On: Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fanta...

[ashdnazg]

I think I only recently learned that there are two different Steve Jacksons.

The founder of Steve Jackson Games and creator of Munchkin and GURPS [0]

The writer of Fighting Fantasy and founder of Games Workshop and Lionhead Studios [1]

I find the fact that the two are in business quite satisfying.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_(American_game...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_(British_game_...

[raphman → ashdnazg]

FWIW, the American Steve Jackson also wrote three Fighting Fantasy novels (Scorpion Swamp, Demons of the Deep, and Robot Commando):

> "As Ian and I couldn't write a book a month, we opened Fighting Fantasy up to new authors. The 'Jackson & Livingstone Presents' series came into being. The first new author was...Steve Jackson!"

> "Even to this day, many Fighting Fantasy readers aren't aware that not one but two Steve Jacksons worked on the franchise - the second being the Texas-based founder of Steve Jackson Games."

https://www.eurogamer.net/you-are-the-hero-a-history-of-figh...

[shellac → raphman]

I swear this was done deliberately to cause maximum confusion.

[egypturnash → ashdnazg]

Hopefully there will be a page somewhere in these reprints that explains the difference between Steve Jackson and Steve Jackson.

[b800h → ashdnazg]

I assume it was the American one who was raided by the Feds for cybercrime as a result of releasing a cyberpunk roleplaying game supplement.

[mattl → b800h]

He’s the one (his company) re-releasing them in the US and running the Kickstarter.

[Surac → ashdnazg]

Intresting, i did not know that. I always found it anoying that "Steve" did so many unconnected things :)

[simonjgreen → ashdnazg]

Oh! Until now I had actually assumed that these were the same person.

[skrebbel → ashdnazg]

Yeah wow, this confused the hell out of me. Reading the first paragraph, it seemed that Steve Jackson was finally publishing his own books in the US through a "historic 50-book collaboration" with himself. Thanks for elaborating.