Snead has worked for Chaosium, White Wolf, Last Unicorn, and Green Ronin, and Onyx Path.
His education includes majors in Mathematics and History and minors in Classics and Physics from Washington University in St. Louis as well as a M.A.
[2]: 372 Snead approached Green Ronin Publishing with his idea for a romantic fantasy role-playing game, Steve Kenson worked with him to produce it as Blue Rose (2005), the second OGL-based game published by Green Ronin.
[2]: 372 He came up with the initial idea and setting for and wrote a significant portion of Blue Rose,[3] and has written large amounts of Exalted, Trinity and Mage: The Awakening, as well as work on many other games.
[4] Snead is the developer for Onyx Path Publishing's science fiction game Trinity Continuum: Æon.