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Seattle Weekly - tech: Recasting the die: This article talks about how the internet has reinvigorated tabletop gaming. It's a good read, though I was hoping it was going to tell me how to run a pencil and paper game across an instant-message application. It mentions Steve Jackson Games, and has a quote from Evil Stevie himself, but doesn't go so far as to mention how SJG has embraced the internet, such as transforming their former dead-tree magazine into the best online gaming mag, evar: Pyramid. Or the fact that their beta test process is open to all subscribers, and is debated in their hosted forums. (That does it, I'm going to renew my subscription.)

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