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By Kevin Siembieda |
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Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex – Crowdfunder Coming Soon The Pre-Launch Page is Live on Backerkit
Let the countdown to the Rifts Glitter Boy Codex begin. This book and the special crowdfunding rewards are all must-own items for Rifts fans. Checkout out the Pre-Launch page for a preview, but don’t forget to sign up to be the first to be notified when the BackerKit crowdfunder launches! You don’t want to miss a thing. Please share the news as well. |
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| Glitter Boys™ & Zombies SALE Extended to August 5th
Our Apology for Continuing Website Problems
Our thanks to those of you who have alerted Palladium to continuing issues with our online store and website. We appreciate it! One of those issues is preventing you from ordering books. Please don’t give up on us. We are working on it. Because this problem has prevented many of you from enjoying the outstanding Glitter Boys & Zombie Sale, we have EXTENDED that sale. We just can’t ship your orders until we return from Gen Con, Tuesday August 4th. Please remain patient with us. We need your support.
– Kevin, Sean & the Palladium Crew.
With the Glitter Boy Codex coming and recent talk about zombies (the Dead Reign interview recently went live on the Palladium Books YouTube channel; see link below), I thought I’d throw together a sale to celebrate them both. (And yes, more Dead Reign and Chaos Earth sourcebooks are in your future). Sale ENDS Wednesday Morning, August 5th.
● Dead Reign RPG Hardcover – $31.49 (normally $44.99) – Cat. No. 230HC – that’s a savings of $13.50
● All Dead Reign Sourcebooks – 30% off
● Chaos Earth RPG Hardcover (NEMA Chromium Guardsman and robots) – $31.49 (normally $44.99) – Cat. No. 660HC – that’s a savings of $13.50
● Chaos Earth Rise of Magic Sourcebook – Cat. No. 662 – 30% off
● Chaos Earth Resurrection (Mega-Damage Zombies and more) – Cat. No. 666 – 30% off
● Rifts: Megaverse in Flames (Hell Pits, Death, Blood Magic, & Soulmancy) – Cat. No. 876 – 30% off
● Land of the Damned 2: Eternal Torment (Fantasy; undead monsters) – Cat. No. 469 – 30% off
● Bizantium and the Northern Islands (Fantasy; Necromancy and Iceborn Necroilus Warship) – Cat. No. 474 – 30% off
● PRINT: Chaos Earth “Stand Strong” (Glitter Boy in flames) – Cat. No. PR820 – 30% off
● PRINT: Chaos Earth Resurrection “Chrome & Carnage” (Glitter Boy vs. zombie horde) – Cat. No. PR814 – 30% off
● PRINT: Bizantium “Death & Ice” (Necroilus Warship in battle) – Cat. No. PR812 – 30% off
Note: A similar sale of PDF titles is happening on DriveThruRPG now thru Monday, July 27. |
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You can order books and products online while we are at Gen Con
Yes, you can order products from PalladiumBooks.com while we’re at Gen Con, but they will not get packed up and shipped until after August 4th when we return. Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, After the Bomb, and Ninja Turtles remain hot sellers. Likewise, any questions you may have are likely to have to wait till we return. We always need your support so please continue to order and enjoy our books. I’ll offer a Gen Con convention report in one of the Weekly Updates after we get back. Game on.
Back in stock: More fan favorite RPG sourcebooks are back in stock.
For Rifts: Triax & the NGR, Triax 2, Vampire Kingdoms, Vampire Sourceboook, and more. Most Rifts titles are now available.
For Dead Reign: Hell Followed – all Dead Reign titles are in stock.
For Palladium Fantasy RPG: Eastern Territory, Library of Bletherad, Wolfen Empire, and the Fantasy RPG itself. All Palladium Fantasy titles are now available, except maybe one. |
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Gen Con Frenzy – Ninja Turtles Gen Con Debut Booth 1523 — July 30th thru August 2nd
By the time you read this week’s Update the Palladium crew and I will have landed at Gen Con where we anxiously await to show off and sell the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness books, dice, and Game Master Screen. Gen Con is the big convention debut of this beloved role-playing and sourcebook collection, new and improved with full color, new layout, expanded and modernized rules, expanded tables, more mutants than ever, and cool bonus art and information. Sold on a first come, first served basis.
