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Jonas Tintenseher (they/them)
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To send off #ttrpgpromtober in Draw Steel, I couldn't decide whether to pay tribute to Samhain as the herald of winter, or mythos of the final girl — so I did both! #promptober #drawsteel #halloween #finalgirl #samhain
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #31: Halloween Herald of Winter Title The last leaf has fallen, and the first snows are on their way. The curse of the final girl lingers over your head: the night can only grow darker from here. Prerequisite (3rd Echelon): You win an encounter while all of your allies are dead or dying, but you’re not. Effect: Choose one of the following benefits: Darkest Before the Dawn: While you are dying, you gain 1 additional Heroic Resource at the start of each of your turns during combat. Solstice Rituals: Whenever you achieve a tier 2 outcome with a Magic or Psionic ability, it deals additional rolled damage equal to your highest characteristic score, and any potencies are increased by 1. Until the Last Leaf Falls: Whenever you become dying, if there are one or more allies within 10 squares of you who aren’t dead, you can use a free triggered action to spend a Recovery. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Enjoy a spooky scarecrow solo for your Halloween weekend one-shots — it's Day 30 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #scarecrow #reaperking #harvest
A statblock for a level 2 scarecrow sovereign solo monster in the Draw Steel TTRPG.
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Flowers from the timescape, the perfect gift for Day 29 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #flowers
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #29: Flowers Prismatic Bouquet Consumable These vitreous flowers shift and twist in your hand, eager to be freed from the petty grasp of causality. Keywords: Psionic Goal: 45 (yields 3 flowers) Agility, Intuition, or Presence Source: Texts or lore in Axiomatic Item Prerequisite: Crushed petals from a large psiolet Effect: As a maneuver, you can pluck the petals from one flower in the bouquet and scatter them up to 5 squares away, creating a 3 cube of glittering light. Each ally in the area can teleport a number of squares up to your highest characteristic score. Each enemy in the area takes damage equal to twice your highest characteristic score. You choose the damage type from acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. The petals then crumble into sparkling dust. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Paying a little tribute to a personal favorite with Day 28 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #gods #goddesses #athena #aegis #greekmythology #phaedros
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #28: Gods/Goddesses Aegis of the Protostrategos Leveled Treasure The bronze shield of the general of the gods holds an echo of her supreme strategic intellect, striking fear into the hearts of all those who stand against you. Keywords: Magic, Shield Goal: 450 Might, Reason, or Intuition Source: Texts or lore in Phaedran Item Prerequisite: Bronze shavings from a divinely blessed forge, a token from a monster you negotiated with 1st Level | Promachos: While you wield or carry this shield, you gain a +3 bonus to Stamina. This Stamina bonus adds to the Stamina bonus granted by other treasures. Whenever an enemy makes an opportunity attack against you, your speed increases by 2 until the start of your next turn. Additionally, adjacent allies can use you as cover. 5th Level | MARATHON: The shield’s Stamina bonus increases to +6. Whenever you make a strike as part of the Charge main action, for each opportunity attack you triggered during the move, you gain 1 surge that can and must be used for that strike. Additionally, whenever you or a hero with you successfully stops combat and starts a negotiation with an NPC, that NPC’s starting interest increases by 1. 9th level | Gorgoneion: The shield’s Stamina bonus increases to +9. Whenever an enemy makes an opportunity attack against you, they become frightened (save ends) after the strike. Additionally, all NPCs are influenced by your Renown during a negotiation. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Forgot to post Day 27 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! Went back and forth over this one but here's how it ended up. #promptober #drawsteel #dreams #nightmares
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #27: Dreams/Nightmares Dream Domain Domain An additional domain option for censors and conduits. Dream Domain Piety and Effect Piety: You gain 2 piety the first time in an encounter that an ally within 10 squares uses a heroic ability. Prayer Effect: One ally within 10 squares of you gains 1 of their Heroic Resource. 1st-Level Domain Feature Dreamwalker When you sleep, your spirit wanders, allowing you to visit other creatures’ dreams and receive portents about the future. During any respite, you can choose a creature you know to receive a short message or omen in their dreams the next time they sleep. If the chosen creature is also taking a respite, they gain an edge on the project roll for any downtime project they undertake during the respite. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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And here's Day 26 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel, maybe the most tangential from the prompt — but still an idea I liked! #promptober #drawsteel #trailcams #foundfootage
