Thanks for making this video. Excellent pacing. subbed.

As a huge fan of the Cosmere who has only played DnD, it is great to hear hopeful thoughts from someone who knows a lot about TTRPGs, but little about the Stormlight Archive. Also, the books are amazing, but are quite the commitment. The Stormlight Archive alone, post-Dec. 6th, when book 5 comes out, will be 2,000,000+ words, over 6,000 pages, and they will be but 5 of over thirty works.

This game is based! 😊.

Just got my book today. Nice to add it to my cypher system books

Enjoying your channel Tegan. Mork Borg, like Vermis, has some fun, unique ideas we can borrow for other ttrpg’s. Love your Stars Without Numbers videos, too. Thank you!

Thanks for covering this. A lot of other creators covering it have read all the books and are only doing spiiler reviews. Which is fine, but I'm like you and haven’t read much so a lore free review is nice!

First thing's first; loved the video and it's so nice to see positivity. I actually stopped watching videos about MCDM RPG/Draw Steel for a while because it seemed that a lot of the people making them either wanted it to be something it's not, or were maybe not discussing it in good faith. But as I say, it's so nice to see someone talk about this game in such a positive light, and to know that the experience I've had playing it is something other people have experienced too! I've followed MCDM for a good few years now and was keeping up to date with the RPG because I liked their 5e content, but I wasn't 100% convinced that I'd enjoy it. Ended up looking at the playtest and decided to run it for my siblings who are fairly new to TTRPGs. They both made characters with my help (dwarf tactician and wode elf shadow) and I made a memonek conduit to join them, mostly just to provide an extra body and some healing. Took probably 2-3 turns, but once we got the gist of it, we had a great time. We all had cool things we could do, the tactician made great use of their abilities to help us reposition and prioritise targets, the shadow was zipping around the battlefield and sniping enemies from afar, and the signature ability I chose for my conduit thinking it wouldn't be all that great ended up being a huge help against minions. We didn't quite finish Act 1, but we had an absolute blast and are looking forward to continuing. Of course there's plenty of stuff we haven't tried yet (we didn't get to negotiation so far for example) and projects & research is something that hasn't been released yet, but it was great just to have that confirmation that combat was so much fun. Because if we didn't enjoy combat, then there's no real reason to continue. But as I say, we loved it. I'll agree with your friend's feedback about being on the Director's side. I completely lost track of how VP worked and it resulted in a couple of fights being a bit too easy for the heroes. However, the backer test packet that came out like, yesterday, has already made adjustments to how VP works, and I think it'll be far easier to keep track of going forward. I really can't wait to play more, and I've already started work on moving my planned 5e game with my siblings over to DS, including most of today having been spent making DS versions of monsters from Flee, Mortals! Can't wait for the next playtest packet, and as someone who made a character who is very much research/crafting based, I'm really looking forward to seeing how that system works!

That does look like fun. I'm not steeped in Fallout lore, but this looks like a fun variation on 2d20.

The dynamic of the group felt off in this video. Seems like the idea of a preacher being in the game was looked at as negative by the rest of the group. Just felt like a very off episode. I cant put my finger on it, and I could be wrong. But it just felt like the dynamic of having a religious/spiritual person in the party was looked down upon. Don't get me wrong, that could have very well been the dynamic of the characters themselves, but this kinda felt semi personal.

I cannot wait to run this game for my players

Just picked up Old Gods Of Appalachia today. Thanks for doing this interview Tegan and Shanna. I've got a huge numenera collection as well. Next book is going to be the cypher system book.

Man, I love your structure. It is so cool to see you review before and after playing it. Id highly suggest you try City of Mist RPG if you haven't. Keep up the good work.

Somebody online said the Cosmere TTRPG is exactly what they wanted to see with 5.5, and I tend to agree, especially with the character building

Draw Steel is a pretty cool name. Way better than Daggerheart which is pretty cringe. Sounds like this has better core mechanics than 5e, but also sounds like it's keeping some of the shitty 5e stuff too.

great breakdown of the system

Real smooth process, honestly

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I was reluctant to get into this system at first because I didn't want to be disappointed. But now that it's been out a year and I've seen exciting game play, I'm in! I picked up this expansion with the core rule book recently and looking forward to running it with my group, or hopefully playing in it some day. I was also a little let down by the inability to have a PDF copy to share with my group, but will make due somehow. I am amped about this expansion and all the great content they put into it!

