Palladium Books® – Press Release – March 26, 2010
By Kevin Siembieda
Another busy week full of ups, downs and changes, so I’m going to get right to it.
UPDATE: Heroes of the Megaverse® has been rescheduled to come out after Rifts® Triax™ 2. Please don’t be disappointed or start moaning and groaning. This was a hard decision, but it’s for the best. Besides, I’m still shooting to get both books done by the Palladium Open House (end of April).
As talked about in the past in Murmurs and podcasts, some books come easy, others don’t. Heroes of the Megaverse® was NOT coming easy. I like most of what’s done, but I’m not 100% happy with it and work is coming slow. I spent the better part of a week working on the Cosmo-Knight section retooling what a freelancer turned in and adding to it. I finally finished it, but wasn’t happy with it. Wayne read a big hunk of it and he had problems with it as well. After five hours of intense and heated discussion and debate between Wayne, Alex and myself (with some additional input from Kathy), Wayne and I decided I had to trash half of it (maybe most of it) and rewrite a bunch of it. That was four 10 hour days of work thrown right down the toilet. For me it was the last straw. I need to put Heroes of the Megaverse® aside and walk away from it for a while. I want this book to be special, and it will be, but to do that I need to focus on something else for awhile and that’s Rifts® Triax™ 2. Sorry, I just can’t short change an important book like this. I hope you understand. As soon as I’m done with Triax I am back to finish Heroes of the Megaverse®. It will ship in May.
UPDATE: Rifts® Triax™ 2. The art is nearing completion and looking fantastic. I’ve already started the editing and rewriting, and it is going very quickly. Rifts® Triax™ 2 will be out by the end of April as advertised. It is packed with history and information about the NGR, its going battle with the Gargoyle Empire and a ton of new robots, power armor, weapons and gear that will make gamers salivate.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #50 is at the printer. The printer has confirmed the ship date is Monday, April 12.
UPDATE: Rifts® Hoodies. Wayne and I have tweaked the finished design elements on the two hoodies, and both the zipper hoodie and pullover hoodie are ready to be sent to the screen printer. We also got samples of the shirts this week and they met with our approval. Not too thin, not too heavy. We think they are just right.
The hoodies will ship mid-April. We are waiting to submit the order until next Wednesday, March 31, because WE NEED to get an idea of how many to have made. Again I ask those of you who intend to order one or both hoodies in April to place orders by March 31. So far, only about dozen folks have done so. Unless we get a better representation, our initial press run will be 48 of each and when they are sold out, we’ll probably wait till the Fall to do another run. Please note that your credit card is not charged until about a week before the item is to ship.
FYI: When you place a pre-order, your card is not charged for that item(s) until it is ready to ship. I want to mention that, because we’ve come to realize that some of you think your credit cards are charged immediately. That is not the case. Kathy is very diligent about creating files for each pre-order book or item. Your information is kept in a secure place and your card is NOT charged until the item is ready to ship. When we know exactly when it will ship, Kathy processes orders a few days to one week before that date so that she has time to contact customers that might have a problem with their charge going through (expired card, etc.).
UPDATE: Rifts® 20 Year Anniversary T-Shirt. We hadn’t described this shirt yet because there were delays in getting the final art, design and slogan hammered out. Mike Mumah did the art and we think you’ll love it. Like the other T-shirts, it will debut at the Open House and ship immediately after, the first week of May, to the rest of the world. We’ll be posting descriptions and images in the next week or two.
Rifts® 20th Anniversary Poster? We’re also considering turning the T-shirt art into a print or poster. Artist Mike Mumah is working on the color version even as you read this. We haven’t decided yet, but we’re definitely leaning in that direction.
UPDATE: Online Sales. We’re back on the roller coaster ride. Last weekend’s sales were down but not horrible, we had a couple strong days and a couple bad days of sales. The worst being down 70%, the best being up 15%. Overall, sales for the week were a bit down from what we need, but satisfactory. We can’t lose sight that this is the RPG industry’s slow season and that we are behind on the release of new titles by a couple weeks, which all effects sales. Now I’ve pushed back the release of Heroes of the Megaverse®. Oh well, we’re hanging in there, working hard and staying positive.
