Bill Martinson
Bill Martinson was a Decipher Product Development staffer. The card Lieutenant Tarn Mison is an anagram of his name.[1][2]
Anagrams
- Lieutenant Tarn Mison — Bill Martinson
Service
| Dates | Service |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Playtester, Premiere Two-Player Introductory Game[3] |
| 2001 | Additional design, Jedi Knights Trading Card Game[4] |
Radio Free Decipher
Martinson and Tim Ellington were guests of host Carol Wisely on Radio Free Decipher broadcast 1 (4 December 1998), on Star Trek CCG's Dominion expansion.[5] Broadcast 4 (8 January 1999) interviewed him on the Trek set after Dominion and on SWCCG Endor. Broadcasts 12–13 (April 1999) paired him with Jerry Darcy on Young Jedi and Endor.[5]
Jedi Knights TCG
Martinson did additional design on the Jedi Knights Trading Card Game (2001) and reviewed the game while mainly working on the Star Trek CCG.[4][6]
DecipherCon 2000
At DecipherCon 2000 Martinson was one of the designers, with Tim Ellington and Evan Lorentz, who presented the Star Trek CCG Design-a-Card seminar.[7]
Interviews
On Radio Free Decipher in April 1999, Martinson said Young Jedi had been in development since October 1998. He described the plan of three 140-card sets with collector features such as rarity icons, card numbers and expansion icons, and credited Warren Holland with proposing its deck-building system.[8] Former Decipher staffer Jason Winter recalled Martinson's design motto, "the threat is worse than the execution": printing a few counter cards per set discouraged degenerate strategies without banning cards.[9]
Photographs
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Bill Martinson at Silver Falls Park.
See also
- Squadron Members · Anagrams · Creators of SWCCG · Radio Free Decipher
- Corellian Engineering Corporation (fan site)
References
- ↑ Anagramed Decipherians, geocities.ws. Entry: "Lieutenant Tarn Mison [Bill] Martinson Decipherian". Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Also at oocities.org (Preserved copy: Internet Archive) and reocities (Preserved copy: Internet Archive).
- ↑ Star Wars CCG Collecting Encyclopedia v3.2, p. 200 (Anagrams). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ Introductory Two-Player Game Rules Booklet, Decipher / Parker Brothers (1995), credits page. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jedi Knights Trading Card Game rulebook (credits), Decipher (2001). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Radio Free Decipher episode index, LOTR-TCG PC wiki. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ Design Diary: Dramatis personae, decipher.com (2000–2001). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ Design a Card, Any Card, Francis K. Lalumiere, Decipher, DecipherCon 2000 reports (2000). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ Broadcast 13 - Radio Free Decipher (09 April, 1999): Bill Martinson, Jerry Darcy on PD (Part 2), Player's Council, YouTube (uploaded 20 February 2022), at 17:25. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: Radio Free Decipher/Episode 13 transcript.
- ↑ Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher, Imperial Remnant, YouTube (23 November 2025), at 19:41. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher (transcript).