Greg Porter is an American
game designer
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who has worked primarily on
role-playing game
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s.
Career
Greg Porter ran
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center
Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC) is an American game publishing company best known for the '' TimeLords'', '' Macho Women with Guns'', and ''EABA'' role-playing games. They have produced a variety of role-playing games, card games, and b ...
as one of a few game companies active in
Blacksburg, Virginia in the 1980s and 1990s.
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
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'' and ''
EABA
The ''End All Be All'' game system, commonly known as ''EABA'' and pronounced "ee-buh", is a role-playing game system from Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC). It is a generic gaming system designed to adapt to any Fictional universe, ima ...
''.
Porter subsequently wrote articles for
Hogshead Publishing's ''
Inter*action'' magazine.
He also did work for
Imperium Games, including contributing equipment and vehicles for the fourth edition of ''
Traveller''.
Porter got more involved in the
indie role-playing game movement after he met
Ron Edwards and other members of
The Forge in 2002.
References
Further reading
* D. Mackay, ''The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art'', MacFarland & Company, 2001. , pp 25,26,158,173-174
External links
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GURPS writers
Living people
Role-playing game designers
Year of birth missing (living people)