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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 Steelstarter adventures. Dael reviewed your questions in the announcement postand may take some more from the chat while we jam.If you can't make the livestream, never fe...
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 Tomband The Fall of Blackbottom...
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 The Codex, the Virtual Table Top (VTT) for Draw Steel. My name is Djordi and I hosted the Accords...
February 2025 Art Post
Lars here with a new art drop for Draw Steel!First we have the Troubadour Auteur subclass as a MemonekAnimal Handling from the skills sectionAnd we have new War Dogs!War Dog MischieviteWar Dog SparkslingerWardog Castellan HoplonWar Dog Strategos Alkestis the Tier 4 Boss!Downtime Project item example...
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. Tiye knew this ...
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 going to have a mini from last years Hobgoblins, Kobolds, & Goblin Too!crowdfunder.Our mini this ...
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 bad at ...
The Draw Steel Director's Screen
Hey folks! James here! I'm getting ready to work on the Draw SteelDirector'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 played th...
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 inspiredby that topic, bu...
Draw Steel February 2025 Patreon Q&A
Hey folks! Dael, Willy, and James are about to go live and take your questionsabout wrapping up the Draw Steelcore rulebooks and the upcoming summoner class. You can check out the video above! Even if you miss the livestream, the video will live in this post so you can catch up on it later.Thanks fo...
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 here on Patreon....
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 case i...
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.This week we are doing so...
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 gotten a bunch of new ...
Last Week: Adventure!
So what’s next? Now that we’ve wrapped up what is likely the final playtest packet for the Draw Steelcore 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 office and now we ...
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 & Dragons 5th Edition.If you print Feathers out, drop us a line at hello@mcdmproductions.comwith a picture or...
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 Steeland moving the game into edit and layout, we've been talking a lot about future...
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!And here&#...
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 SteelPatreon Packet 4are live! These are the same surveys that are going to our Backers for their latest packet (which is just levels 1 to 3). Take them here:MonstersSurv...
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.As often is the case, if you prefer not to print Relg yourself, our friends at Trenchworxhave a few in stock.See ya next year with more minis.
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. Heroesand Monsters. You now have all the classes, ancest...
Preview: 100 Draw Steel Hero Complications
Hey there! It is I, your James Introcaso, here with another preview. This one is a biggie. It's 100 complications, the entirety of the section from Heroesfor Draw Steel. They're attached to this post!Complications are optional elements you can add to your hero that give them a benefit and a ...
MOT MONDAY!!!
This week we have the lovable Beastheartcompanion Mot!Mot is a sporeling, an original MCDM mushroom creature with an acidic cough, hallucinogenic spores, and a friendly smile.Enjoy!
Draw Steel: Art & Gods Q&A is Live
Hey folks! Jerry here to let you know that Matt, Jason & Dael are live to discuss the Art, Gods and everything else in Draw Steel!As a reminder, Matt reviewed your questions on the announcement postabout this stream. We'll also be monitoring the chat.Thanks so much for supporting MCDM!
Draw Steel: Art and Gods Q&A
Hey folks! James here to give you some stellar news. Dael is coming back to your screens this week with our own Matt Colville and Jason Hasenauer to take your burning questions about Draw Steel!The crew will be live at 4pm Pacific, this Thursday December 5th. This time around Matt is taking question...
Gods & Religion for Draw Steel
So this is a lot, let's talk about it.He
Draw Steel Art Preview
Hey everyone! Lars here with an art drop so you can see some of what the Art Team has been working on.First up we have the lower level of Ajax forces, the War Dogs!The War DogsThe War Dog Amalgamiteis a brute that attacks with its multiple arms and grabs heroes.The War Dog Commandois a stealthy mini...
MCDM Mini Monday 004
This week we are joined by Tristan Vaslor, The King Below. He originally appears in Kingdoms & Warfare.This week our art team put two different supported versions of the .stl file for easier printing, but if you prefer not to print at home, Trenchworksstill has a few of these on their shop.
Consumables Preview
Hey folks! We got a busy week of revisions here, so I am showing off another UNEDITED preview attached to this post. Since classes are getting a lot of revisions at the moment, I thought I'd show you something a little less volatile: consumables for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th echelon.As a reminder...-The...
Good King Omund
At some point we decided the Iconic Censor in Draw Steelshould be a dragon knight. Grace was drawing this character, whom I'd named Sir Vaantikalisax, and knowing the dragon knights originally served Good King Omund she asked "Hey what kind of heraldry would Omund have on his shield?"...
