What is in a Name?

There is apparently a game called Draw Steel that came out this year. Or maybe it was last year? I don't know. All I know is that it is a new table top role playing game that came out recently.

Well that isn't all I know. From what little I have heard, it sounds like the mechanics draw their roots from the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, which was a god damn awesome game. Also, what I heard sounded a bit like the Savage Worlds RPG.

All that said, this isn't a review of Draw Steel. This my friends, is a design exercise based on the name. Cause honestly, it is a great name. It's evocative and immediately draws images of flashing steel to my mind...

Which is the point and why I wanted to do this little exercise. It is a variation of branding exercises I have done in the past for my day job. In this case, I am going to broadly design a game, which is kind of a branding exercise in of itself, based on nothing but the name...