Pyramid (magazine)

*Pyramid (magazine)*
Categories	Gaming
Publisher	Steve Jackson Games
Year founded	1993
Final issue	March 1998
Country	United States
Based in	Austin, Texas
Language	English

Pyramid is a gaming magazine, publishing articles primarily on role-playing games, but including board games, card games, and other sorts of games. It began life in 1993 as a print publication of Steve Jackson Games for its first 30 issues, though it has been published on the Internet since March 1998. Print issues were bimonthly; the first online version published new articles each week; the second online version is monthly. Pyramid is headquartered in Austin, Texas.^[1] It replaced Steve Jackson Games' previous magazine Roleplayer.

Pyramid features general gaming articles by freelance authors, as well as Designer's Notes by Steve Jackson Games product developers, industry news, cartoons, and gaming product reviews. Although articles tend to concentrate on Steve Jackson Games products such as GURPS, it has published articles on other games such as d20 System, Talisman, Nobilis, Hero System, and has featured various comic strips and single-panel cartoons (currently Murphy's Rules). Steve Jackson Games also briefly published another online magazine, d20 Weekly for several months using a very similar model to that of Pyramid. However, the venture was not a success, and was eventually folded into a slightly expanded Pyramid.

The online subscription system used for Pyramid also granted access to subscriber forums, a dedicated chat server, and occasional pre-publication playtest material for Steve Jackson Games and other companies' products. In 2008 this was changed: Pyramid is available as a PDF download from e23, and the subscriber forums have been discontinued. Access to playtest material is contingent on participation in an actual playtest.

Editors

Derek Pearcy—Print issues 1–2.
Jeff Koke—Print issues 3–4.
Scott Haring—Print issues 5–30. Online edition March 1998 – February 2000.
S. John Ross—Online edition 1998.
Steven Marsh—Online edition February 2000 – present.

Awards

2001: Origins Award Best Professional Game Magazine of 2000
2004: Origins Award Gamer's Choice: Best Electronic Product of 2003^[2]
2005: Origins Award Best Non Fiction Publication of 2004^[3]

List of issues

Volume 1

the printed version, retroactively referred to as Pyramid Classic:

01: May-June 1993^[4]
30: March 1998, same cover art as GURPS Wizards^[5]

Volume 2

There are 1877 samples of articles released in it.^[6]

Issues:

001: April 1998
558: November of 2008

Articles:

1: A Minor Emergency^[7]
7: Electronic Gaming News^[8]
8: Warehouse 23^[9]
91: Autoduel Japan^[10]

1002: Suppressed Transmission published 13 August 1999^[11]
2630: When Good LARPers Go Bad published 1 March 2002^[12]

Volume 3

01: Tools of the Trade - Wizards, November 2008^[13]
02: Looks Like a Job for . . . Superheroes, December 2008^[14]
03: Venturing Into the Badlands - Post Apocalypse, January 2009^[15]^[16]
04: Magic on the Battlefield, February 2009^[17]
05: ?, March 2009
06: Space Colony Alpha, April 2009^[18]^[19]
07: ?, May 2009
08: ?, June 2009
09: Space Opera, July 2009^[20]^[21]
10: ?, August 2009
11: ?, September 2009
12: Tech and Toys, October 2009^[22]^[23]
13: Thaumatology, November 2009^[24]^[25]
14: ? December 2009
15: Transhuman Space, January 2010^[26]^[27]
16: ?, February 2010
17: ?, March 2010
18: Space Exploration, April 2010^[28]^[29]
19: ?, May 2010
20: ?, June 2010
21: Cyberpunk, July 2010^[30]^[31]
22: ?, August 2010
23: ?, September 2010
24: Bio-Tech, October 2010^[32]^[33]
25: ?, November 2010
26, ?, December 2010
27: Monsters in Space, January 2011^[34]^[35]
28: ?, February 2011
29: ?, March 2011
30: Spaceships, April 2011^[36]^[37]
31: ?, May 2011
32: ?, June 2011
33: ?, July 2011
34: ?, August 2011
35: Aliens, September 2011^[38]^[39]
36: ?, October 2011
37: Tech and Toys II, November 2011^[40]^[41]
38: ?, December 2011
39: ?, January 2012
40: Vehicles, February 2012^[42]^[43]
41: ?, March 2012
42: ?, April 2012
43: ?, May 2012
44: ?, June 2012
45: ?, July 2012
46: Weird Science, August 2012^[44]^[45]
47: ?, September 2012
48: ?, October 2012
49: World-Hopping, November 2012^[46]^[47]
50: ?, December 2012
51: Tech and Toys III, January 2013^[48]^[49]
52: ?, February 2012
53: ?, March 2012
54: Social Engineering, April 2013^[50]^[51]
55: Military Sci-Fi, May 2013^[52]^[53]
56: ?, June 2013
57: ?, July 2013
58: ?, August 2013
59: ?, September 2013
60: ?, October 2013
61: ?, November 2013
62: Transhuman Space II, December 2013^[54]^[55]
63: ?, January 2014
64: ?, February 2014
65: Alternate GURPS III, March 2014^[56]^[57]
66: The Laws of Magic, April 2014^[58]^[59]
67: ?, May 2014
68: ?, June 2014
69: ?, July 2014
70: ?, August 2014
71: Spaceships II, September 2014^[60]^[61]
72: ?, October 2014
73: ?, November 2014
74: ?, December 2014
75: Hero's Jackpot, January 2015^[62]^[63]
76: ?, February 2014
77: Combat, March 2015^[64]^[65]
78: ?, April 2014
79: Space Atlas, May 2015^[66]^[67]
80: ?, June 2015
81: ?, July 2015
82: ?, August 2015
83: ?, September 2015
84: Perspectives, October 2015^[68]^[69]
85: Cutting Edge, November 2015^[70]^[71]
86: Organizations, December 2015^[72]
87: Low-Tech III, January 2016^[73]
88: The End Is Nigh, February 2016^[74]^[75]
89: ?, March 2016

References

External links

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