Palladium Books® Weekly Update – April 14, 2017

By Kevin Siembieda

There are so many things going on here at Palladium. Some PDF products that we think you will be happy to see are coming, lots of approvals on Carmen Bellaire’s Rifts® Board Game (Kickstarter should launch in a couple of weeks), Robotech®, work on books (lots of books!), contracts, and all kinds of things. Plus we wanted to give you another spring sale. There are probably only 2-4 sales left, so please take advantage of them. And for those of you who celebrate Easter, Happy Easter. To the rest of you, Happy Spring. I hope you enjoy a sunny and pleasant weekend.

Fantasy Game Line Sale – now till April 20, 2017

30% off the cover price of all Fantasy titles, except the limited edition hardcover.

The Palladium Fantasy RPG® setting offers infinite adventure. It includes all the character classes you would expect, plus some surprises. Like playing any number of inhuman races with special abilities and distinct cultures: Wolfen, Coyles, Changelings, Ogres, Orcs, Goblins, Troglodytes, Kobolds, Elves, Dwarves and many others. In fact, if the Game Master allows it, there are intelligent mortal beings in Monsters and Animals, Yin-Sloth Jungles, Baalgor Wastelands, Northern Hinterlands and other sourcebooks, that are also suitable as player characters. The Titan and four-armed Rahu-Man among them.

Kickstarter of Note: KenzerCo's Aces & Eights RPG

Our friends at Kenzer just launched their Kickstarter to fund a new and improved Aces & Eights RPG. As the name suggests, it’s a role-playing game set in the Wild West and is lot of fun to play. We encourage you to take a look at the Kickstarter in case it is something you may be interested in. Personally, I really enjoyed the original Aces & Eights and recommend it. I’ll probably participate in this Kickstarter myself.

Here is the link to the Aces & Eights Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kenzerco/aces-and-eights-reloaded-a-wild-west-role-playing

Rifts Board Game

Kickstarter: Rifts® Board Game – Coming in two weeks from Rogue Heroes Publishing

Tuesday was a day-long meeting with Carmen Bellaire, the owner of Rogue Heroes Publishing and the mastermind behind the Rifts® Board Game. I approved a dozen finished sculpts and bases, artwork, and design elements, and we discussed his plans for the Kickstarter and expansion packs for the game.

We expected amazing quality from Carmen and his crew, but they blew our socks off! The Rifts® Board Game and the miniatures for it are incredible. Dynamic poses, great detail, iconic characters, great concepts and design, fun game rules that capture the world and characters of Rifts®, and the array of cool items you will get in the Kickstarter — wow. As fans we all went wild over what we saw. So did Defiler and long-time pal, sometimes freelance writer, Thom Bartold, who saw a bunch of it the next day.

I’m telling you, if you have ever enjoyed Rifts®, you are going to want this game for the miniatures and artwork alone. And to be able to play Rifts® anytime you want with 2-6 players for an hour or hour and a half, and walk away with the Rifts® experience, what a treat.

Please start spreading the word that the Rifts® Board Game Kickstarter is coming soon. It will run from the end of April through most or all of the month of May. Carmen does not have an exact launch date yet, but is anticipating sometime during the last week of April. He has an incredible amount of work done, but still has more to do, particularly when it comes to finalizing his plans and designs for the Kickstarter. All I can say to you is, be prepared to be wowed. We were.

Go to the Rogue Heroes Publishing Facebook Page to see more images and up-to-date information.

http://www.facebook.com/RogueHeroesPublishing

UPDATE: New books and products

We have been working on a little bit of everything, and it is all coming along. We have a nice surprise coming for those of you who get PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com, and we are excited about products coming for everything from Rifts® and Robotech® to Palladium Fantasy®, Dead Reign® and more. When the titles start coming, they are going to flow rapidly, one after the other.

Now on DriveThruRPG.com – The Rifter® #71-72 Double Issue, Rifts® Coalition Navy Sourcebook, Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook, ALL Robotech® RPG Tactics cards and much more

The Rifter® #71-72 is now available, along with The Rifter® #1-70, Rifts® Shemarrian Nation, Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook, Rifts® Coalition Navy, the FREE Hell Followed™ Preview, Rifts® Black Market (one of my faves), Rifts® Mercenary Adventures™, Rifts® Mercenaries, MercTown™, Merc Ops™, and so much more, all available now in PDF. You can also get ALL Robotech® RPG Tactics™ game cards, Robotech® and Rifts® Paper Miniatures along with Rifts® Lemuria, Rifts® Triax Two, Rifts® World Books 1-30 and many other Rifts®, Heroes Unlimited™, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane® and other game line titles. New Robotech® RPG Tactics™ material will be made available in the weeks ahead. All of it adds to the growing list of Rifts®, Robotech® and other Palladium RPG game titles available as PDF books, cards and support. A new title should be added every week or two, so watch for them.

