The latest news from Palladium Books
Sales have been impressive again this week. We usually see sales drop off sharply as people stop buying Surprise Packages and books as gifts for the holidays. However, instead of seeing the usual 50-60% drop from the previous peak sales week of the year, sales remain strong, dropping only 35%. Fantastic.
In fact, if sales stay strong we are on track to have record sales for the month of December. Last week was the best sales week of the year and December sales, overall, are currently up 13% from last year and could top out at as high as 20-25% by the end of the month. We’ll see. Wow. It is welcomed as the unexpected Summer slump hurt, and Palladium needs to catch up on some bills.
We’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and first timers buying Surprise Packages. We’ve also been getting a lot of positive responses about how happy folks have been with the Surprise Packages. Cool. That’s the whole idea, putting smiles on as many faces as we can.
Dimensional Outbreak™. I still haven’t had time to work much on this book. Been busy with plotting next year’s releases, coordinating art, and working on Surprise Packages. Heroes of the Megaverse® is next on my schedule.
The Rifter® #49 (January issue). Wayne and Alex continue to edit, while the artists are working away. The cover is done and we’re all pretty excited about this issue.
The Rifter® #50 (April issue) marks 12.5 years of The Rifter® and this issue is going to be something special. The Rifter Super-Subscription drive starts in January and I suggest you subscribe to get this extra large issue at the same, discounted price as any other issue of The Rifter. Besides, The Rifter is a fun and valuable product to get. And we might have a couple other surprises next year for Rifter subscribers.
2010 Open House. I can’t believe the 2010 Palladium Open House is less than five months away! Yikes. Rifts® turns 20 years old, The Rifter® hits Number 50, and we’ll be celebrating it all as we plan to make this Open House a weekend to remember.
My Dad continues to do great. I saw him this morning and gave him and Arlene their Christmas presents. Arlene has a few new health concerns, but everyone was in good spirits feeling the warmth of the holiday.
Happy Holidays
I have the rare privilege of sending this Press Release out on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve has always been a special night since I was a kid. We’d go over to Grandma and Grandpa’s (just next door) for a traditional Polish dinner of pierogi (potato being my fave, cheese second favorite), kielbasa and sauerkraut and an array of cakes and treats. My Aunt, Uncle and cousins would join the festivities and we’d exchange gifts after dinner. I’m not exactly sure why, but there was always something especially magical about Christmas Eve – even more so than Christmas Day. (On Christmas Day we’d exchange gifts with our immediate family, go to church if we hadn’t already gone to midnight mass, and visit my Aunt Lottie in the evening – she always hosted a big party Christmas Day.)
Consequently, it feels good to post and send out this Press Release on a day that has always been special to me. It is a privilege, because I get to say thank you and send sincere holiday wishes to all of you in this enchanted season.
The struggle continues as Palladium, like so many businesses and individuals, deals with the economic fallout from this past year and faces new challenges in the year ahead. I’m happy to face those challenges knowing I have all of you on our side. Through thick and thin, Palladium fans are there for us with words of encouragement as well as their pocketbook. The middle part of 2009 was bad for us, but strong sales in the last three months – and especially this December – have helped to make a difference for Palladium.
I’ll be talking more about what lays ahead for Palladium in the year to come next week, but tonight . . . tonight, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being the best, kindest and most caring fans on the planet. Thank you for not losing faith in us. Thank you for the words of support that help inspire and motivate us to keep plugging along even on days when we feel like quitting. Thank you for making all our creative efforts and hard work a joy, not just “a job.” Thank you for being you.
Have a truly wonderful holiday weekend filled with laughter, joy and love.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher & Writer
Enjoy Christmas till January 15, 2010
– Surprise Package offer Extended to January 15
Who says Christmas has to end on December 25?
We say it is time to treat yourself to a Christmas Surprise Package. Fill in those holes in your collection, try that game you’ve been thinking about or get some fine reading material.
It is tradition to extend the Surprise Package offer 2-3 weeks after Christmas. We do so because we know some people miss it with all the other holiday demands on them. Others are generously spending their hard earned money on gifts for loved ones and can’t afford to get the Surprise Package for themselves until after Christmas. And we know some of you just want more.
This year, when so many people are feeling financial pressure, we thought it was more important than ever to extend the Surprise Package offer. You have till January 15, 2010, but don’t wait, get yours now.
It is also a great gift for birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, Sweetest Day and other special occasions – or as a treat for “you.” You need to order no later than January 15, 2010, so plan ahead. You can still request the limited edition print set and original artwork as both are available but going fast. There is no guarantee you’ll get limited edition prints or artwork even if you ask for them, so list 8-12 other wants. Artwork typically has a value of $30-$60, the 2009 special print set (5 black and white prints, each signed by the artist who did it) has a value of $40.
What is the Christmas Surprise Package?
The best bargain of the holiday for role-playing gamers.
* Get $80 or more worth of Palladium product for only $37.
* Ask for the Special 2009 Print Set (180 copies left out of 530 produced).
* Get original art by Siembieda, Wilson, the Mannings, Burles, or Bradshaw.
