# Draw Steel Draws Blood With That Price Point tags: #thoughts ![[Draw Steel Bundle (illo).jpg|400]] Wait, hold up a sec. So the MCDM game **Draw Steel** has finally hit a marketplace. And let me get this right—they are charging $70 for their core book, hero tome, and beastiary. Are you fucking kidding me? *That's just for the PDF?* - https://shop.mcdmproductions.com/collections/draw-steel/products/draw-steel-core-rules-bundle-pdf Look folks, I don't want to tell you how to spend your money. It's your money. You can do with it whatever you want. But if you want to play a fantasy heartbreaker which leverages mechanical inspiration from Powered by the Apocalypse, then we can hand you **[[Fantasy World]]**. You can literally have it for free. You don't need a bestiary or a bunch of hero write-ups because the mechanics are straightforward and simple, and they just work. You have an imagination. You can use it. - https://unplayablegamesrpg.itch.io/fantasy-world ![[Fantasy World (cover).jpg|200]] You want something relatively crunchy and tactical, which has board presence and harkens back to **[[Dungeons and Dragons|D&D]]** 4th edition? You know what? That's fair. Sometimes what you want is a crunchy and tactical experience that focuses on board presence and positioning with some cool ways to show off your system mastery. I get it. I feel you, brother. How about we throw in a really interesting setting that you've probably never even thought of before and put it in a nice, pretty package? Here you go, **[[Gubat Banwa]]**, First Edition, which you can have for $20 for that PDF. It's pretty, it's fascinating, it's crunchy. Have a great time. - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/359868/gubat-banwa-first-edition ![[Gubat Banwa - First Edition (cover).jpg|200]] Maybe you are just interested in the adventure wargaming aspect of it, somewhere in between the RPG and the tactical side—a little bit of a hybrid. Something that gets the blood pumping but still has enough framework to let you do some roleplaying between the eyeball gouging. Fair enough, this is something that's desirable, but it's also something that's been done a whole lot more, a whole lot better, and a whole lot cheaper. Hell, we could just start by suggesting **[[Warrior Heroes - Adventures in Talomir|Warrior Heroes: Adventures in Talomir]]** from Two Hour Wargames. That's an easy $15, and with the leftover $65, you can buy every other supplement that exists for it, which are several adventures, as well as a couple of other games to play when you're tired of doing fantasy. - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/485947/warrior-heroes-adventures-in-talomir ![[Warrior Heroes - Adventures in Talomir (cover).png|200]] (Though, for $5 less, you can buy my actual favorite edition of the rules. It has a little more structure when it comes to the dungeon creation. I have preferences.) - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/273580/warrior-heroes-armies-and-adventurers ![[Warrior Heroes - Armies and Adventures (cover).jpg|200]] Who in the name of Satan's black bunghole is this product *targeted* to? Hades forfend that you want the actual printed edition because that's $135. I was already less than impressed with these guys because they seemed hellbent on claiming that their system practically fell out of the angelic urethra with barely a nod at the decade or more of games that went before that they effectively ripped off. But this is exploitation of the strangest kind when it comes to their audience. I have no idea what they're trying to do other than take a lot of people's money. Look, if you're looking for a new fantasy game to spend your time on, I swear we can find a couple of dozen that you can have your hot little hands on right now. You don't have to pre-order it. You don't have to wait. You can play it right now with your friends or solo. Hell, you can buy half the list for the amount of money that you would be spending there. I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money. I don't have anything to sell you. I don't have a dog in that hunt. But what I do have is a burning need to eat and sleep indoors, which I'm betting that you share. Holy crap, I am deeply boggled.