I'm pulling away from the curb. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

And I'm dropping my kids off at school today. Okay, so today I'm trying something brand spanking new.

So one of the things I realize is sometimes I have interesting topics, but they're not enough to fill up a whole, like, half hour of a drive to work.

And so I'm trying something new, what I'm calling a cluster.

And what that means is I'm taking a whole bunch of little things that I don't think is enough for its own podcasts, but picking things that are thematically connected

so that I can do a podcast about a theme.

That's the idea.

So for the very first Cluster Podcast, I've chosen food, because I felt like a food cluster

sounded like something.

So today is a food clustered podcast.

So what's going to happen is I'm going to talk all

about many different things related to magic and food. That is my plan. Hopefully this turns out,

well, you guys like the clusters and maybe I'll do more of them. Okay, so let me start with food,

the mechanic, since that seems like a fine place to start.

So I know I've talked a little bit about the origin of food, but I want to go a little farther back and explaining, giving some more context to where food came from.

So one of the things that happened back in Shadows over Indusrad was we were trying to capture this sense of mystery.

Because we were doing, the idea was Jase was the main character and he was solving a mystery.

And a big part of the story because of the trope space we were playing in was the idea of mystery.

So we wanted to convey mystery through mechanics. After trying a bunch of different things,

we ended up doing investigate, which made Clue tokens. And the idea was that Clue were

artifact tokens that had a value you could use them.

Now, we had made counters before.

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