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The inimitable John Kovalic – the illustrious illustrator of eleventy-jillion Munchkin cards, among many other awesome endeavors – is fundraising (for the 14th year!) via Bike the Barns, for the Fair Share CSA Coalition. Sure, contributing to deliver healthy food to low-income and elderly households is a worthy goal all...

Steve Jackson, founder and President of Steve Jackson Games, is stepping down as CEO to focus on game design and development. Long-time staff member Sabrina Gonzalez has become the CEO of SJ Games.   Long-time SJ Games staff member Sabrina Gonzalez has become our new Chief Executive Officer, and Managing...

As I noted in this very space a while back, GURPS is older than the World Wide Web. Over on Bluesky, GURPS Hot Spots maestro Matt Riggsby used it as an opportunity to talk about an adventure he wrote for the HTML era of Pyramid magazine way back in 2004:...

Ross Isaacs designed and wrote for some of my favorite RPGs of the late 1990s, including the Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-Playing Game and Fading Suns. (You can read about Ross on Wikipedia or check out the list of credits linked from there.) Sadly, Ross has been beset by...

Every so often I come across an article where I'm like, "This is interesting, but I have no idea what to do with it." For example, according to Smithsonian Magazine, scientists may have figured out why some brains don't decay. (Picture-wise, consider this your "dried-brain trigger warning" before clicking the link...

Here's a fun fact I've had in an open tab forever . . . or should I say, a F4U1N1 fact? The classic board game Scrabble was invented in Queens by Alfred Mosher Butts, in a church basement on 35th Avenue. That latter fact is commemorated by a street sign...

We are definitely keeping busy here in beautiful downtown Atlanta (and from a room on the 64th floor, it is indeed beautiful). • Costumes are everywhere, and they get more elaborate every year. But some of the best ones are still simple. Unofficial polling indicates that Spider-Man has been dethroned...

The GURPS Template Toolkit series has been designed to give insight into making custom templates for your campaign settings, ensuring they're thematic for your world . . . with, of course, insight into how to make balanced GURPS points totals. But what if we got rid of those pesky points entirely?...