Two Point Five Years of Color

    Until 2006 I was colorblind. Show me a sunset and I saw shades of green. Hand me a pink shirt and I was sure it was grey. Before my first date with Lisa, my future wife, I gave her my address and described my house as the gray house on the corner. The only gray house on a corner anywhere in the neighborhood belonged to the local drug dealers, which she realized when they opened the door and called inside to see if there was a ‘Rob’ sprawled somewhere in the haze. Lisa said “Uh, sorry, I’ve... read more

Rob Heinsoo, lead designer of 4E D&D, just joined the blogging world (as robheinsoo ). But his most recent post is fascinating for reasons entirely unrelated to game design - it's a story about how a childhood injury had left him colorblind, and how it all went away one day. The tale of suddenly rediscovering color is rather fascinating, and miraculous in a way.