Palladium Books® Weekly Update – Sept. 8, 2017

One game system – every genre – countless worlds – endless adventure

By Kevin Siembieda

We are back into working on books and plotting release schedules. Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™ and Nightbane® Dark Designs™ are flying off the shelves, as are most things Rifts®. We want to put many more new books in your hands, including a couple of overdue issues of The Rifter®. Meanwhile, Wayne is making sure there are new PDF titles being made available and is back on a weekly schedule. See details below, but Skraypers™, Wormwood™, Phase World®, and Phase World® Sourcebook are all now available, with Anvil Galaxy™ already scheduled for next week and more Rifts® Dimension Books™ and other titles to come; Ninjas & Superspies™ and Mystic China™ are recent additions too.

This weekend, Wayne and I will be at the Alliance Open House talking with retailers. Otherwise, there have been a number of potentially exciting, long-term things going on behind the scenes that I will be thrilled to tell you about when we have something concrete to say. Read on for other news, updates and info, and enjoy.

Nightbane Dark Designs

UPDATE: Nightbane® Dark Designs sourcebook – Available now

Nightbane® Dark Designs™, people are loving this release. From cover to cover, it is a dynamic sourcebook packed with information, Morphus tables, magical Talents (plus tables and Talents from prior books), the Ancient Nightbane and more. And remember, Talents and Morphus abilities can be easily turned into magic spells and super abilities for other world settings — and vice versa, especially with the conversion rules also in Dark Designs™.

Please take a look at the free preview on DriveThruRPG.com for more details and a few choice glimpses of what you can expect. Also see the full description of Dark Designs™ elsewhere in this Update and in the online store.

Rifts Secrets of the Atlanteans

UPDATE: Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans – hot, hot, hot

Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™ remains a hot item. Keep those orders coming. It is just the first of several new Rifts® titles coming soon, each with many more secrets to be revealed. Please take a look at the free preview on DriveThruRPG.com to get a glimpse of everything this 224 page, resource-packed book has to offer. $24.95 retail. And if you don’t already own them, we highly recommend you pick up Rifts® World Book One: Atlantis, World Book 21: Splynn Dimensional Market™, and Rifts® Dimension Book 7: Megaverse® Builder (also written by Carl Gleba). All are fun and useful companions to Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™.

Rifts Secrets of the Atlanteans Gold Hardcover

UPDATE: Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans “Gold Edition” Limited Hardcover – Ships mid-September and may sell out fast

I just got word that we can expect delivery of the limited Gold Edition Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™ hardcover by September 14. It will take us a few days to sign and number them. The Atlanteans Gold Edition is limited to only 300 signed and numbered copies, and sold on a first come, first served basis. Palladium’s Gold Editions have a history of increasing in value as time goes by, and with Christmas coming, I think this Gold Edition may be a hot commodity in the months ahead. If you are planning on getting one, I’d suggest getting it sooner rather than later. Only available from Palladium Books.

Important Note: Those of you who have already placed pre-orders have been charged and your number already assigned to you, so do NOT reorder. Multiple orders WILL result in you getting billed for and shipped multiple copies – NO REFUND. If you are worried about your pre-order, please call the Palladium office to inquire. Do not place a new order unless you want more than one copy.

UPDATE: Game line Tumblers are almost all sold out – only a few left

We only have a few Dead Reign® and Splicers® tumblers available. Get ‘em while you can. I’m surprised there are any Splicers® tumblers left as it is a great looking item and Splicers fans are ravenous for all things Splicers®. Each tumbler holds 30 ounces, has a sealable lid, does not sweat, and looks great. $29.99 each. Sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

UPDATE: The Rifter® #78 – in final production

The Rifter® #78 will be another great issue with a range of awesome source material for Palladium Fantasy®, Rifts®, Splicers®, and Beyond the Supernatural™, including Greg Diaczyk’s BTS Modern Necromancer, plus G.M. advice, news and other goodness. See the updated description in this update.

UPDATE: The Rifter® #79 – coming soon

The Rifter® #79 should quickly follow #78 as we work to catch up with this useful series. If you haven’t looked at a Rifter®, we recommend it. Each issue is filled with optional (sometimes “official”) source material. More importantly, most of the material can be easily modified and adapted to ANY game setting, especially adventures, monsters, villains, magic and technology.

UPDATE: Rifts® Sovietski – coming soon

Assigning out the final artwork for Rifts® Sovietski and going into final production soon. Looking great.

UPDATE: 2018 Palladium Open House – April 19-22, 2018 – Game at the Palladium Books warehouse with the people who create the games you enjoy

2018 Palladium Open House Location:

39074 Webb Court
Westland, MI 48185
734-721-2903 (order line)

Tickets:

Hotels – two to choose from:

Instructions: A) Be sure to follow the instructions below to receive the special group rate. B) Make certain you request a double/two beds if that is what you need. Otherwise you are likely to get one queen- or king-size bed. Important Note: Doubles (rooms with two beds) are limited at BOTH hotels! Order sooner than later.

Want to stay a few extra days? The Red Roof Inn said they would extend the special rate of $49.95 to include one or more extra days for those of you who may be coming in a day or two early or staying a day after (Monday, April 23, checking out on Tuesday morning). POH Dates – April 19 for VIP Thursday. April 20-22, 2018 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). The Hampton Inn was not willing to extend this courtesy, though if enough people inquire, they might. It cannot hurt to ask.