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #26: Trail Cams/Found Footage Prismacore Viewfinder Consumable A security device invented in Ordos, designed to hamper assailants and intruders until they can be neutralized. Keywords: Psionic Goal: 180 Reason or Presence Source: Texts or lore in Axiomatic Item Prerequisite: A chunk of prismacore charged with psionic energy and authorized by a UNISOL quartermaster Effect: You can deploy the viewfinder on its tripod as a maneuver. While deployed, the psionic crystal inside records the neural patterns and nerve signals of nearby creatures. Whenever an enemy ends their turn within 10 squares of the viewfinder, you can use a free triggered action to target them with the crystal. Choose one main action, maneuver, or move action that creature used on their turn. They must repeat that action on their next turn if at all possible, including spending the same amount of Malice and choosing the same targets. If they can’t do so, they become dazed (EoT) instead. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Day 25 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel slipped my mind, just like Bigfoot evades me every day. But here's my Appalachian contribution! #promptober #drawsteel #cryptids #mothman
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #25: Cryptid Wings of the Nightseer Leveled Treasure This tattered, midnight-black cloak flutters gently in an invisible wind, adding large insectoid wings to your silhouette. Keywords: Magic, Neck Goal: 450 Reason or Intuition Source: Texts or lore in Kheltivari Item Prerequisite: Scales shed from a thousand moths, the hair of a dead oracle whose last prophecy never came to pass 1st Level | RED EYES: While you wear this cloak, whenever an enemy within your line of effect makes a Strike that targets you or any of your allies, you can use a triggered action to impose a double bane on the power roll. Additionally, you can’t be surprised, and you can fly. If you don’t end your turn on the ground, you fall. 5th Level | MOONBLESSED: Whenever an enemy within your line of effect uses an Area ability that targets you or any of your allies, you can use a triggered action to allow one target of the ability to shift a number of squares equal to your Reason or Intuition score. If that target ends this movement beyond the distance of the triggering ability, they take no damage and suffer no effects from it. Additionally, you no longer need to end your turn on the ground to avoid falling. 9th level | FUTURE IMPERFECT: Once per combat round, you can use a triggered action as a free triggered action. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Another montage challenge for Day 24 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! Need to climb a tarrasque? Or, I guess, uh, Goxomoc? I've got the challenge for you! #promptober #drawsteel #colossalbeast #tarrasque
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #24: Colossal Beast Scale the Colossus Montage Challenge A beast of titanic size is on its way to town. The only way to stop it is to get to its head and succeed at an extremely difficult 6-round Complete the Action encounter, but climbing the creature’s limbs is harder than scaling a mountain — and a whole ecosystem for the heroes to contend with has developed on its back. Inspired by @fluttersprite’s rules for Montage Challenges. Rather than accumulating successes, the players must choose which Threats they want to negate and which Opportunities they want to claim before the two rounds are over. Players tackle Threats and Opportunities in any order, the same way they tackle challenges in a normal Montage Test. Tasks with multiple icons can be tackled multiple times, negating/claiming one instance of the Threat/Opportunity each time. Locked tasks (🔒) can’t be attempted at all until the named task is completed at least once first. THREATS Fend Off Parasites [2]: Each hero loses two Recoveries. Many beasts of the wild have taken to living off the colossus’s hide, and they don’t take kindly to intruders. Repair Arcane Seals [3]: Reduce the number of rounds required to Complete the Action by 1. The colossus has been kept dormant for centuries thanks to the work of ancient heroes who placed arcane seals all around its body. Now, those seals have weakened, and repairing them is the only way to slow the beast. OPPORTUNITIES Explore the Beastscape [Hard]: Find a trinket. You’re not the first adventurers to scale the colossus, and you may not be the last... Gather Rare Reagents: Find an item prerequisite for crafting a leveled treasure. 🔒 Fend Off Parasites The beastscape is brimming with arcane power. All kinds of strange ingredients can be found up here. Scale the Beast [2]: Grant an edge on the next test. Finding a fast, efficient way to the top is paramount to stopping the colossus. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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All caught up once more with Day 23 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel. If you take this complication, you legally have to put "Frozen Pines" by Lord Huron in your character playlist. #promptober #drawsteel #aliens #strangelights #frozenpines
