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CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF RIFTS® – ONE GAME SYSTEM – EVERY GENRE – COUNTLESS WORLDS – ENDLESS ADVENTURE
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Rifts® SALE & News – Palladium Books® – Weekly Update – June 27, 2025
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Can you believe Rifts is 35 years old?
Yep, it made its debut at the 1990 Gen Con. We stopped at the printer to pick up 300 copies hot off the press to take to Gen Con and sold out by Saturday afternoon. The initial 10,000 copy printing sold out in three weeks. We printed 20,000 more and they sold out in three or four months. Rifts® was an immediate mega-hit. A UK magazine reviewer called Rifts an instant classic. Rifts® would go on to outsell Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness™ and Robotech® combined.
What a joy it has been to bring you 100+ Rifts books so far, and we have a lot more planned. That does not even count the Rifts for Savage Worlds® books or The Rifter® sourcebook series! Over the years, we’ve had a lot of Hollywood studios and directors show interest in Rifts. In fact, it was once optioned as a live action movie by Walt Disney Pictures for development by Jerry Bruckheimer Films. I even got to meet J.B. and screenwriter David Franzoni (Gladiator), which was a thrill. WDP held the motion picture rights for 18 years before they let them go. Wild right?
In case you haven’t noticed, Rifts and Palladium Fantasy are my two favorite settings for which to write books, and, boy, do I have a lot of books I still want to write for both. Sean and I have plans for Rifts and Palladium Fantasy that will blow your minds. Of course, we plan to support Chaos Earth, Dead Reign, Heroes Unlimited, BTS, and all our settings, but it’s hard to resist the siren call of Rifts (and Fantasy).
This being the 35th Anniversary of Rifts®, watch for the following:
● Enjoy the current 20% off sale on 80+ Rifts books – ALL core rule books, World Books, and sourcebooks, including hardcovers, on sale. This is a limited time offer that ends after midnight, July 23rd. Available on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
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● ALL Rifts titles, including hardcovers – will be on sale at the Palladium Books GEN CON Booth #1515. Available on a first come, first served basis, while supplies last.
● Watch for other Rifts special offers and surprises coming 2025 thru August 2026. Check the Weekly Updates for these announcements.
● COMING SOON! New cover art for Rifts® Black Market – This is one of my favorite sourcebooks. It is filled with info about Bandito Arms and the top five Black Market factions, and offers a slew of toys for your player characters – weapons, riding animals, robots, power armor, Shadow Boy power armor, Iron Mage TW Glitter Boy, smuggling routes, Black Market operations, 10 Black Market O.C.C.s, and much more. Hmm, does this make the edition with the current cover a collector’s item? Cat. No. 886.
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● COMING SOON! New cover art and name for Rifts® Coalition Manhunters. The new title: Rifts® Psi-Ops: Psychic War! Why? Because it is constantly mistaken for the old Myrmidon Press Rifts Manhunter RPG, which was a space opera setting and a completely different book. So we decided to change the name and cover (new art by Mike Majestic), to more accurately represent the contents of this big CS sourcebook.
Psi-Ops: Psychic War (formerly CS Manhunters) is one of the best Rifts books I (Kevin Siembieda, with some help from Mark Oberle and others) have ever written! It’s all about the Coalition States, its psychic defenders, new information about Coalition society, its citizens, and how the Coalition States secretly recruit and use psychics and Psi-Hounds against their enemies (and even their own citizens). There are 80+ new psychic abilities, the secret CS thought police, the ultra-secret CS Manhunters (psychic assassins who answer directly to Emperor Prosek), more about Dog Boys, Kill Hounds, and so much more! Again, does this make the edition with the current cover a collector’s item? I think it does. Cat. No. 894.
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● COMING! Rifts® Bestiary Volume 2 – More monsters and strange creatures described in glorious detail. Each illustrated and accompanied by a map showing its most common habitat. This title was funded by a Palladium Insider campaign quite some while ago. To our kind and understanding “Insiders,” your purchase details remain on file, and for our top supporters who are supposed to get original artwork, I have had that art tucked away for you all this time. Cat. No. 897 – Fall.
● COMING! Rifts® World Book: Antarctica – Packed with weird fun, adventure opportunities, ice tunnels and Rifts under the ice, new magic, alien creatures, monsters, Minions of Splugorth, and a powerful alien that even the Splugorth fear (and which helps humans) are just a few of the notable elements. This book is more than you may imagine. Cat. No. 898 – Fall or winter.
