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Secondary title: The power of subtle movements (you can drive players into high conspiracy over a cinnamon bun using this)

The only way this sounds remotely ok is if the flavor in the failure states are evocative of the theme of the class and what they’re attempting.

Missing feels bad and like a waste of time

Yeah, the spring were the clockwork children I believe.

I was struggling with the sizing of the text a bit until someone in the discord recommended a free pdf editor. That let me change the size ofnthe text so everything would fit

I really like the new character sheet, a bit of a shame, that there aren't class specific sheets anymore

Backer Packet #2 just released!

Subbed for the Draw Steel content. Thanks for this.

Cairn, Mausritter, Into the Odd and many others already heard of this years ago.

Another great recap 😃

Even heroes fail. The Heroic part is making the best of it and carrying on.

A lot of ppl, myself included, thought this was insane. Then I watched the video where Matt explained the reasoning. So, for those of you who don't know: it's not about "failure isn't fun," it's about "nothing happening isn't fun." You've waited 20 minutes for your turn to come around, you roll the die, it's a miss, next guy. It's not about never failing, it's about eliminating the null state. So, yes, you always hit (missing also isnt something heroes in action movies tend to do, which is the vibe they're going for, so reason #2), but you can fail to do damage and have something bad happen in return. I haven't kept up with the dev diaries, so idk what the status of this is atm, but that was the explanation I got, and honestly, it's brilliant.

I often forget to include weather, which is awful on my part because half my adventures and scenarios tend to happen outdoors. I was using the simple random d20 roll that Level Up A5E included with all the different terrain/biome types in Trials & Treasures, but fell off of that. Lately I've been interested in these hex flower weather generation systems, I think the version by Goblin's Henchman is the one that gets the most attention. Basically the hex flower minimizes unlikely results: e.g. you're not likely to have a day of clear sunshine followed by a downpour unless there's a day of overcast skies in between, but it's also not impossible. And you can remap the hex flower for results more likely for your climate, like if you have a coastal region where clear skies and downpours can be separated by hours.

Very good point! We’ve mostly been the same outside of the very slim amount of interactions where conditions bolster spells. Though in our most recent Draw Steel game one PC does have the ability to effect the weather after every respite which does interact certain skills which was pretty cool! It was extra foggy so our sneak and hide skills were impacted. The kingdom management definitely adds another layer to the campaign and it’s great idea to tie the weather into that☺️

I haven't played in a campaign that does anything with weather other than use it to set a specific scene - as you say, "it's dark and dreary out." Or else, it'll be location-specific, as in "you go north and LOOK there's snow everywhere," or "you go south and LOOK it's hot out." I have home-brewed a system for seasons and weather, but that is tied to a sort of "kingdom management" set of house rules, where weather impacts crop yields, how easy it is to travel, etc. Without the rest of the kingdom management stuff, the weather parts wouldn't have a lot of meaningful impact.

Nice! I'm a sucker for campaign diaries since I find actual plays too slow to watch. I would not have thought to leave the players with such a long period of time for self-directed activity, but it seems to have worked out great! Lots of drama going on. :)

Don't worry Into the Odd already knows 😝

13th AGE did that years ago

Always cool to learn about a new TTRPG! - Great video 😊

Pretty cool concept & well explained - Thank you for the information (:

I've bought Draw Steel and DC20 on Kickstarter then I've run out of money to get the Cosmere RPG. I've been running DC20 for about 4 months now and it's been a lot of fun for us

In the past year our group has really enjoyed: 1) Mothership - I can't wait to really explore this one as it has been great so far and 2) Draw Steel - we've played five sessions so far of the recent backer pack and have really enjoyed it as well. Absolutely loving trying the alternative systems! Ty for your videos!

It’s definitely not an unsung system but I’ll give a shout out to Shadowdark for being the first thing I’m really leaping into that isn’t a WOTC product.

Its really new like 1 or 2 weeks since it was released to the public its called Utopia and the level of customazation is incredebal theres rueles for making costume spells mod vinbar with no lvl Cap or Classes with it all being built aruond perks

Looking forward to the MCDM RPG, Draw Steel!

This is by NO means a Draw Steel idea, I implemented this 4 years ago in my TTRPG system based on inspiration from M&L and many others TTRPG’s that use a no-miss Tier system. It’s normally referred to as ‘Base Damage’ for minimal tier damage along with systems that implement ‘Scathe Damage’ so that you always do some damage. Wake me up when they learn how to break away from D&D by getting rid of basic player action’s & bonus action economy system’s; they came close with the tried & true ‘resource system’ but missed the marker cause they’re still stuck in the perpetual TTRPG player action economies. They got good ideas but it’s by no means ever some game breaking original idea. Other than renaming thing’s, Draw Steel took that matchbox from other TTRPG’s, not the other way around along with all their other game mechanic’s being linked to other wonderful game system’s. I invite you to sign an NDA with me if you want to see some actual out of the TTRPG box thinking if you think this is what needs matched… x)

Inge is great, and the party looks incredible. I've found that custom art for characters really accelerates attachment, to the point that one of our players who normally likes to try a different character after 8-10 sessions kept going with their first one because of how cool the art was.