Rifter Subscription Special ENDS in 5 days. This is your last weekend to subscribe at the special subscription rate. The offer ends Wednesday, March 31.
UPDATE: Palladium Open House. The special POH Commemorative Certificate of Admission for those who pre-register has been mailed out to those of you who have already reserved your admissions. This special item is available only to those who pre-register.
- The Certificate is different for every Open House.
- 11 x 8 1/2 inches, black and white.
- It bears your name and badge number, as well as the name and year of the Open House.
- The background on the certificate is gray scale art of one of Palladium’s covers and is suitable for framing.
- A one-of-a-kind fun and special keepsake.
Pre-order in the next two weeks and you’ll still get the commemorative Certificate of Admission sent to you in the mail. Available only to pre-registration. Pre-reg by April 12 to get yours.
UPDATE: POH Hotel Discount. You need to reserve your hotel room in the next two weeks to get the special discounted rate. Call by April 10, 2010 TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATION at the $69.95 price. You MUST tell them you want a room in the Block Reserved for Palladium Books. Call 734-455-8100 to make hotel reservations.
Comfort Inn Plymouth Clock Tower
40455 Ann Arbor Road (right off of I-275)
Plymouth, MI 48170
Call 734-455-8100 to make hotel reservations.
Dates: April 29 (V.I.P. Night), April 30, May 1 & 2, 2010
Hotel information:
$69.95 plus tax per Double or King room.
Clean, comfortable rooms – Double beds or a single king-size bed.
Free continental breakfast from 5:30 A.M. to 9:30 A.M.
Exercise room open 24 hours.
Executive meeting room for all-night gaming; provided a Palladium agent is present in the room.
Large meeting room with tables and chairs for six additional games for all-night gaming; provided a Palladium agent is present in the room.
Plenty of places to eat just down the road (Denny’s, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Bennigan’s, and many others).
UPDATE: Dad. I had a nice visit with my father and his roommate Arlene. Both remain in good spirits and seem to be doing well. My Dad’s next checkup is in May, a couple weeks after the Open House.
We’re working around the clock to keep new books coming and the company picking up steam. Keep those imaginations burning bright and game on.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer and Gamer
Palladium’s New Release Checklist
All release dates are tentative, but these are the dates Palladium is shooting for. All titles listed either have been turned in as final manuscripts or are in various stages of final development. We’ve trimmed the listing down to focus mainly on titles coming out in the next three months, so just because a book mentioned in a past Press Release is no longer listed, does NOT mean it’s off the schedule.
- The Rifter® #49 – Now available
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12: Dimensional Outbreak™ – Now available
- The Rifter® #50 (expanded, anniversary issue) – April
- Rifts® World Book 31: Triax™ Two – April
- Rifts® Hoodie (2 styles, zipper and pullover) – April
- Palladium Open House – April 29-May 2.
- Rifts®/Phase World® Sourcebook: Heroes of the Megaverse® – May
- Rifts® Dimension Book™: Thundercloud Galaxy™ – May
- Rifts® 20 Year Anniversary T-Shirt – May
- Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms – “Death is for the Weak” T-Shirt – May
- Palladium Books® – Game Master T-Shirt – May
- Armageddon Unlimited™ – June
- Rifts® World Book One: Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated – June
- Rifts® World Book™: Lemuria – Summer
- Robotech® UEEF Marines Sourcebook – Summer
- Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook™ – Summer
- Robotech® New Generation Sourcebook – Summer
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ – First Responders Sourcebook – Summer
- Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames – August
- Plus more Robotech® sourcebooks, more Mysteries of Magic™ sourcebooks (hoping to slot one in before June), more Nightbane® sourcebooks, more Dead Reign™ sourcebooks, Warpath™ and other good stuff.
