Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so last time I started talking about judgment, the third set in the Odyssey block.

And I talked all about the designers and the key mechanics.

Well, today I'm going to continue that.

I'm talking about cards. So for today's

podcast, and maybe the next podcast, we'll see how long this goes. I'm going to talk about just

card stories. One of the reasons I really enjoy doing card stories is it's one thing to talk to the

overall structure, which I feel I always should do, but kind of talking about individual cards,

you just kind of see a lot of how things came together in a sort of a more personal way.

And anyway, players like card stories, I like telling them, so I'm going to do that.

So we're going to start with Balthar the Defiled.

Okay, so for those that know the story, or maybe don't know the story, the main character

was Kamal.

His mentor was a dwarf named Balthar.

And Ballthor showed up in the previous set in Torment, in Red, because he was a dwarf.

But in the story, oh, poor Balthar is killed.

The mentor killed.

Oh, Joseph Campbell!

Anyway, and we decided that, you know, just because you kill a creature doesn't mean you can't see him anymore.

People always tell me that about Venture, by the way.

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