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Old Kingdom Mountains™ (2nd Ed.) Book #8

Check out these awesome pictures over at the Palladium Website, drawn by Kevin Long, before he left Palladium.  They will be used for the new book!

This book is packed with more of everything! New character classes, skills, magic, villains, monsters, towns and world information about the Old Kingdom! Art by Kevin Long.  Some other highlights include:

-New Occupational Characters Classes, including the True healer, life master, and weapon master.

-New Racial Character Classes available to players.

-Character Background Generation Tables.

-Optional combat rules and critical hit tables

-40 new skills and abilities.

-Over 100 new magic spells and abilities.

-Monsters, animals, villains and world information.

-Dozens of towns and places of note in the Old Kingdom. Each mapped and described.

-Written by Randi Cartier and Kevin Siembieda.

-$16.95 — 160 pages (price and size may change).

Estimated Release Date: November of '98

Old Kingdom Lowlands™ (2nd Ed.) Book #9

A giant companion book to the Old Kingdom Mountains. More magic by Randi Cartier and Kevin Siembieda.

Scores of towns, villages, villains, monsters, and more world information about the Old Kingdom! Books eight and nine are epic in their scope and detail.  Some highlights include:

-New Racial character classes available to players.

-Scores of towns and places of note in the Old Kingdom. Each mapped and described.

-Adventures, adventure ideas and more.

-Art by Johnson, McKenna, Siembieda and others.

-Written by Randi Cartier and Kevin Siembieda.

-$16.95 — 160 pages (price and size may change).

Estimated Release Date: February of '99

The Western Empire™ (2nd Ed.)

-Information from the author, Palladium could still reject the manuscript-

Written by Bill Coffin, a freelancer for Palladium.  He's already turned in the manuscripts for the book and now it awaits final editing and changes from the Palladium Books Inc. Staff.  Thank you Bill!

-Adventures, and adventure ideas.

-New drugs, potions, and magical items

-Complete Background on the Western Empire

-Complete maps of the Western Empire cities and towns

-Retail Price: $16.95???

-Page Count: about 200

-Written By: Bill Coffin

-Estimated Date of Release: August of '98

The Wolfen Wars™ (2nd Ed.)   

Secrets of the Northern Wilderness and the Wolfen Empire are revealed as war erupts along the borders of the North and the Eastern Territory. To be written by Kevin Siembieda.

Release Date: December of '98

The Baalgor Wastelands (2nd Ed.)

Unofficially going to be written for Palladium Books by freelancer Bill Coffin (author of the The Western Empire)

Release Estimate: Fall of '99

The Domain of Man (Eastern Empire - 2nd Ed.)

Unofficially going to be written for Palladium Books by freelancer Steve Edwards.  

-Adventures and cities, both with complete maps

-New Skills

-New Races

-2 new types of Magic

Info. provided by Allison of the PF Listserver.

Estimated Release: Winter of '99

Heroes Unlimited™2nd Ed. Books

Heroes Unlimited™, 2nd Edition

Shipped as of 3-30-98  !!!

Heroes Unlimited™ is a complete RPG that enables gamers to create virtually every type of hero imaginable: Mutants, aliens, superhumans, super-sleuths, weapon masters, cyborgs, robots, sorcerers, martial artists, super-soldiers, vigilantes, genius inventors, crazy heroes and more!

See some of the Artwork for the book over at Palladium

-Over 100 super abilities plus special skills and genius.

-Over 40 psionic powers.

-Over 100 magic spells.

-Mega-Heroes and heroic legacies.

-Cyborg and robot hero creation rules.

-Super vehicles creation rules, gimmicks and high technology.

-Secret identities and secret organizations.

-Rules clarifications, tweaks and additional information.

-Adventure ideas, guidelines and tons of fun.

-Compatible with Rifts® and the entire Palladium Megaverse.  (Isn't it always :))

-Cat. No. 500

-Retail Price: $24.95

-Page Count: 352+ pages.

-Cover by: Jim Steranko

-Written by: Kevin Siembieda with additional text by Breaux.

-Shipped as of: March 30th

-Heroes Unlimited™ is the core book in a vast Megaverse® of comic book hero adventure with Villains Unlimited™, Aliens Unlimited™ and TMNT & Other Strangeness, 2nd Edition.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness™, 2nd Edition

The company Surge made the Turtles known, are you ready for some more great turtle action?  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, 2nd Edition will follow hot on the heels of Heroes Unlimited, 2nd Ed. Both books will be completely compatible and help build an expansive superhero universe.

-Loads of new material.

-Over 100 different mutant animals — plus rules for creating hundreds more.

-Mutant animal super-powers and psionics.

-Villains and adventure ideas.

-The mutant underground.

-Cat. No. 502

-Retail Price: $12.95

-Page Count: 128 pages.

