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News and interviews about Draw Steel and MCDM. New episodes thrice a month. Hosted by Jon de Nor.
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Public playtest of the beastheart, private playtest of Dark Heart of the Wood, The Fall of Blackbottom and the summoner is released, patron playtest of the Codex, and a huge crowdfunder launching soon! Draw Steel Christmas came a month early! Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2524 Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:40 December Crowdfunder 02:23 The Summoner 03:48 The Fall of Blackbottom 05:00 Updated Core Rules 05:46 Playtests: Beastheart & Dark Heart of the Wood 06:32 The Codex 10:33 C...
Paul Ligorski is back! He's currently running a very successful crowdfunder for his next big Draw Steel adventure: The Cave of Amber Tears. We talk about the inspiration behind the new adventure and about his process for designing adventures, both for Draw Steel and other TTRPGs. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2523#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:43 Interview 55:58 Outro Support the show GoblinPoints.com Stawl.app Discord Server Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send ...
This episode I'm joined by Jennifer Kretchmer. She's worked with all the usual suspects in the TTRPG business, but the MCDM community might know her from the 10 Candles video on Matt's channel, and more recently as the accessibility consultant on Draw Steel. The work she did on Draw Steel, actually broke new ground in the field of art descriptions. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2522#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Interview 01:01:55 Outro Support the show GoblinPoints.com S...
We crowned the winners of the first ever Jams of the Timescape, James is testing the dungeon crawling TTRPG Crows, the boggits crowdfunder is doing well, there's a physical character journal, and the summoner is nearly ready. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2521#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Jams of the Timescape 01:31 Crows 05:44 Draw Steel Books 06:14 The Fall of Blackbottom 06:54 The Summoner 07:58 Crack the Sun 09:53 December Crowdfunder 11:13 Beastheart 12:28 Codex 13:1...
Ananam of Triglav Games is back, as my first returning guest. The team at Triglav is about to finish up work on the Vampire class they crowdfunded earlier this year, and they're at this moment running their second crowdfunder called Boggits of Kingsmire. They're bringing the frogs and the swamp to Draw Steel in full force. Links: Boggits of Kingsmire - A Swampy Supplement for Draw SteelHollow Knight: SilksongHeart of Arcana: The Many Ways to Design an Adventure | InterviewChapters: 00:00 Intr...
This episode I talk about the Draw Steel books shipping, details about the December MCDM crowdfunder and where Omund's Land went, and the Boggits crowdfunder by Triglav Games. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2519#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:33 JotT #1: Treasure Sets of the Timescape 01:58 Draw Steel Books Are Shipping 02:50 December Crowdfunder 05:39 Crows 06:45 Draw Steel Minis by TitanCraft 07:25 Codex 08:33 The Dice Society 08:57 Fanzines 12:13 On The Edge, A Variant Kits ...
Tom Bloom is the designer of Lancer RPG, author of Kill Six Billion Demons, and self-proclaimed 4e sicko. Tom made some comments about Draw Steel on Bluesky, and I thought it would be interesting to hear his thoughts on Draw Steel, as a designer of a well-liked tactical RPG. We also talk about games not appologizing for their design, how testing makes games better, and how Draw Steel is not appealing game. Links: DaggerheartBlueskyKill Six Billion DemonsToom Bloom's Itch.io catalogSupport the...
Draw Steel has been out for a month. It's been well received and new people are picking up the game and entering the community all the time. There's also been an update to the released adventures, errata for the core rules, more Djordice are coming, 50 leveled treasure has been released, the kobold ancestry is happening, the vampire class in on pre-order, and more! Links to everything: https://GoblinPoints.com/2517#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:47 Jams of the Timescape 01:33 Draw Steel 02:54...
James Introcaso. Lead designer of Draw Steel. Need I say more. I was really excited to have him on, and it was a delight. James talks about going to GenCon, the value of showing that the core rules aren't sacred, how the victory and respite system is core to the Draw Steel experience, and his adventure design philosophy. Links: Shadow of the Demon LordShadow of the Weird WizardPIRATE BORGAn Architectural Approach to Level DesignTaskmasterGuy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee Chapters: 00:...
It's here! It's finally here! Draw Steel is out! Next is the physical books. There's also the summoner and beastheart classes; the gnome, shadow elf and four more ancestries; an extended version of Fall of Blackbottom, a thorn dragon adventure, and a suicide mission adventure; and details on the Codex VTT. Then there's the crowdfunded weapons collection and kobold ancestry; and two other third-party adventures. And even that's not all! There's so much! Links: https://GoblinPoints.com/2515#lin...
