Palladium Books® – Press Release – November 14, 2008
Release Updates in Brief
Dead Reign™ RPG (zombies) – shipped to everyone who pre-ordered TODAY as well as to distributors. It looks great. Plays great and is fun as all get out. Order yours today. Please post and let us know what you think of our latest creation.
The Rifter® #44 – Horror Special – is at the printer. The Rifter® #44 is done and at the printer. It is an outstanding issue chock full of monsters, horror, great ideas, and great art. It may be late, but it is worth the wait. It should ship just before or just after Thanksgiving; the printer hasn’t given us an exact release date. Our apologies for the delay.
The Rifter® #45 will ship in January, 2009, as usual. However, the cover price is going up one dollar (retail price will be $11.95 per issue) starting with #45. Those of you who subscribe will continue to get The Rifter® at the usual subscription price and escape the price increase.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 11: Dyval™, Hell Unleashed – December Release. The book is back in production. More than a few people have suggested that Dyval™ is just a variation of Hades with different demons. That’s not really the case. The genius that Carl Gleba is, he made Dyval™ very different from Hades. Wait till you see it. Oh, and that wait is coming to an end. Kevin and company are doing EVERYTHING they can to get Dyval™ out before Christmas! Dimensional Outbreak™ and Heroes of the Megaverse® will quickly follow within the first three months of 2009.
Robotech®: The Masters Saga™ Sourcebook – December or January Release. Art and writing progresses on this challenging sourcebook. Challenging because it is so packed with new information, mecha and equipment.
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Dead Reign™ RPG – The Zombie Apocalypse
– Available Now!
Dead Reign™ may be the most frightening, compelling and fun to play role-playing game setting Palladium has ever produced. Another epic RPG you need to put on your “check it out list,” “buy list,” or “Christmas list.” If zombies are your thing, we think you will fall in love with this game.
Brave human survivors refuse to lie down and die! They battle the walking dead on all fronts, watch each other’s backs, struggle to forge safe havens away from the cities, rescue other survivors and fight without respite.
Six Apocalyptic Character Classes (O.C.C.s), including the Reaper, Shepherd of the Damned, Hound Master, Apocalyptic Soldier, Scrounger and Ordinary People (40+ occupations to choose from).
Seven types of zombies plus the Half-Living.
Secrets of the Dead: Everything you need to know about zombies if you want to live!
Tips on fighting zombies and point-blank zombie combat rules.
Terror Cults: Survivor refugees or Hell on Earth?
Death Cults, their Priests, power over zombies and goals.
Retro-Savages and why they feed people to zombies.
Resources, vehicles and equipment.
101 Random Scenarios, Encounters and Settings.
100 Random Corpse Searches and other tables.
Quick Roll Character Creation tables.
A powerful setting and many adventure ideas.
Cover by E.M. Gist.
Art by Amy L. Ashbaugh, Nick Bradshaw, Mark Dudley, and Mike Mumah.
Written by Josh Hilden, Joshua Sanford and Kevin Siembieda.
224 pages – $22.95 retail – Cat. No. 230.
A complete role-playing game.
It shipped today!
The Rifter® #44 – Horror Special
– ships around November 24
This horror special is packed with giant monsters, deadly creatures, new O.C.C.s, Nightbane, the Scaring Crow (super-cool idea for a monster), and one compelling idea after another. Even Kevin’s From the Desk is especially interesting and fun. (Did you know he met George Romero once?)
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. Our apologies for this issue being late.
Ten giant monsters that threaten the world from across the Megaverse®. Written and drawn by various monster-crazy freelance writers and artists.
Telekinesis and Ectoplasm by Mark Hall.
Wormwood™ Addenda by Braden Campbell – two new O.C.C.s, history, background, cool places, and more. Great art too.
Nightbane® – Several new Morphus Tables, new Stigmata Table, new Talents, and the Nightbane Talent Shaper O.C.C. Edward Sauerland outdid himself this time.
The Scaring Crow by Steven Dawes – surprising and scary.
The latest chapter of Hammer of the Forge™, fiction.
News, conventions, coming attractions and more.
Cover by Chuck Walton.
$10.95 retail – 96 pages – Cat. No. 144.
Ships around Thanksgiving (November 24?). At the printer.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 11: Dyval™, Hell Unleashed
– December Release
Dyval™ is another plane of Hell as dangerous as Hades and a whole lot stranger. It is the second book in the Minion War™ series, and is every bit as fantastic as Hades. The Deevil Host, evil monsters and minions, Deevil society, monstrous War Steeds, magic, adventure settings and more will make this another welcomed addition to the Palladium Megaverse®. Suitable for use with The Palladium Fantasy RPG®, HU2, Nightbane®, BTS-2, Phase World® and Rifts®. In final production right now!
The hellish dimension of Dyval mapped and described.