* Get T-shirts, magnets, and other cool stuff.
* Get each book autographed by Kevin Siembieda and the Palladium crew.
* Wow your friend, spouse, sibling, parent or favorite Game Master with a stack of books that will have him or her thinking you spent a fortune instead of $37 (and shipping & handling). Or get a book for several friends.
* Try a new Palladium game setting.
* Complete your collection.
* Get enough gaming material to keep you busy half the winter.
* Great gifts for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
* Great for trying out a new game or world setting.
* Ideal for Canada and Overseas Palladium fans, because even with shipping you are paying around the cover price for books, plus getting autographs and other goodies. We highly recommend folks overseas try to take advantage of this opportunity.
* Cost for most people in the USA is around $45 with shipping! And that gift includes autographs, and if you ask nicely, maybe a one-of-a-kind piece of original artwork, or the new limited edition print set.
PLEASE make sure you provide a “wish list” of 8-12 currently available items (RPGs, sourcebooks, 2009 Special Limited Edition Print Set, original artwork, T-shirts and other stuff) or you may be disappointed. If this is a gift for your spouse or child, PLEASE try to get some idea of what he might want and PLEASE tell us what his favorite Palladium games are. Note: If you do not give us enough information we will simply pull random items and send them to you, and you may get duplicates and items you do not want.
Then place your order ($37 plus shipping and handling) and Santa Kevin will hand pick and send you $90 worth of product, much of it from your want list. Without a good Wish List you may be disappointed. Plus, if you request it, we are happy to sign each book for you. For many people around the world, this is the only way they can get autographs.
We’ve been doing Christmas Surprise Packages for something like 12-13 years now. It’s our way of saying THANK YOU to all our fans and, in these tough economic times, make the Christmas season a little brighter for as many people as we can.
UPS Ground takes 1-3 days to deliver to most places east of the Mississippi. 4-6 days to those of you west of that dividing line.
Priority Mail: It takes 3 days to arrive.
Media Mail: Arrives within 3-21 days. It is the least expensive and slowest means of delivery and is more likely to get "lost" in the mail.
NOTE: Any order shipped Media Mail that is “lost in the mail” is YOUR loss, not Palladium Books. Your order will NOT be recreated. YOU use Media Mail – the most unreliable of shipping services – completely at your OWN risk. We strongly recommend UPS or Priority Mail. Artwork and one of a kind items lost in the mail cannot be replaced.
Likewise, if you give us the wrong or incomplete address, the loss is yours. Palladium cannot replace the order as a result of your mistake or omission. Palladium cannot afford to send the package out twice due to your mistake. We hope you understand.
For more information and to order, click here. http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Mercha...duct_Code=XMAS
Aliens Unlimited™, Revised
– Back in Print – Available now
Aliens Unlimited™, Revised is back as a special printing available exclusively via Palladium’s online store. We are making it available to meet the demand of our fans who have been requesting this fan-favorite sourcebook for a long while now. It is ideal for space based campaigns, alien invasion scenarios, and can be easily adapted to Rifts® and Phase World®/The Three Galaxies™.
* More than 100 alien races/R.C.C.s.
* Alien creation rules and tables.
* 15 Galactic monsters and evil beings.
* Spaceships and spacecraft creation rules.
* High-tech weapons and equipment including Kisentite weapons.
* Earth UFO watch groups and secret organizations.
* Rifts® conversion notes throughout and more.
* Written by Wayne Breaux Jr.
* 208 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 515. Available now.
The Rifter® #49
– Ships January 15, 2010
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.
* Nightbane® Vampires – an in-depth look at the role of vampires in Nightbane.
* Rifts® Free State of Lazlo. A brief, unofficial overview of the City of Lazlo, its government and protectors.
* Rifts® Wolf Blood – a race of wolf-like beings that will surprise you.
* Palladium Fantasy RPG® Regomancy – a forgotten magic of kingship and its effects on entire kingdoms.
* Heroes Unlimited™ – Stage Magic Unlimited.
* Heroes Unlimited™ – short story.
* The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
* New Rifter® subscription offer and Open House update.
* Art by Ashbaugh, Bradshaw, Burles, Mannings, and Mumah.
* Vampire cover by Mike “Madman” Leonard.
* News, coming attractions and more.
* $11.95 retail – 96 pages – Cat. No. 149. Ships January 15.
The Rifter® #50 – Special Anniversary Issue
– Ships April 10, 2010
- More pages.
- More contributors
- All (or mostly) official source material.
- Source material from across the Megaverse®.
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.
Here are the tentative contributors and subject matter for this special, expanded issue:
* Brandon K. Aten and Matt Orr - Splicers® O.C.C.s and bio-enhancements.
* Jason Richards - Chaos Earth™.
* Braden Campbell - Phase World® Free World Council.
* Josh Sinsapaugh - Beyond the Supenatural™, new monsters.
* Irvin Jackson - Nightbane®.
* Carl Gleba - Palladium Fantasy RPG®.
* Taylor White - Ninjas and Superspies™, Expanded Combat Rules.
