Grota Drozdala

SSS 08 will be revealed and launched next Tuesday, July 1st, midday -- during the EST work day (-6 godzin w polacz-landii). The exact time will be announced next Monday.

• The preorder will run from July 1st to August 1st -- maybe up until Gen Con, we'll see.
  
• Preordered books will be signed and hand numbered by me -- 001 to 200.
  
• Preorders are limited to 200 books. That's right. After 200 books, preorders are over!
  
• Preordered books cost $25 plus shipping.
  
• There is a sweet limited edition preorder t-shirt for this book. The t-shirt costs $20. It will only be available during the preorder period. If you have any doubt about how sweet our t-shirt deals are, ask the lucky few got the black tengus from the Blossoms preorder.
  
• Preorders ship August 18th-25th. We ship in the order received. So if you order first, you'll get your book first.
  
• Preorders will NOT be available at Gen Con. We will NOT have signed and numbered copies at Gen Con. We WILL have regular edition of these books for sale at Gen Con.
  
• There are NO PDFs of this book available. Ever. Do not ask.
  

The book is 296 pages, digest-sized. Art for this book includes a cover by Ian Miller and interiors by Chris Moeller, Richard Luschek, Kurt Komoda (!!!), Kev Sather, Jenn Rodgers and Jordan Worley among others.

PlaGMaDA's mission is to preserve, present, and interpret play generated cultural artifacts, namely manuscripts and drawings created to communicate a shared imaginative space. The Archive will solicit, collect, describe, and publicly display these documents so as to demonstrate their relevance, presenting them as both a historical record of a revolutionary period of experimental play and as aesthetic objects in their own right. By fostering discussion and educating the public, it is hoped that the folkways which generate these documents can be encouraged and preserved for future generations.

Erick Wujcik Passes Quietly

Beloved role-playing game designer, Erick Wujcik, passed away Saturday evening, June 7, 2008. He died from complications related to pancreatic and liver cancer. Kathryn Kozora, his sweetheart of more than 30 years, and other loved ones were at his side.

Erick was diagnosed with cancer in late November, 2007 and given 6-8 weeks to live. True to Erick’s indomitable spirit and zest for life, he proved the doctors wrong by lasting more than six months. Most of that time was spent with friends and loved ones.

Erick Wujcik’s accomplishments are many.

To the role-playing game community, Erick is best known for his many RPG games and contributions to Palladium Books®, including The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® RPG, several TMNT® sourcebooks, After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks for it, Ninjas & Superspies™, Mystic China™, Rifts® China One and Two, Revised RECON®, Wolfen Empire™ and many others. He is also famous for Amber® Diceless, the first truly “diceless” role-playing game, published under Erick’s own label, Phage Press. Erick also published Amberzine® and founded Ambercon™, a series of conventions celebrating gaming, friendship and the world of Amber, hosted at numerous locations around the world.

Erick Wujcik was also the founder, heart and soul of the Detroit Gaming Center, served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Game Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2003-2008), and worked in the videogame industry for the last several years, including UbiSoft China and most recently, as Senior Game Design/Writer at Totally Games, Novato, California.

Erick Wujcik’s greatest accomplishment, however, is his contagious joy for life and love of ideas and imagination that inspired people around the world. Whether they were one of his students at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, fellow game designers, or fans sitting in the audience at a convention or seminar listening to Erick speak, to those who had the pleasure of gaming with Erick (he loved to run games at conventions and everywhere he went), to those who knew him best, they couldn’t help but to love him. Even the millions who only knew him through his published works or communicated with him online, considered him a friend.

Erick is survived by Kathyrn Kozora, Kate's granddaughter – his beloved Sara, mother Nora, sister Peggy, his Aunt Mary and Uncle Sam and Nancy, along with dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.

Erick’s last months of life were the same as he had always lived, full of friendship, joy, grace and beauty. He went quietly into the night, like a snowflake falling gently from the heavens.

– Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Books