Stone Cold

Stone Cold

War is never pretty, and sieges are the uglier offspring of its dirty doings.

If one people can weather the storm of nasty, it’s the dwarves.

Stern, stoic, and stout, they meet any challenge with the endurance of mountains, but what happens when the enemy is as relentless as death itself?

Pairing dwarven fortitude with something more...unorthodox is the only solution.

Thankfully, that's exactly where the scoundrels of the Bad Badgers do their best work.

From baited traps to counter-ambushes and every scheme in between, they're about to show the enemy why they’re called the Dirty Dozen.

Things are getting complicated in the Dwarvish Empire. It’s not all booze and brutality. There’s a whole lot of scheming happening behind closed doors, too.

Wheels are spinning and gears are turning. Deals are cut and knives are being sharpened for the reckless heroes’ backs. The Bad Badgers have their work cut out for them, but that’s nothing new.

When the enemy goes low, the Bad Badgers can always go lower.

The Bad Badgers know that this isn't just about one battle, but the whole war.

Can they stand against a foe that has broken mountains in their conquests?

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About the Author
Aaron D. Schneider

with Michael Anderle

Aaron was born to parents who taught him two very important things: truth matters and imagination is not a crime.

Our protagonist has spent the rest of his life trying to live out those two maxims, much to the chagrin of every unfortunate around him (progenitors included).

As such, by age six or seven, he was writing stories about a dark, reptilian avenger who brought final, painful justice to the guilty- with unsettling illustrations to boot. His beloved and benighted parents realized that budding sociopathy would simply not do, and so they began introducing him to tales of great and good heroes. First the account of a certain carpenter, then a hairy-footed burglar, then a savior lion, and after that point our protagonist was plunging face first and arms out into a world of heroism both real and imagined. While far from a hero himself, he has endeavored to try and capture that same bowed but unbroken spirit that dwells in a dark and ugly world, because that as far as he can tell is what makes it all worth it.

Along this rambling, dreaming way he managed to find a woman he could bamboozle into loving him, and then even have children with, Lord have mercy on them all.

Now Aaron has managed to cram no few exciting jobs and hair-raising experiences into his life so far, and God help him, he hopes for many more. It is these that drive his captured glimpses of something epic. If you have the time you should pull up a chair, grab a beer, light a pipe, or whatever your pre-literary consumption ritual may be and give them a look. It is been said they are truly monstrous, but as any true hero knows, monsters often guard treasure.

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