● COMING! Rifts® Chaos Earth®: First Responders sourcebook – Presents advanced Golden Age technology including mobile medical bays, new robots and drones, new weapons and gear, First Responder O.C.C.s, chaos, monsters, and more. Written by Sean Owen Roberson and others. Art by Steven Cummings. Cat. No. 665 – Fall or winter.
● COMING! Rifts® Phase World® Sourcebooks from Star Anvil, a new licensing partner. Their first Kickstarter starts in mid-July, but you can join their pre-launch campaign now. They will be creating a series of adventure sourcebooks for Phase World and the Three Galaxies™ in the tradition of Palladium, but utilizing the Savage Worlds rules. Remember, new weapons, gear, spacecraft, aliens, worlds, and adventure can be easily converted to the Palladium game system and added to your existing Phase World or Rifts campaign.
● COMING! More YouTube & Podcasts! We continue to do interviews and podcasts with Legion of Myth, the Glitterbois, and on the Palladium Books YouTube channel where you can find the Official History of Palladium Books with Kevin Siembieda and J-M DeFoggi, as well as interviews with various artists, writers, and more. Podcasters! We are happy to consider appearances on your shows and podcasts. Please reach out via the Help Desk.
● Also COMING! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG Redux books and Kickstarter rewards. You can still pre-order but not for long. – Fall.
● COMING NEXT WEEK! If all goes well, the new Palladium Books website and online store will go live as soon as next week! So don’t be alarmed if the site looks very different or if it requires you to provide all your information the next time you place an order. The hardworking masterminds behind it have been working out the last of the bugs (please help us find others that pop up) and think we are ready to launch.
It will provide you greater versatility and functionality for mobile devices and PCs, as well as a new clean appearance, and many new features including additional payment options, the ability to buy PDFs directly from Palladium Books, book bundle deals, and more. We hope you like it.
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Celebration of Rifts® SALE – 35 years – 80+ physical Rifts books 20% off
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Enjoy discounts on 80+ Rifts® titles including hardcovers and poker decks thru July 23rd – and watch for other Rifts celebratory specials throughout the year for more savings, while supplies last.
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All Rifts core rule books; hardcovers and softcovers, including the Rifts Ultimate Edition, Rifts RPG 30th Anniversary Edition, Rifts Game Master Guide, Book of Magic, and Rifts Adventure Guide.
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All Rifts World Books.
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All Rifts sourcebooks, including the Cyberworks Collection, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, Rifts Black Market, Rifts Bionics Sourcebook, Coalition Manhunters, Rifts Titan Robotics, Siege on Tolkeen and more.
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All 3 Rifts Poker Decks.
WARNING: We expect some titles to sell out during this unprecedented sale. Available on a first-come, first served basis, while supplies last. Enjoy and game on! Also see the PDF Rifts book sale taking place on DriveThruRPG.com.
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DriveThruRPG.com Celebration of Rifts® SALE
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The Rifts® celebration continues with a PDF book sale at DriveThruRPG for a limited time. All the same Rifts titles listed above for the Celebration of Rifts Sale are also on sale as PDF books on DriveThruRPG, now till the morning of July 24, 2025. As digital books there is no risk of the PDFs selling out. However, the sale is a limited time offer, so get ‘em while you can.
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UPDATE! Rifts Promise of Power Reforged
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This project is very near and dear to our hearts. We thought with this being Rifts’ 35th Anniversary, that the timing would be perfect. We jumped off to a great start, but pledges have slowed down to a trickle, and we are assessing the situation.
All of us at Palladium Books remain dedicated to releasing this Rifts video game built upon the strong framework of Rifts Promise of Power, but this may not be the right time for a project like this. For now, we are letting the campaign run, but odds are that we’ll suspend the crowdfunding campaign, regroup, reassess, and relaunch in the future. We’ve already been spitballing ideas.
Our sincere thanks to all of you who have backed the project and provided valuable input and suggestions. We read all the comments and take stock in everything said. More to come in the days ahead.
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UPDATE! Gen Con – Visit Palladium Books at Booth 1515 – All Rifts books on sale
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Swing by the Palladium booth to chat with me (Kevin Siembieda), Sean Owen Roberson, Wayne Smith (The Rifter), Mark Oberle (writer), Glen Evans (writer), Jeremy Colantonio, Caleb Nelson and other Palladium creators and insiders.
