WlfSamurai
Maelstrom Engineer
Foreword!
Burning Wheel is an award-winning fantasy roleplaying game in which players take on the roles of vibrant, dynamic characters whose very beliefs propel the story forward. Starting with a simple D6 dice pool mechanic, this game intuitively builds on its core concepts. The rules detail dramatic systems for task resolution, advancement, trials of belief, tests of nerve, searing social conflict, dangerous sorcery, miraculous faith, and brutal, gut-wrenching martial combat. Behind the dice, your decisions drive the game’s systems. Their choices tangibly affect every outcome—from glorious victory to ignominious defeat. But there are consequences to every decision, ramifications to every action. The choices you make close off one path, while opening another. This philosophy underpins the character creation system for Burning Wheel. And it’s not just a matter of pushing a point here, or nudging a number there: As soon as a player decides to make a character in Burning Wheel, he is confronted with decisions about the character’s past, ethics, beliefs, scars, goals and dreams. Questions whose answers affect not only the player’s character, but the shape of the story as a whole. Burning Wheel is presented in an easy-to-read writing style, with plenty of insight and advice from the designer. If you’re not careful, Burning Wheel will change the way you play roleplaying games.
Sacrifice & Reward
This is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, games. It’s intended for your character to be unique, dynamic, and drive her own story. It is a set of systems that requires time and attention. It is game that 100% you get what you put into it. And many times, more.
I won’t lie: this is a hell of a game. Heavy. Fiddly. Hard. But oh so satisfying.
Burning Wheel is the Swiss watch of RPGs. It puts the RP back into RPG.
The nature of the game makes it lengthy to teach in person. So, I have only posted it here one other time because it will require dedication.
Through it all, you will end up in a rich world we build together with a detailed character who fights for the things she believes in. And since it’s fantasy, there will be magic and monsters to boot.
And so, I ask you—nay beg you—to take on this game with me. I promise at least interesting things will happen. And maybe, just maybe, we will have some of the greatest PbP fun.
Burning Wheel is an award-winning fantasy roleplaying game in which players take on the roles of vibrant, dynamic characters whose very beliefs propel the story forward. Starting with a simple D6 dice pool mechanic, this game intuitively builds on its core concepts. The rules detail dramatic systems for task resolution, advancement, trials of belief, tests of nerve, searing social conflict, dangerous sorcery, miraculous faith, and brutal, gut-wrenching martial combat. Behind the dice, your decisions drive the game’s systems. Their choices tangibly affect every outcome—from glorious victory to ignominious defeat. But there are consequences to every decision, ramifications to every action. The choices you make close off one path, while opening another. This philosophy underpins the character creation system for Burning Wheel. And it’s not just a matter of pushing a point here, or nudging a number there: As soon as a player decides to make a character in Burning Wheel, he is confronted with decisions about the character’s past, ethics, beliefs, scars, goals and dreams. Questions whose answers affect not only the player’s character, but the shape of the story as a whole. Burning Wheel is presented in an easy-to-read writing style, with plenty of insight and advice from the designer. If you’re not careful, Burning Wheel will change the way you play roleplaying games.
Sacrifice & Reward
This is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, games. It’s intended for your character to be unique, dynamic, and drive her own story. It is a set of systems that requires time and attention. It is game that 100% you get what you put into it. And many times, more.
I won’t lie: this is a hell of a game. Heavy. Fiddly. Hard. But oh so satisfying.
Burning Wheel is the Swiss watch of RPGs. It puts the RP back into RPG.
The nature of the game makes it lengthy to teach in person. So, I have only posted it here one other time because it will require dedication.
Through it all, you will end up in a rich world we build together with a detailed character who fights for the things she believes in. And since it’s fantasy, there will be magic and monsters to boot.
And so, I ask you—nay beg you—to take on this game with me. I promise at least interesting things will happen. And maybe, just maybe, we will have some of the greatest PbP fun.
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