Greg Porter (game designer)
{{short description|Role-playing game designer}}
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Greg Porter is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Greg Porter ran Blacksburg Tactical Research Center as one of a few game companies active in Blacksburg, Virginia in the 1980s and 1990s.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|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.{{rp|304}} He also did work for Imperium Games, including contributing equipment and vehicles for the fourth edition of Traveller.{{rp|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.{{rp|408}}
References
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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
External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=763 |title=Greg Porter :: Pen & Paper RPG Database|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519224604/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=763|archivedate=May 19, 2007}}
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