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Codex Delian Tomb Playtest

You are going to play the Delian Tomb tonight, with up to five of your friends, in our custom VTT called The Codex! Here are your TL;DR steps to get started:

1. Make sure you are a paid subscriber to the MCDM Patreon

2. Link your Patreon account to your Discord account

3. Use the MCDM Codex Keybot bot command ...

   2025-11-28 18:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Dark Heart of the Wood Patreon Playtest

The feedback period for this playtest has now ended. You can still use the adventure below.

Hey folks! We are pleased to bring you a playtest for the first official adventure made for 2nd-level heroes in Draw Steel. Behold Dark Heart of the Wood. Here's a quick description from the adventure's interior, written by the designer, Sam Mannell!

Draw Steel VTT Q&A

Hey folks! Willy & Djordi l are going live to talk about The Codex: The Ofiicial Draw Steel VTT . The VOD will live in this post, so you can check it out if you couldn't make it live. We're excited to jam with you!

Patreon Codex Playtest Q&A

Draw Steel Codex - November Q&A

Hey, everyone! It’s Djordi giving you a heads up that Dael (¡lǝɐp ollǝH) will be live this Thursday November 13th at 4PM Pacific time here on the Patreon asking Djordi (hey that’s me!) and Denivarius (the lead at DMHub) questions about our upcoming...

Public Playtest: Beastheart for Draw Steel

ROAR! The beastheart class is in PUBLIC playtesting now for Draw Steel! That's right, ANYONE can see this post!

Many folks remember when we released Beastheart and Monstrous Companions for fifth edition. Now that class is coming to Draw Steel, and it's better ...

Three Draw Steel Encounters

When hinges creak in doorless chambers, and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls. Whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still — that is the time when we must Draw Steel!

Hey foolish mortals! Willy here. I hope your Halloween candy bags are bursting at the seams by the end of the night 🌚

Submitted for the app...

Iconic Hero Minis by Trenchworx

This month we have three Draw Steel minis for you to enjoy: Adashir, Jackson Bootblack, and Sir John of Tor. If you are looking to have these printed for you, take a look at the Trenchworx SNAP TRAY campaign over on backerkit.

Crack! The! Sun!

Hey folks! Matt Colville comin’ at ya like a beam, like a ray, like a laser!

We had our quarterly in-person week a little while ago, bringing everyone out to Orange County to work on the future of Draw Steel. The first wave of post-launch products! There’s a lot, they fall into two broad categories; player options and director options, and I think you already know about all of them? 2025-10-14 22:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Playtest: The Beastheart for Draw Steel

Unleash your primal ferocity! The beastheart class is playtesting now for Draw Steel!

You might remember a few years ago when we released Beastheart and Monstrous Companions for fifth edition. A lot of what is in that class actually helped us develop the idea for heroi...

Ancestries and Operators

The MCDM team is all together at our HQ, which means we’re here planning future Draw Steel goodness. Matt said, “Hey! Someone should update the Patrons about what we talked about today because it’s really cool.” Something (probably my childhood) compelled me to volunteer, so I, your James Introcaso, get the honor of sharing with you what we talked about during our first meeting...

Fiction: The Beastheart & The Faeries

Part One, The Beastheart

Lives lay in moments wasted. But they both knew the value of reading the situation. The lay of the land. Plunging in on perilous impulse, however noble, could mean their own lives added to the tally. They would not have used words like ‘tactics’ or ‘strategy;’ to the two of them, it was simply prudent to watch and think and plan before acting. 

September 2025 Patreon Q&A is Live!

Hey folks! Matt & Dael are going live to talk Draw Steel Lore. We took your questions in a previous post! The VOD will live in this post, so you can check it out if you couldn't make it live. We're excited to jam with you!

Draw Steel Lore Q&A

Hey folks! Matt Colville at your service. It's time for our monthly Patron Q&A with Dael Kingsmill!

This one is going to be a little different. It's just me and Dael answering your LORE questions about Orden & The Timescape. We've done one of these before, you can check out the stream here. 2025-09-02 19:36:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Draw Steel Minis by TitanCraft

Now that the core rules for Draw Steel are out in the wild and people are getting together in-person and online to play, it's a good time for more minis. This month it's something a bit different, this month we have guest minis.

A LOT of players want to create their own miniatures, but lack t...

Summoner Lore & Fiction

Hey Folks! MC here! Since you folks got the Summoner yesterday, I figured today was a good day for the lore!

This isn't final, it'll get an editing pass, and will eventually be integrated into the main doc. You can see our thinking is changing over time regarding what different summoners are called and what their organizations are. But until that future revision, this is the straight dope...

The Summoner Open Playtest Starts Here

My power is yours, and yours, mine. I summon thee!

High Summoner Willy here. Now that Draw Steel's been out for a few weeks now, we're ready to spin up an open playtest for the 10th heroic class—The Summoner...

Heroic Tests

It's time ... to climb!

Hey folks, James here! In December we'll be launching our next crowdfunding campaign for a few different products, one of which is Draw Steel: Encounters. This is a book of drop-in pieces of game play you can use with minimal prep for your Draw Steel games. It's broken up into four sections:

• Dungeon Delves: Three-roo...

  2025-08-21 16:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post

August 2025 Patreon Q&A is Live!

Hey folks! It's James! Matt, Djordi, Willy, Dael, and me are going live to talk Draw Steel. We took your questions in a previous post! The VOD will live in this post, so you can check it out if you couldn't make it live. We're excited to jam with you!

Patreon Q&A with the Draw Steel Design Team

Draw Steel is OUT! And you got Qs, and we got As. Dael is going to be live this Thursday August 14th at 4PM Pacific time here on Patreon asking Djordi, James, Matt, and Willy your questions about Draw Steel, The Delian Tomb, and Road to Broadhurst.

The stream will be hosted here on Patreon. We'll send out a post with the video right before we go live. And don't ...

Quick Updates

Hey folks! James here with some quick Draw Steel updates for you!

Updated Products

First, I wanted to let you know that The Delian Tomb and Road to Broadhurst have been updated. If you got a copy of The Delian Tomb, look for an email from us with the update sent out this afternoon. It includes a changelog.

Road to Broadhurst is av...

Draw Steel...is out!!

Here we go folks. After years of work and thousands of hours of testing and polish and dozens of people; writers, designers, illustrators, testers, editors, graphic designers working their butts off…Draw Steel is real! We cannot wait to see everything you do with this game. The characters, villains, adventures, worlds you will create. 

2025-07-31 07:14:22 +0000 UTC View Post