Bridgetown on Bundle of Holding

For the handful of readers who don't use any form of social media, I wanted to let you know that my book Bridgetown (as well as a bunch of other great books) are part of the latest Bundle of Holding for TROIKA! 

There are 10 days left at the time of posting. Can't believe I took this long to make a post here about it!

Bundle of Holding is a lot like your other electronic product bundling websites; grab a bunch of related games or books or other pieces of media all at once for a crazy-good discount. This comes with the added bonus of everything sold by BH being DRM-free, and a chunk of the proceeds going to charity.

Less than $10US gets you a $90 value including the full core Troika book line, Swann Castle, Goblin Mail, and of course Bridgetown. If you spend $19.98, you get another 6 books added to the bundle including big names like The Big Squirm and Slate & Chalcedony. So if you've been waiting to jump into Troika or want to gift-bomb a friend of yours who might be interested in it, now's a great time to start or expand a collection.

My cowriter TheLawfulNeutral and I are also splitting the profits Bridgetown makes 50/50 because our publisher David over at Technical Grimoire is pretty cool, so buy the bundle if you want to support us in making... whatever the heck you call the stuff we make!

Bridgetown is live on Kickstarter!

First of all, sorry for my absence this past month-and-a-half or so. I haven't exactly been busy writing, but I've been busy as in mentally preoccupied by the launch of our book's Kickstarter campaign, which happened two days ago.

Come check out and maybe back Bridgetown here!

To recap, Bridgetown is a campaign setting designed for Troika! about an infinitely long, perpetually crumbling bridge floating between two oblivions. There's all manner of punks and weirdos living on the Bridge, and there are always hijinks and adventures to get up to. Like casting rock magic that may or may not be killing the Bridge, or smashing a gatekeeper in the face with a brick.

My cowriter (The Lawful Neutral) and I will also be doing an interview about Bridgetown later today for WIP Workshop by RPGs Uncovered. It will start at around 7PM EST. Check out their Twitch and you might catch us live, or browse their YouTube channel in a few days for the VOD.

And to those of you who get backer anxiety about parting with money for something that might not even fund (especially in this economy!) I have one thing to say; fret not. We were blown away by the surge of support in our first day, and are now comfortably funded. Anything you decide to send our way is pure bonus acorns. I'm just sorry to report that our higher tier rewards like mossy dice and billy goat balm have all been snatched up.

That's all for this little update. I will be back to making normal posts later this week. I have so, so many mostly-finished drafts that it's actually starting to become a problem. The purge must commence. Hope you enjoy them!

So I've been working on another book.

For those of my little readership who have wisely hopped off of Twitter in recent weeks, I have an announcement that may not yet have reached you.

I've been working with The Lawful Neutral and David Schirduan over at Technical Grimoire to make a new RPG book titled Bridgetown!

What started as a random jam session with John over weird old medieval architecture last year led to us slowly cobbling together an entire campaign setting for the Troika! RPG, but you can use it for just about anything weird and wacky.

Bridgetown is a pastoral liminal setting, as we've taken to calling it. The whole world is a single massive Bridge suspended in nothingness between the endless Sky and the murky Under. On this infinite Bridge, there are countless weirdos and colorful characters to be found, inspired in part by the denizens of old fairytales, old school British fantasy, and our own bizarre collective sense of humor.

Imagine the Three Billy Goats Gruff as painted by Hieronymus Bosch, and you're basically there.

Bridgetown is a game of travel and exploration, even as the world tries to do everything it can to stop you from doing both: Tyrannical turnpike guilds erect massive gatehouses to divide the Bridge up into fiefs and rule them, creatures made of rarified reality bubble up from the Under like curious but extremely dangerous children, and the Bridge itself is slowly crumbling away into nothingness.

But until then, your bridge punk has plenty to do.

The book sports dozens of locations, NPCs, original spells and character backgrounds, a gigantic and wonderfully weird random "Weather" table, and referee advice on where and how to start in an infinite world like this.

We're nearing completion, and you'll have a way to purchase the finished (and damn beautiful, thanks to David and Charlie) hardcover in the near future.

The best place to go for updates is the official Bridgetown link up above, but you can also keep abreast by following us on any of our various social medias. 

I really need to figure out how to start a tumblr soon...