A Visit from St. Pathfinder

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Adventure Card Game blog is on hiatus until 2016! Have a happy holiday!

Twas the week before Christmas
And Vic's on vacation
So I'm using this "Yule blog"
To share my admiration

I'll dole out some presents
From ol' Saint Nick's bag
To the best darn design team
Here's some fine Christmas swag

To Chad, who gets
All the praise he deserves:
A new Google spreadsheet
To plot power curves

To Tanis, who handles
The design of our class decks:
Some help with your deft
Card-creation gymnastics

To Liz, whose head swims
With the masks worn by mummies:
Some gluten-free cupcakes
To assuage all our tummies

To Gaby, a lover of
Crocs with pants on them:
A new set of dice
With no 1's upon them

To Keith, who inscribes
Every new OP season:
I'll write all your flavortext
(Y'know, within reason)

To Paul, who developed
Each Wrath-ful demon:
Release from your manacles
Now you're a free man

To Vic, who spends hours
And hours ever ruing
What we broke in design:
Yup, still more FAQing

To Sarah and Sonja
Who fill our art orders:
Six or seven more different
Colored card borders

On fuchsia! On ecru!
On puce and burnt umber!
I'll ask you to lay out
Card types without number

And to all of our fans
You're the folks who just get us:
We'll bring you more awesome
As long as you let us

And I'll say as I drift
Into sleep oh so pleasant:
Hey, hold on a minute...
Ranzak stole every present!

Stupid goblins.

Mike Selinker
Adventure Card Game Lead Designer