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Chula Vista squad hits 7 home runs on way to mercy-shortened rout
Park View 15
Kentucky 0
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — When Chula Vista Park View was forced to trade in its green uniforms for baby-blue models at the Little League World Series, fans came up with a new nickname for the homer-happy bunch.
Out with the Green Machine.
In with the Blue Bombers.
No matter what the threads, the 12- and 13-year-olds dig the long ball. Park View launched a record-setting seven home runs last night in its opening LLWS game, hammering Russellville, Ky., 15-0 before 19,500 at Howard J. Lamade Stadium. The game was shortened to five innings by Little League's 10-run mercy rule.
"I think we're putting really pure swings on the ball and not getting cheated on any pitches," said the team's biggest slugger, 6-foot-2, 205-pound Luke Ramirez, who hit two mammoth homers. "I can't explain it."
The LLWS began in 1947. Officials couldn't confirm that the seven home runs were an all-time, single-game record. But it is the most in a game since the tournament expanded from an eight-team format to 16 in 2001. The old mark was five by a team from Japan in 2003.
Both of Ramirez's shots were long, arching moon shots, sending spectators scurrying on the hill far beyond the outfield fence 225 feet from home plate. His line in the box score looked redundant: 4-for-4 with 4 runs scored and 4 RBI.
Joining him in the home run derby were Andy Rios, Kiko Garcia, Bradley Roberto, Isaiah Armenta and Seth Godfrey.
In the fifth inning, with the score 8-0, Armenta, Godfrey and Rios led off with back-to-back-to-back homers.
The team's M.O. has always been the long ball, especially after slugging 34 homers in six games at the West Region in San Bernardino.
Some wondered if Park View's power might be negated at South Williamsport's 225-foot fences, which are 25 feet farther than San Bernardino's. Apparently not.
"We knew we'd hit a couple home runs," Garcia said. "That's kind of how we are. But seven's unexpected. We like it, so we'll continue it."
Almost overlooked in the explosion was Garcia's pitching line: four innings, one infield hit off his glove, seven strikeouts.
Remarkably, with two outs in the top of the fourth, the score was only 3-0. Then came five runs on Ramirez and Roberto blasts. After the Armenta-Godfrey-Rios trifecta in the fifth, Garcia launched a three-run shot.
Russellville manager Kevin Gettings joked about the onslaught.
"The trainer came in and asked if we needed to ice any pitchers' arms," he said. "Of course, they didn't throw hard enough to get iced down. So we told the trainer we needed our necks iced down from seeing all the home runs hit over the fence."
Park View and Russellville were the last teams to play in the tournament. By midafternoon, the Park View chaperones, called "uncles," said the team was relaxed.
"They're just sleeping in their rooms," said 70-year-old Dick Reitz, a retired state trooper. "That's a good sign."
Reitz chaperoned the 1994 team from Venezuela that won the World Series.
That team, too, was noted for its looseness, plus bringing only one bat to South Williamsport.
Roberto, who knocked in four runs, said the team was getting antsy to take the field.
"We were sitting in the dorms watching the other games (Friday)," he said. "It just builds up the excitement. We got out and let it all (out) on the field."
When asked to explain the team's power, Ramirez said, "We're just really naturally strong players."
Park View faces Peabody, Mass., at 3 p.m. (PDT) today. Peabody lost to San Antonio, Texas, 10-1 Friday in its opener. Park View plays its final game in the four-team pool play 5 p.m. (PDT) Tuesday against San Antonio (1-0).
Meanwhile, it was a productive first day.
As he walked out of the interview room, an ice bag on his shoulder, Garcia turned to Roberto and matter of factly said, "We broke a record in our first game."
As in, ho-hum. Not bad.


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'The Vampire Diaries' Recap: Elena (Basically) Rejects Damon's Love
I shouldn't admit this, but this week's ending was crazy hot — and I loved it.
The Originals' ball on the Feb. 9 episode of The Vampire Diaries told the classic Cinderella story — if Cinderella stabbed a prince, drank her own blood, and helped her stepmother straight-up murder her daughters. But the biggest surprise of the evening was when Damon (Ian Somerhalder) told Elena (Nina Dobrev) that he loved her. To her face. And she said…
"That's the problem."
Yes, friends. Elena referred to Damon's love for her as a "problem." She tried to take it back, but the damage had already been done.
But because Damon never sulks alone, he headed straight to the Mystic Grill, picked up Rebekah (Claire Holt), and proceeded to deliver one of the hottest scenes in Vampire Diaries history. (So much ripping. So much grunting.) I don't care if you are a "Delena" shipper — you had to appreciate how insanely sexy that encounter was. (Side note: I guess now we know who Damon wakes up naked with next week.)
Stefan (Paul Wesley) escorted Elena home from the ball and told her that he hated himself for what he'd done to her. ("I bit you," "I hurt you," etc.) She pleaded with him to open up his heart and finally feel something again, but he told her couldn't. Opening himself up to emotions would only result in more pain. Then, in typical Stefan fashion, he slinked off into the night.
Those Salvatores. So emotional.
And now that we've re-hashed this week's Damon/Elena/Stefan drama, let's rewind and have a quick about what went down at the Michaelsons' ball, shall we?
Knowing Damon would never let her approach Esther (Alice Evans) unprotected, Elena convinced Stefan to temporarily relieve his brother of consciousness — which was stupid, because Elena's plans are always stupid. Anyhoo, Esther told Elena that she needed her doppelganger blood for a special spell to link all of her children together. You know, so she could kill them.
"I love my family, but they are an abomination," she said. (Funny, I think I recall Kris Jenner giving that same quote to a magazine once.)
"Klaroline" also progressed a bit this week, as Caroline (Candice Accola) totally bitched Klaus (Joseph Morgan) out for refusing to connect with people. After he offered her a trip around the world — which any contestant on The Price Is Right would KILL for — she told him she couldn't be bought, then sashayed out of the room.
Caroline returned home to find one of Klaus' lovely drawings on her bed, with a note that read "Thank you for your honesty." She thought it was sweet, but someone needs to remind her there's nothing sweet about a dude breaking into your house and leaving creepy horse drawings in your bedroom. Nothing!
And long before Rebekah ended up in Damon's bed, she was eye-humping Mystic Falls' most delicate creature, Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig). She spent the night dropping bitchy comments about Caroline, and I really thought she and Matt were going to hook up — that is, until her hot-yet-obnoxious brother Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic) decided to break Matt's hand. (Party foul, dude. Party foul!)
OK, now give me YOUR thoughts on tonight's episode: Do you angry over what Elena said to Damon? Are you at all OK with Damon and Rebekah doing the dirty? And, seriously, will Matt Donovan EVER find the right girl?! See you in the comments section!

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Rod McGregor's '69 Dodge Dart
When we first saw this car, it looked to us like a basic driver with a minimalist interior and nice small-block. It wasn't until later that we saw it lining up and clicking off easy 6.80s at the Irwindale eighth-mile dragstrip with the wheels in the air. The prospect of a feature car got sweeter when we visited Rod McGregor's pit to check out his dead-simple combo and there wasn't a trailer in sight.
If you keep count, this blue '69 Dart is the fourth car on the list of A-Bodies Rod has owned since his street racing days. It's the only one he purchased for someone else, and the only one that currently runs. The first Dart was a '67 with a 440 swap that did some time at the street digs in Whittier, California, back in the day. The killer combo featured chunks of Bondo falling out of the quarter-panels, a dash of ugly, and some low-12-second speed. That one gave way to a much better-looking '68 that also ran low 12s, but Rod never saw any official timeslips. It came apart for some serious upgrades when Rod got married and had a kid. "I look back at the work I did, and it's all going to come out," Rod says.
