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The first Daily Illuminator was posted on November 16, 1994, and today the blog celebrates its 31st anniversary! Here are some fun facts you might not know: The title of the first entry was "Welcome To . . . What Are We Calling This, Anyway?"   Steve wrote the inaugural...

One of the supreme triumphs of my collegiate career (last millennium) was getting a "Great Ideas in Computer Science" course to count as my natural-science requirement. Forget biology or oceanography; electrified silicon is where the real natural world lies. But maybe there's more to the idea, as the latest research...

Enter the realm of Golarion in a new DLC for Munchkin Digital – Munchkin Pathfinder! Based on Paizo's award-winning Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Munchkin Pathfinder brings all your favorite characters to the classic buddy-stabbing card game. Included in the first stand-alone set within Munchkin Digital are 168 cards. New classes – including...

For those looking to outfit their heroes with a bit of flavorful bling, there's a fun article on Open Culture about armillary sphere rings. When folded, these precious-metal rings fit on one's finger (just like most other rings), but they can unfold to make a little armillary sphere, useful for...

The first of a three-part series detailing favorite projects that I had a significant part in:   For the first 18 months that I worked for Steve Jackson Games, I was solely a production artist. My earliest work was mainly Munchkin reprints and marketing ads. My first "big" assignment was doing...

If you're like me, you love Wikipedia and access it about eleven jillion times a day. Okay . . . that second prong may just be me. Still, Wikipedia is great. For fans of that handy resource, I can recommend Catfishing. It's a game that challenges you to determine what...

is theoretically August 27, the date when the first gamebook was released, but it's celebrated these days on November 9 because the "real" date often bumps into a UK banking holiday. At any rate, Jon Green has put together a video about his own gamebook history and others! And I've...

For those hoping to spark inspiration for your GURPS Illuminati campaigns, I present not one, but two ideas from one story from SFGate: It turns out the mysterious object that hit a plane at 36,000 feet was not space debris (say, from an orbital mind-control laser), but probably from a...