Palladium Books® Weekly Update – Sept. 24, 2015

By Kevin Siembieda

We’re going to end what looks and feels like Summer with one last Robotech® Super-Flash Sale. Take advantage of this offer to get Robotech® RPG Tactics™ “Convention Exclusives” you cannot normally get unless you attend a specific convention (or are a RRT Kickstarter backer). The “exclusives” are available at their normal retail price, but many other Robotech® and Robotech® RPG Tactics™ items are available at sale prices. Time is already running out!

We’re hammering away on books, so I’m going to keep the rest of this Update brief. Game on!

Robotech® Super-Flash Sale – September 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2015 – Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday only!

Not only do we want everyone to discover the fun and excitement of Robotech® RPG Tactics™, we also want to make our last big Flash Sale one to remember. All of these items make wonderful holiday gifts, too!

Been thinking about trying Robotech® RPG Tactics™? Well, get ‘em now at this special 30th anniversary price! Available for ONE weekend only, September 25-28, 2015. Enjoy. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Robotech®.

– Robotech® RPG Tactics™ “Convention Exclusives” available to EVERYONE (at full retail) – 4 days only! Many other Robotech® titles and RRT products available at a “gotta have it” discount!

Convention Exclusives are usually items made available ONLY at select conventions. The 2015 Robotech® RPG Tactics™ “Convention Exclusives” debuted at the 2015 Gen Con® and have been available online only to RRT Kickstarter backers. Now, for the first time and for FOUR days only, YOU can order them. Available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. What are you waiting for? All of the exclusives are of excellent quality, paint up nicely and will ship to you quickly, as all items are in stock.

UPDATE! The Rifter® #71 & 72 Double-Issue – 224 pages – Fall 2015

More material is being selected for The Rifter® #71 & 72 Double-Issue. The combined, 224 page book (yes, there will be bonus pages) includes player and G.M. tips, along with source material for Splicers®, Palladium Fantasy®, Dead Reign®, a Rifts® short story as a prelude to the sourcebooks coming, and more. Probably an October release, filled with fun.

Chaos Earth Resurrection Chaos Earth Resurrection

UPDATE: Chaos Earth® Resurrection

This book is scary good. After Alex finished editing the latest batch, he said to me, “Kev, this is really scary stuff. I mean truly scary to play.” I told him that was the intention of author Taylor White, and I’m keeping that sense of horror and the macabre in the changes and additions I’m making. Chuck Walton’s artwork helps to maintain the horror. And it’s not just things like cyborg zombies and clockwork zombies with weapon limbs and armor bolted to their bodies. It’s the setup, the Transmission, the Black Obelisk and zombies like the Living Dead Girl that add suspense, creepiness and a psychological element of horror. Nice work, Taylor.

I have spent most of the week working on this book and hope to have it finished by the end of next week. And don’t forget, Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ spookiness can be brought into the present-day Rifts® time-line as well as adapted to other settings.

UPDATE: Rifts® Coalition States: Heroes of Humanity

I’m assigning more art for CS: Heroes of Humanity™ this weekend and when the ideas come, I continue to make notes. I cannot wait until I can dive full steam into this book. I think it will be a crowd pleaser and present plenty of opportunity for Coalition soldiers to fill the roles of heroes and despicable villains.

UPDATE: Rifts® The Disavowed

I’m assigning artwork for this title too. The Disavowed reveals a power player behind the scenes of the Coalition States that will provide new avenues of intrigue and adventure. It’s someone you already know . . . or at least thought you did.

REMINDER: Robotech® RPG Tactics Convention Exclusives are available to Kickstarter backers ANYTIME

Right now till September 25-28, 2015, during the Robotech® Super-Flash Sale, the five convention exclusives are available to EVERYONE for FOUR DAYS ONLY – at the full price of $22 each. So those for you who are not Kickstarter backers, this is your chance to grab a few for yourself. Spread the word to your Robotech® pals, because each is worth having.

