Episode 261 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Draw Steel Combat Basics!
Teos and Shawn examine how Draw Steel creates tactical, cinematic, and heroic play with its combat system!
News: New D&D Video Game Studio, Demogorgon Crunch, Kickstarter’s Union, and more!
Contents
00:00 Miles of Games
03:08 Designing for Someone's IP?
15:05 D&D New Video Game Studio
19:38 D&D Hiring a Game Designer
22:27 Revised Psion UA
25:23 Designing to Guarantee Effects
30:31 Kim Mohan in Hall of Fame
32:33 Acq Inc Pirate Borg!
34:20 Demogorgon Crunch
35:30 Kickstarter's Union Wants Protections
36:29 How Much Setting Stuff Is There?
41:55 Designers & Dragons Origins
43:51 Draw Steel Combat Basics
44:36 Beastheart Playtest News
45:25 Power Rolls in Draw Steel
46:44 Tiered Outcomes
49:03 Power Rolls and Gameplay
54:32 Potency
56:29 Gating Outcomes
59:02 Draw Steel and Daggerheart Similarities
01:02:00 Example Actions
01:04:12 Edges and Banes
01:08:52 Hero Tokens
01:11:39 The Map
01:20:11 Initiative, sort of
01:32:29 Shout Outs
01:36:16 What Are We Gonna Do?
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Draw Steel - Kits and Complications! (MD 260)
Episode 260 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Draw Steel Kits and Complications! (MD 260)
Teos and Shawn finish creating their characters, reviewing the cool rules for Kits, how Complications wildly spice up a game, and Perks!
News: Salvatore May Retire Drizzt, Lorwyn Digital-Only D&D Setting, Cosmere New Releases, and more!
Contents
00:00:00 War torn
00:02:36 Do elaborate mechanics create narrative?
00:21:44 Lorwyn is a Digital-Only D&D Setting
00:25:15 DDB adds Maps and Party Inventory
00:26:02 Heroes of the Borderlands tutorials
00:26:30 Stranger Things product info
00:27:44 WizKids smaller dragon Trophy
00:30:29 MtG enters Federation Space!
00:32:32 Salvatore may retire Drizzt
00:35:34 Cosmere New Releases
00:37:18 The Last Caravan - Westward Bound
00:38:11 What's My Foundation?
00:39:08 Our Draw Steal Character Creation
00:40:19 Step 6 - Kits
00:54:56 Perks
00:56:55 Step 7 - Add Free Strikes
00:59:49 Step 8 - Complications
01:12:11 Step 9 - Details
01:13:05 Step 10 - Connections
01:17:10 Thoughts on Advancement Speed
01:24:49 Shout-Outs
01:30:24 What Are We Gonna Do?
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Draw Steel Character Classes, Careers, and Cultures! (MD 259)
Episode 259 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Draw Steel Character Classes, Careers, and Cultures!
Teos and Shawn create two characters, reviewing how Draw Steel creates engagement through complex classes, careers, and create-your-own cultures!
News: Daggerheart Void Update, Diamond Selling Disputed Stock, Baldur’s Gate Jam, and more!
Contents
00:00 Pirates and Cowpokes
02:57 Should Serving Your Deity Matter?
16:51 What Would We Create?
23:40 DM Retcons Okay?
29:39 Unearthed Arcana - Arcane Subclasses
31:15 Update on Diamond Selling Disputed Stock
36:32 New D&D Educator Resources Location
38:39 DMsGuild Baldur's Gate Jam
40:19 Demiplane is Hiring
41:29 Daggerheart Playtests Adversaries and Environments
41:53 How Much D&D Stuff Is There?
47:04 Cypher Revised Final Days!
48:07 Draw Steel Character Creation
50:37 Creating Our Cultures
55:32 Career Background
01:01:20 Draw Steel Classes
01:05:17 Tactician and Troubadour Classes
01:06:49 Class Basics
01:10:04 1st Level Class Features
01:16:45 Kits and Other Class Features
01:32:49 We Really Liked This!
01:34:34 Shout-Outs
01:38:41 What Are We Gonna Do?
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Inside Heroes of the Borderlands: Justice Arman on creating D&D’s new starter set! (MD 258)
Episode 258 of Mastering Dungeons!
No News Segment this week!
Main topic: Inside Heroes of the Borderlands: Justice Arman on creating D&D’s new starter set!
Justice led the project to create a new Starter Set updating the famed module B2, The Keep on the Borderlands! Justice joins Teos and Shawn to share what it was like creating the set.
Contents
00:00 Justice Arman!
01:35 Settings with Limited Options?
10:04 Justice's Path as a Creator
14:28 Teos Likes this Set
15:56 Creating a New Starter Set
19:28 Starter Set Goals
22:08 Design Challenges
29:40 Keep on the Borderlands Revisions
35:14 Fun Innovations
42:23 Future Class Boards?
44:17 Advice on Running the Adventures
47:23 How it was Playtested
51:44 Board Game Entryway
01:02:17 Wisdom from Justice
01:04:04 Providing Feedback
01:04:57 Find Justice!
01:05:47 Shout-Outs
01:09:10 What Are We Gonna Do?
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Draw Steel Character Generation! (MD 257)
Episode 257 of Mastering Dungeons!
Main topic: Draw Steel Character Generation!
Shawn and Teos discuss character generation approaches, then plunge into Draw Steel’s first character generation steps!
News: Wizards CEO on Franchises, AI, and Video Games. Starter Set Previews, Kobold Press on Multiple RPGs, and more!
Contents
00:00 One of Us is Rested
02:32 Daggerheart Simplicity Redux
10:19 Rules-Lite Spellcasting?
19:19 John Hight on Franchises and Video Games
26:19 Hight on AI
30:38 Hight on MMOs
34:16 Starter Set Previews
39:08 Dark Sun on Tabletop Journeys
39:44 Apocalypse World Burned Over
40:45 Kobold Press Unprecedented Times?
48:04 Aetherial Expanse Drowned God
48:39 Surviving Strangehollow on GameFound
50:53 Draw Steel Character Creation
51:15 CharGen in General
01:05:31 Draw Steel General Guidance
01:09:43 Step 1, Think
01:16:15 Step 2, Ancestry
01:22:27 Shout-Outs
01:27:02 What Are We Gonna Do?
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RPG veterans and game designers Teos Abadía and Shawn Merwin look at the game and the hobby of D&D from a variety of viewpoints: reporting the news, understanding the business, reviewing the products, and illuminating the design. Whether you’re a fan, a player, a DM, or a designer, Shawn and Teos cover topics of interest to you!