Rifts® Logo – “Zipper” Hoodie
Please help. Due to public demand, Palladium is making hoodies. Please place your orders in advance (like over the weekend) to help us determine how many to make. Thanks. We want to place the hoodie orders with the printer by March 31 and ship both the zipper and the pullover hoodies by April 19. Pre-orders will not be charged before April 14th.
Rifts® Logo “Zipper” Hoodie: A white imprint of the Rifts® Logo on a black zipper hoodie. The famous Rifts® Logo appears front and back; a small logo over the left breast and a large logo printed on the back.
Type: 50/50 cotton polyester blend; full zipper.
Sizes: Medium to 3XL.
Color: White logo on a black zipper hoodie.
Cost: $32.95 for Small, Medium, Large and XL. $34.95 for 2XL. $36.95 for 3XL; plus shipping (approximately $6 to most places in the USA).
Cat. No. 2546. Taking orders now. Ships April 19.
Rifts® Logo – “Pullover” Hoodie
Same deal as above. If you are planning on buying a “pullover” hoodie when it comes out next month, PLEASE place your order as soon as possible. Thank you.
A white imprint of a large Rifts® Logo on the front of a pullover hoodie. Nothing on the back.
Type: 50/50 cotton polyester blend; pullover.
Sizes: Medium to 3XL.
Color: White logo on a black pullover hoodie.
Cost: $28.95 for Medium, Large and XL. $30.95 for 2XL, and $32.95 for 3XL; plus shipping (approximately $6 to most places in the USA).
Cat. No. 2547. Taking orders now. Ships April 19.
The Rifter® Super-Subscription Offer ends Wednesday
This is your last chance to get a Rifter® subscription at a great price, delivered to your doorstep, PLUS get a free gift worth up to $40. The subscription offer ends March 31, 2010. You know what to do.
Savings off the retail price ($8.95 an issue).
Free shipping in the USA.
Delivered right to your door.
A Megaverse® of Adventure and Fun.
Make sure you get the special issue #50.
And a FREE gift worth $13-$40.
Offer ends on March 31, 2010.
Cat. No. 100.
The Rifter® #50
Special Anniversary Issue – Ships April 12
The Rifter® Number 50 celebrates twelve and a half years of publication as well as the Rifts® RPG’s Twentieth Anniversary, by presenting an issue filled with official and unofficial source material and adventures from a list of Palladium guest writers that fans know and love.
Loaded with official source material.
Contributors include:
Brandon K. Aten & Matthew Orr – Splicers®.
Braden Campbell – Phase World® Free World Council.
James M. G. Cannon – Hammer of the Forge.
Greg Diaczyk – Rifts® vehicle construction rules.
Carl Gleba – Zodiac Mage for Palladium Fantasy RPG®.
Irvin Jackson – Nightbane®, dark magic.
Mike Leonard – Rifts® Comic Strip.
Mark Oberle – Heroes Unlimited™, Legacies.
Kevin Siembieda – Editorial, News and Coming Attractions.
Jason Richards – Chaos Earth™, psychics.
Julius Rosenstein – A Logic Problem.
Taylor White – Ninjas and Superspies™ expanded combat rules.
The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
News, coming attractions and more.
Cover by Charles Walton II.
Interior Art by Ashbaugh, Burles, Dudley, the Manning Brothers and others.
$14.95 retail, higher price this issue due to increased page count and official source material.
128 pages – Cat. No. 150. In final production. Ships April 12.
Special Thanks to Branden Aten, who helped coordinate and make this special issue happen.
Rifts® World Book 31: Triax™ Two
– Ships April 26
In final production. On schedule and looking fantastic! Triax™ Two is the long awaited and hotly anticipated sequel to the hugely popular Rifts® World Book 5: Triax™ & The NGR (more than 100,000 copies sold). Fans want this book badly, and it is going to be a hot selling item. A ton of new weapons, vehicles, power armor, giant robots and much more make this a toy box Rifts fans will not be able to resist.
New information about the New German Republic and its society.
New information about the New German Republic’s military.
