Goblin Points
News and interviews about Draw Steel and MCDM. New episodes thrice a month. Hosted by Jon de Nor.
Episodes
62 episodes
News: Draw Steel VTT in Early Access, Crows Character Creation, and a year of Blacksmith's Guild | April Roundup
Codex is in Early Access go get it, we basically got a fourth of the Crows core rules, the beastheart is out, the magewright class was released, one year of The Blacksmith's Guild and seven announced crowdfunders.Links to everything: ...
ChaosOS: Draw Steel on FoundryVTT | Interview
I'm joined by ChaosOS. He's been working on the Draw Steel system for FoundryVTT since way back in 2024 and, with Metamorphic Studios, recently released officially licensed modules for Heroes, Monsters, The Delian Tomb and Road to Broadhurst, i...
Spyger: The Huntsman Class | Interview
I'm joined by Spyger, the designer behind the Huntsman class that's crowdfunding as this episode drops. We talk about how the class is a ranger class for Draw Steel, but how it moves away from the pet theme covered by the beastheart, and goes i...
News: Crows Details, Codex VTT Pricing Announced, Draw Steel on Foundry | March Roundup
More details about Crows, The Codex pricing has been finalized, Draw Steel has officially landed on FoundryVTT, and supplements containing space battles, beastfolk, sewer monsters, warforged, and 31 small supplements for Draw Steel.Li...
Gub: The Kiln And Other Adventures | Interview
I'm joined by Gub of Look Out Behind You Studios and Triglav Games. Gub talks about his philosophy behind adventure design, contributing to the vampire class, working on The Boggits of Kingsmire, and where the Kiln class comes from.Li...
Leo Hojnowski: Keep on the Road to War | Interview
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 al...
News: New MCDM Hire, More Crows Details, and Winners of Jams of the Timescape | February Roundup
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...
SurfingBird: Making a Gish for Draw Steel | Interview
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...
Cameron of Rise Heroes Rise!: It's Complicated! (The Crowdfunder) | Interview
It's finally happened! Cameron of Rise Heroes Rise! is on Goblin Points. It's been a long time coming. Too long some might say. We talk about running games, publishing them on YouTube, the Draw Steel community and Cameron's crowdfunder: It'...
News: Crows, the New RPG from MCDM, Jams of the Timescape, and the Stawl Supplement Index | January Roundup
Jams of the Timescape Volume 2 has been a massive success, James is going all in on MCDM's new RPG Crows, Crack the Sun successfully funded at twice their goal and more!Links to everything: https://GoblinPoints.com/2604#links<...
The Dice Society: A Pillar of the Community | Interview
The Dice Society is back on! It's been a year since we last talked, and a lot has happened since then: the release of Draw Steel, Jams of the Timescape, You Meet in an Ambush, Hooked on Crafting and him writing for the Encounters book.
DimaJeydar: Translating Draw Steel | Interview
I'm joined by DimaJeydar. He initially popped up on my radar when he released a Ukrainian translation of the starter rules for Draw Steel. In the time since he's posted an update, published a starter adventure, and a fourth level adventure set ...
News: MCDM Cracked the Sun, New "Jams of the Timescape", "Hooked on Crafting" Success | December Roundup
Happy new year! December saw MCDM Crack the Sun with a very successful crowdfunder; a new issue of Ratcatcher Magazine was funded; The Dice Society funded their Hooked on Crafting supplement; and so much more...Links to everything:
Matheus Graef: Drawing Steel and Monsters for MCDM | Interview
This episode I'm joined by Matheus Graef. If you've bought any product from MCDM in the past 5 years, you've seen his work: the mimic backpack retainer, the yumgrubs, the MCDM kobolds, radenwights, and the list goes on. He talks about being a T...
Sam McGurran & Subharup Roy: A Refugee's Guide to Nomas | Interview
This episode features Sam McGurran and Subharup Roy. Sam's a playtest coordinator for MCDM and Shuv is the mastermind behind The Blacksmith's Guild. Together they're running a crowdfunder for A Refugee's Guide to Nomas, a setting set in a psion...
News: Crack the Sun Crowdfunder, Codex VTT For All Patrons, Third-Party Crowdfunder Record | November Roundup
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!
Paul Ligorski: The Cave of Amber Tears | Interview
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, b...
Jennifer Kretchmer: Making TTRPGs Accessible to Everyone | Interview
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 ...
News: The Dungeon Delving TTRPG Crows, Jams of the Timescape Winners and the Summoner is Almost Ready | October Roundup
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 ...
Ananam: The Frog People Are Coming to Draw Steel | Interview
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 ...
News: Draw Steel Books Start Shipping, MCDM December Crowdfunder, and the Frog People Crowdfunder | September Roundup
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#link...
Tom Bloom: Looking Over the Shoulder at D&D | Interview
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 designe...
Core Rules Errata, More Djordice, and Vampire Pre-Orders | August Roundup
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 co...
James Introcaso: Designing Draw Steel | Interview
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 sys...
Draw Steel is Out!, The Delian Tomb is Fantastic, and 50 Leveled Weapons With Art | July Roundup
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,...