RRT Kickstarter backers, remember, you can purchase any of the Convention Exclusives, in any quantities, while supplies last. I posted this reminder last week and again this week, because we have received a number of inquiries from Kickstarter backers asking if they can still get the RRT Convention Exclusives. The answer is yes!

If you are a backer and have trouble accessing the Robotech® Convention Exclusives, please contact the Palladium office via kickstarter message, or email at kickstarter {at} palladiumbooks.com, or by telephone (734-721-2903). The Exclusives are available to our Kickstarter backers at ANYTIME, in any quantity, while supplies last. All are ready to ship. All of the Exclusives are of excellent quality, paint up nicely and ship to you quickly as all items are in stock.

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics

Wayne spent part of today working on a revised Blast rule with a few advisors, and they hope to have a proposed rule change posted for public testing and comment in the next day or two.

It is my impression that the Robotech® Macross paper game pieces should also be ready soon. And I know Wayne is working on a number of other things. Otherwise, not much has changed in the last week. We continue to work on several aspects of Wave Two. More Wave Two game cards are being posted on DriveThruRPG.com with more cards, rules, Macross paper game pieces and good stuff to come. Meanwhile, we continue to explore ways to reduce the piece count and are considering every possibility without sacrificing quality. RRT Organized play is the other thing we need to tackle, as that’s what people are looking for. We’ve been discussing and making notes for that in the last few days, and have some fun and intriguing ideas.

More things coming your way for RRT:

NEW on DriveThruRPG.com – Minion War titles are now available

Hades and Dyval, Rifts® Dimensional Outbreak (which carries the Minion War crisis to Phase World® and the Three Galaxies™), and Armageddon Unlimited™ (brings the end of the world to the Heroes Unlimited™ setting unless its heroes can save the day) are all available now! And coming this weekend: Heroes of the Megaverse® (sourcebook that lets you bring superhumans to Rifts® and Phase World®) hits Friday night at midnight, and Rifts® World Book 35: Megaverse® in Flames (unleashes a new series of Demon Plagues upon Rifts® Earth) at midnight Sunday night! These titles help to set the stage for the rise of the Coalition States (starting with Heroes or Humanity™ and The Disavowed™) and all kinds of adventures. The demons of Hades and Dyval have been a staple of the Palladium Megaverse® since its inception, but these titles put them in a new light with much more information and stats for both M.D. and S.D.C. settings. Spread the word.

Available now as PDFs on DriveThru.com:

DriveThruRPG.com already offers 100+ Palladium Books products available as PDFs with more coming soon. Plus FREE support for Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and other Palladium game lines with supplemental material, FREE previews, Game Master packages, paper miniatures and book titles like the Coalition Wars®/Siege on Tolkeen™ series, Splicers® RPG, The Rifter® issues #1-62 (with more to come), and first edition rules of the Rifts® RPG, Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, Heroes Unlimited™ RPG, The Palladium Fantasy RPG®, and related 1st edition sourcebooks for each. And more! Like what? Like Fantasy Paper Miniatures and Game Master Kits for digital download. They are available only as PDF files and were designed special to help you run your games and build campaigns. There are also sneak previews of books and other good stuff. Check it out! And let other gamers know they are available too. We’ll be making more available on DriveThruRPG in the weeks and months to come, so take a look on a regular basis.

The Dead Reign® RPG series

Got a hankering to kick some zombie butt? Think you can survive the Zombie Apocolypse? Then you want the Dead Reign® RPG – available from Palladium Books or as PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com. That’s six titles that are as much fun to read as they are to play.

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

Alex continues to add a large number of new items to my Ebay Store, and will continue to do so. This includes one-of-a-kind, original 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 online 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 just in time for the approaching holidays. 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. Many make perfect gifts for the upcoming holidays, birthdays and anniversaries.

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

Closing thoughts . . .

