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Palladium Books®, Inc. - Press Release - October 9, 2001

Press Contact: Maryann Siembieda (msiembieda@palladiumbooks.com)

Rifts® movie buzz

Since the rumors are starting to fly, we thought we should bring everybody up to speed.
Palladium Books has been talking with a major Hollywood film producer and studio regarding a Rifts® Movie.

There is no signed movie deal yet, but serious negotiations continue between the film people and Palladium Books.

A while back, Palladium Books was contacted by Jerry Bruckheimer Productions. It seems Rifts® somehow caught Mr. Bruckheimer's attention through a Rifts® fan, and he fell in love with the concept and some of the key characters (O.C.C.s). We have been engaged in serious "talks" and contract negotiations ever since.

Now this does NOT mean a Rifts® movie will ever get made, but the Bruckheimer people are very interested in the Rifts® property. There are a number of obstacles that need to be overcome before Palladium can sign any agreement, but the Bruckheimer people seem confident that a deal can be hammered out. Keep your fingers crossed.

We will keep you posted if an agreement is reached, but Hollywood bureaucracy moves very slowly, so negotiations may continue for months or even years.

Jerry Bruckheimer has produced Pearl Harbor (released this past May) and such action movies as Gone in Sixty Seconds, Con Air, Armageddon, The Rock, Top Gun, and many more.
Surge Comic Properties is Palladium's New York City agent handling the negotiations and all licensing deals concerning Rifts®. Mark Freedman and Surge are most famous for their astute marketing of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® (movies, TV cartoon, toys, etc.).
Kevin and Maryann Siembieda are involved every step of the way.

Rifts® "licensed" products

Palladium contracted with Surge years ago to carefully and slowly expand Rifts® beyond role-playing and into the mass market.

To that end, they are carefully looking for licensees to do action figures, toys, electronic games, computer games, miniatures, model kits, comic books, novels, and a host of other possible products. In fact, Palladium was just recently approached by a company interested in doing a Rifts® on-line role-playing game and we wait for their proposal.

Palladium and Surge are looking for serious people who want to create quality, fun products that maintain the integrity of the Rifts® RPG world. The good folks at Precedence became Palladium's first licensee because it was clear the chief game designers knew and loved Rifts®, and everybody involved wanted to do a great looking and fun playing product.

Precedence's Rifts® Collectable Card Game hit the store shelves mid-September, and we are told is "selling great." Two expansion sets of booster cards are already in the works. Quality and fun are always among Palladium's top concerns when exploring any license.

Meanwhile, the Siembiedas remain focused on what they enjoy most, their core business of producing popular role-playing games. In addition to a number of exciting new products for the end of 2001, they plan to continue to support Rifts®, The Palladium Fantasy RPG®, and Heroes Unlimited™ with three new games slated for a 2002 release.

2001 Schedule of Releases

Available now!

• Rifts® CCG – From Precedence Entertainment
• Rifts® Coalition Wars™ Six: Final Siege
• Rifts® Game Master Guide. Just Shipped! Hot, hot, hot.

October:

• Rifts® Book of Magic – at the printers! Ships October 26. Another hot item!
• The Rifter #16 (the usual cool stuff) – October 26.

November:

• After the Bomb® RPG -- November 16; still on schedule and hotly anticipated.
• Rifts® Aftermath of War – Rescheduled to avoid delaying other products. Probably a December 2001 or January 2002 release – the world "after" the fall of Tolkeen and the Coalition Wars. We want to do this one right.

December:

• Rifts® Adventure Guide – Dec. 7; a guide to playing and running Rifts®, creating adventures and bunches of tables, data, and tips on how to do it.
• Land of the Damned™ One: The Northern Mountains – for Palladium Fantasy

Rifts® Game Master Guide
The ultimate Rifts® reference available now!
This 352 page master sourcebook was delayed a few days due to a minor delay at the printers. It was originally scheduled for Friday, September 28, but instead shipped Friday, October 5.