The transportation car in those days was a factory 340/four-speed '72 Demon daily driver, but Rod couldn't leave it alone. First he added headers, then an intake swap, then more. "This used to happen to all my cars," Rod says. "Now I have an SRT-4 Neon, but I've only added a K&N air filter because I know where it ends." By that, Rod means it will never end and his commuter will also become a race car if he isn't careful. "I try to define my transportation cars and my fast cars," he says.
When Rod's son was old enough to show interest in the hobby, they cruised around and found the '69 Dart you see here. Was it love at first sight? "It was rough. The interior was totally trashed and it looked like monkeys had lived in it. The ex-terior? Well the roof was straight. It was an original 273/904 car with a 7 1/4 rearend. It was a grandma car that we bought for $900 about five years ago."
The original running gear was chucked for a solid-lifter 360 that went south shortly after breaking in the cam. The car ran high 7.40s without a bar. The next engine was a Mopar Performance 408 with Edelbrock heads that took the car into the low-7.30 range or about 11.40 in the quarter-mile. Rod was happy, but he wanted to go faster and happened to have a set of Indy cylinder heads and an intake sitting on the shelf waiting to be installed on the '72 Demon. Rod dropped the heads on the 408 and added a larger roller cam and a set of 1 7/8-inch headers. At the time, the trans was an A-500 overdrive from Pro Trans in Lancaster, California. It was tough, but it proved to be eating a little too much power and costing them a tenth at the strip. Rod switched to a 904 because it is lighter and uses less power to turn the driveshaft.
With the new parts, the car was going 6.80s at Irwindale. Then Rod started rubbing on it, adding a cold-air pan, and fine-tuning the combination to run a 6.68 on the night we met him.
Someday, Rod will get back to his '68 and '72 A-Bodies, but he doesn't know when. "I've been married 23 years, and my wife has never seen the ['68 Dart] run." When he does get it running, we'll be waiting.
Tech Notes
Who: Rod McGregor
What: '69 Dodge Dart
Engine: The 408 is the third engine that made it into the engine bay. The original 273 "shook out of it" on the way home and was replaced by an Edelbrock-headed 360 that ate its own flat-tappet mechanical cam. It ate the bores and the block and wouldn't go 0.060 over, so it was junk. Rod replaced it with a Mopar Performance resto block with a 4.030 bore and dropped in an Eagle 4.00-inch crank for 408 inches. The Indy 360-1 heads have 2.10/1.65 valves and a 210 intake port volume. With a 63cc combustion chamber and a small dish in the SRP piston, he got a pump-gas-friendly 10.4:1.
The current cam is a Comp solid roller with 0.576/0.582-inch lift and 248/254 duration at 0.050. Since Rod already had the short-block together, the cam is a compromise to make sure he had piston-to-valve clearance. He added 1.6:1 rockers for more lift, but he thinks he might need more duration. The cam stays until the short-block needs to be freshened up. By then, the engine will go together as a 414.
The carb is a Holley 950 HP. It had a 750 on it for a while, and then the larger one went on shortly after the new heads. He also found it liked a carb spacer, even on the already-tall Indy manifold.
The first set of headers was from TTI with 1 5/8 primary tubes stepped to 1 3/4 inch. When he swapped on the Indy heads, he stepped up to 1 7/8, also from TTI. The pipes are 3-inch with a cross-pipe all the way back to DynoMax Ultra Flow mufflers, then over the axles to the bumper.
The A-500 was swapped for a 904 with a full-manual valvebody. The 904 isn't really designed for this type of abuse, so Pro Trans makes a lot of its own custom parts you'll usually see in big-block cars with a 727 case and 904 internals. It has a 4,400-rpm 9 1/2-inch converter, but he still drives it to the track . . . just not on the freeway.
The 7 1/4-inch rearend was junked immediately, and Rod found an 8 3/4 from an old truck at Pick-A-Part. Using a Mark Williams rearend-narrowing jig he bought years ago, Rod chopped the tubes to tubbed A-Body size. The axles are 30-spline from Mark Williams with a 4.30:1 rear gear and a Sure Grip. This gear is good for eighth-mile and quarter-mile runs.
The front discs are from Wilwood to replace the front drums, and the rears are 11-inch discs from "some old B-Body wagon." The leaf springs are Cal-Tracs monoleaf with a stock height and arc. The CalTracs were set in the lower holes with a 1/3 turn of preload, in case you were wonder-ing. On a Chrysler A-Body, the spring is parallel to the frame. To clear the tire, Rod cut a piece of frame and used a Mopar Performance spring relocation kit to move the springs inboard.
The slicks:
The fronts are Hoosier Quick Time, and the rears are 29×13.5-15 (11-inch tread) also from Hoosier. Rod runs them at 12 1/4 pounds on race day. The wheels are 10×15 and 15×5.5 Weld ProStars.
Rod did the rough work, and Citrus Auto Body in Covina, California, did the finish bodywork and paint in Subaru WRX blue.
That trunk:
In the beginning, the fuel cell sat on the floor of the trunk, taking up space. Rod dropped the fuel cell and built the recess for the battery and a rack for tools to keep them from sailing into the quarter-panels when he gets rowdy with the car (he drives to the track, remember?).
Sealing the AAR Six-Pack-style fiberglass hoodscoop to the carburetor was worth about a tenth on the dragstrip.
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Technology and new innovations are changing the world in which we live. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is responding to these challenges by adapting our foreign policy agenda to leverage new innovations in service of our diplomatic and development goals. This is 21st Century Statecraft -- complementing traditional foreign policy tools with newly innovated and adapted instruments of statecraft that fully leverage the networks, technologies, and demographics of our interconnected world.
Today marks the end of "21st Century Statecraft Month" at that State Department -- an entire month dedicated to using new tools and engaging new networks in pursuit of addressing today's challenges. During the month, I had the privilege to speak with a group of journalists and bloggers during a Live at State video web chat, the Department's interactive "virtual press briefing" platform. As the journalists, bloggers, and I discussed, we at the Department of State, much like many others, are learning and adapting to a world that's becoming increasingly disrupted, both for good and for ill, by social media. What we're seeking to do here, under the leadership of Secretary Clinton, is to keep pace, to listen, to learn, and to experiment. Hopefully, we've accomplished a little bit of each of those during the month of 21st Century Statecraft.
For starters, the Secretary's Office of Innovation and the Office of the Chief of Protocol hosted more than 100 members of the diplomatic corps to discuss online movements and social media. Ambassador Dino Djalal of Indonesia served as a special guest speaker and shared with his colleagues how he is effectively using Twitter to communicate foreign policy initiatives.
In addition, State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland held the Department's first-ever "Twitter Briefing," answering your questions gathered from the Department's 11 official Twitter accounts. As part of that effort, the Bureau of Public Affairs launched the Department's official Turkish-language Twitter account (@ABDTurk), which complements U.S. Mission Turkey's existing social media outreach and represents the U.S. commitment to building a strong partnership with the government and people of Turkey. @ABDTurk joins the 10 other official feeds in Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Urdu.
Some other highlights from the month include:
· Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Michael Posner delivered keynote remarks on January 17 at the 8th annual State of the Net Conference. Two years after Secretary Clinton first addressed global Internet freedom as a core policy priority, the Assistant Secretary reflected on the challenges and responsibilities of the public and private sector to advance a free and open Internet.