We are laser focused on banging out new books and new Robotech® RPG Tactics™ material, and getting old favorites into your hands in new formats like PDFs from DriveThru, other game systems like Rifts® for the Savage Worlds® RPG, and surprises yet to be revealed.

Enjoy the warm and sunny weekend sweeping across North America, because Winter is just around the corner. And our latest big Flash Sale offers purchases that can keep you busy when Winter rolls in. Not to mention the sale items make excellent holiday gifts for the gamers and Robotech® fans in your life. Keep those imaginations burning bright – ours are on fire!

– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Publisher

NEW! Rifts® Special Order Products – PRINT on Demand

The following items are something new, proposed by and created by Tags, a fan of Rifts® and Palladium Books. He did the design work and had the sample products that are shown here created by Victor Narvaez at NY Embroidery. We liked what these two gents created, so we are making them available to you as Special Orders.

Here’s how Rifts® Special Order Products will work. In most cases, we have to order a limited quantity to make manufacturing and shipping cost effective (we can’t make just one at a time, but can make a dozen at a time). That means when we have a sufficient number of “Special Orders” we can have them made in a week and shipped in another week or two. And with Autumn and Winter and the holidays coming up fast, this might be a good time to order things like Reporter Bags, Embroidered Hoodies, caps and Three-Season Jackets. Enjoy and think Christmas gifts. Please Note: Your credit card will not be charged until the Special Order is in actual manufacturing.

Rifts Glitter Boy Jacket Rifts Glitter Boy Jacket

Rifts® Glitter Boy in Flames Jacket

A 3-Season Jacket – Winter, Fall and Spring – any Rifts® fan would be proud to wear.

Rifts Glitter Boy Zipper Hoodie Rifts Glitter Boy Zipper Hoodie

Rifts® Glitter Boy in Flames “Zipper Hoodie”

A Gildan or Fruit of the Loom hoodie (depending on availability) suitable for Fall and Spring wear (or if you are Kathy Simmons, Winter too). This is the same design as the Rifts® jacket with the Rifts® logo on the front and the big, Glitter Boy in Flames image on the back for almost half the price as the jacket. Both Chuck Walton and Kathy Simmons have their Rifts® hoodie for the Fall. Shouldn’t you?

Rifts Embroidered Cap Gold Rifts Logo

Rifts® Baseball Cap – Black Cap, “Gold” Rifts® Logo

I (Kevin Siembieda) am not a baseball cap guy, but I love this cap and have been wearing mine on my morning walks. I like the comfortable fit and I do not seem to sweat as much wearing this cap compared to others I have tried. (The trail I take has me walking into the morning sun, so I need a cap.) I prefer the gold logo, but red was the hot seller at Gen Con.

Rifts Embroidered Cap Red Rifts Logo

Rifts® Baseball Cap – Black Cap, “Red” Rifts® Logo

The same style of cap with the words Rifts® with the swish through it. The embroidered “red” baseball cap was the favorite among consumers at Gen Con.

Rifts Classic Logo Reporter's Bag

Rifts® Logo Reporter’s Bag (Clean Look)

This useful carrying bag has three large pockets for books being taken to your Rifts® gaming session, plus two smaller pouches for pens or dice sealed via hook and loop fasteners. The front flap is a dynamic, full Rifts® logo on a field of crackling blue energy from a ley line. Also suitable as a school/college book bag.

Rifts Extreme Logo Reporter's Bag

Rifts® Logo Extreme Reporter’s Bag

This useful carrying bag has two large pockets for books being taken to your Rifts® gaming session, plus two smaller pouches for pens or dice sealed via hook and loop fasteners. The front flap is a dynamic, full, modified Rifts® logo on a field of crackling blue energy from a ley line. Also suitable as a school/college book bag.

