Tom Braunlich
American customizable card game designer
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Tom Braunlich is an American customizable card game (CCG) designer.
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| Known for | Customizable card game designer |
| Notable work | Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game Star Wars Customizable Card Game |
Career
Thomas Braunlich, son of Frank H. Braunlich Jr. and Phyllis Braunlich, is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a journalism graduate.[1][2] Braunlich and Rollie Tesh were world champions of Pente, a game originally published by Parker Brothers, and later by Decipher.[3] In 1993, Braunlich and Tesh approached Decipher with their idea for a licensed collectible card game, the result of which they published as Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game (1994).[3][4][5]
Tom Braunlich worked for Decipher. He helped create the Star Wars Customizable Card Game which was Decipher's most monetarily successful CCG and their second-most successful game in terms of longevity.
Braunlich is also a writer on games, including Pente[2] and chess,[6][7] and organizer of chess tournaments.[8][9] Braunlich holds a USCF Life Master rating in chess.[10] On numerous occasions Braunlich has served as the director for the Jerry Spann Memorial Tournament, also known as the Oklahoma Open tournament.[11]
Braunlich is also the author of Weather Knight: A World War II Biography of Frank H. Braunlich Jr.[12]