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

Okay. Well, I still have my cold, but it means I have my deep husky voice. So I thought it's time for me to tell the origin story of magic.

So I've talked about pieces of the story, but I thought it'd be nice to have a podcast where it's the whole story all at once.

How did Magic come to be?

So today I'm going to walk through the whole story.

Like I said, you've heard bits and pieces, but this is all of it together.

Okay.

It all begins back in, I think, 1990.

Peter Atkinson and several of his friends were role-playing gamers that loved role-playing,

and they decided they would start a company to make supplemental material for role-playing games.

And because they lived in Washington on the West Coast, they dubbed themselves Wizards of the Coast,

being the West Coast.

Now at the time, Peter was working at Boeing.

Boeing makes airplanes for those unfamiliar, and it's one of the big employers here in Washington.

So he worked at Boeing, and really, when Wizards the Coast started, it was kind of almost a hobby.

Everybody involved in it was still had a full-time job.

It was something they were doing out of passion.

The idea of having a role-playing game company was something that as long-time role players,

they were just excited to be making their own content was something that as long-time role players, they were just

excited to be making their own content and something that they could share with other people.

So when Wizards of the Coast started, it was a tiny, tiny company. In fact, for most of the

beginning, they, at first they had no offices, and finally, Peter sort of turned his basement

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