Erick Wujcik 1951-2008

I just read that Erick Wujcik has passed away. For those of you unfamiliar, Erick wrote for Role-playing Games. Erick helped co-found Palladium Games. I’m looking at a list of some of the games he helped develop and the memories are flooding in:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness: Yes, they made a game and it was nuts. I ran this one as a teenager. Favorite memory: Having the heroes fight a Minotaur named Ferd, who when blasted in the chest made a sound something like “Mhur?”

Robotech: Striker ran this game and it was always ludicrous. Not so much role-playing as seeing what we could survive. And the one guy who took out a Zentradi ship with 4 missles.

Rifts: Total Cluster-Fuck. Rifts was great for my one-shot games. Get everybody together for one night (which usually became a weekend) and let them make anything. And if you are familiar with Rifts you know how crazy that is. I had one rule: No Gods or Adult Dragons.

Palladium Fantasy: My God. How many of these did I run? I introduced this game to the boys in Bakersfield with one legendary game and one Legendary word: SUBMIT!

The Gonzo Pirates Games: The Brothers Grimm! They were expecting to swing from Chandeliers and I ran a Geo-Political game, and surprisingly, no one was disappointed.

I wrote some epic stories for these games. I really think it honed my skills as a writer. If I could tie together a Juicer, a Dog-boy, two Tattoo-Warrior-Vampire-Slayer-Twins, a Space-based-Glitter-Boy, A German-Mech-Pilot and a Demi-God (And Lord knows what else), I can do anything.

Wow, so many memories.

Thank you, Erick.

God Bless.