Recent PDF titles include Rifts® Sourcebook One Revised, Rifts® Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids®, Rifts® Sourcebook Three: Mindwerks™, Rifts® Sourcebook Four: Coalition Navy™, Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook, Rifts® Shemarrian Nation, Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Lemuria, Rifts® Triax 2, Rifts® Mercenaries, MercTown™ and Merc Ops™, Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® World Book 30: D-Bees of North America™, Rifts® World Book 29: Madhaven™, Rifts® World Book 28: Arzno™, Rifts® World Book 27: Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp, Rifts® World Book 26: Dinosaur Swamp, World Book 25: Rifts® China Two, and World Book 24: Rifts® China One, among many, many others. There are also previews of Rifts® CS Heroes of Humanity™, The Rifter® #73, Northern Gun 1 & 2, Lemuria, Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms, Bizantium and many other Palladium titles. Check back every week to see which new PDFs of Rifts® World Books and other titles have been added!

In addition to the titles listed above, The Minion War™ series of books, the Rifts® Coalition Wars®/Tolkeen series, Chaos Earth® Resurrection, all of the Dead Reign® (Zombie Apocalypse) titles, Splicers® RPG and most issues of The Rifter® are available NOW! So are first edition rules of the Heroes Unlimited™ RPG and sourcebooks, Palladium Fantasy RPG® and sourcebooks, The Mechanoids®, and much more, available on DriveThruRPG.com.

Available right now:

Palladium Collectibles Available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles Store

Alex and I have added and continue to add a lot of vintage Star Wars toys and a growing number of all kinds of collectibles – and we’ll be adding more Palladium Books original art and items to the store, so keep an eye out for them.

This includes one-of-a-kind original artwork, prints, Rifts® and Robotech® artwork by Kevin Long, me and others. There is also a range of limited editions, rare book titles and limited edition hardcovers, toys and more that are all being added to my ebay store over the next several weeks, so keep an eye out. Alex and I will keep adding items as our busy schedules allow, but we have a lot of fun collectibles available now and coming soon. Items include original art, out of print titles, redlined proofreader photocopies signed by me and the staff, signed manuscripts with editors’ corrections, some original art, hardcover books (including Rifts® Lemuria, Northern Gun™ One, Northern Gun™ Two, Megaverse® in Flames™, Beyond the Supernatural™ Gold, Rifts® Machinations of Doom™ Gold and Rifts® Ultimate Gold) and other items available. There are also hundreds of toys and action figures, all from my personal archives and collection. Take a look every weekend for new items added.

http://stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles

GEN CON – Robotech® RPG Tactics tournaments, many gaming events, and a host of Rifts® and other game products

If you want to run a Palladium gaming event please let us know and we will slot you in. Please be advised that your game event will not get into the Gen Con program book at this point, but should be listed in the online schedule. Any Megaversal Ambassador can help you, but NMI is the primary Gen Con event coordinator.

If you are coming to Gen Con, please make the Palladium Books booth one of your stops. We will have plenty of new RPG products, a large backstock selection, convention exclusives, Robotech® RPG Tactics™ demos and fun. As always, the Palladium staff and freelancers are happy to chat, share the latest news, and sign your books. So please join the fun.

Closing thoughts about this and that

I added some pages of Rifts® original art in my personal online store, as well as a wide range of toys. I’ve been juggling business with creative and feel like we have a lot moving forward.

A bug has been making its way through Palladium the past couple of weeks. Wayne and Kathy had a killer cold and are still coughing; Chuck suffered from sinus issues; Alex a stomach bug. I thought I had escaped unscathed, but the stomach bug got me this week. Thankfully, it did not last too long and I’m feeling fine as I write this. We remain in production frenzy and working long hours on numerous projects. That’s okay, it has been very exciting, and the work being produced on all fronts is killer. Our focus is on getting books and products into your hands.

That’s it for now. So much to do. Enjoy Easter Weekend and the new sale.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer

Rifts Triax 2

BACK IN STOCK: Rifts® World Book 31: Triax 2

A resource of Triax robots, power armors, cyborgs, weapons and vehicles for your heroes, villains and adventurers anywhere on Rifts Earth and beyond. Heroes battle demons and monsters across Europe or in the Minion War on North American soil; mercenaries and bandits, overpower your enemies and rivals; adventurers, be prepared for anything with your Triax gear. This book is epic fun and a valuable resource for players and Game Masters alike. (So are Triax & the NGR, NG-1 and NG-2.) Power up and game on! Available now!

