Steve Jackson Games

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Steve Jackson in 2019

Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid. They are the makers of In Nomine, Toon, GURPS and Munchkin, amongst other games.

Steve Jackson Games provides examples of the following tropes:


  • Characterization Marches On: Invoked twice. They started as a publisher of board games, then they hit it big with GURPS and board games became a sideline. Now, the Munchkin card game pays the bills and roleplaying games are a sideline.
  • Oddly Small Organization: People tend to think of the company as a moderately powerful force in the gaming industry. Their total staff as of the end of 2013 - the year they shipped the massive re-release of OGRE - was 43, with most work being contracted with freelancers.