John R. Phythyon Jr. is a game designer who has worked primarily on

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Career

Phythyon ran a small-press role-playing game publishing company, Event Horizon Productions. Phythyon was hired as a partner in Guardians of Order in 2000 and was made their Sales & Marketing Director, with Guardians also acquiring Event Horizon Productions and its games including '' Heaven and Earth'' by Phythyon. Phythyon soon guided Guardians towards role-playing games that were not based on anime, starting with ''

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'' (2000), a gangster Samurai game designed by

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and Phythyon, which used the Tri-stat system and was based on the film of the same name.

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