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I've introduced it to my group as well, and they love Draw Steel! because they DON'T LIKE COMBAT! Why Draw Steel!, then? Negotiations are fun as hell! Especially the poking around and finding clues about motivations and pitfalls (sneaking into private quarters, questioning servants, etc.)...

Check out Draw Steel for a new RPG built around this principle. But the mechanics there were designed from the ground up around the idea of 3 to 5 round combats where the heroes (and villains) hit harder and do "cooler" things as the combat continues. Not sure how well you could bolt that onto...

It's interesting to see Draw Steel!, and likely other RPGs, address this issue in their core mechanics. In DS!, your most powerful spells/abilities require hero resources, which you don't have at the start of your first fight of the day. You build them up each round so that by round 3 (combat...

DragonQuest's system could be seen as a death curve, I suppose. It used Fatigue points, which you used for things like avoiding damage until they were all gone. After that, you'd take damage directly to health. Fatigue recovered quickly, health took a long time. So running out of fatigue was a...

This. Comments that Draw Steel! is only for combat is off the mark, in my opinion. It's the non-combat mechanics of Draw Steel! that are most appealing to me. In particular: Draw Steel! provides simple but engaging crunch for NPC interactions that makes it easier for everybody at the table to...

Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing how that plays out in practice. The idea of both the villain and the players making bigger and bigger attacks as the fight goes on (instead of smaller and smaller attacks in 5E) sounds great, but I haven't tried it yet to see how it actually plays out.

I'm looking forward to trying out Draw Steel with my group and how the combat plays out is probably going to be what decides whether we stick with it or not. My group is not into having a lot of combat. The 5E assumptions about the number of fights per day is way, way more minor...

As a Canadian, I found this fun! Thanks for posting it. :)