Post by Jaymz on Feb 21, 2014 13:42:29 GMT
By Kevin Siembieda
I think it must be Rifts® Chaos Earth® and it’s the Coming of the Rifts. Yesterday was sunny, beautiful and 44 degrees Fahrenheit. The first truly warm day in a few months of record cold and snow; 80 inches for the season! About 40 more than usual for an entire Michigan winter, and we still have several weeks of winter left to go.
Today is supposed to be 45-50 degrees and raining. Yet as I write this around 11:30 AM Thursday, February 20, it looks like a snow blizzard outside. I mean it is really coming down. We’ve gotten at least an inch of snow in just the last hour, there was a period of sleet and snow mix, now it’s back to snow. The big, wet, flaky snow. Holy cow! It’s thundering! Oh, I just saw a lightning flash! And there’s another thunderclap. The wind has picked up now too. Pine trees are swaying and the snow is thick as can be. Wild.
LAST 8 days to get The Rifter® Super-Subscription Deal – Low Price – Free Gift – Offer ENDS February 28, 2014
I’m leading with this because time get the Rifter® Super-Subscription Deal is almost gone. In fact, this is the last weekend you can order. Offer ends next week Friday, February 28, 2014. Get a subscription during this offer and you get a superior price and a free gift.
UPDATE: 2015 Palladium Open House
Kathy Simmons is investigating hotels and available dates for the 2015 Palladium Open House this week and next. We are probably staying with the same hotel and we’re looking at the dates of April 30, May 1, 2 & 3, 2015. We are also considering May 7-10, 2015 (if available). Our hesitation with May 7-10 being that May 10 is Mother’s Day.
UPDATE: Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover Edition
Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover is selling well and being received with joy and open arms. Carmen Bellaire didn't know about it (shame on him for not reading these Weekly Updates), so he freaked out when he saw a couple hundred sitting on tables in the warehouse. 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
Wow, pre-orders for Palladium Fantasy are coming in faster than they did for Heroes Unlimited™. I’m glad I decided to print a few more copies (450 the same as its catalog number). As noted in the last Update, I decided it wasn't fair to leave out Palladium Fantasy®, so we are printing 450, copies of the 30th Anniversary Palladium Fantasy RPG® hardcovers as an April release. You can start placing your pre-orders today. See the full description elsewhere in this Weekly Update or in our online store. Note: This is Palladium Fantasy RPG, Second Edition, all exactly the same as the current printing.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two
I think we are still on target to go to the printer this month. The last of the art is coming in and the stuff in Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two is truly epic. I had a great meeting with Chuck on Friday and he’s busy putting the final touches on the last of his art. Meanwhile, I've assigned out a few things to other artists. Writing continues to be up and down. I've been frustrated the last few days. Writing is excellent but additions and editing are going slower than I want. Writing hot as Hades today. The nature of this book has me jumping around rather than banging out one complete section at a time. As a result, I have five different sections (about 250 manuscript pages combined) 30-70% finished, but none of them completely done, which is driving me crazy. It’s going to be epic though.
You could be a Gladiator. I have been dropping in the names of the gamers who supported the crowdfunding of the two NG books. I started with the people who funded NG-2 and who were not named as people in Ishpeming in NG-1. When I got done with them, I went back to those of you who funded NG-1 but were not included in that book. That means a bunch of you are listed amongst the Top Fifty Gladiators at the RoboDome and the Seven Gladiators who are likely to be rising stars, and the rest are listed as members of the design teams behind the various power armors and such. I’m trying to avoid repeating real world people’s names, though I’m sure it will happen a bit. I’m having a blast putting as many of you as I can in both books. My goal is to include almost everyone (85-95%) in one of the two Northern Gun titles. I’m only excluding those who have passed away and character names. Regrettably, I imagine a few people will get accidentally missed or their name misspelled. I hope not. I think you will all enjoy NG-2 as much as the first book. Chuck, Alex and a couple other people here are going gaga over it.
UPDATE: Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames
Artwork has been coming in for this book and looking great. Can hardly wait to dive into it for final editing. Carl Gleba did a great job writing this bad boy. I’m glad he’ll be at Gen Con to talk about it, sign autographs and run some games.
UPDATE: Dead Reign™: Graveyard Earth™ Sourcebook
Met with author Matthew Clements this week and he tells me I should have the finished manuscript for Graveyard Earth™ by mid-March. Can hardly wait.
UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™
Moving forward on all fronts. Just wire transferred money to our manufacturer in China to purchase the materials for mold making. We’re getting closer!
UPDATE: Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook
It’s not forgotten. Still looking at a spring release. And it is epic.
UPDATE: Carmen Bellaire will be at Palladium’s booth at Gen Con 2014
Carmen Bellaire dropped in unexpectedly and we had a great meeting about games and Gen Con. I’m happy to report Carmen will be able to attend Gen Con after all. He’ll be running games and demos at the Palladium booth. Plus he’ll be debuting a game of his own creation.
Life on Chaos Earth®
It has certainly been organized chaos here at Palladium as we continue to juggle all kinds of work. The main emphasis has been on Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two and Robotech® RPG Tactics. I've had a couple of lousy days of writing and editing, but I’m hot today. Work is getting done, but it has been going much slower than I'd like. I had to spend all of yesterday on business and I was out of the office half of the day. When I was at the office I spent time putting out fires and talking with people.