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #23: Aliens Strange Lights Complication The night lit up with impossible colors, the wake of higher manifolds bleeding into the sky. Blinded by the lights, you were abducted, and later returned to your home, missing all your memories of the intervening time — and not just that, but something else, whether that was a personal feeling, a treasured possession, or even a loved one. Now, you’re on a mission to figure out what exactly you saw that night, and retrieve what you lost. Benefit: Whatever happened to you left you with an uncanny sense for that which doesn’t belong. You gain the human signature trait Detect the Supernatural, and whenever you use that maneuver in a combat encounter, you gain one surge. If you already have that trait, you can forgo gaining the surge to use it as a free maneuver once per turn. Drawback: The strange lights haunt your nights, leading to fitful rest and unexplainable blackouts in your struggle to find your missing piece. Whenever you take a respite while you have 1 or more Victories, roll a d10. If you roll a 1, you wander off in search of what you lost, returning at the end of the respite without gaining any benefits from it except converting your Victories to Experience. If you had 5 or more Victories at the start of the respite, you wander off if you roll a 3 or less. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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As promised for @agentjohn2.bsky.social, here's a whole ritual terrain statblock for Day 22 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #summoningcircles #ritualchamber
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #22: Summoning Circles Ritual Chamber Terrain Terrain is a new kind of combat feature, similar to villain actions and dynamic terrain objects, which can be paired with any kind of monster band. Terrain actions happen at the start of each round of combat, before any creature’s turn. While they are sequenced to provide a sense of dramatic escalation, like villain actions, the Director can use them out-of-order if desired. Terrain actions have no maximum distance and can be used against any creature on the encounter map. Some terrain actions are foreshadowed. The distance, targeting parameters, and any special modifiers of foreshadowed actions are known to all creatures in the encounter, and any areas of effect are placed on the encounter map immediately. However, targets for the ability aren’t chosen until the ability is resolved, which happens at the end of the round unless otherwise specified. This gives each creature in the encounter map time to maneuver themselves and their allies out of the area, or enemies into the area. Terrain may also have additional features or abilities that work normally, such as traits that affect the entire encounter map or triggered actions which can be used once per round. A terrain statblock for an unholy ritual chamber in the Draw Steel TTRPG. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Here's Day 21 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel — one away from parity! This one's a bit shaky but there's something to the flavor of it for sure. #promptober #drawsteel #swordintheforest #wode
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #21: Sword in the Forest Blade-That-Wasn’t Leveled Treasure Each time you swing this translucent blade, an unmistakable wave of déjà vu ripples through you. Keywords: Magic, Medium Weapon Goal: 450 ARP Source: Texts or lore in Kheltivari Item Prerequisite: Petrified wood from a wode, taken from a tree that was planted in the future 1st Level | What Wasn’t: Whenever you use the weapon with a signature or heroic ability that deals rolled damage, you gain one surge that you can use immediately for each prior time you’ve used that ability in the encounter. Additionally, you gain an edge = on tests made to accomplish something you’ve done before. 5th Level | What Isn’t: If you’re not surprised at the start of your first turn in combat, you gain 1 Heroic Resource. If you are surprised, you stop being surprised. Additionally, you gain an edge = on tests made to assist an ally’s test. 9th level | What Won't Be: At the end of each of your turns during combat, you may choose a heroic ability you know. If you use that ability on your next turn, its Heroic Resource cost is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 1), and if it makes use of a power roll, you gain an edge on that roll. If you don’t use that ability on your next turn, at the end of that turn, you may spend a Recovery and end one effect on yourself that’s ended by a saving throw. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Showing my admiration for void elementalists in Day 20 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel. Almost caught up again! #promptober #drawsteel #mystery #lostbook #lostknowledge
