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Chad Underkoffler
Chad Underkoffler is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Chad Underkoffler had done some work for Atlas Games and Steve Jackson Games in the early 2000s. Underkoffler is known for his PDQ indie role-playing games published through his own Atomic Sock Monkey Press, including the horror fantasy game '' Dead Inside'', the fairytale RPG, ''The Zorcerer of Zo'', and ''Truth & Justice'' in the superhero genre. Evil Hat Productions brought Underkoffler on board to help with ''The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game'' in 2007. Leonard Balsera took on the role of Lead System Developer for ''Dresden Files'' while Underkoffler became the Lead Setting Developer, taking over the work that Genevieve Cogman had previously done. Underkoffler designed ''Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies ''Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies'' is a role-playing game by Chad Underkoffler, published by Evil Hat Productions in 2009. Description ''Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies'' is a swashbuckl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Zorcerer Of Zo
The Zantabulous Zorcerer of Zo is a fairy tale-themed independently published role-playing game created by Chad Underkoffler and published by Atomic Sock Monkey Press. The game allows players to take the role of fairy tale characters. System The game uses the ''Prose Descriptive Qualities'' (PDQ) system — also used in Atomic Sock Monkey Press's '' Dead Inside'', ''Truth & Justice'', and '' Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot'', as well as the second edition of ''Ninja Burger'' — simplified to increase the flexibility and simplicity required for telling whimsical tales of magic and fairies. PDQ offers three different levels of task resolution for any situation, in order to let players resolve encounters in as much or as little detail as possible. PDQ also has three system elements of general interest: an abstracted system for damage or failure in conflicts, a method for generating future game events (or "Story Hooks") by taking damage, and a player-driven Hero Point system. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Indie Role-playing Game Designers
Indie is a short form of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming *Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies *Indie game, any game (board-based, video, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means; a subset of third party game **Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development **Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry **Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means ***Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products Music *Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers **Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted in indie rock and indie pop **Indie electronic, a music genre **Indie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swashbucklers Of The 7 Skies
''Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies'' is a role-playing game by Chad Underkoffler, published by Evil Hat Productions in 2009. Description ''Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies'' is a swashbuckling RPG set in a fantasy world of islands floating in the sky, which offers players the chance to heroically adventure across the heavens. ''Swashbucklers'' was an homage to the pulp swashbuckling genre, with a full chapter spent on the tropes of the genre. ''Swashbucklers'' included a fully original setting, of sky pirates in flying ships battling across a world where islands float in the sky. The game uses Chad Underkoffler's PDQ (Role-playing game system), PDQ system, which shared some characteristics with ''Fate (role-playing game system), Fate'' – such as its use of Fortes (or qualities), which could be freeform occupations, motivations, histories or organizations. Although ''Swashbucklers'' used PDQ, it was a new variant of the system that Underkoffler called PDQ#; for the first time, Underkoff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genevieve Cogman
Genevieve Cogman is a British author of fantasy literature and role-playing games. Life Cogman has an MSc in statistics with Medical Applications. She works for the NHS as a clinical classifications specialist and lives in the north of England. Cogman has also worked as a freelance role-playing author, contributing towards the Steve Jackson Games titles ''In Nomine'' and ''GURPS'', the White Wolf Publishing titles ''Orpheus'' and ''Exalted'', and the Evil Hat Productions title ''The Dresden Files''. Writing Cogman's debut novel ''The Invisible Library'' was released in January 2015. The book was the first in an eponymous series, continued by ''The Masked City'' (December 2015), ''The Burning Page'' (December 2016), ''The Lost Plot'' (2017), ''The Mortal Word'' (2018), ''The Secret Chapter'' (2019), ''The Dark Archive'' (2020) and its final title, ''The Untold Story'' (2021). The series revolves around a team of secretive undercover librarians who travel to alternate realities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game
