The world of the Gnomes
On the border of England and Wales is a county that you can’t find on any map. If you look for it, you may miss it and if you found yourself there it’s either by accident or you were meant to find it. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Swynshire.
From demons trying to trick you out of your soul to fuel their own hunger, to secret organisations in the service of eldritch gods, this sunny little part of the United Kingdom has it all. However, Gnome Hold Sagas is not about the massive lumbering Tree-ghasts or the mysterious goings on down Lazarus Alley in Wald-burgh-on-lay. This is about one of the smaller locals that call the shire their home. We are of course talking about the Gomes.
Gnomish society runs in a strange parallel to that of the cumbersome “biguns” that live in the towns and villages of Swynshire. In their hidden Holds they scurry about their day-to-day life trying to fight for the might of their hold and live another day without succumbing to the many things that want to kill, eat or control them. Let alone surviving interactions with their own kind.
“Gnomish life is Gnomish strife”
Lore Master Alagash – Hold Gloombridge
Gnome Hold Sagas, the miniature game
Gnome Hold Sagas started as a fun little idea and quickly became a micro world full of adventure. It was prime for being made into a skirmish miniature game where you take control of one of the Gnomish Holds in a little town called Gamlin Gardens and fight for resources.
Within the pages of the rulebook for Gnomes: The Skirmish Game we talk briefly about some of the Gnomish Holds that exist in Gamlin Gardens, a Subjectively small suburban new build town that could also be see objectively as a massive sprawling urban landscape for the Gnomes to explore.
The idea was always for the player to be able to play the game anywhere. On your kitchen table, in the hallway, under the garden bushes or on the bank of the brook down the road. It can also be played on a tabletop like a traditional wargame with bespoke terrain. You want to have a skirmish outside the gates of a Hold? You can make it happen. Want to play a vertical game inside a bespoke gaming table to represent the inside of a wall’s cavity… that would be a fun project… why not!?
Welcome to Swynshire and all the bizarre goings on. Welcome to the world of Gnome Hold Sagas!