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January 03, 2003 Steampunk Heroes 2: Phileas Fogg -- International Man of Mystery; Having Faith: Easy Tricks for Playing Religious Characters; Pyramid Pick: Nodwick: The Card Game; Pyramid Review: Survival of the Fittest (for Shadowrun RPG); Pyramid Review: Exalted: The Lunars (for Exalted RPG); Terra Incognita: Near-Space 307 Ahearn; Random Thought Table: Eight Minutes Of A TV Show, A Lifetime Of Lessons
January 10, 2003 Fantasy Astrology: When The Stars Are Right; Doris and Sainte Celeste: A Transhuman Space Setting; Pyramid Pick: The Knuckleduster Cowtown Creator; Pyramid Review: Froop! Card Game; Supporting Cast: Spigot Girl; Suppressed Transmission: Serpent in the Garden State: The Jersey Devil; Random Thought Table: The Journey Of A Thousand Miles Ends With A Locked Door
January 17, 2003 Gaming and the Nature of Artificial Intelligence; Use of Weapons: Arming characters for a GURPS Space campaign; Burning Rubber: Incendiary Tactics in Car Wars; Pyramid Review: Nautilus; Pyramid Review: Spaceship Zero -- The Sci-Fi Serial Roleplaying Game; Supporting Cast: Saleesh ibn Gaheer, Vizier of the Sapphire Palace; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Making (And Faking) Adventures (Part I) -- By Hook Or By Crook
January 24, 2003 Bangkok; Pyramid Pick: FVLMINATA: Earth Armed With Lightning RPG (Second Edition); Pyramid Review: Brunch at the Coliseum; Supporting Cast: Sargent Emmet Wilson; Suppressed Transmission: Our Lady of Weirdness: The Queen of Sheba; Random Thought Table: Making (And Faking) Adventures (Part II)-- You Can't Spell 'Justification' Without 'Fiction'
January 31, 2003 How To Make Friends And Influence People In GURPS; Empire of the Emerald Throne: The Tossian Empire for Space: 1889; Pyramid Review: The 1PG Companion -- A Toolkit For Deep7's Beer & Pretzels RPGs; Pyramid Review: Cookie Fu: Fortune Cookie Fighter Collectable Dice Game; Supporting Cast: Lauri Törni/Larry Thorne; Adventure Pizza: Mutiny in the Bounty Bay; Random Thought Table: Making (And Faking) Adventures (Part III) - Pitfalls, Props, and Players In Prison
February 07, 2003 Designer's Notes: GURPS Magic Items 3; Autoduel Vehicles; Patterns of the Stars: A New Spell Matrix for Earthdawn; Do You Tap?: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for GURPS Martial Arts; Pyramid Review: Star Hero (for the Hero System); Pyramid Review: The Keeper's Companion 2 (for Call of Cthulhu); Random Thought Table: Heroes
February 14, 2003 Designer's Notes: Transhuman Space: In The Well; It Takes All Kinds: Briefs On Three Non-Traditional Relationships; Pyramid Reivew: Rome; Pyramid Review: Escape From Monster Island; Supporting Cast: Jane Brighton, Lady Detective; Terra Incognita: The Whirlwind Hotel and Eatery; Random Thought Table: Plot After Marriage
February 21, 2003 Appendix Z: Shiny! -- Random Gemstone Table; Pyramid Review: Slayer's Handbook (for Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG); Pyramid Review: Hero System Bestiary (for Hero System 5th Edition); Warehouse 23: Interdimensional Postage; Random Thought Table: It's How You Play The Game . . . Err, And How Is That, Again?; CyberSoapOpera
February 28, 2003 Pretty Things; Designer's Notes: Ethereal Player's Guide; Pyramid Pick: Champions (for Hero System 5th Edition); Pyramid Review: Will to Power (for Godlike); Pyramid Review: Kingdoms of Kalamar Atlas; Creatures of the Night: Naked Mall Rats; Suppressed Transmission: Blood, Bathory, and Beyond; Random Thought Table: Running The Adventure, Part I -- The Pre-Game Show (And Before)
March 07, 2003 Modern Vikings: Naval Special Warfare Units in Northern Europe; Variations of a Theme: Designing and Using Theme Villains; Camping Out: An Optional Rule for Frag; Pyramid Review: Champions Universe (for Hero System); Pyramid Review: Dead Night of Space: Psibertroopers (for d6 Classic); Supporting Cast: Marcel Lemieux -- Time-Traveling Librarian; Random Thought Table: Splitting Up Is Hard To Do
March 14, 2003 Designer's Notes: GURPS Deadlands: Varmints; Pyramid Review: Pulp Zombies; Pyramid Review: Terran Empire (for Star Hero); Supporting Cast: Amnerestes and Klathedros; Warehouse 23: The Blue Screen of Death; Terra Incognita: Nan Madol -- The South Pacific's Answer to the Pyramids; Random Thought Table: Running The Adventure, Part II -- It Was A Dark And Stormy Night . . .
