About this episode
Episode 242 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Draw Steel and Introducing New RPGs! James Introcaso joins Teos to discuss the challenges any new RPG has in attracting an audience, explaining what makes it fun, creating starter sets, and much more! We draw heavily on Draw Steel, the MCDM RPG coming out later this summer! News: Daggerheart Media Blitz, Diana Jones Emerging Designers, Storytelling Through Violence, and more! Contents 00:00 It's James Introcaso! 02:07 Nautical for AL vs Home? 08:10 Underwater Armor House Rules? 17:06 Diana Jones Emerging Designers 19:50 Daggerheart Media Blitz 25:13 Brotherwise Hiring RPG Director 26:44 Storytelling Through Violence 34:47 Draw Steel and Introducing New RPGs 35:14 Summer of Draw Steel 36:37 A Challenge for All RPGs 38:37 Barriers to Entry 42:05 Getting Group Buy-In 45:20 Finding an Audience 50:41 Communicating What the Game Is 55:40 Role of Stores and Distributors 01:00:21 A Great Starter Set 01:02:56 Supporting Conventions 01:06:01 Great Pregens 01:13:00 MCDM's Next Products 01:16:26 What Are We Gonna Do Now? Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/ Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.