Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.

Illuminati is a standalone card game made by Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ), inspired by The Illuminatus!

Knightmare Chess is a fantasy chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ) in 1996.

SJG also sells blank cards, that can be customized by the player, in packs of 20.

Hacker is a card game ( not a trading card game ) made by Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ).

In 1990, SJG was raided by the United States Secret Service as part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy.

Founded in 1980, six years after the birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and before the height of role-playing games, SJG created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes.

Today SJG publishes games of numerous varieties ( card games, board games, strategy games ) and genres ( fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror ); they also publish the book Principia Discordia, the sacred text of the Discordian religion.

The game is written with the usual SJG humor.

SJG also developed some Illuminated role-playing game modules for its GURPS system, including GURPS Illuminati, GURPS Illuminati University and GURPS Warehouse 23.

In the first Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ) issue Howard Thompson wrote a report on Metagaming and stated " Metagaming's staff won't miss the effort.

Despite these similarities, SJG had a unique feel all their own and became popular with their releases.

After doing research on the Illuminati and conspiracy theories, and " extensive and enthusiastic playtesting " it went on the market in July 1982 in the Pocket Box format ( a plastic box the size of a mass-market paperback ) which was at the time the usual for SJG.

SJG also released two related games.

" The magazine stayed with SJG for the next five years, during which it was at its most popular and influential.

The change to bimonthly publication was not enough to allow SJG to focus on new games as they wished, and in 1985, it was announced, " We've sold Space Gamer.

When Ayumi leaves, Mariko remains an occasional member of the SJG cast and mainly helps the pair out of difficult situations.

This concept was later borrowed ( and expanded upon ) by Soft AC, Oldies, and even some country music and Hot AC stations.

Skills in mountaineering and seamanship were always taught at the school but the introduction of the Moray Badge, from which the Duke of Edinburgh's Award was borrowed, expanded this.

It is human nature to jump to a post hoc conclusion that Fordism borrowed ideas from Taylorism and expanded from there.

It was based upon the work of Tycho Brahe and may have borrowed from Alessandro Piccolomini's 1540 star atlas, De le stelle fisse, although Bayer included an additional 1, 000 stars.

McNeill wrote The Rise of the West ( 1965 ) to improve upon Toynbee by showing how the separate civilizations of Eurasia interacted from the very beginning of their history, borrowing critical skills from one another, and thus precipitating still further change as adjustment between traditional old and borrowed new knowledge and practice became necessary.

However, Kenneth Sisam has shown that this pedigree resulted from a process of elaboration upon a root pedigree borrowed from the kings of Bernicia, and hence prior to Cerdic himself it has no historical basis.

Early hillbilly also borrowed elements of the blues and drew upon more aspects of 19th-century pop songs as hillbilly music evolved into a commercial genre eventually known as country and western and then simply country.

According to a classification borrowed by Saadia from the Motazilites but based upon an essentially Jewish view, the commandments are divided into those of reason and of revelation, although even the latter may be explained rationally, as is shown by numerous examples.

Companies that had borrowed in dollars had to face the higher costs imposed upon them by the rupiah's decline, and many reacted by buying dollars through selling rupiah, undermining the value of the latter further.

Humphries ' other satirical characters include the " priapic and inebriated cultural attaché " Sir Les Patterson, who has " continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it ", gentle, grandfatherly " returned gentleman " Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O ' Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.

Current estimates are that " wago " ( i. e. words attributable to the original Yaoyi language ) make up 33. 8 % of the Japanese lexicon, that " kango " ( i. e. words with roots borrowed from Chinese since the 5th century CE ) make up 49. 1 % of Japanese words ( and in addition, the Chinese ideograms used in the Japanese written language ), that foreign words called gairaigo make up 8. 8 % of Japanese words, and that 8. 3 % of Japanese words are konshugo that draw upon multiple languages.

Configuration files also do more than just modify settings, they often ( in the form of an " rc file ") run a set of commands upon startup ( for example, the " rc file " for a shell might instruct the shell to change directories, run certain programs, delete or create files —- many things which do not involve modifying variables in the shell itself and so were not in the shell's dotfiles ); according to the Jargon File, this convention is borrowed from " runcom files " on the CTSS operating system ; see run commands for details.