New Lesser and Greater Deevils along with all your old faves.
Inhuman minions who serve as the Host.
Magic weapons and horrific war beasts.
World information and adventure ideas.
A stand-alone Dimension Book that is also the second step in an epic, five book adventure that spills across the Palladium Megaverse®.
Companion to Hades and the next chapter in the Minion War™.
Artwork by Nick Bradshaw, Mike Wilson, Mike Mumah, and others.
Cover painting by John Zeleznik.
Written by Carl Gleba and Kevin Siembieda.
192 pages – Cat. No. 873 – $22.95 retail. Should be released before Christmas (shooting for as soon as possible).
Robotech®: The Masters Saga™ Sourcebook
– December or January Release
This book is going to be epic!
The first batches of new artwork are in and look great! Apollo Okamura is working on the cover design and all of Palladium’s artists have been busy working on the entirely new art for The Masters Saga™ sourcebook. Everything is moving along nicely on that front.
Never before revealed mecha designs, stats and information about Earth’s fighting forces and the invading Robotech Masters. Artwork has been assigned and writing is half done.
The Armies of the Southern Cross™ – Earth’s defenders.
Hover Tanks, AJAX, Logan and other human mecha.
Never before seen mecha and power armor for the Armies of the Southern Cross.
The Robotech Masters, Bioroids, spaceships and weapons.
Other vehicles and weapons.
Manga size for easy portability (5x7½ inches).
Written by Jason Marker.
Cover by Apollo Okamura.
Interior art by Brian & Allen Manning and Mike Majestic.
192 pages – $15.95 retail – Cat. No. 552.
Ships December or January. In production.
Robotech® Macross® Saga Sourcebook
– Available now
If you love Robotech®, the Macross® Saga, and/or Palladium’s Robotech® RPGs, you want to get this book. It is gorgeous, packed with information and provides endless hours of gaming fun. At least put it on your Christmas list.
The Macross® sourcebook is a toy chest packed with the mecha, vehicles, weapons and characters that made Robotech® famous. Valkyries, Destroids, ground vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, weapons, Zentraedi soldiers, Zentraedi mecha, alien invaders, heroes, villains and more. There are no plans to reprint this title in a larger format.
Veritech Fighters & Destroids.
14 aircraft and aerospace vehicles.
13 ground vehicles, plus weapons and equipment.
Zentraedi mecha & select spacecraft.
Zentraedi warriors and their culture.
Quick Roll Tables for Macross characters.
Ordinary People O.C.C., new skills and more.
Notable anime characters statted out as NPCs.
Detailed illustrations, comprehensive stats and information.
Manga size for easy portability (5x7½ inches).
Written by Jason Marker & Kevin Siembieda.
Cover by Apollo Okamura.
Interior art by Brian & Allen Manning, Mike Majestic and others.
256 pages (64 more pages than originally advertised!).
$15.95 retail – Cat. No. 551. Available now.
Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG
– “Core Rules” Manga Edition – Available now
The Manga Edition is the Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® RPG “core rule book” as a 336 page, portable, manga-sized book. It has all the information a player needs to start a Robotech® game and it is necessary to play the Robotech® Macross Saga Sourcebook.
Human mecha: Alphas, Betas, Cyclones & more.
Quick roll character tables and M.O.S. skill sets.
O.C.C.s include the Battloid Ace, Veritech Fighter Pilot, Military Specialist, and others.
Key Robotech® mecha statted out and illustrated.
Invid enemy statted out and illustrated.
The Haydonites, their mecha and more.
Adventure settings and ideas.
Fast playing RPG rules. Mega-Damage setting.
Manga size for easy portability (5x7½ inches).
336 pages – only $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 550. Available now.
Or Robotech®: The Shadow Chronicles® RPG – 8½ x 11 Deluxe Hardcover Edition – 224 pages – $30.95 retail – Cat. No. 550HC – additional art and text, including space combat rules.
Or Robotech®: The Shadow Chronicles® RPG Collector’s “Gold” Edition Hardcover (8½ x 11 inches) – 224 pages – $70 retail – Cat. No. 5500C – limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. Makes an awesome gift.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 12: Dimensional Outbreak™
– January 2009
The Minion 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.
Space spell magic (new).
Spaceships, power armor and other gear.
The plot for conquering the Three Galaxies.
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, Mike Mumah, and others.
John Zeleznik cover painting.
Written by Carl Gleba.
192 pages – Cat. No. 875 – $22.95 retail. January (tentative).
Gateway to the Megaverse® with Kevin Siembieda last Monday is available as a download.
Last week's Gateway to the Megaverse® podcast was lively and fun. Topics ranged from Dead Reign and Robotech® Masters, to game design and writing. It, and all other interviews and episodes, are available for your listening enjoyment as downloadable audio files. Join the fun.
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