Greg_Porter_(game_designer)

Greg Porter (game designer)

Greg Porter (game designer)

Role-playing 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]
    Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

Further reading

  • D. Mackay, The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art, MacFarland & Company, 2001. ISBN 0-7864-0815-4, pp 25,26,158,173-174
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