#kevin siembieda

[oldschoolfrp]

Equipment suitable for England's Second Barons' War in the 1260s, from The Palladium Book of Weapons & Armour by Matthew Balent, illustrations credited to Mary Walsh and Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Books, 1981

[legionofmyth]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness - [Pt. 3/5] - Kevin Siembieda & Sean Roberson

[Part 3/5] 🐢 Dive into the world of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness with Kevin Siembieda and Sean Roberson! 🎉 Join the conversation on the epic TMNT RPG revival. 📽️ Don't miss it! #TMNTRPG #TabletopGaming #RPGRevival #TMNTKickstarter

[Part 3/5] Get ready to embark on an epic nostalgia trip with the all-new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Kickstarter by Palladium Books! Dive into the world of these iconic heroes with two deluxe hardcover collections, beautifully remastered in full color. Kevin Eastman, the co-creator of TMNT, graces us with a stunning painted cover, while exclusive bonus content offers…

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

If I was designing an RPG where you head seperate psionics and magic systems, I would simply not give the magical energy points a name that contains "psychic".

[prokopetz]

Reading your posts mentioning Palladium, and currently listening to an episode of a podcast about Heroes Unlimited. I have to ask, why *are* Palladium games like that? Is there some goal in mind? Some quirk of the era that they couldn't shake off? Is it one really weird guy catering only to himself in the design room?

(With reference to this post here.)

It's 100% on account of the fact that Kevin Siembieda genuinely believes he's an excellent technical writer, and he's really, really not. Like, I'd be the last guy to impugn his creativity, but from a technical writing standpoint his work is consistently very bad, and has not discernibly improved since 1981.

[vintagerpg]

Monsters and Animals (1985) is the bestiary for the Palladium Role-Playing Game, consisting of about 100 pages for the former, 60 for the latter.

Let’s talk about the animals first. It is a weirdly exhaustive list. I am not sure I need stats for the goldfinch, despite it being the state bird New Jersey, but they’re in there. And lots of other birds, and other animals too, nearly none of which seem like good opponents for players. But I guess it is nice to know there is a small region in the southern portion of the continent where koalas live. Love a koala.

That’s another idiosyncratic thing for this book. Nearly all the creatures are accompanied by a small map of the continent with their range shaded in. I certainly don’t mind this sort of information, but I do kind of wonder if anyone was ever so in sync with a setting as to worry about whether monsters were in their proper geographic region. I can’t imagine playing a game where that would be a factor.

The monsters are a good mix of classics from folklore (a proper manticore!) and weird creations (Horse people with peacock tails? Sure, why not.) I think the Owl Thing is maybe my favorite. I have to say, the pencil work here is pretty outstanding and all by Kevin Siembieda. I’m not used to him delivering in this style, and at this level of realism. Not so into his cover for the first edition, though. The revised second printing cover is a strong improvement, and I love that manticore (the critter on the first printing isn’t a mistakenly winged manticore — rather, it matches Siembieda’s basic design for the sphinx).

[jamesdavisnicoll]

Bundle of Holding: Rifts Core MEGA (repeat from 2022) A gigantic array of .PDF rulebooks, supplements, and sourcebooks for Kevin Siembieda's Rifts tabletop roleplaying game from Palladium Books.

[yourkingmob]

Next Gen

Man, I need to find a good, narrative ttrpg game system that is not PbtA to slot into the Beyond the Supernatural game. Something good for a ghost hunting / monster of the week game.

Kevin Siembieda is a genius when it comes to writing fluff and making incredible game worlds, ones with scope bigger than you'll ever touch the edges on, but I can't play a 2nd gen RPG system anymore.

And I've lost my need for simulationist gaming, I don't need moment to moment ebb and flow of combat, I need things to resolve quickly with narrative input from the players.

[the-nexus-cleave]

The Nexus Cleave is a #fanfiction featuring Magneto and elements of the Rifts RPG universe by Kevin Siembieda.

Magento was created by Stan Lee, Chris Claremont, and Jack Kirby.

All art was borrowed and NOT for profit.

THIS IS A NOT FOR PROFIT PRODUCTION AND INCORPORATES AN ORIGINAL STORY-LINE FROM THE MENTIONED.

THE USE OF MARVEL AND RIFTS CHARACTERS ARE NOT FOR PROFIT.

[refiningpalladium]

Stats are limited to two possible explosions per stat roll; even Kevin Siembieda wouldn't go that far.

Also, as a Palladium fan, I'm contractually obligated to state that this is a great idea.

Everyone loves exploding dice and everyone loves rolling for stats. Therefore to make the ultimate character creation system make it so that dice can explode when rolling for stats

(For anyone not aware exploding dice means that when you roll the maximum result on a dice you get to roll that dice again and add it to the result, repeating until it doesn't explode)

[manyworldspress]

Keith Parkinson, Arcane Summons. Cover illustration for Adventures in the Northern Wilderness, Palladium RPG book 4, by Kevin Siembieda (Palladium Books, 1989).

