It has been another busy week. This time, most of our focus has been on one project: to finish Armageddon Unlimited™ and get it to the printer.
UPDATE: Armageddon Unlimited™ is almost done. The first 100 pages of the book are laid out. I’m working on the final edits and tweaks of the last 40 pages, and the book is looking fantastic. It should be going to the printer by Monday. Armageddon Unlimited™ is epic in scope, lots of fun and easy to port over to other world settings like the Three Galaxies™. And it contains a ton of new source material for Heroes Unlimited™ campaigns. Yep, this book has it all. How cool is it? When I asked Julius what he thought of the first 100 pages he had proofread, he said: “I’m really impressed. It’s much more than anything I expected. I love the Hellion and, well, all of it. This will be really something to play.” The book should ship around February 11, 2011.
UPDATE: Online sales. Sales the past week or two have returned to the roller coaster ride we’ve seen over the last few years. One day the sales are so-so, even lousy, the next day they shoot back up to normal or better. Overall, sales haven’t been bad, but they’re not great either. I’m sure with the release of new product sales will even out very quickly.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #53. It shipped to subscribers last Thursday and to distributors last Friday. That means subscribers, as usual, got their copies before the issue hit store shelves.
As noted in previous Weekly Updates, The Rifter® #53 is filled with fun source material for Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Nightbane® and Heroes Unlimited™, as well as great artwork, fiction, news and coming attractions. We’ve gotten a lot of immediate and positive feedback on the cover by Zachary Schoenbaum. People, including Carmen Bellaire, love that the cover tells a story and nicely captures the feel of the superhero genre. This is what I mean when I talk about the level of enthusiasm and excitement among Palladium’s creators. Zachary is new to Palladium. We discovered him through our Art Contest last year, and this is only his second cover, and his first done for on assignment for a specific book. He knocked it out of the park first time around. Nice work, Zach. This issue is so good, I printed a few hundred extra copies, and I bet it will still sell out fast. The Rifter® #53 is an excellent issue to start your subscription. It also contains material that could be easily incorporated into Armageddon Unlimited™ or any HU2 campaign.
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UPDATE: Thundercloud Galaxy™. The minute my work on Armageddon Unlimited is done, my full attention goes to Thundercloud Galaxy™. Actually, a little will go toward overseeing work on the new Palladium website and a few other things, but most of my time will be spent on getting it and other new books to the printer. We’re still shooting for an end of February release and will keep you updated. See the new description and complete details elsewhere in this update.
UPDATE: Robotech®. I assure you Robotech® is not forgotten. The Robotech® New Generation Sourcebook will only be the first new Robotech® release of 2011. Looking for a March release.
UPDATE: Rifts® WB One: Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated and Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™ are being developed even as you read this. They’ll be in your hands as soon as we can hammer them out. Each is filled with new ideas and material that will please and surprise.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Rifts® Game Master Guide
- Rifts® World Book 5: Triax & The NGR
- Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook
- Rifts® China One
- Rifts® Megaverse® Builder
- Rifts® Canada
- Rifts® Dark Conversions
All of the above titles are back in print. A fact that has pleased Palladium fans and our distributors. Coming in February: Rifts® Book of Magic and Rifts® Chaos Earth: Rise of Magic. (And later this Spring you’ll see a new Chaos Earth™ sourcebook.)
Positivity reigns. Even though we’ve been working long hours and pushing hard to get new books released and favorite out of print books back in stock, we remain positive and enthusiastic. The ideas continue to flow and we are filled with high hopes. I hope all of you are enjoying the explosion of activity and buzz that has been coming from Palladium Books in just these first three weeks of the New Year. Good stuff and new products will continue to come your way.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher
- The Rifter® #53 – New – Available now!
- Rifts® World Book 20: Canada – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Dark Conversions – Back in print – Available now
- Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Game Master Guide – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 5: Triax & The NGR – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® China One – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Megaverse® Builder – Back in print – Available now
- Armageddon Unlimited™ – New – February 11, 2011 (in final layout)
- Rifts® Book of Magic – Back in print – February 11, 2011
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™ – New – February 25
- And maybe another reprint or two.
- Rifts® WB One: Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated (March)
- Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook (March)
- Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™ (March or April)
- The Rifter® #54 (April)
- Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames (Minion War™ crossover; April or May)
- Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Three
- Rifts® World Book™: Lemuria
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™: First Responders Sourcebook
- The Rifter® #55 (July)
- Robotech® UEEF Marines and other Robotech® sourcebooks.
