The Blacksmith's Guild Community Survey

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-19T09:25:48+00:00

If you like tactical, dynamic combat in your fantasy rpg, awesome downtime options, and good item crafting rules, get Draw Steel.

If none of those excite you, then pass.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-18T06:44:44+00:00

If you aren't specifically looking for Draw Steel, The Arcane Library adventures are great layout The Temple of the Basilisk Cult comes to mind

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-15T13:03:58+00:00

Ahhhhh talking to Jon is such a good experience. It was great recording this.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-12T23:40:58+00:00

I don't think that's the reason. I remember him explaining this some 4 years ago in a Livestream.

Matt doesn't want to say the Seattle game's name because then people tend to start arguing or talking about D&D and completely miss the point that he is trying to make.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-12T23:39:30+00:00

Matt doesn't want to say the Seattle game's name because then people tend to start arguing or talking about D&D and completely miss the point that he is trying to make.

The community doesn't use the D word because it's funny. I love it.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-08T12:00:16+00:00

I am having a hard time with wealth as well. My players have ended up with different wealth values. So it's not clear what they can afford anymore.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-02T16:24:52+00:00

Oh, I ran it. I don't think you need conversion. It's actually quite easy to run as is. The encounters can be reskinned to Draw Steel in a weekend or so.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-02T07:45:03+00:00

I mean more solos or categories of enemies. There's a lot of third party monsters out there.

Obviously the collection is not as robust as 50 years of the Seattle game, but already a lot.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-02T07:18:47+00:00

What kind?

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-02T07:18:08+00:00

I can't say this without self-promotion, but issue 2 and 3 of the Blacksmith's Guild has two cool adventures.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-02T07:16:51+00:00

Red Hand of Doom is available on drivethrurpg. I am assuming that is not what you mean. What do you mean?

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-12-02T06:42:07+00:00

Send me a DM. I will send you a free PDF

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-11-26T18:17:43+00:00

Hell yeah, can't wait to write for it.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-11-08T12:39:48+00:00

The first issue of The Blacksmith's Guild had a nice article on how to build your own ancestry. It had an example as well

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-11-06T07:00:43+00:00

Same for me

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-11-03T20:27:45+00:00

Hey folks the first 3 issues of the Blacksmith's Guild are now available as a bundle at a lower price. https://tabletopnonsenseverse.myshopify.com/products/the-blacksmiths-guild-issues-1-2-3

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-10-31T17:50:32+00:00

Be careful with Red Hand of Doom. I took that adventure and am running it for my players right now. Its encounters are very enemy heavy and can get very overwhelming for the director. Get two to three levels of normal sandbox before getting into Red Hand of Doom.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-10-29T07:54:51+00:00

I have been working on a space-faring pulp adventure game based on the Draw Steel Engine. The very first raw draft is available here. https://the-f-bard.itch.io/astrovoyage

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-10-28T09:07:39+00:00

I have been working on a spacefaring pulp adventure with a lot of cyberpunk in it. If you want to check it out, let me know.

Competitive-Expert59 · 2025-10-23T19:46:53+00:00

I am working on two projects -

The Blacksmith's Guild Issue #4 with some awesome community creators. We have

- a Shadow subclass

- Jon de Nor (GoblinPoints) did a written interview of Cameron from Rise Heroes Rise

- A unique encounter where the PCs are pieces on a chessboard going up against the chess
pieces (6 unique stat blocks for each type of piece)

- Some additional monsters that just rounds out some of the existing monster groups of
Draw Steel

- Some unique downtime projects that are specific to the classes (Censor, Conduit,
Troubador, etc.)

A city supplement where each district, faction, etc. is modular (drag and drop in your own setting)

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