 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