Mastering Dungeons

Draw Steel – Resting and Downtime! (MD 264)

Episode 264 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Draw Steel – Resting and Downtime! (MD 264)

The Draw Steel RPG has a unique and deliberate approach to what it takes to rest and what you can do during your rest. Respites become a key element, bridging combat recovery with larger campaign and personal goals.

News: Hasbro KPop Demon Roleplay, Hasbro Q3 Results, Dragonlance TV Show? Sigil has 1 year, and more!

Contents
00:00 Thankful for community
03:44 Draw Steel allows roleplay?
06:38 Get players to make stuff up?
19:32 Netflix and Hasbro KPop Demon Hunting
20:48 Hasbro Q3 report
22:54 WotC Q3 results
24:07 Videogame costs
26:49 Hasbro's 45-50 shows and movies
29:34 WotC explains D&D well, actually
35:34 How big is D&D?
42:13 Are we getting a Dragonlance show?
45:15 Sigil will be no more
52:06 Daggerheart on class design
54:41 PAX Unplugged BIPOC demo days
55:37 Drakkenheart
57:07 Draw Steel recoveries and respites
57:52 Ending combat
01:03:02 Balancing adventuring days
01:06:23 Recoveries
01:08:12 Resting and victories
01:11:23 Respites and downtime
01:21:52 Project roll
01:23:34 Project events
01:28:13 Rewards and downtime
01:32:52 Shout-outs
01:37:19 What are we gonna do?

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Live from Gamehole Con - Complexity in RPGs! (MD 263)

Episode 263 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Live from Gamehole Con -  Complexity in RPGs!

We discuss complexity with our live audience!

News: Asmodee Controls Lord of the Rings, Circle Magic, Biggest Industry Surprise, New Kobold Hires, and more!

Contents
00:00 Live with pants
01:13 Gamehole games so far
03:53 Modularity of RPG for GM?
06:16 Odds of Dark Sun 5E?
09:06 What do I do this week?
10:05 Biggest surprise in the industry?
12:28 Survivability of games with financial changes?
16:22 Financial shift to premium products?
17:08 Asmodee controls Lord of the Rings
19:00 Circle Magic and New Spells
26:31 New Kobold Press hires
27:23 Your Creator Corner
29:05 Complexity in RPGs
29:46 Character complexity
40:29 RPG rule complexity
50:21 Thank you!

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Draw Steel Combat Encounters! (MD 262)

Episode 262 of Mastering Dungeons!

Main topic: Draw Steel Combat Encounters!

Teos and Shawn examine how the Draw Steel RPG handles player turns, including forced movement, damage, and dying!

News: D&D Hellfire at Target, Free Daggerheart Roll20 Quickstart, Drakkenheim for Daggeheart, Our Approach to Learn New RPGs, and more!

Contents
00:00 Gamehole Peak Prep
02:11 Remembering Rob Weiland
04:29 Our Daggerheart and Draw Steel Games
09:12 Our Process to Learn an RPG?
16:30 Hellfire Club Released
20:03 Daggerheart Quickstart on Roll20 and Demiplane
22:07 Hellfire in Target
23:09 Hasbro's SORRY Mobile Game
24:05 Licensing D&D and MtG
25:21 Drakkenheim for Daggerheart
29:43 How Much Magazine Stuff
31:05 Designers & Dragons Origins Preview
34:29 Keith Ammann on Writing About Dragons
35:22 Allies & Enemies for Shadowdark
36:18 Jerry Garcia's Cosmic Journey
36:56 Fred Armisen's 100 Sound Effects
38:46 Draw Steel Combat Encounters
39:42 Three Action Types
45:47 Tactical Details
48:09 Forced Movement
53:10 Critical Hits
59:49 Damage and Stamina
01:04:54 Daggerheart Damage Comparison
01:10:17 Shout-Outs
01:15:39 See you at Gamehole Con!

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Draw Steel Combat Basics! (MD 261)

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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