* Brandon K. Aten - Rifts® Robot Merchants Guide: New Robots and Power Armor from Titan Robotics™, Angrar Robotics™, Chipwell™, and Naruni™.
* Greg Diaczyk - Rifts® Vehicle Construction Rules (tentative).
* And others? Sinsapaugh, Siembieda, Smith and who knows what!
* The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
* News, coming attractions and more.
* $14.95 retail (no extra cost to subscribers) – 128 pages (maybe more!) – Cat. No. 150. Ships April 10.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12:
Dimensional Outbreak™
In final production. Author Carl Gleba has created another masterpiece brimming with ideas, new demons, new Deevils, new whacked out spaceships, new magic spells, more about Phase World, Center, the escalating Minion War and much more. Dimensional Outbreak™ is another exciting and surprise filled book in the Minion War™ series as 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.
* Demon Magic (new).
* Spaceships, power armor and other gear.
* The plot for conquering the Three Galaxies and more.
* 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, Nick Bradshaw, Mark Dudley, Mike Mumah, and others.
* John Zeleznik cover painting.
* Written by Carl Gleba.
* 192-224 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 875. Ships January 2010.
Rifts®/Phase World® Sourcebook:
Heroes of the Megaverse®
Most agree the Book of Heroes is one of the greatest magic artifacts in the Megaverse. Only one copy is known to exist, and everyone wants to get their hands on it – Demons, Deevils, the Splugorth, the Dominators, the Kreeghor, the United Worlds of Warlock and everyone in between. For it is said that he who wields the “Power of the 2000" can rule the universe.
Once protected by the Cosmo-Knights, the book has gone missing. No one knows its fate or the true power contained within its List of Heroes. No one except YOU – the new keepers of this legendary Rune book.
* Minion War tie-in adventure sourcebook.
* Contains the names of 2000 real life fans who purchased that special print during the Crisis of Treachery.
* Written by Kevin Siembieda.
* Illustrated by various Palladium heroes.
* 96 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 877. Ships in February 2010.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG
The core rule book you need to play. Second printing. This is the game that has restarted it all.
* New and favorite Mecha.
* Play pilots of Alphas, Betas, Cyclones and other Veritechs.
* Play Battloid Aces, Military Specialists and others.
* Combat weapons and gear.
* History and notable characters.
* The Haydonites and Invid are your enemies.
* Quick-roll character generation and more.
* 336 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 550, manga size & format – available now.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG
– 8 1/2 x 11 Hardcover
The core rule book you need to play. With all the updates and corrections of the manga edition, 2nd printing, plus some bonus art and pages of data. Makes a nice gift.
* Additional data and rules for space combat not in the manga edition.
* Big illustrations and some additional art not in the manga edition.
* Plus all the mecha, weapons, info of the manga edition.
* Quick-roll character generation and more.
* Fun, durable and looks fantastic.
* 224 pages – $30.95 retail – Cat. No. 550HC – 8 1/2 x 11 hardcover edition.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles®
“Gold” Collector’s Edition
A great gift for your ultimate Robotech® fan, Robotech® role-playing gamers and collectors. Rich and beautiful cover, gold embossing on black leatherette – only 500 signed and numbered copies ever printed.
* Limited to 500 copies.
* Signed and numbered. Eight signatures including Tommy Yune, Kevin Siembieda, Apollo Okamura, Brian Manning, Allen Manning, and others on a special, hand tipped-in, color print available only in this special edition.
* Deluxe hardcover, gold embossed on black leatherette, and gorgeous.
* All the same data, art and material as the hardcover edition.
* 224 pages – still only $70.00 retail – Cat. No. 5500HC – 8 1/2 x 11 inches, hardcover, available “exclusively” from Palladium Books.
Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines™
Jason Marker is done writing this exciting new Robotech® sourcebook. Next step is a quick edit and sending it off to Harmony Gold for their approval. This is another sourcebook jam-packed with new O.C.C.s, Mecha, weapons, gear, and ideas to send your characters on amazing new adventures.
* UEEF Marine Corps O.C.C. and M.O.S. skills.
* New weapons.
* New Mecha.
* New Marine ground vehicles.
* New Marine aircraft.
* New Marine specific spacecraft.
* History, training, and organization of the UEEF Marines.
* Cat. No. 553, manga size & format – final page count not yet determined, but we are thinking 128-192 pages, $14.95 retail.
Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Two: Dark Places™
Available Now
Dead Reign™: Dark Places™ presents four new, gruesome zombies that will make your skin crawl, plus more survivor secrets, using railroad tracks and the urban underground – sewers, storm drains, steam tunnels and other subterranean labyrinths – to travel unseen and undetected by the walking dead. Of course, these “secret highways” of the human survivors have their own dangers and problems.
The sourcebook then looks into the darkest place of all, a man’s soul, and how some misanthropes sacrifice their fellow human beings as “zombie bait” for their own advancement. Much of the source material is written from the perspective of Brad Ashley and is full of helpful observations, suggestions, and ideas for adventure.
* Four new zombies that are different and terrifying: Worm Meat, Bug Boys, Sewer Crawlers and Impersonator Zombies.
* “Live Bait” zombie lures that use human beings as bait.