· Director of Policy Planning Jake Sullivan outlined U.S. foreign policy priorities for 2012 during a Live at State video web chat.
· Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer delivered remarks at the launch of "Teaching Respect for All," UNESCO's curriculum development program that promotes anti-racism and tolerance. U.S. Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal, and other State Department officials joined a live web chat and Tweet-Up held in coordination with the event. You can join the ongoing discussion on Twitter by following the hashtag, #Dignity4All.
· Ambassador Ivo Daalder, Ambassador David Huebner, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Ann Stock, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Mike Hammer, and the U.S. Missions to Haiti, New Zealand, and NATO held Twitter Q&A's to discuss various U.S. foreign policy issues.
· The U.S. Department of State launched My State Department, an optional interface on www.state.gov that allows users to customize the information they see on the website. This gives the public the opportunity to follow the issues that matter most to them -- ranging from food security to global women's issues.
Many thanks to all who participated in 21st Century Statecraft Month; we have been greatly encouraged by the positive response. As we continue to forge U.S. digital diplomacy, we hope you will continue to be a part of the conversation and stay tuned to www.state.gov, the DipNote blog, @StateDept on Twitter and the U.S. Department of State's official Facebook page for additional engagements throughout 2012.
Dan S. in Washington, D.C. writes:
Here are some more examples of a few other 21st Century Statecraft initiatives underway at the State Department:
Tech@State: http://tech.state.gov/
TechCamps: http://techcampglobal.org/learn-about-techcamp.php
Virtual Student Foreign Service: http://www.state.gov/vsfs/ and
State's Office of eDiplomacy: http://www.state.gov/m/irm/ediplomacy/
Rio+2.0, Bridging Connection Technologies and Sustainable Development: http://enewschannels.com/2012/02/01/enc14207_130341.php
Maureen in Massachusetts writes:
Thanks for this forward thinking initiative for the month of January that is opening new doors in digital diplomacy. It is eye opening to say the least.
Anyone for Google+ "21 Century Statecraft"?
B.P. in the U.S.A. writes:
Howdy! I actually enjoy the logic and thinking of the contributor. Wonderful to see such ideas discussed on the internet. You certainly need to promote visitor communication and debate. Continue the wonderful efforts!
L.B. in South Africa writes:
Loyal readers are difficult to come by, but u have just converted me! :)
L.B. in South Africa writes:
I have been around for a even though now, i think about myself a loyal reader. Just thought i would let you know!
MJS in Australia writes:
Appreciate you reflecting on whether or not giving control of statecraft policy since WWII over to Pathological Altruist Cultural Relativists has achieved anything other than unfathomable grief for those left behind to suffer the loss of those ignominiously sacrificed to such a failed policy paradigm, a bankrupted State and worse leaving the same foundation text you went in to destroy left intact? To do what again..?
Let me simplify what has and is happening:
"Hitler you will have to go we have to have a marker to prove we have done something but Hermann you and your friends can stay.
Be it secular or religious text if the construction of Other is the same the outcome will be the same. There were moderate/liberal Nazi who were 'appalled' by the treatment of the Jews. The foundation text remains unchanged so does the threat to security.
If you have no intention of changing the foundation text, be it secular or religious, by coercion if necessary you are throwing the Band of Brothers lives away for nothing, as well as infrastructure, education, health, security, - you get the picture.
Checked Dorian Gray US Statecraft recently its dripping....


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Palladium Books® Weekly Update – August 11, 2011
By Kevin Siembieda
Gen Con Report. Gen Con Indy 2011 was not the financial windfall we had hoped it would be. According to several artists exhibiting at the show, their sales were half of what they were last year. A few small exhibitors made similar comments. We can't judge, as Palladium Books hadn't attended Gen Con for a couple of years. I can tell you we did well selling product, there were throngs of people, all in cheerful spirits, there was an aura of fun and excitement, and we felt it was definitely worth attending. So much so that we have already booked our booth space for next year.
We had a large number of gamers tell us they were happy to see Palladium Books back at Gen Con. It was very gratifying to have so many people welcome us back to the event all weekend long, and we enjoyed chatting and autographing lots and lots of books.
People were loving the new Rifts® World Book One: Vampire Kingdoms™. It was our number one selling item as gamers swooped in early to snag their copy. Those who came back a couple days later were filled with praise for the book. One gent confessed he wasn't happy when he first heard I was rewriting his favorite Rifts® World Book, but after reading it, he was delighted with it and was looking forward to the Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™. Comments like that made my weekend.
Everything sold well with a lot of heat for Rifts®, Robotech®, Dead Reign™, Heroes Unlimited™, and Palladium Fantasy®.
I think we surprised people by displaying the covers to Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames (they loved it!) and Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook, and I was surprised by the number of folks who had not yet seen the cover to Rifts® Lemuria. All were a big hit and people were very excited about upcoming books. We had a lot of folks asking for new material for Nightbane®, Palladium Fantasy®, Beyond the Supernatural™ and Robotech®; they were thrilled to hear we have books in development for all of the above.
Dead Reign™ sold well, and the life size display zombie created by Kathy Simmons was the 'smash hit' of our display. Literally hundreds of people stopped to take their photo with the zombie every single day. And little kids (and I mean 3-9 year olds) came running over to him all smiles. Weird, but cool. Nice work, Kathy. But what else could we expect, she is the Queen of Ghouls. Matthew wants us to add 2-3 more zombies to next year's display. That sounds like overkill to me, but we'll see.
Good Gen Con help wasn't hard to find. Brandon Aten, Nick Bradshaw, Matthew Clements, Mike Mumah, and Mark Oberle were awesome helpers (Wayne too, but he's always a big resource on these trips). They were energetic, worked the cash registers, helped customers, made sales, helped with the grunt work of setting up and tearing down, and were a joy to work with. They were nothing short of fantastic. Thanks guys.
We had only a few minor, Gen Con misadventures: 1. Somehow we didn't realize Gen Con opened an hour early on Thursday morning for VIPs. We weren't at our booth and one of the Gen Con staff stood guard to shoo people away. Sorry about that.
2. A brigand, hoping our Penske rental truck might be loaded with valuables, cut the lock and broke into the back of the truck. Much to his disappointment, there were only empty boxes inside. Still, it made for some excitement and a police visit Saturday morning.
3. I lost $430.00 when Gen Con closed. I had emptied the cash registers and shoved the paper cash into an envelope, then must have laid it down on the table and someone snatched it up when we turned our back, or it was accidentally put in the trash by someone (we checked the booth several times to make sure nothing was left behind). Thankfully, I had taken the bulk of the cash and credit card receipts out a half-hour before closing. Still, I'm mad at myself for losing the money.
This was Matthew Clements' first Gen Con. Here are his comments on the event. "Wow, it was huge, hectic and fun. In many respects it was a mad house, but in a good way. Seemed like a constant flow of activity with someone to talk with or something to see or do every time you turned your head. I found it very motivational and inspiring. I had fun talking to fans and got good insight from them. I was especially excited to see so many people wild about the new books coming out and books we have planned for the near future. I had a lot of fun. I loved all the costumes and constant air of excitement, hanging out with Palladium gamers, meeting new people, and clowning around with Bradshaw, Aten, Mumah and the rest of the Palladium crew. I even got to game one night. It was a blast. I'm glad Kevin decided to return to Gen Con in 2012. Now, I can hardly wait for the Palladium Open House in May 2012; I hear it is just as wild and fun as Gen Con in a different way."
