Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – July 27, 2023

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

By Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson

News Bullet Points

* Final Days of 2 big Christmas in July Sales – dozens of physical Rifts® books and hardcovers from PalladiumBooks.com – 300+ PDF titles on DriveThruRPG.com – both sales END Monday!

* Titan Robotics™ Sourcebook (softcover) – available now and flying off the shelves.

* Cyberworks™ Poker Deck – available now – fun and just plain cool. Sean designed it himself and we are very pleased with the premium production quality.

* Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised – available now – super-expanded, re-mastered with new O.C.C.s, creatures, info and an index. It is in hot demand.

* FREE Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised Sneak Preview PDF – available now on DriveThruRPG.com for your curious minds.

* COMING! Cyberworks™ Collection Hardcover – we are waiting for the second half of our delivery from the printer. 384 pages of Archie and Hagan awesomeness. Coming in a few weeks.

* Gen Con is next week – Palladium Books is Booth #903 – We will have copies of the hardcover (limited edition) and softcover Titan Robotics™ Sourcebook, the Cyberworks Collection Color Hardcover (color cover) and ever-popular Gold Hardcovers for both TR and Cyberworks (both very limited editions and available only while supplies last!). But that’s not all! We’ll have the re-mastered and expanded Yin-Sloth Jungles, tons of backstock titles, all hardcovers, prints, art, and more! Plus there are a lot of Palladium personalities to chat with and sign your books; including a rare appearance by writer Carmen Bellaire (Splicers®, Rifts®, Powers Unlimited®, etc.). We hope to see a lot of you visit the Palladium booth! See my Closing Thoughts for more about Gen Con.

 

UPDATE: Titan Robotics Kickstarter. All but a tiny handful of USA Titan Robotics rewards have shipped and many of you have already received them. Enjoy. Rewards for backers outside the USA have been shipped to our international shipping partner, but it will be several weeks before they land and begin to arrive on your doorsteps. By the way, Sean and I will be part of a live unboxing video on Legion of Myth this Sunday afternoon.

 

Please read on for details on the above products and other happenings. We are crazy busy prepping for Gen Con and other coolness.

 

Christmas in July Sale

Palladium Christmas in July Super-Sale

– Final Days – Sale ends Monday evening

On sale from PalladiumBooks.com – Rifts® RPG, World Books, Sourcebooks, Dimension Books, plus most RPG hardcover rule books are also on sale – Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited RPG, Ninjas & Superspies RPG, After the Bomb® RPG, Nightbane® RPG, Dead Reign®, Beyond the Supernatural, Chaos Earth®, Splicers® – and more all at spectacular prices.

This is one of the biggest sales of the year. Take advantage of this great chance to stock up for birthday and anniversary presents, or to treat yourself. See all the joyful details below. ENDS at 8:00 PM eastern time on Monday.

Sale Items at PalladiumBooks.com

 

Palladium PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com

DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July Super-Sale FINAL DAYS

DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July Sale – A super-sale of nearly ALL 300+ Palladium PDF products is taking place right now. Plus scores of other publishers and thousands of RPG titles are also on sale. Take a peek at the DriveThruRPG.com Christmas in July sale right now!

Palladium PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com

 

Rifts Titan Robotics

Rifts® Titan Robotics™ Sourcebook – AVAILABLE NOW!

Shrouded in secrecy and rumor, the true story of Titan Robotics™ is finally revealed. Part a high-tech toy box, part Secrets of Archie Three, part adventure book with whole new ways to play, and filled with new types of Titan Robotics power armors, giant robots, vehicles, weapons, and gear. Join a Titan Robotics Courier Team and delve into the company’s many secrets, including ARCHIE-3’s plans and program to monitor and manipulate the outside world.

