I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off at college. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to be talking about the question. I'll explain exactly what the question is, and it's relevant. I'll give some history to it.

The short version of this is I do a thing called the Great Designer Search, and part of that is a multiple-choice test

people have to take. I will get into the details of this. On the third Great Designer Search,

there was a test. There was a question on the test. Question

number 28. That became a very controversial question. So I'm going to talk, I'm going to sort

to give some context for it, then talk about the question, and then explain my take on the

question, of which I believe actually was a good question, and then we'll talk through it.

So anyway, the reason I'm doing a podcast on this

is it's come up again. It's one of these things that just, it's this thing people like to

discuss every once in a while. So I figure since people are talking about it again, I will

talk about it and give my thoughts on it in a more, I've like tweeted about it, but like, here's a full half hour

of my thoughts on the question.

Okay, so first, let me give some context for those that don't know much about what I'm

talking about.

Okay, so back in 2006, my boss at the time was a guy named Randy Bueller.

He's in the Pro Tour Hall of Fame.

Anyway, he came to me.

Every week we have what we call a one-on-one meeting where you may have a boss once a week.

And he said to me, he goes, look, we understand how to find developers, play designers.

You know, we can go to the pro tour.

That's a really good place to find people that are really good at understanding, you know, game balance and what's powerful, what's not.

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