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| CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF RPG FUN – ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE |
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| | New Products, Sale & News – Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – April 30, 2026 |
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| | So much is happening with nine new Palladium products available now, more titles back in print, a Nightbane® special you must not miss, and more. Let’s get right into it. |
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| The Weekend with Kevin Siembieda (and friends) Event – was fantastic. Gamers came from all across the USA – Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Georgia and elsewhere – as well as Canada! We all had so much fun. It was like a mini-Palladium Open House with 60-70 people instead of 250-300, and without game events. Many likened it to a family reunion. The Legion of Myth was there, my business partner Sean Owen Roberson came in special, a store owner Garner and Andy from the Local Game Store journeyed to our humble event and loved it, and of course there was the Palladium staff, writers, artists, old friends, and new fans. Attendees also absolutely LOVED the Worlds of Palladium Books exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum. Glean more info in Closing Thoughts. |
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| Please email your photos of the event to Rifter@palladiumbooks.com – thanks. I was great about taking pictures day one at the museum, but then got so caught up talking with people that I failed to take any photos at our own warehouse event. What a dope, eh? If you’d be so kind, please email us your photos at your convenience. Thanks. |
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| NEW! Spring Art SALE – All Art Prints – Half Price! Including the 7 NEW prints. Most prints are now only $5 each including the seven new art prints. Is it time to brighten up your game room, office, home, or store? If so, you’ll want to take a look at this sale. And while you’re at it, grab one or both of the new sports backpacks or some of the books back in stock, or the gorgeous NInja Turtles books, or … |
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| | COMING SOON! Island at the Edge of the World, 2nd Edition, Fantasy Sourcebook – New layout, typesetting, index, and all text and stats edited and updated to Second Edition rules. Artwork modernized with gray tones by Jeremy Colwell. We forgot how much fun (and scary) the adventures, magic, and villains in this sourcebook are. $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 458 – expected availability mid-May. |
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| | COMING SOON! Nightbane® Hardcovers for the RPG and EACH of the Nightbane sourcebooks – The books will be available as Exclusives in a crowdfunding campaign that starts May 19th by AudioRPG. This is the first time ever that each of the Nightbane sourcebooks are available as limited edition hardcovers! Palladium Collectors and Nightbane fans will want some if not all of these special editions. The audiobooks are super-cool too. When I listened to the Dark Designs Audiobook, the narration sounded so alluring and dramatic that I actually pulled out the physical book to compare the dialogue. I couldn’t believe we wrote something that sounded so amazing. Learn more on the AudioRPG pre-launch page. |
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| | | UPDATE: Star Anvil’s Rifts Phase World Kickstarter was a success topping out at $74,646 and nearly a thousand backers. Thank you for your support of this bold, new licensee. This is just the beginning for this dynamic company. Congratulations, Brandon, we can’t wait to see it all ship. |
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| | Nine NEW Palladium Products |
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| Rifts® Logo Drawstring Sportpack – A sturdy, lightweight backpack made of polyester with two pockets. Can easily hold 5-10 game books depending on their page count. Ideal for weights up to 20 lbs. Everyone at Palladium loves them. Two-tone: Charcoal and blue front. Black back and black drawstrings. Imprint: The Classic Rifts Logo and the words: Unleash Your Imagination – printed in white on a rich, royal blue field. Bold, dynamic, and fun. Size: 14 x 17 inches. 2 pockets, one with a zipper, the other with a drawstring. $12.00 retail – Cat. No. 2622 – Available now.
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| Palladium Books® Logo Drawstring Sportpack – A sturdy, lightweight backpack made of polyester with two pockets. Can easily hold 5-10 game books depending on their page count. Ideal for weights up to 20 lbs. Everyone at Palladium loves them. Two-tone: Charcoal and blue front. Black back and black drawstrings. Imprint: The new Palladium Books logo – printed in white on a rich, royal blue field. Bold, dynamic, and fun. Size: 14 x 17 inches. 2 pockets, one with a zipper, the other with a drawstring. $12.00 retail – Cat. No. 2623 – Available now.
