Nice! I'm a sucker for campaign diaries since I find actual plays too slow to watch. I would not have thought to leave the players with such a long period of time for self-directed activity, but it seems to have worked out great! Lots of drama going on. :)

Don't worry Into the Odd already knows 😝

13th AGE did that years ago

Always cool to learn about a new TTRPG! - Great video 😊

Pretty cool concept & well explained - Thank you for the information (:

I've bought Draw Steel and DC20 on Kickstarter then I've run out of money to get the Cosmere RPG. I've been running DC20 for about 4 months now and it's been a lot of fun for us

In the past year our group has really enjoyed: 1) Mothership - I can't wait to really explore this one as it has been great so far and 2) Draw Steel - we've played five sessions so far of the recent backer pack and have really enjoyed it as well. Absolutely loving trying the alternative systems! Ty for your videos!

It’s definitely not an unsung system but I’ll give a shout out to Shadowdark for being the first thing I’m really leaping into that isn’t a WOTC product.

Its really new like 1 or 2 weeks since it was released to the public its called Utopia and the level of customazation is incredebal theres rueles for making costume spells mod vinbar with no lvl Cap or Classes with it all being built aruond perks

Looking forward to the MCDM RPG, Draw Steel!

This is by NO means a Draw Steel idea, I implemented this 4 years ago in my TTRPG system based on inspiration from M&L and many others TTRPG’s that use a no-miss Tier system. It’s normally referred to as ‘Base Damage’ for minimal tier damage along with systems that implement ‘Scathe Damage’ so that you always do some damage. Wake me up when they learn how to break away from D&D by getting rid of basic player action’s & bonus action economy system’s; they came close with the tried & true ‘resource system’ but missed the marker cause they’re still stuck in the perpetual TTRPG player action economies. They got good ideas but it’s by no means ever some game breaking original idea. Other than renaming thing’s, Draw Steel took that matchbox from other TTRPG’s, not the other way around along with all their other game mechanic’s being linked to other wonderful game system’s. I invite you to sign an NDA with me if you want to see some actual out of the TTRPG box thinking if you think this is what needs matched… x)

Inge is great, and the party looks incredible. I've found that custom art for characters really accelerates attachment, to the point that one of our players who normally likes to try a different character after 8-10 sessions kept going with their first one because of how cool the art was.

Good lighting and clarity, but the audio is pretty low. Peeking at OBS it's showing an average around -30 db. That's going to be very hard for people to hear who are on mobile. Remember too DH is designed so you can do whatever. You, as the GM, CAN still make the world and everything in it if you want to. The core design of DH though is so that you 'share the burden'. That can greatly reduce the amount of prep time the GM needs to do. Also DH is aimed at a more TTRPG new player/GM, so sharing that load not only helps speed up things to get to the actual playing of the thing, but it makes it specific to that group, as well as incorporating ideas from, hopefully, everyone, so everyone feels included in making this thing what it is. Even if you use a premade setting with modules (like there were 2 in the beta material so far) your group's playthrough will be different from someone else's due to those open ended segments. As opposed to something like a D&D game which says this is X, that is Y, and groups playing will have far fewer differences between them. We may yet see an Exandria setting with DH, but I'm betting we won't. It's their own new system, with their own new world. I think we will see a restart of a new world setting they will be playing in when they do the December live stream. They probably won't carry the characters over since they will be, I think, randomly created for the stream, but I'd put high bets that will be the world/setting they use for whatever DH campaign they start following it. Also, I'd bet a big part of not using it is to be their own thing. Exandria started in Pathfinder and then moved into D&D, so there's an association with those game systems. For that reason alone I think they will want to avoid it. (And I wouldn't be surprised if even print material differs from D&D and Pathfinder layout and 'trade dressing', like the typical parchment colored pages you see with those.)