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #20: Lost Book/Knowledge Chapter from the Infinite Library: Occultus Leveled Treasure Gossamer-thin pages turn before you even touch them, always ready to answer the question you didn’t know to ask. Keywords: Implement, Magic Goal: 450, Reason or Intuition Source: Reference materials in the First Language from the Infinite Library detailing the precise physical and metaphysical dimensions of a void portal Item Prerequisite: One bottle of sacred ink and a full ream of blessed parchment 1st Level | Interpres: You can open or close the tome as a free maneuver at the start of your turn. While the tome is open, it orbits around you and flips to specific pages at your unspoken command, your magic or psionic abilities that deal rolled damage gain a +1 damage bonus, and whenever you use a magic or psionic ability, you can spend 1 Heroic Resource to allow yourself or one ally within distance of the ability to teleport up to a number of squares equal to your highest characteristic score as a free triggered action after the ability resolves. 5th Level | Impulsor: While the tome is open, the implement’s damage bonus increases to +2, and whenever you deal rolled damage with a magic or psionic ability, you can spend up to 3 surges to teleport one creature or object targeted by the ability up to 2 squares per surge spent. 9th level | Infinitus: While the tome is open, the implement’s damage bonus increases to +3, and you can spend 1 minute focusing on its teachings to open a one-way portal that leads to any place you have previously been. You and your allies can pass through the portal, which remains open for 1 minute, until you pass through it, or until you dismiss it as a main action. You can’t open another portal this way until you earn 1 or more Victories. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Why not you take a nice break in a custom tower resort? Catching up with Day 19 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #wizardstower #wizard
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #19: Wizard’s Tower Portable Arcanaeum Consumable Although this miniature model fits in your hand, it’s heavy enough to break your foot. So don’t drop it. Keywords: Magic Reason, Intuition, Presence Source: Texts or lore in the First Language Goal: 180 Item Prerequisite: A scale model of an existing mage’s tower, complete with interiors and your own personalizations Effect: If you place the model on the ground and spend 1 minute reciting the arcane assembly instructions from the project source, it expands into a 5×5 area and grows to be 10 squares tall. If there isn’t enough space for the model to expand, it doesn’t, but remains useable. The resulting tower is fully furnished and decorated according to the design of the model. It contains enough space and supplies for up to 10 creatures to take a respite, but it doesn’t contain any of the tools or equipment needed for those creatures to undertake normal respite activities. The Director can allow a particular respite activity at their discretion. You are aware of the presence and location of all enemies within 20 squares of the tower. If an enemy comes within 20 squares of the tower, all creatures who are nonmagically asleep within it wake up. The tower otherwise has no defenses. At the end of the respite, or after 48 hours, the tower fades into nothingness. Any creatures inside appear safely on the ground in the space where the tower stood. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I'm lagging behind, but here's Day 18 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel — magic brooms for all you sorcerous apprentices out there! #promptober #drawsteel #sorcery #sorcerersapprentice #broom
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #18: Sorcery Sweeper Monster Mundane brooms, originally animated by undermotivated sorcerers to sweep their sanctums, make for surprisingly effective guardians in a pinch. A statblock for a level 3 horde harrier monster in the Draw Steel TTRPG. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Another busy weekend, but we're back with Day 17 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel with a new DTO to spice up your boss fights! #promptober #drawsteel #blood #ritual #sacrifice #sacrificialpool
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #17: Blood Sacrificial Pool DTO Whether your villains are summoning a demon, sacrificing innocents, or awakening a dormant god, it’s not a complete ritual without a sacrificial pool of blood. A dynamic terrain object statblock for the Draw Steel TTRPG.
