Draw Steel General Thread [+]

[zakael19]

Let me ask a followup to that. If I was curious, how much could I glean by buying the Heroes book only. How vital would the Monsters book be? I wouldn't expect to be GMing this as my interest is more towards lighter non-tactical games. I'm open to playing tactical games but have worn out my interest in PF2E (what I was both playing and running until the middle of last year) for various reasons.

So as a player - I assume my minimum ideal buy in is the Heroes book. That seems to be the 'official party line', but is it accurate. Is the Monster book full of interesting tidbits, or just monster manual stats and lore?

Monster book is entirely for a GM.

As a player only you don’t even really need the book tbh. There’s a full online compendium with all the options and rules, character builders, etc.

 

[CommodoreKong]

Let me ask a followup to that. If I was curious, how much could I glean by buying the Heroes book only. How vital would the Monsters book be? I wouldn't expect to be GMing this as my interest is more towards lighter non-tactical games. I'm open to playing tactical games but have worn out my interest in PF2E (what I was both playing and running until the middle of last year) for various reasons.

So as a player - I assume my minimum ideal buy in is the Heroes book. That seems to be the 'official party line', but is it accurate. Is the Monster book full of interesting tidbits, or just monster manual stats and lore?

There’s not all that much lore for the monsters in the monster book. You would be more than fine with just the Heroes book.

These websites are like AoN for PF2, the text of the rules is free to reproduce under the Draw Steel license:

Steel Compendium: Draw Steel Rules

steelcompendium.io

Home - Stawl

 

[Teemu]

I was really curious to get this on Foundry but after checking the Foundry monster sheet for the system I’m kind of hesitant to go forward with it. I didn’t see a way to look at the entire sheet in a single page format so you have to go through tabs to check features and abilities. Considering the complexity of the monsters, that seems like an enormous hassle.

 

[ffanxii4ever]

Let me ask a followup to that. If I was curious, how much could I glean by buying the Heroes book only. How vital would the Monsters book be? I wouldn't expect to be GMing this as my interest is more towards lighter non-tactical games. I'm open to playing tactical games but have worn out my interest in PF2E (what I was both playing and running until the middle of last year) for various reasons.

So as a player - I assume my minimum ideal buy in is the Heroes book. That seems to be the 'official party line', but is it accurate. Is the Monster book full of interesting tidbits, or just monster manual stats and lore?

I agree with CommodoreKong - Heroes is all a player needs, if they want a book. But Steel Compendium, Forge Steel, or other resources are also out there if you just want to take a peak.