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The team from Steve Jackson Games is headed to Gen Con next month, and you can visit us at booth 1401!
 At our booth, you can pick fan favorites like Car Wars, Wanderhome, and Munchkin, plus newer releases like Brigand's Bluff and Purrfect Potions. We'll even have custom cat ears (FREE!)...

I have just revised our illustration contract with a flat prohibition against the use of generative AI. I'll work on our writing contracts next. The problem is carving out a clear exception for those old-school spelling and grammar checkers which don't try to write the next dozen words for you....

Do you like to contemplate your plate? Do you love email about scale? Are you a fannish inspector of weapon deflectors? Then you might be just the person we want to help playtest the forthcoming GURPS Armor Design, written by the inimitable David L. Pulver. Details are on our forums....

I feel like I might have shared this tip before, but I'm not finding it on the Daily Illuminator archives, so hopefully it's new to you. I play a lot of games that use small decks of "shuffled" cards. I put "shuffled" in quotes because mixing up a small number...

If you're a fan of beloved Munchkin artist John Kovalic and/or his long-running Dork Tower comic (or long out-of-print game), you probably have feelings of some kind for Igor (mentioned not too long ago right here on the Daily Illuminator). Well, John Kovalic based that character on one of his...

I've mentioned the really nice moduar hex-terrain tiles that Lorescape is turning out. And I've mentioned that I'm so much of a fan that I invested in the company. I'm still very happy about that. Some news updates, all good: Lorescape has an official license for Battletech! The hex tiles...

Sir Ian Livingstone is working with Peasoup to create "Smart Books" for the Fighting Fantasy series. The first one will appear in 2027.   In combination with a physical book – the first being Freeway Fighter – an augmented reality app will put readers directly into the story, letting them...

This is just on the cusp of "maybe a too different kind of geeky for these parts," but I was enthralled, so maybe you will be, as well. A video from YouTuber Kosmic shows how the discovery of a glitch in the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros 2 by...