
Goblin Points
News and interviews about Draw Steel and MCDM. New episodes twice a month. Hosted by Jon de Nor.
Episodes
36 episodes
Draw Steel Drops for Patrons, Playtest of the Summoner Class, and Crowdfunders Galore | June Roundup
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 communit...
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Season 2025
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Episode 13
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15:10

Ratcatcher Magazine | Onslaught Six Interview
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 ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 12
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58:24

Possible Draw Steel Release Date, Side Quest Adventures, and more Djordice | May Roundup
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 So...
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Season 2025
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Episode 11
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18:08

The Many Ways to Design an Adventure | Heart of Arcana Interview
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 abo...
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Season 2025
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Episode 10
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1:07:01

Future Draw Steel Products, Djordice Are Shipping, and Flee Mortals on Foundry | April Roundup
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 9
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13:55

The Vampire Class and Crowdfunders | Ananam Interview
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 8
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51:52

New Burrowing Rules, The Delian Tomb Adventure, and the Vampire Crowdfunder | March Roundup
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, ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 7
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15:47

Do We Need Game Systems? | Andie Margolskee Interview
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 tal...
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Season 2025
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Episode 6
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1:00:55

Rules Changes, Codex VTT News, and the First 3rd Party Crowdfunder | February Roundup
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 ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 5
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19:20

The Serial World Creator | Iron Monocle Interview
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 f...
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Season 2025
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Episode 4
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50:12

The Launch Adventures, What Comes After Launch, and New Draw Steel Classes | January Roundup
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, ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 3
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17:09

The Dice Goblin Episode | The Dice Society Interview
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 2
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58:31

Draw Steel Is Content Complete, and What Comes After | December Roundup
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 th...
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Season 2025
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Episode 1
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11:53

The Importance of Art and Fanart | Dojikaan Interview
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 impor...
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Season 2024
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Episode 19
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53:31

The Illrigger is on D&D Beyond, and shields are out of Draw Steel | November Roundup
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 MCD...
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Season 2024
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Episode 18
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17:17

Bringing Your Creativity To the Game | Patrick Haesler Interview
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 n...
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Season 2024
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Episode 17
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51:45

New Patreon Packet, Mini STL Files for Patrons, and a Successful Dicefunder | October Roundup
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 change...
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Season 2024
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Episode 16
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22:34

Wrath of the Iresouls, Fun Encounter Design, and Love for Negotiation Rules | Solace Interview
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...
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Season 2024
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Episode 15
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32:23

Goodbye Caster Kits, War Dogs, and Dicefunder | September Roundup
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...
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Season 2024
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Episode 14
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22:26

Testing Draw Steel, Fun Combat, and Exciting Homebrew | Tamwin Interview
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 ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 13
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29:44

Dicefunder Correction Episode
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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Season 2024
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Episode 12
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2:32

Backer Packet Release, Djordice Dicefunder, and the Creator License | August Roundup
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...
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Season 2024
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Episode 11
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22:45

MCDM Takes Feedback and Tests Like No One Else, Petal Crash 2, and Lyric's Ledger | Ashley Interview Pt. 2
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 ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 10
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33:31

The RPG Has A Name, New Play Test Packet, and MCDM on Alchemy | July Roundup
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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Season 2024
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Episode 9
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24:15

Designing a Different RPG Instead of Tweaking, and the MCDM Community Vibe | Ashley Interview Pt. 1
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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