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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@househouse.com My friends and I were going to play tonight, but just realised Big Walk doesn't release until 11PM Aus time. Can you do us a solid and release it now?

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

It took me a while to find the right options, but “Cthrion Edition” plus “The Rest of the Books” is exactly right 👌 Go back it! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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Draw Steel: Crack the Sun

"We watched Cthrion Uroniziir try to reduce the timescape into one singular universe, wiping out reality as we know it. She was defeated, and we see her cage every day."

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I had such a great day yesterday! I walked into a LGS to get a cheap Lorcana deck (tried it once and wanted to try different colours) and they had a launch event on that we joined. Hours of fun later we had an Opera House concert of Death Stranding music, with the original singer of BB’s theme!

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I am so wrecked from the last few days of work that I’m struggling to decompress properly now that I’m home.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It feels so cathartic reading through the latest MCDM Patreon post and feeling like they are directly responding to my online group's bad experience with the previous Adventure Path we ran, even though I know its not.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

My Censor player felt like he was directly countered by a Fossil Cryptic. He was being challenged. Once the party had given it damage weakness, pinged it for acting three time in a round and kept it constantly bleeding, the censor said “oh, I get it”

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Got the new card design for Draw Steel Ability Cards (cards.heroic.tools) implemented. A long while off from having it ready for release, but I thought I'd share how it looks!

New Draw Steel Ability Cards design, shown using Entropic Bolt as an example.

The design is much more similar to the way abilities are presented in the book, while making it clearer what values on the ability can be customised with the influence of hero kits and characteristics.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I can personally attest to these models being fantastic! Go back the Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/263... #drawsteel

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm so happy seeing the positive response to our recent work on cards.heroic.tools Not sure how healthy it is, but I absolutely live for the positive stories of people using these to play with their kids or onboard players to Draw Steel. So keen to get the new card design and colour themes out!

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Draw Steel Ability Cards

Create and customise ability cards for your Draw Steel Character

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Draw Steel Ability Cards has been updated and has a new url: cards.heroic.tools A lot of new features, but most importantly we now have every ability from the core rules!

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Draw Steel Ability Cards

Create and customise ability cards for your Draw Steel Character

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I’m sitting here doing my monthly planning, journaling for the month of September. Only halfway through realised how pointless it was to write out “ of September” after every date

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Some terrain painting tonight! I’m very proud of my river tile

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I knew that Dungeons and Discourse couldn’t make a Draw Steel review without making it clickbait. What a great glowing review!

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

As fun as last night’s Draw Steel combat was, my favourite part was after. The heroes were negotiating with the righthand-man of the big bad of the town. They uncovered that he had become the head enforcer to *protect* the people of the town (a bit misguided). They used that to end the hostilities.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The great combat of Whitehill has concluded! The heroes faced Vaz the Blackhanded and his minions. In the end, Vaz fell and Brock was left alone, still intending to fight and holding a hostage. The heroes saw that Brock hadn’t killed anyone and found peace with him through negotiation.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

All set up and ready for tomorrow’s Draw Steel game! The heroes face Vaz the Blackhanded. Just as their betrayal of the tyrant has been revealed he has summoned an army of minions to fight by his side. Meanwhile, Brock and his men move to subdue Chaplain Haul, who is giving a sermon of rebellion!

An overview of the battlemap. It is a hand-drawn map using whiteboard markers and depicts the centre of a medium sized town.
There are various tokens across the board.

From left to right, we see
- a group of 8 blue tokens representing rotting zombies
- Vaz (reskinned storm mage), surrounded by four of his undead minions (reskinned human apprentices)
- The three heroes, a censor, an elementalist, and a talent
- a Death cultist and a group of death acolytes, who are down a side street
- Brock (human brawler) and his guards (raiders) approaching a large crowd of civilians led by a priest

A close up of Vaz. He wears skeletal armour and has (should have) a black hand held up (but it’s not painted)

A view of the heroes facing down Vaz and his minions

A shot of the opposing view, showing the trouble brewing and the civilians that are in immediate danger if the heroes only focus on Vaz.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Draw Steel really is a game the most heroic game to run RAW. I like running close to RAW for most games; it makes the triumphs more real. Rule of cool is always welcome, but if you're doing cool shit while being totally constrained to what's "allowed" by the game, that's so much cooler to me.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It's amazing the amount of carry-over rulings that slip into Draw Steel from other games. I, as much as everyone else, really need to look at how I'm running the game and ask "do the rules really say that?" and **not** fill in blanks left in the rules with assumptions from less-heroic games!

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I’m putting together my usual session notes into written prose—it’s a fun activity, highly recommended it—but I’ve just had the fun thought of having “Director’s commentary” for my ‘meta notes’ throughout the prose, to contextualise what I thought would happen and how the players always surprise me.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Today I had an absolutely fantastic session at Draw Steel. My Monday session was almost enough to make a drop everything, but this session today will be going for months! Way too much cool shit happened for me to post here, but it was great.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I am a man who will choose to slowly become more irritated by my headphone's low battery *beep* for several hours instead of taking the 5 seconds required to change the battery.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My plan yesterday was to quickly do some session prep for my Draw Steel game today, then continue riding the motivation-wave to work on improvements the Draw Steel ability cards website. Now instead I have two notes on the next session and a first draft of Draw Steel Strongholds and Warfare rules..

