Palladium Books® Weekly Update – Jan. 22, 2016

By Kevin Siembieda

Our imaginations are on fire! The source material written for The Rifter® #73 is the same quality you would see in one of our game line sourcebooks or World Books. The ideas, fresh. New. Challenging. And most of all, fun. Things that should inflame the imaginations of Game Masters and enthrall players.

I’m happy to say, you’ll find more of the same in upcoming sourcebooks for Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Robotech®, Splicers®, HU2 and all the rest. Our imaginations are on fire. We have big plans for Robotech® RPG Tactics, Rifts® and all our game lines. And you’ll be seeing a lot of them happening this year.

I know what you are thinking. It was voiced by a fan and supporter last weekend: “That sounds great, but ... I’m sorry, but the last few years Palladium has been unable to release more than four new books. Why should this year be any different?” A fair question. I’m going to keep my answer brief.

We have gone through a lot the last several years, professionally and personally. Events, tragedies and challenges knocked us down and took the wind out of our sails. But things change. We have mustered our strength, found renewed energy and motivation, and we are fired up and committed to shower you – all of you – with an array of new products that will excite you and leave you wanting more. Palladium is moving forward with support for our many role-playing game lines. We expect to be able to move Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Wave 2 along much more quickly now, have big plans for it and other Palladium game lines, and hope to see new third party ventures, like Rifts® Savage Worlds, expand the Palladium Megaverse®. All are things that should surprise and please you.

Will we miss release dates? I’m sure we will, but by days or weeks, not many months or a year. The proof will be in the products that are going to be out soon. And we are coming out of the gates with The Rifter® #73 packed with “official” source material that is going to knock your socks off. You wanted lots of products. Well, you are going to get them. Please show your support by purchasing them and spreading the word about them.

UPDATE: The Rifter® Super-Subscription Drive – a limited time offer

Subscriptions and renewals have been coming in at a steady pace all week. Please, keep ‘em coming. The annual Super-Subscription Drive happens only once a year. I try to make the FREE gifts something special and fun to entice people into trying The Rifter®. I want them to realize the tremendous value of The Rifter® as a resource for new ideas, building adventures, and source material that is suitable for most Palladium RPG world settings, not just the specific game line they may have been written for.

The Rifter® Super-Subscription Drive is your chance to try The Rifter® at a discounted price, get a FREE gift, save $16.00 off the retail price, and have it delivered right to your doorstep. A limited time offer. Do not miss out!

Click here to see the full description for your subscription options and choice of free gift in the Palladium Online Store.

UPDATE: The Rifter® #73 – ALL “official” source material – goes to the printer next week

I have been writing like a fiend. Wednesday, I barely left my office. I started at 7:00 A.M. and didn’t head home until 10:30 P.M., because I couldn’t stop, because the ideas were coming so fast and furiously. I have been on fire. We all are. Chuck, Wayne, Alex, Julius, and many of our freelancers are pounding away like maniacs and grinding out great work for issues of The Rifter® and many products in the pipeline.

The Rifter® #73 contains adventure source material that is all official, thought provoking and fun. Stuff that should inspire adventures and new elements for your games. There is source material for Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Splicers® and Dead Reign®, all “official.” Final editing is in progress.

UPDATE: Heroes of Humanity Sourcebook

When I’m not writing my Rifter® material, I’m working on Heroes of Humanity™ and The Disavowed™.

UPDATE: Chaos Earth® Resurrection

“I am LOVING Chaos Earth® Resurrection™. It is an awesome book. Love Chuck’s art and the borders are really cool, they blew me away when I first cracked open the book. And then started reading and, wow.”

We are hearing comments like these about this excellent addition to the Chaos Earth® series, all the time. I think we have really surprised people with the content in Chaos Earth® Resurrection™. It is NOT your usual zombie threat. Nor your usual zombies. Far from it. Best of all, you can transplant this menace to Rifts Earth, the Three Galaxies, Palladium Fantasy® or almost anywhere, even on an alien world in Robotech®. We have more coming for Chaos Earth® in the months ahead.

More Rifts® World Book PDFs on DriveThruRPG.com

We are putting things in place to make it so you should see 2-3 new PDFs of Rifts® World Books and other titles every week on DriveThruRPG.com. Yes, you read that correctly, 2-3 new PDF titles EVERY WEEK.

