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Full Name	Tom Phillips
Gender	Male
Age	44
Location	Fleming Island, FL
Occupation	Instructional Designer / Technical Writer / Editor / Quality Assurance Guru
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About Tom Phillips

Tom was born in Niceville, Florida. (Seriously. Niceville.) He fell in love with monsters and the macabre at an alarmingly young age, and fondly recalls scribbling a very disturbing number of monsters-eating-stick-people scenes that, had his parents been slightly more responsible, should surely have landed him in psychiatric care.

Tom attended the University of South Carolina (Gooooo C#cks!), where he somehow lucked into snagging a lucrative English degree. Some xx years later, he cringes with the knowledge that he is now a [semi-]responsible, married adult, that works a typical 9-5 (ok, it's really a 7-3, sue me), and owns a life insurance policy.

Tom resides in the northeastern part of the mystical land some call Florida, with his beautiful wife Tonya, daughter Olivia, a Yorkie named Arayo, and a kitty-cat named Byron.

Tom has been gaming since 1980 or so. After cutting his teeth on D&D he's played a various and sundry other games, but his all-time favorites are still D&D, Call of Cthulhu, and Traveller. Currently, ever since its brilliant inception, Tom's game of choice is Pathfinder.

Factoid: Tom fears and despises circus clowns.

RPG Superstar:

Here are Tom's submissions for Paizo's RPG Superstar contest. He was involved in the 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 contests. Tom is the only person to have made the Top 32 for three consecutive years (2010 - 2012).

2013 Tom served as a guest judge.

2012 (made Top 4)
Round 1: Feywhisper Crown
Round 2: Sisters of Chana-Zhol
Round 3: Slaughterhound
Round 4: Eightfinger's Tomb
Round 5: The Scarlet God

2011 (made Top 32)
Round 1: Iron Collar of the Unbound Coven
Round 2: Varisian Carver

2010 (made Top 16)
Round 1: Troll Fingers
Round 2: Slithering Horror
Round 3: Ossuary

RPG Design Resume:

Tom does occassional RPG freelance work for Paizo Publishing and Total Party Kill Games.

2013 Releases
Pathfinder Society Scenario #4-16: The Fabric of Reality (Paizo Publishing)

Coming Soon:
The Reaping Stone (TPK Games) - June 2013
Rawr! Volume Two (TPK Games) - June 2013
Pathfinder Society Scenario #5-03: The Hellknight's Feast (Paizo Publishing) - August 2013
Mythic Adventures (Paizo Publishing) - August 2013
Bestiary 4 (Paizo Publishing) - Fall 2013

2012 Releases
Rawr! Volume One (TPK Games): Tom designed the somewhat controversial Sundered One and several feats.
Ischadra, Grandmother of Assassins (TPK Games): Tom designed Ischadra for TPK's Infamous Adversaries line.
Ship of Fools (TPK Games): Tom co-designed Ship of Fools with fellow RPG Superstar 2010 alum Richard Hunt.

2011 Releases
Ultimate Combat (Paizo Publishing): Tom designed some feats and fighting styles for Ultimate Combat as a member of "Team Gruntwork".
Wayfinder #6: Tom wrote the "Hero's Hoard: Weapons of Legend" article, an Ed Greenwood-inspired history of two legendary weapons from the Lands of the Linnorm Kings: Hrakalgrim, a troll-slaying bastard sword, and Ingolsdottir, an intelligent (and rather boisterous) battle axe.
Wayfinder #5: Tom designed three monsters (the Obour, Ustrel, and Varkolak) for the "Blood-drinkers of Varisia" section of the Bestiary. The monsters were based on Bulgarian vampire legends.