The words over the older ' Alumni Gateway ', adjacent to campus, are borrowed from the Latin phrase inscribed over the main gateway to the University of Padua, Italy, and the Gateway was dedicated at the beginning of the 20th Century, upon the 100th anniversary of the university's first graduating class.

The words are borrowed from the Latin inscription found upon entering the ancient University of Padua, Italy.

This monthly payment depends upon the monthly interest rate ( expressed as a fraction, not a percentage, i. e., divide the quoted yearly nominal percentage rate by 100 and by 12 to obtain the monthly interest rate ), the number of monthly payments called the loan's term, and the amount borrowed known as the loan's principal ; rearranging the formula for the present value of an ordinary annuity we get the formula for:

This derivation illustrates three key components of fixed-rate loans: ( 1 ) the fixed monthly payment depends upon the amount borrowed, the interest rate, and the length of time over which the loan is repaid ; ( 2 ) the amount owed every month equals the amount owed from the previous month plus interest on that amount, minus the fixed monthly payment ; ( 3 ) the fixed monthly payment is chosen so that the loan is paid off in full with interest at the end of its term and no more money is owed.

Factors in designing also include subjective qualities such as: genius loci ( the special site qualities to emphasize ); client's needs and preferences ; desirable plants and elements to retain on site, modify, or replace, and available to use as borrowed scenery from beyond ; artistic composition from perspectives of both looking upon and being in the * gardens ; spatial development and definition ; plant palettes in designed layouts, and artistic focal points for enjoyment.

At the same time, Literary Chinese was based largely upon the Classical language, and writers frequently borrowed Classical language into their literary writings.

Habermas claims that communication rests upon a non-egoistic understanding of the world, which is an idea he borrowed from thinkers like Jean Piaget.

Most of the rank names were borrowed from existing German / Prussian, French, English, Dutch, and Polish ranks upon the formation of Russian regular army in late 17th century.

Medieval sources often place Arthur ’ s headquarters in Wales at Caerleon upon Usk, the " Fortress of Legions " ( borrowed from Latin Castra Legionum ).

After this revelation, it was remarked upon by the Challs and others that they " are living on borrowed time ..."

The melody of " Chimes of Freedom " was deliberately borrowed by Billy Bragg for the song " Ideology ", from his third album, Talking with the Taxman about Poetry, with Bragg's chorus " above the sound of ideologies clashing " echoing Dylan's " we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing ".

Unfortunately, from the classical standpoint investigative work is viewed upon as having difficulty to interpret ; data with no end product isolating power and then man, as either in a position of interpretation by the classical theorists as the final conclusion or man having anthropological characteristics with ancient relic features borrowed from the Pleistocene era which have never altered with additional evolutionary, cultural and biological salient features rather than having a real historical and social character involved. Or to investigate critically this power, with man and his involvement with his interactions with the environment making it impossible to have any rigorous explanation or conclusions. Political systems, or knowledge systems in general, from the classical perspective, become too large to be comprehended interpreting the environment of man as an anachronism ; information and data produced surrounding man as poorly understood viewing historical information as having no, or absence of history. Obviously from the classical point of view, modern research methods ( all from " Social sciences, Sociology, Humanities ") cannot be used to penetrate observation leaving gaps in our knowledge and an accepted taken for granted approach to any analysis. Foucault views this as the exact opposite of rational analysis, with its operations ( power ) as nothing more than a series of contingencies and networks.

The historian Robert Ergang, however, draws upon Gustav Könnecke's Quellen und Forschungen zur Lebensgeschichte Grimmelshausens to convey the assertion that " the events related in the novel Simplicissimus could hardly have been autobiographical since lived a peaceful existence in quiet towns and villages on the fringe of the Black Forest and that the material he incorporated in his work was not taken from actual experience, but was either borrowed from the past, collected from hearsay, or created by a vivid imagination.

This theory of an intermediary power, and the system of allegorizing all the Biblical passages concerning God, upon which Benjamin insists again and again in his commentaries on the Bible, were borrowed from the writings of the etc.