This episode I'm joined by Hannah Rose. She's had a busy career and has worked on the Taldorei setting for Critical Role, worked on multiple Wizards of the Coast books, and maybe most famously in the MCDM community, been the managing editor for Arcadia. We talk about her new venture, the quarterly magazine Horizons, trying to maintain a viable freelance market in TTRPGs, and what ever Deathmatch Island is. Links: Subscribe on the website: https://wildmagepress.com/subscribeSubscribe on Patreo...
June has come and gone, and Draw Steel might be releasing in less than two weeks. But before that happens, I'll tell you about the release candidate of the rules, the updated Monsters manuscript, the summoner playtest and the fantastic community projects that are being published. Links to everything: https://GoblinPoints.com/2513#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:41 Draw Steel Release Candidate 03:11 Fresh Monster Manuscript 03:56 The Summoner 04:47 The Blacksmith's Guild - Issue #1 06:17 Ratcat...
In this episode I speak with Onslaught Six. He's currently crowdfunding the community magazine Ratcatchers, which features articles from multiple people in the Draw Steel community. We do talk about the magazine, the permissive license they're publishing under, but we start off with the space cowboy RPG he designed, how to find the right game for the right play group, and the OSR megadungeon he recently published, Ruins of Castle Gygar. Links: Ratcatcher MagazinePhysical StoreDriveThruRPGItch...
Looks like we might be drawing steel in July, we know more about the adventures MCDM plans to release in the coming months, we got details on the beastheart class, there'll be more djordice, the third party vampire class got funded, The Dice Society interviewed James. And More! Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2511#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:44 Steel Will Be Drawn in July 02:17 Book Three 04:41 Future Adventures 07:43 The Beastheart 10:03 The Codex 11:38 More Dice 12:06 Mot's...
My guest this time is Paul Ligorski, also known as Heart of Arcana. Paul has written quite a few advenuters, not only for Draw Steel, but for D&D 5e, Mausritter and Cypher. He also runs a local game night multiple times a month. We talk about writing adventures for different systems, which TTRPG systems work well for teaching new players, how interacting with gods is different in Draw Steel, and how watching Draw Steel being designed has made him reimagine what can be used for inspiration...
The Delian Tomb is being tested by patrons, the layout for the core rules is nearing completion, and an adventure to run at conventions is in the works. Also, the dice from the crowdfunder is shipping, and Flee, Mortals! and Where Evil Lives is out on Foundry. Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2509#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:42 The Delian Tomb 01:06 The Conventure 02:20 The Clounns 03:34 Warfare 04:33 The Layout 05:47 Initial Support 07:48 Draw Steel Actual Play 08:13 The ...
I'm joined by Ananam of Triglav Games. They are at the time of publishing this episode crowdfunding a vampire class for Draw Steel. It's an ambitious project and they've pulled out all the stops with professional art, playtesting and layout. In the interview we talk about how they're designing the vampire class, what it's like to designing classes for Draw Steel, and the decisions for the crowdfunder and what they've learned from it. Links: The Vampire on BackerKitTriglav Games on BlueskyAnan...
It's the silence before the storm. News about Draw Steel is sparse. MCDM is working on new products, but they've barely made into testing. Some more exciting news is the new third party crowdfunder that just launched, for a vampire class. And, of course, I have some highlights from the community creations. Submit questions to Ananam: https://www.patreon.com/posts/questions-for-125475621 Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2507#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:47 Burrowing Conundru...
I'm visited by Andie Margolskee, the author of the first crowdfunded adventure for Draw Steel: The Great Thaw of Gryzmithrak Spire. We talk about the adventure, sure, but with Andie having designed adventures for multiple systems, we end up talking a bunch about what different systems are good at. Links Website that links to Andie's previous projectsThe Great Thaw of Gryzmithrak Spire CrowdfundrExoecology for Monster Hunters Kickstarter Two favorite Alexandrian blog articles:Node-Based Scenar...
MCDM is working on the core rules, the monsters, new classes and the Codex, but nothing is ready to be published yet. The community is of course ever flowing with great creations. In this episode I cover the known rule changes, the new classes and the news about the Codex. Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2505#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Rule Changes 02:19 New Classes 02:57 Summoner 04:24 Beastheart 04:41 The Delian Two-mb 05:51 Omund's Land 06:41 Physical Release 07:31...
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