New Triax weapons and equipment.
New Triax vehicles, war machines and artillery.
New Triax power armor and robots.
New Triax robot drones and cyborgs.
Update on the Gargoyle Empire and surrounding region.
More ideas for battles and adventure.
Cover by Scott Johnson.
Interior art by Michael Wilson, Allen Manning, Brian Manning, Kent Burles and Nick Maradin.
Written by Taylor White and Brandon Aten.
192 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 881. Ships April 26. In final production.
Rifts®/Phase World® Sourcebook:
Heroes of the Megaverse® – Ships May
If you read Kevin’s update opening of the Press Release, you already know that he has pushed the release back till shortly after the Palladium Open House. Don’t despair, this is the next book coming out from Palladium Books after Triax™ Two. You can’t rush quality, and Kevin was struggling with the writing of this book, and needed to take a step back from it. He expects to be back at work on it by April 10th, and the book should be out early May.
Heroes of the Megaverse® presents numerous NPC heroes, new details about the Cosmo-Knights and all kinds of fun with a magic artifact known as the Book of Heroes. This magic artifact is said to bestow incredible power upon those who use it. It can also guide and empower current day heroes and unleash forces that could have a profound impact on the Minion War. Only one copy is known to exist, and everyone wants to get their hands on it – good guys and bad (demons, Deevils, the Splugorth, the Dominators, the Kreeghor, etc.). According to legend, he who controls the Book of Heroes and wields the “Power of the 2000,” can rule the universe. Once protected by the Cosmo-Knights, the book has gone missing for millennia. 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.
The Book of Heroes described.
The incredible magic powers the Book contains.
Notable heroes and the powers bestowed to player characters when their names are invoked.
The dangers of the Book of Heroes, and why it must never fall into the hands of any Lord of Hell.
The protectors of the Book of Heroes, and the adventure setting around keeping it safe. Has the book chosen you to defend it?
Cosmo-Knights revisited, with new details and information.
A couple new O.C.C.s who draw their powers from the Cosmic Forge.
A number of NPC heroes and some surprises.
Minion War tie-in adventure sourcebook or stand-alone sourcebook for Rifts® or Phase World®/The Three Galaxies.
Contains the names of 2000 real life gamers who purchased the special print during Palladium’s Crisis of Treachery (and other heroes).
Cover by Apollo Okamura. Art by Mumah, Dudley and others.
Written by Kevin Siembieda. Some additional text Braden Campbell.
96 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 877. Ships May.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12:
Dimensional Outbreak™ – Available now
Dimensional Outbreak™ is space opera at its best. A blend of sci-fi, horror, magic, technology and the alien that is sure to get your adrenaline flowing. The epic scale of the Minion War just got bigger and even the United Worlds of Warlock, the Splugorth and Naruni Enterprises are reeling from it. The story hooks are endless.
An overview of Phase World’s Center Levels 1-20.
Four levels of Center mapped and the rest described.
60+ Demon Magic spells and rituals.
New Demons and Demon Magic.
“Living” demonic spaceships, magic weapons and new horrors.
The demons’ plans for conquest, their bases and troops.
Deevil spaceships, bases and defenses.
New minion races serving Deevils and demons.
Historical time-line of Center leading up to the Minion War.
The Battle for Center and the Demons’ Invasion of the Three Galaxies.
Chaos and war across the Three Galaxies, a campaign of conquest, adventure ideas and more.
A stand-alone Dimension Book that is also the third step in an epic, six book crossover series that races across the Palladium Megaverse®, including Heroes of the Megaverse® (any setting), Heroes Unlimited™ (Armageddon Unlimited™), and Rifts® (Megaverse® in Flames).
Artwork by Bradshaw, Burles, Dudley, Majestic, Maradin & Mumah.
John Zeleznik cover painting.
Written by Carl Gleba. Additional text & spells by Kevin Siembieda.