Palladium will be at Gen Con Indy 2012. I polled the guys and they were unanimous that Palladium should attend Gen Con next year, so I have already booked our booth space for Gen Con Indy 2012. Between the Palladium 2012 Open House and Gen Con Indy in the same year, we expect to see a record number of Palladium gamers at both events. Start making your plans and saving up now. ;)
I agree with Matthew Clements, Gen Con was a blast. We felt welcomed by our fans throughout the entire weekend, sold lots of books, chatted, laughed and had a good time. It was great to see dear friends like Jolly and Barbara Blackburn, Larry Elmore, Shawn and Lisa Hall (it's always a delight to hang with these two characters), Dennis Hughes (looking trim and happy), Lonnie Langston, Zachary Houghton, Mike Hummel, Amy Ashbaugh, Frank Mentzer, and a gaggle of others. Please don't be offended if I didn't list you by name, that would be a lot of people like Dave, Milton, Sean, Steve, and on and on. Of course, we made new contacts with a few promising artists and potential business partners. Heck, I was so busy I barely took any Gen Con photos, and I'm certain there's a ton of stuff I'm leaving out. Glad we went. Happy so many wonderful Palladium fans were there to greet us. We'll be back in 2012. See ya at the Palladium Open House first. Palladium fans are the best of the best.
UPDATE: Online sales have skyrocketed since we announced Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ had arrived at the warehouse and was ready to ship. Rifts® World Book 23: Xiticix Invasion™ as well as Sedition™ and Coalition Overkill™ have been selling well since they came back in print a week or two ago. Just as I suspected, we are also seeing a sales bump in Rifts® Lone Star, Rifts® New West™, Spirit West™ and Rifts® Arzno™: Vampire Incursion™, but we're seeing sales across all game settings. Nice. Of course, pre-orders for Rifts® Lemuria, Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook and even Megaverse® in Flames are also coming in. That's good, because we are fast at work to make sure these three books and a few others are released as soon as possible.
UPDATE: Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook. Fired up by the excitement over Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ and his Gen Con experience, staff writer Matthew Clements has dived into work on the Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook. "I'm going to do everything in my power to help get new releases out every month," stated a confident Matthew. He tells me as soon as he's finished with his work on the Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook he plans to finish Rifts® Black Market Sourcebook and is burning with ideas for the Rifts® Northern Gun™ sourcebook. Matthew is proving to be a dynamo at the keyboard and away from it.
As noted last week, Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook will be a 96-128 page book (probably the latter) that will contain everything that couldn't fit in Vampire Kingdoms™ including, Fort Reid, more Reid's Rangers, Techno-Wizard weapons, the Yucatan, the Mayan god Camazotz, Werebeasts, and more. We are still looking at a September release for this sourcebook.
Sneak Previews for Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™ and Lemuria as FREE PDFs from DriveThruRPG.com in the weeks to come. Watch for them. Remember, each is just a taste of what's in the book. There is so much more. To get the free PDF download of the Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ Sneak Preview, go to DriveThruRPG.com. It is easy to create a free account and only takes a couple of minutes. Sneak Previews of Armageddon Unlimited™ and Rifts® Thundercloud Galaxy™ are also available. DriveThruRPG.com is a good resource for getting the Hades & Dyval Map Pack, The Rifter® Number Zero, The Rifter® #1-48 and to fill in your RPG library with first edition copies of Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, and other game lines, as well as books such as Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™ and both versions of the The Mechanoids® RPG (1985) and The Collected Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy (1981-1983).
UPDATE: Rifts® Lemuria. The art should be done and I'm diving right back into work on Rifts® Lemuria and the Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook. We want these books out FAST. I think both of these books are going to please a lot of people. Place your pre-orders, because they will ship soon.
UPDATE: Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook. I'll be working on it and Rifts® Lemuria to get them out over the next two months. I also very much want to see another Robotech® Sourcebook™ coming out this fall and another in early 2012.
UPDATE: Back in Print: Just a reminder that the following book are back in print and available now.
Available Now:
- Rifts® World Book 23: Xiticix Invasion™
- Rifts® Coalition Wars® Book 1: Sedition™
- Rifts® Coalition Wars® Book 2: Coalition Overkill™
Note: All six books in the Coalition Wars/Siege on Tolkeen series are in print.
The following titles are also recently back in print and ready to ship:
- Rifts® Free Quebec™
- Rifts® Book of Magic
- Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™
- Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™
UPDATE Alex. He's trying to stay positive and is hanging tough.
Halloween Store – Queenofghouls.com – Kathy Simmons' online store will soon be filled with new life-sized Halloween props that include killer clowns, jesters, mad doctors, zombies, witches, wizards, executioners, werewolves and monsters. In some ways, you can consider QueenofGhouls a fun extension of Palladium Books, because Kathy is a beloved staff member and because I help her paint many of these unique Halloween decorations. If you are looking for a standout Halloween item for your front lawn, one of these will do the trick. WARNING: Once you see one in person and get rants and raves from everyone who visits your home on Halloween, you may find yourself buying a new one every year.
Kathy has recently sold a couple of zombies, a scarecrow and a Christmas figure. Check out her Halloween store at QueenofGhouls.com. Her creations are durable and can be used year after year. Gamers have loved the ones we've had at the Palladium Open House and Gen Con – they are truly awesome. Halloween is just around the corner.
Palladium to attend Detroit Fanfare, September 24 & 25
We've gotten confirmation of our end cap and are looking forward to seeing gamers from Michigan, Ohio and the surrounding area to come on down. The event is the Detroit Fanfare, September 24 & 25 at Cobo Hall, downtown Detroit.
One of the guests is Kevin Eastman – co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles®. So this fun comic book and media convention will be a great chance to get your Ninja Turtles® game books (and comics) signed by one of the creators. Other guests include fan boy favorite actor, Bruce Campbell, and dozens and dozens of comic book guests. Palladium fans may be interested to know Dave Dorman (Palladium cover artist), Tim Bradstreet, and pal, Defiler and Palladium contributor of old, William Messner Loebs will also be attending, among many other guests. I'll keep you posted as we firm up the details.
Click here for more information about Detroit Fanfare.
Alliance Trade Show, October in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is a trade show for retailers, but many hard working store owners and their employees are gamers and Palladium fans. I invite you to bring books for us to sign for your own collections and/or to put in your store as an extra selling feature. We're happy to do it. I, Kevin Siembieda, and Wayne Smith will be present at the event. Also, please drop by to chat and get the latest news and developments at Palladium.
UPDATE: 2012 Palladium Open House (POH). Spread the word. If this may be our last Open House (due to lack of parking), let's make it the biggest and best ever. Gen Con is spectacle, the Palladium Open House is nonstop fun and gaming with the very people who make the games at the very place they are designed. You are part of our extended family and we invite YOU into our home to game, chat, and meet dozens of Palladium creators. The surrounding is intimate and friendly. I think there are only a few VIP Night admissions currently available, but we will "re-offer" twenty or so again in February 2012. I'm happy to report that POH orders come in every week. Make sure you are one of the folks attending. RESERVE your hotel now! It guarantees your room, helps Palladium so we can block more rooms if we need them, and the hotel does not charge your credit card until the actual event. We have gamers coming from across the USA, Canada, England and Germany! Join the fun.
I have been busy catching up on things and dealing with various business matters most of this week, but I'll be diving into the Vampires Sourcebook and/or Lemuria this weekend. Meanwhile, you keep those imaginations burning bright.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher
NEW! Rifts® World Book One:
Vampire Kingdoms™, New Revised Edition
– Available now
Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ is in our warehouse waiting for your order. Initial feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Order yours today. (Should be in stores in a week or two.)
