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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 20, 2026 |
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| We have spent a lot of time this week tweaking the Palladium website and promoting Palladium Books, TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products (available now!), and the BRIC charity (please donate to this very worthy cause). We’ve also been prepping for the GAMA Trade Show, A Weekend Conversation with Kevin Siembieda, and Gen Con. Busy, busy, busy.
We updated the Palladium Books website making it easy to find and purchase TMNT & Other Strangeness and we hope you’ll help spread the word that the products are now available for purchase. You can get your copy directly from Palladium Books as well as many hobby stores and game shops. If your favorite store doesn’t have the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products, please let them know they are available. |
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| Please help if you can – the BRIC crowdfunder saves children from slavery |
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| We all talk about how slavery and child abuse is horrible. Epstein is in the news every day. Here is your chance to truly do something about it in one small corner of the world. I know life is uncertain and money is tight for many of you, which is why we are asking for only a $10 donation to BRIC. Of course, more is appreciated if you can afford it, but even $10 – especially if we can get 100+ Palladium fans to help – can make a huge difference and truly save lives. Be the light. Be proud to make a real difference.
The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo face one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Displaced, starving, and homeless children and teens are taken from their families and forced to become child-soldiers and slaves of rebel warlords. BRIC has created a safe haven that protects and offers services necessary for survival. However, it needs our support to continue to provide protection, food, and aid.
Please join me (Kevin Siembieda) and Sean Owen Roberson by helping in any way you can. Your donations, small or large, will save lives. $10 is all we ask. Let us show the world how caring and powerful the Palladium gaming community can be. Let us help them shatter their modest goal of $2,500 for this funding campaign. The link to the crowdfunder webpage is listed below. This current BRIC fundraising campaign is happening now and ends March 16, 2026. Every penny collected goes to BRIC. Thank you for your consideration and support. Please spread the word. Your help is appreciated. – Kevin Siembieda & Sean Owen Roberson |
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| 2026 Explore the Megaverse® SALE – Final days |
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| Think of this as our Palladium Books 45th Birthday / Try Something New Sale with offerings across most of the Megaverse®. The first of many 45th Anniversary celebrations throughout the year. Limited time offer – Sale ends Thursday, February 25th. 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. See details below or click on the link. |
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| | A special message. Enjoy the sale, but we’d love it if you bought one less book and donated that money to BRIC, that’s how important this cause is to us. It’s so rare when your money can actually be put toward saving children and teens from a fate worse than death. Each Palladium staff member has already contributed to BRIC. Please join us. |
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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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| | COMING SOON! We’ve also been working on books. In fact, Island at the Edge of the World, Second Edition should be available in the next month or two. |
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| | COMING March 15th – Sean and I will be back for a new Legion of Myth livestream on March 15th, starting at noon. 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 know. |
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| | | | Palladium Books turns 45 this year (and I turn 70), so far so good I’d say. Our thanks to our millions of fans, past and present, for making this possible. To celebrate, we’ll be presenting special sales and events throughout the year, including special podcasts, YouTube shows, and convention offers. (See the Gen Con coupon book for two, and come to our booth to see another.) Our current Explore the Megaverse SALE is just the first of such sales. Check it out, below. And keep your eyes open for others, especially the May 5th offer, but there will be others before that. |
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| 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. |
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| Join me and the Palladium crew 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. Details to come 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 remain hot. Remember, you can now order PDFs directly from Palladium Books as well as DriveThruRPG.com. |
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| | Palladium Needs Game Masters to run gaming events at Gen Con! Help us 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 – see details below. |
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| | Palladium’s Convention & Event Schedule |
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| 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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| Final Days – 2026 Explore the Megaverse® SALE – Ends March 25th |
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| This is our try something new sale with offerings across most of the Megaverse®. The first of many 45th Anniversary celebrations throughout the year. Limited time offer – sale ends Thursday, March 25. And make sure you 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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| | 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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We are pushing hard to get books into your hands and doing much more social media and marketing – which you are loving. That’s great because we aim to please.
The Weekend Conversation with Kevin Siembieda (details and tickets coming soon) is a special event that celebrates Palladium Books’ 45th Anniversary in a casual environment tentatively Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25. It’s just two afternoons of hanging out and chatting with fans about the history and future of Palladium Books.
As usual, there are a lot of things happening behind the scenes that you’ll love, but we can’t reveal anything quite yet. Meanwhile, keep your eyes and ears open for that Phase World sourcebook project coming from Star Anvil (it’s the first of many) and a big, Audio RPG Nightbane crowdfunder with some special physical items you’ll really want to get. More news to come.
For now, enjoy the Explore the Megaverse Sale, help support BRIC if you can (only 10 bucks), and enjoy a nice weekend. Wayne and I hope to see some of you at the GAMA Trade Show about a week from now. Bring books to sign and come looking to buy Rifts and TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products – heck, the whole Megaverse of RPGs. See ya.
– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend |
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