Jordan K. Weisman

Jordan K. Weisman was one of the founders of the now defunct gaming company FASA Corporation with L. Ross Babcock III.
At FASA, he worked as a game designer and editor. Star Trek books he has been credited on as an editor include The Strider Incident and Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook, game supplements for the (RPG) that was developed under the co-aegis of Weisman at FASA in the early 1980s.
In 2000, Weisman founded his own game company WizKids where several tabletop Star Trek games were again developed under his stewardship, some of them, such as Star Trek: Tactics and Star Trek: Attack Wing, more than a little reminiscent of FASA's starship gaming miniatures-centered Star Trek RPG, even though they were developed under a completely new and different Star Trek license.
==Career ==
One of the very first games Weisman designed with Babcock for FASA, concerned "Battlestar Galactica, A Game of Starfighter Combat", after which the subsequent Star Trek game became modeled.
Aside from FASA and WizKids, Weisman also co-founded with Babcock the Virtual Worlds Entertainment computergame company in 1990, which has not released Star Trek related products, but was founded for the express purpose to continue the BattleTech game franchise digitally, after FASA had ceased the release of tabletop games and their accouterments. In 1996, Virtual Worlds and what was digitally left of FASA, "FASA Interactive", became sister companies under the newly established Virtual World Entertainment Group umbrella. When the FASA part was sold in 1999 to Microsoft, its two founders too, went over to their new employer.
FASA went defunct in 2001, but it was not until 2007 that the company was formally dissolved. On that occasion all FASA licensing rights were awarded to Weisman. It appeared that Babcock was left with nothing, even though he had taken on the thankless task to oversee the closure of FASA as Weisman had jumped ship one year beforehand to found WizKids. (Designers & Dragons, p. 127, )
In addition to all of his game designing credits, he also wrote a Shadowrun novel, Into the Shadows, in 1987.
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