ALL Rifts titles will be on sale, including hardcovers, Chaos Earth, and Dimension Books as part of our 35 Years of Rifts Celebration. And remember, we are happy to sign books for you! Also get original art, prints, new releases, back stock books, bookmarks, poker decks, and see and pre-order the actual printed books for TMNT & Other Strangeness RPG; Transdimensional Sourcebook; Black, White, and Red editions; and more! Please join the fun.
Booth 1515 is located in the middle of the exhibitor’s hall near Catalyst Games, Steve Jackson Games, Modiphius, Renegade Game Studio, Cool Stuff Inc., and only a couple isles away from our friends at Pinnacle/Studio 2 and Upper Deck. Please find us and visit.
Note: Here are the Conventions Kevin Siembieda and Sean Roberson will be attending over the next 8 months.
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Gen Con – July/August (Kevin, Sean & the Palladium crew)
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Alliance Open House (Tradeshow) – September (Kevin and others)
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Granite State Comic Con – September (Kevin Siembieda & Sean Roberson)
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Philadelphia Game Expo – January 2026 (Kevin Siembieda & Matthew Balent).
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DriveThruRPG.com Celebration of Rifts® SALE
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The Rifts® celebration continues with a PDF book sale at DriveThruRPG.com for a limited time. 80+ Rifts PDF titles are on sale now till the morning of July 20, 2025. As digital books there is no risk of the PDFs selling out. However, the sale is a limited time offer, so get ‘em while you can.
300+ RPG products on DriveThru – a dozen unique world settings – one game system – endless possibilities. 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!
In addition to PDF titles for entire game lines like Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, Ninjas & Superspies™, After the Bomb®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign® (zombies), Nightbane® (Urban Fantasy), Rifts Chaos Earth®, Systems Failure™, Splicers®, RECON®, The Rifter® #1-85, and others, there are Game Master and player aids, character generators, paper minis, map packs, and FREE Previews of books like Creature Feature™, Dead Reign, Coalition Manhunters, Titan Robotics™, Rifts Bestiary Volume One, World Books, Dimension Books, and more to give you a glimpse of what’s in the book. Enjoy endless adventures across the Megaverse®.
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SALE! Palladium Collectibles – at Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles eBay Store
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Palladium collectibles as well as action figures and other items from Kevin Siembieda’s personal collection are on sale!
One-of-a-kind Palladium Books 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. Last year at Granite State Comic Con Kevin Eastman had TMNT negatives from the first comic book on display.
Before digital printing, pages of a book were laid out by hand on a board, and each page was photographed. These are the photographic negatives being sold as individual works of art and collectibles. When matted or framed on a white background they look like dynamic wood cut prints. And they are on sale right now!
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What’s coming next
A lot is coming your way in the months ahead. Starting next week with a completely new Palladium Books website that will look very different the next time you visit. Ah, but it should be cleaner, faster, better and offer many new features and options.
With Rifts reaching its 35th anniversary, enjoy the current sale, watch for others over the next few months, and look forward to some new book releases.
I feel more honored and blessed than ever to have published, created, or co-created some of the most popular and beloved RPGs of all time. In just the first 20 years, Palladium published Rifts, TMNT & Other Strangeness, Robotech, Palladium Fantasy RPG, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, After the Bomb, Beyond the Supernatural, the Mechanoids, and others.
These days, my mind goes to delivering on books that are important to you and me – Rifts Lazlo, Rifts Coalition Arsenal, The Disavowed, Chaos Earth First Responders, the Beyond the Supernatural sourcebooks, and Fantasy titles like Land of the Damned Three and The Old Kingdom to name but a few. Sean’s and my plans are huge for Palladium. RPG books that will wow and delight another couple of generations of gamers. Projects we haven’t even mentioned yet.
In recent weeks, my imagination has been on fire. That makes me very happy, because it had been quiet for a long time after the death of my beautiful Kathy Simmons. I guess that kind of loss and grief does that to you. But lately, I’ve been burning to write books. To finish Yin-Sloth Expeditions and Rifts Antarctica among others. I’ve been jotting down notes for my next two Dead Reign books and other future projects to wow and surprise you. God willing, I want to be as productive in the next 20 years as I was in the first. I’m working on it!
In the meanwhile, enjoy the Rifts Sale and other celebrations of Rifts heading your way. As always, keep your imaginations burning bright, find joy and escape in role-playing, and game on!
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Game Designer, Writer and Friend
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