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Christian T. Petersen


Christian Petersen is the founder and CEO of Fantasy Flight Games, as well as one of their main game designers. His design of Twilight Imperium helped transform Fantasy Flight from a small importer of European comics into a large game publisher.

Christian Petersen is born in Washington, grew up in Denmark, and moved back to Minnesota in 1991.

Notable Games

1997 Twilight Imperium
1999 Diskwars (with Tod Gelle, Darrell Hardy, Tom Jolly)
2000 Twilight Imperium (Second Edition)
2002 A Game of Thrones Collectible Card Game (with Eric M. Lang)
2003 A Game of Thrones (first edition) (with Kevin Wilson)
2005 Twilight Imperium (Third Edition)
2005 World of Warcraft: The Boardgame (with Eric M. Lang)
2007 StarCraft: The Board Game (with Corey Konieczka)
2009 Middle-Earth Quest (with Corey Konieczka)
2013 Warhammer: Diskwars (with Tom Jolly, Lukas Litzsinger)
2015 Star Wars: Armada (with James Kniffen)






Sebagai designer di boardgame

Rex: Final Days of an Empire  [2012]

Game description from the publisher:

Rex: Final Days of an Empire, a reimagined version of Dune set in Fantasy Flight's Twilight Imperium universe, is a board game of negotiation, betrayal, and warfare in which 3-6 players take control of gr...

Twilight Imperium (Third Edition): Shards of the Throne  [2011]

Game description from the publisher:

The legacy of a ruined empire silently echoes across the stars, its presence still felt as a timeless entity. It is hope. It is a promise. It corrodes the dreams of a peaceful universe into visions of all...

StarCraft: The Board Game  [2007]

Publisher blurb

Including a total of 180 plastic figures and dozens of unit types, Starcraft: The Board Game features an innovative modular board of varying sizes, which guarantees a new experience each and every game. An exciting card drive...

Twilight Imperium (Third Edition): Shattered Empire  [2006]

The first expansion for Twilight Imperium (Third Edition) features four new races that are unseen in previous editions, more balanced Strategy cards, more belligerent Objective cards, several new surprises for neutral planets, two more sets of plasti...

Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation  [2005]

This Deluxe Edition of Reiner Knizia’s acclaimed Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation combines a superb craftsmanship with an exciting expansion for this award-winning game.

The Confrontation is a two-player board game in which players take ...

Twilight Imperium (Third Edition)  [2005]

Twilight Imperium Third Edition is an epic empire-building game of interstellar conflict, trade, and struggle for power. Players take the roles of ancient galactic civilizations, each seeking to seize the imperial throne via warfare, diplomacy, and t...