Adept Press - you know it

HI! I am a writin' fool and this is my foolish hat for coins.

Here's the thing about the $5 pledge: feel free to let me know one bullet point from the list below you'd like to see advanced. For every topic so tagged by pledges, I post something nice & strong for that month. I'm working on all of these all the time, but the tags tell me which get on the front burner for sure for that bit of time.

No, you don't have to tag your pledge if you don't want; there's no way I won't be posting something. Yes, you can change your tag if you want; I have a little spreadsheet to keep track. Just restrict that to once a month so I don't get confused. Yes, if they all get tagged, you'll see something for each one (and the crowd goes "ooOOo").

AUGUST MILESTONE
Reached! Rafael and I are on the job, so you can be a superhero ... well, or you know, however that works out.

Comics stuff!
Blistering blue barnacles! Wotta revoltin' development!

• The renowned and remarkable Doctor Xaos Comics Madness blog, now on a fixed Sunday/Thursday schedule
• The upcoming role-playing game Doctor Xaos, about the ultimate supervillain, illustrated by James E Shields * August: rules finalized! physical design under way!
• Annnnd … yes, the development of a supervillain webcomic

The series on the American Empire that began with Spione and Shahida
These are some heavy books – real actual books, each featuring a game as a chapter

• Developing the third in the series, called Amerikkka, about militant dissent in the 1970s (an early look at what I mean NSFW) * tagged for August
• Restoring the lost Spione Wiki, and extending it to include Shahida and Amerikkka * tagged for August & professional help is enlisted
  

The odd little pack of games about religion
 Estimated Prophet, Shine a Light, Cathedral, and Daemon Lover … What on earth am I to do with these?

• Play'em and figure it out, I suppose. * August: all four updated to playtest speed!
  
• And it's certainly time for these to get some art, wouldn't you say? * August: Juan Ochoa's the man

The Heartbreaker Redemption Project
Continuing to aid and abet resurrections of long-lost game drafts into blazing life

• Working up the dedicated website
• Developing the community of play for Circle of Hands … and shhhh, a supplement!
• Writing a Circle of Hands short story with illustration by Craig Brasco * August: it's under way!

A couple of repackages and revisions
Good games, need some lightin' up

• S/Lay w/Me revision, including a re-write, music, app for hangout play, new art, and album-style physical package
• It was a Mutual Decision revision, including a box set design with pieces

A big series of essays called "Finding D&D"
Yeah, I know something about it, and I have something new to say, in these chapters

• Fantasy, my fantasy - the 70s scene
• D&D is Jesus
• TSR Orthodoxy
• OSR & Other Fundamentalisms
• D&D Unitarians and Universalists
• Fun or faith

Role-playing talk & thought
I shall rip new orifices into a decade of others' accreted and secreted obscuring of my ideas

• Actual Play posting
• Video play blogging
• Interview with you, yes you * tagged for August

Scorched by the gaze
My paid consulting gig seems to be working out nicely!

• Here, I'll post about what I'm doing and with authors' permission, the results and thoughts from playtesting – even videos
• For example, what it's like to work on the World of Chaldea
• As well as some looks back into the history of how many RPG companies you know began in the heat of this same gaze

Science fiction (double feature)

• Unbelievably unfiltered and loving retrospectives on science fiction TV like this but spruced up with pictures & stuff 
• Playing and writing about tons of science fiction RPGs, specifically like this