- Rifts® sourcebooks
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ sourcebooks
- Palladium Fantasy®: Mysteries of Magic™ Two & Three
- Palladium Fantasy® other sourcebooks
- Warpath™ Urban Jungle RPG
- And other good stuff. Lots of other good stuff!
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.
The Rifter® #53 includes:
The Rifter® is a quarterly sourcebook series for the entire Palladium Megaverse®. It is written by fans and up and coming writers, for fans. Some, like #4, #8, #19, #20-26, #28-35, #38, #40, and others have even become coveted collector’s items that command big bucks! (For a while, people were reportedly paying as much as $70 online for #21.)
Super-Subscription Offer: The cover price of The Rifter® is $11.95 – a steal for 96 pages of RPG source material and adventures – but a subscription gets you The Rifter® delivered to your doorstep and you can select a free gift worth $13-$23 (available only during this special offer, for the cost of shipping and handling).
That’s only $39.80 for customers in the United States. That breaks down to $9.95 each, a savings of $8.00, and Palladium pays the shipping! Plus you get to select a A FREE gift worth $12.95-$24.95 – and you pay only the cost of shipping and handling ($5.00 in the USA – that’s $44.80 total for US customers). Note: Due to the cost of international shipping, this special rate is limited to subscribers in the USA only. We hope you understand.
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The book is in the final stage of layout and goes to the printer on Monday. Ships February 11 (pending confirmation from our printer).
The epic battle between good and evil, and the fate of humanity vs the forces of Hell, starts here.
Demons and Deevils are fighting for dominance of the Earth, and if they can’t win, nobody can have it. They’ll destroy the planet.
Armageddon Unlimited™ is the ultimate good vs evil setting and adventure. The fate of the world hangs in the balance and only you can stop its destruction.
Armageddon Unlimited™ is more than an epic world-saving adventure, it is also a sourcebook jam-packed with new powers, magic, weapons and Power Categories that can be incorporated into any Heroes Unlimited™ campaign. This book can be used as a standalone adventure sourcebook for Heroes Unlimited™ or as a pivotal plot in an expansive Minion War™ campaign.
Highlights include:
For the first time ever, the Thundercloud Galaxy™ is presented in a Dimension Book of its own. It provides an overview of the galaxy, the mad rush to claim and colonize planets, and descriptions of notable worlds, alien people, monsters and politics.
Looking for adventure? Looking to help colonize a planet or to defend an exploited people? Then you need this sourcebook. Expand your knowledge of the Three Galaxies with new history, alien worlds, weapons, spacecraft, and adventure in an exotic faraway galaxy. A perfect companion to Rifts® Dimensional Outbreak™ and a foil to plot your own Minion War™ battles or to send protectors and heroes created with Rifts® Heroes of the Megaverse®. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
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 few years ago. Best of all, it will be accompanied by the Rifts® Vampires 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.
This Robotech® sourcebook will be an early 2011 release.
At last, the underwater realm of Lemuria. The people and history of Lemuria, new magic, sea herbs and healing, sea monsters, and more.
The Minion War spills across Rifts Earth, where demons and infernals hope to recruit allies and use the Rifts as gateways of destruction. Their influence shakes things up across the planet, especially at locations where demons and Deevils already have a strong presence. More details to follow, but for now, ‘nuff said.
Data about the chaos and madness of the early days of the Great Cataclysm, and the brave men and women who tried to stem the tide of destruction and save lives, the First Responders.
A comprehensive overview of Canada, including notable places, cities, towns, people, O.C.C.s, monsters and conflicts. Much of Canada has reverted to wilderness, but there are pockets of civilization and technology, though not all of them human.
The focus of Dark Conversions™ is on creatures of darkness and other monsters such as Alien Intelligences, Elementals, were-beasts, vampires, weird supernatural beings, the Nightbane and others. If you are looking for practitioners of dark magic, villains, monsters and vile horrors to pit against your heroes, this is the sourcebook for you. Many creatures also have notes on how they fit into the Rifts Earth setting and where they may be encountered.
A complete role-playing game set in a unique realm of high fantasy and epic adventure that has thrilled fans for 27 years. All the fantasy elements you’d expect are there, but spun in ways that you may not expect. Magic has replaced science. The elder races of Dwarves, Elves and Titans have given way to the rise of humanity and the Wolfen Empire. While the monster races – Goblins, Orcs, Ogres and Trolls – lay claim to the Old Kingdom, from which they launch their pillaging raids. And that’s just the beginning.
