A LEGACY OF INNOVATION – ONE GAME SYSTEM – ENDLESS ADVENTURE
By Kevin Siembieda and Daniel Lansdown
News briefs …
Blood-chilling Halloween Sale is live! We are offering our Palladium Horror sale early. Filled with scary savings and gruesome fun, and plenty of time for the books you order to arrive in time for you to build the Halloween RPG event (or campaign!) you know you want to do. Dead Reign® is not your typical zombie game and Nightbane® is epic urban fantasy, plus we’ll include select titles from Beyond the Supernatural™, Rifts® and other game lines. See more details below.
Note: There’s a similar PDF Sale taking place on DriveThruRPG.com right now too.
The Worlds of Palladium Exhibit – Extended
Good News Everybody! The Worlds of Palladium Exhibit is still up for visitation at the Detroit Historical Museum for at least another few weeks, possibly longer, so there’s still time to see it. I have not gotten an exact date yet for how long it may remain available for viewing. So before you come to see it, you should probably call the museum first to make sure the exhibit is available for viewing. The comic book exhibit has been taken down.
And when you’re in town, swing by the Palladium office to say hello, get a brief tour of our idea factory, and get some books signed. We are only 30 minutes from the Detroit Historical Museum.
Detroit Historical Museum – 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit, Michigan, 48202 – Telephone: 313-833-1805 – Admission: $15 for adults, $8 for Children 6-12
Open Wednesday thru Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, Sunday 1-5 PM.
Closed Monday and Tuesday.
The Mechanoids® Redux Edition!
Before The Terminator. Before the Matrix. Before Rifts, Phase World, or Aliens Unlimited. There was The Mechanoids.
Did you hear the news?! The Mechanoids Redux Edition: The Complete RPG Collection is part of the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder (launches October 20, 2026), and commemorates Palladium’s 45th Anniversary. This big, 250+ page book will collect the original Mechanoid Trilogy: The Mechanoid Invasion (1981), The Journey (1982), and Homeworld (1983), parts of Rifts Mechanoids Sourcebook (1992), AND the long forgotten The Mechanoids® RPG (1985) that contained an extra hundred pages of source material, artwork, vehicles, weapons, and more.
Sean has called the 1985 Mechanoids RPG “a lost and forgotten gem” – and the Mechanoids “a dark science fiction setting and characters ahead of its time.” Which is why he wants to collect and completely remaster it all into one big, beautiful, Redux Edition with new layout, updates, and full color art. How could I say no?
The Mechanoids® Collection Redux Edition Highlights:
Written by Kevin Siembieda; an adventure by Erick Wujcik.
Redux design, layout, and updates, by Sean Owen Roberson.
80% of the artwork is by Kevin Siembieda. Remember, most of you have never seen the additional art, characters, gear, or cover from the 1985 RPG, plus I (Kevin) have dug out additional never before seen art that I had created back in the day.
Additional art by William Messner-Loebs, Newton Ewel, Kevin Long, Mike Gustovich, and James A. Osten.
Newly colored for the very first time by Luis Antonio Delgado, renowned colorist of the New York Times best-selling graphic novel, The Last Ronin, amongst many other books.
The Mechanoid Redux Edition – deluxe, full color hardcover.
250+ pages – another dream project for me (Kevin) and Sean.
Follow the Glitter Boy Codex Backerkit Page for more details!
Palladium’s Halloween Horror Sale – 30% Off! Now Through October 14th
Halloween is just around the corner and you’ll need time to build your Halloween gaming event or RPG campaign, which is why we’re running this spine-chilling sale with books across the Megaverse NOW. So don’t be afraid to save some money and create a frightfully fun RPG or horror campaign in time for Halloween or during the long winter months ahead.
Stock up, save 30%, and make your next adventure pulse-pounding!
