Drawing Draw Steel: Day 3: Angulotl Dart

Old mate is doing his part this Halloween.

I'm thinking of putting some stuff I homebrewed for my Viking fantasy campaign up on DMs Guild - is it worth it? It'd be a couple of classes and a city/adventure guide/module. I also have an insane number of monster stat blocks. #ttrpg

Enjoy a spooky scarecrow solo for your Halloween weekend one-shots — it's Day 30 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #scarecrow #reaperking #harvest

I've finished publishing my 6 part series on crafting memorable, story-driven campaigns that works for just about any TTRPG! Check it out here: www.rollforinsight.blog/story-driven... #ttrpg #dnd #storytelling #roleplaying #rpg

My 1st level adventure for Draw Steel is done! And it's completely free. Get The Tangleblight below at the link below. It is a 38p adventure for 1st level Draw Steel heroes featuring radenwights and a thorn dragon. #drawsteel #ttrpg schaab.itch.io/the-tanglebl...

Drawing Draw Steel tokens: Day 1: AJAX the INVINCIBLE

It still seems surreal to see these on my shelf. Three issues out and we are full of articles all the way to issue 6. 137jbv-w7.myshopify.com/products/the... #the-blacksmith's-guild #draw-steel #mcdm

Hell yeah. I'm keen to hear this one. Downtime in Draw Steel is done so well.

Alien 2nd Edition arrived today! #ttrpg

GM Tip: Try to make your players feel their characters aren't failures, even if their rolls suck. A miss or failed skill test can often be narrated as misfortune or circumstances beyond the character's control. #tttrpg #dnd #rpg #ttrpgCommunity

Got my Draw Steel books and T-shirt today. This was especially good because I just couldn't get through the PDF effectively. So now I can read the rules and understand them. Thank you @mattcolville.bsky.social and the rest of the team at MCDM !

Some of the best monsters and spells I've used in games are reskins.

Keep an eye on your mail everybody 😀 @hellomcdm.bsky.social

Really excited to get home and see these waiting for me! Already had the PDFs, but the physical copies will look so nice on the bookshelf. Looking forward to playing Draw Steel soon hopefully!

We've reached our first stretch goal and thus we will design a starter town of Stilton! Now, onto our second goal: more monsters! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t... #DrawSteel #RPG #TTRPG #Frogs

One thing I've been thinking about in terms of TTRPG design is NPC info. Not stat blocks, but stuff to help GMs flesh out characters that players are speaking with on the spot. I've done this in other homebrew stuff, but in the adventure I'm writing, I've included "character hooks".

Day 25 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel slipped my mind, just like Bigfoot evades me every day. But here's my Appalachian contribution! #promptober #drawsteel #cryptids #mothman

GM Tip: When improvising, focus on the "why" behind an NPC's actions. If their reasoning is clear, everything else will follow naturally. #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #ttrpgCommunity

Last night, my Grim Hollow 5e one shot - the Whispering Athenaeum went really well! I think I've finally found the power level and tactics to keep level 15 players on their toes. A necrotic meteor swarm downed most of the party, but then the cleric managed to shield themselves and then...

Came across this fantastic art for the Draw Steel summoner and what I assume is the thorn dragon in the Dark Heart of the Woods adventure: www.artstation.com/artwork/RK4Lrm

Anyone else ever get distracted from housework to do the cable management for their partner's PC?

@dndbeyond.com ‘s Project Sigil is formally ending development. This announcement arrives half a year after WOTC cut nearly all of the development team. www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2086-c...

One of the mistakes I'm seeing a lot of people making in reaction to the video is confusing "the community" with "the discord." Folks, I was in the D&D community in 1985. Communities are notional. They aren't an app on your phone.

The sucky thing about getting amazing art for the Draw Steel adventure I'm writing is that I can't share all of it on here. I want to save the best for when it's released! So far, the first two pages are done. Playtesting it again in a few weeks!

