Gourm Archives - Neitherworld Stories

November 12, 2007

Productive day off

So, today is Veteran’s Day, and my office is closed. It seems somewhat random that my office is closed today, but I am not going to complain. Now, I am sitting in a coffee shop. Angela and I had lunch and talked some Gourm stuff. We came up with a neat/weird idea (involving poetry and technical manuals) that will give...

November 5, 2007

Ticking goblins

What differentiates goblins from other creepy little monsters? I think there are a number of possible answers for this. I’m just going to focus on what makes goblins tick for me. To me, what makes goblins special is their adaptability. I see goblins as highly mutable. Hobgoblins and bugbears are, in my world, essentially mutant strains of goblins. The adaptability...

October 15, 2007

Weekend coolness

This weekend, I headed up to Wisconsin with Angela. I’d never been to the land of cheese and random weirdness before. I like cheese. While there, we visited several things that could serve as gaming-inspiration: Dr. Evermor’s Art ParkHome of the Forevertron. This place is a steampunk dreamland: (that stuff is about 50′ tall) Also, there are bird-things:…and small-creapy-cool-things:…and all...

September 7, 2007

The Rhythm of the City

An excerpt from the current draft of The City of Gourm: With its multitude of pumps and gears all ultimately driven by a single engine, the City of Gourm has an innate rhythm to it that has given rise to a distinctive musical tradition. Gourmish music tends to rely upon this rhythm, building melodies directly over it and occasionally accentuating...

September 6, 2007

Sometimes, I am a flake

I haven’t been getting much work done on the Goblins of Gourm. I think that a combination of factors have contributed to this. Mostly, I think it is that I just lost momentum. On the other hand, for the past couple days, I’ve had an idea germinating for a huge gaming project. Maybe it is a setting book. Maybe it...

August 21, 2007

WoAdWriMo: Day 82

Yeah. It has been a while since I worked on Goblins of Gourm. I took a break in order to move, go to New Orleans, and deal with some personal stuffs. Getting some distance from the material was probably a good idea, though. I’m still fixing up my new place… and I have a huge gaming reading list that I...

July 6, 2007

Random

Have I mentioned that a not-insignificant NPC in Goblins of Gourm happens to be a chicken?…because, you know, one of them is.

June 15, 2007

Sites and Scenes

I’ve been tossing around a lot of ideas about how to organize my Goblins of Gourm. My newest thought? Sites and Scenes. What does that mean? Well, most of the things that show up in GoG are in one of five or six geographic areas (depending upon how I break them up), so I’m thinking about splitting the adventure up...

June 1, 2007

WoAdWriMo: Design Notes?

I’m torn as to whether or not to include substantial design notes for my WoAdWriMo entry in this blog. On the one hand, it might make for interesting reading. On the other, I’m worried about revealing too much about the adventure itself. In any case, I’ll definitely talk about some of my general rules. For instance, there are some things...