SurfingBird: Making a Gish for Draw Steel | Interview
From Goblin Points by Jon de Nor
February 25, 2026 · 52 min · Season 2026 · Episode 6
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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