Phil Masters is a British

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designer and author.

Career

Phil Masters' writing credits in role-playing games go back to ''

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'' Magazine #20 and the ''

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'' of ''

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''. Masters wrote about his British campaign for the ''

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'' superhero game in '' Kingdom of Champions'' (1990) from

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. He contributed adventures to

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's licensed version of ''

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' or ''Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play'' (abbreviated to ''WFRP'' or ''WHFRP'') is a role-playing game set in the ''Warhammer Fantasy'' setting, published by Games Workshop or its licensees. The first edition of ''WFR ...

'' in the mid 1990s. Masters also contributed articles to the magazine''The Excellent Prismatic Spray'', and for ''Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages'' for ''

The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'' is a tabletop role-playing game published by Pelgrane Press in 2001. Description ''The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game'' is an adaptation of Jack Vance's ''Dying Earth'' novel series. The game situates players i ...

'', by

Pelgrane Press Pelgrane Press Ltd is a British role-playing game publishing company based in London and founded in 1999. It is co-owned by Simon J Rogers and Cat Tobin. It currently produces GUMSHOE System RPGs, '' 13th Age'', the Diana Jones award-winning '' ...

. He also co-wrote or contributed to two supplements for ''

Ars Magica ''Ars Magica'' is a role-playing game set in 'Mythic Europe' – a historically grounded version of Europe and the Levant around AD 1200, with the added conceit that conceptions of the world prevalent in folklore and institutions of the High Mi ...

'' later in the decade. Masters has written or co-written numerous ''

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'' supplements, including '' GURPS Arabian Nights'', '' GURPS Castle Falkenstein'' and ''

GURPS Discworld ''GURPS Discworld'' and the related supplements are role-playing game sourcebooks set in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' fantasy universe using the GURPS role-playing game system. GURPS Discworld was designed by Phil Masters (in collaboration wi ...

'', and various '' Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade'' supplements for

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. He also created ''The Skool Rules'', a game based on the

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books, and has self-published ''The Small Folk'', a wainscot fantasy RPG based on his contribution to ''Dreaming Cities'' for

Guardians of Order Guardians of Order was a Canadian company founded in 1996 by Mark C. MacKinnon in Guelph, Ontario. The company's business output consisted of role-playing games (RPGs). Their first game is the anime inspired ''Big Eyes, Small Mouth''. In 2006 Gua ...

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