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| | | | 7 NEW 8½ x 11 inch Art Prints (fit in a 7½ x 10 mat & frame) – All prints are on sale at half price, including these new ones. They normally sell for $10 each, but you can get them and other prints right now for only $5 each during this sale. Larger prints cost more. |
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| TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG and TMNT Transdimensional Adventures sourcebook are hot – because they are so much fun for everyone |
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| Have you gotten your copy yet? If not, don’t delay. These two books are must own items for EVERY TMNT fan from gamer to comic book collector to fans of all things TMNT.
Coffee table book quality, full color art by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Jim Lawson, Kevin Long, and many comic book and gaming legends in both. Each hardcover collects three of the beloved TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG titles. Each thoughtfully remastered with clean layout, rules updates, added material, more mutant animals, 12+ pages of brand new tribute art, all in full color for the first time ever.
A joy for old school gamers, fun for experienced gamers, and easy to learn for first-time gamers. The tons of art and delightful Animal Creation tables and rules are worth the cost of the books all by themselves. WARNING: You may find yourself spending hours and hours creating mutant animal heroes. TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG – Cat. No. 502HC – 272 pages of fun and imagination. Full color. TMNT Transdimensional Adventures sourcebook – Cat. No. 508HC – 256 pages of time travel, mutant dinosaurs, alien invaders, magic, 20 pages of comic strips, and more. TMNT & Other Strangeness Game Master Screen – Cat. No. 512 – customizable folders. Mutagen Green Dice Set – Cat. No. 510 – Seven liquid-filled dice that appear to simmer with boiling mutagenic ooze when they come to a rolling stop. Black, White, & Red TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG Edition – Cat. No. 504BWR – 272 nostalgia pages that harken back to the original RPG and comic books with its shades of grey, reds, and whites. Black, White, & Red TMNT Transdimensional Adventures sourcebook – Cat. No. 509BWR – 256 pages of noir colors through space and time.
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| | | | Ninjas & Superspies RPG – Cat. No. 525 – $26.99 retail – 40+ types of martial arts, many special mystic powers, spies, gear, and rules for creating secret organizations. A wonderful companion to the TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG. Mystic China, a N&S sourcebook – Cat. No. 526 – $26.99 retail – 14 additional martial arts, more mystic power, the Mudra, Chi-Magic, 87 spells, immortals, demons, and much more. A great companion to the TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG. Rifts® Adventure Guide – Cat. No. 849 – $26.99 retail – 150+ adventure ideas, Random Rifts Table, Generation Tables for Random Rifts, Building Cities & Towns, Mercenary Companies, secret organizations, and Traveling Shows; plus GM and player tips, and more. Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Cat. No. 850 – $20.99 retail – 200+ bionic components and features, foreign and Black Market bionics, cyber repairs, TW bionics, 7 different City Rat O.C.C.s, Cyber-Doc O.C.C. and Cyber-Snatcher O.C.C.s expanded, and more. Rifts® Black Market – Cat. No. 886 – $26.99 retail – The Black Market and its key factions and O.C.C.s described; plus dozens and dozens of weapons, robots, power armor, TW items and contraband. Rifts® Book of Magic – Cat. No. 848 – $31.99 retail – 700+ magic spells, plus Rune Weapons, Techno-Wizard devices, Bio-Wizardry weapons, symbiotes and much more. Rifts® China One: The Yama Kings – Cat. No. 857 – $24.99 retail – 30+ Chinese monsters, the Yama Kings, Dragonlands, 8 Hells on Earth, 20+ curses, and more. Rifts® China Two: Heroes of the Celestial Court – Cat. No. 858 – $24.99 retail – A dozen heroic O.C.C.s, Mystic Martial Arts Powers, Chi Channeling, Chi-Sight, and Chi-Weapons, Demon Queller, Gun Master, Geo-Front tech-weapons, and more. Rifts® D-Bees of North America – Cat. No. 874 – $26.99 retail – Nearly 100 D-Bees and their abilities described in detail; each illustrated. ‘Nuff said. Rifts® Mercenaries – Cat. No. 813 – $24.99 retail – The bestselling fan favorite sourcebook