Kevin C. Wong

Pyramid v4 (2021-) [/]

After a 2-year hiatus Steve Jackson Games launched Pyramid v4 as an irregularly issued Kickstarter-funded magazine. The first Kickstarter was three PDF issues (each eventually being 52 pages) for $6. A year and a half later the second Kickstarter was once again $6 for three 52-page issues.

The articles are the excellent GURPS or systemless topics that you'd see in Pyramid v3. But from the Kickstarter bonus rewards it's easy to guess that most articles would be 4 pages -- which I think the first four issues were that way, often using art to fill out an article to four pages (and saving a little space by moving author credits to a page at the end). I think issue five had a two-article series to more fully cover one topic while issue six had a 3-page and a 6-page article.

I don't think v4 is quite as good as v3 mostly because the typica v4 3-1/2 page article means very small topics or a brief part of a bigger topic. On the other hand v3 was very low on art while v4 has lots of art, though not sure how much of that is original art. Overall though I want to see more GURPS material published so I'm fine with Pyramid v4 continuing if this is how they can realistically fund it.