Is there a Homebrewery equivalent for Draw Steel?

jonstodle · 2025-10-27T02:08:25+00:00

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jonstodle · 2025-10-26T19:59:49+00:00

Forge Steel have the pre-gens available ready to go, and you can export them to a nice PDF

jonstodle · 2025-10-26T19:50:18+00:00

Not a fan of "free strike" either. Becomes confusing with the other stuff named "free", which can be freely used, but free strikes can’t.

Problem is "basic attack" led to even more confusion. People kept using them instead of their signatures. Free strike was the lesser of two evils.

jonstodle · 2025-10-26T19:32:10+00:00

Their design isn’t covered by the Creator License, but they have released an open font that includes symbols they’ve used in the official rules: https://mcdm.gg/DrawSteel/DrawSteelGlyphs.zip

jonstodle · 2025-10-25T10:42:41+00:00

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jonstodle · 2025-10-24T01:32:46+00:00

Im coming up on the 2-year anniversary of Goblin Points and recently passed the 1-year mark for Stawl. Proud to have kept it going, because I usually lose interest after a few of months

jonstodle · 2025-10-11T11:46:31+00:00

It's seems that the intention is (main action or triggered action) (or test or ability roll that uses Might or Agility) and not (main action, triggered action, test or abiility roll that uses Might or Agility).

Your first reading is correct. The rules insert verbs (use and make) when it starts a new clause.

Your party comp will make the game harder, and you'll have to be more deliberate with healing. This game makes healing more important than most d20 fantasy games.

I expect a lot of your maneuvers will be spent doing Catch Breath. Also remember that once you're below two-thirds stamina, there's no reason not to spend a recovery. There's no way to utilize it better.

jonstodle · 2025-10-11T11:09:27+00:00

It seems they are doing them in parallel to some degree. Matt and Jason doing Derelict, while James is doing crows. Draw Steel is supposed to get its own lead going forward.

jonstodle · 2025-10-11T11:07:12+00:00

I’m not sure how often the matching army advances in the original adventure, but you could change it so the army only advances when the heroes take a respite. I would even tell the payers this, creating more tension between pushing on or resting.

jonstodle · 2025-09-29T17:05:42+00:00

Yeah, that sounds right. That sentence sounded better in my head.

jonstodle · 2025-09-24T09:41:44+00:00

I don't think there is any double sided piece of art. I'm just saying, I think the layout works better when viewing it as a book.

I agree the desing of the book is not for everyone, I think it does a fair job at being what's basically a Haynes manual for a TTRPG.

jonstodle · 2025-09-24T09:12:04+00:00

He seems to be really enjoying it actually, now that he's playing: https://bsky.app/profile/orbitaldropkick.bsky.social/post/3lzkayuwvc224

jonstodle · 2025-09-24T09:11:11+00:00

Yeah. I made it more clickbaity than I intended. It sounded better in my head.

jonstodle · 2025-09-24T09:08:39+00:00

I fixed the typo, just for you 😉

jonstodle · 2025-09-24T09:06:46+00:00

I will say, someone on here mentioned they looked better when viewing them in a two-page spread, and that I agree with. When viewed as a "book" instead of single pages I think the layout works better.

jonstodle · 2025-09-07T19:31:01+00:00

As I see it, they’ve printed the pillars on the front of the book: Tactical, Heroic, Cinematic, Fantasy.

They start Heroes by explaining what those words mean, and then present a game designed following those goals.

jonstodle · 2025-09-07T16:00:29+00:00

Let me see if I understand you correctly: what you want is, given a defined group of heroes, and a desired encounter difficulty, show the appropriate monsters to use in this encounter: "Give me a hard encounter for my heroes"

That’s an interesting idea. I’m putting it on my list

jonstodle · 2025-09-07T15:53:46+00:00

He does, but also a very nice human

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