While a student at Virginia Tech in the early 1980s, Greg Porter designed several role playing and board games as part of the school's wargaming club.
It did not initially sell well, but maintained a cult following that allowed a second edition to be published in 1990, followed by a number of supplements.
The 1988 release of Macho Women with Guns saw unexpected success and several printings, and allowed the company to continue and expand its line of role-playing game products.
With the creation of EABA, they moved to release games exclusively in PDF format, either through online download or print on demand.
BTRC's work has been called "the bleeding edge of PDF game development",[3]