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| CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF RPG PUBLISHING – ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE |
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| | Sale – News – Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – February 13, 2026 |
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| Palladium Books turns 45 years old this year. I know there is a percentage of you who have followed us since the very beginning. Our heartfelt thanks to all our fans whether you’ve been with us since year one or just discovered us last week.
Here are 5 ways to celebrate Palladium’s 45 year milestone:
1. Try a new Palladium setting or sourcebook that you never tried before. Our new Explore the Megaverse SALE should help you do just that. Check it out, below. Oh, and this will be just the first of our special sales and offers throughout 2026. |
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| | 2. Visit the Detroit Historical Museum and see the Worlds of Palladium exhibit – now thru September 13, 2026. The exhibit is freakin’ awesome and how many times does a role-playing game company get recognized like this? Not often. The exhibit itself is historic, so come and see it and all the impressive exhibits at the museum, like Heroes & Villains: Detroit’s Comic Book Story, Streets of Old Detroit (a fave), 100 Years of Red Wings Hockey, and America’s Motor City, among others. The Detroit Institute of Arts museum is across the street and is one of the best in the country.
Detroit Historical Museum – 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit, Michigan, 48202 – telephone: 313-833-1805 – Admission: $15 for adults, Children 6-12 $8. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, Open Wednesday thru Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, Sunday 1-5 PM. While in town for the exhibit you may also be able to visit Palladium’s Westland office and warehouse. Just call ahead of time (734-721-2900) to make sure Kevin and/or any staff members will be available to greet you and offer a brief tour. We are happy to chat and sign any books you bring. Subject to staff availability. No guarantee. Call 734-721-2900 office tel – 39074 Webb Court – Westland, MI 48185. Near Ford Road and I-275. |
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| 3. Join us for a Weekend Conversation with Kevin Siembieda at Palladium Books – April 24-25 (tentative). Come see the museum exhibit in the morning and hang with me (Kevin Siembieda), the Palladium staff and other visiting artists, writers, and game creators in the afternoon and evening. This is not an Open House and there’ll be no games. It’s exactly what it sounds like, hanging around and asking Kevin and crew questions about the history of Palladium Books, the Detroit Gaming Center, Erick Wujcik, TMNT and other favorite books, etc., at the Palladium warehouse. Informal and fun. Product will be available for purchase. More to come. |
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| | 4. Join me (Kevin Siembieda) and Sean Roberson at 11:00 AM Eastern for a livestream chat on Legion of Myth this Sunday, February 15th. Topic of discussion: The history and many accomplishments of Palladium Books. Did you know we were the first to do a universal game system and perfect bound books? Did you know Palladium was the first company to license the TMNT and the first to do a Robotech game? We also set a new standard for cover and interior artwork, world building, and lore. Ask questions about TMNT, Erick Wujcik, Keith Parkinson, and more. |
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| | 5. Help celebrate 45 Years of Palladium by running gaming events at Gen Con! Let’s introduce new gamers to the Megaverse. If you are planning to attend Gen Con earn a free badge ($164 value) and 50% off Palladium products by running four or more Palladium games. That can be any of our game worlds from TMNT or Heroes Unlimited to Rifts® or Palladium Fantasy (our rules or Savage Worlds). Please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated game room and other perks like a free Game Master badge, and discounts on your purchases at the Palladium Books booth. We need your commitment, game descriptions and info by March 8. Send to Jeremy Colantonio via email at jeremy@palladiumbooks.com. |
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| 2026 Explore the Megaverse® SALE |
