Post by Jaymz on Mar 19, 2014 0:11:52 GMT
By Kevin Siembieda
The long wait for books is coming to an end in just a few weeks. Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two is near completion and should go to the printer very soon now (April release). Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames will follow quickly behind it (April or May). The Rifter® #66 (April) is in final production and the Palladium Fantasy RPG® Hardcover (April) will ship in a few weeks. Due to popular demand, we are re-releasing the collected Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy as a short printing, as it was among the top most requested out of print titles of the 2013 Christmas Surprise Package season.
What comes after that? More good stuff. Chaos Earth® Rise of Magic back in print, Dead Reign™ Graveyard Earth™ (in fact, I worked a little on it over the weekend when inspiration grab hold and wouldn’t let go until I committed six pages of writing and notes to paper), Chaos Earth® First Responders, Chaos Earth® Resurrection, Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook, and of course, the anxiously anticipated Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Wave One.
There are also a few yet to be scheduled, and in some cases, yet to be announced projects waiting to be green-lit and fast-tracked for production and release. A handful of things that have been under development by me and freelancers who have been working on them for a while. They include: Rifts® Coalition States: Heroes of Humanity™, Rifts® Sovietski™, Rifts® Secrets of Atlantis™, and Rifts® New Navy™ 2. Not sure if some or all of these will see release in 2014, but they are in some stage of completion and in the pipeline.
Other tentative releases for 2014 include the Beyond the Supernatural: Beyond Arcanum™ and Tomes Grotesque™ books, as well as sourcebooks for Splicers®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Palladium Fantasy®.
Robotech® RPG Tactics™ releases may be the blockbuster releases of the year, but we have a nice range of other dynamic RPG titles, new and old, to rock your gaming world.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two
Had a good weekend and week of work on this puppy. Should go into final layout and get sent to the printer next week. It might have been sooner, but we’re losing Wayne Smith for most of the week as he represents Palladium Books® at the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas.
UPDATE: GAMA Trade Show
The GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas is an industry event where manufacturers get to meet and talk with retailers and distributors about upcoming releases. Wayne Smith will be flying out to rep us at this event, joined by long-time Palladium pal and helper, Joseph Bergmans. Prototypes of many Robotech® RPG Tactics™ game pieces will be on display. Btw, that’s why this Weekly Update is posted early this week.
Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two Sneak Preview – available now on DriveThruRPG.com
Get a small peak at Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two with this free preview. Remember, this is only a small sampling of what you can expect. There are 30+ suits of power armor, new body armor, Hovercycle Ride Armor, vehicles, drones and lots of other gear to delight players and Game Masters alike.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #66 – ships April 16
The material for this issue has been selected and artists are working away on the illustrations while Alex and Wayne engage in editing. See the full description in this Weekly Update and the online store. Cover price has increased to $13.95 and remains a steal for a 96 page sourcebook.
UPDATE: Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames – Ships April/May
Another World Book that will provide plenty of adventure and wonderment. We are still shooting for an end of April or first week of May release.
UPDATE: Dead Reign™: Graveyard Earth™ Sourcebook – ships May
The final manuscript and the E.M. Gist cover painting should be finished and turned in by the end of this week. See the full description elsewhere in this Weekly Update and in the online store.
UPDATE: Heroes Unlimited™ Anniversary SALE – now through April 13, 2014
We did it for Palladium Fantasy RPG® so we are doing it for Heroes Unlimited™. ALL HU2 titles – with a few exceptions like the already “priced to sell” hardcover edition – are 30% off right now and running till April 13, 2014. Get ‘em while they’re on sale! Happy Anniversary!
UPDATE: Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover Edition
Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover continues to sell well and is being enjoyed. Available now at $40 while supplies last. Destined to be a collector’s item. The old hardcover sells for $200-$350 on the secondary market.
Palladium Fantasy RPG® 30th Anniversary Hardcover – Ships April – pre-order now – at the printer
At the printer and scheduled for an April release. Pre-orders for the Palladium Fantasy, 2nd Edition HC have outpaced the sale of the Heroes Unlimited™ hardcover. Cool. Keep those orders coming. I’m glad I decided to print a few more copies (450, the same as its catalog number). I decided it wasn’t fair to leave out Palladium Fantasy®, so we are printing 450 copies of the 30th Anniversary Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition hardcover as an April release. And boy am I glad I did. Enjoy. You can start placing your pre-orders now. See the full description elsewhere in this Weekly Update or in our online store. Note: This is the Palladium Fantasy RPG, Second Edition, all exactly the same as the current printing.
UPDATE: Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook
This will be a Spring or Summer release. Still looking at a spring release. And it will be epic.
UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™
We continue to work on finalizing all aspects of this game for final manufacturing. We were very happy with the Destroid prototypes that arrived late last week. With but a few small tweaks, they are done! The Spartan with missile bays open, the Tomahawk and Phalanx were among my favorites. All looked excellent. Dying to get the final prototype for the Monster! You can see more updates and images at the Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Kickstarter Updates page.
Closing thoughts
That’s it for this Weekly Update. By the time you read this, I’ll be writing away on one of the many great RPG titles in the pipeline. Boy are we excited. Hope you are too. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the special Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Anniversary Sale. That offer ends in a few weeks, April 13, so take advantage of it while you can.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer
Ok a few thoughts here.....The update is a couple of days early because Wayne will be gone? I am guessing Kevin does not know how to post it to the site.
He got a good weekend and weeks worth of work done on NG2? Um it's Tuesday. Also nice way to make an excuse for the book not going to the printer because Wayne won't be there for a few days....also seems he will be able to edit MiF in about 2-3 weeks.....yeah no I have trouble believing that....
