New Gold Dreams is the story of Eumaeus, apprentice coffin maker. He dreams of being a
hero but lives in a world where the titans of good are required to have a license and guild membership and his I.Q. is
simply too high for acceptance. Sold off by his father, he finds himself wandering through a world denying what it
really is, hoping he can make a name for himself.
Q: So, is New Gold Dreams real?
A: It's as real as anything involving ogres, chameleon men and seas of acid.
Q: No. I mean, is it real or just a story within
Something Positive?
A: In regards to S*P, New Gold Dreams is just a bunch of notes and stories from PeeJee's rpg world. In regards to New Gold Dream, everything is very real.
Q: That's not much of an answer.
A: That's not much of a question.
Q: Is Eumaeus Davan's character in PeeJee's game?
A: No.
Q: Whose character is he?
A: No one's. If he's a character in PeeJee's game, he'd be an NPC. Some of the S*P cast's characters will and have appeared in New Gold Dreams. Sometimes characters obviously based on the S*P cast will appear as well. It's not impossible you'll see one S*P cast member appear as multiple characters. None of the main characters are or will be S*P cast members.
Q: Which S*P cast members have appeared or had characters in the story so far?
A: In order of appearance: Mike, Aubrey, Jason and Fred.
Q: What is Umya?
A: Umya is a chameleoman.
Q: Are chameleomen like lizard men in D&D?
A: Not according to the chameleomen.
Q: Why'd you start New Gold Dreams?
A: New Gold Dreams was my first idea for a webcomic. The original story was something I'd briefly worked on early in
college as a fantasy parody fiction series for the
Superguy mailing list.
It was meant to be a parody, specifically, of Dragonlance but then I realized I'd have to read more of the novels and there
was no way in
Hell I was going to do that. In the summer of 2001, when I was planning on doing a webcomic, I revisited
the idea and even did a few panels of the comic. Eumaeus was named Quincy in that version and Umya was going to be a
kobold. Then I realized how many fantasy comics there were on the web and shelved the idea. I pulled it out again when I
realized I wanted a reason to draw fantasy stuff and figured out ways to make the overall story better.
Q: Where's you get the name New Gold Dreams from?
A: The comic was named after a song from Utah Saints entitled, "New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)." The song appears on their first album from 1992 which, incidentally, was the first CD I ever bought. I still have it, too, and listen to it regularly.