Dead Reign RPG HARDCOVER, Zombie Apocalypse – Cat. No. 230HC
Endless Dead Sourcebook – Cat. No. 233
Fear the ReaperSourcebook – Cat. No. 234
Graveyard EarthSourcebook – Cat. No. 235
Hell FollowedSourcebook – Cat. No. 236
In the Face of Death – Cat. No. 237
Beyond the Supernatural RPG – Cat. No. 700
Nightbane RPG – Cat. No. 730
All Nightbane Sourcebooks – Cat. No. 731-736
Rifts Ultimate Edition RPG – Cat. No. 800HC
Rifts Vampire Kingdoms – Cat. No. 802E
Rifts South America – Cat. No. 814
Rifts Vampires Sourcebook – Cat. No. 884
Rifts Africa (the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse) – Cat. No. 808
That’s when the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder goes LIVE on BackerKit.
You won’t want to wait until then though, you can get $30 worth of extra goodies with a $5 reservation on the Pre-Launch Page before we go live!
And as we get closer to launch, the Pre-Launch Page is going to continue revealing more artwork, more lore, more Glitter Boy variants, and surprises.
The Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex is a newly written and illustrated sourcebook devoted to one of the most iconic characters in Rifts® – the Glitter Boy pilot and their legendary chromium power armor the USA-G10.
Expect Glitter Boy suit modifications, new and variant weapons, new gear, adventure ideas, never-before-revealed Glitter Boy history, famous Glitter Boy groups, notorious individuals, powerful new artwork, and plenty of ways for players and Game Masters to make these legendary war machines their own.
You’ll be able to choose between the Glitter Boy Codex Softcover, featuring classic black-and-white interior artwork by Steven Cummings, and the full-color Glitter Boy Codex Hardcover, making it the landmark first full-color Rifts® sourcebook. Artwork by Steven Cummings with colors by Michael Majestic.
And there is much more.
We’re working on the customizable Rifts® Game Master Screen, custom dice sets, Rifts playmats, a new metal collector coin, Glitter Boy prints, the return of the fan-favorite full-color Rifts® Poker Deck on upgraded linen card stock, and other surprises that we are not ready to reveal just yet.
Plus, The Mechanoids Redux Edition: The Complete RPG Collection is coming to this crowdfunder to celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Palladium Books.
If you haven’t joined the Pre-Launch Page yet, now is the time. A $5 Pre-Launch Reservation unlocks a special $30 Rifts Surprise Bundle when you back the campaign at launch. Each Surprise Bundle will be hand-curated by the Palladium team and be sure to delight any Rifts fan.
Previous Palladium crowdfunder backers will also receive a bonus art print when backing this campaign.
Between now and October 20, keep watching the Pre-Launch Page. We have plenty more to show you.
Don’t miss it! Kevin and Sean will be reveal a special crowdfunding reward during the Legion of Myth Live Stream this Sunday, September 27th. And it’s big.
Follow. Reserve & Mark October 20th to your calendars – it’s time to suit up!
will be here before you know it – January 14-17, 2027
This is another fun and rapidly growing convention. A must for gamers in the northeastern U.S., especially old school gamers!
Last year it had nearly 100 guests – many of them 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 (Shadowdark), Chris Arneson, and dozens more.
I will be back as a guest, and I’m scheduled for two panel talks with J-M DeFoggi. I believe Jim Zub, writer of Conan for Titan Comics, is one of the new guests this year. The Saturday Night auction is amazing too.
Live Streams & Social Media Fun
Kevin & Sean have been busy sharing the news!
Friday Night Live by the Philadelphia Area Game Expo – A fun online chat with Kevin Siembieda. Check out the Friday Night Live on the Philadelphia Area Game Expo website/YouTube Channel.
I did a fun livestream on the show with Ron Meischler, Phil Wert, Jennifer Cash the Blind Bard, and fellow guest Rob Aldermann at Pulp Hummock Press (his Overlords of Steel RPG crowdfunder, it looks very interesting). We had a blast talking about a lot of different subjects.
