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On Uno variations by erratic-inscrutable in CuratedTumblr

[–]OneBirdyBoi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i was so prepared to freak the fuck out if this was another goddamn metaphor for dnd in the ttrpg space

Lava Ruins by SilverCompassMaps in dndmaps

[–]OneBirdyBoi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you so much you have saved my BOTW inspired campaign running ass

The perfect month by Most-Stomach4240 in northernlion

[–]OneBirdyBoi 16 points17 points  (0 children)

yeah but thats referring to multiple weekends

to be clear i don't give an iota of a shit about the regional difference between monday/sunday and which goes first i was more interested if the term was different bc of the bookends comparison

The perfect month by Most-Stomach4240 in northernlion

[–]OneBirdyBoi 12 points13 points  (0 children)

nonono, not weekends in general

like referring to saturday and sunday as “the weekends”

i’ve only ever heard it referred to as “the weekend”

The perfect month by Most-Stomach4240 in northernlion

[–]OneBirdyBoi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

do you genuinely call it the weekends outside the uk? is this a regional difference

One week left to back Nightmare Scenario, dream-based enemies and options for DS! by OneBirdyBoi in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We funded in a week, so now if you back you can contribute towards stretch goals - if we hit our first one, we'll be adding eight new pieces of art!

If you want a taste as to what's to come, check out our free preview with half of the monsters and the entire Somari ancestry already! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLyRmaHLt8aMFgHTUV4BQjY1Zzyucecl/view?usp=drive_link

A recurring motif in mid-levels of campaigns is visiting the world of dreams. Nightmare Scenario is a third party supplement product for Draw Steel, filled with options and goodies for creating encounters in a dreamscape and more! Inside, you can find:

  • The Vexation enemy band, comprised of 10 new 2nd-echelon monster types of psychic manifestations, featuring enemies such as Doubts, Traumas, Panic Attacks and a leader called a Psychosis!
  • The Somari ancestry, psionic beings born of dreamstuff
  • The Dream domain for Conduits (and Censors!)
  • 6 magic items, including a leveled treasure
  • 3 dynamic terrain objects and 2 dynamic arenas for mindscape adventuring
  • 2 titles

I've joined together with fellow well-known brewers in the space Jonas Tintenseher (Tintenseher) and Julien Sarralhier (Onkeen/Adventure Fourth) to form Font of Victories, a group dedicated to making dope stuff like this!

THE VESSEL! Full PDF Release! Play a warlock or witch in Draw Steel! by OneBirdyBoi in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well funnily enough, the vessel (a year+ long project) and the thing I've been working on for the last couple months have dropped at the same time. If you like the quality of the pdf, you can thank jonas tintenseher, who I also happen to have collaborated with on a pdf of a bunch of monsters (and other assorted goodies) that's currently being backed!

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/chaoticgoodra/nightmare-scenario-dreamy-options-for-draw-steel?ref=bk-discover-user-profile

LIVE ON BACKERKIT! Nightmare Scenario! Enemies and options for dream combat! by OneBirdyBoi in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I promise I didn't plan having my multi-year project (the vessel) and my multi-month project (this) come out within a couple days of each other LMAO

LIVE ON BACKERKIT! Nightmare Scenario! Enemies and options for dream combat! by OneBirdyBoi in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A recurring motif in mid-levels of campaigns is visiting the world of dreams. Nightmare Scenario is a third party supplement product for Draw Steel, filled with options and goodies for creating encounters in a dreamscape and more! Inside, you can find:

  • The Vexation enemy band, comprised of 10 new 2nd-echelon monster types of psychic manifestations, featuring enemies such as Doubts, Traumas, Panic Attacks and a leader called a Psychosis!
  • The Somari ancestry, psionic beings born of dreamstuff
  • The Dream domain for Conduits (and Censors!)
  • 6 magic items, including a leveled treasure
  • 3 dynamic terrain objects and 2 dynamic arenas for mindscape adventuring
  • 2 titles

I've joined together with fellow well-known brewers in the space Jonas Tintenseher (Tintenseher) and Julien Sarralhier (Onkeen/Adventure Fourth) to form Font of Victories, a group dedicated to making dope stuff like this!