* Traveling along railroad tracks and zombie encounter tables.
* Boxcar encounters and 101 boxcar contents table.
* The urban underground – traveling through sewers, storm drains, steam tunnels and other dark places.
* The pitfalls and dangers of the urban underground.
* Diseases, infection and insect infestation.
* Additional world information and advice from Brad Ashley.
* Random encounter tables and more.
* Many, many ideas for new adventure.
* Written by Kevin Siembieda.
* Illustrated by Amy Ashbaugh, Nick Bradshaw, Mike Mumah and others.
* Cover by E.M. Gist.
* 64 pages – $12.95 retail – Cat. No. 232. Available now.
Mysteries of Magic™
Book One: The Heart of Magic™ – available now
The Heart of Magic™ is packed with new information, details and new insight about magic, P.P.E., the Palladium World, Men of Magic, Wizards, Warlocks, Priests, Familiars, true names, apprenticeship, scroll conversion, learning magic, new and different magic O.C.C.s, new Wizard and Warlock spells, and data that expands, defines and clarifies a number of aspects about the practice of magic in the Palladium Fantasy setting. Easy to adapt to Rifts® (just change S.D.C. damage to M.D. and you are ready to go).
* 50 new Wizard and Warlock spells.
* The Forsaken Mage O.C.C., a Jack of all magicks and an outcast.
* Half-Wizard O.C.C., a split-class spell caster.
* Priest Variant O.C.C.s: Healer, Scholar and Warrior.
* New details about the Goblin Cobbler and Psi-Mystic.
* New details about Familiars, their secrets, and special abilities.
* True names, the mystery behind them, the danger of revealing them, and how to change them.
* Secrets of how magic is learned, how it works, and the apprenticeship process (what is learned).
* New insights about magic, the Palladium World, and Men of Magic.
* A closer look at the Wizard O.C.C., scroll conversion, spell books, auras, jobs, guilds, and the effects of metal and minerals on magic.
* Unstable and weak spell magic, learning new spells, and more.
* For the Palladium Fantasy® world, but suitable for any S.D.C. setting, and is easy to adapt to Rifts® and any Mega-Damage setting.
* Cover and logo by David Martin.
* Art by Ashbaugh, Mumah, Burles and others.
* Written by Mark Hall and Kevin Siembieda.
* 96 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 472. Available now.
Palladium Fantasy RPG® Book 2: Old Ones™
– Back in Print
Old Ones™ is back in print as a special printing available exclusively via Palladium’s online store.
Old Ones™ is an epic sourcebook packed full of information, people, places and ideas. Details about the Old Ones, the Minotaur R.C.C. (an ancient minion of the Old Ones), the Monk Scholar and Illusionist, 50 cities and towns mapped and described, adventure ideas and the epic Place of Magic adventure.
* Minotaur R.C.C.
* Minotaur Chaos Priest R.C.C.
* Monk Scholar O.C.C.
* The Illusionist P.C.C.
* 50 cities, towns and forts described. All 33 cities and towns are mapped. Each offers an avenue for adventure.
* 7 adventures plus adventure ideas.
* The Place of Magic: An epic adventure, mapped and described.
* World information, the Enchanted Forest, the secret complex of the Old Ones, the Contagion, magic weapons, monsters and more.
* Written by Kevin Siembieda.
* 224 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 453. Available now.
Back in print very soon
* Chaos Earth™, Rise of Magic (Almost done with many corrections, including missing experience tables.)
* Rifts® Dark Conversions
* Rifts® Canada
“Out of print” issues of The Rifter®,
The Mechanoids® and other Palladium RPG titles
are available as PDF files from DriveThruRPG.com
Island at the Edge of the World™, Adventures in the Northern Wilderness™, Aliens Unlimited™, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy, The Rifter® #1-40 and many other “out of print” titles are available on DriveThruRPG. And at half the original cover price. Palladium has 80 out of print titles as well as a handful of currently available titles available as PDF downloads from DriveThruRPG. Take advantage of this service and complete your collection.
Wayne Smith has made the Palladium area of DriveThruRPG.com more functional and easy to use. Major game lines are now separated into categories making it easier to find the titles you want. Currently there are 90+ Palladium titles available as PDF digital downloads from DriveThruRPG.com. Check them out and get those books you’ve always heard about.
The Queen of Ghouls goes Christmas!
The Queen of Ghouls will continue to make life-sized Halloween props and post them for sale throughout the winter at lower, out of season prices ($89-$115). She has plans to offer werewolves, vampires, zombies, killer clowns and much, much more.
As most of you know, Palladium’s very own Kathy Simmons started her own part-time business this summer. She calls herself the Queen of Ghouls (inspired by the nickname I gave her some years back), and she makes her amazing, life-sized Halloween props for sale. They are sturdy and gorgeous in that monstrous kind of way.
For Christmas she made a life-sized Santa and a few absolutely amazing Grinches, with a Hawaii Vacation Santa, and Mrs. Claus.
What’s next? Zombies, vampires, werewolves, killer Clowns and other maniacs and monsters. All coming soon.
