The Gaming Den

Scalped by Jason Aaron and RM Guera. The last issue for this just came out a few weeks ago. It's a noir crime drama set on the Lakota reservation. Occasionally it seems like it want to be an HBO series but it is generally very good and has heights of brilliance.

Cinderella's Prince's formal wear puts him as the most modern. His outfit is Nineteenth or even Twentieth Century.

In Burning Wheel characters each have three Beliefs that are basically combination goals and motivations. If a character works towards a belief during a session they get a fate point at the end; when they complete a belief the character gets a persona point. (These are both used to modify die rolls,...

For one I know that even at this stage I'm not going to allow players to be able to get anyone of importance on their side. What if I want to spend my points to be the King's hunting buddy or the adviser to the Duke of Milan? Plenty of players might want to skip buying the castle and just spend the...

A foot sweep is basically a trip attack? Unless you're playing UFC: The MMA RPG or whatever then the same maneuver can probably be used to represent any trip or throw where the attacker remains standing and the opponent wouldn't take damage from hitting the ground. You could have a separate move fo...

For whatever it's worth these are combat actions I'd like to be able to do with a character who is skilled in hand-to-hand combat. Foot sweep the crap out of someone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAvD5YvlWOM&feature=related Take an opponent down and pin them or injure them: http://www.youtube....

MGuy, if I'm reading you right you're saying that players will have the option to roll to generate a contact but that doing so opens them up to risk (if they fail the roll) whereas they can simply spend points to create a permanent contact with a 100% chance of success. It seems like you might have ...

There's also the option of making more trivial and temporary plot abilities a roll rather than an expenditure of a permanent resource. In Burning Wheel characters have a Circles stat that they roll to find npcs and contacts. For example, in the last game I played one of the characters was wounded an...

Recently I was wrangled into running an RPG over facebook by a friend of mine. I foolishly said yes and began to look for a good system. Two of my players however, have never played any sort of RPG (or really any games since childhood) before and one has only played CRPGS. I figured I'd whip up some...

The requirement by law of this procedure* is simply the state saying "We control your vagina." If a woman doesn't listen to these misogynistic shitheads and abstain from sex, and then doesn't do what they want and carry an unwanted baby to term this requirement lets the state jump in at th...

Burning Wheel uses an abstract resources system where you have a resources stat that you roll to buy different things. The stat is meant to represent favors, property, debts owed to your character and other non-liquid assets. So if my character has a resources of 3 he can reliably buy small items li...

The Duel of Wits in Burning Wheel is only slightly less involved than the rules for combat (they share the same basic structure) and is a lot of fun. BW plays as a medieval fantasy on the grittier side (expect to fail your rolls) but I've been having a ton of fun with it for the past couple of month...

In the Winter 1152 story line the Guardmice encounter the bat in the ruins of a weasel burrow/empire called Darkheather. The ruins had a Moorish vibe to them and are definitely the product of another civilization.

Why did Rome have metal and aqueducts while the Aztecs beat each other with rocks? For that you should read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jarred Diamond. It's a massive tome of geographic determinism that basically credits the shape of the Eurasian continent and the types of animals and plants found ther...

Yeah, in BW you keep track of your rolls and their difficulty and when you have achieved enough tests (success or failure) your skill goes up. So if I have a Sword of 3 I need three routine tests and one difficult or challenging to go to 4. The difficulty is based on the number of dice rolled vs the...

That has an active, comic-booky feel. I could definitely see spicing up the combat section with a pile of cartoons of characters in action poses doing stuff. That makes sense considering the way I've spent most of my drawing time since first grade. Cool characters in action poses it is. I'll probab...

I found myself with some free time and decided to do a version of the Baali above. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_CMk54GC3t3k/TaUKVpQOf_I/AAAAAAAAACk/BrDKyx6elIs/s512/baali.jpg It's hard to shade people who are on fire... I've got a spring break coming up and while I'll be working on a paper I s...

The knight in the style of a monumental brass is really cool.

The first assassin looks like a character from Dune, and is in a neat pose.

After several false starts with my old gaming group I've gotten into a Burning Wheel game. So far it's been a lot of fun. It's fantasy, but not D&D fantasy (although there are some threads on the messageboard on running old-school adventures, "Burning Thac0" However, as I said, I tried...

So far I'm just outlining and coming up with ideas, including the language, which I'm going to have be a mishmash of Old English and textspeak. Have you read The Book of Dave by Will Self? Half of it is set in a post-apocalyptic England where the titular main character of the modern half's angry ra...

K wrote:Is there some Burning Wheel online source I could check out?

On the downloads section of the Burning Wheel wiki there are sample chapters from the books as well as The Sword, an introductory adventure.

http://www.burningwheel.org/wiki/index. ... =Downloads

@Catharz: I might need to mess with the colors a bit. I'm at a different computer now and the skin tones look very different than on my TV at home.

I've gamed with a bunch of fellow teachers. A friend of mine has even been MCing for some of his 4th graders as a reward.

@Avoraciopoctules: Here's what I've done so far. I'm in the middle of hunting for a new roommate so this is probably as much as I can do before your next session. I can give you a larger size version if you want. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_CMk54GC3t3k/TS5uVgkLGYI/AAAAAAAAABw/WUzHZm8edGs/s512/hob-teach-co...

I've only played a little Burning Wheel. I've tried to GM twice, both times the games collapsed like a flan in a cubboard. I also played in a game run by a more experienced player which was fun until he got a job and didn't have time to game. Overall I'd say it was a fun game, but at times frustrati...

Avoraciopoctules: When is your next session? Koumei: Erasing my pencil lines has almost always lead to streaking and heartbreak. I had an illustration teacher who insisted we do all our inking on a new board, using a light-box to trace over the pencils. Light-boxes cost around 60$ but they can be ma...