  • Visit the gleaming steel and metal of a Titan Robotics™ showroom, and test-drive their newest models.
  • 18 giant robots.
  • 12 power armors.
  • Weapons, gear and notable vehicles.
  • Gunny’s Depots – arms dealer and part of Titan’s hidden network.
  • Play a Syntharoid sentient human replica android.
  • Play a Titan Dispatcher and join a Titan Robotics Courier Team.
  • Discover ARCHIE and Hagan’s hidden agendas and secret operations.
  • Explore Titan’s shadowy web of informants and how it prospers and grows.
  • Explore alternative time lines, campaign prompts, adventure outlines, intrigue, espionage, and more.
  • Art by Steven Cummings, Charles Walton, and others.
  • Written by Sean Owen Roberson and Matthew Clements.
  • 192 pages – $26.99 retail – Cat. No. 899 – Softcover.

Rifts Titan Robotics at PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Cyberworks Poker Deck

Cyberworks™ Poker Deck – AVAILABLE NOW!

The cover art from the original Rifts® Sourcebook One is featured on the back of each card. Color throughout. Attractive and durable.

  • 52 cards, plus red and black Jokers.
  • Face cards feature iconic Rifts® Cyberworks/Archie 3 artwork (Spades: Cyberworks, Hearts: Shemarrians, Clubs: Mechanoids, Diamonds: Titan Robotics).
  • Number cards feature a color energy swirl in the suit and a circuit board pattern.
  • Textured linen cards for a nice touch and durability.
  • Professional quality playing cards.
  • 52 cards plus two Jokers – $14.99 per deck – Cat. No. 2609 – available now!

Rifts Cyberworks Poker Deck at PalladiumBooks.com

 

Yin-Sloth Jungles Revised

Yin-Sloth Jungles™ Expanded and Revised – AVAILABLE NOW!

Yin-Sloth Jungles™ presents a setting unlike any other Fantasy RPG and it’s all fun. It opens with an overview and history of the region, followed by nuts and bolts, like skills, poison, and weapons. Players will drool over the 15 truly unique O.C.C.s ideal for jungle adventures and beyond. Players and Game Masters will love the lavishly detailed jungle people and monsters. Then you get a little taste of what’s to follow in Yin-Sloth Expeditions, making it a bit of a player’s guide and bestiary. Ah, but there is magic and strangeness, and your first hints of wild adventures across the sprawling jungle.

  • 15 O.C.C.s, all updated and expanded, making them seem brand new: Beastmaster, Holy Crusader, Jungle Fighter, Man-Catcher, the unique Tezcat and Pygmy Shamans, Spy, Undead Hunter, and Witch Hunter, among others.
  • 18 Jungle People and monsters updated and expanded, plus a few additions, also expanded so they feel like new.
  • New and expanded Shaman Chant magic.
  • New and unique Pygmy Shaman Chant magic.
  • New and expanded history of the Yin-Sloth Jungles.
  • Expanded and clarified weapons, jungle armor, poisons, & more.
  • The Orcish Empire and a few notable cities.
  • All new maps by Phil Stone.
  • Comprehensive double-page map (grayscale) by Will Erwin.
  • Deluxe color map of the region by Will Erwin to be made available separately.
  • Filled with great artwork by Peterson (ROG) and Mike Mumah.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
  • 160 pages – $24.99 retail – Cat. No. 459. Available now!

Yin-Sloth Jungles Revised at PalladiumBooks.com

 

Rifts Cyberworks Collection

COMING SOON! The Cyberworks™ Collection Hardcover

Featuring must-have ARCHIE-Three™ source material gathered into one, big, attractive hardcover edition. It contains:

  • Rifts® Sourcebook One, Revised & Expanded.
  • Rifts® Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids®.
  • Rifts® Shemarrian Nation™ Sourcebook.
  • Rifts® Aftermath Archie-Three™ source material.
  • 5 page index in the back of the book.
  • Color end sheets.
  • 384 pages – $49.99 retail – color cover hardcover – Cat. No. 900. Coming soon.

 

Yin-Sloth Expeditions

COMING SOON for Fantasy! Yin-Sloth Expeditions

In depth world information, villains, monsters, strange gods, a lost city, ancient civilizations, dark magic, several fully fleshed out adventures and ideas for a zillion more. Ideal for players and Game Masters alike. There is no place that offers the same range of adventures as the Yin-Sloth Jungles. August or September release.

