
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!
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!
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Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Draw Steel Character Classes, Careers, and Cultures! (MD 259)
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
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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