekly art series on our social media pages showing off the amazing art of Palladium Books and highlighting the many incredible artist we have had the pleasure of working with.

Closing Thoughts – Glitter Boys and Mechanoids

Wow, the Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder Pre-Launch is off to an amazing start. As of this writing we already have more than 1,700 followers with 20 days to go before the Backerkit campaign goes live. Not only that, more that 700 of you wonderful maniacs have made a $5 reservation to get $30 of additional rewards when you back the campaign. Wow. Cool. Please continue to spread the word because this crowdfunder is awesome.

The Glitter Boy Codex presents all kinds of new source material, weapons, gear, and history about the classic USA10 Glitter Boy. Not to mention great artwork and rewards like a Game Master Screen, dice sets, playmats, etc. Plus, we’ll be doing the sourcebook as a black and white softcover AND as a full color hardcover, and a special chromatic foil cover edition.

The Mechanoid Collection Redux Edition is also a big part of the Glitter Boy Crowdfunder. This includes the long lost and largely forgotten 1985 Mechanoids RPG which contained 100 pages of new source material, plus seldom and never before seen art, characters, equipment, and more.

This is all super-exciting for us, especially me, Will Erwin (GB writer), Sean Roberson (writer and designer of both books), and Daniel Lansdown (marketing). I love the new material for Glitter Boys and I’m thrilled the lost Mechanoids material is finding new life and a new audience in the Complete Collection.

Plus we’re getting reprint books in stock for Christmas and work continues on Rifts Bestiary Volume 2, Rifts Antarctica, Yin-Sloth Expeditions, and other projects.

So enjoy the two Palladium Horror Sales (books from BTS, Dead Reign, Nightbane, Rifts, Palladium Fantasy) and PDFs of those same books and more from DriveThru. Also take a look at the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products because they are fun, beautiful, and completely usable with all our other RPGs, and enjoy your weekend.

– Kevin Siembieda, Founder, Game Designer, Writer, Friend