Draw Steel Cheat Sheets

[Truename]

My group is starting Delian Tomb and having a great time with Draw Steel. We all liked the tactical richness of 4e and Draw Steel does it even better.

That said, there’s a lot of rules, especially for a new group, and we didn’t find the included PDFs that great for referencing at the table. I put together the attached cheat sheets to try to cover every last rule that might come up during a session. I hope others find it as useful as we do!

 

[Elvish Lore]

Holy s**t there's a lot of rules! A 16 pg cheat-sheet?!

But also great job. My group will be using these when we start a campaign later this year.

 

[Tigris]

Holy s**t there's a lot of rules! A 16 pg cheat-sheet?!

But also great job. My group will be using these when we start a campaign later this year.

Yeah but this cheat sheet is so much better than reading the awfully laid out book. So I think this will save your players lots of time.

 

[Truename]

Holy s**t there's a lot of rules! A 16 pg cheat-sheet?!

But also great job. My group will be using these when we start a campaign later this year.

To be fair, it’s a large font and I used a lot of whitespace to avoid sections crossing page boundaries, and repetition for clarity (especially the hiding rules).

The rules also do a good job of covering edge conditions, especially considering the tactical positioning emphasis of the game, like “what happens if a climb up the giant monster?” and “what happens if I force move a rider off its horse?”

Not a DS-stan, it’s definitely a rules-heavy game, but it has an internal consistency and we’re already finding that the rules are becoming second nature, even after just 4 battles. We’re also finding that it rewards knowing your character and paying attention to what’s going on… it’s unapologetically a game that you can be better or worse at.

 

[Elvish Lore]

Yea, absolutely no shade on Draw Steel. It's just that my buddy said he was going to run it later this year and I haven't read it yet - I wasn't quite aware how rules dense it is (or how I'm perceiving it to be).