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March 2025 Patreon Q&A Livestream

Hey folks! James here to let you know that we are live with our Patreon Q&A about the summoner, beastheart, and upcoming Draw Steel starter adventures. Dael reviewed your questions in the announcement post and may take some more from the chat while we jam.

If you can't m...

Patreon Q&A Stream on 3/6

Hey folks! Dael is going to be live this Thursday March 6th at 4PM Pacific time here on Patreon asking Willy and James your burning questions about the upcoming Draw Steel adventures and classes! We got two of each in the works right now. Our adventures are The Delian Tomb and The Fall of Blackbottom and our classes in progress are the Summoner and the Beast...

The Issaquah Accords

In February 2025 a diplomatic conference took place in the city of Issaquah, WA between members of MCDM and the DMHub teams. On a plateau on the Pacific Northwest a plan was formulated for the future of The Codex, the Virtual Table Top (VTT) for Draw Steel. My name is Djordi and I hosted the Accords at...

February 2025 Art Post

Lars here with a new art drop for Draw Steel!

First we have the Troubadour Auteur subclass as a Memonek

Animal Handling from the skills section
 

And we have new War Dogs!

War Dog Mischiev...

Glass

Some fiction for Draw Steel wherein we meet the iconic Talent, Glass.

“Shadow Two is here to see you, sir.”

Rhamose held up his left hand, index finger pointing up, while his right hand glided across the vellum. He wrote the popular, simplified script in something like calligraphy. Tiye knew this meant it was an internal memo. He saved the symbolic script for interdepartmental m...

MCDM Mini Monday 009

We're going to change things up a bit next month and start doing two minis around the middle of the month in a single post, but for this month we have Telcezalco XVIII this week and next week we are going to have a mini from last years 2025-02-17 21:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Summoning the Summoner

Hey folks! The Summoner has already been tested internally a couple of times and been through a few revisions so we figured it was a good time to debrief you folks on how we got here, and where we're going with the Summoner.

We started with...a meeting! Kickoff meeting! Any time things go bad at MCDM it's almost always because we failed to start with a Kickoff Meeting.

We spent abou...

The Draw Steel Director's Screen

Hey folks! James here! I'm getting ready to work on the Draw Steel Director's Screen (the thing that a Director uses to hide their notes from players). I was thinking about what should go on the back of it and then I realized that there's a whole bunch of you folks here who have played the game and might have opinions about that. So we figured we'd ask! Here's a survey:

2025-02-12 18:05:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Dragon Fiction

Hey folks! Matt here with some Dragon Fiction Willie asked me for. This is intended to appear at the beginning of the Dragons section of the Monsters book.

That's how this works, by the way. When someone at MCDM asks me to write some fiction on a topic, I write something inspired by that topic, but maybe not literally featuring that topic.

So in this case you...

Draw Steel February 2025 Patreon Q&A

Hey folks! Dael, Willy, and James are about to go live and take your questions about wrapping up the Draw Steel core rulebooks and the upcoming summoner class. 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...

Patreon Q&A Februrary 2025

Hey folks! Dael is going to be live this Thursday February 6th at 4PM Pacific time here on Patreon asking Willy and James your burning questions about wrapping up the Draw Steel core rulebooks and the upcoming summoner class, which we've been working on!

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 worry! If yo...

Finishing Up Core Rules and What's Next

This week has been full of meetings at MCDM, but they’re the good kind. Right now we’re in this magical period that happens every two years or so here. A lot of the staff, including the design team, is starting to work part time on a project that was all of their time previously—in this case it’s the Draw Steel core rulebooks. That means we have the time to start up other ...

MCDM Mini Monday - 3d Print Edition

Hey Folks,

I forgot to hit publish last night, so this week Mini Monday is on a Tuesday. I think we might end up moving to a monthly drop of two minis because posting consistently on schedule has thus far proven illusive, however, we want to deliver multiple minis each month.

This week we ...

The Story So Far

In the beginning there was funky dice … then, lo, came two dice each of six sides … then the designers said, “Nay! Let it be two dice with sides of ten!” These seismic changes are but a fraction of the story of Draw Steel.

It’s James. Over the last few months, we’ve gotten a bunch of new Patrons. Welcome and thank you! We thought it might help folks old and new to bri...

Last Week: Adventure!

