Greg Porter (game designer)

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Greg Porter
Occupation Game designer

Greg Porter is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Career

Greg Porter ran Blacksburg Tactical Research Center as one of a few game companies active in Blacksburg, Virginia in the 1980s and 1990s. [1] :325 Porter initially came to attention for designing TimeLords and Macho Women with Guns RPGs in the late 1980s; he then put his energy into two successive generic RPG systems, CORPS and EABA .

Porter subsequently wrote articles for Hogshead Publishing's Inter*action magazine. [1] :304 He also did work for Imperium Games, including contributing equipment and vehicles for the fourth edition of Traveller . [1] :331 Porter got more involved in the indie role-playing game movement after he met Ron Edwards and other members of The Forge in 2002. [1] :408

References

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

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