I'm pulling away from the curb because I drop my son off at school.

We all know what that means.

It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so today is another in my, what is it?

Another day in my Lessons Learned series.

So Lessons Learns are a podcast where I take a set that I led or co-led and I talk about the lessons I learned from leaving it.

I've done a whole bunch of these.

Last time we talked, I did March of the Machine.

So the next set chronologically that got released was the Lost Caverns of Ixelon.

Okay, lots of lessons with this one.

But let me start first with the major lesson.

When vision design does something, we are handing off the set to set design.

The metaphor I use in my house building metaphor is that we are making, we are the architects making the blueprints.

And then from those blueprints, the set design team will build the house.

And there's always some variance between the blueprints and the house.

Sometimes you make the blueprints and the house is really close to what you make.

In fact, a lot of times, most sets when they finish, you can really see what the vision was in the final product.

But sometimes, sometimes major things happen. You go to build a house and there's big changes that happen. So the big

change, by the way, one of the big changes, probably the biggest change is we made the

decision to make this world, make, we knew we were doing underground world. So underground world

was something we'd want to do for a long time.

It had been on our short list for a long time. In fact, the great designer search two,

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