A new ancestry for Draw Steel. Tap into your draconic blood to fuel powerful abilities. Earn boons from elder wyrms that grant new draconic features. Transform into a literal dragon.
The Kobold Ancestry is a new playable ancestry for Draw Steel, the MCDM RPG! As a kobold, unleash the draconic blood running through your veins to spit elements and innately sense dragons. As you adventure, unlock more draconic features until you can transform into a dragon.
A new ancestry for Draw Steel, with a new vision for ancestries
Perform great acts of heroism to unlock the full power of the draconic blood running through your veins!
The Kobold evolves the ancestry mechanics from Draw Steel. In the core rules, the ancestral options you pick during character creation remain static during your adventuring career. At level 1, your dwarf is the most dwarf they'll ever be. Kobolds are dynamic, earning boons from the great wyrms to unlock new draconic features!
A favor for the Wyrm Beneath magnetizes your scales to yank foes into your grasp. Please the Wyrm Heraldic to sprout wings and soar the skies like your ancestors. At the end of this long path lies the ultimate boon: full metamorphosis into the form of a mighty dragon!
Yes, really!
The Kobold Ancestry contains:
Four signature traits that all kobold heroes share
Ten additional sets of traits that you can unlock through adventuring
Systems for transforming into a dragon and establishing your lair
Three kobold-themed kits: Praetorian, Testudo, and Veneficus
One leveled weapon treasure: Vanguard Signum
It's already fully written and ready to go to the editor. Of course, if people back at higher tiers, there'll be more writing to do. But right now it stands at 5,300 words across 24 pages, in a mobile-friendly, single column, 8.5x5.5 format. It's been extensively tested, including in an ongoing campaign.
Looking for leveled weapon treasures for your upcoming Draw Steel campaign? Weapons of Legend - Powered by Draw Steel provides directors and heroes with a collection of leveled weapon treasures to add to their game. Explore 50 weapons that increase in power with the Hero, each with a full-color illustration!
Back both projects to unlock two exclusive leveled treasures; a weapon and a shield that synergize to make you a draconic patron's ultimate champion.
Designer Spencer Hibnick is a freelance writer, designer, and tester, and is the senior contract tester for the creators of Draw Steel, MCDM. When he’s not trying to shoehorn kobolds into perfectly respectable TTRPG projects, he works in data visualization and software implementation in Miami. He's not sure why he’s writing this autobiography in the third person. You can check out his work at pestopublications.com. Cover Art Ricardo "Dojikaan" Rivera is an illustrator with 10+ years' worth of experience working on creative projects. Considering he's also a community manager for a tabletop game publisher, he gets to spend most of his days working with lovely fantasy nonsense. What a life! You can find more of his work at dojikaan.carrd.co.
On Kobolds Editor Donald Schepis is a game designer, writer, and editor with over ten years of experience in digital and analog games. Check out some of his past work at donaldschepis.com.
Testers 007190pats, Alden Parker, Cassandra MacDonald, David Lucas, Emma Birch, Evan Miller (Isangrimm), Félix Gauthier-Mamaril, Joel Russ, Koulga, Stephen Hall, Steven Fisher-Stawinski, Tamwin Le'Feur, Thomas "TDAWS" Dawson, Thorne
No generative AI was used in the creation of this project. Supporting it means supporting real people.
The campaign goal pays for the cover art, editing, and platform fees it took to get us this far!
Exceeding the Goal
Did you notice the list above doesn't include paying the writer (me)? Proceeds from my solo releases are reinvested into future projects. The additional funds raised from my Pesto’s Guide to Testing campaign went into this project's cover art.
If you're interested in new monsters or a collection of adventures that pit you against the sinister dragon Cthrion Uroniziir, the momentum from this campaign helps bring those into reality!
Draw Steel is a new heroic fantasy tabletop role-playing game. It was built from the ground up to deliver tactical, cinematic experiences, and it's some of the most fun I've ever had at the table. (I fell in love during an early test when my telekinetic hero dragged a goblin through a stone floor, crushing a second goblin on the level below.)
It's been in development for over two years, and is the first original game by MCDM - the developers of Flee, Mortals!, Kingdoms & Warfare, Arcadia, and other renowned Dungeons & Dragons 5e products.
