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 Ratcatcher Magazine
07:29 The Vessel
08:15 Raiders of Ivywatch
09:11 You Meet in an Ambush
10:01 Class Retainers for Draw Steel
10:35 Community Highlights - Testing the Summoner
10:56 Community Highlights - Thoughts on never missing
11:26 Community Highlights - Draw Steel Cards
11:59 Community Highlights - Surges Explained
12:27 Community Highlights - Tongue-eater Monsters
12:48 Community Highlights - The Dice Society
13:11 From Around the Web - James on Rascal News
13:26 Outro

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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 Magazine
• Physical Store
• DriveThruRPG
• Itch.io
• Discord
• Mailing List
• Patreon
• Podcast
• Twitch
• Bluesky
• Youtube

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:01 Interview
57:05 Outro

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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 Miscellaneous
12:57 Stawl Promo
14:05 The Vampire Class Funded
14:33 From the Community - Flockle Ancestry
14:54 From the Community - Molemen
15:15 From the Community - Satyr Ancestry
15:36 From the Community - How Potencies Work
15:52 From the Community - James Introcaso Interview
16:22 James Introcaso on Mastering Dungeons
16:38 Outro

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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.

Links:

• Hyper Light Drifter
• Ursula K. Le Guin — The Tombs of Atuan
• Heart of Arcana | Instagram | Linktree

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:59 Interview
05:28 Outro

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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 Codex
08:36 The Monstrous Bundle
09:24 The Djordice
10:17 From the Community
12:36 Outro

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Art by Chris Malbon.

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 BackerKit
• Triglav Games on Bluesky
• Ananam on Bluesky
• Triglav Discord Server

Recommendations

• Games
  • Hollow Kngiht
  • Blasphemous
  • V Rising
  • Age of Empires 4
  • Shadow Tactics
  • Shadow Gambit
  • Desperados
  • Commandos
  • Darkest Dungeon
• Board Games
  • Awaken Realms - Nemesis
  • Takenoko
• TV Series
  • HBO - Czarnobyl
  • Fringe
  • The Expanse
• Books
  • The Witcher
  • Conan Books

Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:55 Interview
50:12 Outro

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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

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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

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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

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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

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