Olaf the Stout said:
Didn't you write a lot of it Curtis?
Olaf the Stout
I did write a lot of it. The Military district, the clerical domains, the steam gnomes, the gods, and the surrounding areas, including a bunch of the NPCs.
Bluffside was an interesting experiment. I think we had something like 5 writers, maybe 6 all contributing stuff to it. It's amazing that it came out as cohesive as it did. I suspect that was largely Jim (Govreau)'s doing.
But some things slipped through - like the apparent "hatred" of sorcerers by all the wizards in the town. Someone at Gen Con once asked me why the wizards hated sorcerers. "I didn't know that they did", but then I read one of the POIs that indicated that they did. The towers repelled sorcerers, and I think one of the writers (Magestrike?) took it that the wizards hated sorcerers then, though that wasn't the intention. The tower just repelled sorcerers.
FWIW, the "history" that the core writers worked up about all this stuff involved the town founders having a squabble with the sorcerers wherein the sorcerers were trying to unleash powerful magic. The wizards had the foresight to see this coming, and locked themselves in the palace, and built the tower to keep the sorcerers away from them, or to protect themselves from their magic. The sorcerers ended up unleashing an asteroid which pummeled the planet, sending it into an ice age.