The Yin-Sloth Jungles are a hostile wilderness filled with the ruins of lost civilizations, forgotten magic, and strange creatures found nowhere else in the world. And it’s all waiting for you to explore!

Expeditions provides more details about the Yin-Sloth Jungles and notable cities, their people, NPCs, hidden dangers, and opportunities for bold adventurers. Discover strange places and exotic beings, unravel mysteries, expose conspiracies, battle unspeakable evil, recover magic artifacts, or champion one of many human and non-human fledgling kingdoms across the jungles.

The original Yin-Sloth Jungles material has all been updated, expanded, and re-mastered from start to finish with additional text, adventures, details, art, and loads of maps (all new). I had forgotten how many exotic locations and great adventures were in the original book, plus ideas for a zillion more. All re-mastered, updated, and expanded for the delight of new and long-time Palladium Fantasy® fans alike.

  • Villains, NPCs, magic items, adventures, and fun galore.
  • Find adventure or become a hired mercenary in the Orcish Empire.
  • Delve into cities like Mishala and others.
  • Retrieve relics from an ancient catacomb of Dragonwright.
  • Stop rebellion and save the city of Terellia.
  • Explore the Lost City of Kor.
  • Brave the madness at Shaldon’s Keep and save a village.
  • Confirm rumors of a kingdom of monsters forming at the Great Fire Bog.
  • Discover what evil lurks in the tomb of Gavin.
  • Investigate a sect of Sea Giants restoring the city of Freedara.
  • Unearth ancient secrets, face eldritch evil, battle the undead, fight giants and monsters, stand against a wicked dragon, and face all manner of beasts and challenges.
  • 10 adventures and countless ideas for more.
  • 30+ new maps by Phil Stone and dynamic artwork throughout.
  • Written by Kevin Siembieda, John Klinkel, and Patrick Nowak.
  • 160-192 pages – final size and price yet to be determined – Cat. No. 460 – in final editing. Goes into layout soon.

 

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

BACK in STOCK! “Original” Palladium Fantasy RPG® “Bonus” Edition Commemorative Hardcover, 1st Edition – Available now

The ever popular Original Palladium Fantasy RPG® Commemorative Bonus Hardcover (first edition rules) is back in print. It is a deluxe, foil stamped edition that presents the original, First Edition Fantasy rules, expanded with the inclusion of the long out-of-print Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook and Tombs of Gersidi.

  • The complete, original RPG – the game that started Palladium Books.
  • First Edition rules are easily adaptable to current Fantasy titles.
  • Includes The Tombs of Gersidi adventure and setting.
  • The Arms of Nargash-Tor adventure sourcebook is included as “bonus” material back in print for the first time in 35 years.
  • Easily adapted to all 2nd Edition rules and sourcebooks.
  • Deluxe hardcover edition. Probably limited to fewer than 1,000 copies.
  • 320 pages total with “bonus” material – $55 retail – Cat. No. 449HC – available now!

Original Palladium Fantasy 1st Edition Foil Hardcover

 

List of Palladium Books® RPG Hardcovers Available Now

 

Palladium PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com

DriveThruRPG.com SALE – Christmas in July Sale – one of the biggest sales of the year

300+ Palladium PDF game titles are on SALE offering a dozen unique world settings from across the Megaverse® – and they all use one game system to bring you endless adventure. No other game company offers game worlds for so many different genres. Best of all, learn to play one Palladium RPG and you can play them all, because each uses the same basic core rules and combat. There are differences, but the fundamentals are the same. This also means you can bring characters, villains, monsters, powers, magic, weapons, gear, and adventure ideas from one setting into another or mash them together!

300+ titles and nearly every game genre available now – and more is coming. Discover the Palladium Megaverse® right now.