March 21, 2003 Beyond Cold Steel: Premodern Chemical, Biological, and Incendiary Weaponry for GURPS; The National Technical Intelligence Bureau; Pyramid Review: Dungeoneer: Tomb of the Lich Lord Card Game; Pyramid Review: Light Speed; Pyramid Review: Red Dwarf: The Roleplaying Game; Adventure Pizza: Oh, Brother!; Random Thought Table: Running The Adventure, Part III -- Pace . . . The Final Frontier
March 28, 2003 Worldwide Temporary Staffing; The Lighter Side of Darkness; Pyramid Review: Soap: The Game of Soap Opera Mayhem; Pyramid Review: NeoTerra (for EABA); Warehouse 23: The Shared Network Focus; Suppressed Transmission: The Agonies of Creation; Random Thought Table: 'I'm a Fool!' He Said, Jestering Madly
April 04, 2003 Perfumery in Medieval Europe; Pyramid Review: Starfleet Operations Manual (for Star Trek Roleplaying Game); Pyramid Review: Fraud Squad -- Who Cooked the Books?; Supporting Cast: Circus Maximus; Warehouse 23: The Universal Canary; Random Thought Table: Running The Adventure, Part IV -- Let's Get Pivotal
April 11, 2003 Kongo; Pyramid Review: Steam Tunnel; Pyramid Pick: Fistful o' Zombies (for All Flesh Must Be Eaten); Pyramid Review: Play On Words; Jasmine Mojarro; Adventure Pizza: I Smell A Rat . . .; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Running The Adventure, Part V -- Climactic Control
April 18, 2003 Pyramid Review: Cartoon Action Hour -- The 1980's Action Cartoon RPG; Pyramid Review: Heroes & Villains (for the Gear Krieg RPG); Appendix Z: Wandering Caravan Table; Warehouse 23: The Dragon's Tooth; Suppressed Transmission: My Bloody Valentine; Random Thought Table:Running The Adventure, Part VI -- . . . And That‘s A Wrap; Campaign in a Box: Dream Police
April 25, 2003 Designer's Notes: GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell; Combine Infantry Weapons and Tactics in GURPS Ogre; Appendix Z: Information Overload!; Pyramid Review: Starships (for the Star Trek Roleplaying Game); Pyramid Review: Zombies!!! 3: Mall Walkers; Another Little Shop Of Horrors; Random Thought Table: All Systems Are Go(ne)
May 02, 2003 Dirigibles Over Africa; Making Time: Bleeding Edge Technologists in the Middle Ages; Pyramid Review: Management Material: General Office Edition; Pyramid Review: Infection; Supporting Cast: Robert the Fair; Creatures of the Night: Warm-Blooded Vampire; Random Thought Table: Buy, Buy Blackbird
May 09, 2003 The Power of the Craft: Craftmasons in Ars Magica and Dark Ages: Mage (Part I); Elves: A Case Study of Transhumanism in Fantasy Worlds; Cargo Space: Trade Goods For A GURPS Space Campaign; Appendix Z: What's It Got In Its Pockets?; Pyramid Review: Monster Smackdown (for Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG); Pyramid Review: Shane Lacy Hensley's Savage Worlds; Supporting Cast: Mike Cafferty, Irritable Superhero; Random Thought Table: 'M' Is For The Many Things She Gave Me . . .
