Doug Beyer Describes His Job
Doug Beyer is a writer behind the worlds of the Magic the Gathering card game. He (like me) sometimes has trouble answering the question, "What do you do for a living?" This is an excerpt from a longer, interesting article here . Here he is thinking "Can a Griffin be a Soldier?" (and driving). ...So I've tried other ways of describing what I do. The best way is to get out actual Magic cards, show them the art, and talk about how there are fantasy worlds behind the game that I help create. But even then, it's hard to get across the day-to-day details of what I do at work. I conjure up what I think sound like office anecdotes, but I can tell by the looks on people's faces—their jobs are not like mine. I exit off the highway, heading for home. The Soldier subtype question is game play–relevant. The word "Soldier" appears in the text box of at least one Magic 2010 card, so it matters for Limited whether a Griffin can be a Soldier. A develop...