Note: Many of you have upped your orders for what should be one of the biggest selling Rifts® titles ever! However, some of you have ordered your usual numbers, we suspect assuming that Palladium will have the book in stock. WARNING: If the Rifts® Game Master Guide sells as well as we think it will, Palladium may run out of stock quickly. To avoid getting caught short, get any restock orders in quickly. Meanwhile, if we do run out, Palladium will do everything in its power to get it back into print, post haste. The Rifts® Book of Magic master sourcebook ships end of October and, we think, should sell nearly as well.

• All skills listed and described.
• All psionic powers listed and described.
• All weapons – every gun – listed and described.
• All kinds of miscellaneous equipment.
• All body armor listed and descriptions.
• All power armor with condensed descriptions.
• All robot vehicles with condensed descriptions.
• All vehicles! Aircraft, boats, hovercycles, tanks, etc.; condensed descriptions.
• Physical combat with clarifications and examples.
• Strength charts, bonuses and tables.
• S.D.C., combat and optional rules.
• Compendium (index) of characters; O.C.C.s, R.C.C.s, D-Bees and monsters.
• Every Experience table ever! 24 pages of them!!
• Rules clarifications, explanations and updates.
• Game Master tips and info on playing and running Rifts® adventures.
• 100 different adventure ideas in the world of Rifts®.
• 20 page mini-atlas of Rifts Earth, designer's notes and more.
• Cat. No. 845
• Retail Price: $24.95
• Page Count: 352 pages.
• Cover by: Dave Dorman.
• Interior Art: Perez, Breaux, Wilson, Johnson, Williams and Burles.
• Written by: Kevin Siembieda, Bill Coffin and others.
• Date of Release: Available now!

The Rifter #16 – Ships October 26

The Rifter® is a synthesis of Game Master and Players' Guide, talent show, fan forum, sourcebook, news source and fun for fans of all of Palladium's role-playing games. Done and at the printers!
Number Sixteen includes:

• Coalition Wars™ adventures for the Final Siege on Tolkeen.
• Questions & Answers.
• 30 big pages of source material for Nightbane®.
• Adventure for Ninjas & Superspies.
• Palladium Fantasy source material.
• "Teen" Heroes Unlimited™ rules for teen heroes.
• Rifts®, a new short story continues (part two of three).
• Rifts®, next chapter in the Hammer of the Forge (fiction).
• Palladium News & Coming Attractions and more.
• Cat. No. 116
• Retail Price: $7.95
• Page Count: 112 pages.
• Cover by: Scott Johnson
• Interior Art: Williams, Walpole, Breaux, Apollo and others.
• Written by: Siembieda, Coffin, and other contributors.
• Date of Release: October 26 (bumped back a week); ships with the Rifts® Book of Magic.

Rifts® Book of Magic
A Game Master's Guide
October 26, 2001
A huge 352 page book that collects all the myriad types of magic, hundreds and hundreds of spells, Techno-Wizard weapons, Rune weapons, magic vehicles, and other magic items. Plus clarifications and details on the various magic character classes. At the printers.

• Over 500 spells in one book! Ley Line Magic, Temporal Magic, Necromancy, Elemental Magic, Stone Magic, Ocean Magic, Whalesongs and more.
• Techno-Wizard creations.
• Rune weapons and other magic items.
• Magic Tattoos, Shamanistic magic, and more.
• Rules clarifications, explanations and updates.
• Game Master tips and more!
• Cat. No. 848
• Retail Price: $24.95
• Page Count: 352 pages.
• Cover by: John Zeleznik.
• Interior Art: Perez, Breaux, Wilson, Johnson, Williams and Burles.
• Written by: Kevin Siembieda and others.
• Date of Release: October 26. At the printers.

