Philip Reed (game designer)

Philip J. Reed is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Reed is also a former YouTube personality, and created the satirical web series Save State Gamer in 2008.[1]

Philip J. Reed
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer, writer

Career

Philip J. Reed has been working professionally in the roleplaying game industry since 1995, and in that time, he has worked for such companies as West End Games, Privateer Press, and Atlas Games.[2] Reed was an employee of Steve Jackson Games when he began blogging at his own site in 2002, posting reviews or short articles about his favorite games.[3]: 374  In September 2002, Reed created a hobby business with his first release being the card game Mime Smashing (2002) which he was unable to get published by Hobgoblynn Press, and he then 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, a new company.[3]: 374  The company 54°40' Orphyte sold the rights to Pacesetter Ltd's game Star Ace to Reed, and he created a website in 2003 on which to publish a d20 version of the game, although the site was gone within a year.[3]: 199  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, which explained how to make PDF production successful.[3]: 374  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  By 2007, both the PDF market and the d20 license had slowed down so Reed went back to work at Steve Jackson Games, where in 2008 he became the company's Chief Operating Officer.[3]: 374 

References
  1. "Save State Gamer (Web Video)".
  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. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
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