Monsters and Animals

BACK IN STOCK: Monsters and Animals – a Palladium Fantasy RPG® sourcebook

120+ monsters, more than 200 real world animals, maps for the Palladium World, and countless adventure ideas. What more needs to be said? Maybe that the creatures in Monsters and Animals™ can be dropped into almost any setting. The animals can be used in every world setting, and so can most of the monsters. Unleash your imagination and a menagerie of fun. The animals can be used in any Earth-like setting from Palladium Fantasy® to Beyond the Supernatural™ and Heroes Unlimited™ to Rifts® and Robotech®!

After the Bomb RPG

BACK in STOCK: After the Bomb® RPG – Available now – A stand-alone game and for use with Heroes Unlimited RPG and other world settings

Ever wonder what it would be like to play an intelligent, humanoid eagle? What about a sword-wielding turtle or ninja rodent, or heroic wolfman, or a flying pig?

In After the Bomb® you can turn a mouse into the size of a gorilla, or keep him small and sneaky, but with special animal powers, psychic abilities and human speech and intelligence. Or create that winged humanoid eagle who preys upon criminals. Or maybe a giant hamster, or mutant lion or tiger martial arts master. If a villain, the mutant could be an animalistic brute who preys upon people and hunts other mutants, perhaps even feasting upon them like a monstrous predator. If a hero, the mutant animal could be any style of caped crusader or champion of justice. Give them powers, a back story and have a blast.

After the Bomb® lets you mutate any animal you can think of into a heroic crime-fighter set in our modern world or a mutant animal survivor of post-apocalyptic Earth — think Planet of the Apes on steroids. An environment where humans struggle to survive in a devastated (nuked?) world, and intelligent mutant animals appear to be the inheritors of the planet. Or make them contemporary superheroes who fight alongside other super beings. Fun. Wild. Imaginative stories await.

The After the Bomb® RPG and its future world setting is one of the late, great, Erick Wujcik’s most fun and lasting creations. Play it as a stand-alone game or use AtB as a resource to create mutant animals that can be dropped into your Heroes Unlimited™ game, Aliens Unlimited™, Rifts®, Phase World®, Robotech® or just about any game setting where an intelligent humanoid animal makes sense. Play them as mutant animals or aliens from another world, heroes or villains, hunted fugitives or modern day knights, but get After the Bomb® because its mutant creations can fit many roles and are fun to play in any setting.

Nightbane Dark Designs Raw Preview

NEW! Nightbane® Dark Designs sourcebook – Raw Preview Limited Edition – Only 150 copies available

Back from the printer. Available now.

The Raw Preview Edition of Nightbane® Dark Designs™ is an advance copy of the unedited, unillustrated, final working manuscript for this exciting new sourcebook. You get to see the unfinished book months before the final title is released. A rare look at the raw manuscript before publication. Limited to a total of 150 copies, sold on a first come, first served basis.

Nightbane® Dark Designs™ is a guide to creating the Nightbane®, and a sourcebook for players and Game Masters alike. It presents all sorts of new Nightbane creation tables, new Morphus tables, new Talents, and new information. Info and powers that enable players to make memorable Nightbane characters and for G.M.s to take their games up a notch.

Note: The finished Nightbane® Dark Designs™ sourcebook is anticipated to ship in June or July of 2017. But you can start playing right now with this meaty special edition! All Nightbane fans are going to love this sourcebook that focuses on the Nightbane.

New! The Rifter® #78 – Ships Early May, 2017

The Rifter® #78 is already in production. Articles are being selected and artwork is being assigned.

Every issue of The Rifter® is an idea factory for players and Game Masters to generate new ideas and find new avenues of adventure. It provides useful, ready-to-go source material you can just drop into your ongoing games. A doorway to new possibilities and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. And the many new characters, O.C.C.s, powers, magic, weapons, villains, monsters, adventures and ideas for one setting can be easily adapted to any Palladium setting. Every issue has material for Rifts® and usually 2-3 other Palladium game lines. The focus of this issue is Rifts®, Splicers® and RPG advice. Don’t forget, unofficial material can be easily adapted for use in ANY Palladium game setting.

Rifter® #78 Highlights:

The Rifter #77

The Rifter® #77 – available now

Adventure, madness, strange creatures and strange lands fill this issue of The Rifter®. This issue is a playground for heroes and a source of adventure, but beware the danger that lurks in the shadows.

