Day: November 12, 2004

Was noodling around during lunch, and decided to translate my name into Sindarin, the language of Tolkien’s elves. Problem is, “Gareth” means different things, depending on who’s telling you (several languages are claimed as the root)…it could mean “gentle”, or “enclosure” or “long spear” or “strong spear” or “old man”, etc. So, I did a little digging around, found the one that sounded the coolest when translated (“long spear”), and, following the rules of Sindarin grammar, I translated it as “Annech.”

Then, using this great online transcriber (set output to PNG if you don’t have the fonts), I generated “Annech” in Tengwar (the runic alphabet of the Elves):

I like it. Pretty.

Yes, I’m a geek. Shut up.

Got an email last night from the two writers who were producing the majority of material for GLORIANA, our forthcoming dark Elizabethan fantasy RPG. They’re backing out, due to time constraints from other projects and general life demands.

Well, shit.

At this point, I suppose that I could just re-schedule the project and pick up the slack myself (or with additional freelancers), but given the fact that they were the ones who originally brought the project to Adamant, it’s probably better to just cancel at this point, even though it means that the other stuff that’s already been written, and the artwork that I’ve gathered, was for naught.

Of course, this means that the next time somebody says to me “OH! You write games for a living? How fun!”….I’m gonna hafta smack ’em in the head with a brick. Fair warning.

Bugger.

Got an email last night from the two writers who were producing the majority of material for GLORIANA, our forthcoming dark Elizabethan fantasy RPG. They’re backing out, due to time constraints from other projects and general life demands.

Well, shit.

At this point, I suppose that I could just re-schedule the project and pick up the slack myself (or with additional freelancers), but given the fact that they were the ones who originally brought the project to Adamant, it’s probably better to just cancel at this point, even though it means that the other stuff that’s already been written, and the artwork that I’ve gathered, was for naught.

Of course, this means that the next time somebody says to me “OH! You write games for a living? How fun!”….I’m gonna hafta smack ’em in the head with a brick. Fair warning.