''The Dresden Files'' Roleplaying Game is a licensed role-playing game based on ''The Dresden Files'' and using the Fate system. It was released in late 2010 in two hardcover volumes: ''Your Story'' with the rules information and ''Our World'' with setting information, and won numerous awards at all of the Origins Awards, the ENnies, and the Golden Geek Awards. Game ''The Dresden Files'' Roleplaying Game is written as an in-universe artifact: a draft of tabletop role-playing game written by Billy Borden in order to explain to both his werewolf pack and to mortals how the supernatural world works. He hopes that in-universe it will allow him to reveal the weaknesses of supernatural creatures, making the rest of the supernatural world as vulnerable as the publication of Dracula made "Black Court" Vampires. Because it is supposedly a draft copy of the game, the book is covered in annotations by Harry Dresden, Bob the talking skull, and Billy Borden and these take the form of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, ''Fate'', which has won numerous awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others to run LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest starting in 1999, and came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves. While on a trip to Lake Tahoe, friends Hicks and Donoghue developed a new game based on a conversation about running another ''Amber'' game and fixing some problems with ''FUDGE''; the result was ''Fate'' which Hicks and Donoghue would publish under the name Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released a complete first-edition of ''Fate'' through Yahoo! Groups (January 2003) then cleaned up the technical writing and slightly polished the system for a second edition (August 2003). Hicks and Donoghue began work on the licensed '' Dresden Files Roleplaying Game'' in 2004, but publication was held up because they decided to use ''Spir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truth & Justice
''Truth & Justice'' is an "indie" tabletop role-playing game designed to emulate the superhero genre. It was created by Chad Underkoffler and published by Atomic Sock Monkey Press. The game allows players to take the role of superheroes and supervillains. System The game uses a modified version of the Prose Descriptive Qualities or PDQ system. ''PDQ'' offers three different levels of task resolution for any situation, in order to let players resolve encounters in as much or as little detail as possible. Compared to the standard PDQ system, ''T&J'' divides stats into normal scale and super scale. (This is similar to the "mega-damage" mechanic in '' Rifts'', or the "mega-dice" mechanic in ''Aberrant''.) Therefore, one character may have Good 2Strength (i.e. normal scale) and another has Good 2Super-strength (i.e. super scale). Normal scale must roll 2d6+2 for typical tasks. In contrast, super-strength will automatically succeed at normal scale tasks, but must make a 2d6+2 ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Inside (game)
''Dead Inside'' is a horror/fantasy role-playing game by Chad Underkoffler, published by Atomic Sock Monkey Press. Player characters are "Dead Inside", who have lost or were born without their souls and strive to regain or rebuild them. The game provides a variety of means by which souls may be lost, stolen, traded, regained or rebuilt. The game is considered unusual for its attempt to reverse the typical "Kill monsters and take their stuff" path to power found in most RPGs and replace it with the "Heal people and give them stuff" concept. Essentially, selfless and noble actions by the characters are rewarded with Soul Points, the measure of a character's soul integrity. These Soul Points can be used to fuel metaphysical powers or to improve a character's abilities, much as experience points are used in other RPGs. ''Dead Inside'' won the People's Choice Award in the 2004 Indie RPG Awards. Cosmology ''Dead Inside'' is chiefly divided into two realms – the stable, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in the form of gamification. Game designer and developer Robert Zubek defines game design by breaking it down into its elements, which he says are the following: * Gameplay, which is the interaction between the player and the mechanics and systems * Mechanics and systems, which are the rules and objects in the game * Player experience, which is how users feel when they're playing the game Games such as board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, video games, war games, or simulation games benefit from the principles of game design. Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations). Games have historically inspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atomic Sock Monkey Press
{{Unsourced, date=April 2023 Atomic Sock Monkey Press (ASMP) is a small press game company that publishes “ beer and pretzels” role-playing games and board games. The company is run by Chad Underkoffler, also known for his game columns on RPG.net and ''Pyramid'', as well as writing contributions to Atlas Games' ''Unknown Armies'' line. Games ASMP’s games include: *''Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot, the Roleplaying Game'', a fantasy game wherein characters play archetypal roles based on the character types from the title. ''Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot'' Deluxe, a boardgame that shares the same concept, was a 2003 Origins Award Nominee for Best Abstract Board Game. *'' Dead Inside'', a horror/fantasy RPG based around the concept of characters who have lost or were born without their souls. ''Dead Inside'' won the 2004 People's Choice Award in the Indie RPG Awards. *''Truth & Justice'', a superhero-based RPG that allows players to take the role of superheroes and supervillains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