Also check out the most recent Legion of Myth chats. Sean and Kevin had a very fun time talking about the Glitter Boy crowdfunder and The Mechanoids RPG Redux edition reveal.
And that’s not all. Palladium Books YouTube channel now has new weekly posts! There’s a new chat with Sean Owen Roberson about the GB Codex last week, Kevin Siembieda talks about The Mechanoids this week, and coming this month Rifts Mercenaries, Kevin’s take on Palladium Alignments, a new bit about the history of Palladium Books, Northern Gun, and more. Each is fun and provides new insight about our many games and sourcebooks.
Don’t forget to follow us on social media to watch our reels too. Plus, Daniel is about to start a fun weekly art series on our social media pages showing off the amazing art of Palladium Books and highlighting the many incredible artist we have had the pleasure of working with.
Wow, the Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder Pre-Launch is off to an amazing start. As of this writing we already have more than 1,700 followers with 20 days to go before the Backerkit campaign goes live. Not only that, more that 700 of you wonderful maniacs have made a $5 reservation to get $30 of additional rewards when you back the campaign. Wow. Cool. Please continue to spread the word because this crowdfunder is awesome.
The Glitter Boy Codex presents all kinds of new source material, weapons, gear, and history about the classic USA10 Glitter Boy. Not to mention great artwork and rewards like a Game Master Screen, dice sets, playmats, etc. Plus, we’ll be doing the sourcebook as a black and white softcover AND as a full color hardcover, and a special chromatic foil cover edition.
The Mechanoid Collection Redux Edition is also a big part of the Glitter Boy Crowdfunder. This includes the long lost and largely forgotten 1985 Mechanoids RPG which contained 100 pages of new source material, plus seldom and never before seen art, characters, equipment, and more.
This is all super-exciting for us, especially me, Will Erwin (GB writer), Sean Roberson (writer and designer of both books), and Daniel Lansdown (marketing). I love the new material for Glitter Boys and I’m thrilled the lost Mechanoids material is finding new life and a new audience in the Complete Collection.
Plus we’re getting reprint books in stock for Christmas and work continues on Rifts Bestiary Volume 2, Rifts Antarctica, Yin-Sloth Expeditions, and other projects.
So enjoy the two Palladium Horror Sales (books from BTS, Dead Reign, Nightbane, Rifts, Palladium Fantasy) and PDFs of those same books and more from DriveThru. Also take a look at the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG products because they are fun, beautiful, and completely usable with all our other RPGs, and enjoy your weekend.
– Kevin Siembieda, Founder, Game Designer, Writer, Friend
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ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE
BY KEVIN SIEMBIEDA
Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – February 14, 2025
Happy Valentine’s Day. Share the love and camaraderie with your fellow gamers and loved ones. I love you – our fans – you are the greatest. Now start running a game people will love. We have a new sale of hardcovers and select sourcebooks to give you a helping hand.
NEW Sale! Don’t miss it. Most Hardcovers are on sale along with an accompanying sourcebook or two. A great way to try a new setting and big savings. See all the details below.
Game Masters needed to run Palladium Game events at Gen Con. Please help if you can and earn free Gen Con admission with a GM’s badge and discounts on Palladium products. See all the details below.
NEWS! A new 48 page, color Catalog of Palladium Books is coming. We’ll have it in time for the GAMA Trade Show at the end of the month. That may not sound like a big deal, but it is for us. The catalog is attractive, features the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux on the cover, and was fun putting it together. A fun reminder of all the great books we have created.
GAMA Trade Show – February 24-27 – Visit Palladium Books at Booth #1176. If you are attending, please visit me (Kevin Siembieda) and Wayne Smith at Booth #1176 to get more information about TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux edition, see samples, and ask questions about it and other 2025 releases. Both individuals and retailers can place orders right now by going to the TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Pre-Order Store and get superior savings, because the final retail price will be $5-$10 higher than the current pre-order prices. Retailer Packages are located at the bottom of the page. You must be able to prove you are a brick and mortar store to qualify.
