About this episode

Ben a.k.a. SurfingBird discusses the design of the gish class Scion for Draw Steel.

Ben a.k.a. SurfingBird is on Goblin Points. He's a founder of the Draw Steel Brewery Discord server, and recently published the gish class Scion. Ben talks about how he went about designing the class, and how to make sure the class feels like a proper Draw Steel class. Links: The ScionDraw Steel BreweryLancerTom Bloom's Discord ServerChapters: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Interview 50:10 Outro Support the show GoblinPoints.comStawl.appDiscord Server Leave a comment on YouTube or Spotify, or send me an e...

People in this episode

Host: Jon de Nor

Guest: Ben a.k.a. SurfingBird

Topics covered

• game design
• tabletop games
• Discord communities
• class creation
• interviews

Keywords

• Draw Steel
• gish class
• game design
• Discord
• tabletop RPG

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Draw Steel Brewery, Tom Bloom's Discord Server

Books & works: gish class Scion

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