So what’s next? Now that we’ve wrapped up what is likely the final playtest packet for the Draw Steel core rules, you might be wondering just that—especially when it comes to the MCDM Patreon. Well, we were wondering that too! Then the design team spent a week together in the office and now we know a little more than we did … at least we think so! All this stuff is subject...

Mini Monday 007 - Feathers the Owlbear

It's the second Monday of January, so we have a fresh mini to download.

To kick of 2025, we have Feathers the Owlbear. Feathers appears in the MCDM Beastheart, a player class for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

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Vote on Draw Steel Adventure Pitches

Do you want to go on an adventure?

Hey folks! It's James here. The design, production, and operations teams are here in the office this week. Since we're getting close to finishing the core design of Draw Steel and moving the game into edit and layout, we've been talking a lot about future products for the RPG. The biggest topic of all our meetings this week is ADVENTURES. W...

Elementalist Art Previews

Hey folks! We're still out of the office. We will have some cool stuff coming next week when we're back! But in the meantime, how about a little bit more art. That's the fire elementalist at the top of this post. Want to see some more?

Behold the power of the earth elementalist!

And here's...

Packet 4 Surveys and Art Preview

Update: The surveys for this playtest packet are now closed, but you can still get the packet!

Hey folks! The surveys for the Draw Steel Patreon Packet 4 are live! These are the same surveys that are going to our Backers for their latest packet (which is just levels 1 to 3). Take them here:<...

Mini? Monday

As 2024 draws to a close we present Relg, Descender, The Lord In Corpulect. Referring to Relg as a "mini" hardly makes sense, yet here we are.

2024-12-23 18:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Draw Steel: Packet 4 (Pretty Much the Whole Game)

UPDATE: The surveys for this playtest packet is now closed, but you can still get the packet attached to this post.

Alright folks, here you go. 

Attached to this post are the files for Draw Steel. You’re the patrons, so this is the entire game. Heroes and Monsters. You now have all the classes, ancestries, all the careers, six...

Preview: 100 Draw Steel Hero Complications

Hey there! It is I, your James Introcaso, here with another preview. This one is a biggie. It's 100 complications, the entirety of the section from Heroes for Draw Steel. They're attached to this post!

Complications are optional elements you can add to your hero that give them a benefit and a drawback, but more importantly, they add drama to the campaign! Each compl...

MOT MONDAY!!!

This week we have the lovable Beastheart companion Mot!

Mot is a sporeling, an original MCDM mushroom creature with an acidic cough, hallucinogenic spores, and a friendly smile.<...

Draw Steel: Art & Gods Q&A is Live

Hey folks! Jerry here to let you know that Matt, Jason & Dael are live to discuss the Art, Gods and everything else in Draw Steel!

As a reminder, Matt reviewed your questions on the announcement post about this stream. We'll also be monitoring the chat.

Thanks so much for suppor...

Draw Steel: Art and Gods Q&A

Hey folks! James here to give you some stellar news. Dael is coming back to your screens this week with our own Matt Colville and Jason Hasenauer to take your burning questions about Draw Steel!

The crew will be live at 4pm Pacific, this Thursday December 5th. This time around Matt is taking questions about the gods, saints, heroes, and heralds of the timescape (...

Gods & Religion for Draw Steel

So this is a lot, let's talk about it.

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Draw Steel Art Preview

Hey everyone! Lars here with an art drop so you can see some of what the Art Team has been working on.

First up we have the lower level of Ajax forces, the War Dogs!

The War Dogs

The War Dog Amalgamite is a brute that attacks with its multiple arms and grabs heroes.

2024-11-26 21:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post

MCDM Mini Monday 004

This week we are joined by Tristan Vaslor, The King Below. He originally appears in Kingdoms & Warfare.

2024-11-26 00:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Consumables Preview

Hey folks! We got a busy week of revisions here, so I am showing off another UNEDITED preview attached to this post. Since classes are getting a lot of revisions at the moment, I thought I'd show you something a little less volatile: consumables for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th echelon.

As a reminder...

-There will be typos and inconsistencies in here due to lack of edit. You don't need to poi...

Good King Omund

At some point we decided the Iconic Censor in Draw Steel should be a dragon knight. Grace was drawing this character, whom I'd named Sir Vaantikalisax, and knowing the dragon knights originally served Good King Omund she asked "Hey what kind of heraldry would Omund have on his shield?"

"I have no idea!" I said, excited because now I had a good reason to come up with an answe...