All caught up once more with Day 23 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel. If you take this complication, you legally have to put "Frozen Pines" by Lord Huron in your character playlist. #promptober #drawsteel #aliens #strangelights #frozenpines

Here's Day 21 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel — one away from parity! This one's a bit shaky but there's something to the flavor of it for sure. #promptober #drawsteel #swordintheforest #wode

The next instalment in my series of Grim Hollow (5e) one-shots is this Saturday, the Curse of Kara Odell. Set in the Charneault Kingdoms. Excited to see the players venture into the Whispering Athenaeum. Characters are level 15 with custom made magic items (by me) and a homebrewed solo monster/boss.

I'm lagging behind, but here's Day 18 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel — magic brooms for all you sorcerous apprentices out there! #promptober #drawsteel #sorcery #sorcerersapprentice #broom

Why not you take a nice break in a custom tower resort? Catching up with Day 19 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #wizardstower #wizard

Showing my admiration for void elementalists in Day 20 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel. Almost caught up again! #promptober #drawsteel #mystery #lostbook #lostknowledge

Good mail day from @hellomcdm.bsky.social and @mattcolville.bsky.social Everyone should check out Draw Steel

#ShadowsOverSol progress unlocked! This week: ✅ Placed bulk order of edge tokens ✅ #FoundryVTT updated for Foundry 13 ✅ Started data entry of items, skills & traits ✅ First new art completed! Read more on our blog. #scifi #horror #ttrpg​ #rpg #dnd #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity

There is valid and nuanced criticism of 4e, especially the 1st round of books. But a lot of the hate was bad faith from the jump, stuff like "there's no roleplay rules" (same amount as 3.5), "its just an edgy MMO", and "you can shout somebody's hand back on" (warlord made people *so* angry).

I love doing this for my players. Gets them all pumped up. Then I drop a custom boss monster at the end, hitting them like a freight train. Fun times.

Highest Character Complexity: D&D, Draw Steel, or Daggerheart? How do these games rank in character complexity? Why is latency important? And how do these three RPGs compare to Pirate Borg and Shadowdark? Let’s find out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVA... #DnD #Daggerheart #DrawSteel #ttrpg

@hellomcdm.bsky.social that was a devious marketing move to have @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social track me down at #GameholeCon, invite me to a demo game, and time all that perfectly with delivering the #DrawSteelRpg books to my door today. Well played! #ttrpg

I just backed Starfinder: Afterlight 💫 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/epi...

It came! It came just the same! Going to be a bit before I can run it but can’t wait to devour these books!… @hellomcdm.bsky.social @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social @mattcolville.bsky.social #ttrog #DrawSteel #gaming #tabletopgaming

@triglavananam.bsky.social is back. Triglav is about to finish up work on the Vampire class they crowdfunded earlier this year, and they're running their second crowdfunder called Boggits of Kingsmire. They're bringing the frogs and the swamp to Draw Steel in full force Listen GoblinPoints.com/2520

Another busy weekend, but we're back with Day 17 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel with a new DTO to spice up your boss fights! #promptober #drawsteel #blood #ritual #sacrifice #sacrificialpool

I was up at Zulus today and saw these awesome books for a game called Draw Steel. Anyone here played it and have an opinion?

Did some mini painting yesterday. #ttrpg

Don't mess with a Fury! #DrawSteel

In addition to Draw Steel, I'm looking to play a wider variety of TTRPGs on the channel! There are so many great ones out there! What games do you folks want to see me run?? youtube.com/post/UgkxsB3...

Now that PAX is over, it's back to working on the Draw Steel adventure - The Unbroken Vow. It's exciting to write this, but I'm curious. Is it bad form to leave little tidbits of potential hooks for follow-up adventures? Should adventure modules have a clean finish? #ttrpg

Draw Steel!

Now that the first #JamOfTheTimescape is over, how about we go through the best submissions LIVE? If you're into #DrawSteel, I'm sure you'll find these products super interesting ⚔️ 📅 Join me on Oct 17th at 5PM PDT / 8PM EDT / 9PM BRT youtube.com/live/sGS2ptD...

High above the clouds, standing on a finger of rock, Draugr stands alone against the Wyvern.

Affinity Publisher is such a good tool for writing ttrpg stuff. I open up Word and look down on it like "why are you even here?"