1. Red Roof Inn

39700 Ann Arbor Rd
Plymouth, MI 48170
734-459-3300
Request the “Palladium Books Group Rate.”

$49.95 plus tax per night for a double (2 double beds).

$49.95 plus tax per night for a King (one large bed).

The Red Roof Inn is a no frills hotel, hence the low nightly rate. Nice, safe neighborhood.

Location: It is only 3 miles away from the Palladium warehouse and near where the old hotel was, off of Ann Arbor Road and I-275. Many places to eat nearby on Ann Arbor Road. We highly recommend a small family diner, Good Day Restaurant on Hix Road (and half-way to Palladium) for a quick, tasty and inexpensive breakfast. Kathy and Kevin enjoy breakfast there often. Make sure you tell the hotel you want the “Palladium Books Group Rate" and request two beds if that’s what you need. Located in Plymouth.

2. Hampton Inn and Suites

1950 N. Haggerty Road
Canton, MI 48187
734-844-1111
Special code needed: When you place your reservation, you need to give them this three-letter code: POH

$119.00 per night plus tax for “double Queen beds” (that’s two queen-sized beds!).

$129 per night for one “King Suite” – SUITE is the important part of this request – and it comes with one king bed and a pull out sofa, but PLEASE confirm that with the hotel.

Hampton Inn amenities include:

Airport Note: The hotels and Palladium’s warehouse are 15-20 minutes from Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) in Romulus, Michigan, near I-275. Detroit Metro is the airport you want to use.

2018 POH Highlights – April 19-22:

New on DriveThruRPG.com – Rifts® Dimension Book 4: Skraypers – plus Sneak Previews, 50+ Rifts® titles, Robotech® and much more.

Rifts® Dimension Book™ 4: Skraypers™ – a stand alone setting in which superheroes from several planets join forces against the world conquering Tarlok Empire – is new this week. It joins recent releases of the ever popular Rifts® Dimension Books: Phase World®, Phase World® Sourcebook, and Wormwood, as well as Ninjas & Superspies and Mystic China. Next week will see the addition of Rifts® DB 5: Anvil Galaxy followed by other Dimension Books and game titles. These are just some of the many Rifts® and other PDF titles now available on DriveThruRPG.com.

Palladium Collectibles, art, toys and more in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store

Alex and I 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 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. 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

Closing Thoughts

It feels like there is more to talk about, but that’s it for now. Our thoughts and prayers to the increasing number of people in danger from one or more hurricanes that have pummeled Texas and the Gulf Coast, the Carribean and now threaten Puerto Rico, Cuba, Florida and the southeastern Atlantic coast.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer and Game Designer

The Rifter #78

New! The Rifter® #78

Another issue of source material for four or more Palladium game settings, most of which can be adapted to any game world. This issue has a nice hunk of material about the supernatural, such as the Modern Necromancer by Greg Diaczyk, a Beyond the Supernatural™ monster by Kevin Siembieda, City of Khemennu: Part Two (Palladium Fantasy) which is a city of gods and churches by Ian Herbert, plus G.M. Advice and the Splicers® Legion Aftermath. Shaping up to be another great issue. One or two final articles to be selected. 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:

Nightbane Dark Designs

New! Nightbane® Dark Designs – Available now!

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 G.M.s to take their games up a notch.

Rifts Secrets of the Atlanteans Gold Hardcover

NEW! Secrets of the Atlanteans “Gold” Edition Hardcover – Mid-September

The source material in Rifts® Secrets of the Atlanteans™ is so awesome and the Atlanteans and Sunaj are so iconic, Palladium is making a limited edition, signed and numbered collector’s hardcover. Contains the same source material as the softcover edition. Signed by the Palladium staff.

Rifts Secrets of the Atlanteans

Rifts® Dimension Book 15: Secrets of the Atlanteans - Available now!

True Atlanteans are among the most mysterious and storied heroes across the Megaverse®. Forced to flee Earth more than 15,000 ago when Atlantis was lost, they have traveled the cosmos in search of new wonders and knowledge, and to wage war against supernatural evil. Masters of dimensional travel and the fabled Tattoo Magic, True Atlanteans have become renowned as vampire slayers and heroic Champions of Light. But there is also a festering darkness from within the Atlantean clans. A darkness that could destroy them all.

Learn about Atlantean civilization, the many clans, where they are found across the Megaverse, why they hide, and why they hate the undead so much. Also discover the power of Shadow Magic, the treachery of the Sunaj Illuminati, and much more.

NEW! Rifts® Living Nowhere – A Rifts® Sourcebook set in the Pecos Empire

This title presents three interrelated towns off the beaten path in the Pecos Empire. Each with its own unique character and problems. All fun locations to visit and find adventure and trouble. Something dark and deadly is brewing in the middle of Nowhere, where experimental Techno-Wizard devices and weapons offer prosperity, but could be the doom of everyone living there. Big ideas. Building upon material that appeared in The Rifter®, expanded.

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. 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.

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 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.

Rifts Sovietski

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 – 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.

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