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| CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF RPG FUN – ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE |
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| | TMNT SALE & News – Palladium Books®
– Weekly Update – May 7, 2026 |
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| Save $10 on each edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, Transdimensional Adventures (time travel), and set of Mutagen Green Dice.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG is … Easy to learn for first-time gamers. Ages 12+. Fun for experienced gamers. Pure joy for old school gamers and fans of the comic books. Create any mutant animal in a matter of minutes. Fast and fun combat rules. WARNING: You may find yourself spending hours of fun creating mutant animal heroes.
Also on Sale: Transdimensional Adventures (time travel), the Mutagen Green Dice Set, and the two Black, White, and Red Editions! Plus Ninjas & Superspies, Mystic China, After the Bomb, Rifts Ultimate Edition and other select titles are part of the sale; many suitable for use with the Ninja Turtle books. Fans rejoice, happy 41st birthday TMNT. (May 5th is the official release date of the first TMNT comic book.) |
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| NEW! Spring Art SALE – All Art Prints – Half Price! Including the 7 NEW prints. Don’t miss the Art Print Sale with dynamic Palladium Books cover art at half price! Most prints are now only $5 each including the seven new art prints. Is it time to brighten up your game room, office, home, or store? If so, you’ll want to take a look at this sale. And while you’re at it, grab one or both of the new sports backpacks or some of the books back in stock. |
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| | | | | | | WANTED: Photographs from the Weekend with Kevin Siembieda (and friends) Event. If you have photos of the event or from the Detroit Historical museum, please mail them to Rifter@palladiumbooks.com – thanks. |
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| COMING SOON! Island at the Edge of the World, 2nd Edition, Fantasy Sourcebook – New layout, typesetting, index, and all text and stats edited and updated to Second Edition rules. Artwork modernized with gray tones by Jeremy Colwell. We forgot how much fun (and scary) the adventures, magic, and villains in this sourcebook are. $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 458 – expected availability mid-May. |
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| COMING SOON! Nightbane® Hardcovers for the RPG and EACH of the Nightbane sourcebooks – The books will be available as Exclusives in a crowdfunding campaign that starts May 19th by AudioRPG. This is the first time ever that all of the Nightbane sourcebooks are available as limited edition hardcovers! Palladium Collectors and Nightbane fans will want some if not all of these special editions. The audiobooks are super-cool too. When I listened to the Dark Designs Audiobook, the narration sounded so alluring and dramatic that I actually pulled out the physical book to compare the dialogue. I couldn’t believe we wrote something that sounded so amazing. Learn more on the AudioRPG pre-launch page. |
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| In Memoriam: Jodi Black — from Sean Owen Roberson |
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| Dear Palladium Family,
I regret to inform you that our friend Jodi Black – Chief Operations Officer of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and Savage Worlds “den mother” – passed away this past Saturday surrounded by her family and many many friends. Jodi bravely fought an aggressive lung disease for many months, and we are all saddened to see her go. |
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| As my fellow Texan and game designer Ed Wetterman said, “Some people just exist, never really making a mark, or a difference. Others are meteors streaking through a night sky in brilliant and sharp contrast to the darkness around them. Jodi Black is one of those people.”
Jodi was always fiercely protective, fiercely loving, and fiercely engaged. She did everything fiercely, and had a positive impact on everyone she met or worked with.
Jodi helped show me the ropes of working in the tabletop industry. When you hear me tell my story about a kind motherly woman threatening to break my fingers if I ever announced a Savage Worlds book out of turn, that was Jodi. She also personally introduced me to Kevin at GenCon 2019, and she and Clint always gave me invaluable support and advice as I worked to break into our niche industry as an author and designer. I learned a lot from her. I hope I learned enough. She was a model of the patience and love that I often struggle with. |
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| From my conversations with all of you at GenCon, the Palladium Open House, the recent Weekend with Kevin event, and countless online interactions, I know that many of you are either fans of playing Rifts for Savage Worlds or enjoy the books because of the art, stories, and adventure material regardless of a different set of RPG rules. Jodi and her husband Clint Black, who co-designed the first edition of Savage Rifts as well as the Adventure Edition of Savage Worlds, are a huge part of what makes Pinnacle Entertainment Group the special company it is. If you engaged with Savage Worlds, I can almost guarantee that you also engaged with Jodi – whether you realized it or not. So I wanted to let you know about her passing. Please click this link to see Pinnacle’s official announcement and more details.
