Greetings and Salutations

Guess I should introduce myself, I am G.A. Heris. Creative Director, among other things, on the Sanitarium Studios team. My job is to help shape the story and art of the Broken Wars continuity, as well as other IPs in development at Sanitarium Studios.

And I am not the person who has been primarily posting up to this point, I will try and tag my stuff with GAHeris for blog posts so that you know it is 'I' writing.

I am not sure how often I will make use of this blog, or what purpose all those posts will be. I am going to attempt to make commentary on rules sets and how they are both shaping and shaped by the creative direction of the stories for the Broken Wars. Also make commentary or respond to questions about creative choices in the stories being written for these IPs. In that vein I welcome questions, comments, and to be frank out right insults. Anything that will help shape these worlds.

I am currently lead director of the Arglwyddi Stêm rules and development cycle. Which is still in conception phase. But looks to be heading towards card game first and follow up games later.

Perhaps I should offer some brief commentary so this isn't just a 'who cares' post about one of the team members.

διασπορά αρραβώνες : We have been working on this project for years, between my other numerous projects and ideas lays this one. Our attempts and desire to create an alternate world, a universe that might have been and the universe that follows. And after all this time I look back at it and go... "that's it? That is all we've done?" Usually this is followed up with a brief sigh, and then a "we've made a lot of progress from where we started." I go from depressed to depressed. But, I am still proud of everything that has come together from this story and look forward to start really posting about the story as it exists, maybe get some of the concept art out as well. We may have gone a bit backwards, rules first, then story, but we are getting there.

Arglwyddi Stêm : A result of a stupid question, "hey, wouldn't it be neat to apply our Broken Wars rules to a steampunkish setting!" Yeah, stupid comment on my part, but still has potential. This project is much more sideline then the first. But I still see potential for it in a world that loves the steam punk, the idea of what we could have done with a more fantastical application of steam technology. The universe is an another world. While I was tempted to follow the classic line of an alternate history Earth I felt that it limited too much of the potential stories and ideas. Not to mention 'meetings', I want my Napoleon counterpart to fight against my Patton counterpart, or against by von Richthofen counterpart. Not as easy to do in an alternate history.

Myths and Legends: *spoilers* Don't want to give them, this is still in early, early development.

Well, hope the introduction and brief thoughts give you some insight into one of the slightly crazed minds at Sanitarium Studios. Good gaming and good luck,

G.A.Heris