Chad Underkoffler is a

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 ...

who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

Career

Chad Underkoffler had done some work for

Atlas Games Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games, board games and card games. Its founder and current president is John Nephew. History When Atlas Games did not have the finances to publish '' On the Edge'' (1994), they partnered with J ...

and

Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the cr ...

in the early 2000s. Underkoffler is known for his PDQ

indie role-playing game An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside traditional, "mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial, design, or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator, or that the game ...

s published through his own Atomic Sock Monkey Press, including the horror fantasy game '' Dead Inside'', the fairytale RPG, ''

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 ...

'', and ''

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 s ...

'' in the superhero genre.

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 Donoghu ...

brought Underkoffler on board to help with ''

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'' ...

'' 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 swashbuckling RPG set in a fantasy world of islands floating in the sky, ...

'' (2009) for Evil Hat, which was a more traditional RPG than some of the other games the company had been releasing.

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