Draw Steel News

mamba · Jul 31, 2025

Libertad said:
Draw Steel is now for sale on the MCDM online shop. The PDFs, at least. The hardcovers are still preorders.

also a much expanded Delian Tomb + Quickstart Guide as a starter adventure

Bacon Bits · Jul 31, 2025

Ruin Explorer said:
Yeah kind of mystified by they reuploaded all that with 1899 creation dates, someone must have misclicked.

I think it's Backerkit doing something strange. These are the December 2024 packets. I still have the ZIP file I downloaded then. The files were dated 1899 in that archive, too. The packet 2 files that were dated December 2024 are gone now, or else got merged into the July 2025 dated files. Like, maybe the MCDM crew did something wrong, but it seems strange that you could do what looks like has happened by accident.

Either way, you want the Draw Steel: Heroes v1.0 and Draw Steel: Monsters v1.0 downloads, and that's all.

.... This campaign has not convinced me that Backerkit is particularly well-designed.

Getting to digital downloads is just... weird. For both backer packets and now for this. I have to go to surveys for the project I backed, and then I can see a link to digital downloads? How the heck does that make any sense at all? What a stupid navigation route. And I don't care if "it makes sense if you understand what they mean by surveys". I shouldn't have to understand that. That's the programmer's problem, not mine. I should be able to access stuff directly and easily. I'm on backerkit to get stuff. Why isn't there a tab on the campaign page that just shows me all my stuff?

The earlier backer packets were similarly confusing to access. They made an update post on backerkit, but the link in the update post didn't work. You had to use the link in the email they sent, which was the same, but it had to be from there. So you had to go to backerkit and log in, then you had to go to your email and click the link, and then you could access the packets. Whatever went wrong with that they eventually fixed it, but it was still stupid navigation tricks. It may have been a problem on MCDM's part, but... I feel like backerkit shouldn't make such a thing easy to screw up.

Zaukrie · Jul 31, 2025

I downloaded an hour or more ago, and still haven't looked. I will....but my excitement isn't there for some reason.

Zetesofos · Jul 31, 2025

Zaukrie said:
I downloaded an hour or more ago, and still haven't looked. I will....but my excitement isn't there for some reason.

Its Day 1 of Gen Con, there is a LOT of TTRPG news coming out today now that I see it. That might be why.

Zaukrie · Jul 31, 2025

Zetesofos said:
Its Day 1 of Gen Con, there is a LOT of TTRPG news coming out today now that I see it. That might be why.

Na, I'm only partly paying attn to Gen Con this year. I realized I spent a lot of time and money on things I don't actually play......

Bacon Bits · Jul 31, 2025

Zaukrie said:
I downloaded an hour or more ago, and still haven't looked. I will....but my excitement isn't there for some reason.

I've realized that I don't find digital releases exciting. I won't be excited until I have the book in hand.

Zaukrie · Jul 31, 2025

Bacon Bits said:
I've realized that I don't find digital releases exciting. I won't be excited until I have the book in hand.

I 100% prefer reading physical books, but I just couldn't justify spending that level of money, given the odds I'd ever play it are less than 1%.

Staffan · Jul 31, 2025

Zaukrie said:
I downloaded an hour or more ago, and still haven't looked. I will....but my excitement isn't there for some reason.

A lot of stuff has been going on in the 1½ years since they ran the crowdfunder, both in gaming and in the rest of the world. Plus they've not been very good at hyping it lately. Personally, I've started a Savage Worlds East Texas University campaign since then, and that's probably going to take at least a year to finish, and right now I'm more hype for running other Savage Worlds stuff after that.

They did post about upcoming adventures, and maybe those will bring more hype.

Zetesofos · Jul 31, 2025

Staffan said:
A lot of stuff has been going on in the 1½ years since they ran the crowdfunder, both in gaming and in the rest of the world. Plus they've not been very good at hyping it lately. Personally, I've started a Savage Worlds East Texas University campaign since then, and that's probably going to take at least a year to finish, and right now I'm more hype for running other Savage Worlds stuff after that.

They did post about upcoming adventures, and maybe those will bring more hype.

That's fair. I think MCDM has mentioned that for folks not already following the game, they don't anticipate people dropping any current games to pick up Draw Steel - they hope it'll be the next game people take a look at AFTER their done with their current one, in 6- 12 months.