192 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 875. Available now.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™
The Thundercloud Galaxy™ is the perfect companion to Rifts® Dimensional Outbreak™ to expand one’s gaming Megaverse in the Three Galaxies. History, aliens, weapons, spacecraft, and adventure in a galaxy far, far away.
The galaxy described; history and time-line.
16 new alien R.C.C.s, plus notes on the Exiles and Dominators.
6 new O.C.C.s.
Monster and Animal Creation Tables.
Guidelines for Magic Weapon Making.
Notable weapons and technology.
Notable organizations and secret societies.
The Trensik Mercenaries.
The Vortex Region.
The Splugorth Kingdom of Desslyth and many other notable worlds.
New worlds of adventure.
Written by Braden Campbell.
160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 883. Ships in May, 2010.
Rifts® World Book One:
Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated
Kevin Siembieda is reorganizing, tweaking, expanding and updating one of the most popular Rifts® World Books ever published: Vampire Kingdoms™. This will include some new artwork and an expanded page count. The book will be updated and expanded in much the same way as Kevin did with Rifts® Sourcebook One a couple years ago. Best of all, it’s just the prelude to a Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook that will follow a month or two later.
Vampires: Their strengths, weaknesses and powers.
The Vampire Kingdoms expanded.
Vampire strategies and plans for conquest.
Vampire hunters and Techno-Wizard slayer devices (new and old).
Key locations including Juarez and El Paso.
The mystery of the Yucatan Peninsula.
Traveling Shows, Freak Shows and Circuses.
Monsters, D-Bees, and adventure ideas galore.
Updated and revised to 110 P.A.
Cover by E.M. Gist.
Written by Kevin Siembieda.
192 to 224 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 802-E. Summer release.
Rifts® Vampire Sourcebook™
Trouble is stirring in the Vampire Kingdoms as ambitious vampire lords, ladies and misanthropes seek to expand their power to dominate more mortal life forms.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and a handpicked selection of other writers, this sourcebook explores the vampires of Mexico and their kingdoms in ways you never imagined. Tons of new data, adventure ideas and revelations.
Vampire protectors and guardians.
Vampire rogues, mercenaries and warlords.
Vampire operations away from the Kingdoms.
Vampire incursions along the southern borderlands.
New vampire hunters and human strongholds.
Vampire hunter “exterminators.”
Frightful revelations, secrets, and adventure ideas.
And much, much more.
Cover by Michael C. Hayes.
Written by Kevin Siembieda, Braden Campbell and Mark Dudley.
128 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 884. Summer Release.
Also Coming in 2010
Rifts® World Book: Lemuria™: The underwater realm of Lemuria. The people and history of Lemuria, new magic, sea herbs and healing, monsters, the New Navy, and much, much more. Written by Greg Diaczyk. 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 885.
Armageddon Unlimited™ – for Heroes Unlimited™: Demons and Deevils are trying to turn Earth into one of their playgrounds, only it’s worse than you think. The plan is to bring about Armageddon. A stand-alone adventure setting for Heroes Unlimited™, new super abilities, hero categories, demonic weapons, adventure and more. Cover by Mark Evans. Written by Carl Gleba. 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 527.
Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames™: The Minion War™ spills across Rifts Earth, plus Soulmancer and Blood Magic, and Demon Plagues across the globe. Rifts Calgary and much, much more. Written by Carl Gleba. 192 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 876.
Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook: The Robotech® core sourcebook you’ve been waiting for . . . only it’s going to be more than you imagine. Written by Kevin Siembieda and Irvin Jackson. 224+ pages – manga size – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 554.
Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook: First Responders™: Data about the chaos and madness of the early days of the Great Apocalypse, and the brave men and women who tried to stem the tide of destruction and save lives, the First Responders. Written by Jason Richards & Kevin Siembieda. 96 to 128 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 665.
Other books in development:
- Robotech® New Generation™ Freedom Fighters Sourcebook (and others)
- More Rifts® Chaos Earth™ sourcebooks
- More Rifts® sourcebooks
- More Phase World®/Three Galaxies™ sourcebooks
- Nightbane® Sourcebook Six
- Mysteries of Magic™ Two & Three
- Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Three
- The Rifter® Number 51 & 52
- Warpath™ Urban Jungle™ and more . . .