For centuries, Mexico has been considered the realm of monsters best left alone. A land dominated by packs of Wild Vampires and rumored to be home of Vampire Kingdoms in the south. Most of the northern civilizations have stayed away, but over the last 20 years, a growing number of heroes, vampire slayers and adventurers have been waging something of a secret war against the undead. As that battle escalates, stories of heroes, vampires and entire human populations enslaved by the undead or penned, raised and slaughtered like cattle, are starting to leak out. Come see for yourself if the rumors are true and join the battle for humanity in Mexico.
- Vampire Hunter O.C.C.s, all new.
- Vampires: Their strengths, weaknesses and powers.
- Vampire strategies and plans for conquest.
- Vampire minions, henchmen and protectors, all new.
- Rifts vampires, how they think, behave, fight and kill.
- Different types of vampires, their Master, and the Vampire Intelligence (the deific creator of the undead).
- Hero Vampire and Deluded Vampire R.C.C.s as player characters.
- 40+ vampire abilities, vampire weaknesses and combat notes.
- Vampire combat and the weapons and techniques of vampire slayers.
- Who can be turned into vampires and who cannot.
- Chupacabras and other monsters and riding animals.
- Reid's Ranger O.C.C. and the observations of Doc Reid, all new.
- Vampire fighting weapons, silver bullets, wooden stakes and more.
- The city-states of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez described. Updated and expanded.
- Town creation tables and rules. All new.
- Vampire ruled towns and the hold they have over them. All new.
- Wild Vampires and the secret behind their presence in northern Mexico.
- Overviews of the Vampire Kingdoms, with expanded material on vampire society, hierarchy, their psychology, behavior, human cattle and servants, vampire dominion over the villages and towns of Northern Mexico and much more.
- The presence of Archie Three, Lemurians and the Splugorth.
- Ideas for adventure throughout.
- Updated and revised to 109 P.A.
- Cover by E.M. Gist.
- New artwork by Mike Wilson, Mike Mumah, Nick Bradshaw and Kent Burles, plus the best of Kevin Long and Tim Truman from the original book.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda. Additional text and ideas by Matthew Clements and Braden Campbell.
- 224 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 802-E. Available now. Order yours today.
NEW! The Rifter® #55
– Available now
The Rifter® is your doorway to unlimited imagination and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. It offers new heroes, powers, weapons, magic and adventure for your games. It presents new villains, monsters and dangers to battle, and new ideas to consider.
The Rifter® #55: Looks fantastic. Packed with adventure and game ideas for your campaigns.
- Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms®: Sneak preview by Kevin Siembieda.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®: Source material that expands upon the Quorians, by Travis Guerrero.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®: Ancestral Mystic™ who derives special abilities from his ancestors. By Paul Herbert.
- Nightbane®: Dark Day™ Chronicles, Volume Three, a short story and character stats by Jeremy Hutchins.
- Rifts®: The original Triax O.C.C.s updated by Brandon Aten.
- Rifts® Thundercloud Galaxy™: More on the CCW by Braden Campbell.
- Rifts®: Black Crusade™ Two: Info on the Methodeans, their syndicates and secret organizations, history and adventure ideas.
- News and coming attractions.
- Fiction and more.
- Cover by R.C. Aradio.
- $11.95 retail – 96 pages – Cat. No. 155. Available now.
NEW! Rifts® World Book: Lemuria™
– Ships September, 2011
The power, secrets and magic of the underwater realm of Lemuria revealed. Player characters can use symbiotes, magic and technology to breathe underwater and spend time below the waves.
Lemuria is more than an underwater civilization of aquatic beings. They can trace their lineage as far back as the Atlanteans and can survive on dry land as well as underwater. In fact, their greatest secret is that there is no one resting place for the Lemurians, their great cities are always moving. Learn about the people of Lemuria, new Biomancy magic and weapons, Biomancy engineered riding animals, sea herbs, new powers of healing, sea monsters, and more. Epic adventure awaits.
- The Lemurians, their race, history and society.
- New O.C.C.s including the Serpent Hunter, Shriekers, Oceanic Guardsman, Aquatic Biomancer and others.
- The Stone Guardians of Easter Island and other mysteries.
- Biomancer Gardens and Aquatic Biomancy.
- Biomancy armor, weapons and equipment.
- Symbiotic creatures and constructs; some that enable air-breathers to survive underwater, indefinitely.
- New psionic abilities.
- Sea Serpents, Sea Dragons, monsters, and riding animals.
- New dangers, new challenges, adventure ideas and more.
- Written by Greg Diaczyk.
- Cover by John Zeleznik.
- 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 885. Final page count and price may be subject to expansion and increase. We're shooting for an end of August release, but an early or mid-September release is more realistic.
NEW! Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™
Trouble is stirring in the Vampire Kingdoms as ambitious vampire lords, ladies and misanthropes seek to expand their power to dominate more mortal life forms.
Kevin Siembieda, here. I was dealing with so many other things (Alex's health and house, coordinating the next several books, Gen Con prep, business, etc.) and lost track of how much I had written for Vampire Kingdoms™, and went over by more than 100 manuscript pages (plus notes and ideas for more)! The good news is, Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook is at least half written and we should easily make the September release date. I have Matthew Clements doing writing and editing for that book right now. Best of all, it's going to be just as exciting and packed with cool stuff as Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™.
- Vampires of the Yucatan, the dark god Camazotz and more.
- Vampires and Werebeasts of the Yucatan.
- Expanded overview of the Yucatan.
- Doc Reid and key Rangers, plus Fort Reid described.
- Magic based Vampire Hunters and human strongholds.
- Techno-Wizard weapons and gear. Plus more non-TW vehicles and gear.
- Vampire Hunter "exterminators." Mortal assassins who serve the vampires by hunting and destroying Vampire Hunters and other enemies of the Vampire Kingdoms.
- New info about the Vampire Kingdoms, adventure ideas and more.
- Cover by Michael C. Hayes. Interior art by various artists.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda, Braden Campbell and Matthew Clements.
- 128 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 884. September release.
NEW! Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook
This Robotech® sourcebook will be a 2011 release.
- Rules for using mecha, power armor and technology from all four eras of Robotech.
- Kit-bashed mecha and rules for jury-rigging and combining parts from different generations of mecha.
- Freedom Fighter O.C.C.s and resistance organizations.
- Rogues and misfits from the three Robotech Wars.
- New weapons, vehicles, mecha and more.
- Villains, traitors, bandits, Invid henchmen, adventure and adventure ideas galore.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Irvin Jackson.
- Cover by Apollo Okamura.
- A "manga" size sourcebook.
- 192-256 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 554. Final page count and price may be subject to change. September 2011 release.
Note: With any luck, there will be companion Robotech® sourcebook released by the end of the year.
NEW! Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames™
The Minion War spills across Rifts Earth, where demons and infernals hope to recruit allies and use the Rifts as gateways of destruction. Their influence shakes things up across the planet, especially at locations where demons and Deevils already have a strong presence. More details to follow, but for now, 'nuff said.
- Soulmancer and Blood Magic.
- The Seven Deadly Plagues.
- The Demon Plagues across the globe.
- Battleground: Earth – as demons and infernals amass their legions.
- Rifts Calgary – also known as Hell's Pit; the kingdom described.
