Erick Wujcik
| Erick Wujcik | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 26, 1951 United States |
| Died | June 7, 2008 (aged 57) San Rafael, California, United States |
| Occupation | Author, editor, game designer, graphic artist, programmer |
| Period | 1979–2007 |
| Genre | Fantasy, science fiction |
| Subject | Computer programming, East Asian culture |
| Notable works |
After the Bomb Amber Diceless RPG Ninjas & Superspies Revised RECON Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness |
| Notable awards |
ENnie Award 2008 Lifetime Achievement Origins Award 2011 Hall of Fame |
| Partner | Kathryn Kozora |
Erick A. Wujcik (January 26, 1951 – June 7, 2008) was an American designer of both pen-and-paper and computer role-playing games, and co-founder of Palladium Books.
Wujcik started off as head of the gaming society at Wayne State University, The Warriors and Warlocks of the Wayne Weregamers Society, also known as the Wayne State Weregamers, where he met and befriended Kevin Siembieda. By 1980 the Wayne Weregamers became known as the Detroit Gaming Center, when Wujcik, the CDM(Congress of Dungeon Masters) and Siembieda moved the group from the Monteith House, scheduled for demolition, to an off-campus building run by a non-profit; Siembieda became Assistant Director for the Center with Wujcik as Director. Wujcik published the science-fiction adventure Sector 57 (1980) under the Detroit Gaming Center banner. Wujcik worked as a computer columnist for The Detroit News where he wrote their weekly "Computer Column" from 1979 to 1981. That served to be a springboard for him to co-found Palladium Books with Kevin Siembieda and to work on developing numerous role-playing games and supplements for such settings as Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, After the Bomb, Rifts, and many others, including Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game and Paranoia.
Siembieda obtained the rights to produce a licensed roleplaying game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book, but he did not approve of the freelancer's final product so he had Wujcik redesign the game, which was done in five weeks, and it was published as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (1985). Wujcik designed Revised Recon (1987), a role-playing game revision of the miniatures warfare game Recon (1982). Wujcik also designed the Ninjas & Superspies role-playing game in 1988, which built on his long-term interest in Japan and involved extensive research on his part. Wujcik also wrote the RPG After the Bomb for Palladium. He also freelanced for West End Games, and wrote one of the early adventures for the Paranoia roleplaying game, Clones in Space (1986) and contributed to the Acute Paranoia supplement (1986).
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