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 when they were rooming together in 1994. Moore was working on the design of what was at first a set of miniature rules, and formed the game company

Last Unicorn Games Last Unicorn Games (LUG) was a game publisher owned by Christian Moore that was eventually purchased by Wizards of the Coast. Last Unicorn developed the collectible card games ''Dune'' (1997) and '' Heresy: Kingdom Come'' (1995) as well as the 1 ...

with Seyler,

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, and Bernie Cahill to publish the game. Instead of a miniatures game, Moore's game eventually became a new roleplaying game, '' Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth'' (1994), and was the initial fantasy game produced by Last Unicorn. Moore, Seyler, and new employee

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did the initial work on the "Icon" system for the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game'' (1998). Moore was an old friend of

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, and when Last Unicorn was having financial troubles,

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

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purchased Last Unicorn in 2001. Moore aided George Vasilakos and

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

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