Recent content by Staffan

If I were in charge of the game side of D&D, I would have started thinking about 6e back in early 2014. It probably wouldn't be much more than a folder with loose ideas though.

Don't forget Kof, who's a bit of a traditionalist and likes to put the family name first.

Preservers in the old lore were not necessarily eco-warriors (those were the druids and, to a lesser extent, clerics). Rather, they were pragmatists who see value in managing the extraction of resources (life energy). Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, as it were.

Athas started out being as green and verdant as any other setting (well, there was the Blue Age before that when it was almost entirely covered in water, but after that). Rampant defiling, particularly in the course of a series of genocidal wars, was what turned Athas into what it is today...

Gigantic (20 ft+) sentinels are a staple of X-Men and have been forever. On occasion, you get human-sized ones like the Prime Sentinels or bighuman like Nimrod (both the original one from the Days of Future Past timeline and the modern Orchis-made one from the Krakoa stuff), but "gigantic" is...

I think it comes from Chainmail wizards basically being fantasy versions of artillery.

That recommendation is in the book as well. They actually have a few recommendations: Dungeoncrawling – Shadowdark Wilderness hexcrawling – Forbidden Lands Horror – Call of Cthulhu Humor – Paranoia Dramatic villains without the tactical combat – Daggerheart

From what I understand, MCDM's freelance rates are very high for the gaming biz. Freelancers for their now-defunct magazine Arcadia were paid $0.25 per word. Comparatively, the only numbers I've been able to find for En5ider is $0.03 per word, but those are (a) described as "starting at" and (b)...

I think Introcaso is working on another RPG for MCDM called Crows, which is meant to be more "hard-bitten mercenaries doing dungeon crawls". I don't know if that's a full-time thing for him or if he's also doing Draw Steel stuff. Also, my understanding is that MCDM pays well, has good benefits...

And... done. 2.6 Megabucks ain't too shabby.

Personally, I've been running Savage Worlds in the East Texas University setting for almost a year now (I think the first session was in mid-February 2025), and co-incidentally a year in-game has almost perfectly co-incided with a year IRL. We're going to give Draw Steel a go once we're done...

That is not necessarily true. When Kalak was killed, the victors abolished slavery – because that was a condition of the group consisting of two gladiators, one enslaved preserver, and one noble psionicist who had just had a revelation about slavery being bad, for making a templar the new king...

There are a few smaller adventures that are part of the crowdfunder, and I think you can get them separately. But they're probably not hugely useful if you wouldn't be using Draw Steel for them.