-Cover by: Simon Bisley

-Interior Art: Studio Parentes, Perez, Breaux and others.

-Written by: Erick Wujcik with new material by Kevin Siembieda.

-Date of Release: June of '98

Rifts® Dimension Book 4: Scraypers™

Shipped as of 5-28-98  !!!

Ok, what's up with a Rifts book in the midsts of a Palladium and Heroe's page, well read on my friend :)

For Heroes Unlimited™ & Rifts®

The story behind Scraypers is simple ...

Another world. Another time.

Alien invaders saw, came, ... and conquered.

The superhuman defenders were decimated and the world enslaved.

Those heroes who survived the invasion have gone undergroundto continue their fight for freedom.

Nearly 30 years have passed. The freedom fighters are hunted and destroyed like animals, yet they persevere and prepare to launch their greatest offensive ever. Among their ranks, a new generation of bold, young superbeings dedicated to freeing their world.

However, the alien invaders are as cunning and resourceful as they are powerful. They too have recruited a generation of superbeings, bred and brainwashed to hunt their own kind and destroy them.

An epic battle between good and evil is about to erupt.

-The monstrous Tarlok invaders; key villains, their powers and purpose.

-The human-like indigenous people and their civilization.

-The superhumans who fight to free a world.

-World information and adventure settings.

See some of the Pictures here

-Characters and concepts by John Zeleznik.

-Written by Kevin Siembieda

-Tons of villains and heroes.

-For use with Rifts and Heroes Unlimited, 2nd Edition.

-Cat. No. 830

-Retail Price: $16.95

-Page Count: 160 pages.

-Wrap-Around Cover by: John Zeleznik

-Interior Art: All by John Zeleznik!  (Do I sense a theme here :))

-Written by: Kevin Siembieda; based on ideas & art by Zeleznik.

-Release Date: May 28th, '98

Heroes Unlimited: Galaxy Guide:

A companion to Aliens Unlimited™, written by Wayne Breaux, Jr., also illustrated by Breaux and others.  Next in line to come out for Heroes 2nd Ed.

Heroes Unlimited: Delphineous' Guide to the Megaverse.

(Formerly known as Delphineous' Guide to the Universe)

If I understand correctly, this book will be a conversion book between all of the major Palladium dimensions.

Release Date: Summer of '98 

Heroes Unlimited: Hardware Unlimited.

This book will be packed with super weapons, vehicles and gizmos suitable for any campaign.  (Hope they don't go overboard :)

Heroes Unlimited: The Nursery

Super-hero adventure brimming with mutants, monsters, villains and government cover-ups, conspiracies and adventure. Written by Kevin Siembieda.  (This book, as I have heard from my friend Ash, was supposed to be out like 4 yrs ago, and then it was decided to make it a Rifts book for a while, and now it's back to Heroe's to join the forthcoming 2nd Ed.)

The Rifter

The Rifter®: Sourcebook & Player's Guide Series - Issue #3

The Rifter™ sourcebook series is a truly unique combination sourcebook and Game Master's guide, dedicated to the entire Palladium Megaverse®. Each Issue is designed to be a useful and fun tool for Palladium fans and to pique the interest of newcomers. Game Master & player tips, adventures, adventure ideas, mini-RPGs, cartoons, maps, conversion rules, commentaries, how to build role-playing campaigns, and lots of things that are useful in playing any of Palladium's RPGs will also be included. The focus will be on the vast Palladium Megaverse®; i.e. all our games.

The third edition will include:

-Martial Arts for Ningas & Superspies

-Mystic China and martial arts conversions for Rifts plus new powers and optional tables

-Material for the Palladium Fantasy RPG,

-Magic & magic items of Palladium Fantasy & other settings.

-More Rifts stories and

-Word's of wisdom from Erick Wujcik

-Cat. No. 103 -- The Rifter Number Three

-Retail Price: $7.95 cover price -- $2.78 wholesale.

-Release Date: July 15 -going to press soon!

To find out more about the Rifter check out http://www.palladiumbooks.com/Rifter.htm

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The Rifter®: Sourcebook & Player's Guide Series - Issue #4

Release Date: Fall of '98

Legal Stuff:  All the Above books including but not limited to: Heroe's Unlimited 2nd Ed™, Teenage Mutant Ningas and Other Strangeness 2nd Ed.™ , Hero's Unlimited: Galaxy Guide™, Delphineous' Guide to the Universe™, Hardware Unlimited™, The Nursery™, Palladium Fantasy: Old Kingdom Mountains™, Old Kingdom Lowlands™, Western Empire™, Wolfen Wars™, and The Rifter™ are all trademark of Palladium books (That's right, I didn't write it) and parts of the above info is directly from Palladium's page, and I can take no credit whatsoever for those sections of info.  That info was written solely by Palladium personal who get paid to write about the company's upcoming attractions, and I've reposted it with Palladium's permission.

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