Out of print titles
available as PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com
Palladium has made several out of print titles and the first 40 issues of The Rifter® available as PDF digital downloads from DriveThruRPG.com. We are regularly asked if out of print titles such as Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™, the original Mechanoids® RPGs, Boxed Nightmares™, BTS First Edition, etc. are available, and they are, at DriveThruRPG.com. Check ‘em out.
The Queen of Ghouls™ offers Halloween fun year round
All-weather, life-sized Halloween props by Palladium’s very own Kathy Simmons. “Ghouls” include killer clowns, wizards, witches, devils, grave ghouls, executioners, mad doctors, vampires, werebeasts, monsters and soon, new stylings for zombies that look even more life-like. Kathy’s also starting to offer accessories such as signs, witch’s brewing pots and more. Best of all, her high quality creations are much more affordable and imaginative than most competitors. Affordable Halloween fun.
If you think the photos online look good, you should see them in person. A typical “ghoul,” as she calls her creations, costs $89-$150. You can see some of her work (available off-season at lower prices) at her Queen of Ghouls™ Ebay store – queenofghouls.com.
2010 Palladium Open House – FIVE weeks away
Come join the fun with Kevin and the Palladium crew
Pre-Register in the next two weeks and you’ll still get the commemorative Certificate of Admission sent to you in the mail. The Certificate is 11 x 8 1/2 inches, black and white, bears your name and number, the name and year of the Open House, is one of a kind made special (and different) for each Open House, and is a fun and special keepsake. You do not need to bring it with you to the POH to claim your name badge. Those of you who already pre-ordered, your certificates are in the mail and on their way to you. The certificate is NOT available at the door.
The 2010 Open House is a celebration of gaming and friendship. We’ll have a Rifts 20th Birthday Party, celebrate The Rifter reaching issue Number Fifty (that’s 12 1/2 years of publication), and forget about our economic woes.
Kevin, Julius, Wayne, Alex, Kathy and a host of artists and writers will be available the entire weekend to game, chat, sign autographs and have fun. There will be many panel talks, a live auction (Saturday) with some amazing and rare books, art and items, a costume contest (Saturday) and non-stop gaming all weekend long.
Come for one day or the whole weekend, but do it. Do it because you, and all of us, need to forget our troubles and remember what life is all about: friends, laughter and gaming.
Thursday is VIP Night with our doors opening at 4:00 PM till midnight.
Friday is gaming and panel talks all day long, from 9:00 AM to midnight (with more gaming going on at the hotel).
Saturday is more gaming and panel talks, plus the live auction and the Costume Contest (it was awesome last year). 9:00 AM to midnight.
Sunday is more gaming, but it is a short day; 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM or so.
ALL EVENTS are covered under the cost of admission.
3 Day Weekend: $40 per person (Friday thru Sunday).
Friday Only: $16 per person.
Saturday Only: $16 per person.
Sunday Only: $12 per person.
VIP Night: Sold out.
Online: Click the links above.
By Telephone: Call (734) 721-2903 – have your credit card information ready.
Hotel: You must call by April 10, 2010, to get the special discounted rate of $69.95 and you MUST tell them you “want a room in the Block Reserved for Palladium Books.” Call 734-455-8100 to make hotel reservations at the Comfort Inn Plymouth Clock Tower, 40455 Ann Arbor Road, Plymouth, MI 48170 (right off of I-275 and five minutes from Palladium Books).
Rifts® 20th Birthday celebration.
100+ gaming events!
Open gaming area.
Panel talks. Many this year, all weekend.
Meet 30+ Palladium creators – the largest gathering of Palladium creators in the world!
Chat and get autographs from all the Palladium creators.
Open access to the writers, artists and creators all three days.
Costume Contest (Saturday evening) – Come as a Palladium character and maybe you will win.
