The Adventure Awaits – Weekly Update – August 27, 2026

CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF RPG FUN

A LEGACY OF INNOVATION – ONE GAME SYSTEM – ENDLESS ADVENTURE

By Kevin Siembieda and Daniel Lansdown

Adventure and magic are everywhere at Palladium Books right now.

New books are taking shape, crowdfunding campaigns are on the horizon, our YouTube library continues to grow, convention season is still going strong, and the Worlds of Palladium exhibit is entering its final three weeks at the Detroit Historical Museum.

And this weekend, we’re turning our attention to the Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game with another Game Night – Weekend Adventure Sale!

Whether your idea of adventure means exploring forgotten ruins, battling grotesque and terrifying monsters, dimension-hopping through time and space, diving into the supernatural, or witnessing the direct aftermath of the Great Cataclysm, there is one thing they all have in common: a gathering of like-minded souls eager to delve into the impossible and explore worlds unknown.

So sit down with close friends or join a completely new adventuring party and live the fantasy. You know you want to, and you’re sure to enjoy laughs, create lasting memories, and be challenged in ways you don’t expect.

There is a lot happening throughout the Megaverse®. Where will you begin your next adventure? Hmmm, maybe with one of the books in the new sale.

Explore Palladium Fantasy on YouTube

There is more to Palladium than the books on your shelf. Seriously, there is so much history, lore, and epic adventures to be shared that we can’t possibly describe them all at any one sitting or book. That’s why we’ve been sharing our adventures, thoughts, gaming philosophies, and history of Palladium Books with you on YouTube.

We’ve been having a lot of fun sharing the stories behind the scenes – the history of Palladium, the games we have created, legendary campaigns, crazy characters, design decisions, memories from the early days, and the people and ideas that helped shape the Megaverse®.

J-M DeFoggi and Kevin Siembieda (plus a few special guests) have recorded a growing video-library of conversations, interviews, and gaming stories found on the Palladium Books YouTube Channel, with even more new videos on the way. Most are designed to be timeless, so you can listen to them today or in the future.

With Fantasy taking center stage this weekend, here are three fun videos to watch or listen to within our History of Palladium Books Series.

Episode 6 – Palladium Fantasy Game

Go back to one of the earliest major milestones in Palladium’s history: the creation and launch of the Palladium Fantasy™ Role-Playing Game.

Kevin looks back at the beginnings of the game, its development, and the imagination that helped establish the foundation for so much of what Palladium would become.

Watch Palladium Fantasy Game – Episode 6

Episode 7 – The History of the Defilers – Part 1 of 4

This is where the story begins

Meet the Defilers, Kevin’s legendary Palladium Fantasy adventuring group, and discover some of the characters and wild campaign stories that helped bring the Palladium World to life. Lucifer the Sasquatch. The King of Rocks. Impossible situations, strange heroes, and the kind of unexpected storytelling that can only happen around a role-playing table.

Watch The History of the Defilers – Part 1

Episode 16 – The Defilers in Hell – Fantasy Adventure

Take the adventure much, much farther.

This episode brings the saga of the Defilers toward its conclusion with the secrets of the sword, the Time Hole, journeys into Hell, and more memories from one of Palladium’s most infamous campaigns.

It is a great example of how a role-playing campaign can grow from a handful of players and characters into stories people fondly remember decades later.

Watch The Defilers in Hell

And there is much more to discover.

Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy™, Heroes Unlimited™, Beyond the Supernatural™, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness, Robotech®, and all talked about with the publisher! From creator interviews to behind-the-scenes stories, there are decades of gaming memories and history waiting for you on the Palladium Books YouTube channel.

Palladium Fantasy GAME NIGHT!

Weekend Adventure Sale – 30% Off!

Grab the dice. Gather your adventuring party. Stock up on snacks and adventure boldly. It’s Palladium Fantasy Game Night!

For this weekend’s adventure sale, we’re heading into realms of magic and fantasy. So of course, that begins with the Palladium Fantasy™ Role-Playing Game – a world of kingdoms, ancient ruins, magic, monsters, gods, demons, forgotten civilizations, and seemingly endless possibilities.

Whether you are starting a new campaign, returning to an old favorite, or looking for fresh ideas for your current group, this selection offers plenty of material to get the imagination burning. Plus, we’ve added a few Fantasy and Magic themed books from elsewhere in the Megaverse® that creative Game Masters may want to raid for even more ideas.

Rifts® England brings mythology, magic, druids and Arthurian inspiration. Wormwood™ offers a bizarre living world filled with knights, heroes, and magic to battle supernatural minions. The Rifts® Book of Magic is overflowing with magical ideas, spells, and inspiration.

And TMNT® Transdimensional Adventures Redux brings dimensional and time-travel possibilities, magic, and worlds that can send an adventuring party almost anywhere.

SAVE 30% – FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY!

