Philip Reed (game designer)

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Philip J. Reed
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Philip J. Reed is a role-playing game game designer and Chief Operating Officer for Steve Jackson Games. [1]

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Career

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 

References

  1. ↑ "Secrets of RPG Success: Interview with Phil Reed".
  2. ↑ Reed, Philip J. (2007). "BattleTech". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best . Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 24–27. ISBN   978-1-932442-96-0.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
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