We’re also bringing the vast majority of our other RPGs and sourcebooks: Rifts, Palladium Fantasy (Island at the Edge of the World, 2nd Edition is new!), Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb (on sale), Dead Reign, Nightbane, and all the rest. In addition there will be a selection of out of print books (each with a Siembieda Dragon head sketch), negatives from Rifts and Robotech, some prints, artwork, and other goodies. And take advantage of Convention Specials at our booth!
So come on over to Palladium Books Booth 1523. Bring your favorite books to get signed, buy books for yourself, buy books and art as gifts for others (and get ‘em signed), chat with me (Kevin), Sean, and the Palladium Crew, take photo ops with us and Leonardo, and make Palladium Books one of your must stops of the weekend.
Meet and chat with Palladium creators: Kevin Siembieda, game designer and founder of Palladium Books Sean Owen Roberson, game designer, business partner, and Creative Director Daniel Lansdown, Office and Marketing Manager (IDW TMNT game designer) Wayne Smith, Editor and so much more Caleb Nelson, order processing and Lord of the Warehouse Matthew Clements, writer (Northern Gun, Dead Reign) Mark Oberle, writer (Nightbane, Dead Reign, Rifts) Glen Evans, writer (Palladium Fantasy, The Rifter) Mike Leonard (The Rifter, paper minis)
All are happy to sign your books and chat with you for a little while. |
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Don’t Miss Our Gen Con Q&A Panels!
Join Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson for two special opportunities to learn more about Palladium Books, hear behind-the-scenes stories, and ask your questions directly.
TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux Q&A Friday at 4:00 PM Eastern Time ICC Room 212
Learn more about the recently released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Redux tabletop role-playing game, discover the history behind the original game, and hear how it influenced many of today’s game designers and creators.
Kevin and Sean will discuss the game, its legacy, and the creation of the New Editions, followed by questions from the audience.
Rifts®, the Megaverse® and Beyond Q&A Saturday at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Crowne Plaza — Conrail Station
Explore the many worlds of Palladium Books with Kevin and Sean.
Find out what is happening across Palladium’s game lines, hear about exciting titles currently in development, and ask questions about Rifts®, the Megaverse®, and anything else Palladium.
There may even be a few special guests! |
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| Dive Into The Megaverse® at DriveThruRPG.com
DriveThruRPG.com always has 300+ Palladium RPG products – 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! There are also G.M. and player aids, character generators, paper miniatures, character sheets, and FREE Previews of select books, The Rifter® #1-85, and more. Explore the Megaverse®. |
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| Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store
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! New items added regularly.
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. |
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| | | Closing Thoughts – On The Road For A Fun Filled Weekend With Fans
We have been doing Gen Con prep for a few weeks now. There’s always so much to do: spruce up our booth, tweak our display, make flyers, arrange meetings and interviews, pack and load up product, hotel and food arrangements, and on and on. Monday, we loaded up the truck. Tuesday, we headed out for Indianapolis, Indiana, with Wayne behind the wheel of the 26 foot rental truck and the rest of us in my mini-van. We spent Wednesday morning and afternoon setting up Booth 1523, Sean and I did an interview with Matt Lempke at Through Gamer’s Goggles, chatted with some industry pals, and dined out with Mike X, his lovely wife, and friends. We’re off to a good start.
Thursday is the first day the Exhibitors Hall is open and we hope the beautiful and super-fun TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG, Transdimensional Adventures, Game Master Screen, and Mutagen Green Dice Set make a huge splash. These books and items are just fabulous and made with love. As Ninja Turtle fans ourselves, we put our hearts and souls into them. Plus the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG is one of the most beloved and bestselling RPGs in the history of gaming (played by millions)! And now the Redux RPG and sourcebooks are collected, updated for a modern audience, and remastered in full color as deluxe hardcovers. This will be their Gen Con debut.
Of course, we’ll also have the new Island at the Edge of the World, 2nd Edition (Fantasy), and a vast array of most Palladium RPGs and sourcebooks. In addition, I have a few dozen out of print books, all signed and with a dragon’s head drawing, negatives, and other things I think gamers might enjoy.
We will try to remember to take pictures and post ‘em online during the show, but we tend to get lost in the moment and forget to post them or even take photos at all. We expect to have a lot of fun even with all the work. Sean and I, and the rest of the Palladium crew, love to be at the booth as much as possible so we can sign books and chat with our fans, so we put in long hours. I’ll report all about Gen Con in one of the upcoming Weekly Updates that follow the event. We hope you enjoy your weekend and continue to find fun and adventure gaming in your neck of the woods.
– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend |
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