Dilvish
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The damned
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Post by Dilvish on Oct 3, 2007 22:11:58 GMT -5
Does anyone know the history of how Amber Diceless came to be invented? For lots of rpgs you hear all about who created the game and how, but I haven't heard much about who Eric Wujik is and how he got to make Amber Diceless.
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Post by Erick Wujcik on Oct 9, 2007 15:56:06 GMT -5
Does anyone know the history of how Amber Diceless came to be invented? For lots of rpgs you hear all about who created the game and how, but I haven't heard much about who Erick Wujcik is and how he got to make Amber Diceless. Prior to working on Amber Diceless I was a game designer for Palladium Books, where I working on a bunch of stuff, including the RECON rpg, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle rpg, Ninjas & Superspies, and so forth. Later on I did some Paranoia RPG writing for West End Games, and found out they had purchased the gaming rights to Roger Zelazny's Amber (as I recall this was at Gencon in Milwaukee 1985). Totally geeked out, I immediately started designing up the Amber RPG... and conducted the first Attribute Auction at the Michigan Gaming Center (At the time it was in a commercial building on Woodward Avenue, north of 9 Mile Road in Ferndale, Michigan) at the end of August, beginning of September. My philosophy at the time was to try to use as few dice rolls as possible, and I also wanted Amber to be as close to the books as possible... but I didn't know the game would be diceless until after the first play session (we all had our dice on the table that first time, and there were even a couple of rolls). Within a month I knew the game was supposed to be diceless (in retrospect, all the dice rolls were either unnecessary, or wrong). After West End Games turned down the design I spent a few years trying to get other game companies to publish Amber Diceless. Word spread, and there were Ambercons and Amber Campaign all over the world before Amber Diceless was ever published. In early 1991 10,000 copies of Amber Diceless were sold under my personal imprint, Phage Press. Any other questions? Erick
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Post by Finarvyn on Oct 10, 2007 19:22:12 GMT -5
I have a couple at the moment. Probably more when I think harder....
1. How did you manage to get exclusive rights to Amber?
2. I remember reading in the early Amberzines that there was a "master plan" of publishing mulitiple sourcebooks -- Rebma, Trumps, Chaos, Engines of Bright (your personal campaign, if I recall correctly), and so on. Did this just turn out to be too much work, did you get sidetracked onto other projects, or how did the master plan get derailed?
3. I remember reading in an interview that Shadow Knight was written using some draft copies of Roger's books, so quotes such as Coral's pregnancy were a result of Roger changing his mind. I also heard that there was a second quote which had changed -- what quote was that?
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