(You can buy some of my work online at e23.)
This home page belongs to Phil Masters, role-playing games author (and sometime freelance programmer and technical writer). As it is intended as both the traditional 'Web ego-trip and a (fairly) serious advertisment of my talents, I've split most of the content out into a handful of secondary pages, and set up links to these below.
Any comments, jeers, job offers, etc. -- please e-mail me on phil@philm.demon.co.uk. Technical and formal questions on the subject should be directed to me in my guise as webmaster@philm.demon.co.uk.
My brother and sister-in-law rent out
a couple of Holiday Cottages in Southern Normandy, and I've put
some information about these on the 'Web.
Role-Playing
Games, including some of my work.
My professional fiction writing work, and other matters relating to science fiction and fantasy.
My (Occasional) Blog.
My Steampunk
Resource Page.
Web Search Engines.
Very Old Dead Site Warning: This isn't my first 'Web page. My first effort in this field now seems to have disappeared, along with City Island, which hosted it. (It was a freebie, so I can't complain.) I also had a Compuserve page, until I decided to shut down my Compuserve account. But that was in another century, and besides, the ISP is dead.
Just so that no-one has to feel that their visit to this page was entirely wasted, here's a few links that people might find interesting. Well, they keep me amused...
I've posted stuff
like an article on the vocabulary of role-playing
games on this site. Not to mention RPG-related articles on a Monster-Slayers' Guild and creating fake conspiracy theory texts.
I've done a certain amount of work for Steve Jackson Games, (see the page on my professional RPG work for details), and they have a substantial site with some interesting links. See especially The Daily Illuminator, a news page which throws up the odd interesting reference.
How about a site dedicated to the Gunpowder Plot?
Or one providing a set of Travel Guides for Alternate Histories?
Talking of Alternatives, The Church of the SubGenius might be worth a mention, as might a page on The Illuminati.
The Classical MIDI Archives have some nice resources, very nicely presented, when last I looked. The WAV Place does something similar, and is also worth a glance.
And let's not forget, oh, Scientific American in the 19th Century, Hot AIR: rare and well done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research, the admirable SALON, the inevitable Dilbert ® Strips, the ever-interesting Doonesbury, The Simpsons, the estimable John Kovalic's work, and Spinal Tap's Official Home Page.
Do visit beautiful Trepanning.
Oh, and some archaeologists might learn from this fellow's misfortunes.
The Motivator may be a useful resource for people who need motivation. Or at least, people who think they need motivational posters.
And - well, I've always fancied being Banned in Ohio, or whatever the 'Web equivalent is, so I feel compelled to include links to the article at The Ethical Spectacle about CYBERsitter ("Where do we not want you to go today?"), as well as to PeaceFire. (Follow those links if you want an explanation.)
(Not that the level of socio-political debate on the 'net is overly high, but for the sake of balance and sanity, I'll include three links at this point: Libertarianism Makes You Stupid, Critiques Of Libertarianism, and A Non-Libertarian FAQ.)
(Just to prove that the 'Web is useful as well as decorative.)
For a determinedly useful page, try Research-It!
The Museum of Garden History -- you may want to start at their index page.
Or just try a Google Groups newsgroup search, or for up-to-date stuff on world events, look at CNN Interactive or The Independent.
Do look at the stuff on the discovery of
a Palaeolithic painted cave at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardèche).
For something more low-key and academic, what
about some Egyptology Resources?
And for the arts - perhaps Illustrators on the 'Net. (Or The William Morris Gallery, especially if you have doubts about this technology nonsense, I suppose.)
Incidentally, for anyone who was wondering -- this is
me:
...and this is the brains of the outfit.
Oh, and by the way, curious
individuals have been noted visiting this 'Web site for one reason or another.
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