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Palladium Books is known for being the House of Ideas, but every now and then we release a book that just sings. A book that is filled with one cool idea, character, gizmo and wow after another. Rifts® China 2 is such a book. To say that Wujcik, Siembieda and all the contributors, from writers to artists, were "inspired" is an understatement. Rifts® China 2 combines Oriental myth and mysticism, martial arts, Hong Kong Movie action, unique and powerful characters, magic, demons and science fiction as only Palladium Books can. And for you high-tech junkies, there are the warriors and wonders of Geofront with things like Demon Skin body armor, the Gun Dragon, Black Tiger power armor, Chi Demon Weapons, the Gun Master O.C.C. and more. 8 New, separate Martial Art Hand to Hand skills. 12 Mystic Martial Art Powers: Eight Trigrams (Create Ba Gua Map), Crane Style, Dragon Blade, Immortality Training, Cotton Fist, Animus Development, Snake Style, Touch Mastery, Praying Mantis Style, Drunken Style, Chi Manipulation, and the Gun Master's Tao Je Qiang (The Way of the Patient Gun). 12 Mystical Martial Art O.C.C.s; Warriors, Monks, Demon Quellers and Soothsayers. Demon Quellers include the Great Demon Catching Hero, Demon & Dead Slaver, and the Goblin Wrangler, plus Demon Queller Secrets and weapons. The Enlightened Demon R.C.C. and the phases of transition to enlightenment and humanity. The shape-changing Spirit Host: Half man, half animal spirit. The Blind Mystic and his unique abilities to dream the future and detect the supernatural. Many O.C.C.s have additional special abilities, insight, powers or weapons unique to them. 36 Magic Weapons designed for binding, enslaving, hunting, and slaying demons. 30 Chi-Gung Powers - Chi Manipulation. 11 Mystic Body Hardening Exercises. 12 Geofront Military O.C.C.s including the Gun Master, Geo-Borgs and Whack Job Scientist. The Arts of Invisibility, Tien-Hsueh Powers, Giant Mantis Animus and more. Geofront weapons, Chi Demon Weapons, Demon Skin Armor, Black Tiger power armor, Gun Dragon manned robot, vehicles and more.
Author
Erick Wujcik (January 26, 1951 – June 7, 2008) was an American designer of both role-playing games and computer role-playing games, and co-founder of Palladium Books. Wujcik started off as head of the gaming society at Wayne State University, and then as a computer columnist for The Detroit News from 1979 to 1981, where he wrote their weekly Computer Column. That served to be a springboard for him to co-found Palladium Books and work on developing numerous role-playing games and supplements for such gaming settings as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game, Paranoia, Robotech, Rifts, and many others. Wujcik was also the director of the Detroit Gaming Center, and founder of the gaming conventions known as Ambercon. In 1997 he went to work for Sierra Studios, and was lead game designer on the game Return to Krondor. He also served as a game designer at Outrage Entertainment for the game Alter Echo. Wujcik served as Chief Editor of Amberzine, a fanzine for the Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game, which has published the work of such notables as Ray Bradbury, Henry Kuttner, and Roger Zelazny, and which published its last issue in 2005. He has also been an editorial contractor for the Detroit Historical Museum, and gives seminars on a wide range of topics related to the writing, design and development of role-playing games. From 2004 to 2006, Wujcik was Game Design Studio Manager for UbiSoft China, in Shanghai. Until his death, in June 2008, Wujcik was Senior Game Designer / Writer for Totally Games, north of San Francisco.
