Goblin Points

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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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

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

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

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

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

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

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

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

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

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

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

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

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

The dicefunder was a brilliant success, Codex is getting more and more useful for running the game, Draw Steel is getting a lot of tweaks after reviewing the backer packet feedback, and a new patron packet dropped. The packet has tons of changes and updates. Let's jump in.

Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2416#links

Chapters:
00:10 Into
00:38 New Patron Packet
02:41 Ancestries
03:32 Heroic Resource Generation
05:03 Surges and Shields
08:01 Potency
11:31 Perks
13:02 Downtime Activities
13:53 Codex
14:55 Mini Mondays
15:48 Dicefunder
17:12 5e Ports From Draw Steel
17:36 From the Community
20:35 From Around the Web
21:01 Outro

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

This episode I have the pleasure of having Solace on. You might know their name as one of the first people to publish homebrew for Draw Steel, once the creator license dropped. What they published was actually the first published adventure made for Draw Steel.

Links:

• First adventure: The Wrath of the Iresouls
• Encounter Tracker
• Ability cards
• Layout Template for Draw Steel (Affinity Publisher)
• Custom character sheets for Patreon Packet 1
• TACTICAL Social Combat? MCDM's Draw Steel Negotiation System EXPLAINED with James Introcaso!
• Star Realms
• Bump in the Dark

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.

I mentioned in last month's roundup that the flood gates of homebrew had opened with the release of the Creator License for Draw Steel. As predicted, that was only the beginning. The amount of stuff being published is almost overwhelming. There's also details about the next packet, the dicefunder and Stawl.

Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2414#links
Disdiar (Discord dice roller)
Stawl (Draw Steel tools)

Chapters:
00:10 Intro
00:40 Rules Improvements
01:31 Caster Kits Are Out
04:34 Heroic Resource Generation
06:03 The Next Packet
06:49 Higher Levels
07:52 Monsters
08:38 The War Dogs
10:32 Future Releases
11:21 Vasloria Box Set
12:40 Mot's Miscellaneous
13:55 Dicefunder
15:34 Codex
16:27 After Draw Steel
16:59 Stawl
17:33 From the Community
17:50 Draw Steel Homebrew
18:33 Draw Steel Media
19:11 Draw Steel Tools
20:36 5e Homebrew
20:56 From Around the Web
21:28 Outro

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Theme music by Patrick Haesler.
Art by Chris Malbon.