* Year End 2025

* Spotify for Podcasters Wrapped

* Numbers breakdown: Followers, listening time, etc.

* Analytics

* Thanks and looking back

* Mailbag!

* Email from Frank: Kind words and thanks

* Email from Jesse: Beast spirit questions

* Invertebrate beast spirits (e.g. octopus)?

* Edge cases, writing inconsistencies and oversights

* Where to draw the line on categories?

* Happy New Year! See you in 2026!

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* Vivane Province: Travel and Encounters

* We're wrapping up our sixth year!

* Great Roads: Heavily traveled

* Some elemental earth built into them to help ease travel

* Real world parallel: Roman roads

* Vivane is (overall) more developed than Barsaive

* Real world parallel: Pioneer-era United States West vs East

* River travel

* Vivane t'skrang compared to the Serpent River aropagoi

* Musing on Riverboats and t'skrang culture

* Piracy

* Theran military patrols; where and how often

* Reasons for military encounters

* Typical patrol composition

* Non-military members: Kedate and Praetori

* Coaching hostelries

* Earthdawn equivalent of a "truck stop"

* "Not Tolkien" sidebar

* What you can find at a hostelry

* Outlying areas around the cities

* Reactions to adepts walking around armed

* Thoughts on updates for Fourth Edition

* Highlighting differences between Vivane and Barsaive

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* Blades: Grave Wisdom

* Interlude: In Search of Knowledge

* Timeline and time limit discussion

* No specific location; just in a library

* Connected NPC: Vanyk Auldsinger

* Like the previous interlude: Points the PCs in the direction of the answer.

* The Adventure: Travel to Cara Fahd to find the Hold of Courage

* Suggested travel encounters.

* How post-Krathis Gron Cara Fahd can change things

* Finding the Hold of Courage

* Entering the Hold

* Problems with the "rules" of entering the Hold

* Statues and Soul Stones

* Description of other aspects of the Hold

* Attack by corrupted spirits

* Answering the question

* Destruction of the Hold

* Capsule review: Straightforward location-based encounter

* Possible tweaks and expansions

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* We're back!

* Post-hiatus update on Josh's latest theatrical production

* Legends of Barsaive chapter 13 should be released soon!

* FreedoniaCon: February 28-March 1

* Overview of Theran Provinces from Vivane boxed set

* Great Thera: Island in the Selestrean Sea (aka the Mediterranean)

* Present-day Santorini/Thira

* Creana: South of Great Thera; city states along river and up along eastern coast of the Selestran Sea

* Inspired by ancient Egypt; desert, ancient tombs

* The groundwork for the Theran Empire sourcebook was laid in this supplement.

* Indrisa: Far to the east/southeast of Great Thera

* Indian sub-continent

* Brief descriptions of orks and trolls feels like Barsaive rehash

* Marac: West/southwest of Great Thera

* Inspired by Arabian Nights and similar materials

* Talea: Due west of Great Thera

* Italian peninsula; fell to Thera due to internal squabbles

* Multiple city-states

* Vasgothia: Northwest of Great Thera

* Dense, haunted forests and forbidding mountains

* Inspired by Roman interactions with Germanic tribes, Black Forest, etc.

* Other areas

* Araucania: Amazon Basin

* Aznan: Sub-Saharan Africa

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* We're still getting new listeners!

* Sidebar about "jumping into the middle"

* Continued sidebar about James Gunn's Superman

* Mailbag!

* Email from Eli: Ideas and inspiration for seaborne adventures?

* Sidebar about campaign theme: Scavenger Hunt

* Email from Scott: Recommended reading order for Earthdawn novels?

* Email from Tim: Highland trolls outside Twilight Peaks?

* Forgot to mention trolls from Kaer Otosk in southeast Barsaive

* Email from Magic Octopus: Authors of Blades?

* Our experience with running any of the adventures?

* Another Email from Scott: More about Blades

* Timing of learning about the curse?

* What if they decide to discard the titular Blades because they're cursed?

* Email from Patrick: Why weave a thread to the cursed Blades?

* Sidebar about Josh's love of putting PCs he is playing in difficult situations.

* Email from Robert: Callback to episode 51 and making game "less corny"

* Attribute values and whether they make an actual difference in play.

* Different ways to offer options and make mechanical choices "matter" in RPGs.

* Some game design philosophy and examining assumptions

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* Blades in Depth: Bond Breaker

* Lou P. responds to previous Blades episode

* Origin of the interludes.

* Concerns among the writers about the curse.

* Short adventure

* Written by Robin Laws

* Interlude One: Secret of the Runes

* Open-ended, lays groundwork to kick the story into motion.

* Clearly provides what they need to learn and how they can learn it.

* Good use of higher skill test results for additional detail/insight.

* Handy NPC to provide key info if necessary.

* Designed for Journeyman-tier characters.

* Goal: To find Gnanagh to get key information.

* Discussion of notable NPCs and their stats.

* Copper Cauldron and the Wedding Feast

* Early focus on role-playing and interacting with the orks

* First meeting with Gnanagh and activating the curse.

* The assassination attempt on Moschtug and its aftermath.

* Pursuing the Righteous Vipers and Gnanagh.

* The fortress and navigating the conflict.

* Learning the Key Knowledge... and the curse.

* Open-ended resolution, classic Robin Laws structure.

* Solid adventure, but not an introduction to Earthdawn.

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* Sky Point and Vivane Boxed Set

* Josh and Dan's experience (or lack thereof) with the set

* FASA's history with boxed sets

* Overview of the box's contents

* Publication history context

* Not capturing attention or focus

* Barsaive vs Vivane as a region

* Dan's misconceptions

* Sidebar about Earthdawn art

* Vivane "province"?

* Writers for the set

* Overview of locations

* Smaller geographical area but still much open area for GMs to develop

* Perspective on Cara Fahd in the set

* Cara Fahd and Theran slavery

* Connection to Blades collection

* Hildingrist Crest and magical weirdness

* Perspective on Landis

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* Introduction to Blades

* Fantastic adventure collection.

* Example of building story arcs around thread items.

* Strongly aligned with Cara Fahd.

* Using the items will make the game about the ork nation.

* Book structure: Five adventures, each related to one Key Knowledge.

* The Blades' curse and potential pitfalls.

* While a good template, you don't need to go to this extent with all thread items in your game.

* One line summaries of the different adventures.

* Interludes to introduce how the characters learn the first part of each Key Knowledge.

* History of the Blades of Cara Fahd.

* Finding the Blades and Shattered Pattern.

* The Powers of the Blades and number of player characters.

* Deeds and Legend Points.

* GM preparation before running the adventures.

* Item History is helpful, but not required.

* Non-orks and ties to the new Cara Fahd.

* The introductory chapter to the book has good advice on potential player issues.

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* Mailbag!

* GenCon recap

* Email from Chris: Space travelers using magic to travel to Earth?

* Email from Patrick: Alachia, Immortal Elves, and the Books of Harrow

* Email from Konrad: Plans to rework other old adventures for Fourth Edition?

* Email from Matt: Many questions about the Passions?

* Email from Brandon: Any information about old dwarf Kingdoms mentioned in Throal Sourcebook?

* Expanding on undeveloped areas like Landis, Ustrecht, Scavia, etc?

* Sourcebooks on other parts of the world?

* Any information on the Slithering Wastes?

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* Notable Places Within Cara Fahd

* Quick recap of Kickstarter

* Ancient Cara Fahd

* Citadel of Tirthon

* The Hold of Courage

* The t'skrang of Kelpoya

* The Black Quarry

* Lelisthala - Former elf and troll slaves

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