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| Think of this as our Palladium Books 45th Birthday / Happy Valentine’s Day / President’s Day / Try Something New Sale with offerings across most of the Megaverse®. The first of many 45th Anniversary celebrations throughout the year. Limited time offer. And while you’re at it, grab some of the super-hot, super-gorgeous TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products before the first printing sells out. Dead Reign® RPG (softcover) – Cat. No. 230 – The Zombie Apocalypse Palladium style – unlike anything on the market. A great introductory game. Dead Reign® RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 230HC – The Zombie Apocalypse. Dead Reign Sourcebook: Fear the Reaper – Cat. No. 234 Dead Reign Sourcebook: Graveyard Earth – Cat. No. 235 Dead Reign Sourcebook: In the Face of Death – Cat. No. 237 – Dungeon crawl through cities. The Mechanoids® Trilogy – Cat. No. 400 Palladium Fantasy RPG, 2nd Edition (softcover) – Cat. No. 450 Palladium Fantasy RPG, 1st Edition Hardcover – Cat. No. 449HC Old Ones Sourcebook (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 453 Western Empire (Fantasy) – Cat. No. 462 Land of the Damned 1: Chaos Lands – Cat. No. 468 Land of the Damned 2: Eternal Torment – Cat. No. 469 Heroes Unlimited RPG (softcover) – Cat. No. 500 Gramercy Island – Cat. No. 518 – 100 villains and adventure ideas. After the Bomb® Hardcover – Cat. No. 503HC – Includes 50+ pages of bonus material, more mutant animals and Chimeras, suitable for use with TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG. Mutants Down Under, AtB sourcebook – Cat. No. 507 – Mutant animals and insects. Mutants in Avalon, AtB sourcebook – Cat. No. 513 – King Arthur the Mutant Animal and more. Beyond the Supernatural RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 700HC Rifts® Ultimate Edition Hardcover – Cat. No. 800HC – A complete RPG unlike any other setting. Rifts® Ultimate Edition SOFTCOVER – Cat. No. 800-SE – A complete RPG. Rifts® 30th Anniversary Hardcover with bonus material – Cat. No. 800HC30 – The original RPG plus bonus art, concept art, the making of, and gallery of all covers to date. Rifts® Atlantis – Cat. No. 804 – Epic adventure with the Splugorth and their minions, Tattoo Magic, Stone Magic, Symbiotes, and more. Rifts® South America One – Cat. No. 814 – A mysterious jungle region, mutants, aliens and more. Rifts® Juicer Uprising – Cat. No. 820 – Juicer variants and adventure. Rifts® Australia – Cat. No. 834 – The land down under. Rifts® Final Siege – Cat. No. 844 – Perfect for setting up the Kingdom of Tolkeen before its fall; city maps and notable leaders, heroes, villains, and dragons. Rifts® Northern Gun 1 – Cat. No. 887 – Giant robots galore and NG lore. Rifts® Northern Gun 2 – Cat. No. 888 – Power armor, hovercycles and more. Rifts® Psi-Ops: Psychic War – Cat. No. 894 – CS psychics, Thought Police, Manhunters, Dog Boys, and more. Rifts® Titan Robotics – Cat. No. 899 – Giant robots, power armor, Archie-3, and more. Rifts® Cyberworks Collection Hardcover – Cat. No. 900 – Collects Sourcebooks One and Two, Shemarrian Nation, and select other Archie Three material. The Rifter® #85 – Cat. No. 185 – 224 pages of adventure and ideas for Rifts, Phase World, Palladium Fantasy, Dead Reign, and more.
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| | | Palladium needs YOU to run Gen Con Game Events |
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| Palladium is looking for experienced Game Masters to run Palladium RPG events at Gen Con. That can be any of our game worlds using our rules as well as Rifts® for Savage Worlds. If you are thinking about running games at Gen Con or want to help out, please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated game room and other perks like a free Game Master badge, and discounts on your purchases at the Palladium Books booth.
To earn a free GM badge, all you need to do is run 4 games with 6 or more players in each game, 4 hours each. This will earn you enough credits with Gen Con to earn a GM badge – $164 value! Plus, Game Masters get a 50% off coupon on any one item (some exclusions apply) at the Palladium booth for each game they run.
We hope to add to our usual crew of Gen Con Game Masters to run Palladium game events for any Palladium setting:
We need your commitment, game description and info by March 8. Send to Jeremy Colantonio via email at jeremy@palladiumbooks.com — Submissions after this date are not guaranteed to be in the Gen Con Program Book and attendance may suffer.
(Note: See Gen Con’s website for details about the info needed for each game listing; G.M.’s name, number of players, length of time, name of game, difficulty level, etc.). Submitting your games to us enables Palladium to coordinate and submit them as a batch to Gen Con and guarantees your event gets listed in the onsite Gen Con Program Book. Being listed onsite is very important to have full attendance for your event. This date gives us enough time to compile and send Gen Con everything they need. Thank you!