Good lighting and clarity, but the audio is pretty low. Peeking at OBS it's showing an average around -30 db. That's going to be very hard for people to hear who are on mobile. Remember too DH is designed so you can do whatever. You, as the GM, CAN still make the world and everything in it if you want to. The core design of DH though is so that you 'share the burden'. That can greatly reduce the amount of prep time the GM needs to do. Also DH is aimed at a more TTRPG new player/GM, so sharing that load not only helps speed up things to get to the actual playing of the thing, but it makes it specific to that group, as well as incorporating ideas from, hopefully, everyone, so everyone feels included in making this thing what it is. Even if you use a premade setting with modules (like there were 2 in the beta material so far) your group's playthrough will be different from someone else's due to those open ended segments. As opposed to something like a D&D game which says this is X, that is Y, and groups playing will have far fewer differences between them. We may yet see an Exandria setting with DH, but I'm betting we won't. It's their own new system, with their own new world. I think we will see a restart of a new world setting they will be playing in when they do the December live stream. They probably won't carry the characters over since they will be, I think, randomly created for the stream, but I'd put high bets that will be the world/setting they use for whatever DH campaign they start following it. Also, I'd bet a big part of not using it is to be their own thing. Exandria started in Pathfinder and then moved into D&D, so there's an association with those game systems. For that reason alone I think they will want to avoid it. (And I wouldn't be surprised if even print material differs from D&D and Pathfinder layout and 'trade dressing', like the typical parchment colored pages you see with those.)

I wasted too much time trying to prep everything, and it definitely took away from opportunities I had to run games, especially when you add in the amount of time I thought I had to take to create everyone's characters. Anything that can speed up the process is always better if it results in actual *play* time. And this book looks great. Wish I'd had one-shots when I started. Less waste = more fun. Also, your audio is fine.

5:31 Wow they absolutely killed it! That is such killer art for a devil!

Mimic!! Jk, very helpful rundown. Really nice to see people starting conversations around Draw Steel. Running the second session of it for one of my regular groups tonight and I'm really hoping to replace my 5e campaigns with Draw Steel in the future

Having spoken to your very handsome and smart DM I can confirm the dragon was part of the published adventure but I don't think any published adventure has guidance for the level 4 party shouting "over here, look at me!" at the giant CR20 beastie thats in the middle of dinner 😂

Ha! Nice choice of music 😂

Love the video!

Years ago I got Agon from a used book store super cheap, but still haven't played it. I have played all editions of D&D, DC Heroes, Marvel Faserip, Champions, Star Wars D6, Star Trek Decipher (Colville was designer), Vampire, Werewolf, Pendragon, Prince Valiant (homebrewed for dice), Mutants Masterminds, Rifts, and others over the last 40+ years.

Whenever I do a first session with a group of people, I get incredibly nervous and tend to over prepare. After the first one though, I tend to get used to the feeling and ease into a much more casual session prep, lowering my stress levels.

Straight up dude. I'm having to homebrew a much higher-level phandelver and below campaign because my players think way more tactically than they probably should.... I l9ve doing it, but it takes time and effort to make sure that they still have challenging encounters

That's cool! Also I think every game master struggles with some level of anxiety, mine is worst after I take a break from running. Nothing stresses me out more than coming back to a campaign after long time.

DM: You know what, it's awesome, take ten.

That’s why you gotta play systems that aren’t DnD

That’s why you gotta role play AFTER the role…

Broke my wee heart so you did 😢

Sounds a lot like everything that was great about 4E, with a simpler skill mechanic system.

Thanks for your perspective! After coming back from GenCon this year I’ve got the bug to write/design for the TTRPG industry. Between Draw Steel, Daggerheart, Cosmere RPG, DC20, 13th Age 2e, and more there’s so many opportunities to write content!

Happily at GenCon they got to experience some issues others mentioned in videos and fixed some with a new Play Test kit. But I think the best thing people missed out on with 4e was class synergy that is brought into Draw Steel.

Luckily they already made some updates to the Play Test kit to streamline monsters and Directors management of resources easier which they experienced some of your issues at GenCon themselves.

This has been the biggest contention for the game. Apparently a hero is supposed to spend 6 seconds attacking a goblin and somehow do nothing if you roll too low? There is nothing realistic or even heroic about that.

Blame 5e the firbolg would have looked more like the giants from GoT prior to 5e.

Thank you!

As a GM who wants to run the game someday, I really appreciate your thoughts.