[PREVIEW] Design Session #70: The Hero, Part 2

Crystal, Maxie, Morgan, and Ty get together to talk about the songs referenced in Eidolon ADULT! Learn about the awfulness of John Mayer, the amazing voice of Macy Gray, and the merits and demerits of music that is compatible with shopping!Listen to the playlist here!Edited by IrisThis episode is possible thanks to all $3 and up Patreon subscribers! If you're listening to the 5-minute preview of this episode, then you can listen to the full episode by subscribing today!

Hey we looked at the schedule and realized we were not going NEARLY fast enough to get Threadspinner ready in time for the playtest to start this spring! So, from here on out, we're gonna be doing a lot more off-mic designing, and use these episodes to partially talk through some design questions, but mostly to update y'all on the work we've been doing throughout the week. For instance: last week, we told y'all we'd be designing The Executed this week. Instead, we've designed The Executed, The Mixologist, AND The Divinity! Four down, five to go!Edited by LukeThis episode is possible thanks to all $3 and up Patreon subscribers! If you're listening to the 5-minute preview of this episode, then you can listen to the full episode by subscribing today!

In an secret, underground base on Pluto, two Outer Sphere pilots--Dax Burnside and Mayve "Mayday" Dayson--attempt to revive the slumbering war machines known as Leviathans. However, the Terran Alliance has been developing new weapons of their own. Faced with a threat from which they can no longer hide, the pair are forced to convince their mecha to fight before the last hope of resistance is entirely snuffed out. 🎶 Heaven help me, I need to make it right. 🎶CREDITS: Lexi Waltner as Dax BurnsideMax Knightley as LákhesisZoe Tunnell as Mayve "Mayday" DaysonLuke Varner as AtroposIris Christianson as The GM MUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEY EDITED BY IRIS CHRISTIANSON CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode contains trauma related to parental death, amputation, and graphic violence.Buy our book!Support us on Patreon!Join the Discord!

What even is a Hero, anyway? That's what we figure out this episode as we finish the template pattern for Threadspinner, and decide a final list of starting patterns!Edited by LukeThis episode is possible thanks to all $3 and up Patreon subscribers! If you're listening to the 5-minute preview of this episode, then you can listen to the full episode by subscribing today!

The holiday season is over, and the eidolon adults return to sober reality. Kierra, Oxley, and D.G. all meet for dinner at the Tight mansion, where they determine the fates of Andy, Natalie, Macy, Sarah, Thr33 Laws, and themselves.🎶 Jumped into the Chevy, headed for big lightsWanna know the rest? Hey, buy the rights! 🎶CREDITS:Morgan Taylor as Kierra TightTyberius Wilson as Oxley SarbanesMax Knightley as Dignity “D.G.” GraysonCrystal Zaslavchik as The GMMUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEYEDITED BY CRYSTAL ZASLAVCHIKCONTENT WARNING: This episode contains anti-immigrant rhetoric, misgendering, cannibalism, and graphic violence.Buy our book!Support us on Patreon!Join the Discord!

Welcome, one and all, to THE YEAR OF THREADSPINNER, starting off with THE MONTH OF THREADSPINNER. We will be releasing new design sessions and new game drafts every week this month as we grind away at getting the game ready to start playtesting this spring!This week, we talk through our ideas for how the combat system should be modified from Eidolon, and revisit equipment to further codify the ideas we've talked about with it previously. We also wrote up a whole to-do list so that we can stop forgetting about what we said we should be working on!Edited by LukeThis episode is possible thanks to all $3 and up Patreon subscribers! If you're listening to the 5-minute preview of this episode, then you can listen to the full episode by subscribing today!

Ace Wizards Arroai the Pragmatic and Ner'evine Livolias hit a creative stumbling block in their quest to renovate the tower of Xalatan the Triumphant. If they wish to reinvigorate their artistic passions, they must seek inspiration from visiting travelers!CREDITS:Max Knightley as Arroai the PragmaticIris Christianson as Ner'evine LivoliasCrystal Zaslavchik as Grand Duchess SelleneLuke Varner as TedMUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEYEDITED BY MAX KNIGHTLEY AND CRYSTAL ZASLAVCHIKCONTENT WARNING: This episode contains explosion and gunfire noises.This episode is possible thanks to all $10 and up Patreon subscribers! If you're listening to the 5-minute preview of this episode, then you can listen to the full episode by subscribing today!Status of The Great Tower of Xalatan:1F: Smallfolk Apartments; Front Desk; Ted's Booth2F: Tallfolk Apartments; Biohazard Zone; Healing Fountain; Item Shop; Crafting Lab3F: Goblin Barracks; Meat Pit; "Veggie Pit"; Political Graffiti4F: Arcade Machines; Limp Bizkit; Throne; Portal?5F: Healing Waterfall; Trunk of the World Tree Yggdrasil; Mushroom Village6F: Healing Pond; Enchanted Grove; Crown of the World Tree Yggdrasil7F: Sungrates?Exterior: Vines; CrystalStatus of The Town of Lake Town:Population: 13,004Key Industries: Soy; Horse + Phoenix RanchingFormer Key Industries: Orichalcum Refining; TypewritersPlans: Send ghouls to woods; Purify air with springNew Businesses: Unicorn Hotel; Old Typewriter Factory for lease

In the liminal period of the New Year, Oxley and D.G. both resolve to become their best selves. Kierra continues her quest to ruin the lives of her friends, but can she bring herself to hurt Andy?🎶 Then I see you standing thereWanting more from meAnd all I can do is try 🎶CREDITS:Morgan Taylor as Kierra TightTyberius Wilson as Oxley SarbanesMax Knightley as Dignity “D.G.” GraysonCrystal Zaslavchik as The GMMUSIC BY MAX KNIGHTLEYEDITED BY CRYSTAL ZASLAVCHIKCONTENT WARNING: This episode contains anti-immigrant rhetoric, misgendering, cannibalism, and violence against animals.Buy our book!Support us on Patreon!Join the Discord!

GM: IrisLeviathans: Maxie, LukePilots: Zoe, LexiEpisode Count: 6The year is 2254. The Terran Alliance has ruled space unchallenged for the last 30 years. The Outer Sphere's resistance lies scattered across the Sol System, their military thoroughly annihilated, their adherents quietly forming small communities where they can.But the Outer Sphere preserved one, small hope before they were crushed: a hidden station housing the last two surviving Leviathans. These giant, sentient mecha lie in hibernation, hoping their Eidolon Drives will once again be awakened by worthy pilots.The Terran Alliance has spent these 3 decades hunting these lost weapons down, knowing that if they were to ever rise again, even Earth itself would no longer be safe.

One final podcast for 2025, to ring in The Month of Threadspinner!On this episode, we get serious about how quickly the deadline to a playable first draft of the game is getting, and get cracking on getting this bad boy ready for primetime. We start by working out the details of The Hero, one of the first playbooks—sorry, patterns—we came up with for this game, and in so doing identify the blank spots we still need to fill in.And because there's still a lot of blank spots, we also resolve to (try to) put up a new Design Session every single week in January to get this thing over the finish line!Edited by LukeThis episode is possible thanks to all $3 and up Patreon subscribers! If you're listening to the 5-minute preview of this episode, then you can listen to the full episode by subscribing today!