Episode 261 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Draw Steel Combat Basics!

Teos and Shawn examine how Draw Steel creates tactical, cinematic, and heroic play with its combat system!

News: New D&D Video Game Studio, Demogorgon Crunch, Kickstarter’s Union, and more!

Contents

00:00 Miles of Games

03:08 Designing for Someone's IP?

15:05 D&D New Video Game Studio

19:38 D&D Hiring a Game Designer

22:27 Revised Psion UA

25:23 Designing to Guarantee Effects

30:31 Kim Mohan in Hall of Fame

32:33 Acq Inc Pirate Borg!

34:20 Demogorgon Crunch

35:30 Kickstarter's Union Wants Protections

36:29 How Much Setting Stuff Is There?

41:55 Designers & Dragons Origins

43:51 Draw Steel Combat Basics

44:36 Beastheart Playtest News

45:25 Power Rolls in Draw Steel

46:44 Tiered Outcomes

49:03 Power Rolls and Gameplay

54:32 Potency

56:29 Gating Outcomes

59:02 Draw Steel and Daggerheart Similarities

01:02:00 Example Actions

01:04:12 Edges and Banes

01:08:52 Hero Tokens

01:11:39 The Map

01:20:11 Initiative, sort of

01:32:29 Shout Outs

01:36:16 What Are We Gonna Do?



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