May 16, 2003 The Power of the Craft: Craftmasons in Ars Magica and Dark Ages: Mage (Part II); Designer's Notes: Gurps WWII: Grim Legions; Pyramid Review: Buggin' RPG: The Tiny Game of Big Adventures; Pyramid Reviews: Hell Unleashed and The Darkness Before the Dawn (for When Darkness Comes . . .); Suppressed Transmission: The 200th Transmission; Random Thought Table: The More Things Change
May 23, 2003 The Marking Controversy: A Desperate Paper Trail for Modern-Day Call of Cthulhu; Getting a New Writer; Pyramid Review: Dynasties and Demagogues (for d20 System); Pyramid Pick: Victorian Age Vampire (for Vampire: The Masquerade); Supporting Cast: Well-Meaning Nuisances; Suppressed Transmission: Transmission 200 (Part II); Random Thought Table: Sequel Like a Pig
May 30, 2003 Other Realistic Fantasy Worlds; Before the Conspiracy; Pyramid Review: The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game; Pyramid Review: The Black Seal #2 (for Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu); Supporting Cast: Captain Sir Edward Grey; Suppressed Transmission: Transmission 200 (Part III); Random Thought Table: The Voices From The Magic Box (And Other Places To Get Ideas)
June 06, 2003 Designer's Notes: GURPS WWII Dogfaces; Martial Arts Styles for Mages; A League of Your Own: Designing Supers Teams; A Plague of Diseases; Pyramid Review: Crimson Skies: Collectible Miniatures Game; Pyramid Review: Dante's Inferno; Supporting Cast: Frederick Townsend Ward; Random Thought Table: A Game of Give and Take
June 13, 2003 When the Wizard's Away; The Extraordinarily Classified Adventures of Troubleshooter Munch-O-SEN; Analects Arcane: Mnemotheurgy for the d20 System; Pyramid Review: Friends & Familiars (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: Diceland: Space; Supporting Cast: The Akashik Four!; Random Thought Table: Passing Players and Painted Bellies
June 20, 2003 Class Action: The Jack-of-All-Trades; Coming Soon: HeroQuest; Pyramid Review: Dragons of the Sixth World (for Shadowrun); Pyramid Review: The Testimony of Jacob Hollow; Supporting Cast: Franz Anton Mesmer; Suppressed Transmission: Surface With A Smile: The Mona Lisa; Random Thought Table: Somewhere Old, Somewhere New; Campaign in a Box: The Flint Age
June 27, 2003 Designer's Notes: GURPS Age of Napoleon; Gaudeamus Igitur: Age and Society in Roleplaying: Part I -- Childhood; Working for THEM: Adventures of the Trilateral Headquarters on Energy Management in the Firestorm-Effect 1950s; Analects Arcane: Dramaturgy; Pyramid Review: Time of Crisis (for Mutants & Masterminds); Pyramid Review: Night of the Ill Tempered Squirrel; Random Thought Table: Heroes On The Sidelines
July 04, 2003 In Her Majesty's Service: Weapons And Equipment Of The Late Victorian British Soldier; The Whisperer; Pyramid Review: CORE Command Player's Handbook; Pyramid Review: Urban Arcana (for d20 Modern); Pyramid Review: UNTIL Superpowers Database (for HERO System); Adventure Pizza: Blight Of The Silvery Moon; Random Thought Table: Time Enough To Run Out Of Time
July 11, 2003 Dungeons: The New Frontier in Eco-Tourism; Lean Gaming: Tips for Trimming the Fat from Your Sluggish Adventure; Designer's Notes: GURPS WWII: Weird War II; Appendix Z: What Happened Today?; Analects Arcane: The Tome Sound and Fury; Pyramid Review: When The Sky Falls (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: HârnQuest 4 (for the HârnWorld Campaign Setting); Random Thought Table: Death Be Not Deadly
