Phil Masters
{{Short description|British role-playing game designer and author}}
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Phil Masters is a British role-playing game designer and author.
Career
Phil Masters' writing credits in role-playing games go back to White Dwarf Magazine #20 and the Fiend Folio of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.{{Cite web|url=https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?articleid=1236|title = The Fiend Factory - RPGnet RPG Game Index}} Masters wrote about his British campaign for the Champions superhero game in Kingdom of Champions (1990) from Hero Games.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|150}}{{cite book|last=Schick |first=Lawrence|authorlink=Lawrence Schick|title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games|publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991|isbn=0-87975-653-5}}{{rp|42}} He contributed adventures to Hogshead Publishing's licensed version of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in the mid 1990s.{{rp|305}} Masters also contributed articles to the magazineThe Excellent Prismatic Spray,{{rp|384}} and for Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages for The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game, by Pelgrane Press.{{Cite web|url=http://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/tag/cugels-compendium-of-indispensable-advantages/|title=Pelgrane News 2001-2002}} He also co-wrote or contributed to two supplements for Ars Magica later in the decade.{{Cite web|url=https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=1433|title = Faerie Stories - RPGnet RPG Game Index}}{{Cite web|url=https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=11816|title=Tales of Mythic Europe - RPGnet RPG Game Index}}
Masters has written or co-written numerous GURPS supplements, including GURPS Arabian Nights, GURPS Castle Falkenstein and GURPS Discworld, and various Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade supplements for White Wolf, Inc. He also created The Skool Rules, a game based on the Nigel Molesworth books, and has self-published The Small Folk, a wainscot fantasy RPG based on his contribution to Dreaming Cities for Guardians of Order.
References
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External links
- [https://philmasters.org.uk/ Home page]
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