Draw Steel General Thread

[Zetesofos]

I might take a look at draw steel at some point again using these tools. Whst would be the best one?

For me Its not just the minimal colours clocks of text, it just is also the lack of modern layouting tools like boxes, highlighting etc.

It feels like this was just a word document made to PDF mostly.

The three best online resources right now are:

• The Steel Compendium (Comprehensive digital rules reference document, available for free)
• Forge Steel (Premier Character Builder)
• Stawl (Character and Encounter Builder, but also has the most comprehensive index of all 3rd party supplements created by the community)

 

[Zetesofos]

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That might be the old legacy one. Current version is here:

(I'll also mention that Steel Compendium has ADDED the color coding developed by the community, so it may in fact be better navigation than the actual book for some people. )

Home - Steel Compendium: Draw Steel Rules

steelcompendium.io

 

[Thomas Shey]

(I'll also mention that Steel Compendium has ADDED the color coding developed by the community, so it may in fact be better navigation than the actual book for some people. )

This is a thing that can happen. The online version of Eclipse Phase is usually easier for me to find my way around in than the PDF is.

 

[Reynard]

We had another session of Delian Tomb using the Codex tonight. It is a little frustrating to try and learn both the rules and a new UI at the same time, but we are getting there.

I did reference the physical Heroes rulebook a lot during play and I think the issues with layout are overblown -- at east as they relate to class layout. It COULD use a little color or other design flourishes, but the abilities are actually pretty well laid out in practice. I am less impressed with the glossary at the beginning, that usually just sends you to another section of the book. One thing D&D 2024 did well is the rules glossary and I wish this one was more like that.

Overall I am excited to get the chance to play an extended adventure over a couple days with friends in person. I don't know if the game has legs, but it has my interest at least.

 

[zakael19]

The Ability / class section is definitely the better part of the rulebook. The rules portion where it's big blocks of text is where I struggle!

How is the Codex? Did your entire group pony up for it?

 

[Reynard]

The Ability / class section is definitely the better part of the rulebook. The rules portion where it's big blocks of text is where I struggle!

The text is smaller than necessary but at least in the Heroes book, I am not actively angry about the layout. I have not really looked at Monstrs tho.

How is the Codex? Did your entire group pony up for it?

A couple of us kicked in to buy for everyone just so we could be sure to give it a go. Codex seems to work pretty well (we had weird connection issues tonight) but learning the UI eats up time we could be playing. In retrospect I might have suggested a simple VTT for map movement but everything else with a paper character sheet.