July 18, 2003 Playing to the Crowd: Influencing Groups and Societies in GURPS; Designer's Notes: Transhuman Space: Deep Beyond; Give Your Heroes A Home with Cardstock Cutouts; A Nyamban Herbal; Pyramid Review: Chaos Rising (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: Victoriana -- A Roleplaying Game of Vile Villainy & Glorious Adventure; Suppressed Transmission: Crisis On Alternate Apes!; Random Thought Table: Consequential Drift
July 25, 2003 Big Brother is an Idling Bachelorette Survivor -- Week 1; BBiaIBS -- GURPS Starbases; BBiaIBS -- What, Me Heal?; BBiaIBS -- Magical Scripts AND Living In The City; BBiaIBS -- Confessions of an Improvisational Game-master; BBiaIBS -- Nedeju, God of Wishes; Pyramid Review: The Magic Box (for Buffy the Vampire Slayer); Pyramid Review: Dark Inheritance (for d20 Modern); Random Thought Table: Death Holds No Fear For MeeeeIIIIEEEEEE!!!!
August 01, 2003 Pyramid Review: Aliens (for the Star Trek Roleplaying Game); Pyramid Review: Druids and Druidism (for d20 System); Big Brother is an Idling Bachelorette Survivor -- Week 2; BBiaIBS -- Yours For Four Hours; BBiaIBS -- The Central Psionic Directorate; BBiaIBS -- 'Can I Be Allergic to Glass?'; The Crux War; Designer's Notes: GURPS Vehicle Builder; Random Thought Table: Fate's Worse; Then Death
August 08, 2003 Big Brother is an Idling Bachelorette Survivor -- Week 3; BBiaIBS -- It's A Mad Mad Illuminated World; BBiaIBS -- Why Don't We Do It in the Road?; The Tale of Why John Hates Travel; Pyramid Review: The Colonies RPG (for EABA); Pyramid Pick: Promised Sands RPG; Pyramid Review: Diceland -- Ogre; Appendix Z: Hear Ye! Here Ye! -- One Million News Headlines and Rumors; Random Thought Table: No Means Yes and Yes Means No!
August 15, 2003 Analects Arcane: The Arcana of War; Pyramid Review: Evernight (for Shane Lacy Hensley's Savage Worlds); Pyramid Review: Greek Gods (for d20 System); Supporting Cast: Cornelius; Warehouse 23: Ye Olde Majik Shoppe; Random Thought Table: New Game, Old Characters; Campaign in a Box: Planet Intoxica, Jewel of the Terran Hegemony; Irregular Webcomic
August 22, 2003 Big Brother is an Idling Bachelorette Survivor -- Conclusion; Gaudeamus Igitur: Age and Society in Roleplaying: Part II -- Youth; Caladraland: Tribes of the Volcano Twins; Designer's Notes: GURPS Planet of Adventure; Spell Points: A New Arcane Magic System for the d20 System; Pyramid Review: Traveller's Aide #1: Personal Weapons of Charted Space; Pyramid Review: Monster Manual v.3.5 (for Dungeons & Dragons); Pyramid Review: Formula Dé Mini; Supporting Cast: 'Gheliphrex; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: 67 Words For ''Damage,'' No Word For ''Parlay''
August 29, 2003 Istanbul; Eight Million Bayonets: Bayonet Fencing in GURPS WW2; Class Action: Ability Focused Characters; Pyramid Review: Heart of the Machine (for Dragonstar); Pyramid Review: Lunar Rails; Suppressed Transmission: The Shadow Under Dunwich; Random Thought Table: Odds & Ends: A New Beginning; Irregular Webcomic
September 05, 2003 Pyramid Review: Vice Squad: Eighties Police Adventure; Pyramid Review: Twilight of Atlantis (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: The Most Dangerous Game (for When Darkness Comes); Designers' Notes: Transhuman Space: Under Pressure; Plotting as Oral Storytelling for GMs; Making the Most of Moves: Cinematic Combat in the d20 System; Warehouse 23: Building A MSTRE; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Big Questions Answered; No One Notices