Live auction (Saturday evening) with rare out of print books, books from the Erick Wujcik collection, original artwork, proofreader copies of manuscripts, collectibles and more.
And much, much, more.
ALL EVENTS are covered by the cost of admission.
2010 Palladium Open House – April 29, 30, May 1 & 2, 2010.
For more information and to pre-register, click here.
POH Game Masters and games needed. Please let us know if you are running, how many games you are running, etc. – the sooner the better, so we can put together and post online a schedule of events by the end of March. Thanks.
Palladium Creators who will be at the 2010 POH: The Palladium Staff: Kevin Siembieda, Wayne Smith, Kathy Simmons, Julius Rosenstein, Alex Marciniszyn. Plus Amy Ashbaugh, Brandon Aten, Carmen Bellaire, Nick Bradshaw, Kent Burles, Braden Campbell (tentative), Randi Cartier, Roger Cartier, Stephen Dawes, Matthew Daye, Greg Diaczyk, Mark Dudley, Carl Gleba, Jeffry Scott Hansen, Mike Leonard, Allen Manning, Brian Manning, Mike Mumah, Apollo Okamura, Mark Oberle, Charles Walton, and other artists, writers and creators.
See you there NEXT MONTH.
Rifts® Art Contest
Deadline: April 16, 2010
We’ve only gotten a few entries so far, so competition is light. Maybe that will encourage you cowards out there to enter the contest. Come on. Do it.
There will be two categories: Color cover art and black and white interior art.
The winner in the color art category will see his/her art used as the cover of the next issue of The Rifter® or a future Rifts® supplement. The winner of the black and white (gray tones okay) category will see his/her art appear inside the next issue of The Rifter® or a future Rifts® supplement.
Furthermore, the art from ALL contestants will be considered for possible use in future issues of The Rifter® and Rifts® sourcebooks. This contest will be open to professional artists, semi-professional artists and non-professional (previously unpublished) artists. So if you are a Rifts fan and an artist with a dream, you WILL want to submit your work. Start thinking up ideas. Multiple entries or entries in both categories “is” allowed.
Here are the basics:
- Two Categories: 1. Color Cover Art. 2. Full Page Black and White Illustration.
- Subject Matter: RIFTS®. We want artwork that screams Rifts® to celebrate the Rifts® RPG turning 20 years old.
- Deadline: All entries must be submitted to Palladium Books NO LATER than April 16, 2010; sooner is better. We extended the deadline.
- What to Send: Submit a digital file and quality proof of the “finished” art -or- the original artwork (please insure originals) to: Palladium Books, Contest A, 39074 Webb Court, Westland, MI 48185.
- Determining the Winners: The art of all contestants will be displayed at the 2010 Palladium Open House, where a winner and two runners up will be selected. Those in attendance will vote for their favorites. Fan votes will count for 50% in picking a winner, 30% will come from Palladium artists and staff, and 20% of the vote will come from me, Kevin Siembieda, Publisher.
- Art submissions are copyrighted and owned by Palladium Books: All submissions are “derivative” of Palladium’s copyrighted intellectual properties. Any art we publish will get the artist paid.
- Agreement: The artists entering will need to sign and return an agreement that will be sent to them. We need this agreement for each applicant to be considered, so make sure you send us your street address.
- What the Winners Get: The winning artwork will get published in either the next issue of The Rifter® -or- an upcoming Rifts supplement! And get paid for. There are going to be at least two categories: Rifts® Color Cover (leave space at the top for a title/logo) and Black and White Full Page Illustration, but we might add more once we see the artwork submitted. Furthermore, we may consider using OTHER contestants’ artwork in future issues of The Rifter® and/or Rifts® sourcebooks. For any art we publish from this contest, the artist will get paid, and get full credit inside the book, plus several free copies of the book his or her art appears in. (All winners of this contest will get paid the low end of Palladium’s payment scale.)
It’s not American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance, but this could be your shot at breaking into the RPG business at Palladium Books. Start drawing this weekend.
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