Post by Jaymz on Nov 29, 2013 2:50:13 GMT
As posted on the Palladium Website (Without the product list at the bottom) - www.palladiumbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=696:palladium-booksr-weekly-update-november-27-2013&catid=52:weekly-updates&Itemid=183
By Kevin Siembieda
It is the Thanksgiving holiday weekend here in the United States and many of you will be traveling and busy, so let’s jump right into it.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ One
Rifts® Northern Gun™ One continues to sell like crazy and is the Number One ‘requested’ item for the Christmas Surprise Packages. Other top sellers and hot requests include Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Lemuria, Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™, Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook, Chaos Earth®, Heroes of the Megaverse® and other Rifts® Dimension Books, all things Robotech®, and Dead Reign™ (set in the zombie apocalypse). We’ve seen a lot of interest and requests for various Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Nightbane® titles too, which is great to see.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ One Hardcovers have shipped
It was murder, signing, numbering and packing them up, but most of the Megaverse Insider hardcovers have shipped. Half went out on Tuesday, the rest went out today. Only the top 15 Insiders remain and they will ship next Monday. I didn’t want to rush them since they get additional special items like original artwork and prints. Whew. Everyone pitched in to help me and Julius get these into the mail; from Matt and Jeff to Alex and Wayne. Enjoy.
The Rifts® Northern Gun PDF for Megaverse Insiders will start being sent out next week, a process that should take a few days. A dozen or two of the Color Hardcover Edition and a few of the Steel Foil Edition will be made available to the lucky Surprise Package recipients who convince Santa Kevin they were good little boys and girls and truly deserve one. A few of each will also be made available for sale on my (Kevin Siembieda) eBay store by the end of the week.
UPDATE: Fear the Reaper™ – ships Tuesday, December 3
We just heard from our printer. Fear the Reaper was being bound today, but will not arrived at the Palladium warehouse until Tuesday, December 3. The Rifter® #64 will ship the same day. That means both should be hitting US store shelves around December 15. I think people are really going to enjoy it. And yes, you can request it in the Christmas Grab Bag.
Fear the Reaper™ is an excellent resource and a fun read that shines more light upon the dark world of Dead Reign™ and the heroes in it. The Road Reapers™ and heroes like them offer hope in the Zombie Apocalypse. If you haven’t tried the Dead Reign™ RPG, you really should. I don’t think you will be disappointed. The Christmas Surprise Package might be a good way to get a copy. If you enjoy zombie-based TV shows, movies, comic books and novels, I think you will adore the Dead Reign™ RPG series.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #64 – Ships Tuesday, December 3
We had hoped we might get the The Rifter® #64 (and Fear the Reaper) before Thanksgiving, but it was not meant to be. Both books will ship on Tuesday, December 3rd. And yes, you can request it in the Christmas Surprise Package.
The Rifter® #64 is pretty incredible. It is my favorite issue of the year, and they have all been darn good. It contains both official and unofficial game material, all of it is outstanding, and there is a wide selection of material: Rifts®, Dead Reign™, Nightbane®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Heroes Unlimited™ and Palladium Fantasy®, as well as other fun stuff. The official material includes stats and background for the characters on the cover: A new type of dragon known as the Winterserpent plus the more savage cousins of the Bearmen of the North, Ice Bearmen. Both conceived by Chuck Walton, developed by me (Kevin Siembieda) and written by Matthew Clements. See the whole description for The Rifter® #64 elsewhere in this Update. Btw, you do know that each issue of The Rifter® is a standalone product? You do not need to buy every issue or even a few issues in a row to enjoy the material. This one is worth picking up. And sorry for the long delay in its release. (This is the October issue, after all.)
Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles Store
Over the next week or two, Alex will be adding a number of collectible Palladium Books related items in my online store, including out of print titles, proofreader photocopies of books marked in red (Northern Gun™ One, Fear the Reaper™, and others), manuscripts with editors’ corrections, some original art, hardcover books, and other items will be made available just in time for Christmas. He’s already added several dozen action figures (all from my personal collection) and he will be adding Palladium items over the next week. All items in the store are from my own personal archives and collection. Take a look, there may be some items that are perfect as holiday gifts.
stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles
Rifts® Northern Gun™ One Sneak Preview – available now on DriveThruRPG.com
Wayne has posted a FREE Sneak Preview of Rifts® Northern Gun™ One available on DriveThruRPG.com right now for your enjoyment. There are also previews available for the Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook, Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ (Revised Edition), Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Lemuria, Dead Reign™ RPG, Endless Dead™ sourcebook and others. The original Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms World Book is also available as a PDF on DriveThruRPG, for those of you who may be interested.
More than 90 other Palladium titles can be found on DriveThruRPG.com as PDFs, including Splicers®, Rifts® RPG (the edition before RUE), The Rifter® #1-52, and first edition rule books and sourcebooks for Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy, Beyond the Supernatural™ and lots of other good titles. DriveThruRPG.com also offers the Rifts® and Palladium Fantasy® Game Master Kits ($5 each; both written by Carl Gleba and complete with maps, combat matrix, character sheets, spell list, and 20 pre-rolled characters created by Julius Rosenstein). Check it all out.
Will there be a Fear the Reaper™ or The Rifter® #64 get a preview? We’ll see. Right now, we have our hands full and Thanksgiving is coming up fast.
2014 Gen Con® Indy – Palladium gaming events needed
We need Game Masters to run Palladium games – and we need you to send in your game submissions to Gen Con by January 15, 2014!! Yes, I’m talking Gen Con 2014. We want to make a HUGE Palladium push at Gen Con in 2014, and we sincerely need your help to make it happen. Game Masters, PLEASE submit your Palladium games for Gen Con 2014 by their January 15, 2014 deadline! If Game Masters act fast to submit their games in time for this FIRST deadline, they are guaranteed to be listed in the Gen Con program book.
Palladium is planning to make the 2014 Gen Con® Indy its biggest and best in decades. Our booth will be twice the size it was this year, and we’ll have the Robotech® RPG Tactics™ game and expansion packs, as well as many new RPG products.
If we can get enough gaming events in place by January 15, 2014, Palladium can get a dedicated gaming area for ALL of our events – or even a specified game room. That will mean a place where Palladium G.M.s and fans can game around the clock, 24/7. With this being the 30th Anniversary of Heroes Unlimited™ and a big release year for Robotech® RPG Tactics™, we want to shout to the world that Palladium Books is back with a vengeance. Please help. Thank you.
Please coordinate with Bill Korsak and Palladium’s Megaversal Ambassadors to run ‘official’ Palladium gaming events throughout the 2014 Gen Con weekend. If you were planning to run already, please submit your game event forms to Gen Con by January 15, 2014, but also coordinate with us. Let us know what events and how many you are running so Palladium can make special arrangements with Gen Con to feature your games! If you weren’t planning to run, but want to get in on the action, please contact Palladium Books (734-721-2903) or the Megaversal Ambassadors at ambassadors@palladiumbooks.com.
Please don’t forget Palladium over the Holiday Weekend
I’m happy to report that sales are good and gamers seem interested in all our RPG lines, from Rifts® and Robotech® to Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™ and all the rest. Awesome. So PLEASE do not forget us over the holiday weekend. Yes, stores across America will be offering Black Friday door-busters and specials – I will be hitting a few stores myself – but don’t forget, the best deal of the holidays for gamers is Palladium’s Christmas Surprise Package. $85-$95 worth of product for only $40 plus shipping and handling. And we are happy to autograph ALL books if you ask us to do so, and most customers do. For many gamers this is the only way for them to get signed books. A great gift for ANY occasion – Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, birthdays, anniversaries, and so on.
LAST WEEKEND to order Christmas Surprise Packages at the lowest shipping rate and be guaranteed delivery before Christmas. So place your orders this weekend.
