Palladium Books® – Press Release – April 25, 2008
The Rifter® #42
– Ships Monday, April 28
The Rifter® is your doorway to unlimited imagination and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. It offers new heroes, powers, weapons, magic and adventure for your games. It presents new villains, monsters and dangers to battle, and new ideas to consider.
A slight delay at the printers has it shipping Monday or Tuesday, instead of today.
Rifts® source material – The Coalition™ Edge.
Rifts® Wormwood™ source material – The Wormwood™ Addenda.
Nightbane® source material and adventure hooks – Warlords of Boston.
Heroes Unlimited™ source material – S.C.R.E.T.™ Around the World.
Rifts® and any RPG with Supernatural Beings – Supernatural Leather Working (spookier and more gruesome than the title might imply).
The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
News, coming attractions and more.
$10.95 retail – 96 pages – Cat. No. 142.
Ships April 28, 2008. At the printer.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG wins its audience
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG is a success. The fans love it. Word of mouth continues to spread. The small-book “manga” format is a welcomed change, and this RPG is a just the beginning.
The RPG picks up where the DVD movie begins, with the return of the United Earth Expeditionary Force (UEEF), the separation of the SDF-3 from the rest of the fleet, the battle of Reflex Point, space combat, treachery and everything else that is part of Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles®.
Gamers are ranting and raving about Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® Role-Playing Game!
Appeals to role-players and fans of all generations.
Human mecha include Alphas, Betas, Cyclones (various), Bioroid Interceptor, the Condor, and more.
Quick roll character tables and M.O.S. skill sets make character creation possible in 15-20 minutes.
O.C.C.s include the Battloid Ace, Veritech Fighter Pilot, Military Specialist, and others.
Areas of Military Specialty – M.O.S. packages provide each O.C.C. with areas of special training.
New skills, O.C.C.s, mecha and action.
New text, art, information and character sheet.
Key Robotech® mecha statted out and illustrated.
Invid enemy statted out and illustrated.
The Haydonites, their mecha and more.
Adventure settings and ideas.
Fast playing RPG rules. Mega-Damage setting.
Cover by Apollo Okamura. Great art throughout.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Jason Marker.
Manga size for easy portability (5x7½ inches).
336 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 550.
Available now. See what everyone is talking about!
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG
– Deluxe Hardcover Edition – Summer
A deluxe, expanded, 8½ x 11 inch, Hardcover Edition of Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG is in development and should be released in August, just before Gen Con.
More data and material.
Larger illustrations and new artwork.
More equipment and vehicles.
The addition of some spacecraft.
New and additional adventure settings, characters and ideas.
The Apollo Okamura cover. Great art throughout.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and Jason Marker.
8½ x 11 full book size.
192-224 pages (estimated) – $30.95 retail – Cat. No. 550HC.
August release (tentative).
Robotech®: The Macross Saga Sourcebook
This book contains the mecha, vehicles, weapons and characters that made Robotech® famous. This also comprises the spectacular origin of Robotech® that fans are widely speculating the live action movie will be based on.
A sourcebook packed with giant mecha, weapons, heroes, villains and fun. Quality artwork by the dynamic Manning brothers and the same bold approach to the writing as presented in the Shadow Chronicles® RPG.
Cover by Apollo Okamura. Great art throughout.
Written by Jason Marker and Kevin Siembieda.
Manga size for easy portability (5x7½ inches).
192 pages – $15.95 retail – Cat. No. 551.
July release (tentative).
Robotech®: The Robotech Masters Sourcebook
We plan to give this often overlooked chapter of Robotech® history the royal treatment: in-depth coverage, new and updated information, and all new artwork. Writer, Jason Marker, is already doing research and preliminary development for this sourcebook.
Cover by Apollo Okamura. Great art throughout.
Written by Kevin Siembieda.
Manga size for easy portability (5x7½ inches).
192 pages – $15.95 retail – Cat. No. 552.
August release (tentative).
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 11: Dyval™, Hell Unleashed
– May, 2008, release
Dyval™ is a dimension of Hell that is a deadly rival of the Demons of Hades. It is also the second book in the Minion War™ series, and is every bit as fantastic as Hades.
Dyval™ is a hellish dimension very different from Hades, but just as exotic, dangerous and horrible. The Deevil Host, evil monsters and minions, Deevil society, monstrous War Steeds, magic, adventure settings and more. Interest among Palladium fans is high.
The hellish dimension of Dyval mapped and described.
New Lesser and Greater Deevils along with all your old faves.
Inhuman minions who serve as the Host.
Magic weapons and horrific war beasts.
World information and adventure ideas.