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In fact, if sales stay strong we are on track to have record sales for the month of December. Last week was the best sales week of the year and December sales, overall, are currently up 13% from last year and could top out at as high as 20-25% by the end of the month. We’ll see. Wow. It is welcomed as the unexpected Summer slump hurt, and Palladium needs to catch up on some bills.
We’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and first timers buying Surprise Packages. We’ve also been getting a lot of positive responses about how happy folks have been with the Surprise Packages. Cool. That’s the whole idea, putting smiles on as many faces as we can.
Dimensional Outbreak™. I still haven’t had time to work much on this book. Been busy with plotting next year’s releases, coordinating art, and working on Surprise Packages. Heroes of the Megaverse® is next on my schedule.
The Rifter® #49 (January issue). Wayne and Alex continue to edit, while the artists are working away. The cover is done and we’re all pretty excited about this issue.
The Rifter® #50 (April issue) marks 12.5 years of The Rifter® and this issue is going to be something special. The Rifter Super-Subscription drive starts in January and I suggest you subscribe to get this extra large issue at the same, discounted price as any other issue of The Rifter. Besides, The Rifter is a fun and valuable product to get. And we might have a couple other surprises next year for Rifter subscribers.
2010 Open House. I can’t believe the 2010 Palladium Open House is less than five months away! Yikes. Rifts® turns 20 years old, The Rifter® hits Number 50, and we’ll be celebrating it all as we plan to make this Open House a weekend to remember.
My Dad continues to do great. I saw him this morning and gave him and Arlene their Christmas presents. Arlene has a few new health concerns, but everyone was in good spirits feeling the warmth of the holiday.
Happy Holidays
I have the rare privilege of sending this Press Release out on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve has always been a special night since I was a kid. We’d go over to Grandma and Grandpa’s (just next door) for a traditional Polish dinner of pierogi (potato being my fave, cheese second favorite), kielbasa and sauerkraut and an array of cakes and treats. My Aunt, Uncle and cousins would join the festivities and we’d exchange gifts after dinner. I’m not exactly sure why, but there was always something especially magical about Christmas Eve – even more so than Christmas Day. (On Christmas Day we’d exchange gifts with our immediate family, go to church if we hadn’t already gone to midnight mass, and visit my Aunt Lottie in the evening – she always hosted a big party Christmas Day.)
Consequently, it feels good to post and send out this Press Release on a day that has always been special to me. It is a privilege, because I get to say thank you and send sincere holiday wishes to all of you in this enchanted season.
The struggle continues as Palladium, like so many businesses and individuals, deals with the economic fallout from this past year and faces new challenges in the year ahead. I’m happy to face those challenges knowing I have all of you on our side. Through thick and thin, Palladium fans are there for us with words of encouragement as well as their pocketbook. The middle part of 2009 was bad for us, but strong sales in the last three months – and especially this December – have helped to make a difference for Palladium.
I’ll be talking more about what lays ahead for Palladium in the year to come next week, but tonight . . . tonight, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being the best, kindest and most caring fans on the planet. Thank you for not losing faith in us. Thank you for the words of support that help inspire and motivate us to keep plugging along even on days when we feel like quitting. Thank you for making all our creative efforts and hard work a joy, not just “a job.” Thank you for being you.
Have a truly wonderful holiday weekend filled with laughter, joy and love.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher & Writer
Enjoy Christmas till January 15, 2010
– Surprise Package offer Extended to January 15
Who says Christmas has to end on December 25?
We say it is time to treat yourself to a Christmas Surprise Package. Fill in those holes in your collection, try that game you’ve been thinking about or get some fine reading material.
It is tradition to extend the Surprise Package offer 2-3 weeks after Christmas. We do so because we know some people miss it with all the other holiday demands on them. Others are generously spending their hard earned money on gifts for loved ones and can’t afford to get the Surprise Package for themselves until after Christmas. And we know some of you just want more.
This year, when so many people are feeling financial pressure, we thought it was more important than ever to extend the Surprise Package offer. You have till January 15, 2010, but don’t wait, get yours now.
It is also a great gift for birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, Sweetest Day and other special occasions – or as a treat for “you.” You need to order no later than January 15, 2010, so plan ahead. You can still request the limited edition print set and original artwork as both are available but going fast. There is no guarantee you’ll get limited edition prints or artwork even if you ask for them, so list 8-12 other wants. Artwork typically has a value of $30-$60, the 2009 special print set (5 black and white prints, each signed by the artist who did it) has a value of $40.
What is the Christmas Surprise Package?
The best bargain of the holiday for role-playing gamers.
* Get $80 or more worth of Palladium product for only $37.
* Ask for the Special 2009 Print Set (180 copies left out of 530 produced).
* Get original art by Siembieda, Wilson, the Mannings, Burles, or Bradshaw.
* Get T-shirts, magnets, and other cool stuff.
* Get each book autographed by Kevin Siembieda and the Palladium crew.
* Wow your friend, spouse, sibling, parent or favorite Game Master with a stack of books that will have him or her thinking you spent a fortune instead of $37 (and shipping & handling). Or get a book for several friends.
