Jason Winter
Jason Winter was a Decipher staff member from February 1996 to January 1998.[2] The card name Chief Retwin is an anagram of his name.[3]
Anagrams
- Chief Retwin — Jason Winter
Service
| Dates | Service |
|---|---|
| 14 March 1997 | Q, Jawa Camp, Star Wars CCG Palace Grand Opening[4] |
| June 1997 | Weekly Star Wars CCG Palace host as Q, 5–6 pm[5] |
| February 1996 – January 1998 | Decipher staff: rules questions, FAQ, design, playtesting and organized play[3][2] |
| 1998 – about 2002 | Decipher playtester, including Young Jedi[6] |
| 2001 | Playtester, Jedi Knights Trading Card Game[7] |
Tournament results
- Jason Winter Jason's Palace Deck (DS, July 1997)
Decipher career
Winter met Decipher at Gen Con in 1994, where he spent the convention demonstrating the new Star Trek CCG. He kept in touch with designer Tom Braunlich, and took over answering players' rules questions when Braunlich stepped away from that job.[8] He was one of three people hired the same day, about the company's 25th to 27th employees. Decipher had grown to about 80 staff by the time he left. Besides the rules questions and the frequently asked questions list, he contributed to design, playtesting and organized play. He ran Star Trek and occasional Star Wars tournaments around the country.[2] After leaving he continued to playtest for Decipher, including on Young Jedi, until he left Virginia around 2002, and he wrote for Scrye magazine.[6] A Bith musician card in Young Jedi was named after his roleplaying-game character. His anagram name, Chief Retwin, belongs to the officer standing by the door as Vader leaves the Star Destroyer bridge in The Empire Strikes Back.[9]
Photographs
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With the Imperial Remnant host, 2025 interview. Video: Imperial Remnant.
See also
- Squadron Members · Anagrams · Creators of SWCCG · Radio Free Decipher
- Corellian Engineering Corporation (fan site)
References
- ↑ Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher, Imperial Remnant, YouTube (23 November 2025), at 00:29. Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher, Imperial Remnant, YouTube (23 November 2025), at 07:45. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher (transcript).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anagramed Decipherians, geocities.ws. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ Special Events, Decipher (March 1997). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ Palace calendar, Decipher (June 1997). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher, Imperial Remnant, YouTube (23 November 2025), at 25:23. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher (transcript).
- ↑ Jedi Knights Trading Card Game rulebook (credits), Decipher (2001). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- ↑ Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher, Imperial Remnant, YouTube (23 November 2025), at 01:00. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher (transcript).
- ↑ Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher, Imperial Remnant, YouTube (23 November 2025), at 26:54. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: Inside the Star Wars CCG: Secrets from Decipher (transcript).
External links
- Anagramed Decipherians, geocities.ws. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- Anagramed Decipherians, oocities.org (GeoCities mirror). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
- Anagramed Decipherians, reocities.com (Internet Archive, 6 April 2016)
- SWCCG Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2, p. 200. Preserved copy: Internet Archive