The Witching Hour Is Nigh
Spooky season is upon us . . . or at least it will be in 6 months! We at SJ Games are already excited, so we're celebrating Halfway-to-Halloween with a ghastly, ghostly 15%-off sale. Try to stay alive when you face a bloodsucking cryptid in Chupcabra: Survive the Night....
Visit Exandria In Munchkin Vox Machina A Critical Role Game
Munchkin Vox Machina – A Critical Role Game is now shipping! This all-new core set, created in collaboration with Critical Role and based on their famous first livestream campaign, takes players to the fabled realm of Tal'Dorei, where they'll become some of their favorite Vox Machina characters. They'll battle infamous...
Teaching That's Easy In Person, Hard In Print
There's a quirk of the game world that I'm not even sure I'm allowed to talk about here. (I guess we'll see if this post gets deleted!) Namely, that a lot of games can be easily described with one weird trick, but game companies don't really like to use the...
All A-Board!
I don't tend to link to Randall Munroe's amazing webcomic xkcd very often. That's not because I don't love it, but rather it feels like cheating to fill up a few slots a week of the Daily Illuminator to say, "Hey! Go read the latest xkcd!" But when there's an...
Seven-Part Pact Playtest Highlight Reel
I had the privilege and joy of spending a weekend playing Seven-Part Pact with Jay, SJ, and four other friends. This was my fourth time in Isha, but for most of the table, it was a completely new experience. Between Session Zero on Friday and 5 months of game time on Saturday...
This Is Better Than The Title Jean Submitted It With
Car Wars players who print in 3D have things fairly good: CARnage and CARnage 2 have STLs of all the cars (including unarmed versions), tons of weapons and accessories for conversions (there's even an Armored Beer Fridge!), arena items, and so on. But we don't have . . . roads! ...
To The Moonjs And Back
If you're like me, you've been a bit more into lunar travel in recent weeks, thanks to some lucky, lucky astronauts who got to go farther away from Earth than anyone's ever managed before. Well, everything new is old again, with Moonjs: An Online Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) Simulator. It's...
You Can Pick Your Friends, And You Can Pick Your Lock . . .
I'm a huge fan of flavor details in my tabletop RPGs: If possible, I love it when I don't have to say, "The surveillance drone is cutting edge," but can add something colorful like, "The drone seems to be the cutting-edge Skyskreamer 7000 . . . Here's a picture." To...