  • Rifts® titles. Rifts® is the ultimate setting in which you can combine any number of genres and play any style of gaming you may desire: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, heroic adventure, dimensional travel, modern knights, cyborgs, giant robots, dinosaur taming, sleuthing, magic, monsters, heroes and legends. Or combine them all. There has never been a game quite like Rifts®.
  • Rifts® Chaos Earth® titles. Live through the Great Cataclysm and the Coming of the Rifts. Rifts® Chaos Earth® RPG, Creatures of Chaos™, Rise of Magic™, and Chaos Earth® Resurrection™ are all available.
  • The Rifter® #1-85. Each issue is a wealth of source material for Rifts® and 3-5 other Palladium game settings. More than 8,600 pages of source material and counting. Most issues are only available in digital form.
  • Palladium Fantasy RPG® titles. A rich, original setting in which you can play humans or any number of nonhuman species of people in a world of magic, heroes and wonder. All of it epic.
  • Dead Reign® RPG and sourcebooks. The Zombie Apocalypse unleashed. A great introductory RPG that is surprisingly uplifting, fun, fast, and easy to learn.
  • Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Second Edition titles. Create any type of superhuman you can imagine to build your own super-hero universe.
  • After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks. Play anthropomorphic, intelligent, mutant animals as crime-fighting mutants and super-heroes or survivors of a crumbling post-apocalyptic Earth.
  • Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG and the Mystic China™ sourcebook. 41 types of martial arts, ninjas, super-spies, gizmos, mystic powers, and magic in the main book, plus even more in Mystic China.
  • Nightbane® RPG and sourcebooks. Only you know the truth. Only you can see the Nightlords and their demonic minions, and you have the power to stop them. But you must transform into a monster yourself in order to use your powers. Trust no one.
  • Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG and sourcebooks. Modern horror; 14 character classes, 42 occupations for “ordinary people,” 100+ psychic abilities, 16 monsters, and more. 
  • 300+ Palladium titles in all, plus G.M. kits, paper miniatures and more. Palladium Books has settings for every genre: Fantasy RPG, science fiction (Rifts®, Splicers®, and The Mechanoids®), super-heroes (Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb), superhero horror (Nightbane®), modern horror (Beyond the Supernatural), zombies (Dead Reign®), The Rifter® sourcebook series, novels, paper minis, and more.

Palladium PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com

 

FUN Podcast Adventures

These fun podcasts are created by Palladium fans like you.

 

Heroes Unlimited™ Christmas Special and the Cozy Caverns Beyond the Supernatural RPG adventure podcasts from the creative minds at www.realplaygamespod.com.

Coming this summer from Real Play Games Podcast: A dozen plus episodes of After the Bomb®: Purrsuit of the Heart, with other good stuff in development like a new story arc for the Beyond the Supernatural inspired Cozy Cavern Mysteries, and more.

 

Rifts® Live Play Podcast is available for your viewing enjoyment – Rifts®: Ghost in the Machine. It is produced and Game Mastered by none other than long-time Palladium freelance artist, Mark Dudley. You can find the first several episodes on Imaginos TV. Click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9OKt2SBYwybo_sV8zmdOBSQ1eaJP3rj9

 

Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store

Original art – My Ebay store is one of the few places where you can find original artwork by me (Kevin Siembieda), Kevin Long, Charles Walton, and others, as well as one-of-a-kind negatives from classic Palladium books (they look awesome framed), and other Palladium memorabilia.

Collectibles include Palladium limited edition hardcovers, out of print items, signed books, one-of-a-kind proofreader copies, art prints, posters, comic books, Star Wars toys, superhero action figures, and many other toys and items from my personal collection. Yeah, I used to be a crazy toy and art collector. Hundreds of items. Take a look every weekend or two for new additions.

One-of-a-kind Palladium Books negatives (special and rare collectibles). Negatives are always very popular items at the Palladium Open House, Gen Con, and conventions, and are catching on as rare collectibles, unique in and of themselves. Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. The plastic film negatives were then “ganged” on a massive sheet of Mylar, 16 pages per big sheet, and the printing plates were made from the negatives – everything white, printing black. We have been cutting them loose and making them available to you. I am only keeping a few dozen pages of negatives and a few complete books for myself, the rest are all being slowly offered to you, in no particular order.

