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Okay this will probably be my last major update to documents during the Alpha, so I figured I'd put everything in one place:

Digital Resources

• Character and Inventory Sheets
• Inventory Cards (+ new tab with Starter Items broken out)
• Starting Traits
• Village Sheet

Physical Resources

• Printable Character and Inventory Sheets
• Printable Starting Items
• Printable Starting Traits
• Printable Village Sheet

Let me know if you find any errors and I'll fix them ASAP.

Fortune or Death!

After my last post I decided to keep going and created a sheet for tracking the party's village with a second page containing all institutions currently in the game:

• Crows Village Sheet

There's no automation and everything is set to level 1 to keep things as clean as possible. Hopefully this helps some of you out there with your games!

I'm excited to play Crows soon, especially because one of my players got so excited reading the playtest packet that he decided he's going to run it for our group. This gave me a break from my normal game master duties and so I decided to try and streamline character creation as much as possible for my virtual group (especially since we may go through multiple characters in a night).

This started with the idea of making an editable character sheet, but then I realized it'd be nice to be able to snap in the starting perks too... and then I thought about how nice it would be to be able to do the same thing with the inventory cards...

Long story short, these documents now exist:

• Crows Character & Inventory Sheets
• Crows Starting Traits
• Crows Inventory Cards

Hopefully these help you with your playtests as well!

Fortune or Death!

James Introcaso (lead designer of Draw Steel) just released this video announcing an open alpha playtest for MCDM's next game. This came is called Crows and is designed to be the exact opposite of Draw Steel in many ways. Where Draw Steel is about epic heroes solving world ending problems with badass abilities, Crows is about nobodies risking it all to venture into the dungeons of a magical post apocalypse and hopefully bring back loot to improve lives back in their home town.

The playtest materials can be accessed here in a free Patreon post. Here's what's inside:

• A booklet containing the game's core rules
• A booklet containing character creation and advancement options, rules for gear, and rules for creating and advancing the PCs' village
• An adventure to, in, and from the Blood Library, a flesh-covered ruin containing spellbooks and other treasures
• A booklet containing the statistics of creatures used in the Blood Library
• Maps and art needed for the dungeon. The art is from the great Nick De Spain!

This is playtest material and so has not been fully laid out or edited. Feedback on these materials can be provided here through Monday June 29th at 8AM Eastern Pacific time.

For more details on Crows you can check out this intro post and this playlist on YouTube. MCDM is planning on crowdfunding this game in August and you can sign up for more details on that here.