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| Jennifer Kretchmer: Making TTRPGs Accessible to Everyone | Interview | 15 Nov 2025 | 01:03:50 | |
This episode I'm joined by Jennifer Kretchmer. She's worked with all the usual suspects in the TTRPG business, but the MCDM community might know her from the 10 Candles video on Matt's channel, and more recently as the accessibility consultant on Draw Steel. The work she did on Draw Steel, actually broke new ground in the field of art descriptions. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2522#links Chapters:
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| News: The Dungeon Delving TTRPG Crows, Jams of the Timescape Winners and the Summoner is Almost Ready | October Roundup | 05 Nov 2025 | 00:19:49 | |
We crowned the winners of the first ever Jams of the Timescape, James is testing the dungeon crawling TTRPG Crows, the boggits crowdfunder is doing well, there's a physical character journal, and the summoner is nearly ready. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2521#links Chapters:
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| Onslaught Six: Ratcatcher Magazine | Interview | 20 Jun 2025 | 00:58:24 | |
In this episode I speak with Onslaught Six. He's currently crowdfunding the community magazine Ratcatchers, which features articles from multiple people in the Draw Steel community. We do talk about the magazine, the permissive license they're publishing under, but we start off with the space cowboy RPG he designed, how to find the right game for the right play group, and the OSR megadungeon he recently published, Ruins of Castle Gygar. Links:
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| Possible Draw Steel Release Date, Side Quest Adventures, and more Djordice | May Roundup | 05 Jun 2025 | 00:18:08 | |
Looks like we might be drawing steel in July, we know more about the adventures MCDM plans to release in the coming months, we got details on the beastheart class, there'll be more djordice, the third party vampire class got funded, The Dice Society interviewed James. And More! Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2511#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Heart of Arcana: The Many Ways to Design an Adventure | Interview | 20 May 2025 | 01:07:01 | |
My guest this time is Paul Ligorski, also known as Heart of Arcana. Paul has written quite a few advenuters, not only for Draw Steel, but for D&D 5e, Mausritter and Cypher. He also runs a local game night multiple times a month. We talk about writing adventures for different systems, which TTRPG systems work well for teaching new players, how interacting with gods is different in Draw Steel, and how watching Draw Steel being designed has made him reimagine what can be used for inspiration. Links: Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Future Draw Steel Products, Djordice Are Shipping, and Flee Mortals on Foundry | April Roundup | 05 May 2025 | 00:13:55 | |
The Delian Tomb is being tested by patrons, the layout for the core rules is nearing completion, and an adventure to run at conventions is in the works. Also, the dice from the crowdfunder is shipping, and Flee, Mortals! and Where Evil Lives is out on Foundry. Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2509#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Ananam: The Vampire Class and Crowdfunders | Interview | 20 Apr 2025 | 00:51:52 | |
I'm joined by Ananam of Triglav Games. They are at the time of publishing this episode crowdfunding a vampire class for Draw Steel. It's an ambitious project and they've pulled out all the stops with professional art, playtesting and layout. In the interview we talk about how they're designing the vampire class, what it's like to designing classes for Draw Steel, and the decisions for the crowdfunder and what they've learned from it. Links: Recommendations
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| New Burrowing Rules, The Delian Tomb Adventure, and the Vampire Crowdfunder | March Roundup | 05 Apr 2025 | 00:15:47 | |
It's the silence before the storm. News about Draw Steel is sparse. MCDM is working on new products, but they've barely made into testing. Some more exciting news is the new third party crowdfunder that just launched, for a vampire class. And, of course, I have some highlights from the community creations. Submit questions to Ananam: https://www.patreon.com/posts/questions-for-125475621 Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2507#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Andie Margolskee: Do We Need Game Systems? | Interview | 20 Mar 2025 | 01:00:55 | |
I'm visited by Andie Margolskee, the author of the first crowdfunded adventure for Draw Steel: The Great Thaw of Gryzmithrak Spire. We talk about the adventure, sure, but with Andie having designed adventures for multiple systems, we end up talking a bunch about what different systems are good at. Links
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| Rules Changes, Codex VTT News, and the First 3rd Party Crowdfunder | February Roundup | 05 Mar 2025 | 00:19:20 | |
MCDM is working on the core rules, the monsters, new classes and the Codex, but nothing is ready to be published yet. The community is of course ever flowing with great creations. In this episode I cover the known rule changes, the new classes and the news about the Codex. Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2505#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Iron Monocle: The Serial World Creator | Interview | 20 Feb 2025 | 00:50:12 | |
