I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay. So the last two podcasts have been about the design of Ferros. But I was not yet done, so I shall continue.

Okay, when last we left, I had talked about, we were up to talking about the heroic mechanic.

Okay, so this point, we knew that we had gods, we knew that we had an enchantment theme that represented the touch of the gods.

We knew that meant we'd have a lot of ores.

We knew that the gods themselves would be enchantment creatures.

We knew that we wanted to have devotion, which was going to be a reworked chroma.

And we knew that we wanted the monsters with a monstrous mechanic.

That's what we knew.

So now we were trying to figure out what the heroes would be.

So the key to understanding the hero mechanic is twofold.

First off, the parameters.

What were we looking for?

Okay. Well, I knew that I wanted to capture the sense of adventure that to me was key of a lot of the Greek mythologies,

that I love the idea that people would build things, and that there would be this game

as your hero, you know, leveled up, essentially, that it would get bigger and bigger,

and eventually it would be able to take on the giant monsters

that had had to fight, which, by the way, also had their own little level-up track.

Okay, so that brings the question of mind.

Why not?

But level-up mechanic.

And the reason for that is...

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