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Philip J. Reed | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Philip J. Reed is a role-playing game game designer and Chief Operating Officer for Steve Jackson Games. [1]
Philip J. Reed has worked in the RPG industry since 1995 for West End Games, Privateer Press, Atlas Games, and Steve Jackson Games. [2] Reed began an independent blog in 2002, posting reviews or short articles about games. [3] : 374 In September 2002, Reed released the PDF 101 Spellbooks (2002) for the d20 system. [3] : 374 Reed sold his first PDFs from his website under the Spider Bite Games imprint. [3] : 374 In 2003, Reed and artist Christopher Shy created Ronin Arts. [3] : 374 [ better source needed ] The company 54°40' Orphyte sold the rights to Pacesetter Ltd's game Star Ace to Reed, for which he created a website in 2003 publish a d20 version of it, but the website lasted only a year. [3] : 199 [ better source needed ] In 2004, Reed left Steve Jackson Games to work on Ronin Arts full-time. [3] : 374 In 2006, Reed released the ePublishing 101 PDF series. [3] : 374 [ better source needed ] Michael Hammes and Reed wrote 4c System (2007) as a retro-clone to the Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game system from TSR. [3] : 374 Reed went back to work at Steve Jackson Games in 2007, becoming its COO in 2008. [3] : 374
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