Greg Gorden
{{Short description|American game designer}}
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Greg Gorden is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Greg Gorden has worked for several gaming companies:
- For Victory Games he participated, during the early 1980s, in the design of the James Bond 007 role-playing game (1983).{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|167}}
- For Mayfair Games he was in 1985 the main designer on the DC Heroes role-playing game.{{rp|167}} Also for Mayfair Games, partnering with White Wolf, he designed D.O.A., but the game was not published.{{rp|170}}
- For West End Games Gorden brought help to Greg Costikyan and the WEG team in the design of all the editions of Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game (1987,Greg Costikyan, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, West End Games, New York, October 1987, Editors: Eric Goldberg, Paul Murphy and Bill Slavicsek, Hardcover, p. 142, {{ISBN|0-87431-065-2}} 1992Bill Smith, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game - Second Edition, West End Games, New York, October 1992, Editor: Ed Stark, Hardcover, p. 176, {{ISBN|0-87431-181-0}} and 1996Bill Smith, Peter Schweighofer, George Strayton, Paul Sudlow, Eric S. Trautmann and Greg Farshtey, The Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Second Edition - Revised and Expanded, West End Games, New York, August 1996, Hardcover, p. 288, {{ISBN|0-87431-268-X}}). For the same game, in the supplements' list, he was the main author of The Star Wars Rules Companion (1989)Greg Gorden, The Star Wars Rules Companion, West End Games, New York, January 1989, Paperback, p. 80, {{ISBN|0-87431-147-0}} and the Imperial Sourcebook (First Edition: 1989,Greg Gorden, Imperial Sourcebook, West End Games, New York, October 1989, Editor: Bill Slavicsek, Hardcover, p. 144, {{ISBN|0-87431-175-6}} Second Edition: 1994Greg Gorden, Imperial Sourcebook, Second Edition, West End Games, New York, June 1994, Editor: Bill Smith, Hardcover, p. 144, {{ISBN|0-87431-210-8}}). Also for West End Games, and with help from Douglas Kaufman and Bill Slavicsek, Gorden designed Torg (1990).{{rp|191}}
- For FASA, Gorden designed the rules of the role-playing game Earthdawn (1993).{{rp|124}}
- For the Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Shane Lacy Hensley (founder of the company) wrote a draft for his Deadlands game and flew his friends Gorden and Matt Forbeck to Virginia; Gorden and Forbeck liked the draft and asked if they could buy into Hensley's company, although Gorden left because of personal reasons.{{rp|325}}
- Gorden's Dungeons & Dragons work (edited by different companies, from TSR to Wizards of the Coast) includes Castle Greyhawk (1988), Elder Evils (2007), Dungeon Master's Guide 2 (2009), and Monster Manual 2 (2009).
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=2412|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050219193826/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=2412 |archivedate=February 19, 2005 |title=Greg Gorden at RPG Database Pen & Paper}}
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Category:Dungeons & Dragons game designers