Kevin Siembieda

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Kevin H. Siembieda
Born	April 2nd, 1956
Occupation	Role-playing game writer and publisher
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror fiction

Kevin Siembieda (born April 2nd, 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 and poorly designed 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^{[citation needed]}.

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. He went on to perform artistic chores for Justice Machine [1] and several other titles. He also contributed art and cartography to several early Judges Guild products (for both their Traveler and Dungeons & Dragons lines).

He was a Guest of Honor of Penguicon.^{[citation needed]}