Okay, I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

You know, all that means, it means there's another drive to work.

So my kids had market day today where they have to sell things, so I had to help bring in all

the stuff for them to sell.

But anyway, I still got a drive to work, and school is right by home, so you'll have

pretty much the same length podcast today.

So for today, I was going to answer a question that I get all the time. And that question is, where do your ideas come from? And the answer

is, there's no one single answer. Thank you very much. It's been my podcast, though.

It's actually a very complex answer,

which is why I feel I can spend an entire podcast

talking about where ideas come from.

So, okay, so I think I can divide into a couple categories.

So the two major categories,

what I would call the Vorsothian categories and the Melvinian

category.

So Vorthos and Melvin are two different aesthetic attributes.

Vorthos is all about flavor, and Melvin is all about mechanics.

And so there really is some flavor approaches and there's some mechanical approaches.

And then there's a few other types we'll get to.

Okay, so let's start with the flavor start.

Because we've recently done a bunch of top-down sets.

So sometimes we start from a place that is just, it's, we're trying to capture something.

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