* Try a new Palladium game setting.
* Complete your collection.
* Get enough gaming material to keep you busy half the winter.
* Great gifts for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
* Great for trying out a new game or world setting.
* Ideal for Canada and Overseas Palladium fans, because even with shipping you are paying around the cover price for books, plus getting autographs and other goodies. We highly recommend folks overseas try to take advantage of this opportunity.
* Cost for most people in the USA is around $45 with shipping! And that gift includes autographs, and if you ask nicely, maybe a one-of-a-kind piece of original artwork, or the new limited edition print set.
PLEASE make sure you provide a “wish list” of 8-12 currently available items (RPGs, sourcebooks, 2009 Special Limited Edition Print Set, original artwork, T-shirts and other stuff) or you may be disappointed. If this is a gift for your spouse or child, PLEASE try to get some idea of what he might want and PLEASE tell us what his favorite Palladium games are. Note: If you do not give us enough information we will simply pull random items and send them to you, and you may get duplicates and items you do not want.
Then place your order ($37 plus shipping and handling) and Santa Kevin will hand pick and send you $90 worth of product, much of it from your want list. Without a good Wish List you may be disappointed. Plus, if you request it, we are happy to sign each book for you. For many people around the world, this is the only way they can get autographs.
We’ve been doing Christmas Surprise Packages for something like 12-13 years now. It’s our way of saying THANK YOU to all our fans and, in these tough economic times, make the Christmas season a little brighter for as many people as we can.
UPS Ground takes 1-3 days to deliver to most places east of the Mississippi. 4-6 days to those of you west of that dividing line.
Priority Mail: It takes 3 days to arrive.
Media Mail: Arrives within 3-21 days. It is the least expensive and slowest means of delivery and is more likely to get "lost" in the mail.
NOTE: Any order shipped Media Mail that is “lost in the mail” is YOUR loss, not Palladium Books. Your order will NOT be recreated. YOU use Media Mail – the most unreliable of shipping services – completely at your OWN risk. We strongly recommend UPS or Priority Mail. Artwork and one of a kind items lost in the mail cannot be replaced.
Likewise, if you give us the wrong or incomplete address, the loss is yours. Palladium cannot replace the order as a result of your mistake or omission. Palladium cannot afford to send the package out twice due to your mistake. We hope you understand.
For more information and to order, click here. http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Mercha...duct_Code=XMAS
Aliens Unlimited™, Revised
– Back in Print – Available now
Aliens Unlimited™, Revised is back as a special printing available exclusively via Palladium’s online store. We are making it available to meet the demand of our fans who have been requesting this fan-favorite sourcebook for a long while now. It is ideal for space based campaigns, alien invasion scenarios, and can be easily adapted to Rifts® and Phase World®/The Three Galaxies™.
* More than 100 alien races/R.C.C.s.
* Alien creation rules and tables.
* 15 Galactic monsters and evil beings.
* Spaceships and spacecraft creation rules.
* High-tech weapons and equipment including Kisentite weapons.
* Earth UFO watch groups and secret organizations.
* Rifts® conversion notes throughout and more.
* Written by Wayne Breaux Jr.
* 208 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 515. Available now.
The Rifter® #49
– Ships January 15, 2010
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.
* Nightbane® Vampires – an in-depth look at the role of vampires in Nightbane.
* Rifts® Free State of Lazlo. A brief, unofficial overview of the City of Lazlo, its government and protectors.
* Rifts® Wolf Blood – a race of wolf-like beings that will surprise you.
* Palladium Fantasy RPG® Regomancy – a forgotten magic of kingship and its effects on entire kingdoms.
* Heroes Unlimited™ – Stage Magic Unlimited.
* Heroes Unlimited™ – short story.
* The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
* New Rifter® subscription offer and Open House update.
* Art by Ashbaugh, Bradshaw, Burles, Mannings, and Mumah.
* Vampire cover by Mike “Madman” Leonard.
* News, coming attractions and more.
* $11.95 retail – 96 pages – Cat. No. 149. Ships January 15.
The Rifter® #50 – Special Anniversary Issue
– Ships April 10, 2010
- More pages.
- More contributors
- All (or mostly) official source material.
- Source material from across the Megaverse®.
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.
Here are the tentative contributors and subject matter for this special, expanded issue:
* Brandon K. Aten and Matt Orr - Splicers® O.C.C.s and bio-enhancements.
* Jason Richards - Chaos Earth™.
* Braden Campbell - Phase World® Free World Council.
* Josh Sinsapaugh - Beyond the Supenatural™, new monsters.
* Irvin Jackson - Nightbane®.
* Carl Gleba - Palladium Fantasy RPG®.
* Taylor White - Ninjas and Superspies™, Expanded Combat Rules.
* Brandon K. Aten - Rifts® Robot Merchants Guide: New Robots and Power Armor from Titan Robotics™, Angrar Robotics™, Chipwell™, and Naruni™.
* Greg Diaczyk - Rifts® Vehicle Construction Rules (tentative).
* And others? Sinsapaugh, Siembieda, Smith and who knows what!
* The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
* News, coming attractions and more.
