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A trick I've used in the past is to link significant thread items to each other so that the Key Knowledge for multiple items can be learned from a single adventure. For example, a magician-themed staff and a thread sword could have belonged to adepts who adventured together and their legends are int...

There isn't currently much interest in the team for revisiting or revising Cathay. There's other stuff we would rather work on right now. We do have products in various stages of development that cover areas outside Barsaive. * Arancia * Vasgothia * Creana Elven Nations covers Shosara and the Wester...

That lines up with what we expected.

I'm not involved in the licensing/legal end of things, and so don't really know details...

But this came out of left field. We don't know who's doing this, or how they got a license (if they actually have one).

So... *puzzled shrug*.

I realize that isn't much help, but it's all we have right now.

I had developed an item back in the ED3 days that was a thread collar that enhanced the Beastmaster's animal companion.

It's effectiveness in my home game informed some of the companion-enhancing talents in ED4.

Yeah. That was a tricky one -- half a dozen innocuous (but suspicion-raising) posts before any links were being dropped.

The account has been suspended.

I specified Rank 3 because, IME, Rank 3 got you the first 3 Ranks. My recollection from discussion on the old forums is that Rank 3 got you the first 3 Key Knowledges and this erratum confuses me. The reason for the erratum is because this question came up a few months back and it surprised the hel...

The Legends collection will address these discrepancies and (hopefully) clear up confusion.

Yes.

But not publicly.

All of the future values on the chart can be derived from the existing numbers from the table in the character creation chapter of the Player's Guide.

I'll poke the relevant people to make sure it gets noticed.