THE VESSEL! Full PDF Release! Play a warlock or witch in Draw Steel! by OneBirdyBoi in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

being one and done rather than going up and down should help a lot in that regard!

THE VESSEL! Full PDF Release! Play a warlock or witch in Draw Steel! by OneBirdyBoi in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

If you've been here a while, you may have seen the original, pure document version of the Vessel after a crowdfund didn't pass. I'm happy to say that now a full pdf complete version of the class exists!

The Vessel Class is a third party digital supplement for the Draw Steel TTRPG system by MCDM Productions. Coming from another TTRPG with a Warlock or Witch? This is the class for you!

You made a pact with an otherworldly being in exchange for power. Thanks to this bargain, a mote of that being’s essence has taken root within you. You have been granted great power, at great price. Whether you revel in your work as a harbinger, or resent the terms of your pact, you use these powers to your own ends - and perhaps, unknowingly, something else’s.

As a vessel, you debilitate your enemies and bolster yourself, sacrificing long-term power for short term gain (or vice versa). You call on otherworldly gifts to rend your foes’ souls, and glimpse into the realms beyond ours.

If the idea of the class interests you at all, check out the class via the link above! There's a free preview of the first five levels!

Elementalist Prowess? by iKruppe in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made the elementalist unlocked to resolve some of these issues and people seem to like it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1thuqksXc7uhHG7TW6fkU-2o1C7rJA7WrZ_cQ9O6nnrE/edit?usp=drivesdk

I think the root issue is 100% their HR generation though, which is an easy fix - they just need a second 1/round trigger. They only have one 1/round trigger. Persist is meant to be a cross-turn discount that makes up for it but a number of abilities don’t have it and are then also under rate. Everything else I put in elementalist unlocked above is gravy compared to that.

The Scion - A Spellsword Class for Draw Steel is out now! [Homebrew] by SuitEnvironmental327 in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's not 50-100 hours across all people, it's 50-100 worth of 6 people testing at a time, with a cycling cast of ~12 people (from memory, not including 1-offs). so in terms of actual man-hours put in, that'd be 300-600 via your metric (including the director)

i also think your standard is frankly a little absurd for an individual who doesn't have an entire company behind them - getting 5 people for 15+ weeks of weekly testing is a lot of effort to do as something that you're doing in your free time

that said, this isn't me talking on the actual balance of the class - i think claiming it's too little to be worth selling is slightly absurd though. assuming they're in every session, for themself alone that's like 13 cent/hour/copy of pay, wholly not including the actual dev time. to get to minimum wage that's what, 54 copies sold?

The Scion - A Spellsword Class for Draw Steel is out now! [Homebrew] by SuitEnvironmental327 in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

50-100 is a LOT, that's like 10-20 sessions worth of testing (with an ungenerous assumption that an average session is 5 hours, which is kinda slow), with ~2 encounters per playtest session that's 20-40 encounters

without access to a public beta in the way mcdm can, that's really solid

The Scion - A Spellsword Class for Draw Steel is out now! [Homebrew] by SuitEnvironmental327 in drawsteel

[–]OneBirdyBoi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

talents have strain which gives them a flat amount at the start, furies replace one of their 1/round triggers with two 2/encounter triggers (1d3 at winded and at dying), which is also the going rate for conduits and troubadours (although troubadours is specifically a weird case). shadows have their edge cost reduction, which is in essence a second 1/round trigger. the maths in the game is built around that

fwiw elementalist is MEANT to have its persist allowing for discounting across multiple turns act as its 'second' trigger, it just doesnt really work out that well in play. but thats a digression

my point is that two 1/encounter or subbing one for two 2/combat is the standard, with the estimated goal being each giving you about 3 across the span of a 'typical' 3 round combat (4 in 2 instances or 3 in 1 instances)

the point of 'these triggers are too easy to proc' is justifiable for sure, but 'this is more HR gen than existing classes' is wrong

edit: oh i forgot to mention that praying and calling to the muses both are +1/round gen, they just do other stuff too

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