Burning Airships - Wow, just wow. What a fantastic setup for a high (!) fantasy game! Make sure you scroll down to read the GM's write-up of the first session...

The whole thing kind of reminds me of Doctor Who a bit - with travelers from another time arriving in the midst of earthshaking changes and creepy alien influence, but having antagonists ( Read more... )

 This idea of Paul Tevis' sounds like a truly awesome idea for an epic fantasy RPG.

I think you could do it in Burning Wheel - start off with a "traditional" adventure as the Princes go off into the land to serve & protect & learn the use and abuse of power, but load every character down with hooks that drive them back to take up the throne (bidden ( Read more... )

 Tonight my group and i finally sat down to play our new Burning Wheel series. I tried to push for a pace much faster than my usual languid GMing style, and i think it worked rather well, even if i still think i could do better.

My goal for this session was to introduce as much of the setting and as many of the major npcs as possible, while also ( Read more... )

 So here is a thesis: Burning Wheel is exactly the opposite of D&D in terms of how the grand-scale fiction interacts with the mechanics.

In BW, you play in a very character-oriented way pushing your BITs to drive the development of the fiction, only stopping to "zoom down" to the crunchy mechanical blow-by-blow play level of DoWs, Fight!, R&C, etc ( Read more... )

Geography 101

The action for A Legacy of Blood begins in the Barony of Hochwald, far to the north of the seat of the king's court at Fahrensee. While not a cold land, the barony feels the touch of winter far more strongly than the more poplous lands down south, lying as it does under the shadow of the great Eisenwand mountains to the northeast. The ( Read more... )

In the Legacies setting mages, sorcerers, witches, wizards, and practioners of all kinds, past and present, have always organized their understanding and practice of the sorcerous arts into "schools of magic", each with its own traditions, philosophies, and rites of passage. Some schools were actual academic institutions, with teachers, classes, ( Read more... )

 Last night i was finally able to sit down with Jonas & Matt to hash out this new BW game, however, despite all of the posts i've been making presenting game ideas we ended up running with something completely different.

In a large part this was due to logging on to the BW Forum, reading the latest Burning THACO AP post, and being inspired by that ( Read more... )

 Here is what i want out of a BW game:

- World Travelling Adventure
- Characters at the Heart of World-changing Events
- Cultural Exploration & Conflict
- Politics & Leadership (Characters with Binding Ties, Loyalties, & Duties)
- Instant Action (Powered by Beliefs & Relations)
- Social Conflict Today, Martial Conflict Tommorrow (Eg. both at once...)
- ( Read more... )

 I'm gearing up to work on Folkruler, but first i'm going to see if i can get enough buy in from Matt & Jonas to run a new Mokumakani game ( Read more... )

 I've been trying to put together a new Burning Wheel game for some time now; Seemingly it might help to discuss the various ideas for games which i have been toying with lately. Here are some quick summaries:

- The New World (Reburn) - The simplest thing to prepare would be to take the game i put together over the spring, but which my group never ( Read more... )