I love all of Tegan J Gaming's videos! Another great job!

Nice to hear good things about this one. I got in on the KS for the pledge manager, but decided against even the PDF. I've got too many to use already, and tactical/grid games aren't a favourite.

Draw Steel is looking to be my favorite of the many new tactical fantasy games coming out soon, though Daggerheart is a close second.

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I am so excited for this rpg release. I cannot wait to play as a mistborn or a radiant. Brandon’s worlds are so interesting that I would love to just be in any setting he created. I’m also intrigued to see where the game expands to in the future as White Sand and Warbreaker could both provide exciting settings and story opportunities.

this is a super solid breakdown of the system from a games perspective, as someone who is a Sanderson fan and only limited ttrpg experience (5e, VtM, Monsterhearts) I really dug your analysis of what’s going on here

Interesting variation on the 2d20 character creation process. I don't think I've seen levels in the other variations I have, Conan and John Carter.

With the schooling rank up system it could be used for an Avengers Academy style of story also.

Hey Tegan, Ive been running this game for a while now. My characters have gone super heavy on armour and defense so it's really hard to harm them. Any Ideas of how to deal with this other than throwing armies of enemies at them?

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Aabria Iyengar uses GM scenes very well, just little glimpses of events happening elsewhere. It makes it more dramatically interesting, and feels very movie-like. Of course, she also uses the "camera pulls out and scene changes" imagery to transition. And imo it doesn't break immersion at all; it seems to draw the players in even more in the right place and time.

Thank you for this Vid! I've read the book a couple times before I ran this game but this video absolutely helps remember the key things! I'm sure I'll kill it later when I'm running this now haha. (Or they players we'll see how it goes)

Unfortunatly we only played one campaign with this system, but I still love the game.

Nice review and shared experience. ❤

I ran a 3-session adventure in version 1.4 and my group loved it. One of them even says she wants to convert her D&D game to Daggerheart!

Thanks, really good to hear your perspective on where this game is at!

I've been using 1.3, then 1.4 and now 1.5 for my home Descent into Avernus campaign. Overall it's been superior to D&D imho, much better fit for my GM style.

Not a system I'll be buying, but interesting to see the different rpgs coming out as options.

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Great review I’m so glad our group getting to play it soon!

(:)KD

It's kinda jank at first, but once the party gets used to it the game gies by pretty fast. Having trouble balancing encounters, but it has been a lot of fun.

I just ran MÖRK BORG and CY_BORG and this is a great quick tutorial. I honestly forgot the defense rules in the later half of my MÖRK BORG game so this is wonderful. I hope to run these at some conventions in the future.

I'm looking forward to this. I really want to give 2d20 a try, and this'll be a good lead-in to that.

Started ADnD with 79 and even that system needed Arduin and Emperor of the Pedal Throne (and Dragon mag mods) to make it enjoyable. Other than that, only played 3.5 so I guess I’m not a huge DnD fan in the slightest and even Pathfinder is crazy daunting. I have great expectations for this one. I also backed DC20, Nimble and Knave2E which my group just played. Reminded me of original Boothill where you had a character in under 10minutes and already playing.

I have seen from interviews that some opponents can break the initiative system and go before players that choose to go fast.

I backed the kickstarter. The fact that Brandon Sanderson is a key component of the game's development sold me on it.

My friends and I are playing it and really love it so far. There are tons of opportunities for awesome rp in the world of Fallout. I actually picked up Star Trek second edition from Gen Con because I dig the 2d20 system enough to try it

yeah i think flipping a coin for the initiative thing would be good

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Thank you for your thoughts! Exciting to hear that the system interests someone who has not read stormlight yet. I'm also envious as you are about to embark on an amazing journey that is reading the Stormlight archives for the first time. I hope you enjoy!

Thanks for sharing. Did you happen to count how many characters were added?