Phil Masters is a British role-playing game designer and author.
Phil Masters is a British role-playing game designer and author.
Phil Masters' writing credits in role-playing games go back to White Dwarf Magazine #20 and the Fiend Folio of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons . [1] He described his British campaign for the Champions superhero game in Kingdom of Champions (1990) from Hero Games. [2] : 150 [3] : 42 He contributed adventures to Hogshead Publishing's licensed version of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay in the mid 1990s. [2] : 305 Masters also contributed articles to the magazineThe Excellent Prismatic Spray, [2] : 384 and for Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages for The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game , by Pelgrane Press. [4] He also co-wrote or contributed to two supplements for Ars Magica later in the decade. [5] [6]
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.
Bunnies & Burrows (B&B) is a role-playing game (RPG) inspired by the 1972 novel Watership Down. Published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, the game centered on intelligent rabbits. It introduced several innovations to role-playing game design, being the first game to allow players to have non-humanoid roles, and the first to have detailed martial arts and skill systems. Fantasy Games Unlimited published a similar second edition in 1982. Frog God Games published a revised third edition in 2019 from the original authors. The game was also modified and published by Steve Jackson Games as an official GURPS supplement in 1992.
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GURPS Arabian Nights is a supplement by Phil Masters, published by Steve Jackson Games in 1993 for GURPS.
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