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

After a night full of ideas and drafting, I can say that my players really enjoyed the new Kingdom Rules I made for my PF2e Kingmaker game. I still have a bit to work on, in terms of porting ideas and details, but long story short: It's Draw Steel Downtime Projects with resources and teamwork! 1/?

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Finally! The Sky King’s Tomb is over! Reviews from players: - why did we do this? - final fight is “debate me bro” - this is the first and last Adventure Path I will ever play - foreshadowing is for losers

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I have not crunched so hard on an RPG session in a long time, but I managed to run my first session of the Delian Tomb for work friends. As a result, and with many I cut, I got a useable version of a character sheet for each class, using my in development modular sheet builder! The Conduit:

A character sheet for a draw steel character that includes most of the basics needed to play a level 1 character.
The Heroic Resource section is filled in with information for a conduit of Life and Sun, including checkboxes for per-encounter triggers.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I've finally gotten round to updating heroic.tools to use a grid instead of a flex display for layout. Very happy to get rid of the ugly empty space on the right-side of the website. This should also make it friendlier with super small phone screens.

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Heroic Resources

Find all the community tools you need for your Draw Steel game!

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Every time I run PF2e now I feel like the game isn't respecting my time. When combat starts everyone immediately looks exhausted, as we know we're about to waste an hour as heroes either roll low and miss or fail to do enough damage to matter. Either that or they steamroll and go unchallenged.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Time to condense the final two thirds of the final chapter of the final book of Sky King’s Tomb into one session. The session is in an hour and little to no prep has been made.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

What a great day of Draw Steel. It started with an axe flying through reality, shattering a wizard's constructed world, and ended with a really great unexpected conclusion to the little 3-shot story.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I'm starting up a Draw Steel game with my team at work. We're going to run through the Delian Tomb. Here's the problem - there's 10-11 people that will be joining as Heroes.  I have a plan to deal with this big group, but the plan will likely change when it comes face to face with the enemy.  1/9

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I'm really looking forward to working on Draw Steel tools again, now that I'm back from holidays. However, at work, I've immediately fallen into a position where I feel too guilty for not doing a simple task that I can't do anything else other than work, but I can't work because I can't unwind..

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Putting together our first 30 Minute Fantasy Kit, and wow this base silhouette has range of motion!

Base silhouette A of 30MF kit, in a “this is snake” metal gear codec call pose.

The same base kit doing a sumo-squat-dab

The same base kit, now in a ballet pose, balancing on one foot while Chester (the fluffiest dog) looks on

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I am back after my vacation, having achieved the perfect mental state: “wait.. I’m employed? I forgot about that”

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Oh man this is cool. Look at all these dope tools people have made for Draw Steel! We use some of these! So awesome. heroic.tools

heroic.tools

Heroic Resources

Find all the community tools you need for your Draw Steel game!

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Several days ago, I lost a chrome window full of tabs on my work laptop. I can now confirm that the window has been found and returned safely to their family in Desktop Space 3

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Just listening to @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social's stream from this morning and enjoying the discussion about buildcrafting in Draw Steel. One thing I've really enjoyed about Draw Steel is that the real buildcrafting starts when you start playing your hero and picking up titles and crafting items.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The subdomain of the Wizard is collapsing, but a solo-boss enemy is still hunting the players as they escape with the soulgem of the dracolich. Do I run the next session as an encounter focused on surviving while running or have it as a montage?

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a person is standing in the dark with a red light coming out of their hand .

Alt: Darth Vader hallway scene from Rogue One. A metaphor for the situation my players are in.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Got my Towys Ironfist mini ready for Saturday’s game! This was the first proper player death in my original 4e campaign. So stoked to bring him back as a Revenant Hakaan Fury Rival, and agent of the Lich, Zyll.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Me: Four ongoing campaigns is too much. I need to close out the ones that are near their conclusion and go down to two or three at most. MCDM Patreon: Delian Tomb Playtest is out. Also Me: Hear me out..

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Yesterday I had the very rare “all according to plan..” sessions for Pathfinder. I planned content up to a point - we played all of that content and ended at the correct time. What is this bizarro dimension?!

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The other day, I ran the first game of a new Draw Steel series, for a friend who hadn’t played a TTRPG since we quit D&D as a group a few years ago. He was keen to be back at the table but had never played a new system before, aside from transitioning from 4e to 5e. (TLDR, he liked it)

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Crap, I sold my friends on a three-shot, but all my ideas are for a full level 1 adventure.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I really love today's MCDM Patreon Post (www.patreon.com/posts/126069...). Its about their approach to Strongholds and Warfare in Draw Steel. 1/

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War! | MCDM Productions

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Omg, HelloMCDM shared my Draw Steel community tools hub site ❤️

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Last night, the heroes found themselves at a river crossing, being tolled by bandits. After things escalated to blood being spilled, the Gnolls skulking nearby attacked. One player freaked out, saying “don’t fuck with Gnolls”. Even while rolling all tier 1s, they still lived up to the fear.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A friend of mine just got back from a stint overseas for the last two years. Just before he left, we were at the point of doing our first test session of Pathfinder 2e and I had just sold him on the idea of switching. Now I need to try to convince him that Draw Steel is now the chosen one.

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Callum Grier @calgrier.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This week our party’s tactician faced off one on one with Count Drakesbane. I didn’t want him to be a total pushover, and I knew the tactician had built-in healing options, so I used a Lvl4 Hobgoblin Brute stat block. /1

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