Prospective Game Masters, please contact Jeremy Colantonio via email at: Jeremy@palladiumbooks.com |
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| | | THIS SUNDAY on Legion of Myth – February 15th – a new livestream chat with Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson. The subject: the museum exhibit, Palladium’s long history, and many accomplishments. We invite you to ask questions about Palladium’s past, TMNT, Erick Wujcik, Rifts, BTS, or Blizzard Entertainment flying me in to talk about worldbuilding, or ask questions about game design, writing, comic books, and whatever else you might wanna ask us. Note: Heathen Dog attended the Worlds of Palladium museum exhibit opening and filmed my talk. I believe they’ll be posting it to Legion of Myth next week. You must also watch the many timeless videos on the Palladium Books YouTube Channel for more about our many books and history of the company. |
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| | COMING SOON! Star Anvil’s Phase World® for Savage Worlds Kickstarter – watch for it and sign up to their pre-launch page so you don’t miss it. Like the Pinnacle books, this material, especially weapons, gear, spacecraft, and adventures, will be easy to adapt to your Palladium Phase World campaigns as well as offer a zillion ideas. They’ll be exploring new ground, offering new weapons, gear, villains, settings, adventures, and more across the Three Galaxies™. Follow this project now so you don’t miss out when it launches (soon). |
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| | UPDATE: What’s hot at Palladium? TMNT & Other Strangeness (all products), Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, and our many online store bundle deals. Remember, you can now order PDFs directly from Palladium Books as well as DriveThruRPG.com. |
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| | UPDATE: What’s in production? TMNT & Other Strangeness Bonus Adventure (for Kickstarter backers) is in final edits, Rifts Bestiary 2, Fantasy: Island at the Edge of the World, Revised 2nd Edition, and Fantasy: Yin-Sloth Expeditions. Otherwise, we’re busy shipping out late responding Kickstarter backers and other products, as well as working on another licensing deal and plotting other product releases. |
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| | UPDATE: Will there be new sourcebooks and RPG products for TMNT & Other Strangeness coming? We expect to reveal that in the months ahead. |
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| | Convention & Event Schedule: Worlds of Palladium Exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum – Now thru September 13, 2026. GAMA Trade Show, March 2-5 – Retailers come on by the Palladium Booth #1229 – not far from R. Talsorian. Bring books for me to sign – see products – order TMNT & Other Strangeness for your store! Chaosium Con – (April 17-19; I am tentatively planning to pop in as a spectator and hang out one of those days). A Weekend Conversation with Kevin Siembieda, April 24 & 25 (tentative) at Palladium’s Westland, Michigan warehouse. See the museum exhibit and come hang with Kevin and the staff, get autographs, pick up products, and have some fun. Gen Con Indy – July 30 thru August 2 – The biggest game show in North America. Universal/Alliance Open House (retailer trade show; September) – Retailers stop by our booth, see the latest products, and order TMNT & Other Strangeness. PAGE / Philadelphia Area Game Expo – Mid-January, 2027. Yet to be decided: We have been invited to Granite State Comic Con (mid-September) again, but I’m not sure we can make it. There are also rumblings that I may be invited to Anime North (Memorial Day weekend), but I’m not sure I can make that either.
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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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| | | | | Palladium Books turns 45 years old
I can hardly believe I have been writing and publishing role-playing games and sourcebooks for nearly half a century. What an honor and a blessing. As you know, I love what I do, I love the people I work with, and I love you, the greatest fans in the world.
To celebrate Palladium Books turning 45 this year, we will be offering sales like the one going on now, and special opportunities throughout the year. (Keep your eyes open on May 5th, the date when the TMNT #1 comic book was first released.) It’s also one of the reasons I’m doing A Weekend Conversation with Kevin Siembieda, April 24 & 25 (tentative date). And make sure you come see us at Gen Con, and bring books for us to sign.
It’s pure coincidence, or perhaps destiny, that the Detroit Historical Museum decided to do the Worlds of Palladium Books exhibit this year. Again, what an honor. I am deeply touched and honored.
Despite the single digit temperature, a lot of gamers and friends came to the exhibit’s opening last Saturday, February 7th. Parking was a nightmare and it made me 30-40 minutes late for my scheduled talk, but folks were understanding and waited for me. I chatted about Palladium’s early days and answered questions. You can soon see the talk on Legion of Myth as Heathen Dog and his lovely family attended the opening and they video taped the talk. The lights of the small auditorium were in my eyes, so even though he was right there in the front row, I didn’t realize it was him until he walked up to me afterward. It was a delightful surprise.
Another surprise was the family that drove in from Missouri. Since they came from so far away, I invited dad, Aaron, MacKenzie, and Andrew to tour the office. We hung out for an hour and a half after the exhibit closed before they had to hit the road to go home. I enjoyed the visit and the entire day. (Hey, reach out to me by email, Big Daddy.)
The whole afternoon was a delight for me. I tried to chat with as many people as I could – my apology if I was unable to chat with you – and this is another reason I want to do the two day Weekend Conversation with Kevin Siembieda at the end of April. I signed a lot of books and was super-happy to see so many gamers and friends. Old pals Michele and Mikki Ivey were there, Erik Campion and his buddy, Chris Guertin, Bill Korsak, and a bunch of others. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
My old comic book art mentor Arvell Jones showed up late-afternoon. Perfect timing because the crowd had thinned out and I got to enjoy talking with Arvell for a good 20 minutes. He was so proud of all I have accomplished. I love Arv and it was great to have some time with him at this special event. An event you still have time to see, because it runs through September 13, 2026, so come on over to see it, and maybe swing by the Palladium office while you’re in town.
A special shout out to Patrick Marshall and his lovely wife, Debbie. They visited the Palladium office Thursday afternoon as part of his birthday. Happy birthday Patrick! It was great meeting you both. I hope the rest of the day was nice.
That’s it for now. Enjoy the sale, I’ll see some of you at GAMA in two and a half weeks, and explore new realms of adventure.
– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend |
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