Products included in the sale:

• Palladium Fantasy™ RPG – Softcover – Cat. No. 450

• Monsters & Animals™ – Cat. No. 454

• Island at the Edge of the World™ – Cat. No. 458

• Chaos Lands™ – Cat. No. 468

• Eternal Torment™ – Cat. No. 469

• Mysteries of Magic™ – Cat. No. 472

• Rifts® Dimension Book One: Wormwood™ – Cat. No. 809

• Rifts® England – Cat. No. 807

• Rifts® Book of Magic – Cat. No. 848

• TMNT® Transdimensional Adventures REDUX– Cat. No. 508HC

  
  

Whether you need an entire new campaign setting or just one book packed with monsters, magic, locations, villains, and ideas to shake up your next session, this is a great weekend to add something new to the gaming table.

Mix & Match. Explore the possibilities. Unleash your imagination. And have an adventure!

Experience the Worlds of Palladium Exhibit

Last Chance – Closes September 13, 2026

If you have been meaning to visit the Worlds of Palladium exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum, don’t wait much longer. The exhibit is entering its final weeks. Closing September 13th.

Worlds of Palladium celebrates Palladium Books, Detroit’s role-playing game history, and the creators and fans who helped tabletop gaming grow from a niche hobby into the worldwide phenomenon it is today. Artwork, history, and pieces from Palladium’s past help tell the story of more than four decades of imagination and adventure.

If you are within driving distance of Detroit and have been thinking about coming down, this is your last chance.

And while you’re in town, give Palladium a call and see if you can swing by the office. We are only 30 minutes away from the Museum. If Kevin and the crew are available, we are always happy to meet fans, sign some books, and show you our little idea factory.

Detroit Historical Museum – 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit, Michigan, 48202 – telephone: 313-833-1805 – Admission: $15 for adults, Children 6-12 $8. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Open Wednesday thru Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, Sunday 1-5 PM. September 13th is the final day of both exhibits.

COMING NEXT FROM PALLADIUM

The Next Adventures Are Taking Shape

There is a lot happening behind the scenes at Palladium right now – writing, editing, artwork, layout, development, crowdfunding preparation, and more.

Books in the Works

• Rifts Bestiary Volume 2 – Coming this fall

• Glitter Boy Codex (all new) – Coming soon to Backerkit

• Yin-Sloth Expeditions™ (epic Fantasy) – Coming this fall on Backerkit

• Rifts Chaos Earth®: First Responders

• Rifts® Antarctica

• The Rifter #86

• And more! (Including a number of secret projects)
  

Please note that each crowdfunding campaign will offer additional RPG products such as new dice sets, Game Master screens, print sets, poker decks, and more, as well as discounts on selections of existing titles.

Here are two projects we are especially excited about.

Yin-Sloth Expeditions™ Coming This Fall

A Palladium Fantasy Adventure Sourcebook

When freelance writer John Klinkel and I expanded Yin-Sloth Jungles, we added so much it had to be split into two books. Yin-Sloth Jungles (available now) is part sourcebook and part jungle monster manual. It sets the stage with lore, player characters and monsters.

Yin-Sloth Expeditions is a deep dive into the jungles, ancient and forgotten civilizations, exotic places, magic, mystery, and adventure after adventure. All of them updated and rewritten by me (Kevin Siembieda) and John, with a ton of new details, challenges, expanded world information, new villains/monsters, and a constant source for mystery and adventure.

Watch for the Yin-Sloth Expeditions crowdfunding campaign this fall, 2026. We’ll launch it when the book is finished and ready to go to the printer, and offer a new Fantasy Game Master Screen, dice set, and more.

• All updated and revised for 2nd Edition Rules.

• 10 full adventures plus random encounter tables and ideas for many more.

• New locations, new villains, new mysteries, and treasure.

• The expanded City of Dragons, City of Sea Giants, ancient ruins, magic, and mysteries.

• 30+ maps all redone by artist Phil Stone.

• New and expanded encounter tables, expanded settings, and new material throughout.

• 192 pages (tentative) – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 460.

Join the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex

Crowdfunder Pre-Launch Page

The Glitter Boy Codex is a brand new sourcebook for Rifts. It reveals more background and history about the Glitter Boy and its heroic legacy since the Great Cataclysm. The book offers new Glitter Boy weapons and gear, armor features, heroes of legend, adventure ideas, and more.

And we are doing something very special with this release.

The Glitter Boy Codex will be available as a traditional black-and-white softcover sourcebook and as a full-color hardcover edition.

That makes this a historic moment for Palladium Books, because the Glitter Boy Codex will be the first full-color Rifts® sourcebook ever!

Best of all, as a crowdfunder, we are able to offer unique rewards and addons like a special Rifts dice set, customizable Rifts Game Master screen, and more surprises we’ll reveal as we get closer to launch.

Sign up to the Pre-Launch page now to get a preview of the book and to be notified the moment the BackerKit crowdfunder goes live. And please, please, please spread the word to Rifts fans everywhere. We want to make this something special.