Every issue of The Rifter® is an idea factory for players and Game Masters to generate new ideas and find new avenues of adventure. A doorway to new possibilities and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. And the source material can be easily adapted for use in ANY Palladium game setting.

Rifter® #77 Highlights:

Note: The Rifter® #76 and #75 are also available and packed with official source material for Rifts® and other game settings.

NEW! Garden of the Gods – A Palladium Fantasy RPG® Sourcebook

This has been a secret project of Kevin Siembieda’s that he has been plotting and writing in what little spare time he has. The Garden of the Gods is said to be a holy place watched over and even frequented by the avatars of the gods. According to legend, the god may visit heroes and followers in dreams or in person by an avatar of the god, to be given guidance, inspiration, heroic quests, and gifts of knowledge and magic. More details about this title will follow.

Coalition States Heroes of Humanity Arsenal

NEW! Rifts® CS Arsenal – A Rifts® Secrets of the Coalition States Sourcebook

This title is hotly anticipated and ties directly into Rifts® Heroes of Humanity and Rifts® WB 35: Megaverse® in Flames. All of which are setting up something big.

Rifts® Heroes of Humanity™ CS Arsenal provides an array of new Coalition hardware: weapons, armor, additional SAMAS, other power armor, robots, combat vehicles, gear and info.

Rifts Secrets of the Atlanteans

NEW! Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans

This book is going to be a hugely popular and is shaping up wonderfully.

True Atlanteans are descendants from Earth’s past. The survivors of the sinking of Atlantis (really a dimensional mishap) and travelers of the Megaverse, wielders of Tattoo Magic and other lost mystic arts. Most people regard them as heroes, but are they? The Sunaj Assassins are mythic villains feared by all, yet they too are True Atlanteans who serve dark forces.

For the first time, much of the story behind True Atlanteans and their secrets are revealed.

Rifts The Disavowed

Rifts® The Disavowed – A Secrets of the Coalition States Sourcebook

“Desperate times require desperate measures. War has nothing to do with morality or justice. It’s all about winning or dying. We cannot bind our hands with high ideals, even our own, or worry about the laws of renegade nations or the rights of alien people. We must fight fire with fire. And you are the match.” – Colonel Lyboc addressing a Disavowed team.

The Disavowed are so Top Secret that their existence is known only to a handful of the Coalition States’ most elite, top echelon, with Joseph Prosek II the mastermind behind the Disavowed operation, and Colonel Lyboc its shadowy face. Find out who these men and women are. How the Disavowed get away with using magic, traveling to other parts of Rifts Earth and even to other dimensions in pursuit of enemies and strategic information that cannot be had through conventional means. Learn about the secret parameters in which these hard-boiled warriors, secretly hand-picked by Joseph Prosek II, operate, why almost every mission is considered a suicide mission, and why they must forever be the Disavowed.

New! Rifts® Sovietski

The Rifts® Sovietski™ World Book presents background information on the fledgling Sovietski nation, notable cities and people, politics, and its growing army, plus Deadzones, Spetsnaz Special Forces, new bionics, Russian D-Bees, and more.

New! In the Face of Death – Summer/Fall – A Dead Reign® Sourcebook

This sourcebook is all about inner city survival. Survivor colonies finding ways to live and prosper in the big city. Conventional wisdom says that living in the big population centers is impossible. These survivors prove otherwise.

Robotech RPG Tactics

Robotech® RPG Tactics

Robotech® is getting hotter and hotter. It is the Number One Anime on Crackle, the Robotech® movie from Sony Pictures sounds like it is going to be become a reality, more Robotech® licensed products are appearing, and Palladium is gearing up toward the release of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Wave Two and more Robotech® products. Ah, but the core game and expansion packs to get you started are available right now.

Robotech® RPG Tactics™ is a fast-paced, tabletop combat game that captures the action and adventure of the Robotech® anime. Two or more players can engage in small squad skirmishes or scale up to massive battles. Relive the clashes of the First Robotech War, engage in stand-alone tactical games, or use the dynamic game pieces to enhance your Robotech® RPG experience. Or simply collect your favorite mecha from an expanding range of top-notch game pieces. Get yours now.

Robotech® RPG Tactics Convention Exclusives – now available to anyone

These dynamic pieces are available as a regular item in the Palladium store. They are powerful fun and only have 4-6 parts, so they are easy to put together. They look awesome on your shelf or in your game. Get yours while supplies last.

Coming Soon 2017

Coming Later in 2017 and 2018

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