Sometimes the designer's brain takes a left turn.

 

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Aldeus - The God War: an H&H blog series

I've got hyper-focused of late on binging the Super Robot Wars series, as well as Space Battleship Yamato, and thus inspired, I have been kicking around the possibility of a mecha themed expansion/setting/game thing for the H&H system. 

Shortage in time and energy has been making it quite difficult of late to commit to anything long-form like a new book, so instead I thought I might try my hand at breaking it up and developing it piecemeal over a series of blog posts, similar to what I have done in the past with the FTL material, or my fiction project A Chip's Edge.

Thus allow me to kick off this blog series by announcing Aldeus - The God War, a setting about alien gods waging war on humanity with powerful super robots, and the trans real robot pilots who fight them.

I've got some interesting ideas for the basic setting backdrop and themes, as well as some kinda SRW-inspired rules for customizable mechs without quite so much of the usual mechanical crunch that goes with that. The next post will kick off with the setting introduction most likely, just like my books do, but after that it may meander a bit as I work through ideas for different parts of the thing.

If there's enough interest, eventually this might actually get assembled into an actual book, and maybe I will even look into an art budget or god forbid even Kickstarter, but I am not committing to anything yet because I am still kind of in chaos mode after the move.

Hopefully my H&H fans are still out there, and I also have been desperate to do something with some queer flavor too, maybe bring in a few of my fellow trans into the fold.

I hope y'all enjoy!

H&H and AR back in print!

 Happy to report that I've received the proofs for AR and H&H and have approved them for sale.

Due to an internal printing issue, Heaven's Shadow will remain out-of-print until it can be resolved.

You can find them from the link in the sidebar.

Availability update

Happy to report that updated versions of all my books with my real name on them are now on DTRPG and Itch.io. 

The print versions are unfortunately temporarily out-of-print, while I sort a move and DTRPG's proofing process.

The Github repo has also been taken private. It was never a good solution anyway, they are very cranky about filesizes, and the PDFs are all PWYW anyway. Perhaps someday in the future I'll find a better host for the raw files than just pointing to random Dropbox links, but for now, it's just easier to stick with the PDFs being the "canonical" resource for everyone.

Thanks also to Io Black, who was kind enough to lend his Photoshop skills to getting the cover designs dusted off and updated. Check out his excellent post-Soviet cyberpunk comic, Drugs & Wires.

My games are now on itch.io

Just for funsies, spent a little time this morning putting together all my games as a collection on itch.io.

This isn't necessarily any declaration of intent just yet, but I've increasingly had a lot of grumbles over the years with DTRPG, as I've documented here before, so now I've got a backup.

Going forward, if I do release anything else, the digital versions will at a minimum get a simultaneous release on my itch.io page.

Happy Pride!

The name of "Bedroom Wall Press" originally stemmed from a Richard Hammond quote, describing a car as "cool enough to have a poster of on your bedroom wall as a kid", or words to that effect. The logo itself was designed to evoke the feel of a car company logo even, taking on three of my favorite racing colors.

I'm an adult now, and queer as hell to boot, so I thought, "What else do queer folk hang on their bedroom walls, but pride flags?" So in honor of the season, I thought I'd throw together a few of mine. I've been pondering dusting off the old games, and what better way to add a touch of who I am today.

Happy Pride folks.