Greg Porter (game designer)

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

Greg Porter
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Career

Greg Porter's Blacksburg Tactical Research Center was 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.[1]:304 He also did work for Imperium Games, writing about equipment and vehicles for the fourth edition of Traveller.[1]:331 After meeting Ron Edwards and other members of The Forge in 2002, Porter became increasingly involved in the indie role-playing game movement.[1]:408

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gollark: I have the TPS beamed to my overly glasses.
gollark: The music thing.
gollark: You get to enjoy me teleporting every five seconds when I'm busy.
gollark: If you make this work can I randomly bundle it with PotatOS?

References
  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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