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RPG Back to School Sale – up to 70% off!

Happy Friday the 13th!

Hello, fellow gamers! The big news this Update is Palladium’s RPG Back to School Sale offering hardcover RPGs, select sourcebooks, and other items ranging from 20% to 70% discounts. See complete details below.

What’s hot at Palladium this week – Rifts®, The Rifter®, After the Bomb®, and Palladium Fantasy® titles remain hot this week.

The Glitterbois’ podcast on the History of Palladium Books: My chats with the Glitterbois continue, and our recent Beyond the Supernatural episode is available now. We also had a very lively two hour conversation about the original Robotech RPG series this past Sunday that should go live in a week or two. We’re having a blast with these conversations. The Glitterbois ask great questions and we try not to veer off topic too much (but it happens).

Legion of Myth – Sean and I will be appearing on Legion of Myth, Sunday, October 6 to talk about gaming and wilderness adventures.

Convention Appearance – Granite State Comic Con in New Hampshire, the weekend of September 20th. It’s a TMNT-centric comic convention where Kevin Eastman, Jim Lawson, many of the Mirage Studios crew, and many other notable comic book artists attend. This will be the first time Sean and I attend this convention and we are looking forward to it.

RPG Back to School SALE – 20-70% savings

With summer drawing to a close and the school year starting, some people seem down in the dumps, so to cheer you up, we’re offering an insane sale of select books and items – including many hardcover editions, the Living the Fantasy T-Shirt, pens, and more. Most are 30-50% off, a couple at a 70% discount, and a few at 20% off. Smile and get ‘em while you can! These steep discounts mean this sale is very limited. 6 days only, while supplies last.

• Bookmark Set One – Cat. No. 2554 – $2.50 – 50% discount

• Bookmark Set Two – Cat. No. 2555 – $2.50 – 50% discount

• Rifts® Notepad – Cat. No. 2597 – $2.50 – 50% discount

• All Pencils – 50% discount

• All Pens – 20% discount

• Living the Fantasy T-Shirt (recommended school uniform) – all sizes – 20% discount

• Rifts® Chainsaw Glitter Boy Miniature (because everyone needs something cool on their desk) – Cat. No. MI8053 – $20.00 – 50% discount

   

RECOMMENDED READING

• Rifts® & The Megaverse®: Art of John Zeleznik “Softcover” – Cat. No. 2510 – $6.89 – 70% discount!

• Rifts® & The Megaverse®: Art of John Zeleznik Hardcover – Cat. No. 2510HC – $35.00 – 30% discount

• Rifts®: Tales of the Chi-Town Burbs “Softcover” – Cat. No. 304 – $3.89 – 70% discount!

• Rifts® Graphic Novel & Sourcebook:  Machinations of Doom “Softcover” – Cat. No. 871 – $11.50 – 50% discount

• Rifts® Chaos Earth Hardcover – Cat. No. 660HC – $25.89 – 30% discount

• Rifts® Ultimate Edition Hardcover – Cat. No. 800HC – $37.59 – 20% discount

• Rifts® Game Master Guide Hardcover – Cat. No. 845HC – $31.49 – 30% discount

• Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover – Cat. No. 848HC – $27.99 – 30% discount

• Rifts® Adventure Guide Hardcover – Cat. No. 849HC – $25.89 – 30% discount

• Naruni Wave 2 Dimension Book “Softcover” – Cat. No. 860 – $10.50 – 50% discount

• Beyond the Supernatural 1st Edition RPG Red Foil Hardcover – Cat. No. 699HC – $38.50 – 30% discount

• Heroes Unlimited RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 500HC – $31.49 – 30% discount

• Gramercy Island (90+ villains) Sourcebook “Softcover” – Cat. No. 518 – $13.50 – 50% discount

• Ninjas & Superspies RPG “Bonus” Hardcover – Cat. No. 525HC – $25.89 – 30% discount

• Mystic China N&S sourcebook “Softcover” – Cat. No. 526 – $18.89 – 30% discount

• Nightbane® RPG Hardcover – Cat. No. 730HC – $27.99 – 30% discount

• Nightbane® Survival Guide Sourcebook “Softcover” – Cat. No. 735 – $17.49 – 30% discount

• Palladium Fantasy RPG® 1st Ed. “Bonus” Red Foil Hardcover – Cat. No. 449HC – $44.00 – 20% discount

• Land of the Damned 1: Chaos Lands (Fantasy) “Softcover” – Cat. No. 468 – $13.50 – 50% discount

• Land of the Damned 2: Eternal Torment (Fantasy) “Softcover” – Cat. No. 469 – $13.50 – 50% discount

• The Rifter® #85 “Softcover” – Cat. No. 185 – $18.89 – 30% discount

MORE SAVINGS!