September 12, 2003 Fantasy Cosmology: When the Stars Are Just Lights; Strange Bedfellows Expanded -- Part I; Designer's Notes: Strange Synergy; Cludge: Classless, Levelless, Universal d20 Gaming Environment; Pyramid Pick: Testament: Roleplaying In The Biblical Era (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: Mystery of the Abbey; Characters for ''Strange Bedfellows''; Random Thought Table: Steven's Self-Indulgent And Easy-To-Write Dragon*Con Report; Irregular Webcomic
September 19, 2003 Strange Bedfellows Expanded -- Part II; Urban Legends: The Rockhouse; Pyramid Review: Burn Rate: The dot-com card game; Pyramid Review: The Dice of Wrath (A Knights of the Dinner Table Dice Game); Supporting Cast: Mark English and Mrs. English; Suppressed Transmission: A Singularity of Unicorns; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Being a Pirate Means Never Needing To Say You're Sorrrrrrrr-y
September 26, 2003 Designer's Notes: GURPS Faerie; Spicing Up Animals: New Templates for the d20 System; Pyramid Review: The Book of Archetypes (for All Flesh Must Be Eaten); Pyramid Review: Monsters of the Mind (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham (for Call of Cthulhu & Call of Cthulhu d20); Supporting Cast: Deacon Paul, Bioroid Rights Activist; Adventure Pizza: The First Room; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Sugar-Coated Serial Characters; Irregular Webcomic
October 03, 2003 À Moi La Légion!: La Légion Étrangère in its Glory Days; How To Run A Mystery Adventure; The Hand You're Dealt: New Hexes for Deadlands d20; Homeland: Kralori; Pyramid Review: Quest for the DragonLords; Pyramid Review: Ruins of Rathess (for Exalted); Terra Incognita: Mog the Half Orc's Pit Fighting Circle; Suppressed Transmission: American Anabasis: Bisociating Lewis and Clark; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Parts of the Plot Pig
October 10, 2003 First Contact: We Are Not Alone; Just a Little Place in the Country; An Interview with Magus, Alister: Modern Magics for the d20 System; Pyramid Review: Haven: City of Violence -- A Role-Playing Game of Modern Violence; Pyramid Review: Stargate: SG-1 Roleplaying Game; Supporting Cast: Albert Hawkshaw, Steampunk Explorer; Adventure Pizza: With Murderous Intent; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Yes, We Have No-Win Scenarios; Irregular Webcomic
October 17, 2003 Alternate Enchantment: An Expanded Look at Creating Magic Items in GURPS; Shell Games: Revised Rules for Digital Intelligences in Transhuman Space; Pyramid Review: Two Fisted Tales Roleplaying Game; Pyramid Review: Fantasy Hero (for Hero System Fifth Edition); Pyramid Review: Torn Asunder (for d20 System); Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: This Looks Like a Job For . . . Superstition!; Campaign in a Box: Polymath Prep
October 24, 2003 Pyramid 10th Anniversary Spectacular; The Next 10 Years; I in the Pyramid: Pyramid People; Pyramid Pick from the Past: Demons (for Use with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) [1992]; Pyramid Pick from the Past: Fluxx 3.0 [First Edition in 1996]; Pyramid Pick from the Past: The Realm of Shadows (for Call of Cthulhu) [1997]; Pyramid Pick from the Past: Dark Continent: Adventure & Exploration in Darkest Africa [2001]; No, Really, What's in a Name?; Second Sight: Extinction Is Evolution, Too; Suppressed Transmission: Notes From The Gantenbrink Passage; Murphy's Rules; Dork Tower; Women in Gaming: Growing Older; Random Thought Table: The Timing of Memories; Campaign in a Box: Obelisk Online; Irregular Webcomic
