In sad news, Erick Wujcik, has passed away. You can read more about this here. While I had not played a lot of the stuff that he wrote (and he's got a lot of rpg credits, as you can see from his webpage), he was best known for the Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game, a n innovative system that was quite good, if controversial, in many respects.
Another terrible loss for the rpg industry.