Phil Gallagher

Phil Gallagher is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games, and a mathematician.

Career Phil Gallagher worked for the UK publisher Games Workshop. His early work included the TSR (UK) magazine Imagine, which ran from 1983 to 1986. When the magazine folded, Gallagher was transferred to working on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Games Workshop was looking for a company interested in a license to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, so James Wallis of Hogshead Publishing called Gallagher and obtained the license.

His D&D design work includes When a Star Falls (1984), Blade of Vengeance (1984), Where Chaos Reigns (1985), Dark Clouds Gather (1985), and Night's Dark Terror (1986).

Gallagher began teaching mathematics at Stevenson University in 2007, first as an adjunct and then, from 2022, as a lecturer.