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Draw Steel Character Generation! (MD 257)

Draw Steel Character Generation! (MD 257)

Update: 2025-09-10
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Episode 257 of Mastering Dungeons!


Main topic: Draw Steel Character Generation!


Shawn and Teos discuss character generation approaches, then plunge into Draw Steel’s first character generation steps!


News: Wizards CEO on Franchises, AI, and Video Games. Starter Set Previews, Kobold Press on Multiple RPGs, and more!


Contents

00:00 One of Us is Rested

02:32 Daggerheart Simplicity Redux

10:19 Rules-Lite Spellcasting?

19:19 John Hight on Franchises and Video Games

26:19 Hight on AI

30:38 Hight on MMOs

34:16 Starter Set Previews

39:08 Dark Sun on Tabletop Journeys

39:44 Apocalypse World Burned Over

40:45 Kobold Press Unprecedented Times?

48:04 Aetherial Expanse Drowned God

48:39 Surviving Strangehollow on GameFound

50:53 Draw Steel Character Creation

51:15 CharGen in General

01:05:31 Draw Steel General Guidance

01:09:43 Step 1, Think

01:16:15 Step 2, Ancestry

01:22:27 Shout-Outs

01:27:02 What Are We Gonna Do?



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Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).


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Draw Steel Character Generation! (MD 257)

Draw Steel Character Generation! (MD 257)

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