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[oldschoolfrp]

12th-13th century mail styles for historical or fantasy settings (The Palladium Book of Weapons and Armour by Matthew Balent, with armor illustrations by Mary Walsh and Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Books, 1981) This 50-page comic-sized publication gave a brief introductory summary of armor and weapon types through history and across different cultures, with a bibliography for further study, useful enough for the $4.95 cover price.

[legionofmyth]

Kevin Siembieda & Sean Roberson, TMNT, Atlantis, Yin-Sloth, etc.

Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson join us to give a status of the 🐢 TMNT & Other Strangeness (Redux) Kickstarter and to show off some new art; tease us with information on ☃️ Rifts World Book 37: Atlantis, 🦧 Yin-Sloth Expeditions for Palladium Fantasy; educate us with some 🪄 Techno-Wizard advice for Rifts, and so much more!  It was a fun time for everyone. #palladiumbooks #rifts #ttrpg #rpg

Palladium Fantasy 2E Rifts Ultimate Edition Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson join us to give a status of the TMNT & Other Strangeness (Redux) Kickstarter and to show off some new art; tease us with information on Rifts World Book 37: Atlantis, Yin-Sloth Expeditions for Palladium Fantasy; educate us with some Techno-Wizard advice for Rifts, and so much more!  It was a fun time for…

[incompetentmedic]

Yes, I’m a gamer, but there’s so much more to me than that - I’ve also seen a film.

[docschott]

(Update 217 is also educational) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robotech-rpg-tacticstm/posts/2120399 At least this shitshow is finally over. Summary of what’s come out of this in the past few days: • Harmony Gold pulled the license. This is important, because (as a few of you know) RRPGT started out as a fan-game and Palladium ran a hostile takeover of said game about halfway through the Kickstarter. So, in theory, it could be salvaged. Unfortunately, I suspect the well is too poisoned to try, but at least new minis will be an option either now, or in three years when HG fucking finally loses the last scrap of the license they don’t really have but defend to the death (it’s complicated). • As most of us suspected, good ol’ Kevin Sembieda decided to spend all the Kickstarter money on a third of the product and hope it paid for the rest (AKA run a pyramid scheme). • The amount of money needed/missing is within ~250k of the amount embezzled from the company shortly after the Kickstarter closed. Money that mysteriously stopped being needed a few months thereafter. BUT THAT IS A COINCIDENCE AMIRITE. • “It’s cool guys, you can trade in your remaining cash value for the models we still have pallets of in the back room. You know, the ones for an unsupported game with less than a third of the units. And you have to pay shipping. That’s as good as a refund, right?” • “Right?” • “Oh shit” • ALL of the RRPGT stuff is getting pulled from RPGnow and the “officialish” sites that are left. Grab it now if you want to play. It’s.. not actually a bad  game, despite the literally criminal mishandling it got from Palladium. Carmen did a good job of cleaning up the beta rules. • They’re going to have to liquidate everything by Mar. 20th. If you want hypercheap Destroids, grab ‘em in a week or so when the dumpsales start..

[vintagerpg]

OK, this book is bold as hell. Old Ones (1984), the SECOND book in the Palladium Role-Playing Game line and already going for the Cthulhu monsters. Right there on the cover! A shapeless horror! Imagine what kind of RPG would do that. Because, actually, the Palladium Role Playing Game doesn’t, really. This isn’t an entire book dedicated to the Old Ones. It isn’t even sorta dedicated to cosmic horrors.

Instead, it opens with two new classes: the Monk and the Illusionist. Then, over 120 pages (of a 210 page book), we get the Kingdom of Timiro: a brief history, eight cities, 25 towns and 21 forts. This is followed by eight scenarios, at least two of which, admittedly, do visit places built or once inhabited by Old Ones. The source material for the Old Ones is the very last thing in the book, begins on page 208, is padded out by a full-page illustrations on 209, and fills most of 210. Like I said, BOLD.

That said, this is good stuff, actually. A little too much (I don’t think I’ve used more than three forts in my entire D&D career?) but still, there are tons of raw material here for a GM to plunder. I don’t think any of the adventures are particularly noteworthy, but again, the dungeon complexes are solid and stealable.

Nice art throughout all by Michael Kucharski, who I don’t know beyond his Palladium work. Kevin Siembieda did the cover, and its pretty good despite the lack of Old Ones inside.

[jamesdavisnicoll]

Bundle of Holding: Rifts Core MEGA This new Rifts® Core Megabundle presents a gigantic array of .PDF rulebooks, supplements, and sourcebooks for Kevin Siembieda's Rifts tabletop roleplaying game from Palladium Books. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/RiftsCoreMega