Rifts® World Book 9: South America 2 is available now. Rifts® World 10: Juicer Uprising will follow. So will Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG and sourcebooks, and all the rest. The Minion War™ series of books, the Rifts® Coalition War®/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 Heroes Unlimited™ RPG and sourcebooks, Palladium Fantasy RPG® and sourcebooks, The Mechanoids®, and much more, all are available on DriveThruRPG.com.

Available right now:

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

Palladium collectibles, hardcovers, out of print titles, original artwork and toys and items from my personal collection are all available on my ebay store. We add items on a regular basis and offer sales, so check it out from time to time. 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 available with frequent new items added. 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), hundreds of toys and action figures, all from my personal archives and collection. Take a look every weekend or two for new items added.

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Game Masters Needed – Gen Con Indy – We need your game event submissions – January 31, 2016 – sooner is better

Please keep those Gen Con game event descriptions coming in! Help us celebrate Palladium’s 35 Year Anniversary with even MORE Palladium gaming events at the 2016 Gen Con Indy than ever before.

Game Masters wanted. We are looking for Game Masters to showcase all of Palladium’s RPGs: Rifts®, Robotech®, Heroes Unlimited™, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane®, Dead Reign®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Splicers®, After the Bomb®, Ninjas & Superspies™ and all the rest. Also looking for people to demo Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and we would love to see a Robotech® RPG Tactics™ tournament if any of you are willing to organize and run one.

Rewards! And just like the last two years, Palladium offers the Best Players, Game Masters and all gamers in each event “rewards” for their participation. Plus G.M.s who run several games in the Palladium block get a free Gen Con G.M. badge and we get to have all events in the same area, making it convenient for players and Game Masters. Palladium is always looking for NEW G.M.s to run events and join the Megaversal Ambassadors, so please consider helping out and having some fun at the same time by running Palladium events as Gen Con and other conventions around the world.

Game Masters, please contact Palladium Books and/or Gen Con Game events coordinators Jeff Ruiz (NMI) and Patrick “Jake” Jakubowski now through January 31, 2016. In order to get into the Gen Con Games Pre-Registration and the onsite program book, Gen Con needs ALL game information by early February. That means Palladium needs them by January 31, 2016, sooner is even better. I know some of you have already turned in your events. Awesome. You make Jeff and Jake’s work easier the sooner you can submit your game descriptions and details.

Send in your Gen Con game descriptions pronto to the Palladium Megaversal Ambassadors pronto at ambassadors{at}palladiumbooks.com — or by telephone (734-721-2903).

More Murmurs from the Megaverse®

I have posted three Murmurs this week and shall continue to do so. Some will be short, some long. Some will talk about the goings on at Palladium Books, others will present my thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams on a wide range of subjects.

More of Everything

We are trying to be on the ball and give you more of everything. More PDF books and material through DriveThru, more Murmurs from the Megaverse®, more Robotech® (it’s coming), more books, more of everything. Keep your eyes open for all of it. And as always, please offer us your feedback and constructive suggestions.

Schedule of 2016 Releases for the First 6 Months

Also coming:

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer

The Rifter Super-Subscription

The Rifter® Super-Subscription Drive – Low Price – Free Gift

It only happens once a year – for a limited time – The Rifter® Super-Subscription Drive. We want people to discover The Rifter® as a valuable resource, so during the Super-Subscription Drive we offer a selection of FREE gifts as an additional enticement to subscribe. Gamers already familiar with The Rifter® always jump at this offer. That’s because even when late, The Rifter® has been so consistently good, it is hard to say no to the Super-Subscription Drive.

The free gift is always a nice incentive, unique and fun. I have dug through the Palladium archives to make a number of out of print titles and “special” items available. For us, gaming is all about friends and fun, so enjoy and have fun. Note: The early issues of The Rifter® are limited and available only while supplies last. Please keep the orders coming and enjoy.

Here are four reasons (and 7 gift choices) why this is the perfect time to try The Rifter® or renew your subscription:

  1. Save $16 off retail and each issue is delivered right to your door.
  2. FREE gift worth $17.90 to $35.85 when you order now! 7 gift choices.
  3. Order during the Super-Subscription Drive to lock in your low, low subscription price for the next year.
  4. The Rifter® has been outstanding and is the place to find regular source material for Beyond the Supernatural, Palladium Fantasy®, Splicers®, Dead Reign®, Heroes Unlimited™ and other settings. And future issues will have more player and G.M. tips, and more “official” source material.

