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March 2025 Patreon Q&A Livestream

Hey folks! James here to let you know that we are live with our Patreon Q&A about the summoner, beastheart, and upcoming Draw Steel starter adventures. Dael reviewed your questions in the 2025-03-06 23:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Q&A Stream on 3/6

Hey folks! Dael is going to be live this Thursday March 6th at 4PM Pacific time here on Patreon asking Willy and James your burning questions about the upcoming Draw Steel adventures and classes! We got two of each in the works right now. Our adventures are The Delian Tomb ...

The Issaquah Accords

In February 2025 a diplomatic conference took place in the city of Issaquah, WA between members of MCDM and the DMHub teams. On a plateau on the Pacific Northwest a plan was formulated for the future of ...

February 2025 Art Post

Lars here with a new art drop for Draw Steel!

First we have the Troubadour Auteur subclass as a Memonek

Animal Handling from the skills section
2025-02-21 21:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Glass

Some fiction for Draw Steel wherein we meet the iconic Talent, Glass.

“Shadow Two is here to see you, sir.”

Rhamose held up his left hand, index finger pointing up, while his right hand glided across the vellum. He wrote the popular, simplified script in something like calligraphy...

MCDM Mini Monday 009

We're going to change things up a bit next month and start doing two minis around the middle of the month in a single post, but for this month we have Telcezalco XVIII this week and next week we are goi...

Summoning the Summoner

Hey folks! The Summoner has already been tested internally a couple of times and been through a few revisions so we figured it was a good time to debrief you folks on how we got here, and where we're going with the Summoner.

We started with...a meeting! Kickoff meeting! Any time things go b...

The Draw Steel Director's Screen

Hey folks! James here! I'm getting ready to work on the Draw Steel Director's Screen (the thing that a Director uses to hide their notes from players). I was thinking about what should go on the back of it and then I realized that there's a whole bunch of you folks here who have pla...

Dragon Fiction

Hey folks! Matt here with some Dragon Fiction Willie asked me for. This is intended to appear at the beginning of the Dragons section of the Monsters book.

That's how this works, by the way. When someone at MCDM asks me to write some fiction on a topic, I write something inspired&n...

Draw Steel February 2025 Patreon Q&A

Hey folks! Dael, Willy, and James are about to go live and take your questions about wrapping up the Draw Steel core rulebooks and the upcoming summoner class. You can check out the v...

Patreon Q&A Februrary 2025

Hey folks! Dael is going to be live this Thursday February 6th at 4PM Pacific time here on Patreon asking Willy and James your burning questions about wrapping up the Draw Steel core rulebooks and the upcoming summoner class, which we've been working on!

The stream will be hosted h...

Finishing Up Core Rules and What's Next

This week has been full of meetings at MCDM, but they’re the good kind. Right now we’re in this magical period that happens every two years or so here. A lot of the staff, including the design team, is starting to work part time on a project that was all of their time previously—in this cas...

MCDM Mini Monday - 3d Print Edition

Hey Folks,

I forgot to hit publish last night, so this week Mini Monday is on a Tuesday. I think we might end up moving to a monthly drop of two minis because posting consistently on schedule has thus far proven illusive, however, we want to deliver multiple minis each month.

2025-01-28 21:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post

The Story So Far

In the beginning there was funky dice … then, lo, came two dice each of six sides … then the designers said, “Nay! Let it be two dice with sides of ten!” These seismic changes are but a fraction of the story of Draw Steel.

It’s James. Over the last few months, we’ve got...

Last Week: Adventure!

So what’s next? Now that we’ve wrapped up what is likely the final playtest packet for the Draw Steel core rules, you might be wondering just that—especially when it comes to the MCDM Patreon. Well, we were wondering that too! Then the design team spent a week together in the ...

Mini Monday 007 - Feathers the Owlbear

It's the second Monday of January, so we have a fresh mini to download.

To kick of 2025, we have Feathers the Owlbear. Feathers appears in the MCDM Beastheart, a player class for Dungeons...

Vote on Draw Steel Adventure Pitches

Do you want to go on an adventure?

Hey folks! It's James here. The design, production, and operations teams are here in the office this week. Since we're getting close to finishing the core design of Draw Steel and moving the game into edit and layout, we've been talking a lot...

Elementalist Art Previews

Hey folks! We're still out of the office. We will have some cool stuff coming next week when we're back! But in the meantime, how about a little bit more art. That's the fire elementalist at the top of this post. Want to see some more?

Behold the power of the earth elementalist!

2025-01-03 17:50:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Packet 4 Surveys and Art Preview

Update: The surveys for this playtest packet are now closed, but you can still get the packet!

Hey folks! The surveys for the Draw Steel Patreon Packet 4 are live! These are the same surveys t...

Mini? Monday

As 2024 draws to a close we present Relg, Descender, The Lord In Corpulect. Referring to Relg as a "mini" hardly makes sense, yet here we are.

2024-12-23 18:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Draw Steel: Packet 4 (Pretty Much the Whole Game)

UPDATE: The surveys for this playtest packet is now closed, but you can still get the packet attached to this post.

Alright folks, here you go. 

Attached to this post are the files for Draw Steel. You’re the patrons, so this is the entire game. He...