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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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!
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!
Contents00:00 Miles of Games03:08 Designing for Someone's IP?15:05 D&D New Video Game Studio19:38 D&D Hiring a Game Designer22:27 Revised Psion UA25:23 Designing to Guarantee Effects30:31 Kim Mohan in Hall of Fame32:33 Acq Inc Pirate Borg!34:20 Demogorgon Crunch35:30 Kickstarter's Union Wants Protections36:29 How Much Setting Stuff Is There?41:55 Designers & Dragons Origins43:51 Draw Steel Combat Basics44:36 Beastheart Playtest News45:25 Power Rolls in Draw Steel46:44 Tiered Outcomes49:03 Power Rolls and Gameplay54:32 Potency56:29 Gating Outcomes59:02 Draw Steel and Daggerheart Similarities01:02:00 Example Actions01:04:12 Edges and Banes01:08:52 Hero Tokens01:11:39 The Map01:20:11 Initiative, sort of01:32:29 Shout Outs01:36:16 What Are We Gonna Do?Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon.
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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!