A sale of similar PDF titles is available on DriveThruRPG.com – many RPG book titles, novels, G.M. aids, character generators, and Rifts, HU, and Fantasy paper minis to help you build your PDF library for quick searchable references.

Line art and colors by Fero Pe

UPDATE: TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG Redux Kickstarter

Backers, please see the newest update filled with artwork and updates. The books are looking amazing as we enter into the final layout and approvals phase. We anticipate shipping to Backers sometime in the first quarter of 2025.

Speaking of which, there are a few hundred of you who have yet to register in Backerkit and provide us with your addresses and contact information. Without this data we can NOT send out your rewards and we do not want anyone to miss out on these amazing products; especially the super-limited Kickstarter Exclusive items such as variant cover edition books, foil editions, dice, miniature sets, print sets, etc. All exclusives are being made specific to your orders. YOU will not get your rewards unless you get us your address and rewards and upgrade requests. Stragglers, please get us this information as soon as possible.

To provide us with your shipping address and other important info, you must fill out what is called a Backerkit survey. This survey is how you provide Palladium with your full contact and shipping info and any upgrades to your pledge. We cannot ship your product without this survey information. Time is running out. Please help us, help you.

FYI: We are concerned that those of you who use AppleID emails ("This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.") on Kickstarter and thus in BackerKit have missed our many emails sent via BackerKit and MailChimp, and messages through Kickstarter, because they are NOT being delivered to your inbox. If you used a private relay Apple ID email on Kickstarter – or – you have still not filled out your BackerKit survey, please reach out to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call the Palladium office (734-721-2900) to update your email address. Thank you.

You can recover a link to your survey using the form here: https://teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-and-other-strangeness.backerkit.com/

NOTE: Upgrades you made to your pledge in BackerKit do not reflect on your Kickstarter account. Nor does changing your address on Kickstarter automatically update it with BackerKit. Since we are using BackerKit for fulfillment, you must verify your pledge and address via  Backerkit. You will have the opportunity to update your address at any time there and verify it before shipping starts (current estimate March 2025) when you will pay for shipping.

Our thanks to the thousands of Backers who have already provided this information.

Another TMNT Kickstarter you might enjoy – a TMNT documentary - launches Saturday, September 14, 2024

This sounds fascinating to us, but we’re super-TMNT fans. Check out this Kickstarter to decide if you might be interested in its offerings for yourselves. It’s called TMNT: Evolution, Mutation, and Reboot, a new documentary from Definitive Film that says it delves into the complete history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — one of pop culture’s most beloved franchises. This Kickstarter campaign offers a 4 hour, feature-length film packed with interviews, behind-the-scenes stories, art, and images, and personal stories from creators Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and many others (including Palladium’s very own Kevin Siembieda). We didn’t want Turtles fans to miss out on what sounds like an epic and expansive documentary filled with fun and revealing history and new details and information.

The Rifter #48 Archival Edition – Available now!

We have gotten so many requests to reprint select, out of print Rifters that we have decided to give it a try. Other than the Archival Edition in a gold box on the spine and the front and back covers, these are exactly the same book printed years ago, including old news and ads. Enjoy.

- Rifts® Return to N.O.R.A.D., expansive material & adventure.

- Palladium Fantasy RPG look at variant clergy

- Nightbane® Questions and Answers.

- Scared Spitless - expanded Horror Factor rules.

- Dead Reign® impersonator Zombie.

- Old news, announcements and ads.

- 96 pages - $20.99 Retail – Cat. No 148

The Rifter #58 Archival Edition – Available now!

- Rifts® Lenuria “official” source material, O.C.C.s, monsters and animals; expansive.

- Rifts® Lazlo – Unofficial, fun and expansive.

- Rifts® and Phase World – The Kezel super-powered mutants.

- Nightbane® short story.

- Old news, announcements and ads.

- 96 pages - $20.99 Retail – Cat. No 158

The Rifter #65 Archival Edition – Available now!

- Rifts® Black Market source material.

- Rifts®, Fantasy, & Others – 60 new Necromancy spells + magic items.

- Rifts® Chaos Earth short story.

- Heroes Unlimited – Bionics, robots, and more.

- Heroes Unlimited – A super-hero team and adventure ideas.

- Beyond the Supernatural Hollow Road adventure, part one.

- Old news, announcements and ads.

- 96 pages - $20.99 Retail – Cat. No 165

BACK IN STOCK!  

Yin-Sloth Jungles, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded!

The Yin-Sloth Jungles™ is a savage and unexplored wilderness filled with exotic people, strange creatures, ancient ruins, dark gods, and ancient secrets waiting to be unearthed.

📕 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 to feel like new, plus a few additions.

