Owen Seyler

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Owen Seyler
Nationality American
Occupation(s) Game designer, later Event planner [1]

Owen M. Seyler is a former game designer who worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Owen Seyler and Christian Moore had both graduated college recently when they were roommates in 1994 in Philadelphia. [2] : 314  Moore and Seyler formed the game company Last Unicorn Games with Greg Ormand and Bernie Cahill to publish a game that Moore was working on, Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (1994). [2] : 314  Moore and Seyler with recent hire Ross Isaacs began the initial work to create the "Icon" system for the Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game (1998). [2] : 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. [2] : 316  Seyler still worked at Last Unicorn when Decipher, Inc. purchased the company in 2001. [2] : 317  Moore and Seyler were later hired by Upper Deck. [2] : 318 

After leaving the gaming industry, he became an event planner. [1]

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