Kevin Siembieda

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name = Kevin H. Siembieda


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birthdate = April 2 1956
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occupation = Role-playing game writer and publisher
nationality = American
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Kevin Siembieda (born April 2 1956) is an American artist, writer, designer, and publisher of role-playing games, as well as being the founder and president of Palladium Books.

Palladium Books, founded in southeast Michigan, claims to be the first to implement a role-playing system intended to work for all genres and to introduce the perfect-bound trade paperback format to the RPG industry. Although preceded by the extremely obscure "Supergame" (DAG Productions, 1980), "The Mechanoid Invasion" (1981), along with the "Palladium Fantasy RPG" (1983), and "Heroes Unlimited" (1984), became one of the first commercially successful attempts to create an all-encompassing, "megaversal" role-playing system that allows players to role play in any environment they please while still using the same set of "core" rules.Fact|date=April 2007

Some of the role-playing games Siembieda helped produce include "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness" (1985), "Robotech RPG" (1986), "After The Bomb" (1986), and "Rifts" (1990).

Siembieda is also an artist, best known for occasionally illustrating Palladium Books' products. In 1978, he started the now-defunct Megaton Publications in Detroit, publishing a digest style title called "A+ Plus". [http://www.dragoncon.org/people/siembik.html] and several other titles. He also contributed art and cartography to several early Judges Guild products (for both their "Traveller" and "Dungeons & Dragons" lines).

He was a Guest of Honor of Penguicon.Fact|date=March 2007