In this episode I'm joined by Iron Monocle. He's a serial creator of worlds and keeps a blog about his most recent one. We talk about how game rules influence assumptions in the world, about world building as a hobby, and how players can be a fantastic source and contributors of lore and ideas in your world. Links: Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| The Launch Adventures, What Comes After Launch, and New Draw Steel Classes | January Roundup | 05 Feb 2025 | 00:17:09 | |
This is a bit of a weird one. Less than a week before the release of this episode, James basically posted what could've been the script for this episode in a post on Patreon. So in addition to news about the state of the Draw Steel core rules, and future products for Draw Steel, which was also outlined by James, I've got a bunch fantastic creations from the community. Links to everything: https://www.goblinpoints.com/2503#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Ananam: The Frog People Are Coming to Draw Steel | Interview | 20 Oct 2025 | 00:59:29 | |
Ananam of Triglav Games is back, as my first returning guest. The team at Triglav is about to finish up work on the Vampire class they crowdfunded earlier this year, and they're at this moment running their second crowdfunder called Boggits of Kingsmire. They're bringing the frogs and the swamp to Draw Steel in full force. Links:
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| The Dice Society: The Dice Goblin Episode | Interview | 20 Jan 2025 | 00:58:31 | |
Is the Draw Steel podcast universe going to implode? This episode, I have The Dice Society on! I really have to give him credit for taking so many of the questions without any preparation or warning, and I think he pulled it off really well. We had a great time talking and I hope you do as well when listening. Chapters:
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| Draw Steel Is Content Complete, and What Comes After | December Roundup | 05 Jan 2025 | 00:11:53 | |
This is a shorter episode. It's weird, because in some ways not much new happened in December, but on the other hand, the biggest thing also happened in December: Draw Steel is content complete. All the rules, systems, mechanics and monsters that are supposed to be in the final game are in. Now it's time to polish.
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| Dojikaan: The Importance of Art and Fanart | Interview | 20 Dec 2024 | 00:53:31 | |
In this episode I'm joined by Dojikaan. You might know him from the art that he posts in the MCDM community, I know him from the awesome time raider portrait he did a while back. In the episode we talk about art in the MCDM community, the importance of official art for a product, and how fanart self-sustains communities.
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| The Illrigger is on D&D Beyond, and shields are out of Draw Steel | November Roundup | 05 Dec 2024 | 00:17:17 | |
Feature changes in Draw Steel is slowing down, it's mostly tweaking and balancing from here. Codex is getting some exciting features related to elevation on battle maps. The Illrigger has arrived on D&D Beyond. Trenchworx is making more MCDM minis. And we talk about Derelict.
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| Patrick Haesler: Bringing Your Creativity To the Game | Interview | 20 Nov 2024 | 00:51:45 | |
Welcome to the one year anniversary episode! It's wild to me that it's already been a year. Seems only like yesterday I recorded the 90 second trailer, and the retrospective episode about MCDM. My guest for this episode is the composer of the new theme music, Patrick Haesler.
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| New Patreon Packet, Mini STL Files for Patrons, and a Successful Dicefunder | October Roundup | 05 Nov 2024 | 00:22:34 | |
The dicefunder was a brilliant success, Codex is getting more and more useful for running the game, Draw Steel is getting a lot of tweaks after reviewing the backer packet feedback, and a new patron packet dropped. The packet has tons of changes and updates. Let's jump in.
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| Solace: Wrath of the Iresouls, Fun Encounter Design, and Love for Negotiation Rules | Interview | 20 Oct 2024 | 00:32:23 | |
This episode I have the pleasure of having Solace on. You might know their name as one of the first people to publish homebrew for Draw Steel, once the creator license dropped. What they published was actually the first published adventure made for Draw Steel.
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| Goodbye Caster Kits, War Dogs, and Dicefunder | September Roundup | 05 Oct 2024 | 00:22:26 | |
I mentioned in last month's roundup that the flood gates of homebrew had opened with the release of the Creator License for Draw Steel. As predicted, that was only the beginning. The amount of stuff being published is almost overwhelming. There's also details about the next packet, the dicefunder and Stawl.
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| Tamwin: Testing Draw Steel, Fun Combat, and Exciting Homebrew | Interview | 20 Sep 2024 | 00:29:44 | |
This time I'm talking to Tamwin. If you've hung out in the Draw Steel channels on Discord, you've probably seen his name a lot of times. I ask him about knowing the rules seemingly by heart, reverse engineering the kit math, and his experience running tactical test scenarios.
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| Dicefunder Correction Episode | 10 Sep 2024 | 00:02:32 | |
Now, this is a bit embarrassing. It turns out I messed up and included some wrong information about the dicefunder in the most recent episode. The roundup for August.
