The Mechanoid Invasion

The Mechanoid Invasion (and its source books, supplements and sequels) was the first role-playing game from Palladium Books, conceived and written by Kevin Siembieda, with contributions from Erick Wujcik.^[1]

The Mechanoid Invasion centered on a powerful, malevolent, and numerous race of bio-driven machines that had come to invade a planet called Gideon E that was colonized by humans. In its original edition, published in 1981,^[2] the game was published as a series of three comic-book sized sourcebooks:^[3]

1. the first, The Mechanoid Invasion, dealt with the eponymous invasion of Gideon E
2. the second, Journey, dealt with human survivors living within a mechanoid mothership after the destruction of the Gideon E colony and introduced "minor magic and some psionics",^[4]
3. the third, Homeworld, dealt with the Mechanoid homeworld itself.

The first book was revised and republished in an expanded form in 1985.^[5]

In Spring 1991 Caliber Comics also produced a 3-book series called "The Mechanoids" which adapted the RPG into comic book stories.^[6]

In the early 90s "Sourcebook Two" of Rifts (role-playing game) was released, titled The Mechanoids, and it included MDC conversions for the Mechanoids for use in a Rifts Earth setting, along with a storyline on how they got there.^[7]

In Winter 1998 a Collected Mechanoids RPG was released.^[8] By 2001 all 3 books were compiled as the Mechanoid Invasion Trilogy^[9] which is still available.^[10]

Mechanoids Space, a complete RPG first announced in 1993 for release the following year, was last promised for publication in December 2002 as late as September 2002.^[8] As of 2016 it is still available in the store labelled "coming soon".^[11]

References

External links

• The Mechanoid Invasion official discussion board at Palladium Books Forums of the Megaverse
• The Mechanoid Invasion at RPG Geek Database
• The Mechanoid Invasion at RPGnet Game Index