  • Each negative is truly unique and resembles woodcut art.
  • It is a piece of Palladium Books and RPG history you will treasure.
  • Each was used to print the very book you may have in your collection (1981-2004).
  • Each signed in silver ink by Kevin Siembieda, the founder and owner of Palladium Books.
  • Each signed negative comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
  • A one-of-a-kind work of art and a dynamic conversation piece.
  • Each signed negative is on a white board inside a clear plastic bag.
  • Negatives looks fabulous matted or framed! Fits in an 8x10 inch matt opening. Each neg is roughly 8½ x 11 inches.
  • Prices vary depending on the title, the art, and quality of the negative. Note: Many have scratches, or blemishes, and/or an opaque medium on the negative, but still look awesome matted or framed.

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

 

Closing Thoughts – GEN CON Booth 903 – See you there?

For us, Gen Con is only a few days away. We load up the truck on Monday and drive out Tuesday morning. We unload and start setting up Tuesday at the convention center and finish up Wednesday. We may also squeeze in a few meetings with people. Thursday morning the convention opens to the public and it is a whirlwind of meetings, greetings, selling books and signing autographs.

Gen Con is more than a fun convention for us, it’s also a fun business experience. We get to see what books and game lines are selling. What’s hot, what’s not, what you are looking forward to most from us and other game companies, what we are doing right, and what we are not doing so well.

We get to chat with you and get your opinions and feedback on all manner of subjects. Of course, we also get to talk to other business people, writers, artists, and game designers. In short, Gen Con is a great place to find new talent and make connections.

Yes, we sell product, but the cost for us to attend is so high that profit is often thin. Besides seeing you, our fans, we primarily go for the valuable market research and the chance to make new contacts and reestablish old ones.

Like you, we get to see and purchase (or trade for) new games, meet new people, and hang out with old friends. Don’t get me wrong, although Gen Con is a lot of work, we also have a lot of fun. In fact, we always come back home energized and full of new ideas.

So if you are attending Gen Con, please come and visit us at the Palladium Books booth, #903 right in the front of the exhibitors’ hall near Asmodee and Upper Deck. We’ll share what news we can, chat a bit, and you can get the newest releases, books, miniatures, art prints, original art, negatives, card decks, and more. This year we will have a half dozen new releases:

  • Titan Robotics softcover
  • Titan Robotics Hardcover (color cover art, very limited)
  • Titan Robotics “Gold” Hardcover (even more limited)
  • The Cyberworks Collection (a limited amount for Gen Con)
  • The Cyberworks Collection “Gold” Hardcover (very limited)
  • The Cyberworks Card Deck (new and awesome)
  • Yin-Sloth Jungles Revised and Expanded (hot off the presses from the printer!)
  • BTS commemorative hardcover and ALL the other hardcovers
  • And a ton of back stock titles, art, and more.

Please Note: The special, limited editions of Titan Robotics and Cyberworks are all very limited Kickstarter special items available on a first-come-first-served basis, while supplies last. Once they are gone, they are gone forever.

 

I’m happy to report we have one of the biggest line-ups of Palladium creators at Gen Con this year, including a rare appearance by author Carmen Bellaire (Powers Unlimited®, Rifts® Merctown, Rifts® Black Market, Splicers® RPG, and more). This is a great time to chat with him and a unique opportunity to get his autograph.

  • Kevin Siembieda (Founder, writer & game designer)
  • Sean Owen Roberson (Creative Director, writer & game designer; Titan Robotics, Savage Rifts®, and more.)
  • Carmen Bellaire (Writer; Splicers, Rifts®, Powers Unlimited®)
  • Mark Oberle (Writer; Nightbane®, Rifts® Lazlo, and more.)
  • Glen Evans (Writer, Palladium Fantasy and The Rifter®)
  • Mike Leonard (Artist and writer)
  • Sam Leonard (in Cosplay)
  • Wayne Smith (Editor and staff; The Rifter® and more.)
  • Crystal Willard (Staff)

 

So please come on over, buy the latest releases, get rare collectables and autographs, and have some fun with me and the Palladium crew. The Palladium booth is #903 and located right at one of the main, center entrances of the Exhibitors’ Hall near Asmodee and Upper Deck.

For those of you who aren’t attending Gen Con, enjoy the two Christmas in July sales, the new releases, check out the FREE Sneak Preview of Yin-Sloth Jungles, and please enjoy your weekend.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Friend

 

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