Media Mail is the least expensive way to have your order shipped to you. However, it is also the slowest and least reliable method. That means Palladium Books can NOT guarantee orders shipped via Media Mail after December 2, 2013, will arrive in time for Christmas. So if you are looking for the least expensive method of shipping, this is the weekend to place your order! You've been given fair warning. Note: Though the US Post Office claims Media Mail packages should arrive in 4-10 days, experience has shown us that during the holidays, it is more like 10-21 days.
Best deal of the holidays – the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package
What is the Christmas Surprise Package offer? It’s a way to get a boat load of Palladium RPG product on the cheap ($80-$95 worth for $40 plus shipping and handling), and get autographs and Erick Wujcik Keepsakes, too. And if you’re into it, you can request a number of limited edition prints and even original artwork (limited, as all art is donated by the artists). The perfect holiday gift for the gamer in your life. Or maybe for yourself. The Surprise Package is a great way to try new RPGs and plug holes in your collection. Have you tried Dead Reign™? Splicers®? Nightbane®? Rifts®? Robotech®? Here’s your chance.
Why does Palladium do it? Because we love and appreciate you. Really. We do it to brighten the holidays for YOU – the greatest fans in the world. It’s our way to say, you are appreciated and thank you for everything. See the full Surprise Package section in this Update or the full description in the Palladium Online store. It is so worthwhile. And fun. I always try to make everything fun and special, especially something like this which is a holiday gift (even if it’s for yourself). And don’t forget, you can get a bonus Erick Wujcik Keepsake item upon request. See the full description of the Surprise Package below.
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is often a time for a bit of reflection and thanks. The following is something I wrote for The Rifter® #64 and I would like to share with you in this Update.
To me, this entire holiday season is about friends, family, joy and thankfulness. I don’t need Thanksgiving Day here in the USA to remind me how lucky I am. I have plenty for which to be thankful. I work with brilliant and fun people, I have a job I love, and things seem to have been picking up for Palladium Books all year long. I’m thankful to have a career that I adore, friends – truly wonderful and amazing friends – with whom to share my work and life, the sweetest, kindest and most imaginative lady in the world to call my sweetheart, a son, daughter and granddaughter to love (the latter will be enjoying her second Christmas!), and gamers by the thousands from around the world as part of my extended family and friends.
That’s why we do the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package, every year. Because we are fortunate to have the greatest fans (many of them friends) from around the whole darn world. I mean it. The Surprise Package is our way of saying thank you to all of you. Thank you for your support and friendship. Thank you for your patience and understanding during our long struggle to recover from treachery, and for putting up with frequent delays in product releases. Thank you for your kind words, your warm handshakes, and generous natures. Thank you for making my life and the lives of all Palladium creators richer for being in them. You are appreciated more than you may ever realize. Have a truly beautiful and joyous holiday season.
In recent years, the Palladium family has dealt with what feels like far more than our fair share of challenges and tragedy. Amongst them are the losses of my own beloved father Henry, my Aunt Jo and Uncle Skip, Kathy’s sister Cindy, my friend Keith Parkinson, and too many others. For me, the sudden and shocking death of Erick Wujcik (2008) was one of the most difficult to endure and work through. Alex also lost his father and brother-in-law, Jeff lost his sweet, gentle wife, Wayne his grandparents, and I’m sure many of you have lost loved ones you cherished.
Tell those you love, you care. During the holiday season, I encourage you to tell the people you love and cherish how much they mean to you. Take the time to call your mother, father, brother, sister, child, and friends to tell them you love them. Drop them a card or a note, an email or tweet, to let them know they matter. That you are thinking of them, and that you are so glad they are in your life. Don’t wait till Christmas. Do it today! You never know what tomorrow may bring. Do it right now. Finish reading this Weekly Update in a few minutes, and pick up that phone to make a call or send a text message.
And when you see them, give them a big hug or kiss and let them know they are loved and important in your life. That, my dear, dear friends, is the greatest gift of all. To feel loved and appreciated.
