The Culture: Uncle Kevin Talks With The Pundit About Erick Wujcik

Last weekend the Pundit got Uncle Kevin on to talk about (among other things) the late Erick Wujcik.

Wujick's the man behind non-D&D games that still command respect. The most notable is Amber Diceless, which remains the only diceless game worth bothering with.

He's also the man behind Palladium's first big licensed product: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness (today, despite the recent anniversary offering, is officially labeled as After The Bomb), which (along with the first Robotech product run) was allowed Palladium to grow to the point where RIFTS became possible- and so many rules and procedures developed for those games got into RIFTS (including Bio-E; see Lemuria).

This is worth the time for the historical context alone, and Pundit's got a certain knack for being a podcast host so he has an option should his PDF Merchant hustle dry up.