After the Bomb® RPG – November 30
A complete role-playing game
Erick Wujcik, designer and author of the best selling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle role-playing game, has created a dynamic new RPG called After the Bomb®.
He has turned the old After the Bomb series into a stand alone role-playing game that is as fresh and new for today's market as anything out there.
Better yet, it is a fresh new game that should have a powerful appeal to the hundreds of thousands of old Ninja Turtles and original After the Bomb fans, as well as players of Heroes Unlimited and Ninjas & Superspies.
Believe us when we tell you Erick has done it again – creating a game that should be an instant best seller. After the Bomb Role-Playing Game is a complete game in and of itself. Easy to learn and a blast to play. Everything one needs to play except dice, players and imagination.
Highlights include:

• Nearly 100 mutant animals – more if you include the many additional "breeds" tables.
• Expansive mutant animal section often divided into species, "pure breed" and others.
• Over 40 mutant animal powers – many more if you include the weird abilities exclusive to certain animal species, breeds and genetic "chimeras."
• Chimeras – super-mutants that are the product of genetic engineering.
• Mutant animal psionics.
• Human mutations.
• Optional appearance and background tables.
• World history and background information.
• More on the Empire of Humanity.
• More opportunity for adventure.
• Art by Ramon Perez, Scott Johnson, Freddie Williams and others.
• Compatible with Heroes Unlimited™ 2nd Edition and Ninjas & Superspies.
• Cat. No. 503
• Retail Price: $20.95
• Page Count: 224 pages.
• Cover by: Scott Johnson.
• Interior Art: Perez, Breaux, Wilson, Johnson, Williams and Burles.
• Written by: Erick Wujcik.
• Date of Release: November 30. On schedule.

Rifts® Adventure Guide – December 15
A Game Master and players' guide book to creating and running Rifts® adventures, and how to build and run a campaign.

• Numerous tables for randomly rolling up people, organizations, and places.
• Quick roll villains – stats for the average NPC villain.
• Optional rules and background tables.
• More on Rifts Earth.
• Adventures, adventure ideas and more.
• Art by Ramon Perez, Scott Johnson, Freddie Williams and others.
• Cat. No. 849
• Retail Price: $16.95 (may be increased to $20.95 if page count is expanded)
• Page Count: 160 pages (may be expanded to 200+ pages).
• Cover by: John Zeleznik
• Interior Art: Perez, Breaux, Wilson, and Williams.
• Written by: Kevin Siembieda and Bill Coffin.
• Date of Release: December 15, 2001. On schedule.
  Rifts® Aftermath of War ™
  Rescheduled
  The final siege on Tolkeen represents a new beginning. A chance to re-examine the world of Rifts® and see what has happened over the War Years elsewhere, as well as ride the shock waves that follow the aftermath of the war.
• What will become of Minnesota?
• Where will the Coalition States strike next?
• What new plots of retribution are being forged in the wake of Tolkeen's fall?
• Where does Free Quebec stand and what is its fate?
• How do the Cyber-Knights end up?
• What is going on with Northern Gun and the Manistique Imperium?
• What has Archie Three been doing all this time?
• Will the Federation of Magic attack Chi-Town?
• How has Triax and the New German Republic been doing against the Gargoyle Empire?
• What new threats have appeared?
• These and other questions beg to be asked – and we plan to answer them all.
• Cat. No. 846
• Retail Price: $16.95 (may be increased to $20.95 if page count is expanded).
• Page Count: 160 pages (may be expanded to 200+ pages).
• Cover by: Dave Dorman.
• Interior Art: Perez, Breaux, Wilson, and Williams.
• Written by: Kevin Siembieda.
• Date of Release: December 2001 or January 2002.

Copyright 2001 Kevin Siembieda

This Press Release may be used and portions reprinted with Palladium's permission for the purpose of news

and promotion. Palladium Books®, Rifts®, The Rifter®, Nightbane®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, After the Bomb® and Megaverse® are registered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda. Cyber-Knights, Coalition Wars, Siege on Tolkeen, Eastern Territory, Northern Hinterlands, Land of the Damned, Heroes Unlimited, HU2, Aliens Unlimited, The Nursery, Mutant Underground, Coalition Wars, Wolfen, and other titles and names are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books.

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