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Daily Illuminator Archive for September 2025
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September 1, 2025:
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 . . .
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September 2, 2025:
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 how many Kickstarters, Backerkits, Indiegogos, etc. for which I've designed the graphics. (A bit ironic, since I strive to make each one memorable.) . . .
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September 3, 2025:
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 . . . . .
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September 4, 2025:
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 new solo adventure for The Fantasy Trip . . .
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September 5, 2025:
No one will be surprised to learn that among some SJGames staff there's an interest in things Fortean – the unexplained and mysterious. (I mean, it's basically right there on the company logo.) . . .
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September 6, 2025:
Toward the end of August, there was a call for information from Owen KC Stephens (RPG writer with too many amazing credits to list, but I will gladly note he was a columnist and frequent contributor for the HTML era of Pyramid magazine). Over on Facebook, he was looking for a particular bit of gaming ephemera:
"I'm trying to find a specific game ad . . .
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September 7, 2025:
This is still a developing story, but it appears that one of the AI companies is about to make a big settlement for work that it skimmed off the Internet and used to train its Skynet. And yes, apparently the pirate "archives" that Anthropic used included quite a few works from SJ Games . . .
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September 8, 2025:
We made a very exciting announcement at Dragon Con. If you missed Steve's What's New panel at the show (and the ads popping up on social media since then), you may not have heard that we will be publishing Munchkin Vox Machina in Spring 2026 . . .
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September 9, 2025:
The cover I love most is actually two covers. And my love is not just for art, but also for nostalgia.
Specifically, it's the cover for The Fantasy Trip.
The nostalgia part is simple: I bought Melee when it came out in a zip bag, from a long-defunct company called Metagaming . . .
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September 10, 2025:
The sudden appearance of a prequel for Event Horizon, a gruesome and imaginative sci-fi/supernatural horror mash-up from 1997, was not on my 2025 bingo card. It started to make a little more sense when I found out it's in comic book, rather than movie form . . .
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September 11, 2025:
The next Autoduel Chronicles book is available to pre-order from Three Ravens Publishing. This one is an anthology of Car Wars stories – with an intro by long-time fan Wil Wheaton! . . .
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September 12, 2025:
Got both my flu and COVID shots today. I stack them when I can, on the theory that a short period of misery is better than two periods of mere discomfort . . .
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September 13, 2025:
Munchkin Big Box is now available on Warehouse23.com! Munchkin Big Box is indeed the biggest thing to ever come to the Munchkin universe. Inside the massive box, new players will find everything they need to get started, and long-time fans will be excited for the exclusive extras which can't be found anywhere else . . .
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September 14, 2025:
Here's one for you miniature painters out there. This article was planned to go along with the Wiz-War STL Kickstarter we ran in 2023, but other things came up and it just never happened . . .
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September 15, 2025:
Last week I was extremely honored to stay at Auburn University as their visiting writer. Enormous appreciation and gratitude to Dr . . .
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September 16, 2025:
I do most of the meal prep at home, so I'm always looking for new and interesting cooking techniques. When I came across José Andrés' two-ingredient omelet recipe (shown prepped by him here on TikTok), I literally dropped what I was doing (which was, um, messing around on the Internet) and tried it: one egg, one tablespoon of mayo, whisk, pour in a buttered dish, microwave about 40 seconds . . .
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September 17, 2025:
According to a Financial Times article (which may or may not be paywalled . . . my browser keeps acting weird with that link), scientists have devised a way for parrots to communicate via the Internet. The 26 participating parrots would have video chats for up to three hours a day, and most of them had "favorite" friends that they liked to interact with most often . . .
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September 18, 2025:
There are a lot of games out there. If my math is right, my closet contains about 94% of them. All of them . . . all the games ever . . .
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September 19, 2025:
In th' great American tradition of monetizing ARR most sacred holidays . . .
we be proud to present th' Warehouse 23 Talk Like A Pirate Day Sale. Th' grand event be running right now, September 19th, through the 21st . . .
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September 20, 2025:
Hi folks, this month I'm starting a new irregular DI sub-blog called "On My Bookshelf," where I'm going to talk about the books I'm reading and which ones I've just finished. I recently read The Rule Book (2024) by Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros . . .
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September 21, 2025:
Here's a blog post about how a disposable vape was turned into a website server. If you want to see the same page actually loading off that vape cartridge, this URL should do the trick . . .
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September 22, 2025:
For some reason, Facebook thinks I really like watching terrible drivers – and no matter how many terrible-driver videos I watch, they just keep coming. While I try to figure out why that's happening, I can't help but remember folks making illogical turns across multiple occupied lanes of traffic, blazing through red lights to disastrous consequence, or crashing full-on into vehicles – probably because they were on their phones, watching Facebook "terrible driver" videos . . .
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September 23, 2025:
Not all that far from the bustle of downtown and the university, past the tech companies on the surrounding hills, and just down the road a bit from some barbecue joints and the picturesque Pennybacker Bridge, lies a hidden Austin gem. A throwback to the early 17th century sits tucked away on the shores of the Colorado River: The Curtain Theatre . . .
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September 24, 2025:
Roll20Con 2025 is coming September 26-28, 2025, to an internet near you! The online convention plans a variety of roleplaying games . . .
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September 25, 2025:
Did you know you can find tiny, Bluetooth speakers cheap? Like, I've found some for less than $10 online, they might be at various discount stores, and we've gotten them free as promo items before when we've attended trade shows . . .
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September 26, 2025:
YouTube channel Ancient has the coolest video I've seen all week: an automaton that lip-syncs by rotating a ball with various mouth positions, not unlike an old-fashioned IBM Selectric typewriter ball. In other words, the lips aren't making the proper shape, but the whole mouth is . . .
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September 27, 2025:
As I noted in August, we've been hard at work at (top-secret) Fighting Fantasy stuff. I'm starting to look at 2026 plans and found myself needing to figure out what to track down used copies of for research purposes . . .
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September 28, 2025:
A lot of companies have produced what might be seen as uncharacteristic products in the past. For example, Alfa Romeo – yes, the car company – once briefly manufactured stoves . . .
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September 29, 2025:
A couple of weeks ago, after delays and hiccups we're still learning from, the slipcases for the first set of Fighting Fantasy's triumphant return to the United States arrived (as we proclaimed in a Kickstarter update). Since then, we've been steadily shipping the thousands of orders to eager fans . . .
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September 30, 2025:
Purrfect Potions, a magical dice game from Steve Jackson Games, is now available for pre-order on Warehouse23.com!
Become whimsical witches brewing elixirs alongside their clever – and often chaotic – cat familiars. On a player's turn, both the moon die and cat dice are rolled and the felines will decide which concoctions to assist with, while bending to the phases of the moon . . .
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