Palladium Books made Erick Wujik's first tabletop RPG available on DriveThruRPG in PDF.
Sector 57 – A Tournament Game by Erick Wujcik
Erick Wujcik’s very first RPG (1980, self-published). He would go on to write the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® & Other Strangeness RPG, Ninjas & Superspies, Amber Diceless, and other RPGs. This is a self-published tournament game written by Erick Wujcik and illustrated by Kevin Siembieda, and yes, it is Erick’s and Kevin’s first published collaboration. The adventure involves the characters finding a derelict alien spacecraft. What happened to the crew? Can you figure out how to pilot and keep the spaceship for yourselves? And unravel other secrets? We are selling for the original 1980 price of $5.00, making it a deal. Note: ALL proceeds after DriveThru fees go to the Wujcik estate and probably toward the education of Erick’s beloved grandchild, Tristan.
This is 42 years old, so we can overlook the fact that this might as well be a draft of the original Alien script. It's still a viable scenario that everyone can accept and get into, with questions limited to things like "What can we do?" (i.e. abilities and gear) and "What is our abort threshold?" I would be interested in seeing or reading any play reports from people that buy and run this tournament module.
For no other reason than to preserve some artifacts of the hobby, this is worth picking up and at $5 it's reasonable to do so. What I do not like is that there is no Print On Demand option, and as DriveThru offers that in both hardcover and paperback the omission of either is a bad decision on Palladium's part. I hope that this is rectified soon.
There are limits to DriveThru's POD capability--basically, you need documents with a certain level of quality/detail to take advantage of it, and it's entirely possible that a scan of a 42-year-old module doesn't qualify. I know that Hero Games had some issues getting anything of 4th Edition Champions vintage to work with the system, and only managed to make the Big Blue Book available.
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