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Hey folks, we are one week out from the launch of the Kickstarter for The Withering War. If you haven't been following along, it is a third-party, 2nd echelon adventure set in the Twilight Kingdoms.
Here is a link to the Kickstarter page for folks to follow: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twilight-kingdoms/the-withering-war

Here is a link to the LaCara Games Discord server: https://discord.gg/7SqmWCukQG

And, if you'd like to try it out before you back, here is a free preview build you can download and run. It is the first two acts (of four) of the adventure: https://www.reddit.com/r/drawsteel/comments/1qt89mg/preview_build_of_the_withering_war_is_here/

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments. Pete and myself are both happy to respond.

Hello all!

We've crossed 200 backers in our crowdfunder and we can't be happier with how much support you are showing us! We want to celebrate this benchmark by sharing some details regarding another one of our upcoming products - Murder of Corvenwights!

Murder of Corvenwights is one of our upcoming rules supplements and it is all about the crow-like corvenwights! Within you will find a lot of new cool things, including:

• new corvenwight ancestry
• new shadow subclass - College of the Widow’s Loom
• new complications
• new treasures
• Corvenwights monster band
• 1st-level urban intrigue quest

Attached to this post is a preview of the corvenwight ancestry and some corvenwight monsters for you to enjoy! You can see the full resolution version here.

That's all for today! I hope you are as excited as we are for Murder of Corvenwights! Thank you so much for your support!

Here is a link to the crowdfunding campaign where you can get this product and other cool stuff: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/triglav-games/until-the-last-villain-dies-a-draw-steel-adventure-more

I'm finally joined by Jonas Tintenseher. They've recently published a shadow subclass, is currently working on an epic adventure for Triglav, and you can find traces of Jonas' work all over the third party supplements being published for Draw Steel. And I ask what makes Draw Steel so nice to design for.

Listen on [GoblinPoints.com/2615](https://goblinpoints.com/2615).

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!

Hey everyone,

I just released my first supplement: Hearth & Steel; a system for building and upgrading a shared party stronghold in Draw Steel.

The goal was to create something that feels like a natural extension of the core rules rather than a bolted-on minigame. It rewards your group for having a recurring home base without adding heavy bookkeeping.

What's in it (preview available on site):

-Shared stronghold that grows from Tier 1 to Tier 4

-Point-buy benefits (similar to Ancestry creation)

-Infrastructure (passive bonuses) + Preparation (active bonuses benefitting you while adventuring)

-Leans heavily into Draw Steel's downtime mechanics

If your group likes returning to a home base that grows with your heroes, this might be for you.

Pay What You Want → https://arcanepress.itch.io/hearth-steel

Any feedback is very welcome. Hope you enjoy it!

Hello all!

We are closing in on the 12k EUR of raised funds in our crowdfunder, meaning we will soon unlock premium experience within the Codex - animated tokens, animated maps, and music!

Using this opportunity, today I wanted to show some cool stuff from Upper Worlds, Beware!, our starter product for the Timescape, MCDM's space fantasy setting!

What can you find in this product? Plenty of things, including:

• 3 new ancestries:
  • crystal-blooded empathic Prismians
  • space-mantid Chydians
  • revised and expanded Asomaths, sentient gas clouds in pressure suits
• new Timescape kits
• new Timescape treasures
• Havoc Brigade monster band full of space pirates
• Oxypod space monsters
• Where the Dead Ships Dwell, a 1st-level Timescape quest

Attached to this post is a preview of the Prismian ancestry, including their art! You can see the full resolution version here.

That's all for today! I hope you are as excited as we are for Upper Worlds, Beware! Thank you so much for your support!

Here is a link to the crowdfunding campaign where you can get Rocks Fall and other cool stuff: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/triglav-games/until-the-last-villain-dies-a-draw-steel-adventure-more

Still loving Titancraft. Being able to print as many STLs as I want with the assets I bought is such a boon especially for Draw Steel's minions. Designed 7 (cuz I printed two of one sculpt) human rogues for an upcoming Delian Tomb session and I think they look fn great.

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!

I really like the Draw Steel mechanics. And also I don't think it's good sportsmanship to murder hordes of goblins and other communities of weak creatures.

So we're moving our game to a self-aware JRPG. Because verisimilitude to me means "real place TTRPG" minion slaughter is unethical, but "video game setting" is okay because they can all be demons or icky spiders and it doesn't have to make sense or be ecologically sound.

Whatever, I'm excited about it! I think I needed the tone to be drastically different from my Shadowdark and 5e games for the big hero energy to work.

Has anyone else had a similar reaction to minion hordes? Or making an over the top setting?

Map made with Inkarnate.