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Right under the wire with a (probably underbaked) revenant trait for Day 16 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #hauntings #revenant #ghosts
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #16: Hauntings Phantom Sight Ancestry Trait An additional ancestry trait option for revenant heroes. Phantom Sight (1 Point) Though your body is still intact, your attachment to it is tenuous. As a maneuver, you can touch a willing creature to form a spiritual link, allowing you to communicate telepathically and use their senses. While linked this way, your host still benefits from their own senses, but your body falls inert and motionless, leaving you unable to move or act. This effect ends when the target becomes dazed, when the target is no longer willing to maintain the link, or when you dismiss it (no action required). Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Thought about what to do for Day 15 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel all day. I really like the complications that provide clear story hooks, so here's one of those! #promptober #drawsteel #villains
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #15: Free space Villainous Heir Complication One of your parents is a villain, and you’ve taken up hero work to oppose them. Whether they’re a local bandit captain, a corrupt noble, a dark cultist, or an even more dangerous foe, your single-minded dedication to bringing them down can get you in over your head. Benefit and Drawback: While in battle against your parent’s forces, at the start of each round, you gain 1 surge and become taunted by the highest-EV enemy in the encounter (ties broken by the Director). Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Make a wish — it's Day 14 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #stars #shootingstars
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #14: Stars Shooting Stars Heroic Ability An additional heroic ability option for 8th-level elementalists. Shooting Stars 11 Essence You wish for aid, and the timescape answers. K Area, Fire, Green, Magic, Ranged, Void m Main action D Three 3 cubes within 10 T Each creature in the area Power Roll + Reason: <=11: 5 fire damage; push 2 from the center of the area; a target at the center is I<W dazed (EoT) 12–16: 7 fire damage; push 3 from the center of the area; a target at the center is I<A dazed (EoT) 17+ 9 fire damage; push 5 from the center of the area; a target at the center is I<S dazed (EoT) Effect: Each ally target ignores the power roll and can use a free triggered action to make a wish, allowing them to gain 1 of their Heroic Resource, gain 3 surges, or spend a Recovery. An ally who chooses to spend a Recovery can also end one effect on them that is ended by a saving throw or that ends at the end of their turn, or stand up if prone. Persistent 2: At the start of your turn, you can use a free maneuver to call down another star, creating one additional 3 cube within 10. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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And we're caught up with Day 13 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! I'm finding that Foreshadowing is really a key feature to making terrain actions fun to interact with. But we'll see how they develop! #promptober #drawsteel #abandonedlocations #ruinedkeep #castle
A terrain statblock for a ruined keep in the Draw Steel TTRPG.
October 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Still catching up with #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! Keeping it simple for Day 12 😅 #promptober #drawsteel #liminal #liminalspaces #polder #shadowmeld
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #12: Liminal Spaces Shadowslip Ancestry Trait An additional ancestry trait option for polder heroes. Shadowslip (2 Points) Your connection to shadows is so strong, you seem to flicker and disappear from sight in the bink of an eye. Whenever you use Shadowmeld while you have concealment from darkness or shadows, you can first teleport a number of squares equal to your highest characteristic score. You don’t need line of effect to your destination as long as it’s within the same area of darkness or shadow that you started in. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Had a stacked weekend, but we're catching up with Day 11 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #thalassophobia #thalassophilia #kraken
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #11: Thalassophobia/philia Scion of the Deep Title My lungs filled with water and my vision went black. Little did I know my last breath was truly my first. Prerequisite (3rd Echelon): You die underwater in the presence of a powerful aquatic being, such as a kraken. Effect: You are restored to life, but your appearance is permanently altered with clammy skin, extraneous tentacles, fins, gills, scales, sharp teeth, or some other accent determined by the Director. You gain the Waterborn complication and choose one of the following additional benefits: Invocation of Fathomless Will: The first time in an encounter that you become dying, you gain two surges. Invocation of Shared Breath: Each time you finish a respite, you can choose any number of allies who are also finishing a respite. Until you finish another respite, each ally chosen this way can breathe underwater, can automatically swim at full speed while moving, and has lightning weakness 5. Invocation of Surging Tides: Once per turn when you push or pull a creature, you can use a free triggered action to shift a number of squares equal to half the forced movement distance. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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O, swear not by the moon, by the Tyrant-Moon...it's Day 10 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel, and we're getting wacky! #promptober #drawsteel #moon #tyrantmoon #backstagedungeon
A stat block for "the Tyrant-Moon", a battlefield terrain modifier for the Draw Steel RPG.