October 31, 2003 Designer's Notes: Spooks; Creating Fear in Horror Roleplaying Games; Urban Legends: Reed Park Zoo; Pyramid Review: Torches & Pitchforks Card Game; Pyramid Review: Sauron Expansion (for The Lord of the Rings Boardgame); Pyramid Review: The Collectors -- the burning house; Suppressed Transmission: House of Clio's Nightmares; Dork Tower; Play Dirty: Play Dirty . . . Again; Random Thought Table: The Jaws of Defeat; Campaign in a Box: Summer's End
November 07, 2003 Australian Aboriginal Magic; Grenada In The Age Of Sail; Alternate Earth: Taxila; Oh Holy Day; Pyramid Review: Sprawl Survival Guide (for Shadowrun); Pyramid Pick: Crooks! (for Mutants & Masterminds); The Navies of Kralorela; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Creating and Saving the World in Three Easy Sessions; Irregular Webcomic
November 14, 2003 A Little Job for the Patrician: A GURPS Discworld Scenario; Parallel Plots and Multitrack Games; Class Action: The Cozener; Pyramid Review: Redline -- High Speed Road Duels In A Post-Apocalyptic Future (for d20); Pyramid Pick: BANG!; Supporting Cast: Merian C. Cooper; Suppressed Transmission: The Talented Mister Reilly; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: The Marsh of Madness -- NecronomiCon Tales
November 21, 2003 Master Twillik's Academy; With Special Guest Star X!; Magic on the Cheap; Pyramid Pick: My Life With Master RPG; Pyramid Review: Out for Blood (for d20 System); Supporting Cast: Men In White; Random Thought Table: Play Right, Darn It!; Irregular Webcomic
November 28, 2003 The Seven Lovely Sins; Designer's Notes: GURPS SWAT; Pyramid Review: Zombies!!! 3.5 Not Dead Yet (for Zombies!!!); Pyramid Review: From the Files of Matthews GenTech (for Silver Age Sentinels); Pyramid Review: Soul Harvest (for d20 System); Class Action: The Scholar; Supporting Cast: Dr. Ludwig Javosky, Evil Genius; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: ''C'' Is For ''Cookie'' -- Or ''Catastrophe''
December 05, 2003 Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls: Funerals, Wakes, and Memorials; Shadow Wolves; Designer's Notes: Tranhuman Space: Broken Dreams; The Two-Times Unfortunate Encyclopedists of Barbaric Deviltry; More Budget Treasures; Pyramid Review: Crime Scene: Police Investigation (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: Xcrawl: Sell Out! (for d20 System); Supporting Cast: Dr. William Winthorpe Whipporwill; Suppressed Transmission: Gin and Chthonic; Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: Freight Leads to Suffering; Irregular Webcomic
December 12, 2003 Fantasy Origins; Designer's Notes: GURPS Shapeshifters; Tilting at Windmills; Follow the Red Line Around the World, or How to Rune you Pulps; Pyramid Pick: Skull & Bones (for d20 System); Pyramid Review: Pirate's Cove; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Two Hundred . . . Whats?
December 19, 2003 Ancient Secrets: New Conspiracies for Illuminati: New World Order; Harvest Festival: When Greenery Is More Than Scenery; Familiar Alternatives; Pyramid Review: Dragon in the Smoke -- A Penny Dreadful (for Victoriana); Pyramid Review: Dragonomicon (for Dungeons & Dragons); Murphy's Rules; Random Thought Table: ¿Como Te Llama Gamespeak?; Campaign in a Box: The Sevenpart Soul; Irregular Webcomic
December 26, 2003 Designers' Notes: GURPS Covert Ops; The Loremaster's Spellbook; Pyramid Review: Lashings of Ginger Beer; Pyramid Review: Oathbound: Arena (for d20 System); Warehouse 23: Painless Blades; Suppressed Transmission: This Monstrous Apparition: Julius Caesar; Dork Tower; Random Thought Table: Carol Connections
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