Update: The survey for feedback has now closed.
... or the RCM for Really Cool Monsters (which is what Willy told me it stands for).
Hey folks! James here to let you in on a little Patreon preview. We have the release candidate for Draw Steel: Monsters attached to the bottom of this post. This puppy is packing over 400 stat blocks of monstery and dynamic te...
2025-07-23 03:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! The whole design team is out here in Orange County, California working hard to get the core rulebooks out to everyone AND the printer. It looks like both the Heroes and Monsters books will go out next week. Everyone worked really hard to get the books out this week but there was too much work to do on the layout and our bar of quality is really high. So it looks like...
2025-07-14 23:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: The survey for feedback has now closed.
The playtest survey for The Fall of Blackbottom is here!
Hey everyone! James here to let you know that the playtest survey for The Fall of Blackbottom is linked here:
Hey folks! Remember when the June livestream got postponed? Well it's back on! Josh and Dael are going to livestream here on Patreon with you all at 7PM Eastern US time on Thursday July 3rd! They'll be looki...
2025-07-02 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: The survey for feedback has now closed.
Blackbottom has fallen. Can you escape the city before you fall with it? How many innocents will you take with you?
Blackbottom has fallen. Can you escape the city before you fall with it? How many innocents will you take with you?
Hey everyone! James here with an exciting announcement. We have expanded the F...
2025-07-01 23:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: The survey for feedback has now closed.
Get your hands on the Draw Steel: Heroes release candidate PDF now!
Hey folks! James here with a big Draw Steel update. It's time to show off the release candidate of Draw Steel: Heroes. You can think of the release candidate as the assembly cut version of a book. It's got everything you need to play ...
2025-06-24 21:31:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis feedback period for this survey has now ended.
Alrighty we've got a hot and fresh survey for the Draw Steel Summoner class for you to roll through! You can grab the survey here:
2025-06-20 17:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Folks,
This ism ostly an excuse for me to share a bunch of lore that I sometimes worry got buried on the kickstarter page, today I present Zaar.
Trenchworx still ha...
2025-06-17 22:19:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This feedback period for the summoner survey has now ended.
Greetings, heroes! Willy here. I've had to sacrifice a lot of minions to get to this point, bu...
2025-06-12 15:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The feedback period for this survey has now ended. Thank you all so much for filling out the survey!
We're ready to get your feedback on Road to Broadhurst playtest adventure for Draw Steel that was posted on the MCDM Patreon. You can grab the survey here:<...
2025-06-03 21:08:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we will not be able to have this livestream today. We will make a new post when the new date is set.
—Jerry
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Hey folks! Dael is going to be live this Thursday June 5th at 4PM Pacific time here on Patreon asking our executive producer Josh your bu...
2025-06-02 21:16:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The feedback period for this survey has now ended. Thank you all so much for filling out the survey!
Hey folks! It's James again, this time with a short post and a big update. Attached below is an updated version of Draw Steel: Heroes. You're gonna need it to playtest our next adventure, Road to Broadhurst.
Road to B...
2025-05-30 21:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we have a preview of the Summoner Iconic Character Grace has been working on.
Who is this mysterious Summoner?
Hey Folks,
We're about half was thru May so I figured you might wants a few extra goblins for your table if you find yourself diving into The Delian Tomb Playtest. We have a warrior, a sniper, and an assassi...
2025-05-17 05:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Are 1st-level heroes too complicated? This is a question I’ve been asking myself since the beginning of Draw Steel. If a hero (or game) is too complicated, it can turn off new players. If a hero doesn’t have enough complexity, they feel too similar to other player characters and don’t excite the player. In many ways, the first twelve to eighteen months of working on Draw Stee...
2025-05-13 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Dael, Djordi, Willy, and James are about to go live and take your questions about Draw Steel adventures, including The Delian Tomb. You can check out the video above! Even if you miss the livestream, the video will live in this post so you can catch up on it later.
Thank...
2025-05-08 22:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! Dael is going to be live this Thursday May 8th at 4PM Pacific time here on Patreon asking Djordi, Willy, and James your burning questions about the Delian Tomb and other Draw Steel adventures! Get ready for us to reveal a bit more of what's coming down the pike.
The stream will be hosted here on Patreon. We'll send out a post with the video right before we go ...
2025-05-05 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! I’m Paul Hughes, the lead writer behind MCDM’s new playtest beastheart class. Besides working on Draw Steel, Flee Mortals, and other projects, I’ve written a couple of bestiaries including EN Publishing’s Monstrous...
2025-05-02 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: This survey is now closed. Thank you for all your feedback!
Hey folks! James here with your Delian Tomb playtest survey, which is all about gathering feedback for the playtest version of The Delian...
2025-05-01 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: The feedback survey and playtest period for this adventure is now closed, but you can still grab the files below.
Hey folks! It's James here with a big update. The Draw Steel starter adventure, The Delian Tomb, is now ready for Patreon testing. It is attached to this post, so scroll down to grab the files.
The adventure includes the most up-to-date...
2025-04-26 02:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Folks,
We got two minis for your enjoyment this month, both came from our Kingdoms & Warfare Kickstarter back in the before-times of 2019.
2025-04-22 21:25:50 +0000 UTC
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Art Drop inbound!
Above: The Basics Splash by Andrea Corsini
Null Gravitic Charge by Thomas Dim
Null Chronokinetic by Grace Cheung
2025-04-18 19:18:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! We had a really cool meeting about our plans for Draw Steel’s Warfare rules and I thought “I should write a post about this!” But then I thought “well, we should bring everyone up to speed on our near-term goals first.”
This is an exciting new era where the core rules are in editing and layout and we’re (mostly) focused on what comes next. And there’s a lot!...
2025-04-06 18:42:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Willy here. You there. We have business to attend to.
For no other reason whatsoever, I wanted to start exploring how we could present new character options for players outside of the core Draw Steel rulebooks. This led to the creation of a set of loosely strung along materials for your review: an ancestry, a kit, ...
2025-04-01 15:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks, short post today. We’ve seen folks in the discord asking “hey what are some canonical names for the various ancestries” and since that section is already done and written, we figured; why not share it here?
I’m not sure there’s any real commentary to be made here, apart from what’s already in-line with the text. Except to say; these are just my approach to how these ...
2025-03-31 17:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello it's Willy here! How's it going, Steel Drawers?
The Delian Tomb will be a lot players' first time diving into a game of Draw Steel, and we want to make sure there are an assortment of classic monsters roaming the ruins to show them the ropes. Today, we're previewing a band of monsters from the adventure that didn't have much of a presence in the core monster book: the oozes! 2025-03-28 15:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Folks,
It's Monday, I have a fresh mini for you. This time it comes from our friend Dave over at Trenchworx, who have been hard at work building Hobgoblins, Kobolds, & Goblins Too! In the spi...
2025-03-25 01:01:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Art drop inbound!
Devil Fury above by Grace Cheung
Hakkan Berserker Fury by Polar Engine
Orc Life Conduit by Polar Engine
Level 10 Iconic Shadow by Nia Kovalevski
2025-03-21 20:07:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey, it’s James. I’ve been working hard on the Delian Tomb adventure this week and been having lots of thoughts about formatting.
There are so many considerations you have to think about when putting together an adventure:
Are we giving the Director everything they need to run this adventure?
Are we presenting the information in a convenient ...
2025-03-14 21:50:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Folks,
With the amazing amount of community support that we have received over the past few years I felt we should try and use this platform to reciprocate. I don't know if this will become a regular feature, but there are lots of great community creators making stuff, so there is certainly h...
2025-03-13 20:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post