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3/19/2004 Henri: BW and GNS
Reading through BW, I feel like I am seeing a mix of creative agendas. I was wondering if some of the people who have played a lot of BW could…
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Participants: Henri, rafial, Valamir, abzu, Michael S. Miller, Mulciber.

3/12/2004 Mike Holmes: New Review up at RPG.net
See it here: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10166.phtml Pretty glowing. Mike
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Participants: Mike Holmes, abzu.

2/21/2004 Mulciber: Actual Play: Trithofar: Liam Learns to Set Up Fights
Some people play _Burning Wheel_ in Alabama. That includes me and my friend Jared. Trithofar Setting Notes (enough to get you by): Kunjels are the not really anthropomorphized cats. They…
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Participants: Mulciber, abzu, rafial.

2/17/2004 abzu: Burning Wheel Annual 1: Input your Suggestions
Hi All, One of the projects on my plate is to produce a Burning Wheel "Annual". This book will include all of the updates, variants, alternates, additions and errata that…
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Participants: abzu, Sammael99, edomaur, Morrius, Enoch, tetsujin28, spunky, Mulciber, Negilent.

1/25/2004 adamsmith: Alternative Character Types?
Just got my copy of TBW in the mail (thanks Luke!) and I'm looking through it at the moment. I may be mistaken, but it doesn't look like it has…
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Participants: adamsmith, abzu, Bracken, Negilent.

1/25/2004 Lxndr: My Setting In Play - Character Creation
(Burning Wheel needs someone as good as Brian Leybourne to wander in and create a character creation/advancement/storage program that'll print out the characters on a real-looking sheet.) I thought aboust…
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Participants: Lxndr, taepoong, abzu.

1/22/2004 Negilent: TROS spiritual attributes in BW
I have both systems, and the thing that drew me to TROS was the spiritual attribute system. But no offense Jake, but along came BW and I fell totally for…
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Participants: Negilent, Lxndr, abzu, Valamir, joshua neff, Bracken.

1/21/2004 Lxndr: Burning Wheel Site Hacked
At least, as far as I can tell, someone fucked over Luke by hacking his website. Ugh. Sorry, Luke. I hope the data's recoverable. :(
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Participants: Lxndr, abzu, rafial, Sammael99, Kaare Berg.

1/19/2004 Sammael99: First Impressions (incomplete)
So Burning Wheel arrived to my door on Saturday (well, actually on Friday night, but I got home at 2 AM, so I didn't check my mail until Saturday.) Great…
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Participants: Sammael99, abzu, rafial, joshua neff, taepoong, Durgil, Lxndr, Valamir, drozdal.

1/10/2004 Mulciber: Alteration of Beliefs and Instincts
Hey Luke (and others), I seem to remember your core books indicating that not playing with a Belief could be grounds for it being dismissed. Do you have any other…
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Participants: Mulciber, abzu.

1/9/2004 Bryant: Burning Wheel Top Seller in Boston
Luke noted Pandemonium's indie book selection earlier this year. The gaming guy over there just posted their 2003 top sellers, and hey! There's Burning Wheel in a tie for…
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Participants: Bryant, abzu, Mike Holmes.

1/7/2004 Sammael99: Interrogations
Hi all ! Following Burning Wheel's nomination for an outie, I have become interested in this system, and I had a few questions : - I've read various reviews, but…
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Participants: Sammael99, abzu, xiombarg, Lxndr, rafial, taepoong.

1/6/2004 Calithena: PBeM?
Has anyone tried Burning Wheel for PBeM play? The thing that makes me think it might be a cut above the norm is the 'combat scripting' approach, though I only…
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Participants: Calithena, Lxndr.

1/6/2004 ethan_greer: Best New RPG 2003
Wow, Ken Hite gives Burning Wheel "the nod." Congrats, Luke! Read all about it here.
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Participants: ethan_greer, abzu, Lxndr, Mike Holmes.

1/5/2004 xiombarg: alternate wound penalties
[url]http://www.burningwheel.org/pdf/woundtolerances.pdf[/url] It appears that Luke thought these important enough to print out and include them, as a seperate sheet, with my copy of [i]The Burning Wheel[/i]. Why is this? Could…
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Participants: xiombarg, taepoong, abzu, Kaare Berg, Lxndr, Durgil, rafial.

1/1/2004 Lxndr: A Possible Setting for Burning Wheel
I've got a number of homegrown fantasy settings sitting around (who doesn't, right?), and it's occurred to me that Burning Wheel might be the right home for one of them.…
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Participants: Lxndr, abzu, drozdal, taepoong.

1/1/2004 Lxndr: Called Shots
Okay, on page 150, Burning Wheel has a rather nice, simple set of Called Shots rules. But there seems to be too little reward - is the only benefit of…
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Participants: Lxndr, abzu, taepoong.

12/25/2003 Lxndr: A funny thing happened on my way to my character...
Well, not really funny. But I decided I'd try to make myself a character, and then I realized - you know, I really don't like doing stuff by hand. Years…
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Participants: Lxndr, Kaare Berg, abzu.

12/21/2003 Lxndr: Random BW Questions
I've poked through here, and I've poked through the forums on your site, as well as looking through the book. Here are questions I couldn't find answered. If they were,…
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Participants: Lxndr, abzu, rafial.