Today I had to write this Update, pay bills, and handle some business matters, but the rest of the time I've been writing away. And I’m hot. We’re all pumped up about everything in the pipeline. Hope you are too.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer
I think it must be Rifts® Chaos Earth® and it’s the Coming of the Rifts. Yesterday was sunny, beautiful and 44 degrees Fahrenheit. The first truly warm day in a few months of record cold and snow; 80 inches for the season! About 40 more than usual for an entire Michigan winter, and we still have several weeks of winter left to go.
Today is supposed to be 45-50 degrees and raining. Yet as I write this around 11:30 AM Thursday, February 20, it looks like a snow blizzard outside. I mean it is really coming down. We’ve gotten at least an inch of snow in just the last hour, there was a period of sleet and snow mix, now it’s back to snow. The big, wet, flaky snow. Holy cow! It’s thundering! Oh, I just saw a lightning flash! And there’s another thunderclap. The wind has picked up now too. Pine trees are swaying and the snow is thick as can be. Wild.
LAST 8 days to get The Rifter® Super-Subscription Deal – Low Price – Free Gift – Offer ENDS February 28, 2014
I’m leading with this because time get the Rifter® Super-Subscription Deal is almost gone. In fact, this is the last weekend you can order. Offer ends next week Friday, February 28, 2014. Get a subscription during this offer and you get a superior price and a free gift.
UPDATE: 2015 Palladium Open House
Kathy Simmons is investigating hotels and available dates for the 2015 Palladium Open House this week and next. We are probably staying with the same hotel and we’re looking at the dates of April 30, May 1, 2 & 3, 2015. We are also considering May 7-10, 2015 (if available). Our hesitation with May 7-10 being that May 10 is Mother’s Day.
UPDATE: Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover Edition
Heroes Unlimited™ 30th Anniversary Hardcover is selling well and being received with joy and open arms. Carmen Bellaire didn't know about it (shame on him for not reading these Weekly Updates), so he freaked out when he saw a couple hundred sitting on tables in the warehouse. 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
Wow, pre-orders for Palladium Fantasy are coming in faster than they did for Heroes Unlimited™. I’m glad I decided to print a few more copies (450 the same as its catalog number). As noted in the last Update, I decided it wasn't fair to leave out Palladium Fantasy®, so we are printing 450, copies of the 30th Anniversary Palladium Fantasy RPG® hardcovers as an April release. You can start placing your pre-orders today. See the full description elsewhere in this Weekly Update or in our online store. Note: This is Palladium Fantasy RPG, Second Edition, all exactly the same as the current printing.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two
I think we are still on target to go to the printer this month. The last of the art is coming in and the stuff in Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two is truly epic. I had a great meeting with Chuck on Friday and he’s busy putting the final touches on the last of his art. Meanwhile, I've assigned out a few things to other artists. Writing continues to be up and down. I've been frustrated the last few days. Writing is excellent but additions and editing are going slower than I want. Writing hot as Hades today. The nature of this book has me jumping around rather than banging out one complete section at a time. As a result, I have five different sections (about 250 manuscript pages combined) 30-70% finished, but none of them completely done, which is driving me crazy. It’s going to be epic though.
You could be a Gladiator. I have been dropping in the names of the gamers who supported the crowdfunding of the two NG books. I started with the people who funded NG-2 and who were not named as people in Ishpeming in NG-1. When I got done with them, I went back to those of you who funded NG-1 but were not included in that book. That means a bunch of you are listed amongst the Top Fifty Gladiators at the RoboDome and the Seven Gladiators who are likely to be rising stars, and the rest are listed as members of the design teams behind the various power armors and such. I’m trying to avoid repeating real world people’s names, though I’m sure it will happen a bit. I’m having a blast putting as many of you as I can in both books. My goal is to include almost everyone (85-95%) in one of the two Northern Gun titles. I’m only excluding those who have passed away and character names. Regrettably, I imagine a few people will get accidentally missed or their name misspelled. I hope not. I think you will all enjoy NG-2 as much as the first book. Chuck, Alex and a couple other people here are going gaga over it.
UPDATE: Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames
Artwork has been coming in for this book and looking great. Can hardly wait to dive into it for final editing. Carl Gleba did a great job writing this bad boy. I’m glad he’ll be at Gen Con to talk about it, sign autographs and run some games.
UPDATE: Dead Reign™: Graveyard Earth™ Sourcebook
Met with author Matthew Clements this week and he tells me I should have the finished manuscript for Graveyard Earth™ by mid-March. Can hardly wait.
UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™
Moving forward on all fronts. Just wire transferred money to our manufacturer in China to purchase the materials for mold making. We’re getting closer!
UPDATE: Robotech® Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook
It’s not forgotten. Still looking at a spring release. And it is epic.
UPDATE: Carmen Bellaire will be at Palladium’s booth at Gen Con 2014
Carmen Bellaire dropped in unexpectedly and we had a great meeting about games and Gen Con. I’m happy to report Carmen will be able to attend Gen Con after all. He’ll be running games and demos at the Palladium booth. Plus he’ll be debuting a game of his own creation.
Life on Chaos Earth®
It has certainly been organized chaos here at Palladium as we continue to juggle all kinds of work. The main emphasis has been on Rifts® Northern Gun™ Two and Robotech® RPG Tactics. I've had a couple of lousy days of writing and editing, but I’m hot today. Work is getting done, but it has been going much slower than I'd like. I had to spend all of yesterday on business and I was out of the office half of the day. When I was at the office I spent time putting out fires and talking with people.
Today I had to write this Update, pay bills, and handle some business matters, but the rest of the time I've been writing away. And I’m hot. We’re all pumped up about everything in the pipeline. Hope you are too.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher, Writer, Game Designer