📕 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.

📕 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.

📕 COMING SOON! Yin-Sloth Expeditions setting and adventure book.

BACK IN STOCK!

After the Bomb® RPG “Bonus” Edition Hardcover – Available now

Create any type of intelligent, mutant animal from a turtle or raccoon to a lion or an elephant. The RPG presents stats for 100+ mutant animals, plus rules for creating any mutant animal you can imagine. Suitable for use with Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, Rifts®, Chaos Earth®, Phase World® and Palladium Fantasy®. Whatever the setting, playing anthropomorphic animal characters is a blast.

📙 100+ mutant animal stats included.

📙 Mutant animal creation rules to mutate ANY animal.

📙 52 Mutant Animal Powers.

📙 33 Mutant Animal Psionic Powers.

📙 New Animal Chimeras and their abilities.

📙 New back story to the After the Bomb® world of mutants.

📙 The post-apocalyptic Earth setting of “After the Bomb” is just one use for your mutant animal heroes.

📙 A complete RPG written by Erick Wujcik.

📙 72 pages of “bonus” material includes the original After the Bomb® sourcebook and Yucatan Adventures from the old Game Shield.

📙 296 pages (72 bonus pages) – $44.99 retail – Cat. No. 503HC – now shipping. Also available as a 224 page softcover book ($26.99 retail – Cat. No. 503). Note: After the Bomb sourcebooks provide additional mutant animal stats and settings.

BACK IN STOCK!

Rifts® Book of Magic Hardcover

A compendium of magic from across Rifts Earth. Hundreds of magic spells plus magic weapons and devices from across the Megaverse.

📔 900+ magic spells, Elemental Magic, Ley Line Magic.

📔 Necromancy, Nature Magic, Cloud Magic, Ocean Magic, Biomancy.

📔 Tattoo magic, Temporal magic, Whalesongs, Conjuring, Nazca Lines.

📔 Techno-Wizard devices, Rune Weapons, Holy Weapons, fetishes.

📔 Bio-Wizard Weapons, the Bio-Borg, symbiotes, and herbs.

📔 Magic stones, talismans, staves, wands, and more.

📔 $39.99 – 352 pages of pure magic – Cat. No. 848HC – available now. Also available in softcover ($31.99 retail, Cat. No. 848).

Palladium offers more than 300 of our books, every issue of The Rifter, sneak previews, and more in PDF format via DriveThruRPG

CLOSING THOUGHTS

Life, the universe and everything

Have you been feeling down lately?

I don’t know what it is, but I have been down or in a malaise for too much of the last few weeks. I perked up during the Alliance Open House (fun and informative), but otherwise, I had been feeling low. Not sad per se, but blah. Low ebb. Some of that is continuing grief over the loss of Kathy Simmons, but it seems like there’s something in the air affecting not just me, but a lot of people.

I’ve spoken to a large number of folks who have been feeling down, blasé, and grumpy. Sometimes it’s over money woes, other times health concerns, or work, or politics, or other worries. Life may have its challenges and frustrations, but life is also beautiful and joyful. Try to never lose sight of that. Enjoy your life, friends, family, and gaming.

A few days ago, I caught the old George Pal movie, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964). It’s a little corny and the special-effects are dated by today’s standards, but it mesmerized me when I was an eight-year-old child and remains a sentimental favorite. The movie ends with wise and magical Doctor Lao disappearing into a dust devil with a voiceover that says, in part, “... every time you stop and think, ‘I’m alive, and being alive is fantastic,’ every time such a thing happens, you are part of the [magical] circus of Doctor Lao.”

Translation: You realize that life is fantastic, magical, and full of joyful wonder and adventure if you look for it and let it in.

I always try to see and let the magic in. Watching the movie made me smile. It reminded me that even in my personal time of sorrow, life really is fantastic. I’m happy to be alive and loving every moment of it. I am blessed to have so many wonderful people – past and present – in my fantastic life. Those thoughts snapped me out of my malaise and energized me. I have been working fast and furious on multiple projects and business matters ever since.

To give you a little boost and something to feel good about, I have created a sale with some steep discounts and a few items I hope will surprise and please you. A similar sale is also on DriveThruRPG.com. Remember, RPGs are a portal to fun, adventure, laughter, and camaraderie like no other games can provide. Use RPGs to escape from your worries and have a little fun with friends and family. Heck, I’m always surprised by how much fun it is to even reread a favorite RPG or sourcebook. Every time, I seem to find parts that I have completely forgotten or that inspire me and give me new ideas.

Enjoy the sale and please be kind to yourself and others. Have a little fun this weekend and keep those beautiful imaginations burning bright. Live long and prosper.

– Kevin Siembieda, Game Designer, Writer, Friend