The Dice Society is back on! It's been a year since we last talked, and a lot has happened since then: the release of Draw Steel, Jams of the Timescape, You Meet in an Ambush, Hooked on Crafting and him writing for the Encounters book.

Links:

• Youtube
• Bluesky
• Hooked on Crafting
• You Meet in an Ambush
• Tom Bloom's Discord Server

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Interview
59:25 Outro

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Art by Chris Malbon.

I'm joined by DimaJeydar. He initially popped up on my radar when he released a Ukrainian translation of the starter rules for Draw Steel. In the time since he's posted an update, published a starter adventure, and a fourth level adventure set in the timescape. This episode is all about translating: how do you preserve the emotion of a phrase, how do find the right word and how do you make carefully crafted multi-word names sound just as good in a completely different language and culture?

Links:

• The Eve of Ivan Kupalo movie
• Діти інженерів (Children of Engineers) band
• Roleplay Ukraine festival
• Wild Steppe RPG
• Mosaic RPG

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Interview
55:26 Outro

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Happy new year! December saw MCDM Crack the Sun with a very successful crowdfunder; a new issue of Ratcatcher Magazine was funded; The Dice Society funded their Hooked on Crafting supplement; and so much more...

Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2601#links

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:39 Crack the Sun
03:22 Jams of the Timescape
04:23 Art Packs by Inge
05:18 The Kiln
05:56 The Snow Queen's Fury
07:29 Ratcatcher Magazine Issue 02 for DRAW STEEL
08:49 The Scion
09:59 How To Draw Steel, Hooked on Crafting & TDS Podcast
11:26 Codex Tutorials
12:08 The Blacksmith's Guild #4
13:37 The Matter of an Overmind
14:17 Community Highlights
14:39 Outro

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Art by Chris Malbon.

This episode I'm joined by Matheus Graef. If you've bought any product from MCDM in the past 5 years, you've seen his work: the mimic backpack retainer, the yumgrubs, the MCDM kobolds, radenwights, and the list goes on. He talks about being a TTRPG illustrator, his process and how it is to work with MCDM as an artist.

Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2526#links

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Interview
49:10 Outro

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Art by Chris Malbon.

This episode features Sam McGurran and Subharup Roy. Sam's a playtest coordinator for MCDM and Shuv is the mastermind behind The Blacksmith's Guild. Together they're running a crowdfunder for A Refugee's Guide to Nomas, a setting set in a psionic city, with a lava river for a sky, and districts in a constant power struggle.

Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2525#links

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Interview
48:51 Outro

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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 Community Shoutouts
11:25 The Delian Tomb Dice
12:06 Hooked on Crafting
13:41 Masterful Smithing
14:44 The Cave of Amber Tears
15:18 To Defy the Stars
16:02 From the Ashes
16:36 The Bale Crossing
17:15 Glyphs for Translators
17:59 Codex Fabuludens
18:53 Set Sail
20:03 Carnophage Monster Booklet
20:59 Draw Steel NPC Generator
21:50 Community Highlights
22:46 Outro

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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

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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

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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
13:15 Essentian Ancestry for Draw Steel
13:48 Dread Abbey by Look Out Behind You Studios
14:19 Draw Steel Character Journal: Register your Epic Journey
15:01 Fantastic Fletchery, Jeweling Gemstones, and Workable Woodcrafts by MrMattDollar
16:20 Get Ready for Snap Tray
16:47 Boggits of Kingsmire - A Swampy Supplement for Draw Steel
17:24 Community Highlights
17:45 From Around the Web
18:10 Outro

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Art by Chris Malbon.

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 Steel
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Heart of Arcana: The Many Ways to Design an Adventure | Interview

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Interview
57:52 Outro

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