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Kevin Siembieda (Kevin Henry Siembieda) was born on 2 April, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, US, is an Author, illustrator, game designer. Discover Kevin Siembieda's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

Popular As Kevin Henry Siembieda
Occupation Author designer illustrator publisher of role-playing games at Palladium Books
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 2 April 1956
Birthday 2 April
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, US
Nationality United States

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1956

Kevin Siembieda (born April 2, 1956) is an American artist, writer, designer and publisher of role-playing games.

Siembieda is a third-generation Polish American.

1974

He attended the College for Creative Studies in Detroit from 1974 to 1977.

1977

He wanted to work as a comic book artist, but found the industry difficult to break into and published a small-press comic (A+ Plus, 1977-1978) with his company, Megaton Publications.

1979

In 1979 Siembieda discovered the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rulebook and joined a role-playing group, the Wayne Street Weregamers, which met at Wayne State University in Detroit (where he befriended Erick Wujcik, who ran the group).

Siembieda ran a game for the group, the Palladium of Desires, a combination of AD&D and his house rules.

1980

By 1980 the Weregamers became the Detroit Gaming Centre, with Siembieda its assistant director and Wujcik its director.

Siembieda tried to interest gaming companies in his RPG with little interest; only Judges Guild made him an offer, but he accepted an employment offer from them instead.

He worked as an artist for Judges Guild for four months before working as a freelance artist for other publishers and trying to sell his RPG to them.

Siembieda is the co-founder and president of Palladium Books.

1981

He founded the company in April 1981 to publish his fantasy role-playing game, but had insufficient funds to publish any books; the mother of his friend Bill Loebs loaned Siembieda $1,500 to publish his first RPG book, The Mechanoid Invasion (1981).

1983

By 1983 the company was successful enough for Siembieda to rent warehouse space and release his fantasy RPG, the Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game with a loan of $10,000 from his friend Thom Bartold who had also loaned him funds to print the other two books in the Mechanoid Trilogy, Journey and Homeworld in 1982.

These were not just loans, but investments, and Siembieda established a system of paying royalties not just to the writers and artists, but also to those who lent him the capital needed to print the books: his investors.

The following year, he branched the Palladium system to the superhero genre with Heroes Unlimited.

Role-playing games Siembieda has created include Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game (1983), Heroes Unlimited (1984), Robotech (1986), and Rifts (1990).

He is also an artist, and has occasionally illustrated Palladium Books products.

Siembieda contributed art and cartography to several early Judges Guild products for the Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller lines.

Siembieda's Robotech RPG Tactics Kickstarter is one of the largest failures in tabletop Kickstarter history.

The project failed to deliver on its goals and raised over $1.4M.

Despite not making its goal and unable to deliver Wave 2, Palladium did not refund money given to the project.

1985

A freelancer contacted Siembieda about producing a licensed role-playing game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book, so Siembieda obtained the rights, but was dissatisfied with the supplement the freelancer produced; Erick Wujcik redesigned the game in five weeks, and it was published in 1985 as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness.

1986

Siembieda next obtained the license to publish a game based on the Robotech anime series, so he designed the Robotech role-playing game and published in 1986.

1990

Siembieda wrote the RPG Rifts (1990) as a trade paperback in a two-column format which he laid out by hand.

He supported Wujcik in founding his own company, Phage Press.

1992

In 1992, Siembieda sued Wizards of the Coast over its first RPG book, The Primal Order; GAMA president Mike Pondsmith helped the parties reach a compromise in March 1993.

Siembieda also disagreed with White Wolf magazine and GDW over the coverage in their magazines regarding Palladium games.

2004

He demanded that websites devoted to Rifts and Palladium be taken down, believing that they violated his intellectual property, but eventually softened his stance in 2004.

Siembieda fired Bill Coffin over editorial differences and dissatisfaction with the Rifts Coalition Wars that Siembieda and Coffin co-authored.

2006

He announced on April 19, 2006 that Palladium Books was approaching bankruptcy, which he blamed on a former employee who was guilty of embezzlement.

2010

Siembieda filed a lawsuit on May 7, 2010 against Trion Worlds for its MMORPG Rift: Planes of Telara, and a settlement was reached in October 2010.