If you haven’t taken a look at The Rifter® lately (if ever), I suggest you try an issue.

The Rifter® is an excellent gaming resource. A place to find ideas as well as characters, monsters, villains, powers, magic and adventures for your own game. Characters, powers and equipment you can drop into most game settings with little or no modification. Even articles designed for settings you don’t play are likely to offer ideas and material you can easily modify and incorporate into your campaign. In fact, drawing on concepts from outside the usual setting can spice up your game and keep players guessing. The Rifter® is a great tool for that. The beauty of Palladium’s Megaversal Game System is you can often take characters, gear and ideas from one world setting and drop them into ANY of the other settings with no or little work. Other times, the amount of modification is minimal to make it work in a different setting. That means a monster from Palladium Fantasy® can be a creature, mutant or alien in Heroes Unlimited™, After the Bomb®, Robotech®, Rifts®, Nightbane®, The Mechanoids®, Chaos Earth® or Splicers®, and vice versa. What needs to be adjusted? Perhaps just changing Hit Points/S.D.C. and damage to Mega-Damage, or M.D.C. and M.D. to Hit Points/S.D.C., or some other minor tweaks.

Characters from Heroes Unlimited™ and After the Bomb® can be from the future, or the past (depending on the setting), or they can be mutants, or aliens, or beings from another or parallel world. As I am so wont to say, you are limited only by your imagination. The same holds true for towns, cities and adventures – use that place and the adventure ideas tailored to a different setting. Sure you may have to swap out monsters and treasure, or adjust motives, but you might be surprised how easy, fun and different that adventure plays out in a different world environment.

The Rifter® is the ultimate source for alternative, new and different ideas, rules, adventures, characters, and story ideas. All of which can be tweaked to fit most settings, as can optional rules. The Rifter® is a factory for alternative ideas.

The Rifter® Super-Subscription Offer is your chance to try The Rifter® at a discount price and get a FREE gift. A limited time offer. Do not miss out!

Click here to see the full description for your subscription options and choice of free gift in the Palladium Online Store.

The Rifter #73

NEW! The Rifter® #73 – Ships Early February

The Rifter® #73 is in final production. Articles have been selected and most of it, if not all, is “official” source material! If that is the case (and I think it will be), it is the first time an entire issue of The Rifter® contains all “official” source material. A good way to kickoff Palladium’s 35 Year Anniversary. In final production and should go to the printer in a week or so.

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 at least 2-3 other Palladium game lines. And don’t forget, most of the material can be easily adapted for use in ANY Palladium game setting.

Rifter® #73 Highlights:

Coalition States Heroes of Humanity

NEW! Rifts® The Coalition States: Heroes of Humanity – February

In final production. 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.

Rifts The Disavowed

Rifts® Secrets of the Coalition States: The Disavowed™ – March

“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® Secrets of the Atlanteans – Spring

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® Haunted Tech – Spring or Summer

Faced with the imminent threat of the Minion War and ensuing demon plagues across Rifts® North America, heroes and nations rise! Archie Three is taking none of it lying down. The insane machine-god is obsessed with sending the demons back to hell and saving “his” world.

Garden of the Gods – a Palladium Fantasy RPG® Sourcebook – Spring

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.

Hell Followed – A Dead Reign® Zombie Apocalypse Sourcebook

At 160 pages, Hell Followed™ is the largest Dead Reign® sourcebook yet. Spring or Summer release. Can you survive the Zombie Apocalypse? Find out by playing Dead Reign®. The results may surprise you.

Rifts® Chaos Earth® Sourcebook: First Responders – Summer

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.

Robotech RPG Tactics

Robotech® RPG Tactics Wave Two is coming ...

– but you can get started with the core box set and Wave One expansions right now

If you love Robotech®, you 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 for the years ahead.

Robotech® RPG Tactics™ "Starter Box" (Main Box Game) – Cat. No. 55100 – $99.95 retail price. This is the game Robotech® fans have wanted for decades. 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, so you can build your armies and have them ready when Wave Two is released.

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:

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Palladium PDF Books – download from DriveThruRPG.com

This is a great resource for getting out of print Palladium titles and other select books. We’ve made more than 100 PDF products available for digital download 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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