– Sean Owen Roberson, Writer, Designer, Adventurer |
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| | | | | TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG and TMNT Transdimensional Adventures sourcebook are hot |
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| Get yours during the TMNT Birthday Sale and save big. Coffee table book quality, full color art by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Jim Lawson, Kevin Long, and many comic book and gaming legends in both. Each hardcover collects three of the beloved TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG titles. Each thoughtfully remastered with clean layout, rules updates, added material, more mutant animals, 15+ pages of brand new tribute art, all in full color for the first time ever. |
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| | | | Ninjas & Superspies RPG – Cat. No. 525 – $26.99 retail – 40+ types of martial arts, many special mystic powers, spies, gear, and rules for creating secret organizations. A wonderful companion to the TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG. Mystic China, a N&S sourcebook – Cat. No. 526 – $26.99 retail – 14 additional martial arts, more mystic power, the Mudra, Chi-Magic, 87 spells, immortals, demons, and much more. A great companion to the TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux RPG. Rifts® Adventure Guide – Cat. No. 849 – $26.99 retail – 150+ adventure ideas, Random Rifts Table, Generation Tables for Random Rifts, Building Cities & Towns, Mercenary Companies, secret organizations, and Traveling Shows; plus GM and player tips, and more. Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Cat. No. 850 – $20.99 retail – 200+ bionic components and features, foreign and Black Market bionics, cyber repairs, TW bionics, 7 different City Rat O.C.C.s, Cyber-Doc O.C.C. and Cyber-Snatcher O.C.C.s expanded, and more. Rifts® Black Market – Cat. No. 886 – $26.99 retail – The Black Market and its key factions and O.C.C.s described; plus dozens and dozens of weapons, robots, power armor, TW items and contraband. Rifts® Book of Magic – Cat. No. 848 – $31.99 retail – 700+ magic spells, plus Rune Weapons, Techno-Wizard devices, Bio-Wizardry weapons, symbiotes and much more. Rifts® China One: The Yama Kings – Cat. No. 857 – $24.99 retail – 30+ Chinese monsters, the Yama Kings, Dragonlands, 8 Hells on Earth, 20+ curses, and more. Rifts® China Two: Heroes of the Celestial Court – Cat. No. 858 – $24.99 retail – A dozen heroic O.C.C.s, Mystic Martial Arts Powers, Chi Channeling, Chi-Sight, and Chi-Weapons, Demon Queller, Gun Master, Geo-Front tech-weapons, and more. Rifts® D-Bees of North America – Cat. No. 874 – $26.99 retail – Nearly 100 D-Bees and their abilities described in detail; each illustrated. ‘Nuff said. Rifts® Mercenaries – Cat. No. 813 – $24.99 retail – The bestselling fan favorite sourcebook is back. It introduces Naruni Enterprises, Wellington Industries, Iron Heart Armaments, Golden Age Weaponsmiths, Angrar Robotics, Chipwell Armaments, and the weapons, vehicles, and gear they offer, plus 6 mercenary companies, 8 Merc O.C.C.s, and more. Available now. Rifts® Splynn Dimensional Market – Cat. No. 836 – $26.99 retail – They say you can buy anything at the market if you’re willing to pay the price. Tons of magic items like Bio-Wizard weapons, armor, and Bio-Borgs, magic restraints, Venom Blades, Kittani weapons and vehicles, 15 alien creatures, notable shops of Splynn, and more. Available now. Rifts® Dimension Book: Thundercloud Galaxy – Cat. No. 883 – $24.99 retail – 17 alien races. Monsters, minions, Gene-Tech, 101 ruins and adventure table, monster creation table, overview of the galaxy, and more. Available now. Fantasy: Mysteries of Magic, The Heart of Magic – Cat. No. 472 – $20.99 retail – the history, secrets, and mysteries behind Wizardy; new Wizard and Warlock Elemental spells, the Forsaken Mage and Half-Wizard O.C.C.s, and more. Available now. Fantasy: Bizantium and the Northern Islands – Cat. No. 474 – $26.99 retail – Secrets, dangers and mysteries of the North Sea, the Great Ice Shelf, and the Iceborn, plus magic, monsters, sea serpents, Necromancers, Skinbinders, Iceborn Sea Witch, and more. Available now. Nightbane®: Between the Shadows – Cat. No. 731 – $24.99 retail – Astral Mage, Dream Dancer, Arcane Detective and other O.C.C.s, plus the Astral Plane, the Dreamstream, Spook Squad, and more. All of it epic and intriguing. Available now.
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| | Social Media Fun with Palladium Books |
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| COMING May 24th – Legion of Myth Livestream with Kevin Siembieda & Sean Owen Roberson: We’ll be talking about all things Nightbane! Join the fun. Meanwhile, watch the spirited April 19th livestream. We thought it was very fun and insightful. This one and many others are available now on Legion of Myth. |
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| | | NEW! 3D6 Down the Line – Actual Play TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Adventure: Looking for something fun and funny, check this out. Looking to get some insight into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Role-Playing Game? Check this out, it’s informative and fun. The players each randomly rolled up their character’s background and played a team of mutant squid in New York City. I listened to some of it and thought it was pretty awesome. Available now. |
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| | | NEW! Sean Roberson and the Glitterbois’ TMNT & Other Strangeness “Live Play” video is now available for your listening enjoyment. Check it out. Sean said they had a blast playing. There’s also an earlier Fantasy RPG session with Kevin Siembieda. |
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| NEW on the Palladium Books YouTube Channel – We are posting short videos on YouTube and elsewhere for your information and enjoyment. So far people have been loving them. The subjects have been about the TMNT & Other Strangeness titles, but Rifts, Heroes Unlimited, Palladium Fantasy, and others are coming. And we’ll be experimenting with format and topics. Folks are also enjoying the longer format videos that we’ve been doing for about a year now. Each is designed to be timeless, so you can listen to them today, in the weeks ahead, or years from now. You do not need to listen to them in any particular order, just pick a topic and enjoy. |
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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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| | | | Jodi Black will be missed
Jodi Black was one of those people who made the world a better and brighter place just by being in it.
She was a ball of energy and good cheer. She was a dear friend and cheerleader of everyone she knew – and that was an army of people. When a younger Sean, new to the Pinnacle Savage Rifts team, wanted to meet me in person for the very first time at a Gen Con, it was Jodi who walked him over to the Palladium booth to make the introduction. When Sean returned after an hour or so of conversation with me, Jodi greeted him with: “Kevin’s great, right?” That’s Jodi in a nutshell. Kind, helpful, and full of life.
Our sincere condolences and love to her husband Clint, Jodi’s biological family, her Pinnacle family, and everyone who knew and loved her. This loss hurts so badly because we were the ones blessed to have had Jodi in our lives for the all-too-short time that she walked and laughed and gamed amongst us. Thankfully, she’ll remain in our hearts forever.
– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend |
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