Greg Gorden Explained
| Greg Gorden |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Game designer |
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).[1]
- For Mayfair Games he was in 1985 the main designer of the DC Heroes role-playing game.[1] Also for Mayfair Games, partnering with White Wolf, he designed D.O.A., but the game was not published.[1]
- For West End Games Gorden brought help to Greg Costikyan and the WEG team in the design of all the editions of (1987,[2] 1992[3] and 1996[4]). For the same game, in the supplements' list, he was the main author of The Star Wars Rules Companion (1989)[5] and the Imperial Sourcebook (First Edition: 1989,[6] Second Edition: 1994[7]). Also for West End Games, and with help from Douglas Kaufman and Bill Slavicsek, Gorden designed Torg (1990).[1]
- For FASA, Gorden designed the rules of the role-playing game Earthdawn (1993).[1]
- 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 for personal reasons.[1]
- 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).
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Shannon Appelcline. Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. 2011. 978-1-907702-58-7.
- [Greg Costikyan]
- Bill Smith, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game - Second Edition, West End Games, New York, October 1992, Editor: Ed Stark, Hardcover, p. 176,
- Bill 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,
- Greg Gorden, The Star Wars Rules Companion, West End Games, New York, January 1989, Paperback, p. 80,
- Greg Gorden, Imperial Sourcebook, West End Games, New York, October 1989, Editor: Bill Slavicsek, Hardcover, p. 144,
- Greg Gorden, Imperial Sourcebook, Second Edition, West End Games, New York, June 1994, Editor: Bill Smith, Hardcover, p. 144,
