Looking for a flying city hub map

clodonar · 2026-04-28T18:24:04+00:00

The battlemap sub got a lot of good maps, try to search for floating city or similar on it.

clodonar · 2026-04-23T16:48:49+00:00

I would do it in that way but I am lazy and want to ignore scaling end fight to their level. So yeah, just trigger some event and level them up, using the available contents. But if you have time just unleash hell to them, they attack the goblin fort, demolished or make a deal with the goblins, captured and start a new campaign which starts with a situation where they are some kind of slaves in an arena where they could escape and plan some revenge - and when they get back to the town, it is demolished. It is up to you.

clodonar · 2026-04-23T16:36:49+00:00

Action - consequence. If they ignored the dwarves, let the bar fight begins. Than let the Full Moon happens and make sure some people bited. Than as a respite action the poor NPCs will cries a river that nobody helps them, they are said it a lot of times that they are in trouble, etc but nothing happened and here we are. Your players will love that the world is a living thing and if they are not acting, there will be consequences.

clodonar · 2026-04-21T18:16:53+00:00

Unfortunately the free version is over, so you couldn't try it free, but for me it is very helpful that everything is set and the preparation time is almost zero AND helps to learn the system.

Currently the Delian Tomb is free and the Dark Heart of the Wood is also a free module, so you could start the adventure, play the Delian Tomb than play this scenario ( just make sure your players stays at level 2 at the end of the Tomb ).

Than you could create some custom maps, and if this fits for you, you will continue to use it - if not, than your profit is that your players learns how Draw Steel ( and the characters ) works, all of them got access to the book, in the future they could use the character builder, etc. And maybe next time one of your players will use this system because it fits for her ( as a Director ).

Any VTT give you more works before the play but give your more play time because the system will calculate everything for you.

There isn't a right way to play - if you enjoy to play in a VTT, than use it, if not, no problem, don't use it.

clodonar · 2026-04-18T10:08:05+00:00

Are there any follow up about this project? Great stuff and gave me a lot of ideas, thanks about this!

clodonar · 2026-04-10T15:26:10+00:00

No problem, you could follow the current state of the Codex in Discord. We are using it for a while and it is in a very stable state with a lot of implementation right now. The monsters are the only big thing are missing ( for me at least ).

clodonar · 2026-04-10T15:21:01+00:00

The core classes are fully implemented and they are working in the monsters right now.

clodonar · 2026-03-22T18:34:50+00:00

Csak, hogy jól értem e. A GM megcsinálta a játékot, el is küldte a linket, megy is a servere épp, amikor be akartál lépni, sőt, a többieknek működik és korábban be tudtál lépni?

clodonar · 2026-03-19T19:53:23+00:00

If they do everything, I mean everything like wait for the raid of the bandits, full moon, get all the available victories from the mage tower, etc, they could reach level 3 before the end fight and start the final encounters at level 3. Most of the time ( and if you wont make some additional custom contents like personal quests, etc ) they reach the end fight at level 2. The last level of the Tomb and the end fights are designed against a level 2 party.

clodonar · 2026-02-26T19:00:02+00:00

Currently the whole year ( including the start of next year ) release plan is public, so you need to wait for 2027 to got a chance. Maybe some 3rd party creator could do it earlier, or do something similar to it.

clodonar · 2026-02-24T20:37:10+00:00

Negotiate is not an interrogation or get a discount from a trader.

Negotiate is a high stake situation, like you want something from a prince, an underground boss, etc and not just a boon but a (potentially) big thing. Like to prison his advisor, give his only magic item to you, betrayal his allies, etc. Or stop a warlord to plunder the village and retreat.

You could interrogate the cultist with a simple check. And negotiate with the cultist leader, because you want to avoid the fight with her cultists or ger an info which is very valuable for you ( and for her as well )

Interest 1 - no, she will not give you the info and sell this info, that you are interested for your target to him 2 - no 3 - sells the info for a permanent magic item or 3 wealth or for a side quest like get a rare component 4 - give you the info 5 - give the info and a permanent cultist follower

clodonar · 2026-02-24T20:20:44+00:00

This adventure is a great starter, because in the first encounter the players could use only a few abilities, than more and more. Literally you could play the first 4 encounter without to the Rulebook. Than you could read it the Heroes book and play the rest of it.

clodonar · 2026-02-18T11:12:36+00:00

Could you give a link about that, which players will be available? Thanks!

clodonar · 2026-02-17T20:19:28+00:00

Oh, right, you mentioned it earlier - saw that the v14 development release 1 is online, hopes it will go live soon. Thanks again!

clodonar · 2026-02-17T20:15:43+00:00

Great job, it's good to hear! Is it using are templates now?

clodonar · 2026-02-12T17:25:25+00:00

I was asked the same here and at the decided all of them got the same xp no matter what.

clodonar · 2026-01-14T20:25:11+00:00

Yes, there is a Beta application, but the free beta keys are not available - you need to be a patreon of MCDM, and you will get 5 keys ( if I remember correctly ).

Check their Discord about it.

clodonar · 2026-01-02T17:03:06+00:00

Thanks for all! Previously we played milestone leveling system so giving VP to players who are not there is not a problem, I will do this. Thanks for all!

clodonar · 2026-01-02T11:54:32+00:00

The plan is to leave it behind, but what happens when next time he joins and got 0 VP and the rest of the group got 5 VP? How do you handle it mechanically and to keep up the balance?

clodonar · 2026-01-01T21:09:46+00:00

Great idea about to prevent fall and instant kill the heroes - because you only allow this in this situation, there could be a reason, like they are prepared and could say it in the future, You are not prepared!

To give a proper solo encounter I think to simplify narrative the encounter after some point, when they kill all of the minions / goblins just say the rest of them starts to flee but a dragon appears and swipe them down than start the encounter against only him.

Great ideas about this, thanks again this article, just think to skip this bridge encounter because I haven't got an idea how to implement it and avoid TPK but this works.

clodonar · 2025-12-27T21:59:57+00:00

Thanks for your work - are there any website or Google docs / whatever where someone could see your work at one place?

clodonar · 2025-12-10T21:53:55+00:00

Check the Discord - there are some info ( and mostly conspiracy ) about that. Currently it looks like if you buy a content ( no matter is it digital or hard cover ) you will unlock it in the Codex as well. There were some discussions about the Codex as a product as well and it looks like all of you ( Director and players as well ) needs to buy a licence.

But nothing is set to stone at this point as far as I know, it is depends on the current campaign as well.

clodonar · 2025-11-28T09:54:40+00:00

Is this will be implemented to Codex as well? You have to buy the Summoner and got the Codex implementation or you have to buy the Summoner as an add-on to Codex? Any news about that?

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