NEWS! A new episode of the Official History of Palladium Books has been posted! More about the Palladium Fantasy RPG line with a focus on the first sourcebook, The Arms of Nargash-Tor. Every episode is fun, friendly, and reveals the back story behind a particular product or game line. Watch for a new episode every other week and enjoy.
NEWS! Live chat with Kevin Siembieda on Legion of Myth – Sunday, February 16, 2025. We will discuss how to use and expand Palladium’s Hook, Line and Sinker adventure outlines into a full blown adventure or series of adventures. I’m sure there will be a lot of talk about building and running adventures in general. Please join me, MaxLiao, and Heathdog for a spirited discussion. The chat starts at 2:00 PM and runs till about 4:00 PM, but the show is also recorded and made available after the live broadcast.
NEWS! What’s hot this week at Palladium? I’d say Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy, After the Bomb® and Dead Reign® have been hot this week.
NEWS! Here is a zombie Kickstarter Campaign you might find interesting – Dead Flesh RPG. It is a zombie game written by Palladium Books freelance writer Dan Frederick with art by Big Nick Bradshaw (Dead Reign® RPG series). As the name suggests, this is an RPG that deals with the zombie apocalypse. It sounds fun so check it out. Palladium gamers who already play Dead Reign® may find additional zombies, resources, and adventure ideas to fuel their current Dead Reign campaign.
Hardcover Sale – Save 25%
This sale offers many hardcover RPGs and one or a few sourcebooks to go along with them. This is a bigger savings on hardcovers than you may think. As much as Palladium has held the line on the price of our books, we will be increasing the cover price of many titles over the months ahead. That starts with the hardcovers, which will be increasing $5-$10. Hardcovers currently selling for $36.99, like Dead Reign® RPG and Chaos Earth® RPG, will soon sell for $44.99. So get them now at sale prices based on the current, low retail price (while supplies last). That’s a significant savings when you buy before the prices increase. Get ‘em while you can and save.
Game Masters Needed to Run Palladium Gen Con Game Events – we need YOU
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 were thinking about running games at Gen Con or want to help out Palladium, please coordinate with Palladium Books in order to get a dedicated 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 – $155 value!
We hope to add to our usual crew of Gen Con Game Masters to run Palladium game events for any Palladium setting:
Rifts®
Rifts® for Savage Worlds
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness
After the Bomb®
Chaos Earth®
Palladium Fantasy RPG®
Heroes Unlimited
Ninjas & Superspies
Nightbane®
Dead Reign®
Beyond the Supernatural and any of our other settings.
We need your commitment, game description and info by February 28. Send to Jeff Ruiz, aka NMI, via email at nmi {at} thedeificnmi.com
Game Masters and Game Event Descriptions NEEDED by February 28, 2024. (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.). This enables Palladium to coordinate and submit them as a batch to Gen Con and guarantees to have your event 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!
AudioRPG is cranking out the audiobooks and will be offering the Nightbane®: Survival Guide sourcebook (one of my personal favorites) in a few weeks. They are tentatively looking to launch it on February 27, but that date could change.
We have been blown away by the quality production and that listening to the audiobook makes the sourcebook feel brand new. It’s a whole new experience. I love ‘em, check it out. The buy-in is only around $25.
An RPG audiobook may sound crazy, but it won’t after you listen to the samples presented in this Nightbane® Survival Guide Audiobook crowdfunder taking place on Backerkit by one of Palladium’s new licensing partners. It sounds amazing! We were all blown away by the quality.
Fun to listen to.
Relaxing game prep.
Professional narration.
Convenient for the busy G.M.
Hearing the words spoken by a professional narrator makes the book come to life in a whole new way and feel brand new.
Hearing it also makes you notice game and adventure details you may have missed reading it yourself.
