Christian Moore (game designer)

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Christian Moore
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Christian Moore is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Christian Moore and Owen Seyler were recent college graduates rooming together in 1994 in Philadelphia. [1] : 314  Moore was designing what began as a set of rules for a miniatures game, and formed the game company Last Unicorn Games with Seyler, Greg Ormand, and Bernie Cahill to publish the game. [1] : 314  Instead of a miniatures game, the design by Moore eventually became a new role-playing game, Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (1994), and was the initial fantasy game from Last Unicorn. [1] : 314  Moore, Seyler, and new employee Ross Isaacs began the initial work to develop the "Icon" system for the Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game (1998). [1] : 315  Moore was a long-time friend of Peter Adkison, and when Last Unicorn was having financial troubles, Wizards of the Coast purchased the company in July 2000. [1] : 316  Moore still led Last Unicorn when Decipher, Inc. purchased the company in 2001. [1] : 317  Moore aided George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game (2002). [1] : 342  Moore and Seyler later worked for Upper Deck Company. [1] : 318 

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