Josh Stambaugh

If only this wasn’t during my workday. Hope it’s a blast!

Draw Steel’s combat can definitely shine at a demo or a quick session. But many of its systems aren’t easily appreciated until you’ve played through an adventure or 2 (like 5-10 sessions).

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Just saw this on the DS Reddit. Might be what you’re looking for.

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As a first time creator, my goal was 75th. I got 79th but was #32 in writing which I’m proud of. Next Jam, I’ll try and focus on mechanics.

Thanks so much to everyone who put so much time into reviewing each entry.

What a trustworthy-looking man. Again, great job.

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Adam Neely’s most recent video on Suno and AI music is so good. Highly recommend it.

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Ya that part is fair. If you don't like the battle commander aspect, it might not be fun for you. Fury is definitely pure warrior but it leans into fighting on a knife's edge pretty hard which also may not be the vibe you are looking for for a particular character. 3rd party/homebrew might an option

I thought the tactician being able to use 2 kits and take the best parts of both makes it feel like a weapon master. Or does that not feel like the right flavor?

It’s entirely possible to play DnD for years and spend no additional money and not support Hasbro after buying core rules over 10 years ago. Don’t think it’s right to tell a group like that they can’t have fun their way. Don’t play DnD and don’t pay Hasbro are not the same thing.

Now I gotta know what took up 60 slides in a PowerPoint.

I get wanting to make your own characters, but it sucks they would just ignore your request to use the pregens. Especially because the pregens are really cool and the whole tutorial doles out parts of the character a little at a time. My cousins at Christmas liked their pregens. Sorry friend.

I am now very excited to see the rest of your dwarves.

Are you stretching it outside the normal 2 turn limit? What’s it about?

My biggest need would be NPCs who appear in the encounters because that's where I use tokens the most. From my quick passover of the encounter book, that would include the following named NPCs

Violet
Gilded Hand rivals
Dame Cornelia
Brune
Saberna (optional)
Laesi
Vurkor
Oleq
Queen Bargnot

I'll use any NPC you want to draw for sure. In future games, I'll probably just pick a couple of the ones you make to be my generic "civilian" tokens.

As always, thanks for your awesome work and creativity!

Reasonable take. When I think of a combat simulator, I think more like Gloomhaven. Draw Steel still fills that DnD-style game I want to play, but with more enjoyable rules (for me): lots of combat, but still the space for and mechanics supporting narrative/fiction. But ya, not narrative-first

It makes me think of the first Solasta game arguing with the council. I can definitely see it also being useful for when you have a big city that is more democratic instead of just being able to negotiate with a central leader. Or like a city run by a merchants guild with different representatives.

Cool idea! Interesting to think they could gain interest in the negotiation but still piss off a certain NPC or faction that could cause trouble later. Or just having the party have to manage the relationship with a particular NPC they want to stay friendly with on top of normal negotiation stuff

Love your writing style. Even if you don’t get to it by the time the judges finish, would love to hear your thoughts on my ice people race (Jun-ta) if you ever have the time.

Love this. Can’t wait for more.

Can’t wait to download them all and see what design choices the people who made similar ancestries made differently.

Also interested to see if there were any design choices that appear multiple times in very different ideas.

A martial class (uses kits) and wields necromatic (or maybe rot in this setting) magic to protect themselves, debilitate others, and empower weapon strikes. Strong and protective but focused on debilitating the enemies rather than buffing allies. HR generation could be applying status effects.

After doing whatever the main objective is, ya that sounds right. I also think spreading out recoveries is really important. 20 recoveries spread evenly between 5 PCs? Keep going. 20 between 3 PCs and 2 have 0? Gotta stop and take a respite.

We were having a discussion about this on @d20play.bsky.social’s post about montages last week but limiting skills wasn’t something I remember seeing suggested. Makes a lot of sense.

Jún-Ta - Draw Steel Ancestry by Stambaaa The Jún-Ta ancestry, a people of ice, for Draw Steel.

My submission for the Ancestry Jam for Draw Steel.

The Jún-Ta are a people made of ice.

My first piece of "published" homebrew. Is it well-designed or balanced? Who cares. I had a vision and stuck to it. Super fun exercise.

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Ya so far our table hasn’t even gotten a partial success.

That and there’s probably going to be a mix of easy, medium, and hard tests.

Also, sometimes it might make sense for the base outcome of a montage to be partial success or even failure and then the higher tiers are for if the PCs roll really well. Some montages can just be “how badly does this go?”

And this is absolutely the take to have. The Draw Steel community is freakin awesome. Most likely every MCDM fundraiser will fund for the foreseeable future. Some 3rd party fundraisers failing is not a failure on the community or MCDM. That said, I really hope y’all fund. Good luck!

It’s obvious that Matt wants 3rd party stuff to do well because it’s an indicator that the Draw Steel ecosystem is healthy. Don’t understand why people are pissed of at MCDM for selling things people want.

I’ve backed a 3rd party adventure and a supplement for quest hooks with crafting. Both funded for like 1/6 the funding goal of this one and I don’t have a need for a campaign setting yet, even though I think what they’re doing is awesome. I feel like you’re placing blame on the community unfairly.