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| CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF RPG FUN – ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE |
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| | Nightbane® Specials – News – Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – May 21, 2026 |
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| Nightbane® – Special Edition Hardcovers & Audiobooks Crowdfunder
Hey Everyone, the Nightbane® RPG and each sourcebook is available in bundles and as Add-Ons to this wickedly cool AudioRPG crowdfunding campaign running now!
This is the first time ever that all of the Nightbane sourcebooks are available in print as special, limited edition hardcovers, so you can select your favorite sourcebooks for your shelf and get the Audiobook for your listening enjoyment. And check out that dice set.
The audiobooks are super-cool. 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 it to the written word. I couldn’t believe we wrote something that sounded so amazing. |
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| NEW! Island at the Edge of the World™, 2nd Edition Fantasy Sourcebook – available now
Scary and challenging adventures, Crystal Magic, the Life Force Mage and other deadly villains, forgotten history that reveals information about the Palladium World, the Time of a Thousand Magicks, the Changeling Inquisition, prophecies, and other dark secrets. Stats updated to Second Edition rules, updated artwork, and new index. 144 pages – $24.99 – Cat. No. 458 – available now!
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| Sunday, May 24th – Legion of Myth Livestream with Kevin Siembieda & Sean Owen Roberson – starts noon Eastern Time
We’ll be talking about all things Nightbane, amongst other things. Meanwhile, watch the spirited April 19th livestream or other past discussion. |
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| Cry of the Nightbane® SALE – 30% off
Nothing has been the same since Dark Day – but only you, the Nightbane, see through the tapestry of shadows and lies that conceal the truth that supernatural creatures roam our streets and hunt from the sky, and dark magic threatens our very reality.
Only you, the Nightbane, know that every world government and law enforcement agency has been infiltrated by the shapechanging and wicked Nightlords.
And only the Nightbane possess the vision, magic, and superhuman powers to restore our world. Unfortunately, you must transform into your own monstrous form to use those powers and fight fire with fire.
Nightbane is an Urban Fantasy RPG series, and now an audiobook RPG crowdfunding campaign, that sheds light on the darkest corners of your imagination. Palladium is offering a sale on Nightbane sourcebooks and a few other horror titles in support of the new audiobook series and to promote the RPG setting. Enjoy. |
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| | ● Nightbane® RPG – Cat. No. 730 – $20.29 Sale Price (normally $28.99). 240 page core rule book. Nothing has been the same since Dark Day. The day the sun didn’t rise and night engulfed the world. Reports of monsters and demons and strange occurrences have increased 2,680%, even higher in the cities. The police and the government dismiss it all as mass hysteria and seldom investigate.
Any doubt you may have had about monsters and conspiracy theories vanished when you transformed into your monstrous Morphus. A supernatural id-like reflection of your inner power and spiritself. For you are one of the Nightbane and a natural enemy of the Nightlords and all things demonic.
The RPG is TEMPORARILY OUT of Stock. It will be added to the sale as soon as it returns from our printer. |
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| | ● Nightbane®: Between the Shadows Sourcebook – Cat. No. 731 – $17.49 Sale Price (normally $24.99) – Explore the Astral Plane, the Dreamstream, and the denizens you’ll encounter there. Strange and mercurial beings such as the Astral Mage, Dream Dancer, Guilt Eaters, and others. |
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| | ● Nightbane®: Nightlands™ – Cat. No. 732 – $17.49 Sale Price (normally $24.99). The Nightlands sourcebook reveals the hellish homeworld of the Nightlords – a twisted mockery of our own Earth filled with Dopplegangers, Hellriders, and the innocent swept away through mirrors. Travel to the other side of the looking glass. |
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| | ● Nightbane®: Through the Glass Darkly – Cat. No. 733 – $17.49 Sale Price (normally $24.99) – Flesh Sculpting, the terrifying Fleshsculptor O.C.C., Cybermage, Mirrormage, and Nemesis R.C.C., dark magic, three new adventures, dozens of adventure hooks, 50 magic spells, talismans, artifacts, Living Pathways, the Mirrorwall, and other source material to make you cringe. |
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| | ● Nightbane® Shadows of Light – Cat. No. 734 – $17.49 Sale Price (normally $24.99) – The angel-like Athanatos, Fallen Guardians, Reapers, vampire conspiracy, Tophet of the Astral Plane, adventure outline and more. TEMPORARILY OUT of Stock. It will be added to the sale as soon as it returns from our printer. |
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| | ● Nightbane® Survival Guide – Cat. No. 735 – $17.49 Sale Price (normally $24.99) – How to unlock the powers and magic of the Nightbane. Creation guidelines, Nightbane history, psychology, the Becoming, many Morphus tables, new magic, new dangers, a complete adventure plus adventure ideas, and more. |
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| | ● Nightbane®: Dark Designs™ – Cat. No. 736 – $17.49 Sale Price (normally $24.99) – A guide to creating the Nightbane, this is 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. |
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| | ● Beyond the Supernatural™ 1st Edition HARDCOVER “Bonus Edition” – Cat. No. 699HC – $38.50 Sale Price (Normally $55.00) – Available due to popular demand, the Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 1st Edition rule book is very different from BTS 2nd Edition. It too is modern horror with psionics, magic, and the supernatural and includes 28 monsters, random creature creation tables, quick roll villain tables, and random encounter tables. Plus 4 adventures, 2 adventure outlines, Erick Wujcik’s “Victim Characters” alternative rules, and a 32 page “bonus” adventure by Hendrik Härterich. |
