So if you haven;t noticed I've decided to throw in my lot with the devil and leap into game chef.  I decided to do it with a game I call Gnome: A game of the little people.  Gnome is inspired by the works of Terry Pratchett specifically his Discworld books involving the Nac Mac Feegle and his bromeliad trilogy.  The life of a gnome is quick, brutal, and dangerous beyond compare.  When not hiding from slow, ponderous humans they fight for their daily survival in a world full of predators, natural disasters, and sometimes the treachery of their own kind.

Gnome is going to be a simple game similar to my earlier apprentice game with some differences mainly in how stats and challlenges are handles.  Each Gnome has four attributes, Courage, Cleverness, Toughness, and Shrewdness.  To each of these attributes the player assigns a rank die with the lowest being a 1d4 and the highest being a 1d12.

Pancreatitis isn't fun.  Imagine an organ that sits calmly next to your stomach doing little more then sending out enzymes and proteins and things that let you process things like sugar and fat.  Imagine this motherfucker down in the lower intestine.  Let's call this traitorous son of a bitch a gall bladder.  This little green guy has the unhappy job of making all the greasy, nasty, fatty, stuff you eat into something remotely usable by the human body.   Now imagine this little bastard decides to vomit tar on your pancreas, clogging up the tubes and giving you what is essentially a digestive heart attack.  Well, now imagine that after a third of your pancreas was murdered that something grows out of it the size of a volleyball.  Then you understand half the pain I'm going through.

Anyway, so I'm trying to decide whether or not to enter a big contest for amateur designers.  The main ingredient they want is Intrigue.  Not a bad start but then we look at the other ingredients.  Seabird?  Star?  Fleur-De-Lis?  Where to start?  How to start?  It's mind boggling.  It's also challenging.  Maybe that's why I'm intrigued.Don't hit me.  Anyway, something to think about.

Sites coming up slowly but surely as I put my feelers out and see what all this software can do without me breaking it.