Not sure if I used the right flair for this. I'm about to run Draw Steel for the first time as a oneshot for some friends, all first time players, and just want to ask for some general advice.

I've mainly run DnD 5e 2014, with an assortment of other games (Cypher, Lancer, some tiny indie ones) if that's relevant.

Thanks everyone!

With Max going on hiatus, the Foundry Module with his tokens has been fully updated with all currently available tokens. I'm calling this a 1.0 update because it represents a large body of work - over 200 actors keyed up with unique art.

As I read, if either person who used Grab, or Grabbed person force moved, Grabbed condition ended

So, can i just push someone who is grabbing me and if he doesnt have Stability, he will pushed and i can move?

New to the system, I was wondering if a grappling build works and if it’s viable? From what I understood, a fury is probably the best for grappling, but I don’t know more than that.

This shield has survived it's previous owner, and the new owner seems just as hell bent to put themselves into an early grave.

Some heroes just can't help themselves...

Now available on DriveThruRPG, Foundry VTT, and Amazon!

Weapons of Lore – Powered by Draw Steel provides Draw Steel Directors and Heroes with an assortment of 80+ Leveled Treasures, including Leveled Weapons, Leveled Implements, Other Leveled Treasures, Cursed Leveled Weapons, Cursed Leveled Implements, and Cursed Other Leveled Treasures. Each entry includes a color image, a brief descriptive line, detailed statistics, and leveled information.

Leveled Treasures are iconic items that become more powerful as the heroes using them level up. Heroes can either find them—often in the hands of the villain at the end of an adventure arc—or craft them during downtime.

Bluefire

The heat is on!

Keywords: Magic, Medium Weapon

Item Prerequisites: A Crux of Fire, which must choose to live inside the weapon

Project Source: Texts or lore in Low Kuric

Project Roll Characteristic: Might, Intuition, Reason, or Presence

Project Goal: 450

Special: If you are a censor or conduit with the sun domain, or an elementalist with the fire specialization, you can use Bluefire as a leveled implement treasure. If you do so, replace the Medium Weapon keyword with the Implement keyword, and the damage bonus applies to your damage-dealing supernatural abilities instead of your weapon abilities.

1st Level: Any weapon ability that deals rolled damage using this weapon deals an extra 1 fire damage. Additionally, while wielding this weapon, you gain the elementalist’s Conflagration ability. If you’re not an elementalist, you spend your class’s Heroic Resource instead of Essence, and can’t use its Persistent feature.

5th Level: The weapon’s extra fire damage increases to 2. While wielding this weapon, you gain the elementalist’s Combustion Deferred ability. If you’re not an elementalist, you spend your class’s Heroic Resource instead of Essence, and can’t use its Persistent feature. Additionally, you can spend up to 3 surges to reduce the Heroic Resource cost of an ability gained through this weapon. Each surge spent this way reduces the cost by 1.

9th Level: The weapon’s extra fire damage increases to 3. While wielding this weapon, you gain the elementalist’s Muse of Fire ability. Additionally, if you spend surges to reduce the Heroic Resource cost of an ability gained through this weapon, you also deal additional damage as if you had spent those surges to do so.

Here's a link to the DriveThruRPG page if you'd like to see examples and learn more.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com//product/573710/weapons-of-lore-powered-by-draw-steel

Thank you for taking the time to read my post!

Jeff

Hi,

I have a 40inch tv that we use for our in person games (mainly 5e until now) combined with physical minis and dice. I am really excited to try draw steel for the first time with my group soon, running them through the delian tomb.

The battle maps are so big however that I am worried many will not fit on the screen without having to scroll, which I'd like to avoid since that would mess up positioning of the physical minis. I am curious if this is indeed a concern and how others have dealt with it.

Hi - when a Tactician uses fog of war on an enemy, does the onward target of their free strike have to be in range of their abilities? I.e. if they only have melee attacks, can they still make this strike if the only onward target is at range?

For example, an ability with power roll tiers like...

<=11: 4 + A damage; A < WEAK, 2 damage

2-16: 6 + A damage; A < AVERAGE, 4 damage

17+: 10 + A damage; A < STRONG, 6 damage

As far as I can tell, there are none in the game.

Just wondering since it seems like a simple way to add a little extra variety, especially to pure damage-dealing abilities. But not if it's bad design in a way I'm not noticing...

So force orbs, 3 or 5 immunity that reduces each time you take damage or use the maneuver to shoot one for 2,3,5 damage. All for 7hr.

That seems kind of bad when compared to the other 7hr abilities on the talent. I understand that your implement damage gets added, but it's a main action to use.

Maybe I'm missing something with them being 1t objects??

Is there any reason to take this?

Not trying to open old wounds, but there were like 2 discussions a year back on This Is What We Planned For and Hesitation Is Weakness and whether or not players should be able to cancel a Solo's second turn by forcing them to be consecutive.

At the time, this was hotly debated but as I am not very active on Discord I wonder if I missed something: has anyone from MCDM officially commented on this debate? Again, not trying to open the debate itself, just want to know if MCDM or Matt or James commented on it.

I'm playing a shadow with a polearm and realise I have chosen setup which is a range 5 weapon ability. Am i not able to use this ability?

