Recent content by AdmundfortGeographer

2026 crowd funder crossed the $2M mark in the past couple days? 8 days remaining, I think?

Great questions. As far as the party pushing on, the most direct tool for when a party pushes on is within the player’s control. Are PCs too low in each of their recoveries and do they want to press their luck and push on and risk death and dying because they have no recoveries to boost their...

Good point. You can ignore victories as a meter for when to level up. But victories are used as a metric for how powered up in a day the heroes are at the next encounter (more victories = more starting heroic resource), and how tough the director makes the monsters in the next encounter (for...

For my group, they don’t want a game where negotiation to avoid combat is on the table. They want a monster fighting story. They’ve liked the few negotiations I’ve forced on them from published scenarios gave victories. But they were more stunned that it could even happen. It’s outside their...

I’ve wondered about that too. I may be wrong but the vibe I was getting is that Draw Steel plays close enough to standard tropes about medieval fantasy we all come to it that we can not pay attention too much and go with the trope … but it’s just enough different that we have to pay attention...

In my experience being the director for about 8 sessions, as well as reading and watching tons of other play reports, Draw Steel might end up having a sort of system mastery where characters can make OP characters, and over time we all start seeing similar builds as word gets out. But in my...

An alpha version is accessible for patrons. I believe it has at least the first levels of each class, and work on the extra levels is in progress.

To be accurate, it’s a funder for up to 7 books, and some just .pdfs and others soft or hardcovers.

Interesting. I can see value in that open endedness It might be nice to have an option to lock down strict by the rules mode though…

having played about 7 sessions of Draw Steel I think I can offer a bit of devil’s advocate to moving minis just being new positions on a map. Pushing/pulling/sliding into other creatures and the damage formula is some extra head processing. Then the scenario of pushing/pulling/slide into...

True. Matt has also mentioned he has heard from folks working on their stuff that some believe they are really close to nailing how to make the fantasy of the “wizard” would work. I’ve never enjoyed the D&D wizard fantasy but for those complaining that the Elementalist isn’t it, we might be...

It’s 60 pages. Definitely an advanced class, imo. It’s mostly filled with the blocks for the catalog of summons for each of the four subclasses, demon summoner, elemental summoner, fey summoner, and undead summoner. Plus stats for enemy summoners. There is a guide for the Director to convert...

Both the Summoner class and the Fall of Blackbottom andventure each are out on the MCDM store, right on schedule. If you had been a Patron supporter you might have gotten redemption codes for the downloads.

I’m very eager for the adventures book. Collecting a volume of monster-of-the-week adventures to plug in. My group is mostly done with every sandbox quest from The Delian Tomb (retrofit into my own homebrew), racked up enough victories they just achieved level 2. Which makes it a perfect time...

Space fantasy. He’s mentioned in streams that characters will walk on the fantasy-sun.