EVERYONE at Palladium endorses this product 100%. Go to the page and listen for yourself. You’ll be as pleased as we are.
Dive into the thrilling Urban Fantasy world of Nightbane® with Nightbane Survival Guide.
Your new adventure starts here when you listen to the Nightbane Survival Guide filled with details about surviving in the world as a Nightbane, the Becoming (the first time they transform into something inhuman), transformation rules, how to make allies and contacts, the hidden war, the Nightbane underground railroad, more on Factions and rules for creating them, adventures, and adventure hooks. Fun for players and Game Masters.
The audiobook is perfect for enhancing your Nightbane campaign or exploring its lore on the go.
The project crowdfunding happens on Backerkit and tentatively begins Thursday, February 27, 2025. (Note: I think the next offering in March will be the Nightbane® RPG, but I may be mistaken on that.)
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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®.
Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store
I am adding new collectibles of all kinds to my Ebay store in time for the holiday season. Some are Palladium negatives, rare and out of print books, original Palladium artwork, prints, posters, as well as other collectible toys, action figures, Nightmare Before Christmas items, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, books, and other good stuff – including Erick Wujcik’s rare and sought after Amberzine #12-15. Check in every week or so to see what’s new. All items come from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection.
One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). 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. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed.
Each negative is truly unique, attractive, and fun to have.
Own a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
Each is signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Each negative is a one-of-a-kind work of art (on rare occasions, two-of-a-kind if a page or section of pages were replaced or a second edition was made).
Looks great matted or framed! Fits an 8×10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8 ½ x 11 inches.
Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative. Still, they look great and are a piece of RPG history. We recommend you carefully examine the photographs of each item to avoid disappointment. The negatives of many books are sold out or were never available.
We love and appreciate you and your continued support on all fronts. I think some of that affection shows in the sales we offer throughout the year (a hardcover sale starts today!) and in our increasing number of YouTube videos and online interviews. Every book we write and publish is a labor of love.
That should be abundantly clear when you see the TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux editions and Kickstarter exclusives shipping this spring. We pulled out all the stops to make them truly special. Books you’ll cherish and probably use for years running TMNT and mutant animal games. I can assure you that Sean, me, Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Sophie Campbell, Mike Majestic, Freddie E. Williams II, Jeremy Colwell, Louis Antonio Delgado, and all the contributors poured their hearts and souls into these books. And they look amazing. The poker decks, dice, and all of it looks great. You will love them all. Everything should be going into manufacturing in the weeks ahead. A Kickstarter report or two should also be coming over the next month.
We also have several non-Turtles titles in various stages of development. YIn-Sloth Expeditions should be the first new release of the year, followed by Rifts Bestiary Volume 2 and Rifts Antarctica, among others. We are very excited about this year’s releases. This is in addition to other projects like TMNT & Other Strangeness Redux editions and things yet to be announced.
Please plan to visit the Palladium Books Booth at Gen Con. All of the above titles should be available and hopefully others. Plus Sean Owen Roberson, Wayne Smith, Mark Oberle, Glen Evans, Mike Leonard, John Klinkel, me, and possibly others will be at the booth to chat and sign books. Other conventions we’ll be attending include the GAMA Trade Show, Alliance Open House, and Granite State Comic Con. Wherever we are, we are always happy to sign books and chat for a spell, so come on over.
I think that’s it for now. So much to do: GAMA prep, Gen Con prep, final TMNT & Other Strangeness tweaks and edits, business stuff, etc. Happy Valentine’s Day, enjoy the sale, and game on.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend
Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Powers Unlimited®, Palladium Books®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Phase World®, Nightbane®, Megaverse®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars®, Chaos Earth®, Dead Reign®, and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc.; Beyond the Supernatural, Coalition States, Garden of the Gods, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Minion War, Mysteries of Magic, Psychic Scream, SAMAS, Thundercloud Galaxy, Three Galaxies, Vampire Kingdoms, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.