is back. It introduces Naruni Enterprises, Wellington Industries, Iron Heart Armaments, Golden Age Weaponsmiths, Angrar Robotics, Chipwell Armaments, and the weapons, vehicles, and gear they offer, plus 6 mercenary companies, 8 Merc O.C.C.s, and more. Available now. Rifts® Splynn Dimensional Market – Cat. No. 836 – $26.99 retail – They say you can buy anything at the market if you’re willing to pay the price. Tons of magic items like Bio-Wizard weapons, armor, and Bio-Borgs, magic restraints, Venom Blades, Kittani weapons and vehicles, 15 alien creatures, notable shops of Splynn, and more. Available now. Rifts® Dimension Book: Thundercloud Galaxy – Cat. No. 883 – $24.99 retail – 17 alien races. Monsters, minions, Gene-Tech, 101 ruins and adventure table, monster creation table, overview of the galaxy, and more. Available now. Fantasy: Mysteries of Magic, The Heart of Magic – Cat. No. 472 – $20.99 retail – the history, secrets, and mysteries behind Wizardy; new Wizard and Warlock Elemental spells, the Forsaken Mage and Half-Wizard O.C.C.s, and more. Available now. Fantasy: Bizantium and the Northern Islands – Cat. No. 474 – $26.99 retail – Secrets, dangers and mysteries of the North Sea, the Great Ice Shelf, and the Iceborn, plus magic, monsters, sea serpents, Necromancers, Skinbinders, Iceborn Sea Witch, and more. Available now. Nightbane®: Between the Shadows – Cat. No. 731 – $24.99 retail – Astral Mage, Dream Dancer, Arcane Detective and other O.C.C.s, plus the Astral Plane, the Dreamstream, Spook Squad, and more. All of it epic and intriguing. Available now.
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| | Social Media Fun with Palladium Books |
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| NEW! 3D6 Down the Line – Actual Play TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Adventure: Looking for something fun and funny, check this out. Looking to get some insight into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Role-Playing Game? Check this out, it’s informative and fun. The players each randomly rolled up their character’s background and played a team of mutant squid in New York City. I listened to some of it and thought it was pretty awesome. Available now. |
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| | | NEW! Sean Roberson and the Glitterbois’ TMNT & Other Strangeness “Live Play” video is now available for your listening enjoyment. Check it out. Sean said they had a blast playing. There’s also an earlier Fantasy RPG session with Kevin Siembieda. |
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| | | Legion of Myth: The April 19th livestream was very fun and insightful. It should be available to view right now. It was full of energy about Palladium Books’ influence on the RPG tabletop industry, as well as news and loads of fun with me, Kevin Siembieda, Sean Owen Roberson, Max Laio, and Heathendog. They also did their best to video portions of the Weekend Palladium Event – including the impromptu talk by the curator of the Worlds of Palladium museum exhibit and some of our panel talks. They are available now on Legion of Myth. |
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| NEW on the Palladium Books YouTube Channel – Almost every video is designed to be timeless, so you can listen to them now, in the weeks ahead, or years from now. You do not need to listen to them in any particular order, just pick a topic and enjoy. New Today! – Recon, Macross II, Systems Failure, and Splicers Available now – The Rifter Origin Story and Other Tales Available now – Pursue Your Passion – and follow your dreams. A message to creative individuals whether you’re a Game Master, artist, writer, game designer, musician, entrepreneur, or whatever you may aspire toward. April 30th – Stories behind Recon, Macross II, and Systems Failure May 14th – Campaign Design – tips and considerations for building campaigns.
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| | 300+ RPG products on DriveThru – a dozen unique world settings – one game system – endless possibilities. No other game company offers game worlds for so many different genres. Best of all, learn to play one Palladium RPG and you can play them all, because each uses the same basic core rules and combat. There are differences, but the fundamentals are the same. This also means you can bring characters, villains, monsters, powers, magic, weapons, gear, and adventure ideas from one setting into another or mash them together!