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| News: Draw Steel Books Start Shipping, MCDM December Crowdfunder, and the Frog People Crowdfunder | September Roundup | 05 Oct 2025 | 00:20:25 | |
This episode I talk about the Draw Steel books shipping, details about the December MCDM crowdfunder and where Omund's Land went, and the Boggits crowdfunder by Triglav Games. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2519#links Chapters:
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| Backer Packet Release, Djordice Dicefunder, and the Creator License | August Roundup | 05 Sep 2024 | 00:22:45 | |
The flood gates have opened, and Draw Steel is here in full. The backer packet has dropped, along with the Creator License. More people are playing the game, and homebrew is flooding out from the community. And that's just in the last couple of days of August. But we also got word of a dicefunder, a new Timescape wiki and a few details about Codex. What a month!
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| Ashley: MCDM Takes Feedback and Tests Like No One Else, Petal Crash 2, and Lyric's Ledger | Interview Pt. 2 | 20 Aug 2024 | 00:33:31 | |
As promised in the last interview episode, this episode is the continuation of the conversation Ashley and me had. The conversation was recorded at the end of June, so we don't know about the play test packet yet, but we still had much to talk about.
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| The RPG Has A Name, New Play Test Packet, and MCDM on Alchemy | July Roundup | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:24:15 | |
What a month! MCDM launched on a new VTT, there's a new fan channel on YouTube, and the patron play test packet finally dropped, to much celebration among the patron community on Discord. But it's finally been announced, the MCDM RPG has a name!
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| Ashley: Designing a Different RPG Instead of Tweaking, and the MCDM Community Vibe | Interview Pt. 1 | 20 Jul 2024 | 00:30:05 | |
This time I have the pleasure of having community member Ashley on the podcast. I was introduced to Ashley in a playtest we did together, and in the post-play chat I found her thoughts interesting. Today I get to share some of them with you!
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| New Monster Design, Villain Power, Codex, and Playtest Details | June Roundup | 05 Jul 2024 | 00:29:26 | |
June has been a month of character content, and monster design. With the core system in place, ancestries and classes are being worked on. The team has also focused on how monsters should work, and how to make them fun and easy to run. Lastly, we've got some new details about the virtual tabletop.
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| TheNatureGM: Nature and Wilderness in Your Campaign | Interview | 20 Jun 2024 | 00:12:18 | |
In this special episode I'm trying something new. My goal has always been to make this podcast about the community for the community, and this is the first step in that direction. In this episode of Goblin Points I'm having a chat with TheNatureGM.
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| MCDM on D&D Beyond, Character Creation and Encounter Design | May Roundup | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:25:28 | |
May has been an exciting month for the MCDM community. The design team has expanded, MCDM products have launched on D&D Beyond, MCDM is going to Gen Con and the new stuff for the RPG is really interesting.
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| Monsters, Character Creation and 2d10 | April Roundup | 07 May 2024 | 00:26:36 | |
April has been a month of renewed focus. With the power roll firmly in place, more systems can be designed. Let's dive in and have a look at what's been happening in the last month over at MCDM.
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| The Power Roll, and Language & Research | March Roundup | 05 Apr 2024 | 00:20:38 | |
March has been a more interesting month than February, mostly down to the changes in the die system. Let's dive right in.
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| Negotiation, and Language & Literacy | February Roundup | 04 Mar 2024 | 00:20:17 | |
December was massive with official news, January was full of people playing the game, while February has been somewhat quiet. This is not for the lack of progress, rather the opposite.
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| Tom Bloom: Looking Over the Shoulder at D&D | Interview | 20 Sep 2025 | 00:58:01 | |
Tom Bloom is the designer of Lancer RPG, author of Kill Six Billion Demons, and self-proclaimed 4e sicko. Tom made some comments about Draw Steel on Bluesky, and I thought it would be interesting to hear his thoughts on Draw Steel, as a designer of a well-liked tactical RPG. We also talk about games not appologizing for their design, how testing makes games better, and how Draw Steel is not appealing game. Links: Chapters:
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| Post-Crowdfunding Campaign | January Roundup | 06 Feb 2024 | 00:21:30 | |
It feels longer ago, but it's barely a month since the crowdfunding campaign for the RPG closed. It ended up being MCDM's biggest crowdfunder to date. Matt mentioned that it'll probably be their biggest ever, and I'm not inclined to disagree. There's something of a "lightning in a bottle" feel about it. Nevertheless, we don't know what the future holds. You know; something something dessert. Here's what's new with the RPG for January 2024. Links to everything is available here: https://goblinpoints.com/2401-january/#links
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| Crowdfunding Campaign Galore | December Roundup | 02 Jan 2024 | 00:28:27 | |
December has been a Goxomoc of a month! The crowdfunder launched, and went completely gangbusters; and the play test packet for patrons went out before the year's end.
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| The Talent, The RPG, and the Revised Illrigger | November Roundup | 04 Dec 2023 | 00:17:22 | |
We're officially out of November, and it's time for the first monthly roundup. Links to everything is available here: https://goblinpoints.com/2311-november/#links
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| When Last We Left Our Heroes | 27 Nov 2023 | 00:11:10 | |
This time we take a trip down history street and have a look at where MCDM started.