Granite State Comic Con is something special

September 18, 19, 20

It is the unofficial Ninja Turtles Convention because Kevin Eastman is a frequent guest and so are many of the Mirage Studios and IDW artists. Where else are you gonna meet Simon Bisley, Lawson, Lavigne, Berger, Talbot, Dooney, Doyle, Farley, Pe, Delgado, Williams II, Bishop, the Escorza Brothers, Rooth, Smith, Waltz, and dozens of other Ninja Turtles, comic book, and Hollywood icons like Lou Diamond Phillips, Khary Payton, voice actor James Saito (Shredder), and more.

And this year, you also get to meet the Palladium Crew: Me (Kevin Siembieda), Daniel Lansdown, and Caleb Nelson. We’ll be in the game room connected to Artists Alley with a slew of TMNT & Other Strangeness books and After the Bomb books to get signed by us, Eastman and the many other contributing artists at Comic Con. And we’ll be bringing a smattering of Rifts, Fantasy, Heroes Unlimited, and other books for your enjoyment. Oh yeah, and with some incredible convention special deals you won’t want to miss, so be sure to swing by our booth. Come on over and join the fun.

Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo (PAGE)

January 14-17, 2027

This is another fun and rapidly growing convention. A must for gamers in the northeastern US, especially old school gamers!

Last year it had nearly 100 guests – many are legends in the role-playing game industry. Including little ol’ me, Kevin Siembieda, Matthew Balent, Matt Forbeck, Frank Mentzer, Zeb Cook, Ed Stark, Jeff Dee, Darlene, Harold Johnson, Professor Dungeon Master, Kelsey Dionne (Shadow Dark), Chris Arneson, and dozens more.

I will be back as a guest, and I’m in two panel talks with J-M DeFoggi. I believe Jim Zub (writer of Conan for Titan Comics) is one of the new guests. The Saturday Night auction is amazing too. Join the fun.

Closing Thoughts – When Fantasy Becomes A Reality

Hi Folks,  Daniel Lansdown here, the “NEW GUY” at Palladium Books. There is so much excitement packed into this Weekly Update. Fantasy adventures, Game Night savings, videos to enjoy, the final weeks of the Worlds of Palladium exhibit, convention appearances, and a growing slate of books in development.

But for me, what has been most exciting isn’t any single project.

It is being surrounded by the people creating them, and the fans that make it all possible.

Coming from the world of corporate burnout into Palladium has been an extraordinary change for me. This is a place where imagination is encouraged, ideas are constantly bouncing around the room, and I get to work every day with a crew of brilliant, creative, genuinely kind-hearted people who care deeply about what they make.

And then there is the Palladium community.

The community Kevin has fostered over more than four decades – the gamers, Game Masters, artists, writers, collectors, friends, and longtime fans – is unlike anything I have experienced before. The enthusiasm, stories, loyalty, creativity, and kindness so many of you bring to Palladium continually reminds me why all of this matters.

There is a tremendous amount happening here, and I’m grateful to be part of it.

I’ll turn things over to the man who created this wonderful place and has spent 45 years reminding all of us to “explore the possibilities” and “unleash our imaginations.”

Kevin, take it away.

– Daniel Lansdown, Office Manager, Marketing, and Gamer

Thank you for your very kind words and warm sentiments. I have to admit, I have – with the help of many others like all of you – created something wonderful. Something that transcends me, my games, and my ideas. Palladium Books is a family that has taken on a beautiful life of its own. A house of ideas, collaboration and camaraderie.

Last week, a Michigan, independent filmmaker came to visit for an hour. Three plus hours later he left fired up about the possibilities. He saw the magic and close-knit energy between us all. Several times he commented on what a great work environment we have and that every member of the Palladium team was kind and generous with their time – made him feel immediately welcomed. And that all businesses should aspire to be like Palladium. When Sean’s parents visited the first time and again at the Palladium Open House they said we’ve created something truly special and healing.

It feels magical even to me.

It’s why Sean is the person to help me run and take over the operation of Palladium, because he gets it and he’s part of the magic.

It’s why Jeremy Colantonio said Palladium was the best place he had ever worked and was sorry he had to leave.

It’s why the energetic and hardworking Daniel Lansdown – “new guy” – fits right in and is excited about everything going on behind the scenes and the future of Palladium. A future he’s helping to shape.

It’s why Palladium Books makes a difference in the gaming world and amongst the legion of gamers who have ever played our games.

Part of it is we all care. We care about each other, you, and the quality of our work. Part of it has to do with our genuine passion for gaming and the gaming community. Part of is the reciprocal love and respect we have for our fans. And part of it is … well magic. A blessing from on high we all recognize, appreciate, and hope to continue for decades yet to come. We are so happy you are part of the adventure and wonderment that is Palladium Books. With love and respect,

– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend

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