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Game Lines

• After the Bomb, a post-apocalyptic RPG that began as an alternative campaign setting for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, but soon developed into its own series. In it, mutant animals struggle for survival, often against human supremacist nations.
• Beyond the Supernatural, a modern horror RPG along the lines of Call of Cthulhu. An incomplete second edition core rulebook was released in January 2005, with more information about the world, which is assumed to be similar to the real world, but with supernatural happenings which no one notices. Promised sourcebooks dealing with magic and monsters have failed to appear and seem unlikely to do so.
• Rifts Chaos Earth, a prequel to Rifts, set immediately after a war that triggers a magical apocalypse, opening dimensional gates that unleash monsters upon a technologically advanced future Earth.
• Dead Reign, a post-apocalyptic RPG where mankind is waging war on a zombie menace.
• Heroes Unlimited, a superhero RPG.
• Macross II, based on the anime of the same name. The license has lapsed and was not renewed.
• The Mechanoid Invasion, a science fiction RPG set during the battle between human colonists and the Mechanoids, a race of psionic, cybernetic beings who wish to exterminate humanoid life.
• Nightbane (formerly called Nightspawn), is a horror RPG set in the year 2004 (a near-future setting when the game was released). It differs from Beyond the Supernatural in that the supernatural elements are not as hidden and more open. The series is placed after "Dark Day", an event where the earth was plunged into an unnatural, starless night for 24 hours, and supernatural entities infiltrated or subverted various governments and organizations across the globe.
• Ninjas & Superspies is based on both martial-arts and espionage movies with some science fiction elements mixed in.
• Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game is a fantasy RPG set in a unique world, which was the home of Kevin Siembieda's fantasy games.
• Revised RECON, originally a Vietnam War-based RPG, it was later updated for modern-era combat involving mercenaries in fictional hotspots mirroring such places as Africa and South America.
• Rifts is set primarily on Earth, four hundred years after a war-triggered magical apocalypse, opening dimensional gateways and heralding the return of magic, Atlantis, and numerous invasions by alien forces. Rifts is Palladium's flagship line.
• Robotech, based on the anime series of the same name. The original Robotech license lapsed in 2001 and was not renewed; however, an August 26, 2006 post on the company forums declared Palladium's intent to reacquire the license due to the new sequel, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. As of February 19, 2007, Siembieda stated that contract talks were still in progress between Palladium and Harmony Gold, with a new RPG based on The Shadow Chronicles projected for release in early 2007. However, contract negotiations lasted longer than anticipated, and it was not until September 6, 2007 before Palladium was able to announce the deal had been finalized. The Shadow Chronicles role-playing game was published in a "manga-sized" form factor, rather than the standard 8-1/2 by 11-inch size of all its prior publications, a move that engendered some controversy among Palladium fans, prompting the announcement of a full-sized "deluxe" edition of the sourcebook.
• Splicers is a post-apocalyptic RPG where humans have turned to organic technology to fight a robotic threat.
• Systems Failure is a post-apocalyptic game in which the Y2K bug heralded the collapse of the power and telecommunications grids with the arrival of extra dimensional energy "bugs".
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness was based on the original comic books. However, due to waning sales (blamed on the questionable quality of the original television cartoon's later seasons), the license was not renewed when it expired in 2000. Many concepts established in TMNT continue in both Heroes Unlimited and After the Bomb.
• Valley of the Pharaohs is an historical RPG set in Ancient Egypt.