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CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF RIFTS® – ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE
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Hello, everyone. Monday is Labor Day for us here in the United States and I imagine many of you are already planning your 3 day (and maybe even 4 day) weekend. Awesome, just don’t forget about Palladium Books.
Labor Day also marks the unofficial end of summer. It’s back to school time for youngsters (sorry, kids), and those of you attending college (knowledge is power), so enjoy one of the last summer weekends, drive safe, have fun, and game on. It’s looking like cool autumn weather is coming early for us here in Michigan after a hot summer. I hope the fall and winter aren’t going to be too cold and harsh.
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Kevin & Sean’s September Convention Schedule
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1. Palladium is being represented at Grand Con, Grand Rapids, Michigan, this Labor Day weekend! A selection of RPGs and sourcebooks can be found at the Upkeep Games booth.
2. We’ll see some of you next week, September 4-5, at the Alliance Open House. Fort Wayne, Indiana. We’ll have TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products on display and we are happy to sign any books you bring for us to autograph.
3. The big event! We’ll see some of you at Granite State Comic Con, September 19-21, in Manchester, New Hampshire. We’ll have TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products on display and sale items include After the Bomb, Ninjas & Superspies, select Heroes Unlimited, Dead Reign, and Rifts books. We are always happy to sign any books you bring for us to autograph. Note: We do not know the next time both Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson will be at a convention on the East Coast, so fans in the surrounding area should come on over. Bring books for them to sign, chat a while with Kevin and Sean at their table in Artist Alley, come to the panel talks, and have a blast.
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UPDATE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG Redux: Our overseas manufacturer has informed us that the Kickstarter items (RPG books, GM screen, dice, exclusive miniatures, prints, playing cards, etc.) will be loaded in containers and put onto a ship by the end of September. If all goes well, we should be shipping Kickstarter rewards to our backers in November. We cannot wait to get all these awesome books, dice, and rewards into your hands.
This means we will be providing and charging Backers for shipping in September. Please note, we have made arrangements with third party shippers inside and outside the US so we can keep your shipping costs as low as possible. We do not expect tariffs to affect most of our overseas customers, though VAT and Customs fees will be applicable as normal. Note: These are beautiful, high-quality hardcover books, which means they weigh around 3 pounds (1.35 kg) each and look wonderful. The handful of people who have seen the TMNT & Other Strangeness rewards have gone nuts over them. More information and Kickstarter updates to come.
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UPDATE: Yin-Sloth Expeditions (Fantasy): It’s coming along nicely. I’m working hard to make every key place truly special with either one fully fleshed out adventure or numerous adventure hooks that the Game Master can turn into adventures.That means expanding and describing places like the Dragon’s Gate Mountains, the mysterious town of Dragonedara and Dragonedra City of Dragons. The Yin-Sloth Jungles are the perfect opportunity for giving you villains, monsters, places, magic, and adventures you cannot find any place else. Plus you get to catch glimpses of past eras, forgotten history, and strange people and magic. I’m having a blast with it and you will too. Still shooting to release it this fall. Fans who are starving for new fantasy material will love this book. And there’s more coming for Palladium Fantasy in the new year.
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UPDATE: Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2: This is another long-awaited book that is nearing completion. If you were a Palladium Megaverse Insider Backer, fear not, we still have your information and the special books and items you have coming to you. However, we are likely to need your current shipping address. This will be another big, 200+ page resource with updated stats and information on monsters of North America, plus some new artwork, maps, and more. We’re shooting for a 2025 release.
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UPDATE: Rifts® Chaos Earth® First Responders: Sean Owen Roberson has taken the reins on this bad boy, coordinating art with Steven Cummings and doing the writing of new material and rewrites of the old. The artwork is looking great and Sean is making sure most of the gear, robots, and vehicles can be used for both Chaos Earth® and Rifts®! After all, the Republicans (NEMA forces in suspended animation), Archie Three, Titan Robotics, and the Black Market all have access to pre-Rifts technology, as well as adventurers who discover a cache of ancient pre-Rifts tech from time to time. Awesome, right? Probably an early 2026 release.
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AND More! Palladium may have an exciting announcement before the end of this year, and expect some surprise releases in 2026.
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UPDATE: Rifts® Phase World® Sourcebooks coming from Star Anvil in 2026: Palladium applauds new licensing partner, Star Anvil, on their decision to delay the Kickstarter launch of official sourcebooks for Phase World and The Three Galaxies using the Savage Worlds rules, until 2026. The decision is based on making these books everything Palladium and Savage Worlds fans expect them to be. They’ll be exploring new ground, offering new weapons, gears, villains, settings, adventures, and so much more within theThree Galaxies™. Gear, characters, and adventures are easily adapted to the Palladium Books game system. Follow this project now so you don’t miss out when it launches in 2026.
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NEW on the Palladium Books YouTube channel – Official History of Palladium Books
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You can find a whole bunch of episodes and interviews on the Palladium Books YouTube channel. People are still discovering these fun and informative chats, so please spread the word. They reveal behind-the-scenes information and dispel rumors and false statements about Palladium’s history and creation process. A new episode goes live every other week. Whether viewers are Palladium fans or enjoy RPG history straight from the source, enjoy these intimate chats. I hope you find hearing about the creation process behind the scenes and learning more about the people behind the games you love to be entertaining and inspiring.
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You can see more online chats with Siembieda and Roberson on Legion of Myth and great podcasts with the Glitterbois. Oh, and Through Gamer Goggles as well. Hey Podcasters and YouTubers, we are happy to consider appearances on your shows too. Please reach out via the Help Desk. If you don’t hear back from us in a month, reach out again, because maybe your first inquiry got missed. We are juggling so much. Thanks.
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Books BACK IN STOCK and available now
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- Rifts® Black Market (new cover) – Cat. No. 886 – Secrets, weapons, robots, power armor, and more revealed.
- Rifts® Psi-Ops: Psychic War (formerly Rifts Coalition Manhunters, new cover & title) – Cat. No. 894 – Coalition State secrets revealed.
- Rifts® Primer & Adventures – Cat. No. 824 – How to Play Rifts® by Gleba and Siembieda, 4 full adventures, 101 Rifts® adventure ideas, and more.
- Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Cat. No. 850 – A compendium of bionics and cybernetics from around the world.
- Rifts® Psyscape – Cat. No. 822 – Info about mythical Psyscape.
- Beyond the Supernatural RPG – Cat. No. 700 – A complete game, fun player characters, psychics, ordinary people, creatures of darkness, and more.
- Villains Unlimited – Cat. No. 501 – 80+ original villains and more. Note: See Gramercy Island for 90+ additional villains (Cat. No. 517). Both titles are available now.
More reprints are coming! Additional low stock and out of print titles are being prepped to go to the printer. That includes Rifts Ultimate Edition “Softcover,” Rifts 30th Anniversary Edition, the Cyberworks Collection, Federation of Magic, Chaos Earth RPG, Powers Unlimited 3, and Nightbane Shadows of Light, among others.
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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 as well as action figures and other items from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection are on sale!
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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September will be Rifts Month
The entire month of September will be Rifts Month. You’ll see how and why starting next week. Keep your eyes peeled for Weekly Updates and special email announcements and Facebook notices. You won’t want to miss any of it!
It’s the last long weekend of summer, so I won’t keep you any longer. Enjoy whatever you have planned for the weekend, relax, and drink in the beautiful weather most of our nation seems about to experience.
We have plans to go to the Michigan Renaissance Festival and maybe a movie, but other than that, I hope to get some quality writing and artwork done. Keep those imaginations burning bright.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend
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