Monster Book RC (Patreon)

Update: The survey for feedback has now closed.

... or the RCM for Really Cool Monsters (which is what Willy told me it stands for).

Hey folks! James here to let you in on a little Patreon preview. We have the release candidate for Draw Steel: Monsters attached to the bottom of this post. This puppy is packing over 400 stat blocks of monstery and dynamic terrain object goodness.

Much like the hero book release candidate, what you're looking at is still a work in progress. Because the book is still under construction, you'll notice that it has some print lines on the corners and sides of each page and some color gradients at the top of each page. Those won't be in the final version!

Reporting Issues

If you find a typo, formatting error, or some other issue with the book that you want to report, please use the survey here to do so:

https://forms.gle/xMBxa7t3MwLqjQSS8

You can fill out the survey multiple times if you want to send us multiple issues.

The big thing we want to know about is typos. Where are there spelling errors and such in the text. There's lots of lay out and art tweaking to be done, but we know that!

We're not relying on you folks to tell us every issue. We've got a team of proofreaders who are still going over this thing as we speak. You don't have to report errors if you don't want to! Some of you will want to, so we set up a way to report errors that best serves our workflow.

The feedback period for this RC is going to be very short. We're trying to turn around this book in a few days!

Known Issues

There are some generally known issues with this PDF that we're going to share with you now. These don't need to be reported!

Accessibility: This PDF still needs to undergo a thorough accessibility pass.

Inconsistent Spacing: Right now the spacing between sections, within abilities, and above various headings is inconsistent. Many characteristic score entries, traits, and abilities still need to be adjusted. Those mistakes look pretty bad right now, but we're aware and working on them.

Missing Art: There are a very few spots in the book where art needs to be placed or changed.

No Bookmarks: The PDF currently has no bookmarks.

No Cover: The cover is still coming.

No Resources Page: Including a link to a sortable table of stat blocks.

No Working Links: The cross reference and outside links in the PDF currently don't work.

Wyverns and Xorranox Messed Up: They need some big fixes.

Incorrect Icons: Some of the icons matched to abilities are incorrect. We are in the process of fixing them!

Some Stat Blocks Too Long: Some stat blocks are a little too big for the page. We're gonna shrink 'em!

Discord and Reddit

If you want to find a group to playtest or want to chat about the release candidate, head on over to the MCDM Discord. Be sure to link your Patreon and Discord accounts so you can also chat about the adventure with our other Patrons.

You can also head on over to the Draw Steel subreddit to discuss the game!

Thank you all so much for supporting MCDM and Draw Steel! We are VERY CLOSE to the release now.

—James