Robotech UEEF Marines Sourcebook One

NEW! Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook – Available Now

Expeditionary Force Marines™ is ready to ship right now! It is a riveting Robotech® sourcebook that carries you to alien worlds. Your characters can pilot the early Cyclones and next generation of Destroids, liberate alien worlds and engage the merciless Invid Regent, his Inorganic shock troopers and Invid swarms. Epic, planet-hopping adventure awaits.

The Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook is set in space with the UEEF (United Earth Expeditionary Force) led by Admiral Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, Breetai and Exedore. This valiant force of mecha-clad heroes travel across the galaxy liberating planets from the bondage of the Invid Regent, the Robotech Masters and other tyrants and monsters. New alien people are introduced and become part of the Expeditionary Force Marines. In between their ongoing war with the Regent and his Invid and Inorganics, they explore planets, battle space pirates and face treachery on many fronts.

Robotech RPG Tactics

Robotech® RPG Tactics

– Available now in the USA, Canada, European Union, Australia and New Zealand

If you love Robotech®, you’ll want to take a look at this game. Beautifully detailed game pieces of your favorite Robotech® mecha, and fast playing rules that capture the Robotech® experience in a new, exciting way. And this is just the beginning. We have so much more planned. Available NOW – in game stores across the USA, Canada, UK, European Union, Australia and New Zealand.

The First Six Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Expansion Packs are available to retail along with the main box game. Here are the SKUs and retail prices.

Rifts and the Megaverse Art Book, Collector's Masterwork Limited Edition

BACK IN PRINT: Rifts® and the Megaverse® – John Zeleznik Collector's Masterwork Limited Edition

Kevin pulled this amazing offer out of mothballs for the Open House and immediately sold a few copies. This is the most unbelievable deal we have ever heard of. In fact, we don't think anybody has EVER done anything like this before, and it's all John Zeleznik's idea.

Each copy of the Collector's Masterwork Limited Edition includes an original piece of artwork by John Zeleznik! Most are concept sketches tipped (glued) into the book itself, by hand, done personally by Kevin Siembieda. That's right, YOU will have an original sketch/drawing/concept artwork from one of John Zeleznik's paintings or illustrations that appears in this very book!

"I've never heard of anything like this,” said Publisher, Kevin Siembieda. "It's remarkable. A true collectible with a piece of original art and Palladium history all rolled into one. This is a deal of a lifetime, NOW more than ever before, because the $125 dollar price is the same low price when this item was first offered back in 2007! Today, this book would sell for $175-$200. Each piece of art has to be worth $50-$100, and is a piece of Palladium history. John Zeleznik is such a great guy, he wants us to keep the price low so Palladium fans can afford one. How cool is that?”

Bizantium and the Northern Islands

NEW! Palladium Fantasy RPG® Sourcebook: Bizantium and the Northern Islands – Available now

To the civilized world, Bizantium and the waters and lands around it are frightening. A realm of sea serpents, monsters, and barbarians. To the heroes and people who live there, it is a realm of adventure, beauty and opportunity. One might consider Bizantium as the center of adventure and mystery in the North.

North of Bizantium are the Icy Ocean and Great Ice Shelf, places where only a handful of the bravest Bizantian sailors have ever set sail, and the rest of the world knows nothing about. For kingdoms in the south, only a few scholars have ever heard of the Great Ice Shelf or the cannibalistic Necromancers known as the Iceborn who make the frozen wasteland their home. Those who have heard tales of the land of ice and death are convinced they are nothing but the stuff of myth. Very soon, they will find out otherwise. And these are but a few of the revelations presented in Bizantium and the Northern Islands™. Discover for yourself the wonders and horrors that await.

Chaos Earth Resurrection

COMING – Rifts® Chaos Earth® Resurrection

In the shattered depths of Wisconsin, survivors are besieged by the dead come back to life. Zombies. But not just any type of zombie, zombies done Rifts-style. And unless the source of the zombie plague can be found and neutralized by NEMA defenders, North America may be overrun by the dead.