- Ciudad de Diablo, Harpies' Island and other notable Hell holes on Earth.
- Lord Doom, Pain and other demonic leaders.
- Horune treachery, Dimension Stormers and other villains.
- Global chaos and the places most dramatically affected by the Demon Plagues.
- Notable demonic generals, mercenaries, people and places.
- Many adventure ideas.
- Written by Carl Gleba.
- 192 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 876. October release.
NEW! Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook: First Responders
Data about the chaos and madness of the early days of the Great Cataclysm, and the brave men and women who tried to stem the tide of destruction and save lives, the First Responders.
- Apocalypse Plagues: Strange diseases, symbiotes and mutations that transform, torment, harm and kill Earth's survivors.
- First Responder O.C.C.s, skills and special equipment.
- Civilian O.C.C.s, skills and orientation.
- Notable rescue vehicles, robot drones, and technology.
- New weapons, vehicles, mecha and more.
- Character modification and enhancement rules.
- Creatures from the Rifts and adventure ideas galore.
- Written by Jason Richards & Kevin Siembieda.
- 96 to 128 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 665. Coming in 2011.
Rifts® World Book 23: Xiticix Invasion™
Earth is home to thousands of alien species from beyond the Rifts, but one of the strangest and most dangerous is the Xiticix. A danger nobody seemed to realize until the sprawling Hivelands began to encroach on the territories of other people. Armed with new breeds of aggressive warriors, new weapons and legions of insectoids willing to fight to the death, people are beginning to wonder if they are the next threat to humanity.
- 9 different types of Xiticix, their hierarchy and society.
- Xiticix Hive Cities, defenses and plans for expansion.
- Xiticix powers, abilities and weapons.
- Psi-Stalker Tribes fighting the Xiticix. The Psi-Stalker R.C.C. revisited.
- Heroes and Hardcases: groups and 15 Non-Player Characters.
- Plots against the alien invaders by the Coalition States, Lazlo and others.
- Fort Barron of the Coalition Army, mapped and described.
- Adventures, maps and many adventure ideas.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Wayne Breaux Jr.
- 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 838. Available now. Order yours today.
The "complete" Coalition Wars® Siege on Tolkeen™ Series
Magic vs Technology. All-out war between the Coalition and the Magic Kingdom of Tolkeen. Even if you don't play the war, the series offers fantastic source material: magic artifacts, Spells of Legend, Techno-Wizard war machines, maps, cities, towns, monsters and scores of NPCs you can drop into any campaign. All six titles are in print.
The Books in the Siege on Tolkeen Series: All are available now.
- Book 1: Sedition – New spells, TW weapons, Iron Juggernauts & more.
- Book 2: Coalition Overkill – Daemonix, Coalition Forces, NPCs, adventure & more.
- Book 3: Sorcerers' Revenge – Shadow Dragons, more Iron Juggernauts, 25 NPCs & more.
- Book 4: Cyber-Knights – In-depth look at the Knights, sub-classes like Crusaders, Rogues & more.
- Book 5: Shadows of Evil – People, places, NPCs, defenses & more.
- Book 6: Final Siege – Tolkeen mapped, 42 NPCs, TW weapons, dragons, monsters, adventures & more.
- Series written by Kevin Siembieda and Bill Coffin.
Coalition Wars® One: Sedition
The Coalition Army is in place and waging war on Tolkeen, a Kingdom of Magic. This sourcebook lays the groundwork for an epic conflict and ongoing campaign. If you don't want to play out the war, it provides all kinds of valuable stand-alone source material, magic items, magic spells, magic weapons, TW Iron Juggernauts, monsters, villains and adventure ideas.
- Magic vs Technology: Coalition anti-magic devices and tactics.
- 70+ Techno-Wizard weapons and devices.
- 10 Spells of Legend, 6 fabled magic artifacts, 11 maps.
- Techno-Wizard Iron Juggernauts – giant robot-like war machines powered by magic.
- Techno-Wizard vehicle construction rules plus 12 specific types of vehicles.
- Tolkeen's war plans and strategies, plus a Tolkeen time-line of events leading to war.
- Tolkeen combat formations and monster allies.
- Notable places like the Great Skelebot Graveyard, City of Solomon, Camp Fatale, and others.
- Ley Line Magic, key people and more.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Bill Coffin.
- 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 839. Available now. Order yours today.
Coalition Wars® Two: Coalition Overkill™
The war escalates on both sides. A new breed of Coalition officers begin to come to the forefront, and with them cruelty, murder and genocide. The Coalition Army is ruthless, but Tolkeen has a few tricks up its sleeve, like an alliance with a race of ancient demons known as the Daemonix.
- Introducing the Daemonix demons.
- 40+ NPCs, Coalition combat squads and operations.
- Coalition Flying Leviathan Stratocarrier.
- Tolkeen strategies and tactics.
- The Coalition's campaign of revenge.
- Bounty Hunters, mercenaries, adventure ideas and more.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and Bill Coffin.
- 112 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 840. Available now. Order yours today.
Rifts® Book of Magic
– Back in Print – Available Now
This is the ultimate guide to magic on Rifts Earth. All the magic spells, magic tattoos, Techno-Wizard items, magic weapons, equipment, body armor, restraints, parasites, symbiotes, magic items, Automatons, Iron Juggernauts, and more from Rifts® World Books 1-23, Sourcebooks 1-4, and Siege on Tolkeen 1-6, collected into one big reference. This is a great reference book. Kevin and all of us at Palladium use it and the Rifts® Game Master Guide constantly.
- 850+ spells of great variety.
- 370+ magic items, weapons and devices.
- Elemental Magic, Temporal Magic, Ley Line Magic, Cloud Magic and Necromancy.
- Tattoo Magic, Nazca Line Magic, Nature Magic, Whalesongs and Ocean Magic, and more.
- Magic Songs, Chants, Biomancy, Magic Herbs, and Iron Juggernauts.
- Techno-Wizard weapons and devices, Rune Weapons, Millennium Tree wands and other magic items.
- Magic herbs, plants, components and symbiotes.
- Shamanistic magic, Fetishes, Talismans and more.
- Comprehensive index of Practitioners of Magic.
- Designer notes, comments, tips & hints for running magic characters.
- Written by Kevin Siembieda and others.
- 352 pages – $26.95 retail – Cat. No. 848. Available now.
Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™
– Back in Print – Available now
This fan-favorite sourcebook is filled with high-tech wonders, magic and monsters. There are 20 O.C.C.s (Occupational Character Classes) that range from the traditional ninja and samurai to power armor, giant robots and cyborgs.
- 20 O.C.C.s including the Mystic Ninja, Ninja Cyborg, Ninja Juicer, Cyber-Samurai, Ninja Techno-Wizard, Japanese Demon Queller & more.
- 12 suits of power armor including Samurai SAMAS and Glitter Boys.
- 9 giant robots.
- Cyborgs of Japan, including Dragon Cyborgs and other bionics.
- Advanced weapons, melee weapons and other gear.
- Mystical powers and martial arts.
- Enchanted weapons and items including the Living Samurai Sword.
- 11 notable demons, goblins and dragons of Japan.
- Kyoto Millennium Tree, visions, wands and weapons.
- Overview of Japan, its people, magic and technology.
- Written by C.J. Carella.
- 216 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 818. Available now.
Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™
– Back in Print – Available now
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- 19 R.C.C.s, many of which are mutants.
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- Dog Boy armor and CS weapons.
- CS Death Wing assault armor.
- Hover cycles of the Lone Star state.
- Notable characters in the region.