A stand-alone Dimension Book that is also the second step in an epic, five book adventure that spills across the Palladium Megaverse®.
Companion to Hades and the next chapter in the Minion War™.
Artwork by Nick Bradshaw, Mike Wilson, Mike Mumah, and others.
Cover painting by John Zeleznik.
Written by Carl Gleba and Kevin Siembieda.
192 pages – Cat. No. 873 – $22.95 retail. May 23, 2008.
Rifts® Anthology – June, 2008
– Tales of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs™
Trade paperback size collection of short stories by Kevin Siembieda and a host of known Palladium writers.
Each story shows what it’s like to live in the shadowy no-man’s-land of the Chi-Town ‘Burbs. A collection of hopeful people waiting for admission into one of the fortified city havens of the Coalition States, and the people who prey upon them. The Chi-Town ‘Burbs are the most famous of these tent cities that officially don’t exist, and therefore have no formal government or laws. Refugees, D-Bees, fugitives, and outlaws of every stripe make their home in the ‘Burbs, or visit to sell their wares or get a little R&R.
These are just some the stories that provide adventure and insight into the world of Rifts®.
Trade paperback size (6 x 9 inches).
Stories by Kevin Siembieda, Jason Marker, Braden Campbell, Carl Gleba, Jeffry Scott Hansen, Josh Sinsapaugh, Brandon Aten, Taylor White and other fan favorite, Palladium authors.
$12.95 retail – 224 pages (tentative) – Cat. No. 304.
June, 2008 (tentative). May be the first of a series of new Rifts® anthology books and novels.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12: Dimensional Outbreak™
– June, 2008 release
The Minion War™ spills into Phase World®, the city of Center and the Three Galaxies™. The epic scale of the Minion War just got bigger and even the Worlds of Warlock, the Splugorth and Naruni are involved.
Phase World’s Center described and mapped. Four new levels, including the Gateland, Central Station, the Spaceport, Repo-Yards, Free Trade Zone, Warlock Market, notable merchants and places of business, and much more.
Demon Knights, Star Slayers, demonic legions and more.
Demonic spaceships, magic weapons and new horrors.
Deevil fortifications and defenses.
Space spell magic (new).
Spaceships, power armor and other gear.
The plot for conquering the Three Galaxies.
A stand-alone Dimension Book that is also the third step in an epic, five book crossover that spills across the Palladium Megaverse®.
Artwork by Apollo Okamura, Mike Mumah, and others.
John Zeleznik cover painting.
Written by Carl Gleba.
192 pages – Cat. No. 875 – $22.95 retail. June, 2008 release.
The Rifter® #43 – our Third Annual Swimsuit Issue
– July, 2008 release
Everyone loves it, so Palladium is doing another Summer swimsuit issue. Similar to last year, I’d like to see femme fatales – sexy heroines and villains from across the Megaverse®. Each statted out for one of Palladium’s many world settings by one of Palladium’s many writers.
Always a fan favorite.
Deadly and dangerous femme fatales for Rifts®, Phase World®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Mystic China™, After the Bomb®, Nightbane®, BTS™, Splicers®, The Mechanoids® and other realms of adventure.
The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
News, coming attractions and more.
$10.95 retail – 96 pages – Cat. No. 143.
July, 2008.
Dead Reign™ RPG
– Zombies coming to Palladium in Summer, 2008
You got your first glimpse of Dead Reign™ in The Rifter® #40 – that’s only a glimpse of what’s to come. Bear in mind that this article was just a look at part of the proposed story and setting, with suggestions for using existing rules to play now. The final RPG will provide a rich, detailed post-apocalyptic world and the heroes who have managed to survive.
Dead Reign™ is a game of survival, rescue and revenge. Player characters are both the hunted and the hunters as they battle the creeping doom and pray for salvation.
S.D.C. setting.
Zombies have taken over the world.
Zombies control the cities. Humans hide in remote wilderness areas.
Zombies capture, keep and breed humans in food pens.
Player characters are ordinary people fighting for their very existence or bent on revenge.
Humankind fights to rescue those they can, and destroy as many of the zombie abominations as they can.
Is this the end of the world as we know it? Pick up a copy of Dead Reign™ and find out.
Written by Josh Hilden and Joshua Sanford. Additional text, rules and ideas by Kevin Siembieda. Coming this Summer.
Exact size, price and catalog number yet to be determined.
And more . . .
We’re just getting started, Ladies and Gentlemen. There is much more to come, like Heroes of the Megaverse® (Minion War™), Armageddon Unlimited™ (Minion War™), Warpath™ Urban Jungle™ RPG, Mysteries of Magic™, and other titles.
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