Happy Holidays from the Palladium family to you and yours. May it be full of laughter, love and happiness. Please be careful traveling and enjoy spending time with friends and loved ones. And for some of you, have fun shopping for the holidays.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher & Luckiest Guy in the World
By Kevin Siembieda
It is the Thanksgiving holiday weekend here in the United States and many of you will be traveling and busy, so let’s jump right into it.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ One
Rifts® Northern Gun™ One continues to sell like crazy and is the Number One ‘requested’ item for the Christmas Surprise Packages. Other top sellers and hot requests include Rifts® Ultimate Edition, Rifts® Lemuria, Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™, Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook, Chaos Earth®, Heroes of the Megaverse® and other Rifts® Dimension Books, all things Robotech®, and Dead Reign™ (set in the zombie apocalypse). We’ve seen a lot of interest and requests for various Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Nightbane® titles too, which is great to see.
UPDATE: Rifts® Northern Gun™ One Hardcovers have shipped
It was murder, signing, numbering and packing them up, but most of the Megaverse Insider hardcovers have shipped. Half went out on Tuesday, the rest went out today. Only the top 15 Insiders remain and they will ship next Monday. I didn’t want to rush them since they get additional special items like original artwork and prints. Whew. Everyone pitched in to help me and Julius get these into the mail; from Matt and Jeff to Alex and Wayne. Enjoy.
The Rifts® Northern Gun PDF for Megaverse Insiders will start being sent out next week, a process that should take a few days. A dozen or two of the Color Hardcover Edition and a few of the Steel Foil Edition will be made available to the lucky Surprise Package recipients who convince Santa Kevin they were good little boys and girls and truly deserve one. A few of each will also be made available for sale on my (Kevin Siembieda) eBay store by the end of the week.
UPDATE: Fear the Reaper™ – ships Tuesday, December 3
We just heard from our printer. Fear the Reaper was being bound today, but will not arrived at the Palladium warehouse until Tuesday, December 3. The Rifter® #64 will ship the same day. That means both should be hitting US store shelves around December 15. I think people are really going to enjoy it. And yes, you can request it in the Christmas Grab Bag.
Fear the Reaper™ is an excellent resource and a fun read that shines more light upon the dark world of Dead Reign™ and the heroes in it. The Road Reapers™ and heroes like them offer hope in the Zombie Apocalypse. If you haven’t tried the Dead Reign™ RPG, you really should. I don’t think you will be disappointed. The Christmas Surprise Package might be a good way to get a copy. If you enjoy zombie-based TV shows, movies, comic books and novels, I think you will adore the Dead Reign™ RPG series.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #64 – Ships Tuesday, December 3
We had hoped we might get the The Rifter® #64 (and Fear the Reaper) before Thanksgiving, but it was not meant to be. Both books will ship on Tuesday, December 3rd. And yes, you can request it in the Christmas Surprise Package.
The Rifter® #64 is pretty incredible. It is my favorite issue of the year, and they have all been darn good. It contains both official and unofficial game material, all of it is outstanding, and there is a wide selection of material: Rifts®, Dead Reign™, Nightbane®, Beyond the Supernatural™, Heroes Unlimited™ and Palladium Fantasy®, as well as other fun stuff. The official material includes stats and background for the characters on the cover: A new type of dragon known as the Winterserpent plus the more savage cousins of the Bearmen of the North, Ice Bearmen. Both conceived by Chuck Walton, developed by me (Kevin Siembieda) and written by Matthew Clements. See the whole description for The Rifter® #64 elsewhere in this Update. Btw, you do know that each issue of The Rifter® is a standalone product? You do not need to buy every issue or even a few issues in a row to enjoy the material. This one is worth picking up. And sorry for the long delay in its release. (This is the October issue, after all.)
Kevin’s Online Toy & Collectibles Store
Over the next week or two, Alex will be adding a number of collectible Palladium Books related items in my online store, including out of print titles, proofreader photocopies of books marked in red (Northern Gun™ One, Fear the Reaper™, and others), manuscripts with editors’ corrections, some original art, hardcover books, and other items will be made available just in time for Christmas. He’s already added several dozen action figures (all from my personal collection) and he will be adding Palladium items over the next week. All items in the store are from my own personal archives and collection. Take a look, there may be some items that are perfect as holiday gifts.
stores.ebay.com/kevinstoys-artandcollectibles
Rifts® Northern Gun™ One Sneak Preview – available now on DriveThruRPG.com
Wayne has posted a FREE Sneak Preview of Rifts® Northern Gun™ One available on DriveThruRPG.com right now for your enjoyment. There are also previews available for the Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook, Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ (Revised Edition), Rifts® Black Market, Rifts® Lemuria, Dead Reign™ RPG, Endless Dead™ sourcebook and others. The original Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms World Book is also available as a PDF on DriveThruRPG, for those of you who may be interested.
