Possum Creek Games wanders to a new home with Steve Jackson Games
The Yazeba’s B&B publisher becomes an imprint of a genuine tabletop institution.
Possum Creek Games, the publisher behind medium-defining tabletop RPGs like Wanderhome and Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, has just announced a partnership with Steve Jackson Games. The long-standing company — which has been producing tabletop roleplaying games, board games, and card games for nearly 50 years — is best known for its Generic Universal Roleplaying System (GURPS), and the card-based Munchkin, which has spawned sequels with major brands such as Marvel and Warhammer.
The announcement posted on Steve Jackson Games’ website states:
As an imprint, Possum Creek will still have full creative and editorial control over their titles. However, the Possum Creek team will also lend their talents to the SJ Games design and visual branding. Jay Dragon, Editorial Director at Possum Creek, will join our Board Of Directors and become our Lead Game Designer. Ruby Lavin will become our Art Director while retaining that position at Possum Creek.
The pairing may seem odd at first glance. Where Possum Creek is filled with vivid queer worlds and boundary pushing themes, Steve Jackson stands as an old guard pillar of tabletop gaming. However, in an interview with Rascal, Possum Creek Games designer Jay Dragon and Steve Jackson Games’ new CEO Meredith Placko assured me that the two company’s different strengths and weaknesses are precisely why this partnership could prove so successful. We sat down to talk about how this came to be, what the future holds for both, and what it means to be a game designer in this tumultuous socio-political climate.