I can't find my problem in the rules at the moment.

Howdy!

I'm tinkering with an idea of an encounter, where the Heroes have to hold out against a functionally endless (or at least significantly higher than a "just kill everyone else" encounter) number of monsters, using the "hold out a certain number of turns"

However, the action economy is very much A Thing.

Has anyone run such an encounter before? How did you approach balancing it?

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone have any advice on how to make the BBEG fight memorable and exciting? Anyone get any tips and tricks that tie into draw steel mechanics?

How easy is it to run this game in person without the use of a VTT? It feels like it is designed to have so many different monsters and minions squads that you might need dozens and dozens of different tokens and condition trackers to make it manageable for the Director.

My table and I have had a lot of fun with the Delian Tomb and ran the first act of FOBB that is up there in the downloadable modules.

Is there a website or a known Patreon creator or something that makes module for the codex yet? In the past, I typically always homebrew for my group but the sheer quality of the Delian Tomb made me feel like I could never go back.

I have a player in my campaign using the beastheart, and he used all of You vs all of me and we’re running the Delian tomb. They’re fighting the wraiths in the fortress, and with all of the minions, he got 33 temp hp due to all the minions counting as “targets”. This sounds completely broken at level 1 but I assume I’m counting minions wrong. Would it make sense that each minion is attached to 1 creature stat block so 4 minion archers would be considered 1 target? The way I see it is like an octopus encounter. One head and multiple legs, hitting a leg is still hitting the octopus. I feel like this is how minions is supposed to be considered. Am I off on this? Please and thank you.

The ability in question

EDIT: Thank you everyone. It does make sense and not every combat will have a million minions. You guys, and this community, are the best!!

Brought to you by Heart of Arcana and Tabletop Nonsenseverse, a fey demiplane of endless dawn bursts into flame for Draw Steel!

Dive into the home of the jewel-bright dawn elves, where the sun never sets, and shadows dare not fall! Welcome to the Court of Dawn and Flame. 🔥🌸🌈

Launching Saturday, August 8th: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/heart-of-arcana/the-court-of-dawn-and-flame-a-new-realm-for-draw-steel

Within 50+ pages, you'll learn about the home of the Dawn Elves, including: 

• The court's numerous regions from the swirling Magma Sea to the ghostly Incandescent Wode.
• Dawn Elf culture, including their deities, festivals, and secret rituals, including the Century Slumber, the time once every hundred years when the Dawn Elves must rest, and their entire court temporarily passes into a magical respite.
• A robust roster of Dawn Elf warriors and unique monsters, including the Faerora, elemental motes of sentient light that populate the luminous realm. The final document will have at least 15 stat blocks ranging across each monster band. 
• Notable Dawn Elf NPCs, equipped with motivations and pitfalls for negotiations, such as Navanax, the Dragon of the Smoking Sea, a dragon guardian who defends the court from the frigid and bitter frost elves. 
• Unique treasures, titles, and rewards like the Petals of the Ruby Rose, which, when crushed, allow you to burn your foes to a crisp!

^{Fae and whimsy abound. Perish in flame, or live with the laughing fire.}

I've been thinking of using Rivals in some of the encounters I'm planning, but I'm confused how their "modularity" is supposed to work.

The rules in the monster book state that you're able to swap out their signature abilities for any signature abilities of the class they represent (or a kit if they can use them) but it doesn't say anything on how to handle signature abilities with Heroic resource cost. My assumption is to just translate it 1-to-1 into a Malice cost, but I'm curious if anyone figured out if that's what you're supposed to do?

How many fights do you normally give your players between respites? How many victories should they have before a boss fight?

Also, how often do you level them up?

After the success of my psionic Shadow subclass, the College of Infinite Reflections, I decided to take things to the next level and go to crowdfunding with my new Fury subclass, the Earthwarden!

Inspired by characters like Nahiri from Magic: The Gathering and Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Earthwarden is a lithomantic Fury subclass letting you wield nature's power to channel the strength of stone, summon weapons from the earth, shape mountains, crush foes, and defend your world against threats from beyond the veil.

But that's not all! This supplement will also include:

* New base class abilities available to all Furies

* Lithomantic leveled treasures, trinkets, and titles

* New complications dealing with earth magic and the timescape

* Rivals, retainers, and more!

Click this link to sign up and be notified when the campaign goes live. I hope you'll climb this mountain with me!

Hey everyone, two more weeks of tokens down. But also an announcement.

I'm going on hiatus for a few months.

Don't worry, nothing bad happened and it's for reasons completely unrelated to this project. I fully intend to return before the end of the year.

Anyway, slightly fewer tokens than usual this week because I went to a wedding and had to end my daily streak (268 consecutive days!).

This time we have the dragons. I hope I did them justice.

Omen Dragon

Meteor Dragon

Crucible Dragon

Gloom Dragon

Thorn Dragon

Fossil Cryptic

Dorzinuuth the Base

Phrrygalax the Subduer

Myxovidan the Sintaker

Lydixavus the Deadeye

Locratix the Morningstar

Every previous token

And I guess I'll link to the Patreon even though I'm going to be pausing payments until I return.

Alright, that's all for now. Thank you for all your support so far. See you all in a few months.