More than 90 other Palladium titles can be found on DriveThruRPG.com as PDFs, including Splicers®, Rifts® RPG (the edition before RUE), The Rifter® #1-52, and first edition rule books and sourcebooks for Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Heroes Unlimited™, The Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy, Beyond the Supernatural™ and lots of other good titles. DriveThruRPG.com also offers the Rifts® and Palladium Fantasy® Game Master Kits ($5 each; both written by Carl Gleba and complete with maps, combat matrix, character sheets, spell list, and 20 pre-rolled characters created by Julius Rosenstein). Check it all out.
Will there be a Fear the Reaper™ or The Rifter® #64 get a preview? We’ll see. Right now, we have our hands full and Thanksgiving is coming up fast.
2014 Gen Con® Indy – Palladium gaming events needed
We need Game Masters to run Palladium games – and we need you to send in your game submissions to Gen Con by January 15, 2014!! Yes, I’m talking Gen Con 2014. We want to make a HUGE Palladium push at Gen Con in 2014, and we sincerely need your help to make it happen. Game Masters, PLEASE submit your Palladium games for Gen Con 2014 by their January 15, 2014 deadline! If Game Masters act fast to submit their games in time for this FIRST deadline, they are guaranteed to be listed in the Gen Con program book.
Palladium is planning to make the 2014 Gen Con® Indy its biggest and best in decades. Our booth will be twice the size it was this year, and we’ll have the Robotech® RPG Tactics™ game and expansion packs, as well as many new RPG products.
If we can get enough gaming events in place by January 15, 2014, Palladium can get a dedicated gaming area for ALL of our events – or even a specified game room. That will mean a place where Palladium G.M.s and fans can game around the clock, 24/7. With this being the 30th Anniversary of Heroes Unlimited™ and a big release year for Robotech® RPG Tactics™, we want to shout to the world that Palladium Books is back with a vengeance. Please help. Thank you.
Please coordinate with Bill Korsak and Palladium’s Megaversal Ambassadors to run ‘official’ Palladium gaming events throughout the 2014 Gen Con weekend. If you were planning to run already, please submit your game event forms to Gen Con by January 15, 2014, but also coordinate with us. Let us know what events and how many you are running so Palladium can make special arrangements with Gen Con to feature your games! If you weren’t planning to run, but want to get in on the action, please contact Palladium Books (734-721-2903) or the Megaversal Ambassadors at ambassadors@palladiumbooks.com.
Please don’t forget Palladium over the Holiday Weekend
I’m happy to report that sales are good and gamers seem interested in all our RPG lines, from Rifts® and Robotech® to Palladium Fantasy RPG®, Nightbane®, Heroes Unlimited™ and all the rest. Awesome. So PLEASE do not forget us over the holiday weekend. Yes, stores across America will be offering Black Friday door-busters and specials – I will be hitting a few stores myself – but don’t forget, the best deal of the holidays for gamers is Palladium’s Christmas Surprise Package. $85-$95 worth of product for only $40 plus shipping and handling. And we are happy to autograph ALL books if you ask us to do so, and most customers do. For many gamers this is the only way for them to get signed books. A great gift for ANY occasion – Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, birthdays, anniversaries, and so on.
LAST WEEKEND to order Christmas Surprise Packages at the lowest shipping rate and be guaranteed delivery before Christmas. So place your orders this weekend.
