Chris Birch (game designer)

Chris Birch
Chris Birch
Nationality	British
Occupation	Game designer

Last updated January 10, 2024

Chris Birch is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Chris Birch suggested the first license for Cubicle 7 to pursue, Starblazer: Science Adventure in Picture (1979-1991), after he learned in August 2006 that the series had a role-playing game license available.^[1]^: 428 Birch was acquainted with Angus Abranson after they had discussed a board game design years earlier and approached Abranson about Starblazer, so Abranson had Birch write Starblazer Adventures , his first game design.^[1]^: 428 Birch and friend Stuart Newman decided that rather than create a new game system, they would use the Fate game system.^[1]^: 428 Sarah Newton and Birch designed Legends of Anglerre (2010), an RPG based on fantasy stories published in Starblazer.^[1]^: 431

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References

1 2 3 4 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. pp. 428 & 431. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

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[designers-1] 1 2 3 4 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. pp. 428 & 431. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

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