British role-playing game designer and author
Phil Masters is a British role-playing game designer and author.
Phil Masters: A Life in RPG Design
Phil Masters is a renowned British role-playing game designer and author with a long and varied career. His work spans multiple systems, including Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, GURPS, and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade. Masters has also contributed to numerous magazines and self-published his own games, showcasing his passion for creating immersive and engaging gaming experiences.
Career
Phil Masters' writing credits in role-playing games go back to White Dwarf Magazine #20 and the Fiend Folio of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Masters wrote about his British campaign for the Champions superhero game in Kingdom of Champions (1990) from Hero Games. : 150 : 42 He contributed adventures to Hogshead Publishing's licensed version of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in the mid 1990s. : 305 Masters also contributed articles to the magazineThe Excellent Prismatic Spray, : 384 and for Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages for The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game, by Pelgrane Press. He also co-wrote or contributed to two supplements for Ars Magica later in the decade.
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.