Media Mail is the least expensive way to have your order shipped to you. However, it is also the slowest and least reliable method. That means Palladium Books can NOT guarantee orders shipped via Media Mail after December 2, 2013, will arrive in time for Christmas. So if you are looking for the least expensive method of shipping, this is the weekend to place your order! You've been given fair warning. Note: Though the US Post Office claims Media Mail packages should arrive in 4-10 days, experience has shown us that during the holidays, it is more like 10-21 days.
Best deal of the holidays – the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package
What is the Christmas Surprise Package offer? It’s a way to get a boat load of Palladium RPG product on the cheap ($80-$95 worth for $40 plus shipping and handling), and get autographs and Erick Wujcik Keepsakes, too. And if you’re into it, you can request a number of limited edition prints and even original artwork (limited, as all art is donated by the artists). The perfect holiday gift for the gamer in your life. Or maybe for yourself. The Surprise Package is a great way to try new RPGs and plug holes in your collection. Have you tried Dead Reign™? Splicers®? Nightbane®? Rifts®? Robotech®? Here’s your chance.
Why does Palladium do it? Because we love and appreciate you. Really. We do it to brighten the holidays for YOU – the greatest fans in the world. It’s our way to say, you are appreciated and thank you for everything. See the full Surprise Package section in this Update or the full description in the Palladium Online store. It is so worthwhile. And fun. I always try to make everything fun and special, especially something like this which is a holiday gift (even if it’s for yourself). And don’t forget, you can get a bonus Erick Wujcik Keepsake item upon request. See the full description of the Surprise Package below.
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is often a time for a bit of reflection and thanks. The following is something I wrote for The Rifter® #64 and I would like to share with you in this Update.
To me, this entire holiday season is about friends, family, joy and thankfulness. I don’t need Thanksgiving Day here in the USA to remind me how lucky I am. I have plenty for which to be thankful. I work with brilliant and fun people, I have a job I love, and things seem to have been picking up for Palladium Books all year long. I’m thankful to have a career that I adore, friends – truly wonderful and amazing friends – with whom to share my work and life, the sweetest, kindest and most imaginative lady in the world to call my sweetheart, a son, daughter and granddaughter to love (the latter will be enjoying her second Christmas!), and gamers by the thousands from around the world as part of my extended family and friends.
That’s why we do the Palladium Christmas Surprise Package, every year. Because we are fortunate to have the greatest fans (many of them friends) from around the whole darn world. I mean it. The Surprise Package is our way of saying thank you to all of you. Thank you for your support and friendship. Thank you for your patience and understanding during our long struggle to recover from treachery, and for putting up with frequent delays in product releases. Thank you for your kind words, your warm handshakes, and generous natures. Thank you for making my life and the lives of all Palladium creators richer for being in them. You are appreciated more than you may ever realize. Have a truly beautiful and joyous holiday season.
In recent years, the Palladium family has dealt with what feels like far more than our fair share of challenges and tragedy. Amongst them are the losses of my own beloved father Henry, my Aunt Jo and Uncle Skip, Kathy’s sister Cindy, my friend Keith Parkinson, and too many others. For me, the sudden and shocking death of Erick Wujcik (2008) was one of the most difficult to endure and work through. Alex also lost his father and brother-in-law, Jeff lost his sweet, gentle wife, Wayne his grandparents, and I’m sure many of you have lost loved ones you cherished.
Tell those you love, you care. During the holiday season, I encourage you to tell the people you love and cherish how much they mean to you. Take the time to call your mother, father, brother, sister, child, and friends to tell them you love them. Drop them a card or a note, an email or tweet, to let them know they matter. That you are thinking of them, and that you are so glad they are in your life. Don’t wait till Christmas. Do it today! You never know what tomorrow may bring. Do it right now. Finish reading this Weekly Update in a few minutes, and pick up that phone to make a call or send a text message.
And when you see them, give them a big hug or kiss and let them know they are loved and important in your life. That, my dear, dear friends, is the greatest gift of all. To feel loved and appreciated.
Happy Holidays from the Palladium family to you and yours. May it be full of laughter, love and happiness. Please be careful traveling and enjoy spending time with friends and loved ones. And for some of you, have fun shopping for the holidays.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher & Luckiest Guy in the World