Good news for you Johnny Come-Latelies and those of you waiting for Christmas cash to buy your Palladium Christmas Surprise Package. Due to popular demand, we have extended the deadline till January 8, 2006. Then it ends, so get those orders in while you can.
We hope everyone who has already gotten one has enjoyed their X-Mas Grab Bag. Kevin Siembieda made a point of reading every single comment sent us and helped pack every package we shipped out. It was a ton of work for all of us – signing something like 5000 individual books and items, but it was worth it.
Happy New Year.
We want to post a listing of the errata for Rifts® Ultimate Edition and to make sure we address EVERYTHING we want you to point out the mistakes and problems you have found!
Send them to alex@palladiumbooks.com
See Kevin Siembieda’s overview of 2005 and his high expectations for 2006 in the 2005 in Review – What’s to Come in 2006, posted elsewhere on our website. It offers insight to the RPG industry and Palladium’s plans for 2006.
We want to make a big push with The Rifter® again, after all, it is the ONLY magazine/sourcebook written by RPG fans for their fellow gamers.
In fact, we also want to see more writing and art contributions for The Rifter® in the future. Come on, write up and send us your favorite adventure, villain, monster, magic, weapons, G.M. tips, and anything else you think would be of value and fun to your fellow gamers. The Rifter® is your vehicle, your tool . . . use it!
Likewise, we’d like to see new artists, humorous cartoons and short comic strips (4-8 pages, with a story complete in itself) contributing to The Rifter®.
Seriously, we publish The Rifter® for you. That means you guys and gals should not only be contributing but buying and reading the darn thing. Hence, the great subscription offer – four regular issues of The Rifter, plus the Best of The Rifter® and a free gift. Pretty good, huh? Well, don’t just sit there, order your subscription today!
The Rifter® is a fantastic supplement and sourcebook for your campaigns. Each issue is packed with ideas that you can use in your own campaigns and adventures. Many are just fun to read.
Furthermore, the material is written by folks like you – gamers and fans. They offer house rules, different viewpoints, and new ideas.
Palladium keeps the price as low as possible ($9.95 for 96 or more pages) and makes little (if any) profit on this publication. Why? Because we see The Rifter® as something special for our Megaverse® of gamers. Sure the focus varies every issues and sometimes an issue may not have much material on your favorite game, but the publication is still interesting, full of ideas, fun, and supports your fellow gamers. Take a look and give it a try, especially now with the awesome subscription offer available. (And once that offer expires, it is NOT offered again till next year!)
Plus, select issues offer official rules and source material or a sneak peek at an upcoming book, as well as the latest news, product descriptions and promotional offers. Editor in Chief, Wayne Smith, has also been making a point to include adventures and source material for Palladium Fantasy RPG® and Nightbane®, as well as small pieces for cult faves like After the Bomb® and Systems Failure™.
Plus, you can tell us what you’d like to see more of in The Rifter®. We do this publication for you, so tell us what you want.
The Rifter® is our gift to you, the fans. Utilize it to the max.
For us this is BIG news! An anniversary celebration and gaming event held out of the back of the Palladium warehouse!
More than 20 Palladium creators (writers, artists, editors, freelancers, etc.), plus friends (online moderators, Rifter contributors, Game Masters and players, local gamers, convention buddies, and associates of Palladium Books) will all be present to chat, sign autographs, run games and host panel talks.
A dozen or more panel talks and seminars with me (Kevin Siembieda) and other Palladium creators.
Gaming! And not just any gaming, but Palladium role-playing games. Yep, finally an event dedicated exclusively to us “role-players.”
Palladium RPG products, anniversary commemorative items, original artwork, oddities and more, all for sale.
Advance ticket sales only.
Read more about this historic event elsewhere on our website.
We need good Game Masters to run events at the Palladium Open House in May. So please let us know if you are interested in running one or more game events and what Palladium games you’d like to run.
We’ll talk about the details and benefits of running for us when you contact us.
Write, call (734-946-1156) or email (palladium-gm@palladiumbooks.com) to volunteer. Um, of course you must be present to run. G.M.s will get a special gift for their help.
“Back in print” after being outta print for 9 months, this is one of our best selling sourcebooks of all time (over 100,000 sold, Vampire Kingdoms too). Minor updates and modifications to make it 100% compatible with Rifts® Ultimate Edition.
The usual fun, optional source-material for numerous RPG lines in the Palladium Megaverse®, as well as news and fiction. In final production right now and expected to go to the Printer soon.
This takes the ideas of the first Dinosaur Swamp World Book to a whole new level. Intelligent dinosaurs who hunt and enslave humans, mysterious Indian mounds seething with magic and potential, new O.C.C.s, and much more.
Our goal is to set your imaginations on fire with bold characters, exciting ideas and new avenues of adventure.
This special issue of The Rifter® is an index and best of collection published as part of the Palladium Anniversary Celebration (and is a free bonus issue for subscribers).