The ultimate Rifts® reference and sourcebook, it contains all the weapons, equipment, body armor, power armor, robots, vehicles, skills and psionics from Rifts® World Books 1-23, Sourcebooks 1-4, and Siege on Tolkeen 1-6, collected into one big reference. Plus, maps, lists and indexes of O.C.C.s, R.C.C.s, experience tables and more.
A compendium of bionic and cybernetic systems in the Rifts North America setting, with information about partial and full conversion cyborgs, Headhunters, City Rats, the Cyber-Doc and more. A must-have resource for fans of cyborgs.
The New German Republic (NGR) is surrounded and besieged by the hostile Gargoyle Empire – an empire of giant monsters. Only the superior robotics and weapons technology of Triax keeps the monsters at bay, but for how long? This epic World Book presents the Triax robots, power armor, cyborgs, and world setting that is Rifts Germany and the surrounding region. More than 100,000 copies sold!
Note: For dozens of new weapons, armor, robots, drones, power armor suits, cyborgs, vehicles and updated information about the NGR, Triax and the war, see Rifts® World Book 31: Triax™ 2 – 192 pages – $24.95 – Cat. No. 881.
There is no place on Rifts Earth more exotic, magical and dangerous than China, especially since the Hell of the Yama Kings has bled into the mortal plane.
Note: For 18 new O.C.C.s, heroes of the Celestial Court, Geofront, secret technology, mystical powers, Demon Wrestling, Demon Quelling, Chi Weapons, martial arts and more, see Rifts® World Book 25: Rifts® China 2 – 160 pages – $20.95 – Cat. No. 858.
Your guide to creating your own corner of the infinite Megaverse®. The big picture of how the Megaverse® works, plus rules and suggestions for creating your own dimension.
This is it, the ultimate guide to magic for Rifts Earth. All the magic spells, magic tattoos, Techno-Wizard items, magic weapons, equipment, body armor, restraints, parasites, symbiotes, magic items, Bio-Borgs, Automatons, Iron Juggernauts, and more from Rifts® World Books 1-23, Sourcebooks 1-4, and Siege on Tolkeen 1-6, collected into one big reference.
White printing on a big, glossy black, 15.5 ounce coffee mug. Looks cool and is a fan favorite.
White printing on a big, glossy black, 15.5 ounce coffee mug. Looks great.
This is a great resource for getting out of print Palladium titles and other select books. We’ve made 90 titles available as PDF digital downloads from DriveThruRPG.com. This is a great way to try Palladium products and get access to out of print RPG source material. Some notable titles include:
- Splicers® RPG
- Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, First Edition Rules.
- Boxed Nightmares™ for BTS, First Edition Rules.
- Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™.
- The Mechanoids® RPG and The Mechanoid Invasion® RPG Trilogy.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®, First Edition Rules and select 1st Edition sourcebooks.
- After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks.
- The Rifter® issues 1-40.
- The Best of The Rifter®
- Deluxe Revised RECON® RPG and Advanced RECON® Sourcebook.
- And more – go to DriveThruRPG.com and check ‘em out.
We will be adding issues 41-44 of The Rifter® to the list of available titles from DriveThruRPG.com in January, 2011. Other books will be added in the months to follow.
Start planning for Halloween early as Palladium’s very own Kathy Simmons will start to offer her 2011 selection of life-sized Halloween props (most are 6 feet or taller) that are to die for.
Each is an all-weather, life-sized Halloween prop that can handle rain and snow, and is a one-of-a-kind work of art (no two are exactly the same). Each looks frighteningly “real.” All come apart and fold down to slightly larger than a king-size pillow for easy storage. Comes with easy instructions, a plastic storage bag, and the lawn stake to stand it up in your front yard. Indoor stand sold separately.
Types of “Ghouls” include: Zombies (all kinds!), killer clowns, wizards, witches, devils, grave ghouls, scarecrows, executioners, mad doctors, deadly nurses, vampires, werewolves, and more. Kathy’s also now offering an array of hand-painted Halloween signs, signs with heads and bodies hanging from them, witch’s brewing pots, Halloween centerpieces and more. Best of all, her high quality creations are much more affordable and imaginative than most competitors or mass produced items in a store, making them 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 $99-$179. You can see some of her work at her Queen of Ghouls™ Ebay store – queenofghouls.com.
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