Draw Steel: Book One – Heroes

by Matthew Colville

Draw Steel: Book One – Heroes is the core rules volume for the Draw Steel roleplaying game system. It includes character creation, hero abilities, combat rules, negotiation and montage mechanics, and everything needed to begin running and playing the game, excluding monster statblocks, which are in Book Two.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Fantasy

401 pages, Hardcover

Published September 15, 2025

Reviews

[Michael Nash]

As a long time critic of the actual game systems of Dungeons and Dragons, I was blown away by some of the clever game design present in Draw Steel!. They do a great job of yadda-yadda'ing the stuff that sucks like inventory management and providing in-game-mechanic narrative hooks. And bottom line, the combat is really well designed and a lot of fun to play.

[Simon]

A fun and interesting ttrpg that I hope to one day direct from, some really unique things at least compared to my ttrpg experience esp with their negotiation system and interactive combat

[Brendan Bailey]

An amazing new TTRPG system. Brings alot of dynamic combat mechanics forward. Negotiations and montages are one of my favorite mechanics to date.