Chad Underkoffler

Chad Underkoffler is an author, editor, and publisher who lives Washington, PA. He served as Chief Editor for the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) in Washington, DC, for 13 years (2000-2013). Currently, he works as an Independent Living Specialist/Information Management & Marketing for Tri-County Patriots for Independent Living (TRIPIL) in Washington, PA.

A fan of roleplaying games, he's been playing them since 1981 and freelance writing in the game industry since 1998, both to the confusion of his family.

Atomic Sock Monkey Press

Chad's publishing company is called Atomic Sock Monkey Press. Products published by ASMP include Dead Inside (DI); Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: the RPG (MNPR:RPG); Truth & Justice (T&J); The Zorcerer of Zo; and Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (S7S). (The underlying system for these RPGs is called the Prose Descriptive Qualities (PDQ) system, and has been licensed for use in other games -- for example, the second edition of the Ninja Burger RPG.)

Other Work

Chad's column "Campaign in a Box" appeared bimonthly in Pyramid Online, he's written for Atlas Games' Unknown Armies line, Sword & Sorcery Studios' Gamma World Gamemasters' Guide, Evil Hat Productions Dresden Files RPG and Strange Tales of the Century, and Margaret Weis Productions Marvel Heroic Roleplaying and Firefly RPG.

See also the publications lists from his website and the Pen & Paper Database.

Interviews

The text of a February 27, 2004 Washington City Paper Arts feature by Huan Hsu about Chad and Dead Inside can be found on the ASMP website. See "The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth". (Chad's comments on the interview can be found here.)

A March 15, 2005, interview by Jasper McChesney of Primeval Games Press can be found here.

An interview by C. Demetrius Morgan of Hinterwelt Enterprises can be found here.

Several podcast interviews can be found on the ASMP website as well.

Additional Info

Canon-McMillan High School '89; Penn State (BA English) '93; JHU (MS ITS) '01.

Chad's main, non-user Wikpedia page is [here].