Goblin Points

By Jon de Nor

News and interviews about Draw Steel and MCDM. New episodes twice a month. Hosted by Jon de Nor.

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The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.

Goblin Points episodes:

April 05, 2025New Burrowing Rules, The Delian Tomb Adventure, and the Vampire Crowdfunder | March Roundup
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 Conundrum
02:15 The Delian Tomb
04:23 The Beastheart
05:14 Warfare Rules
06:04 Stawl Promo
06:51 Codex
07:15 Djordice Are Shipping
07:37 Creator Spotlight
08:11 Derelict
10:05 Scions of Blood and Shadows
10:54 From the Community
13:55 From Around the Web
14:16 Outro
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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16min
March 20, 2025Andie Margolskee: Do We Need Game Systems? | Interview
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 projects
The Great Thaw of Gryzmithrak Spire Crowdfundr
Exoecology for Monster Hunters Kickstarter

Two favorite Alexandrian blog articles:
Node-Based Scenario Design – Part 1: The Plotted Approach
Three Clue Rule
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:45 Interview
59:33 Outro
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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1h 1min
March 05, 2025Rules Changes, Codex VTT News, and the First 3rd Party Crowdfunder | February Roundup
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 In-person Play
08:00 Sheets
08:49 Stawl Promo
09:23 Codex
10:20 Pricing
11:46 Marketplace
12:42 Release
12:55 Djordice Crowdfunder
13:21 The Great Thaw of Gryzmithrak Spire
13:58 From the Community
17:46 From Around the Web
18:01 Outro
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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20min
February 20, 2025Iron Monocle: The Serial World Creator | Interview
In this episode I'm joined by Iron Monocle. He's a serial creator of worlds and keeps a blog about his most recent one. We talk about how game rules influence assumptions in the world, about world building as a hobby, and how players can be a fantastic source and contributors of lore and ideas in your world.

Links:
Blog
Bluesky
Ironsworn
Midst

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Interview
44:45 Recommendations
00:48:48 Outro

Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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51min
February 05, 2025The Launch Adventures, What Comes After Launch, and New Draw Steel Classes | January Roundup
This is a bit of a weird one. Less than a week before the release of this episode, James basically posted what could've been the script for this episode in a post on Patreon. So in addition to news about the state of the Draw Steel core rules, and future products for Draw Steel, which was also outlined by James, I've got a bunch fantastic creations from the community.
Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2503#links
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Fuck What's Happening in the US
01:33 Draw Steel
03:04 Launch Products
05:08 Future Products
06:51 The Summoner
07:48 The Beastheart
08:12 Other Products
09:06 Collaborations
09:44 Codex
10:33 Djordice
10:53 The Illrigger in Print?
11:13 From the Community
15:27 From Around the Web
15:55 Outro
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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18min
January 20, 2025The Dice Society: The Dice Goblin Episode | Interview
Is the Draw Steel podcast universe going to implode? This episode, I have The Dice Society on! I really have to give him credit for taking so many of the questions without any preparation or warning, and I think he pulled it off really well. We had a great time talking and I hope you do as well when listening.

Links:
YouTube
Bluesky
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Interview
57:14 Outro
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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59min
January 05, 2025Draw Steel Is Content Complete, and What Comes After | December Roundup
This is a shorter episode. It's weird, because in some ways not much new happened in December, but on the other hand, the biggest thing also happened in December: Draw Steel is content complete. All the rules, systems, mechanics and monsters that are supposed to be in the final game are in. Now it's time to polish.

Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2501#links

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 Draw Steel
02:47 Vasloria Box Set
05:04 Draw Steel Adventures
06:01 Mini Monday
06:42 Djordice
07:16 Codex
08:23 From the Community
10:11 From Around the Web
10:29 Outro
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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12min
December 20, 2024Dojikaan: The Importance of Art and Fanart | Interview
In this episode I'm joined by Dojikaan. You might know him from the art that he posts in the MCDM community, I know him from the awesome time raider portrait he did a while back. In the episode we talk about art in the MCDM community, the importance of official art for a product, and how fanart self-sustains communities.

Links:
Dojikaan Illustrations
Dojikaan's Instagram
Dojikaan's Patreon
Dojikaan's Twitter/X
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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54min
December 05, 2024The Illrigger is on D&D Beyond, and shields are out of Draw Steel | November Roundup
Feature changes in Draw Steel is slowing down, it's mostly tweaking and balancing from here. Codex is getting some exciting features related to elevation on battle maps. The Illrigger has arrived on D&D Beyond. Trenchworx is making more MCDM minis. And we talk about Derelict.

Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2418#links

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Draw Steel
00:47 Shields
01:33 Surges
03:17 Potencies
04:13 Vasloria Box Set
05:41 Pencils Down
06:09 Creator License
06:39 Mot's Miscellaneous
07:48 Codex
08:47 Derelict
12:10 Trenchworx Minis
12:47 The Illrigger on D&D Beyond
13:35 Mini Monday
14:05 From the Community
15:56 From Around the Web
16:14 Outro
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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18min
November 20, 2024Patrick Haesler: Bringing Your Creativity To the Game | Interview
Welcome to the one year anniversary episode! It's wild to me that it's already been a year. Seems only like yesterday I recorded the 90 second trailer, and the retrospective episode about MCDM. My guest for this episode is the composer of the new theme music, Patrick Haesler.

Links:
YouTube
Music Instagram
Mini Painting Instagram
Website
Spotify
Bandcamp
Apple Music
Support the show

MCDM Discord

MCDM Subreddit

Draw Steel Subreddit

Matt's YouTube Channel

MCDM's YouTube Channel

GoblinPoints.com

Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an email at [email protected].

Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.
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52min

FAQs about Goblin Points:

How many episodes does Goblin Points have?

The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.