I'm part of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay guys, today I'm telling the story of the design of streets of New Capena.

Okay, so to understand this story, we have to go back away.

So one of the things that we do is we always plot ahead where we think we're going,

and the farther ahead we plot, the fuzzier it is, the more we don't quite know what it is.

And there's a lot of sort of conjecturing where we think this will be what it is. And, you know,

and as we get close to, basically as we get closer, we get a better idea of what it is and you know um and as we get close to basically as we get closer we get a

better idea of what something is um normally when we first come up with the concept of a world

we'll make what we call an art plate which is just a picture that sort of captures the sense of the

world that shows something that like an art that would be in the set, but also sort of

captures the tone and, you know, does a good job of saying, you know, imagine this kind of

world.

And so anyway, the Streets of New Coppanda starts with an idea that I think the creative team

had that was originally called Demon Mopster World.

And the idea was that there was like a war between demons and angels and it had a bit of a

mobster vibe to it, but it was very vague. What that meant, how that played out, was none of that was figured out yet.

It was just kind of, here's a general idea of a gist of something we think might be interesting.

And so I think Bill Rose was doing a presentation where he was just talking about the future.

And he had some slides.

And he was using the art plates because that's the only image we had from

these worlds and he showed demon mobster world and Mark Gottlieb in the meeting got inspired and on his

phone wrote a letter to Ken Troop so Ken sort of oversees tabletop magic phone wrote a letter to Ken Troop. So Ken sort of oversees Tabletop Magic.

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