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

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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