12/18/2003 Calithena: Can I see a sample monster? A sample NPC?
I'm curious about what these things look like in Burning Wheel and how long they take to whip up.
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Participants: Calithena, rafial, taepoong, abzu.

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4/4/2004 Jürgen Mayer: Burning Wheel runner-up for Best RPG (Pen&Paper Fan Awar
Runner-up for Best RPG and Best Graphic Design. http://www.pen-paper.net/awards.php Congrats, Luke!
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Participants: Jürgen Mayer, abzu.

4/5/2004 abzu: Spending and Earning New Artha
Here's a quick run down of artha earning and spending from our game last night. Sorry I can't be much more detailed, very busy at the moment. Feel free to…
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Participants: abzu, rafial, Mulciber.

4/11/2004 bergh: Elves in BW. please tell me more.
Hi I have hear that BW should include a very good kinda "fate" system for the elven race, please tell me more.
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Participants: bergh, taepoong.

4/12/2004 abzu: New Reviews of Burning Wheel
In case your curious, or you need yet another reason to go out and buy the damn game: There's a new one on about.com http://roleplaygames.about.com/cs/productreviews/fr/burningfull.htm and there's one over at…
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Participants: abzu.

5/10/2004 abzu: Burning Wheel in National Distribution
Who knew? Burning Wheel is being solicited in this month's Game Trade Magazine. Issue #51, I think. So there are no excuses left. Bug your FLGS to order the damn…
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Participants: abzu, rafial, Sammael99, Claymore, taepoong, hive_mind.

6/3/2004 Albert of Feh: Open-ended probabilities?
Hey there. My copy of Burning Wheel just arrived a few days ago, and I've been rather enjoying poking around in it. Now all I need are some players... Anyway,…
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Participants: Albert of Feh, Durgil, taepoong, LordSmerf, Henri.

6/25/2004 Albert of Feh: LeGuin-style naming magic
I recently re-read Ursula K. leGuin's Earthsea books, and realized that there's a lot I really like about the world's approach to magery. Rather than just people who can throw…
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Participants: Albert of Feh, Thor Olavsrud, Negilent, taepoong.

6/29/2004 Negilent: Mass combat
In my game there has been one big battle and more are brewing. So inspired by this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11668 I would like to pick your collective brains on an idea…
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Participants: Negilent, rafial, Claymore, taepoong.

7/12/2004 Ron Edwards: Questions in prepping my BW game
Hello, I'm prepping for our upcoming Burning Wheel game, which is planned to be a pretty extensive set of sessions. I'm doing this mainly by dumping as much into the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, abzu, Eero Tuovinen, Paka, rafial, taepoong.

7/13/2004 Bracken: Is the Annual set in Stone yet? (New Suggestions/wish list)
Hello Abzu, Sorry I didn't comment earlier, but I had a couple of suggestions about the upcoming BW annual that's supposed to be coming out. 1) New Lifepaths One of…
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Participants: Bracken, Claymore.

7/14/2004 efindel: Arg...
Anyone know if there's still anywhere selling copies of Burning Wheel? My car got flooded, and my books were in it. They're still usable... but they have that wrinkly quality…
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Participants: efindel, Claymore.

7/18/2004 abzu: BW Ltd Ed T SHIRTS
Ok folks, I'm doing a limited run of Burning Wheel T-Shirts: http://www.burningwheel.org/tshirt.html I did a run of 14 shirts last christmas at this same printer and they came out very…
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Participants: abzu.

7/29/2004 Eamon: Burning Wheel at DragonCon?
You guys gonna be there this year? I'll be there and I've been curious about Burning Wheel for some time now.
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Participants: Eamon, LordSmerf, drozdal, abzu.

7/29/2004 newsalor: 2-H sword
I just bought Burning Wheel #740 . . . The game looks good, though there are a lot of minor details that would have needed some fixing. Anyway, I can't…
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Participants: newsalor, Durgil, abzu.

7/31/2004 newsalor: A possible armor rules variant
I was thinking about the armor rules and I am thinking about tweaking them a bit. Now, it seems to me that the armor rules have been built to counter…
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Participants: newsalor, Durgil, abzu, taepoong, rafial, Negilent, Thor Olavsrud.

8/5/2004 DaGreatJL: Can't access webpage
For whatever reason, I can't seem to get into any part of the Burning Wheel homepage except for the very front page; I can't get into the news section, and…
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Participants: DaGreatJL, abzu.

8/13/2004 dyjoots: A few questions after one read-through...
(x-posted to RPGnet) The other day I went to one of the gaming stores in town to check and see if, by some miniscule chance, they had any Pirates od…
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Participants: dyjoots, abzu.

8/14/2004 Don D.: Character Attrition
With the combat system so deadly in the Burning Wheel, are players libel to lose their characters frequently? Do adventures tend to be light on combat scenes because of this?…
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Participants: Don D., abzu, taepoong, Negilent.

8/14/2004 Don D.: Gencon
Will Burning Wheel be highlighted at Gencon? I would love to get in on a demo. I was intrigued with it at Origins but was with a couple dudes who…
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Participants: Don D., jrs, abzu, Michael S. Miller.

8/24/2004 Don D.: Burning Wheel Middle Earth
Has anyone came up with special rules/ character creation modifiers for using Burning Wheel in Middle Earth? It seems like a perfect fit other than some added material for races…
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Participants: Don D., Paka, abzu.

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