Christian Moore (game designer)

Christian Moore and Owen Seyler were recent college graduates rooming together in 1994 in Philadelphia.^[1]: 314 Moore was designing what began as a set of rules for a miniatures game, and formed the game company Last Unicorn Games with Seyler, Greg Ormand, and Bernie Cahill to publish the game.^[1]: 314 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.^[1]: 314 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.^[2][3] 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 collectible card game.^[4]

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).^[1]: 315 Moore was one of the authors of the Star Trek Role-playing Game sourcebook Among the Clans, with S. John Ross, Steven S. Long, and Adarri Dickstein.^[5] 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.^[6] Moore was a long-time friend of Peter Adkison, and when Last Unicorn was having financial troubles, Wizards of the Coast purchased the company in July 2000.^[1]: 316 Moore still led Last Unicorn when Decipher, Inc. purchased the company in 2001.^[1]: 317 Moore aided George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game (2002).^[1]: 342 Moore and Seyler later worked for Upper Deck Company.^[1]: 318