- Overview of Lone Star and the Pecos Empire.
- Overview of the Lone Star Complex and the mad doctor who runs it.
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- Written by Kevin Siembieda.
- 176 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 825. Available now.
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- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™ – New – Available now!
- Armageddon Unlimited™ – New – Available now!
- The Rifter® #53 – New – Available now!
- The Rifter® #54 – New – Available now!
- Aliens Unlimited™ – A Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 20: Canada – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Dark Conversions™ – Back in print – Available now
- Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Game Master Guide – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 5: Triax & The NGR™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® China One – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Megaverse® Builder – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Baseball Cap – Back in stock – Available now
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Black Vault™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Mercenaries™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Book of Magic – Back in print – Available now
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- Rifts® WB 23: Free Quebec™ – BACK IN PRINT – Available now
July 2011 Releases
- The Rifter® #55 – New – Available now
- Rifts® Coalition Wars® Book One: Sedition– BACK IN PRINT – Available now
- Rifts® Coalition Wars® Book Two: Coalition Overkill – BACK IN PRINT – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 23: Xiticix Invasion™ – BACK IN PRINT – Available now
August 2011 Releases
- Rifts® World Book 1: Vampire Kingdoms™, New Revised Edition – New – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 32: Lemuria – New – final production. Shooting for an August release but may slide into September.
- Heroes Unlimited™: Mutant Underground™ – coming back in print
September 2011 Releases
- Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook – New – in production
- Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™ – New – in production
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™: Rise of Magic – coming back in print
October 2011 Releases
- Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Three – New
- Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames (Minion War™ crossover) – New
- Another new title may be added or substituted
November 2011 Releases
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook: First Responders – New
In the Pipeline
- Robotech® UEEF Marines and other Robotech® sourcebooks.
- Rifts® sourcebooks
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ sourcebooks
- Palladium Fantasy®: Mysteries of Magic™ Two & Three
- Palladium Fantasy® other sourcebooks
- Warpath™ Urban Jungle RPG
- And other good stuff. Lots of other good stuff!
Recently Back in Print
Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®
- 336 pages – $26.95 retail – Cat. No. 450.
Rifts® World Book 20: Rifts® Canada™
- 192 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 835.
Rifts® Dark Conversions™
- 192 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 852.
Rifts® Game Master Guide
- 352 pages – $26.95 retail – Cat. No. 845.
Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook™
- 112 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 850.
Rifts® World Book Five: Triax & the NGR™
- 224 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 810.
Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™
- 216 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 818.
Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™
- 176 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 825.
Rifts® World Book 24: Rifts® China One
- 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 857.
Rifts® Dimension Book 7: Megaverse® Builder
- 96 pages – $16.95 retail – Cat. No. 859.
Aliens Unlimited™ – For Heroes Unlimited™
- 208 pages – $24.95 retail – Cat. No. 515.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™
- 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 851.
Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault™
- 48 pages – $9.95 retail – Cat. No. 855.
Rifts® Mercenaries™
- 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 813.
Rifts® Book of Magic™
- 352 pages – $26.95 retail – Cat. No. 848.
Rifts® World Book 23: Rifts® Free Quebec™
- 160 pages – $20.95 retail – Cat. No. 837.
New Books in Development
(listed in alphabetical order):
Beyond the Supernatural™: Arcanum
Beyond the Supernatural™: Tome Grotesque
Beyond the Supernatural™ Sourcebook
Chaos Earth™ First Responders
Chaos Earth™ – Zombie Apocalyse Rifts-style during the Great Cataclysm.
Heroes Unlimited™ – Had two people who were supposed to be working on a pair of books, but they disappeared on me, so we are looking for folks to write a couple HU2 sourcebooks.
Nightbane® – An as of yet untitled project, and looking for more.
Palladium Fantasy® – Mysteries of Magic 2 & 3
Palladium Fantasy® – Tombs of Gersidi expanded and new.
Plus I have a few ideas on this front myself to revitalize this line.
Phase World®: United Worlds of Warlock™
Phase World®: Pirates of the Three Galaxies™
Rifts® Antarctica
Rifts® Black Market
Rifts® China Three
Rifts® Deep South
Rifts® New Navy™
Rifts® Northern Gun™ – may be a series of books.
Rifts® Sovietski™
Rifts® Titan Industries™
Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™
Robotech® Genesis Pits™ adventure sourcebook.
Robotech® UEEF Marines™
Splicers® Sourcebook One – concepts and art by Charles Walton.
Splicers® Sourcebook Two – concepts and art by Charles Walton.
All of the above are being written right now. A few are already finished. Most will be 2012 releases. And this does not include projects I would like to do for Palladium Fantasy®, Dead Reign™, Warpath™: Urban Jungle and new mediums.
2012 Palladium Open House – May 4-6, 2012
The Palladium Open House is like nothing you have ever attended. It has a fun, family feel and is three days (four with VIP night) of games, fun and wonderful memories. People talk about it for years, and this may be the last one ever.
● Meet 40+ Palladium creators available throughout the entire event.
● Game with half of the creators present.
● Get autographs from all Palladium creators.
● Have the time of your life.
● We are hosting this event because YOU begged us to do it. So come on over. I promise to make it as special as possible.
● Costume Contest with cool awards and meaty prizes.
● Panel talks that are fun and insightful.
● 90+ Gaming Events:
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- Ninjas & Superspies™
- Phase World®/Three Galaxies™
- Dead Reign™
- After the Bomb®
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®
- Beyond the Supernatural™
- and more . . .
This may be our last Open House. Having sufficient parking is becoming a big issue. You may have to car pool from the hotel as it is. And the event is a ton of work that takes four weeks out of our production schedule. It is especially hard on Kathy Simmons, who coordinates most of it and does the catering (we'll try to help her more). So we may make this our big, final Open House blow out.
V.I.P. Thursday (May 3, 2012). Available now. YOU are the VIP. You get in an afternoon early (doors open at 3:00 PM – catered dinner at 5:30 PM) and are the first to play in special game events, participate in special panel talks, purchase items, and enjoy a dinner catered by Kathy Simmons (and those who have been to past VIP nights know how awesome that is). Reserve your place today.
Weekend Admission is Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Reserve your place today. Placing your order early helps us on many levels, and tells us how many people to expect and how many hotel rooms to reserve.
Individual Day Admission - Friday - Saturday - Sunday might work better for you. If you can only make it one day, that's cool. Reserve your slot.
Hotel is the location you love at the same 2009 rates ($69.95 a night). The hotel does not charge your card until a day before the event, so reserve NOW. I'm concerned they might run out of rooms. Based on the economy, the hotel has not reserved the entire hotel for us as they have in the past. Book your room fast so you know you have a place to stay. The hotel now offers free hot breakfasts and we will have two conference rooms for late night gaming and open gaming.
We need G.M.s. This means we'll be looking for volunteer Game Masters (you get a T-shirt and a discount on books if you run three "official" games or more).
Plan to enter the Costume Contest. Winners get a nice plaque and real prizes. Rifts/sci-fi, fantasy, modern (includes horror) and best of show are the categories.
Click here for more details and to reserve your tickets.
The Queen of Ghouls: Life-Sized Halloween Props
Check out the new creations by Palladium's very own Kathy Simmons. See her zombie doctor and other new zombies, Jack Skellington and Sally, and more. New creations are on the drawing board, and so is a new website. Each Halloween prop is truly life-sized (most are 6 feet or taller – Jack is almost 8 feet) and seems almost alive.
