Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Main topic: Draw Steel Combat Basics!
Teos and Shawn examine how Draw Steel creates tactical, cinematic, and heroic play with its combat system!

Contents
00:00 Draw Steel Combat Basics
00:56 Beastheart Playtest News
01:45 Power Rolls in Draw Steel
03:04 Tiered Outcomes
05:22 Power Rolls and Gameplay
10:52 Potency
12:49 Gating Outcomes
15:22 Draw Steel and Daggerheart Similarities
18:20 Example Actions
20:32 Edges and Banes
25:11 Hero Tokens
27:58 The Map
36:31 Initiative, sort of
48:49 Shout Outs
52:35 What Are We Gonna Do?

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