The long wait for books is coming to an end in just a few weeks. Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two is near completion and should go to the printer very soon now (April release). Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames will follow quickly behind it (April or May). The Rifter® #66 (April) is in final production and the Palladium Fantasy RPG® Hardcover (April) will ship in a few weeks. Due to popular demand, we are re-releasing the collected Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy as a short printing, as it was among the top most requested out of print titles of the 2013 Christmas Surprise Package season.
What comes after that? More good stuff. Chaos Earth® Rise of Magic back in print, Dead Reign™ Graveyard Earth™ (in fact, I worked a little on it over the weekend when inspiration grab hold and wouldn’t let go until I committed six pages of writing and notes to paper), Chaos Earth® First Responders, Chaos Earth® Resurrection, Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook, and of course, the anxiously anticipated Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Wave One.
There are also a few yet to be scheduled, and in some cases, yet to be announced projects waiting to be green-lit and fast-tracked for production and release. A handful of things that have been under development by me and freelancers who have been working on them for a while. They include: Rifts® Coalition States: Heroes of Humanity™, Rifts® Sovietski™, Rifts® Secrets of Atlantis™, and Rifts® New Navy™ 2. Not sure if some or all of these will see release in 2014, but they are in some stage of completion and in the pipeline.
Other tentative releases for 2014 include the Beyond the Supernatural: Beyond Arcanum™ and Tomes Grotesque™ books, as well as sourcebooks for Splicers®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Palladium Fantasy®.
Robotech® RPG Tactics™ releases may be the blockbuster releases of the year, but we have a nice range of other dynamic RPG titles, new and old, to rock your gaming world.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two
Had a good weekend and week of work on this puppy. Should go into final layout and get sent to the printer next week. It might have been sooner, but we’re losing Wayne Smith for most of the week as he represents Palladium Books® at the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas.
UPDATE: GAMA Trade Show
The GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas is an industry event where manufacturers get to meet and talk with retailers and distributors about upcoming releases. Wayne Smith will be flying out to rep us at this event, joined by long-time Palladium pal and helper, Joseph Bergmans. Prototypes of many Robotech® RPG Tactics™ game pieces will be on display. Btw, that’s why this Weekly Update is posted early this week.
Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two Sneak Preview – available now on DriveThruRPG.com
Get a small peak at Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two with this free preview. Remember, this is only a small sampling of what you can expect. There are 30+ suits of power armor, new body armor, Hovercycle Ride Armor, vehicles, drones and lots of other gear to delight players and Game Masters alike.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #66 – ships April 16
The material for this issue has been selected and artists are working away on the illustrations while Alex and Wayne engage in editing. See the full description in this Weekly Update and the online store. Cover price has increased to $13.95 and remains a steal for a 96 page sourcebook.
UPDATE: Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames – Ships April/May
Another World Book that will provide plenty of adventure and wonderment. We are still shooting for an end of April or first week of May release.
UPDATE: Dead Reign™: Graveyard Earth™ Sourcebook – ships May
The final manuscript and the E.M. Gist cover painting should be finished and turned in by the end of this week. See the full description elsewhere in this Weekly Update and in the online store.
UPDATE: Heroes Unlimited™ Anniversary SALE – now through April 13, 2014
We did it for Palladium Fantasy RPG® so we are doing it for Heroes Unlimited™. ALL HU2 titles – with a few exceptions like the already “priced to sell” hardcover edition – are 30% off right now and running till April 13, 2014. Get ‘em while they’re on sale! Happy Anniversary!
UPDATE: Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover Edition
Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover continues to sell well and is being enjoyed. Available now at $40 while supplies last. Destined to be a collector’s item. The old hardcover sells for $200-$350 on the secondary market.
Palladium Fantasy RPG® 30th Anniversary Hardcover – Ships April – pre-order now – at the printer
At the printer and scheduled for an April release. Pre-orders for the Palladium Fantasy, 2nd Edition HC have outpaced the sale of the Heroes Unlimited™ hardcover. Cool. Keep those orders coming. I’m glad I decided to print a few more copies (450, the same as its catalog number). I decided it wasn’t fair to leave out Palladium Fantasy®, so we are printing 450 copies of the 30th Anniversary Palladium Fantasy RPG®, 2nd Edition hardcover as an April release. And boy am I glad I did. Enjoy. You can start placing your pre-orders now. See the full description elsewhere in this Weekly Update or in our online store. Note: This is the Palladium Fantasy RPG, Second Edition, all exactly the same as the current printing.
UPDATE: Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines™ Sourcebook
This will be a Spring or Summer release. Still looking at a spring release. And it will be epic.
UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™
We continue to work on finalizing all aspects of this game for final manufacturing. We were very happy with the Destroid prototypes that arrived late last week. With but a few small tweaks, they are done! The Spartan with missile bays open, the Tomahawk and Phalanx were among my favorites. All looked excellent. Dying to get the final prototype for the Monster! You can see more updates and images at the Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Kickstarter Updates page.
Closing thoughts
That’s it for this Weekly Update. By the time you read this, I’ll be writing away on one of the many great RPG titles in the pipeline. Boy are we excited. Hope you are too. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the special Heroes Unlimited™ RPG Anniversary Sale. That offer ends in a few weeks, April 13, so take advantage of it while you can.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer
Ok a few thoughts here.....The update is a couple of days early because Wayne will be gone? I am guessing Kevin does not know how to post it to the site.
He got a good weekend and weeks worth of work done on NG2? Um it's Tuesday. Also nice way to make an excuse for the book not going to the printer because Wayne won't be there for a few days....also seems he will be able to edit MiF in about 2-3 weeks.....yeah no I have trouble believing that....
