Last Chance To Back The Path Of Mastery!
If you see this post on Thursday, September 4, then – depending on what time you see it – you might still have time to start down the Path of Mastery! As I write this, we're in the final hours for backers to be among the first to get the...
Dragon Con
"Back from Dragon Con" doesn't mean the kind of trek that it used to, now that I am living in Atlanta. The house is less than 4 miles from the convention hotels. Hotels, plural . . . Dragon now takes up five. But it still took me most of today...
The Path Of Crowdfunding
The Kickstarter for the new Fantasy Trip solo adventure, Path of Mastery, launched last week, and I decided that makes this as good a time as any to talk about all the work that goes into the visual assets for the crowdfunds we do. I've long since lost count of...
Covers I Love - Ben Williams Edition
Having worked here for nearly two decades and touching nearly every product line, it took awhile for me to finally narrow it down to three choices. The Stars Are Right. I'm going in publication order here, if anyone is curious. This is one of the first products I worked on...
The Daily Illuminator Post About A Single Letter
A funny thing happened as we've been working on the next batch of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. I'm obfuscating this anecdote slightly to not give anything away, but the core is true. Because creating these books relies on careful attention to the original print editions, we do a lot of checks...
Parasocial Racing
I am not generally a sports fan, but there are some things that are so visceral that they speak to your deep subconscious in an irresistible way. A race is probably one of the most basic sports-related things that we have, and I was surprised a few years ago when...
Why Illuminati Online Is Better Than The Government
This is a deep cut . . . those who joined the Conspiracy in the last couple of decades will not remember Illuminati Online, the ISP that grew out of the SJ Games BBS. It was born, it grew, it thrived for a while. But it was definitely a thing....
Covers I Love Sean Punch Edition
After 30+ years as GURPS Line Editor, you know I'll pick a GURPS cover. We've seen one or two famously so-so ones, several merely serviceable ones, a vast number of good ones, and more than a few truly excellent ones. Excellent like the GURPS Illuminati cover, which with its simple-yet-flashy...