In addition to PDF titles for entire game lines like Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy™, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign® (zombies), Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy), Rifts Chaos Earth®, Systems Failure™, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® #1-85, and others, there are Game Master and player aids, character generators, paper minis, map packs, and FREE Previews of books like Creature Feature™, Dead Reign, Coalition Manhunters, Titan Robotics™, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, World Books, Dimension Books, and more to give you a glimpse of what’s in the book. Enjoy endless adventures across the Megaverse®. |
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| | | Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store |
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| Palladium collectibles, books, artwork, and negatives, as well as action figures, toys, and other items from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection are available from this Ebay store!
One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Last year at Granite State Comic Con, Kevin Eastman had TMNT negatives from the first comic book on display.
Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. These are the photographic negatives being sold as individual works of art and collectibles. When matted or framed on a white background they look like dynamic wood cut prints. And they are on sale right now! |
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| | So much fun
The Weekend Conversation with Kevin Siembieda (and friends) was a big success and very fun. In fact, it was so much fun, a number of attendees suggested we do one every two years – food for serious consideration.
The two-day event started with meeting people at the Detroit Historical Museum from 10:00 AM to noon. That provided plenty of opportunity for photo ops and to see and talk about the exhibit. Everyone was impressed with the Worlds of Palladium Exhibit as well as the Comic Book exhibit.
On Saturday morning, the curators of the two exhibits, William Wall-Winkle and Brendan Roney, surprised us all by hosting an impromptu discussion about the making of the exhibit and a bit of Detroit gaming history. They also surprised us with the announcement that due to the overwhelming popularity of the comic book and game exhibits that Wayne State University is planning to write and publish a book expanding upon the material in the two exhibits. Awesome!
After the visit to the Historical Museum we would all break for lunch and meet back at the Palladium Warehouse from 2:00-10:00 PM to hang out and talk. I gave a number of tours of the offices and there were new products like the sports backpacks and prints to buy, plus most of the books and other products found in the online store. I also pulled out a handful of out of print TMNT and Robotech books for sale.
There were a number of surprises for me throughout the weekend, one was Sean Roberson, my business partner’s return from Asia to be part of the event. “I couldn’t miss this,” he said. Another was John Schloe AKA MaxLiao from Legion of Myth. I knew fellow Michigander Brett/Heathendog was going to attend, but Max was a complete and pleasant surprise. My dear friends Shawn and Lisa Hall surprised me and everyone in attendance with four sheetcakes saying Happy Birthday. Palladium Books turns 45 this year and I recently turned 70 so that was awesome. A trio of friends, Glen Evans, Kate, and Maggie, gave me the sweet gift of a T-Shirt with the image of Splinter that reads Father of Heroes.
It was also a delight to see old friends like Rex Barkdoll and his wife Maggie, Steven Dawes and his wife Lilly, Joe Bergmans and his friend Carrie, Greg and Caleb Diaczyk, Chris Guertin, John Wooten, John Klinkel, Mike Majestic, the Iveys, Nathan, Ed, Ben, and a host of others. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to spend time with everyone. Despite that, I had a great time and so did the multitude of gamers in attendance.
I gave tours of the Palladium Office, gave away hundreds of books from my personal reference library (stuff I didn’t need anymore), Sean and I gave a long panel talk each afternoon, we talked with many individual visitors, and signed a gazillion books. It was great. Many people commented on the friendliness of the Palladium staff, freelancers and friends, and asked us to host an event like this again. Maybe even every other year. We’ll give it some thought.
You have till September 13th to see the Worlds of Palladium and Comic Book exhibits at the Detroit Historical Museum. There are a bunch of other outstanding exhibits to see too. You might even be able to drop by the Palladium Offices when you go to see the exhibit, but call first to make sure we’re in town and available. Meanwhile, enjoy the Art Print Sale, snag one of those sports backpacks and/or the many books that are back in print.
– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend |
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