Jan 23 2013 update

[Jaymz]

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By Kevin Siembieda
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The Rifter® has been outstanding and is the place to find regular source material for Beyond the Supernatural™, Palladium Fantasy®, Splicers®, and Heroes Unlimited™. I’m happy to report that The Rifter® #65 continues that trend of great source material, with 60 new Necromancy spells for Rifts® and other magic settings, HU2 source material, along with a ton of other great stuff. So the 2014 series of Rifters is off to a great start.


UPDATE: The Rifter® #65 – Ships end of January

Looking for similar great source material for future issues

BACK IN STOCK: Heroes Unlimited™ RPG – Available now

ALSO BACK IN PRINT and available now

Just a reminder that these books are also back in print and waiting for you.

Dragons and Gods™ – for Rifts® and Palladium Fantasy® – Available now
Rifts® Mystic Russia™ – Available now
The Rifter® #50 – Special Anniversary Issue – Available now

UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two

We’ve been swamped all week with many different matters, so I’ve only put in a few hours of work on it so far this week. Plan to dive back into it as soon as I finish writing this Update. NG-2 is going to please and impress on the same level as NG-1. I plan to work on it and little else from this point forward until it is done.

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™

Things continue to move forward on this front as the engineering is being fine tuned for final mold-making and mass production. The engineering layout for the Valkyries was reviewed this week and we were very pleased. There were only a few minor details to be addressed but otherwise they looked freakin’ gorgeous. What a relief.

Meanwhile, the intrepid (and somewhat beleaguered) Jeff Burke continues to hammer away at creating images for the Robotech® RPG Tactics™ color guide which we’ll be adding to the back of the rule book. That’s front, side and back views of . . . well, everything Macross mecha.

We are still unable to lock down a likely release date at this time, and may have to wait until after the Chinese New Year (a celebration that lasts a couple of weeks!) before we have something concrete to tell you. You’ll know when we know. Keep the faith. Robotech® RPG Tactics™ is absolutely coming out in 2014, Kickstarter supporters will get product before retail, and this game is going to be epic fun.

Join the Gen Con Palladium Team NOW – Gen Con Indy, August 14-17, 2014

As reported last week, Palladium is pulling out all the stops for the 2014 Gen Con Indy. Our booth is twice the size, there will be a special display, tons of product, and we already have many Palladium creators committed to help out and make themselves available to sign books, chat with fans and in some cases, run games. Oh, and there are dozens and dozens of gaming events for Palladium settings.

Palladium Books Gen Con Highlights:

50+ RPG gaming events in a dedicated area. The MOST ever for Palladium at a Gen Con.
Large exhibitor booth and special display.
Robotech® RPG Tactics™ products and demos.
A wide range of Palladium RPGs, sourcebooks and other products.
Special edition books, prints and original artwork.
Get autographs, chat and have a blast.
Palladium creators already committed to appear: Kevin Siembieda, Wayne Smith, Jeff Burke, Chuck Walton (artist), Nick Bradshaw (artist), Mike Leonard (artist), Matthew Clements (writer), Brandon Aten (writer), Carl Gleba (writer; tentative), Mark Oberle (writer; tentative), and others are likely to be added; subject to changes and addition.


Palladium Collectibles Available in Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles Store

Dragons and Gods™ Sneak Preview – available now on DriveThruRPG.com

In other news

I’m feeling much better and I think my monster head cold is mostly gone. I was in rough shape Friday through Sunday, but still came into the office to get much needed work done over the weekend. Put in nine hours on Saturday and seven on Sunday. I slept a lot Saturday night and most of Sunday morning, and went to bed early Sunday night. The rest did me good because I've been raring to go since Monday. I’ve got all kinds of balls in the air and am getting all sorts of things done or moving forward. Feeling good about our progress on many fronts. We’re still in deep freeze, making road conditions treacherous and scary at times. On my way to the printer this morning, I saw an 8-10 car pile-up and vehicles that had skidded off the highway every few miles. Yikes. Took it slow and safe. I think the arctic cold is supposed to stay with us for another week.

Looking out the window of my office it is a beautiful, sunny, if frigid day. A Downy woodpecker, Blue Jay, Nuthatch and cadre of sparrows are at the bird feeder and on the suet cake. It’s a charming scene. At least until the Chicken Hawk makes a strafing run. Snow is supposed be on the way though, and the coldest day of the week is tomorrow. Brrrr. Stay warm, positive and keep gaming while we put together the next batch of RPG releases coming your way very soon.

– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher & Game Designer


NEW! Rifts® World Book 34: Northern Gun™ Two – February 2014

NEW! Rifts® World Book 35: Megaverse® in Flames™ – March, 2014

NEW! Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook One

Robotech® RPG Tactics™ – Game Description – Coming Spring 2014

[Jaymz]

"We’ve been swamped all week with many different matters, so I’ve only put in a few hours of work on it so far this week. "

And this is why it won't be out in February. This happens every week and has happened every week in one form another for years...I just wish he'd admit it to himself *sigh*


"That’s front, side and back views of . . . well, everything Macross mecha."

Cool. That will make making pseudo 3d counters much easier.

[joshuagoliath]

What I read:
Road conditions are horrible and are going to keep being bad, more snow is coming... we may miss a few days of work, causing delays...

[joshuagoliath]

You know, some sick side of me wants to go up there, and set them up for the 21st century.

Telecommunications have done WONDERS enabling some people to be able to do work from HOME, doing stuff on things called COMPUTERS, via the INTERNET. That way, people don't have to worry about weather problems. It also helps prevent people from getting ill because of going in and out in inclement weather...

And, with the modern computer, you can work on the same file at home or at the office.. save it, and open it back up at the other location! AMAZING!!

You could even use LAPTOPS, and allow certain employees to take them home to do work!

So many options, for those who accept the modern world!

[Jaymz]

And you can forward calls to a fancy thing called a mobile cellular phone....not requiring a landline. Technology how I love thee.

[joshuagoliath]

Wait... a mobile cellular phone? What is this thing you speak of?

The next thing you're going to tell me is that you can have employee meetings without the employees actually being in the same room!

Silly Canuck!

[Jaymz]

LOL

[Sci-Fi]

Guys he wrote more about the birds out side his window than he did for NG2.

Time management is seriously a problem.

Can't do anything on Robotech Tactics, due to .. "China Reasons"

Rifter was done and away already. 16 hours last weekend and all this weeks work... on....

*Looks around* Well it wasn't NG2....

Grab bags have been over for weeks.

Other than watching birds and commenting on.. you know... extremely common MI weather...

We've no indication they did much of anything. The Rifter went off on Monday and that was it since the grab bags have ended.

This is getting Silly. There was a lot of words there. Mostly cut and pasted from last weeks, but .... seriously. More on Birds than a book well more than a year late. Sheesh. It seems very much like, the weekly update was the most that got done.

[MacrossMike]

Honestly, I'd swing by his office on my way home and kick him in the shins if I didn't think he'd call the cops on me for doing it.

Dude needs to get his priorities straight.