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| Intro | 20 Nov 2023 | 00:01:29 | |
Velkommen! I'm Jon de Nor and this is Goblin Points - a podcast covering MCDM, the MCDM community, and whatever else MCDM related.
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| Core Rules Errata, More Djordice, and Vampire Pre-Orders | August Roundup | 05 Sep 2025 | 00:15:24 | |
Draw Steel has been out for a month. It's been well received and new people are picking up the game and entering the community all the time. There's also been an update to the released adventures, errata for the core rules, more Djordice are coming, 50 leveled treasure has been released, the kobold ancestry is happening, the vampire class in on pre-order, and more! Links to everything: https://GoblinPoints.com/2517#links Chapters:
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| James Introcaso: Designing Draw Steel | Interview | 20 Aug 2025 | 01:32:42 | |
James Introcaso. Lead designer of Draw Steel. Need I say more. I was really excited to have him on, and it was a delight. James talks about going to GenCon, the value of showing that the core rules aren't sacred, how the victory and respite system is core to the Draw Steel experience, and his adventure design philosophy. Links:
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| Draw Steel is Out!, The Delian Tomb is Fantastic, and 50 Leveled Weapons With Art | July Roundup | 05 Aug 2025 | 00:20:27 | |
It's here! It's finally here! Draw Steel is out! Next is the physical books. There's also the summoner and beastheart classes; the gnome, shadow elf and four more ancestries; an extended version of Fall of Blackbottom, a thorn dragon adventure, and a suicide mission adventure; and details on the Codex VTT. Then there's the crowdfunded weapons collection and kobold ancestry; and two other third-party adventures. And even that's not all! There's so much! Links: https://GoblinPoints.com/2515#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Hannah Rose: From Arcadia to Horizons | Interview | 20 Jul 2025 | 00:50:10 | |
This episode I'm joined by Hannah Rose. She's had a busy career and has worked on the Taldorei setting for Critical Role, worked on multiple Wizards of the Coast books, and maybe most famously in the MCDM community, been the managing editor for Arcadia. We talk about her new venture, the quarterly magazine Horizons, trying to maintain a viable freelance market in TTRPGs, and what ever Deathmatch Island is. Links:
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| Draw Steel Drops for Patrons, Playtest of the Summoner Class, and Crowdfunders Galore | June Roundup | 05 Jul 2025 | 00:15:10 | |
June has come and gone, and Draw Steel might be releasing in less than two weeks. But before that happens, I'll tell you about the release candidate of the rules, the updated Monsters manuscript, the summoner playtest and the fantastic community projects that are being published. Links to everything: https://GoblinPoints.com/2513#links Chapters: 00:00 Intro
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| Paul Ligorski: The Cave of Amber Tears | Interview | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:57:40 | |
Paul Ligorski is back! He's currently running a very successful crowdfunder for his next big Draw Steel adventure: The Cave of Amber Tears. We talk about the inspiration behind the new adventure and about his process for designing adventures, both for Draw Steel and other TTRPGs. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2523#links Chapters:
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| Leo Hojnowski: Keep on the Road to War | Interview | 15 Mar 2026 | 00:44:54 | |
I'm joined by Leo Hojnowski. He's currently running a crowdfunding campaign for his adventure Keep on the Road to War. It's heavily inspired by Red Hand of Doom, but Leo's "plussing" it: it's not just Red Hand of Doom, but Draw Steel — Leo's also adding to it, standing on it's shoulders to build higher. Keep on the Road to War Crowdfunder Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2608#links Chapters:
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| News: New MCDM Hire, More Crows Details, and Winners of Jams of the Timescape | February Roundup | 05 Mar 2026 | 00:27:14 | |
February was packed! We got the winners of Ancestries of the Timescape, a magical Crows update, MCDM makes a new hire, updated Crack the Sun release schedule, the vampire class from Triglav is finally out, and It's Complicated and Look Out! has funded. Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2607#links Chapters:
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| News: Crack the Sun Crowdfunder, Codex VTT For All Patrons, Third-Party Crowdfunder Record | November Roundup | 05 Dec 2025 | 00:24:24 | |
Public playtest of the beastheart, private playtest of Dark Heart of the Wood, The Fall of Blackbottom and the summoner is released, patron playtest of the Codex, and a huge crowdfunder launching soon! Draw Steel Christmas came a month early! Links to everything: https://goblinpoints.com/2524 Chapters:
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| SurfingBird: Making a Gish for Draw Steel | Interview | 25 Feb 2026 | 00:51:51 | |
Ben a.k.a. SurfingBird is on Goblin Points. He's a founder of the Draw Steel Brewery Discord server, and recently published the gish class Scion. Ben talks about how he went about designing the class, and how to make sure the class feels like a proper Draw Steel class. Links: Chapters:
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