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| | ● Beyond the Supernatural RPG, 2nd Edition HARDCOVER – Cat. No. 700HC – $31.49 Sale Price (normally $44.99) – A complete game set in a plausible modern world that makes sense and will challenge your role-playing skills. 14 Psychic Character Classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary” people, 100+ psychic abilities, including Fire Walker abilities, plus monsters, the Lazlo Agency, and more. |
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| | ● Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 230HC – $31.49 Sale Price (normally $44.99) – The zombie apocalypse Palladium style – dynamic setting, unique zombies that feed upon P.P.E., play ordinary people or special survivor O.C.C.s., get weapons and equipment, exploration and survival; everything you need to start your survival campaign. |
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| | ● Rifts® 30th Anniversary Edition Hardcover – Cat. No. 800HC30 – $34.99 Sale Price (normally $49.99) – Because if you’ve never played Rifts, you don’t know what you’re missing. Everything you need to enter the science fiction, fantasy, horror, post-apocalyptic realm that is Rifts. Three color sections including 32 pages of bonus material and a gallery of every Rifts cover published to date. Time to unleash your imagination like never before. |
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| Learn more about Nightbane® on the Palladium YouTube Channel and Social Media
Kevin Siembieda has been recording discussions with J-M DeFoggi about Nightbane and Palladium’s many role-playing games and sourcebooks on the Palladium Books YouTube channel. All are fun, friendly, and timeless.
And watch for Palladium’s newest video reels for Nightbane and TMNT & Other Strangeness appearing on our YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, and soon TikTok pages. They are just the start of fun, short videos to inform and tease viewers, with more to come for Nightbane, Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, and all the other Palladium game lines. |
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| | | Livestream with Kevin Siembieda & Sean Owen Roberson on Legion of Myth – Sunday, May 24th – starts at noon Eastern Time – where we’ll be talking about all things Nightbane, audiobooks, and other RPG topics. |
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| | You can also find me, Kevin Siembieda, and Sean Owen Roberson on the Glitterbois podcast from Breakfast Puppies and elsewhere. |
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| | Dozens of your favorite titles are Back in Stock & Available Now
We have been reprinting books like crazy – Ninjas & Superspies RPG, Mystic China, Mysteries of Magic, Bizantium and the Northern Islands, Rifts Bionics Sourcebook, Rifts China 1 & 2, Adventure Guide, Black Market, Rifts Psi-Ops (it keeps selling out), Rifts Book of Magic, D-Bees, Splynn, Thundercloud Galaxy, and others – with many more to come. |
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| | Be safe this Memorial Day
My business partner, Sean Roberson is writing the Closing Thoughts this week so I just wanted to add my appreciation and respect to everyone who has served in the military, past or present, and those who lost someone during a war or military conflict, as well as to everyone who puts their lives on the line to protect others. It doesn’t matter whether you support the politics behind war, it’s the people in service trying to do what they believe is right that we remember this holiday weekend. My Dad and Uncle Skip served in the Air Force, my Uncle Ted made a career in the Navy, and many friends and family members have served in every branch of the military. Know that we at Palladium Books appreciate your service and thank you for your sacrifice. – With Love & Respect, Kevin |
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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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| | | | Memorial Day Message — from Sean Owen Roberson
Howdy Rifters,
As a United States military veteran and someone blessed with a long line of ancestors who served this nation before me, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on Memorial Day as observed here in the USA – as well as the overall sentiment as reflected in other nations and cultures worldwide.
Unlike Veterans Day in November, which celebrates everyone living who has served in the military, Memorial Day is focused on those who died while serving in the armed forces. Whether you are American, European, Chinese, etc. we all have forebearers who we owe a debt of gratitude to. Many of them are distant cousins and great uncles who died young and never lived to raise a family.
Our modern world is built on the sacrifice of the brave men and women who came before us, with the ultimate sacrifice being those who died fighting for the freedoms and ideals that we enjoy – and often take for granted. The world we live in is far from perfect, but if you are reading this newsletter you are one of the most privileged human beings to ever walk the Earth.
I was recently working on a video about the “Golden Age of Humanity” for our YouTube channel, and in it I described how this future was a time with the most advanced medicines, technologies, and goods and services ever experienced in the history of mankind. The same can be said about us today! Heck, this may be as good as it gets.
I think we can all agree that our current society is far from perfect. The best way to make the world a better place is by becoming the change we want to see. Our challenge is to make self-improvement our personal responsibility, and change the world by being a better part of it. This is one of the best ways we can honor the memory of the fallen this Memorial Day, and every day.
Being a better person isn’t about some instant transformation, it’s about doing the best you can little by little, day by day. Start with small things and work your way up. Be a good friend, today. Run a fun game, today. Bring joy and security to those around you, today… then next week… and next month.
Be better. Do better. Game on.
– Sean Owen Roberson, Writer, Designer, Adventurer |
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