Enter The Real Unreal At Meow Wolf
A fun part about working for SJ Games is spotting an Eye-in-Pyramid – our company logo – in the wild, and I found one last week at Meow Wolf in Grapevine, Texas! Meow Wolf is an art installation unlike anything you've ever seen. It's fully interactive; you can touch...
GURPS Is Older Than The Web
GURPS Line Editor Sean Punch recently had a touching tribute to the 40th anniversary of GURPS. On the more practical side of things, while I was cleaning up and making additions to the web page of the list of GURPS books, I realized that GURPS is older than the World Wide...
Now Available On Warehouse 23: Dahlia's Diversions For Peculiar Parties!
Pssst! Wanna download a game? What about two games? Or, hey, maybe eight games?! Yeah, we can do that. And by "we," we mean, "I, a human-writing-type person," and definitely not "3 Raccoons in a Trench Coat" – which is definitely not named after us. Me, we mean . ....
From The Editor Retail Liaison
Greetings dear readers! For a few of you, this may be a familiar salutation – but there's no need to check your browser or change that channel. This is indeed your ever-faithful Daily Illuminator. Rather, it is I who have found a new home among the fantastic team here...
The Petal High School Chapter Of The Illuminati
One of my favorite things about conventions is getting to hear gaming stories from people I never would've gotten the opportunity to meet otherwise. This year at Gen Con, I had the pleasure of running a game for one Verner Entrekin, who had an absolutely delightful story about how Illuminati shaped his...
The Year(s) Of The Gamer
I tend to gather a lot of geeky treasures of various types (to the strained moans of my bookshelves and garage). One of the few bucket-list items I've considered collecting has been all the comic books that released the month I was born. (I recall that I found the two...
The Random Thoughts Of A Style-Guide Wrangler
Among the many hats I wear among the Illuminati, I help keep tabs on our Editorial Style guide (with Managing Editor Allison Page doing most of the work). I admit to being biased, but I think it's one of the most-comprehensive style guides in the biz. The style guide doesn't...
Now Available: GURPS Power-Ups 11: Roll Your Own Skills
GURPS is a skill-based system, with carefully honed and devised lists of predefined skills that shape the entire course of game. But we know you . . . you want to do something different, right? We've got you covered, thanks to GURPS Power-Ups 11: Roll Your Own Skills. This PDF...