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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_...

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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...

I swear this was done deliberately to cause maximum confusion.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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