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Does anyone have an update on the VTT for Draw Steel? They were designing their own and not going to partner with existing ones the last I heard. For me to play the game with the group I want to, I'm going to need to try that out. Any word about that? Edited to add: a quick search tells me...

I think you're right. I think that Matt really enjoys some of the magic/fantasy crossover stuff from the 1970s. I get a lot of those vibes from him. There was a time when the "magic as crazy techology" thing was really big. And weird.

I remember the same comments. I sometimes give suggestions to game designers (small, very indie), and one of my favorites is "kill your darlings." I am not in a position to find the quote and article with it, but it was a good piece of design advice. Heck, it may even have been written by...

I don't know, maybe they like pain? But you make a good point: I've played with a lot of characters in our campaigns (one of the players seems to theorycraft builds only to get them killed) but I haven't ever seen a monk in play. And from looking at comments online, I can see why. We're going to...

Back in the early days on the campaign, they talked about this. Different classes had differently named resources that they acquired at different rates and by doing different things to make them unique. Now that the game is coming out, it looks like the design ended up with very similar amounts...

My question is: why would you want to play 5.5E and not use them? To me, they are the major new system that's revised, so I'm not sure why you'd even want to use the new rulebooks without it. I say this as we're just starting an update for our campaign with a different DM and using the 5.0E...

I'm interested in this as well. When this was announced, I didn't back it, but had the expectation that I'd be picking up the PDFs if people found it interesting. I'm considering this game part of the projects that are going to hit the scene in 2025 and I wonder if it's another example of too...

The issue about failure and Fear is something we saw in our test game. I generated a lot of Fear for the GM myself! To me, what we're seeing with this issue is a small number of die rolls that go poorly. Across the time from 3.0E D&D onward, I've read dozens of posts about how some players roll...

I'd say that anytime the jargon gets in the way of the important things you're talking about, it becomes a problem. And I'd say that the vast majority of threads where there's a huge (and angry) debate, it's due to mis-applied definitions. In those cases people are just talking past each other.

It's wonderful to hear the news. I am a huge fan of the game, and managed to play a session with Jonathan and Rob. Great people. And I just hope that the game doesn't get lost if the shuffle of all the big releases coming out this year. This is one project that I backed for the PDFs and the...

It seems we have reached this part of the discussion about the project. I like Matt. I like MCDM. Matt knows a million times more about running a project like this than I do. And at the same time, whoever is managing the social media/updates part of this project has done a crappy job. I've...

This has been an experience I didn't expect. I've listened to Matt for a long time, and have seen how he's run previous projects. And he brought in a bigger team for Draw Steel. I'm sort of at the point where I'm losing any concern for how this project is going to come out. And the thing is...

I think people are just excited for it. It's the current shiny. Will that last? Well, Draw Steel and other games will be out in the not-too-distant future, so let's see. I, foolishly or not, have backed a lot of stuff that will get released this year.

For what it's worth, I'm a backer but not a Patreon member, so the last update I have is from May 30th. The last backerkit I have was from back in December. If you backed, that may be helpful.

I think for the same reason I've seen games in nearly every genre for 5E: it's what people are comfortable with. Back in the 3.0 era, there was this terrible book called Foundation, which was purported to be a super hero game using the 3E rules. That's the benchmark I use for the worst RPG...

I think you very much could run horror in Daggerheart. The Stress system is right out there on the table to start things off. What I would do is start of by causing Stress to the character attempting an action any time they succeed with Fear, and to the entire group whenever they failed. And...

Oh sure, they are very different games and I think that some of the people who bounced off of DH will enjoy Draw Steel. I'm one of those who backed both games. Along with 13th Age. It will be a really interesting year for new games, and I think some of them are going to be lost in the mix. But...

It is interesting how close we are coming to launch and things are not ramping up. I think Daggerheart is taking the wind out of a lot of projects sails. I backed the project and, I suppose it will be interesting to see where it goes when it comes out.

So it looks like WotC had someone do the Marvel presentation for them, back when Marvel was having troubles and they told them the value of the company wasn't in comic books, but in the comic book character IP. And so we have D&D where there are owlbears and beholders and dragons ... and that's...

Just a quick question about this partnership. Are we talking web or app based virtual games, or something physical? I know that Vegas and Casinos on reservations that I've been to have been 21+ so I think players would be a little older than seems to be expected. And I'm going to be honest and...