* $14.95 retail (no extra cost to subscribers) – 128 pages (maybe more!) – Cat. No. 150. Ships April 10.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12:
Dimensional Outbreak™
In final production. Author Carl Gleba has created another masterpiece brimming with ideas, new demons, new Deevils, new whacked out spaceships, new magic spells, more about Phase World, Center, the escalating Minion War and much more. Dimensional Outbreak™ is another exciting and surprise filled book in the Minion War™ series as 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.
* Demon Magic (new).
* Spaceships, power armor and other gear.
* The plot for conquering the Three Galaxies and more.
* 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, Nick Bradshaw, Mark Dudley, Mike Mumah, and others.
* John Zeleznik cover painting.
* Written by Carl Gleba.
* 192-224 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 875. Ships January 2010.
Rifts®/Phase World® Sourcebook:
Heroes of the Megaverse®
Most agree the Book of Heroes is one of the greatest magic artifacts in the Megaverse. Only one copy is known to exist, and everyone wants to get their hands on it – Demons, Deevils, the Splugorth, the Dominators, the Kreeghor, the United Worlds of Warlock and everyone in between. For it is said that he who wields the “Power of the 2000" can rule the universe.
Once protected by the Cosmo-Knights, the book has gone missing. No one knows its fate or the true power contained within its List of Heroes. No one except YOU – the new keepers of this legendary Rune book.
* Minion War tie-in adventure sourcebook.
* Contains the names of 2000 real life fans who purchased that special print during the Crisis of Treachery.
* Written by Kevin Siembieda.
* Illustrated by various Palladium heroes.
* 96 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 877. Ships in February 2010.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG
The core rule book you need to play. Second printing. This is the game that has restarted it all.
* New and favorite Mecha.
* Play pilots of Alphas, Betas, Cyclones and other Veritechs.
* Play Battloid Aces, Military Specialists and others.
* Combat weapons and gear.
* History and notable characters.
* The Haydonites and Invid are your enemies.
* Quick-roll character generation and more.
* 336 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 550, manga size & format – available now.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG
– 8 1/2 x 11 Hardcover
The core rule book you need to play. With all the updates and corrections of the manga edition, 2nd printing, plus some bonus art and pages of data. Makes a nice gift.
* Additional data and rules for space combat not in the manga edition.
* Big illustrations and some additional art not in the manga edition.
* Plus all the mecha, weapons, info of the manga edition.
* Quick-roll character generation and more.
* Fun, durable and looks fantastic.
* 224 pages – $30.95 retail – Cat. No. 550HC – 8 1/2 x 11 hardcover edition.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles®
“Gold” Collector’s Edition
A great gift for your ultimate Robotech® fan, Robotech® role-playing gamers and collectors. Rich and beautiful cover, gold embossing on black leatherette – only 500 signed and numbered copies ever printed.
* Limited to 500 copies.
* Signed and numbered. Eight signatures including Tommy Yune, Kevin Siembieda, Apollo Okamura, Brian Manning, Allen Manning, and others on a special, hand tipped-in, color print available only in this special edition.
* Deluxe hardcover, gold embossed on black leatherette, and gorgeous.
* All the same data, art and material as the hardcover edition.
* 224 pages – still only $70.00 retail – Cat. No. 5500HC – 8 1/2 x 11 inches, hardcover, available “exclusively” from Palladium Books.
Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines™
Jason Marker is done writing this exciting new Robotech® sourcebook. Next step is a quick edit and sending it off to Harmony Gold for their approval. This is another sourcebook jam-packed with new O.C.C.s, Mecha, weapons, gear, and ideas to send your characters on amazing new adventures.
* UEEF Marine Corps O.C.C. and M.O.S. skills.
* New weapons.
* New Mecha.
* New Marine ground vehicles.
* New Marine aircraft.
* New Marine specific spacecraft.
* History, training, and organization of the UEEF Marines.
* Cat. No. 553, manga size & format – final page count not yet determined, but we are thinking 128-192 pages, $14.95 retail.
Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Two: Dark Places™
Available Now
Dead Reign™: Dark Places™ presents four new, gruesome zombies that will make your skin crawl, plus more survivor secrets, using railroad tracks and the urban underground – sewers, storm drains, steam tunnels and other subterranean labyrinths – to travel unseen and undetected by the walking dead. Of course, these “secret highways” of the human survivors have their own dangers and problems.
The sourcebook then looks into the darkest place of all, a man’s soul, and how some misanthropes sacrifice their fellow human beings as “zombie bait” for their own advancement. Much of the source material is written from the perspective of Brad Ashley and is full of helpful observations, suggestions, and ideas for adventure.
* Four new zombies that are different and terrifying: Worm Meat, Bug Boys, Sewer Crawlers and Impersonator Zombies.
* “Live Bait” zombie lures that use human beings as bait.
* Traveling along railroad tracks and zombie encounter tables.
* Boxcar encounters and 101 boxcar contents table.
* The urban underground – traveling through sewers, storm drains, steam tunnels and other dark places.
* The pitfalls and dangers of the urban underground.
* Diseases, infection and insect infestation.
