Crudely Drawn Swords - A Dungeon World Actual Play Podcast

Having acquired some valuable assets, The Hawks are almost ready to leave Upton Priory, but it feels like a wasted opportunity if they don't take a moment to use the resources at hand to mess with their opponent...

The Hawks have busted in to the temple keep at Upton Priory, which was once Percy's home church. Now they seek the forbidden tomes that lie concealed somewhere within it. Obviously, when tomes are forbidden they're usually left out somewhere obvious and easily accessible, so this will probably be fine.

A large new friend has emerged, at almost no cost whatsoever to Tristan, which is just the way he likes it. His companions, however, are feeling less well and may in fact need help fairly urgently. Time to search the ruins...

Their planning has paid off and the Hawks have successfully located a horribly dangerous beast bred as a living siege engine. Could it have paid off better, had they not introduced themselves by falling off a tower directly in front of it? Time will tell...

The Hawks have returned to the town where the team first met up, and where they held off disaster for a time. Life took them in another direction, however, and now they see how Farmouth lies after it's fall. A return to old haunts in a town carrying its own ghosts.

The Hawks have a destination, their old hometown of Farmouth, but the question arises of how to get there - and what will they find when they arrive?

In an abandoned village, our heroes prepare the first step of their plan, testing their power to create a certain influence over their enemy.

Having eluded dire peril, met up with one old friend and avoided meeting another, The Hawks are travelling north to find somewhere to hide out for a while and make a plan to change the world...

Beside the magical curtain of the Southern Lights, The Hawks are outnumbered but ready to fight to the last and send a signal to the world.

Hector doesn't need to stay around to supervise the capture of the Hawks - his ambush has sprung and he has plenty of troops on hand to bring them down. All he needs to do is get clear and wait, meanwhile the Hawks are fighting for their lives.

It was a trap, but of course they always knew it would be. If they could decapitate Hector's operation it would be a massive advantage, but of course, he has resources far beyond their reach, and he is not afraid to risk his troops lives to capture a treasure beyond value.

"I fear The Hawks are doomed. I found the Reaching Scroll I shared with Bambari scrawled over with unreadable symbols, so dense that it almost looked scorched. Not long after that we had word of a terrible power in the south- where the armies of our enemies marched there lies a wasteland of ash and ruin. The Icewatchers have been forced back, but the settlements they left behind were caught in the...

Once long ago there was a city, the capital of a grand empire. Now there is a ruin of shattered rock, home to ogres and crows. How did this great metropolis fall? To find out, we put together a team quite apart from The Hawks to turn a Microscope on that period of history, this is the second part of this game. It doesn't come to a grand conclusion because history isn't like this, but hopefully it...

The Rogues approach Coilspite's lair, but can they defeat the power that resides within and overthrow the devastating force of the serpent sorceror's will?

Confronted by the sorcerer Coilspite, the mystery of an empty cage and a panoply of peril, the Rogues must find their way through the mysterious realm to free the prisoner therein if they are to continue their quest in the real world.

Akashobya showed them the way, Grizzard manifested the path and Sir Leonard lead the charge. Now the Rogues find themselves in a different realm, one where their hopes and fears may be made manifest, even as the sinister power of Coilspite pursues them.

Four rogues, or more accurately three rogues and one rogue sword, have made a perilous journey from the Mirefort through the mysterious swamp-savannah to the edge of the forest where the hermit Akashobya may offer them respite on their urgent mission to warn the bastion-city of Foothold of a dreadful impending danger. But a new danger awaits them, along with the opportunity to right an ancient wro...

It was the broken age, an age of disaster and peril, a time where the only way to survive the brutal onslaught of endless chaos was for each person to know their place. Who they could trust, who they would follow, who could protect them. Only a few brave rogues had the wherewithal to live outside the strict laws, to forge their own path and fight alone. This begins the story of four of these celeb...

Once long ago there was a city, the capital of a grand empire. Now there is a ruin of shattered rock, home to ogres and crows. How did this great metropolis fall? To find out, we put together a team quite apart from The Hawks to turn a Microscope on that period of history...

Spoiler Alert: Do not listen to this episode unless you want to be hit with spoilers for the whole of Crudely Drawn Swords up to the end of Season 3. Definitely don't start here! This is our end-of-season retrospective, where we answer listener questions about the show so far and whatever other important matters they wanted to know about. This was originally streamed so if you wanted to enjoy it a...

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Bambari you are making a journey few westerners have managed since the days of the Stone Empire - I don’t know whether even Jack of the Wild made it that far across the plains, almost to the eastern barrier range. Your accounts will be extraordinarily valuable for scholars interested in those realms and, I suspect, as a record of a changing world. Be careful, Bambari. I have enjoyed our correspond...

Saffron, I’m really sorry we are taking so long. I wanted to destroy the sword to destabilise Hector's power. But Percy won’t let me. He thinks it’s too big a risk. I think we’re losing anyway so we should take a chance. I’m not going to debate it anymore and I’m not going to try and destroy the sword. But I am going to use the power available to us. It’s too much of a waste not to. I’ll try and g...

I knew that when you wandered out in the world you would be capable of great things and it sounds like that is exactly what you are doing! There won’t be many people around who have experience like you do. The birds have told me about the soldiers at the edge of the woods, but fortunately they know that it is a narrow band of forest between them and the mountains and there isn’t anything to intere...

How exciting for you! You’ve got the principles of the curse breaking just about right, but the danger with undoing a Great Work is that there are an awful lot of strands and many of them will be stretched very tight, like trees under a heavy snow ready to spring back the moment it starts to melt. When that balance starts to shift and the tension is released expect the power to be released unevenl...