• Happy New Year! Welcome to year two.

• Emails and Forge Weapon

• Email from Matthew: Condolences and praise for Dan’s Legends Readings

• Email from Brian: Strengths of alternate mounts for Cavalryman adepts

• Forge Blade/Weapon

• Six different variants of the talent (depending how you count)

• First Edition overview

• Adept’s Way Addendum

• Introduces cap to bonus equal to base weapon damage.

• Introduces more difficult DNs for use on thread items.

• Two consequences of these changes: Starts balance difficulties of mundane weapons versus thread weapons.

• Permanent bonus also warps the setting in certain ways.

• Second Edition Overview

• Introduced time limit bonus lasts.

• Discussion of consequences and issues.

• Classic Edition Overview

• Lots of heavy lifting, covering crafting in addition to damage bonuses.

• Discussion of consequences and issues.

• Lots of fiddly (and extraneous) behind-the-scenes math and edge-case exceptions.

• Reminder: Changes were attempts to address issues each development team had with talent balance.

• Third Edition Overview

• Discussion of consequences and issues.

• Fourth Edition Overview

• Design process to address different issues and consequences.

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