October 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Well, zombies were the obvious answer here, but I thought it was about time for a tense political intrigue scene in Draw Steel. Day 9 of ##ttrpgpromptober! #promptober #drawsteel #thriller #montagechallenge
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #9: THRILLER Infiltrate the Gala Montage Challenge The heroes must infiltrate a grand gala hosted by none other than their greatest enemy — or, at least, one of their politically oriented subordinates. While it would be foolish for either party to kick off a ballroom brawl, there’s no telling what secrets they might uncover behind closed doors... Inspired by @fluttersprite. Rather than accumulating successes, the players must choose which Threats they want to negate and which Opportunities they want to claim before the two rounds are over. Players tackle Threats and Opportunities the same way they tackle challenges in a normal Montage Test. THREATS Attract Suspicion: The host automatically goes first in their next combat. Remain beneath notice to keep your gracious host from suspecting an attack. Hounded by Petty Scandal: -2 Renown among attendees. Demonstrate your etiquette and good behavior to the gathered nobles to avoid the stale whiff of impropriety. Lose a Duel: One hero loses 3 Recoveries. Remember that War College graduate you humiliated in battle last week? They’re back and itching for a chance to prove themself with steel. Psionic Viewfinders [x2]: The Director gains 3 Malice in your next combat encounter against the host. Avoid, disable, mislead, or resist the psychic intrusions of the viewfinders strategically placed around the castle. OPPORTUNITIES Behind Closed Doors [x2]: Discover a key piece of intel about your host. Search the castle, charm guests, pickpocket your host, do whatever it takes to learn what you need. Earn Patronage: Recruit an artisan or sage follower. Woo a noble’s favor, romantically or otherwise, and they’ll keep you replete with resources and lore. Impress the Crowd: +1 Renown among attendees. They’ll remember you, that’s for sure. Sow Rumors [x2]: Remove one minion squad from your next combat encounter against the host. I say! And then?! Oh, my! Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I was really tempted to make a consumable alcohol, but then I realized there's no traditional (undead) will-o'-the-wisp type enemy in the game — elemental motes just don't capture that spooky flavor. It's Day 8 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #spirits #willothewisp #wisps
Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #8: Spirits Will-o’-the-Wisp Minion The entrancing flicker of the will-o’-the-wisp carries a supernaturally captivating power. Even the wariest of travelers has been known to follow these tiny floating orbs of multicolored light off the road — and, inevitably, to their doom. Will-o'-the-Wisp (Level 2 Minion Controller) Undead, EV 4 for four minions 4 Stamina 5 Speed 0 Stability 2 Free Strike 1T Size Immunity: Cold 2, corruption 2, poison 2 Weakness: — Movement: Fly, hover Captained: +2 speed Might 0 Agility +1 Reason -2 Intuition +1 Presence +2 Chilling Phasing: The wisp can move through creatures and objects at their usual speed, but can’t end their turn inside a creature or object. The first time in a round that any wisp moves through a creature, that creature takes 2 cold damage. The wisp doesn’t take damage from being force-moved into objects. Detonate: When the wisp is reduced to 0 Stamina, grabbed, restrained, or knocked prone, they burst into a necromantic flare, dealing 2 corruption damage to each adjacent enemy. Follow Me! 2d10 + 2 Signature Ability Magic, Ranged, Strike Main action Distance Ranged 5 Target One creature or object per minion ≤11 1 cold damage; R<0 pull 1 12–16 2 cold damage; R<1 pull 2 17+ 3 cold damage; R<2 pull 3 Effect: Each wisp adding their free strike value to this ability may increase the forced movement distance by 1 instead. Flavor: Follow the dancing lights, and you may never return home. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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"Let's take a break after the solo", I said. "Let's not do anything with a lot of formatting", I said. Ah, well, at least now you can uncover some juicy secrets on Day 7 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #secrets #talent #psionics
A psionic heroic ability for the Talent class in the Draw Steel TTRPG, frightening the enemy and allowing you to learn secrets about each other.
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM