palladium books

Remember back in the early part of this decade when crowdfunding was red-hot and could do no wrong? Back then it was common for some of the high-profile funding efforts to raise a million or more in cash. Then the bloom started fading from the rose when stories of broken promises, late (or nonexistent) deliveries, and shoddy finished products began spreading. As some unfortunate entrepreneurs discovered, just being able to raise the money isn’t enough to guarantee you can make a successful product. In 2013 roleplaying game makers Palladium Books, most famous for their Rifts RPG and various products based on Robotech, launched their own Kickstarter for their next product: Robotech RPG Tactics, an expansive tabletop miniatures game. The campaign raised nearly 1 and a half MILLION dollars — enough to guarantee people would get what they paid for, right? That’s also what Palladium thought, but delays and unexpected complications resulted in their burning through the crowdfunded capital before they could blink. They partnered with a company called Ninja Division