* Additional world information and advice from Brad Ashley.
* Random encounter tables and more.
* Many, many ideas for new adventure.
* Written by Kevin Siembieda.
* Illustrated by Amy Ashbaugh, Nick Bradshaw, Mike Mumah and others.
* Cover by E.M. Gist.
* 64 pages – $12.95 retail – Cat. No. 232. Available now.
Mysteries of Magic™
Book One: The Heart of Magic™ – available now
The Heart of Magic™ is packed with new information, details and new insight about magic, P.P.E., the Palladium World, Men of Magic, Wizards, Warlocks, Priests, Familiars, true names, apprenticeship, scroll conversion, learning magic, new and different magic O.C.C.s, new Wizard and Warlock spells, and data that expands, defines and clarifies a number of aspects about the practice of magic in the Palladium Fantasy setting. Easy to adapt to Rifts® (just change S.D.C. damage to M.D. and you are ready to go).
* 50 new Wizard and Warlock spells.
* The Forsaken Mage O.C.C., a Jack of all magicks and an outcast.
* Half-Wizard O.C.C., a split-class spell caster.
* Priest Variant O.C.C.s: Healer, Scholar and Warrior.
* New details about the Goblin Cobbler and Psi-Mystic.
* New details about Familiars, their secrets, and special abilities.
* True names, the mystery behind them, the danger of revealing them, and how to change them.
* Secrets of how magic is learned, how it works, and the apprenticeship process (what is learned).
* New insights about magic, the Palladium World, and Men of Magic.
* A closer look at the Wizard O.C.C., scroll conversion, spell books, auras, jobs, guilds, and the effects of metal and minerals on magic.
* Unstable and weak spell magic, learning new spells, and more.
* For the Palladium Fantasy® world, but suitable for any S.D.C. setting, and is easy to adapt to Rifts® and any Mega-Damage setting.
* Cover and logo by David Martin.
* Art by Ashbaugh, Mumah, Burles and others.
* Written by Mark Hall and Kevin Siembieda.
* 96 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 472. Available now.
Palladium Fantasy RPG® Book 2: Old Ones™
– Back in Print
Old Ones™ is back in print as a special printing available exclusively via Palladium’s online store.
Old Ones™ is an epic sourcebook packed full of information, people, places and ideas. Details about the Old Ones, the Minotaur R.C.C. (an ancient minion of the Old Ones), the Monk Scholar and Illusionist, 50 cities and towns mapped and described, adventure ideas and the epic Place of Magic adventure.
* Minotaur R.C.C.
* Minotaur Chaos Priest R.C.C.
* Monk Scholar O.C.C.
* The Illusionist P.C.C.
* 50 cities, towns and forts described. All 33 cities and towns are mapped. Each offers an avenue for adventure.
* 7 adventures plus adventure ideas.
* The Place of Magic: An epic adventure, mapped and described.
* World information, the Enchanted Forest, the secret complex of the Old Ones, the Contagion, magic weapons, monsters and more.
* Written by Kevin Siembieda.
* 224 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 453. Available now.
Back in print very soon
* Chaos Earth™, Rise of Magic (Almost done with many corrections, including missing experience tables.)
* Rifts® Dark Conversions
* Rifts® Canada
“Out of print” issues of The Rifter®,
The Mechanoids® and other Palladium RPG titles
are available as PDF files from DriveThruRPG.com
Island at the Edge of the World™, Adventures in the Northern Wilderness™, Aliens Unlimited™, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy, The Rifter® #1-40 and many other “out of print” titles are available on DriveThruRPG. And at half the original cover price. Palladium has 80 out of print titles as well as a handful of currently available titles available as PDF downloads from DriveThruRPG. Take advantage of this service and complete your collection.
Wayne Smith has made the Palladium area of DriveThruRPG.com more functional and easy to use. Major game lines are now separated into categories making it easier to find the titles you want. Currently there are 90+ Palladium titles available as PDF digital downloads from DriveThruRPG.com. Check them out and get those books you’ve always heard about.
The Queen of Ghouls goes Christmas!
The Queen of Ghouls will continue to make life-sized Halloween props and post them for sale throughout the winter at lower, out of season prices ($89-$115). She has plans to offer werewolves, vampires, zombies, killer clowns and much, much more.
As most of you know, Palladium’s very own Kathy Simmons started her own part-time business this summer. She calls herself the Queen of Ghouls (inspired by the nickname I gave her some years back), and she makes her amazing, life-sized Halloween props for sale. They are sturdy and gorgeous in that monstrous kind of way.
For Christmas she made a life-sized Santa and a few absolutely amazing Grinches, with a Hawaii Vacation Santa, and Mrs. Claus.
What’s next? Zombies, vampires, werewolves, killer Clowns and other maniacs and monsters. All coming soon.
© Copyright 2009 Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved.
Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Palladium Books®, Phase World®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Megaverse®, Nightbane®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars® and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc. Beyond the Supernatural™, Dead Reign, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Minion War, Mysteries of Magic, The Three Galaxies, Warpath, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.
Robotech® and Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® are Registered Trademarks of Harmony Gold USA, Inc.
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