The Glitterbois – Details, episodes & analysis

Thanks for joining us, dear listeners, for the next awaited episode in our super awesome "A Palladium Retrospective" discussion episodes with the man himself, Kevin Siembieda of Palladium Books! This time we're talking about how the game Beyond the Supernatural came to be, and how it continued to evolve for over three decades. Give us a listen and you might get some hints of things to come!

Drop us a line! You can follow us (sporadically) on Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes or any other podcast aggregate sites.

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Links of Note:

• Beyond the Supernatural 1st Edition Anniversary Hardback
• Beyond the Supernatural 1st Edition, Digital
• Beyond the Supernatural 2nd Edition, Digital
• Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast "The Night Stalker" Episode

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC, Matthew Gray, and Just Jacob
• Guests: Kevin Siembieda
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 01:41:30

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

We release all of our episodes simultaneously on:

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuc8KbdMqx8ajWfm2OUTs7A
• Audio RSS: https://breakfastpuppies.com/feed/glitterbois

Want to help us pay for hosting? We have a few options:

• Drop us a one-time donation or a recurring membership at our Ko-Fi page
• Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar
• We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag.
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The title says it all, but here's the expanded question: Can the Palladium RPG rules system handle a Dune-inspired RPG campaign? This is a free-form discussion episode where NPC and JJ delve into their thoughts on the topic, including some ideas on how you can make such a game happen, should you be inclined.

Drop us a line! You can follow us (sporadically) on Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes or any other podcast aggregate sites.

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Links of Note:

• Rifts RPG 1st Edition, Digital
• Rifts RPG Ultimate Edition, Digital
• Dune, the story franchise
• Dune 2D20 RPG
• Dune Chronicles of the Imperium
• Fading Suns 2nd Edition
• A Song of Ice and Fire RPG
• A Cloak of Blades, by Isaac Sher

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Just Jacob
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 37:50

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

We release all of our episodes simultaneously on:

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuc8KbdMqx8ajWfm2OUTs7A
• Audio RSS: https://breakfastpuppies.com/feed/glitterbois

Want to help us pay for hosting? We have a few options:

• Drop us a one-time donation or a recurring membership at our Ko-Fi page
• Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar
• We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag.
• Check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse.

Support The Glitterbois by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-glitterbois

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/949d3c2c-0fab-46d2-b4c7-1366664e5937

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In today's episode, we're talking about ways to encourage alternate combat tactics in Palladium games (with a heavy focus on Rifts and RECON). If you have your own ideas for encouraging characters to do things other than spam their best attack, drop by our Discord and share them.

Drop us a line! You can follow us (sporadically) on Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes or any other podcast aggregate sites.

For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Rifts RPG 1st Edition, Digital
• Rifts RPG Ultimate Edition, Digital
• Rifts Ultimate Edition, Hardcover
• A Cloak of Blades, by Isaac Sher

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC, Matthew Gray, and Just Jacob
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 26:46

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

We release all of our episodes simultaneously on:

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuc8KbdMqx8ajWfm2OUTs7A
• Audio RSS: https://breakfastpuppies.com/feed/glitterbois

Want to help us pay for hosting? We have a few options:

• Drop us a one-time donation or a recurring membership at our Ko-Fi page
• Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar
• We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag.
• Check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse.

Support The Glitterbois by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-glitterbois

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/0b294937-2db3-4352-bd54-39ff1faf1edd

This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-66e5ee for 40% off for 4 months, and support The Glitterbois.

We're finally back to doing another Robotech episode, and this time we're taking a deeper look at the awesome Cyclone. These soldiers with their transforming suits of motorcycle armor are just about the coolest damn things ever made, and you get to play one! We also talk about some of the extended properties around the Cyclone, including the lamentably awful Xbox games. Give us a list, then let us know your favorite versions of the Cyclone!

Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Robotech Role-Playing Game (Palladium), Softcover
• Robotech: A Macross Roleplaying Game (Savage Worlds), Softcover
• Robotech: The Macross Saga Roleplaying Game (Advantage6), Hardcover
• Robotech Novels: The Macross Saga, Vols. 1-3, by Jack McKinney

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 23:16

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

Want to help us pay for hosting? Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar! We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag. And check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/2c63b663-aff3-4a3e-a289-bfe32cf2e43c

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Our trek through the Rifts World Book series continues with World Book 2: Atlantis! Another fantastic entry in the new (at the time) Rifts game line, this book gave everyone their first actual look at the foul Splugorth, who would still be recurring villains three decades later today. Atlantis has so much to offer, so if you're not yet familiar with it, give us a listen!

Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Rifts RPG 1st Edition, Digital
• Rifts RPG Ultimate Edition, Digital
• Rifts Ultimate Edition, Hardcover
• Rifts Atlantis World Book 2, Digital
• Dungeons: The Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 35:25

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

Want to help us pay for hosting? Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar! We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag. And check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/25ff53e7-352e-4b58-9603-9820d7e4fc58

This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-66e5ee for 40% off for 4 months, and support The Glitterbois.

In this episode we're having a longer discussion about one of Palladium's more notorious game mechanics: Mega-Damage. What is it, how does it work, what do we think about it, and what are our house rules? Give us a listen to find out, then drop by our Discord server and tell us your own house rules.

Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Rifts RPG 1st Edition, Digital
• Rifts RPG Ultimate Edition, Digital
• Rifts Adventure Guide, Digital

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 30:00

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

Want to help us pay for hosting? Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar! We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag. And check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/e293c7cd-e847-4458-851d-fedba4daf895

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Responding to a request from our listener "jonesy" we are taking a deep look at a somewhat more obscure title from Palladium: the Splicers Role-Playing Game. In this Cronenberg-meets-Akira-meets-Gore-Police body horror setting, bio-organic supermen fight a losing war against a world-dominating Robot AI bent on extermination of the entire human race. Give us a listen, and then drop by on Discord and talk with us about your favorite Splicers game stories!

One post-recording correction: We've just learned that there was another Splicers book in the form of an Adventure Sourcebook. Awesome!

Also, in this and the following few episodes, I realized too late after the fact that my headphone cable was tapping against the mic stand and causing a really tiny but somewhat annoying sound. I've cut it out in most places, but it still comes through sometimes when I'm talking. I've since fix the issue, so after this batch it will sound a lot better, but for now I apologize if there is an annoying click in there.

Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Blame! on Netflix
• Tetsuo: the Iron Man
• Splicers RPG, Digital
• Splicers Adventure Sourcebook, Digital

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 28:57

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

Want to help us pay for hosting? Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar! We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag. And check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/a0746b12-98bf-4cdc-9ba0-504f4a2aea86

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Palladium's role-playing games have always been - and probably will always still be - our biggest RPG loves. But at the same time we were really getting into them, there were a number of other 1990s-era RPGs which had a huge impact on our imaginations. In this episode, we're taking an aside to talk about the biggest of those other games that also helped shape us into the tabletoppers that we are today.

Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Palladium Fantasy RPG 1st Edition, Digital
• Rifts RPG 1st Edition, Digital

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 35:22

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

Want to help us pay for hosting? Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar! We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag. And check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/fe49acfb-d033-409e-aa05-87ce10a09a75

This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-66e5ee for 40% off for 4 months, and support The Glitterbois.

Now we dive into the line of spin-off "Dimension Books" for the Rifts Roleplaying game, starting with the official first of that line: Wormwood! Kicking the line off with a resounding crunch, Wormwood is an epic heavy metal, good vs evil, "hold a candle against the great dark tide" kind of campaign setting. There's a lot here to talk about, so give us a listen and then let us know your favorite parts of this weird action horror game world!

Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Rifts Wormwood Dimension Book 1, Digital
• Rifts RPG 1st Edition, Digital
• Rifts RPG Ultimate Edition, Digital

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 29:13

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

Want to help us pay for hosting? Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar! We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag. And check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/2659da87-a8cc-4a33-8a07-52c3504b877f

This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-66e5ee for 40% off for 4 months, and support The Glitterbois.

Let's face it: we have a problem. It's an addiction, and a fierce one. As long as our Palladium collection is incomplete, so are we. Need more! In this episode we talk about our growing collections of Palladium books, and the persistent bug that is the urge to keep growing them. How has the collecting bug hit you since the pandemic began? Join our discord and let us know!

Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and we'd love to see you on our Discord Channel too. And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes! For even more info and options, check out our main website or our low-bandwidth alternative feed site.

Links of Note:

• Palladium Books at Drive-Thru RPG
• Palladium Store
• Noble Knight Games Online
• Mechanoid Invasion Trilogy, Digital
• Our XMas Grab Bag Review Episode
• Matthew's XMas Grab Bag Unboxing

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC and Matthew Gray
• Music: Opening is "8-Bit bass & lead" by Furbyguy, Closing is "Caravana" by Phillip Gross
• Episode Length (We support chapters!): 47:43

Glitter Boys, Rifts, the Megaverse, and all other such topics are the property of Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books. Please buy all their stuff and help keep them in print and making more games! You can order directly at palladiumbooks.com, and their entire catalog is available digitally at Drive-Thru RPG as well.

Want to help us pay for hosting? Follow this link to our Pinecast Tip Jar! We've got a merch store if you're looking for some sweet Glitterbois swag. And check out our affiliate store and buy some of the various products we endorse!

Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/the-glitterbois/a14b6d7b-5be0-438b-b101-455fa6019ba2

This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-66e5ee for 40% off for 4 months, and support The Glitterbois.