Each is an all-weather, life-sized Halloween prop that can handle rain and snow, and is a one-of-a-kind work of art (no two are exactly the same). Each looks frighteningly "real." All come apart and fold down to slightly larger than a king-size pillow for easy storage. Comes with easy instructions, a plastic storage bag, and the lawn stake to stand it up in your front yard. Indoor stand sold separately.
Types of "Ghouls" include: Zombies (all kinds!), killer clowns, wizards, witches, devils, grave ghouls, scarecrows, executioners, mad doctors, deadly nurses, vampires, werewolves, and more. Kathy's also now offering an array of hand-painted Halloween signs, signs with heads and bodies hanging from them, witch's brewing pots, Halloween centerpieces and more. Best of all, her high quality creations are much more affordable and imaginative than most competitors or mass produced items in a store, making them affordable Halloween fun.
If you think the photos online look good, you should see them in person. A typical "ghoul," as she calls her creations, costs $129-$259. You can see some of her work at her Queen of Ghouls™ Ebay store – queenofghouls.com.
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Since squirrel season is here and my youngest thinks we need to go every weekend, my freezer is filling up with squirrels. So after this mornings hunt I put 2 of the 3 squirrels in the crock pot to start the squirrel stew he wanted me to make when we started hunting last weekend. I have always just fried everyone I have shot so this was something new for me. I have made stews before but not with these little dudes.
I decided I would use the crock pot to cook them up nice and tender so the meat would fall off the bones. Season salt and garlic powder and six hours later all is well(and very good as is). I deboned them and put them right back in the crock pot with all the juice. I added onion, carrots and spuds, just covered it all with water and put it in the fridge for tomorrow.
I will put it back on the heat in the morning and add a few things when I get home after work(corn starch to thicken) and see what I end up with. The wife thinks I should add a brown gravy mix, it will thicken it plus add some more wanted favor and color(I couldn't even get her to even try the squirrel meat so why is she even worried about how it taste is beyond me, she's not even going to try it)
On a good note I couldn't keep my 10 year old out of it while I was deboning the meat, he wants me to just cook some in the crock pot and eat it as is.
If this turns out like I hope it will I know what I'm making for deer camp this year, big ol pot of it!


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The economic and moral case for long-term reform of fiscal policy is clear. Yet politicians refuse to act. If this stalemate persists, it could end in catastrophe.
Over the next 30 years, spending on federal programs is on track to go up by 50 percent as a share of the economy. If revenue remain at their historical level, the resulting deficits will approach 20 percent of gross domestic product by 2036 -- almost 10 times the current size. The debt will surge to 200 percent of GDP -- twice what it was at the end of World War II.
Political realities explain why nothing has been done about this. Changing course would require substantial spending cuts from projected levels or equivalent tax increases. Neither party wants to be the first to propose these tough choices out of fear that the other side would attack it. Similarly, neither side wants to discuss possible compromises of its own priorities, out of fear that the other side will take the concessions and run. Unfortunately, these fears are justified.
Since the regular legislative process seems incapable of dealing with the impending crisis, some alternative has to be found. President Bush has suggested a commission. Having served on many commissions, we understand their potential value. We also understand how they can go wrong. In our view, a new commission could be very useful, but only if it recognizes fiscal and political realities. It needs five elements to succeed.
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Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) have put forward a proposal that satisfies most of these elements. They would create a bipartisan commission with a broad mandate to examine long-term fiscal challenges. All policy options would be on the table. The commission would solicit input from the public and develop legislation that Congress and the president would be required to act on. Its work would address four key concerns: the unsustainable gap between projected spending and revenue, the need to increase national savings, the implications of foreign ownership of U.S. government debt and the lack of emphasis on long-term planning in the budget process.
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We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We're thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we featured the work of Viktor "Roktiv", and today it's all about logos with antelopes!
Although the antelope might be an specific animal, it might also be one inside a wide range of other animals, a miscellaneous group within the family Bovidae, like deers, gazelles, mooses, elks, impalas, etc. Every week we search through our favorite galleries: Logopond and Dribbble. Both are a great communities for designers everywhere. Also, if you you'd like to suggest ideas for the next subjects, please, tell me by sending me sending me a tweet: @paulogabriel. Cheers! ;)


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To This Day
Posted on February 21, 2013 by ryan85
I came across this today and like a master's painting of scenes from the holocaust, it's haunting and beautiful at one time. Many of us and many of our kids know well the experiences and emotions of which Koyczan speaks. … Continue reading →
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The Journey, Third Overlook: Choose
Posted on April 11, 2011 by ryan85
We have the power to choose. The first chapter concludes with those six powerful words. De Vinck previously shared a story about being in the garden with his son, admiring a beetle when their impulsive neighbor crushed it. Later that evening, … Continue reading →
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From Sharon Harvey Rosenberg: A Return to Frugal Living
Monday, February 12, 2007
My Teen's First Paid Haircut: Finding His Own Frugal Path
How do we know this? Trial and big error: When my middle son was three years old, his mix of curly, wavy and straight hair confounded us. (My husband had very curly hair and I have very happy, nappy hair.) So we took our toddler to a hair salon. The cost: $40 for the haircut. Ouch! We paid the bill, tipped well, but have not been back to a hair salon since then.
But recently, my oldest son decided to take the hair-grooming business into his own hands. He went to Lincoln Road Mall -- a trendy outdoor pedestrian mall in South Beach. This shopping district is popular with supermodels, tourists and spend-happy consumers. (Starbucks has three outlets on Lincoln Road.) There are several beauty salons and upscale day spas on or near Lincoln Road. The main hair man for Jennifer Lopez (JLo) has a salon in the area. Prices are not cheap.
For a Mother's Day magazine story, I once had to undergo a manicure and a pedicure at an upscale salon on Lincoln Road. The price tag: $135 to have my nails trimmed, filed and painted. It was a tough assignment!
So when my teen stepped out for his new Lincoln Road haircut, I was worried. But he arrived home with a close cut (something like Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade) and I was very impressed with the price tag: $14.
Skipping past the high-end salons, my son had found some old-school mom & pop barber in one of the ungentrified areas of Lincoln Road. The haircut is sharp. He looks so cute.
The bad news: His hair grows fast and maintenance could be a bi-weekly cash drain.
The good news: He's back to DIY home haircuts. His father can just follow the lines of the professional barber, my son has suggested.
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5 comments:
- Thrifty Lady said...
I've been cutting my husband's hair since before we were married, 4 years ago. It has saved so much money! But unfortunately, he's attempted cutting my hair a few times (I like short hair cuts) and has failed miserably. So I've been stuck going months ignoring my hair before I finally break down and pay for a cut.
- skeet said...
Oh, the terrible memories you've revived! I bought a pricey hair clipper when my son was young, thinking to save the cost of haircuts. About the third time I managed to shave a bald spot in his lush mop, we both gave up! I guess some folks have it and some folks don't!
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- Holly Schwendiman said...
I'm so glad my mom helped me see the wisdom in applying for a scholarship to beauty school and getting my license before going on to college. She told me "It may not be what you want to do for the rest of your life and it doesn't have to be. But it's something you enjoy and it could help you pay your way through college. You'll always use the trade." Very wise mother, very wise indeed.
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- Lisa said...
That's a great way to save money. My husband has been cutting his own hair for a while now (with my help of course). He figures why pay a fortune for something he can do himself, and better I might add.
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- kailani said...
Haircuts can get to be expensive to maintain. It's a good thing he was smart enough to go to a reasonably priced salon!
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