Mark C. MacKinnon

Mark C. MacKinnon is a Canadian politician, entrepreneur, and designer of roleplaying games.

MacKinnon is the founder of Guardians of Order (GoO), and has produced work in the anime genre. His initial release, Big Eyes, Small Mouth, led the company to aggressively license anime properties. With the help of David L. Pulver and others, MacKinnon gradually turned the Tri-Stat System into a universal system, including martial arts, superhero, cyberpunk and urban fantasy games. MacKinnon shut down GoO on August 1, 2006, due to mounting financial difficulties, leaving many writers and artists unpaid.

Career Mark C. MacKinnon wanted to create a general anime role-playing game system, to have the kind of game that he would like to run, so he formed Guardians of Order to publish his anime role-playing game. MacKinnon got the name "Guardians of Order" from one of his characters from an Amber Diceless Roleplaying game run by Jesse Scoble. MacKinnon hired David L. Pulver to work for Guardians of Order in November 1998. MacKinnon later published under Dyskami additional original board games and other licensed tabletop games based on the Sailor Moon Crystal Japanese anime series.

In 2014, MacKinnon was elected as Ward 6 Councillor for Guelph City Council for a four-year term. He was re-elected in 2018.

June 2019, MacKinnon announced the return of BESM for a Fourth Edition under Dyskami Publishing Company. MacKinnon served as the primary author for the new edition. In 2021, he launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for Anime 5E, the using Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition rules.