This was actually something Taylor White and I have been kicking around for years, even before we released the Dead Reign® RPG line. We think you’ll love it.

Coalition States Heroes of Humanity

COMING – Rifts® Sourcebook – The Coalition States: Heroes of Humanity

The events unfolding in World Book 35: Megaverse® in Flames threaten to change the entire landscape of Rifts® Earth as the demonic minions of Hades and Dyval seek to bring Hell on Earth, and turn the planet into a dimensional gateway to Armageddon!

The Coalition States, along with Northern Gun and Lazlo, take the lead in the defense of North America. Heroes of Humanity explores the good and bad in the Coalition’s efforts to save humanity and send this new threat back to the pits of Hell.

COMING – Rifts® Secrets of the Coalition States: The Disavowed

“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.

COMING – Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans

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.

COMING – Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook: First Responders

The Great Cataclysm has devastated civilization, but humanity fights for survival. The struggles of civilian law enforcement, fire and rescue, and everyday men and women are some of the most epic tales to be told in a world gone to hell. They fight monsters, aliens, the paranormal, the elements, and each other, all with the hope of reclaiming their lives from the Chaos.

Chaos Earth Rise of Magic

Rise of Magic – Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook – Now shipping

We’ve all played “post” apocalyptic games. Now imagine playing as the apocalypse is happening. As the world you know is crumbling. As magic and monsters from myth become real and your world is reshaped by forces beyond your comprehension. That is the premise behind the Rifts® Chaos Earth® series. That YOU play through the Great Cataclysm as the apocalypse happens.

Rifts® Chaos Earth®: Rise of Magic™ is a key book in that continuing story (new books are coming this Spring and Summer). In Rise of Magic™, humans, particularly children, are discovering they can draw upon mystic energy and cast magic. The thing is, they don’t really know what they are doing. Magic is just part of the chaos and the impossible that is happening all around them. Meanwhile, others have found they can summon and control monsters and demons, while still others make pacts with supernatural beings to become witches and worse. And some have learned they can harness the magic to animate and command the dead. Madness and more chaos ensues. All of this only complicates things for NEMA, Earth’s defenders, as the line of distinction between “good guys” and “bad guys” begins to blur, and things go from bad to worse.

Chaos Earth RPG

Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG – Available now

The origins of Rifts® start here! It is a new beginning. But first everything that human civilization had become during the Golden Age of Science, more than eighty years in our future, must come to a crashing end. The Earth is in the process of being transformed into a place more alien than a thousand alien worlds. Ley lines erupt with even more power and ambient energy than what is known on Rifts Earth 300 years later. Rifts – tears in space and time – appear along ley lines to unleash legions of aliens, monsters, dragons, supernatural horrors, and ancient gods of myth and legend in a mad symphony of chaos and transformation.

You play survivors or the heroes of NEMA. The men and women of the Northern Eagle Military Alliance equipped with their Chromium Guardsmen (Glitter Boys), Silver Eagles (SAMAS) and host of other robots and power armor to stand against a rising tide of enemies and alien invaders. They are humanity’s last and only hope to survive the apocalypse that will become known as the Great Cataclysm. These are the heroes you play in a world that can only be described as Chaos Earth.

Splynn Dimensional Market

Back in print – Rifts® World Book 21: Splynn Dimensional Market

This awesome sourcebook is, in effect, Rifts® Atlantis Part Two. It is said that anything you may desire – especially if it is dark, magical or alien – can be purchased, for a price, at the Splynn Dimensional Market. Anything. ‘Nuff said.

DriveThruRPG

PDF downloads from DriveThruRPG.com

This is a great resource for getting out of print Palladium titles and other select books. We’ve made 100 titles available as PDF digital downloads from DriveThruRPG.com, as well as Fantasy Paper Miniatures, Game Master resources and other good things with more to come. This is a great way to try Palladium products and get access to out of print RPG source material. Some notable titles include:

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