M. Alexander Jurkat
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Game designer, attorney

M. Alexander Jurkat is an American attorney, and a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

M. Alexander Jurkat is an attorney who gave George Vasilakos the idea to license a roleplaying game called Battlelords of the 23rd Century (1990) that Jurkat had worked on, which was adapted as the Battlelords (1995) collectible card game through Vasilakos' new company New Millennium Entertainment.[1]: 340 

New Millennium went out of business due to debts related to its CCG, and on July 4, 1997, Vasilakos, Jurkat, and investor Ed Healy announced their new company, Eden Studios; they also obtained the rights to the role-playing game Conspiracy X from New Millennium Entertainment.[1]: 340 

Vasilakos and Jurkat, both fans of C.J. Carella's role-playing game work, announced in July 1998 that Eden acquired a license to Carella's WitchCraft and Armageddon, both previously published by Myrmidon Press.[1]: 340  Eden Studios made an arrangement with Steve Jackson Games to produce Jurkat's supplement GURPS Conspiracy X (2002).[1]: 341  Vasilakos and Jurkat made Unisystem the house rules system of Eden Studios, first displaying this intention with the RPG All Flesh Must Be Eaten (2000), written by Vasilakos and Christopher Shy with Jurkat as editor.[1]: 341 

Jurkat ended his part ownership in Eden Studios in 2005 and stopped working for the company in 2006, working instead as a freelance editor for companies such as Margaret Weis Productions and Wizards of the Coast.[1]: 343  His Dungeons & Dragons design work includes the Magic Item Compendium (2007) and Player's Option: Heroes of Shadow (2011).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
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