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Updated Hero Book and a Playtest Adventure!
🕑 Added 2025-05-30 21:58:36 +0000 UTCThe feedback period for this survey has now ended. Thank you all so much for filling out the survey!
Hey folks! It's James again, this time with a short post and a big update. Attached below is an updated version of Draw Steel: Heroes. You're gonna need it to playtest our next adventure, Road to Broadhurst.
Road to Broadhurst Playtest
Road to Broadhurst is an introductory adventure for an experienced Draw Steel Director to run the game for three to six players of any level of experience with the game. We eventually plan to put this adventure up for free online so that anyone could run it at home, a game store, a convention, a library, a community center, or wherever else they choose. This adventure uses the pregenerated heroes from The Delian Tomb and leads into that adventure. Or you can make your own heroes using Draw Steel: Heroes and play with them!
The adventure is modular and has four different parts, so you can play it in 1, 2, 3, or 4 hours depending on how much time you have.
Here's the survey for your feedback on the adventure:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/130636484
You'll have until 8AM Eastern US time 6/16 to fill out the survey and get it back to us.
This adventure hasn't been edited yet and it was written before the hero book was fully edited, so it may have a few typos and style inconsistencies. It also hasn't been laid out. This is by no means complete. It's just in playtest form!
Draw Steel: Heroes Manuscript
The PDF of Draw Steel: Heroes attached to this post is CLOSE to locked. Most of it has been edited at this point, but there are some lore sections that still need a once over. We also want to add a glossary and index. It's likely that you'll still find some typos here or there, which is normal. We often catch a few typos, additions, revisions, cuts, and clarifications we want to make in the layout process because this book is over 241,000 words. But the words are PRETTY DANG CLOSE to done.
You'll notice the layout here is actually a little less dynamic than the last time you saw it. There are no more colors in power rolls for instance. That's because as we get the manuscript ready for layout, we strip out the fancy stuff in the Word documents we're working in so that it comes nice and clean into the InDesign project where our layout team led by Chris Hopper makes it even fancier.
If you want to make your own heroes for the adventure, a blank character sheet is also attached to this post!
Discord
If you want to find a group to playtest Road to Broadhurst or want to chat about the core rules, head on over to the MCDM Discord. Be sure to link your Patreon and Discord accounts so you can also chat about the adventure with our other Patrons.
That's it for now! Happy gaming!
-James
Comments
Victor Lopez
The fillable character sheet is so practical ! If you're still tinkering with it, I might like having all the text about the heroic resource next to it's counter, and having it as a gauge like the victories would also be nice.
Tom Flynn
You gotta put Shift on the character sheet next to Speed. This is awesome though. Super excited!
Mo Williams
Loved reading it! I'm gonna have to take notes!
Zachary Orzech
I’m going to devour this today and run it tomorrow with my group. It’ll be slap chop but should be successful.
Joe Garvey
Likewise. I believe the Stormwight's Beast Shape doesn't quite make sense. Hopefully there's not too many other things like this, and we get them flagged before the book is final-final.
MCDM Productions
I'd be disappointed if people DIDN'T notice! -M
Antonio Padilha
Super excited knowing that the game is almost done, and looking forward to running a campaign. Will there be a feedback survey for this manuscript? because I believe I've spotted a bug.
RoombaGladiator
Woo, new adventure! Can't wait to— Hey, wait a second, that's a new dwarf entry in the heroes book! Matt, you sly devil, did you think you could turn John and Embers into Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner and then just sneak it past us?
Trevor Chart
It's inside the Road to Broadhurst zip
Swords and Feelings
Am I missing it not seeing the updated Heros pdf attached?
MCDM Productions
No changelog. A lot has changed since December and it would have taken us another two weeks of work to get it out if we were logging everything. Right now it's more important to get this bad boy done. -James
Ívar Örn Bergmann
This is great. I was just starting to put together a group so this is amazing timing. Is there any sort of changelog for the Heroes manuscript so we can know what's changed at a glance?
Lindsay
Yay! How exciting! And that art is so dang cute
