Christian Moore is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Christian Moore and Owen Seyler were recent college graduates rooming together in 1994 in Philadelphia. Moore was designing what began as a set of rules for a miniatures game, and formed the game company

Last Unicorn Games Last Unicorn Games (or LUG) was a Pennsylvania based corporation with offices in Los Angeles, California. It was formed in 1994 by Christian Moore, Owen Seyler, Greg Ormand, and Bernie Cahill to publish the role playing game ''ARIA: Canticle of t ...

with Seyler, Greg Ormand, and

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to publish the game. Instead of a miniatures game, the design by Moore eventually became a new role-playing game, '' Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth'' (1994), and was the initial fantasy game from Last Unicorn. Moore, Seyler, and Matt Sturm created '' Heresy: Kingdom Come'', released in September 1995, with art direction by Moore who wanted to give the game a distinctive look. Moore and Seyler originally conceived of ''Heresy'' as a role-playing game that would have been called "Chaos Possible", they decided to take a different approach and make it a

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. Moore, Seyler, and new employee Ross Isaacs began the initial work to develop the "Icon" system for the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game'' (1998). Moore was one of the authors of the ''Star Trek Role-playing Game'' sourcebook ''Among the Clans'', with S. John Ross,

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, and Adarri Dickstein. Moore, Seyler, and Isaacs were among the people held at gunpoint when an armed intruder robbed the Last Unicorn Games design studio in Culver City in September 1999. Moore was a long-time friend of

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, and when Last Unicorn was having financial troubles,

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purchased the company in July 2000. Moore still led Last Unicorn when

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purchased the company in 2001. Moore aided

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and M. Alexander Jurkat with the '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game'' (2002). Moore and Seyler later worked for

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