It will include some of the most interesting, useful, fun and funny moments from the last eight years.
Best of all, it includes a comprehensive index of articles from issues 1-33!
When asked exactly what would be in this special issue besides the comprehensive index, Wayne said: “What? I don’t know . . . good stuff.” So there you have it, good stuff.
Okay, I know this book and Beyond Arcanum were delayed just as many BTS gamers feared, but Beyond the Supernatural has not been forgotten or shoved aside. This is the next book I’m diving into as soon as Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp is finished! And other than some editing and changes to Arzno and Madhaven, Beyond Arcanum is “my” next big project after Tome Grotesque. I’m as anxious to finish writing these two books as you guys and gals are eager to see them.
Tome Grotesque could just as easily have been called “The Book of Darkness,” because it deals with the gruesome and malevolent nature of supernatural beings. A frightening look into the psychology, nature and power of monsters that lurk in the shadows and torment mortals.
All dates listed are “ship dates” from Palladium to mail order and distributors. The book will appear in stores 1-2 weeks after that date.
A number of out of print books may be slotted into the release schedule along with a couple of Heroes Unlimited™ and Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles (although right now, it looks like most Fantasy titles will be out in the Fall).
January 2006
Rifts® WB 2: Rifts® Atlantis – back in print – 160 pages, $17.95 retail – January 13, 2006.
The Rifter® #33 – new – 96 pages, $9.95 retail – January 16.
Rifts® WB 27: Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp™ – new by Siembieda and Yoho (and introducing the amazing art of Jeffery Russell) – 160 pages – $17.95 retail – January 26.
February 2006
The Best of The Rifter® - A Palladium Books 25th Anniversary Special (free for subscribers) and includes a comprehensive index for issues 1-33 – 128 pages – $12.95 retail – February 15.
Tome Grotesque™ (for Beyond the Supernatural™) – new by Kevin Siembieda – 160 pages – $18.95 retail – February 27.
March 2006
GAMA Trade Show – March 13-16, 2006 – see some of you there.
Rifts® WB 28: Arzno™ – Vampire Incursion™ – new by Jason Richards – 160 pages – $18.95 retail – March 16.
The John Zeleznik Collector’s Rifts® Coloring Book™ – A Palladium Books 25th Anniversary Special – 48 pages – $5.95 retail – March 24.
April 2006
Rifts® WB 29: Madhaven™ – new by Brandon Aten & Taylor White – 128 pages – $14.95 retail – April 7.
The Rifter® #34 & Summer Catalog – new – 128 pages – $9.95 retail – April 21.
May 2006
Palladium Open House – May (5) 6 & 7, 2006 – hope to see a lot of you there!!!
E3 May 9-12, 2006 (tentative).
Powers Unlimited™ 3 – new by Carmen Bellaire – 96 pages – $13.95 retail – May 25.
June 2006
Beyond Arcanum – new by Kevin Siembieda and Todd Yoho – 192 pages – $22.95 retail – June 16.
Rifts® & Other Worlds – The Art of John Zeleznik – new by John Zeleznik – full color, hardcover collection of John’s work for Palladium Books (includes concept sketches, and never before seen color roughs) – 128 pages of full color – $25.95 – June 30.
July 2006
The Rifter® #35 – new, our first Swimsuit Spectacular! – 96 pages – $9.95 retail – July 20.
Rifts® Dimension Book 10: Hades™ – new by Carl Gleba – the Minion War Crossover begins with this book; suitable as a standalone sourcebook as well as a vital chapter in the Minion War Crossover! 160 pages – $18.95 retail – July 13.
An additional title or reprint is likely to be added.
Also slated for 2006
Rifts® Dimension Book 11: Dyval™ (Minion War, part two)
Rifts® Dimension Book 12: Minion War™ in the Three Galaxies (Minion War, part three)
Heroes Unlimited™ Minion War™ Crossover (part four)
Rifts® Minion War™ Crossover (part five; conclusion)
Palladium Fantasy: Western Empire (back in print)
2-4 new Fantasy RPG® titles.
2-3 new HU2 books – including The Atorian Sourcebook™.
Chaos Earth™: NEMA™ Mission Book One
Chaos Earth™: Psychic Storm™
Rifts: Triax 109 P.A.™ (all new)
The Rifter® #36
BTS-2™ Adventure Book
Splicers™ Sourcebook
We have recently been informed by our printer that they are stuck on an “extended schedule.” That means instead of turning books around in about four weeks, they are taking 6-8 weeks!
In October the printer thought they’d be back to their normal schedule by November, and then by the year’s end, but we were just informed they expect this extended schedule to continue through January and probably February, possibly longer (let’s hope not).
This will push some of the release dates listed above off by 1-3 weeks later. The first victim being our January releases, each pushed back a few weeks. In fact this could slide Adventures in Dinosaur Swamp into the first or second week of February. Sorry. We will try to get these titles out as close to on schedule as possible.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher
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