I wasted too much time trying to prep everything, and it definitely took away from opportunities I had to run games, especially when you add in the amount of time I thought I had to take to create everyone's characters. Anything that can speed up the process is always better if it results in actual *play* time. And this book looks great. Wish I'd had one-shots when I started. Less waste = more fun. Also, your audio is fine.

5:31 Wow they absolutely killed it! That is such killer art for a devil!

Mimic!! Jk, very helpful rundown. Really nice to see people starting conversations around Draw Steel. Running the second session of it for one of my regular groups tonight and I'm really hoping to replace my 5e campaigns with Draw Steel in the future

Having spoken to your very handsome and smart DM I can confirm the dragon was part of the published adventure but I don't think any published adventure has guidance for the level 4 party shouting "over here, look at me!" at the giant CR20 beastie thats in the middle of dinner 😂

Ha! Nice choice of music 😂

Audio is very quiet

Love the video!

You need to balance your audio before uploading. Your audio is very quiet and needs its gain rebalanced after you remove background sounds. Basically, if you can't hear yourself with your volume at 5% without headphones, it needs more gain.

Years ago I got Agon from a used book store super cheap, but still haven't played it. I have played all editions of D&D, DC Heroes, Marvel Faserip, Champions, Star Wars D6, Star Trek Decipher (Colville was designer), Vampire, Werewolf, Pendragon, Prince Valiant (homebrewed for dice), Mutants Masterminds, Rifts, and others over the last 40+ years.

Turn mic gain up

Whenever I do a first session with a group of people, I get incredibly nervous and tend to over prepare. After the first one though, I tend to get used to the feeling and ease into a much more casual session prep, lowering my stress levels.

Straight up dude. I'm having to homebrew a much higher-level phandelver and below campaign because my players think way more tactically than they probably should.... I l9ve doing it, but it takes time and effort to make sure that they still have challenging encounters

That's cool! Also I think every game master struggles with some level of anxiety, mine is worst after I take a break from running. Nothing stresses me out more than coming back to a campaign after long time.

DM: You know what, it's awesome, take ten.

That’s why you gotta play systems that aren’t DnD

That’s why you gotta role play AFTER the role…

Broke my wee heart so you did 😢

Sounds a lot like everything that was great about 4E, with a simpler skill mechanic system.

Thanks for your perspective! After coming back from GenCon this year I’ve got the bug to write/design for the TTRPG industry. Between Draw Steel, Daggerheart, Cosmere RPG, DC20, 13th Age 2e, and more there’s so many opportunities to write content!

Happily at GenCon they got to experience some issues others mentioned in videos and fixed some with a new Play Test kit. But I think the best thing people missed out on with 4e was class synergy that is brought into Draw Steel.

Luckily they already made some updates to the Play Test kit to streamline monsters and Directors management of resources easier which they experienced some of your issues at GenCon themselves.

This has been the biggest contention for the game. Apparently a hero is supposed to spend 6 seconds attacking a goblin and somehow do nothing if you roll too low? There is nothing realistic or even heroic about that.

Blame 5e the firbolg would have looked more like the giants from GoT prior to 5e.

Thank you!

As a GM who wants to run the game someday, I really appreciate your thoughts.

Fair play for taking it on yourself to spread the good word. You're doing the lords work. Im starting to get a bit hyped for this game!

Cope.

Working on making my own system and I wanted to implement this rule but couldn't make it work

I was literally just thinking about Eberron as a setting in Draw Steel last night lol I think the theming of the setting match really well with the crafting and heroic aspects of the system.

would love it if you shared it, maybe when they release it to backers as well?

That's a no from me chief, sometime things don't go to plan and your attack should be able to miss and thats okay. However dnd really do need to sort out how often you miss because its just tedious sometimes

Fantastic

omg that painting on the wall is so cool!

Thanks for sharing your perspective, it matched my own experience. I forgot VP for the first round and by round 2 I only had a couple of demons left. I'm looking forward to my next session.

Ass-imar, which translates to "white Savior"

Nice spreadsheet, feel like sharing?

Lovely spreadsheet, Sam!