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May 29, 2007

Gearing up

Life is busy. I was out of town last week for work. I’ll be out of town for at least one weekend this coming month, and I have a big work-event that I’m planning for the end of June. …all that and Worldwide Adventure Writing Month. I’m going to make it happen. There will be goblins. Oh yes. There will...

May 18, 2007

When do they stop being goblins?

The goblins in Goblins of Gourm share a number of traits with “typical” goblins. They are malicious, creepy, little guys. As the adventure progresses, however, the PCs will run into goblins who are increasingly unlike the stereotype. Goblin farmers aren’t a huge stretch. Goblins need to eat, and – despite D&D’s tropes – raiding is not a sustainable method of...

May 17, 2007

Current Projects

So many things are going on… At work I have a conference coming up at the end of June that I am planning – and this is a busy time of year otherwise. Personally, I will be going away for at least two weekends in June. This upcoming weekend is a friend’s wedding (tonight is his bachelor party – I...

May 7, 2007

Creepy babies…

So, yesterday Angela and I had brunch at Dave’s workplace, and we were chatting about the Goblins of Gourm. I don’t know if it will make it into the adventure, but we came up with the idea of a swarm of goblin children (using the swarm subtype). The write-up presents some challenges, but I put it together sometime this week....

May 7, 2007

d20 Monster of the Week: Goblin Babies

As promised… I wasn’t sure how to handle their trip modifier. Tiny things with low strength are incredibly ineffective at tripping, but there are so many of these things in a swarm that they’d effectively be giving each other a ton of ‘aid another’ bonuses. I ended up treating them as size Large (they take up that much space, after...

April 23, 2007

Gourm Sneak Preview

Enough panic this morning. Here is some content. I’ve alluded to a project that I’ve been working on that involves an adventure. The adventure? The Goblins of Gourm. The project? A goblin-based city-book, The City of Gourm. These aren’t your standard goblins. These goblins: live in a rotating city made of brass and bamboo worship a mechanical god-king pursue an...

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