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2/9/2006 Iskander: Burning Wiki
The wiki, it burns! it burns!.
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Participants: Iskander.

2/9/2006 Erlend Bruer: Two quick questions
Hello I started my first BW campaign just before Christmas, and we've had enjoyable evenings with this somewhat complicated but very appropriate system. During the course of play we have…
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Participants: Erlend Bruer, Kaare Berg (Old).

1/26/2006 Eric J-D: availability in NYC/ northern NJ?
I am new to the northern NJ area and was wondering if you (Luke) knew of any stores in the northern Jersey or greater NYC area that has Burning Wheel? …
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Participants: Eric J-D, Iskander, Thor Olavsrud.

1/16/2006 abzu: Boston/Vericon at the End of the Month
Hey folks, I'll be at Vericon at the end of the month doing a panel with Vincent Baker and Jared Sorensen. Is there any interest in my running a game?…
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Participants: abzu.

1/14/2006 Gaerik: Woohoo!
I got my BW!  I got my BW! These are nice looking books, btw, Luke. Sorry...  I was just enthusiastic about my books arriving.
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Participants: Gaerik, abzu.

1/11/2006 oneofthesedays: Female here...
as a female, do any of the males think i would like burning wheel?
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Participants: oneofthesedays, rafial, dunlaing, abzu, urbanpagan, Tommi Brander, energy.

1/11/2006 dunlaing: Pegboy
One of my players wants to take a lifepath that requires the trait "pegboy," He was concerned though, because he doesn't want to have a peg leg, and he thought…
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Participants: dunlaing, Thor Olavsrud, Gaerik, Supplanter, Clinton R. Nixon, Iskander, abzu.

12/22/2005 Ice Cream Emperor: Crazy Canadian shipping rates?
I went over to Key20direct to order a copy of Burning Wheel, and was somewhat dismayed/astounded to discover that the minimum rate for shipping the game to Canada is $11…
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Participants: Ice Cream Emperor, Blankshield, Brand_Robins, abzu, Bastoche, Valamir, Mike Lucas.

12/20/2005 AnyaTheBlue: BW.org forums broken?
Um -- can anybody else get into the BW.org forums (normally located here)? All I see is "Please ensure both the install/ and contrib/ directories are deleted"... Thanks!
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Participants: AnyaTheBlue, Thor Olavsrud, abzu, Mencelus, Kaare Berg (Old), taepoong, JamesDJIII, Aman the Rejected.

12/15/2005 Eric Minton: A Player's First Character (Monster Hunter)
[b]Concept:[/b] Monster Hunter [b]Character Name:[/b] Rane [b]Lifepaths:[/b] Village Born, Village Guard, Footsoldier, Veteran [b]Age:[/b]  25 [b]Stats:[/b] Wi: 3  Pe: 4  Po: 4  Fo: 4  Ag: 4  Sp: 4 [b]Attributes:[/b] He:…
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Participants: Eric Minton, abzu, Valamir.

12/8/2005 dunlaing: Burning Wheel Rules Drift
One of my players wants to drift the Burning Wheel rules significantly: He is refusing to pay resource points for shoes and clothing. "I got shoes, I got clothes, and…
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Participants: dunlaing, mtiru, demiurgeastaroth, rafial, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Paka, MetalBard, coriakin, drozdal, Eric Minton, Wolfen.

12/6/2005 Lxndr: Burning Wheel vs. Revised
So, I own the non-revised Burning Wheel.  And I ordered the revised version from IPR a while back, but they're on backorder or something, so have yet to arrive. In…
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Participants: Lxndr, abzu, Keith Senkowski, Thor Olavsrud.

12/1/2005 jasonm: DoW Question
In my continuing effort to break myself on the wheel, last night I started our session with a kickin' duel of wits.  I ran into a big problem, though, and…
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Participants: jasonm, abzu, MetalBard.

11/14/2005 jasonm: Streamlining combat
I finally got to play in one of those much-praised one hour Luke demos.  Thanks, dude!  It was fun and very informative.  I learned a lot from watching you -…
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Participants: jasonm, abzu, Halzebier, Thor Olavsrud, mobuttu.

11/3/2005 ghashsnaga: Just got it
Well Burning Wheel arrived in the mail about a week and a half ago. I've been telling my gaming group about BW for nearly a month since I stumbled across…
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Participants: ghashsnaga, Thor Olavsrud, abzu, mobuttu, MetalBard, Negilent, Ice Cream Emperor, taepoong.

10/21/2005 abzu: GenCon SoCal 2005 -- Game Design Seminar
I posted this over on the news side, but I wanted to spread the word in case you don't head over there often. Jared, John and I will be …
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Participants: abzu.

10/4/2005 jasonm: Shield
So I'm prepping for a campaign using BW and set in warring states China, or close enough.  I have a question on how to handle a couple of ideosyncratic items…
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Participants: jasonm, taepoong, abzu.

9/30/2005 Brand_Robins: So I finally bought this stupid game.
I knew I did not need Burning Wheel. I have a very little interest in fantasy RPGs these days, and what focus I do have for them is well tended…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, Bob Goat, Valamir, rafial, abzu, Jake Norwood, MetalBard, Kevin_Brennan.

9/17/2005 jasonm: Small questions
Hi all, My friend and I sat down to try out Burning Wheel revised today and found it pretty frustrating.  Some small questions: If you are using the basic (non-scripted)…
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Participants: jasonm, rafial, Bankuei, Paka, abzu, MetalBard, Thor Olavsrud.

9/10/2005 jaw6: Life path sort order?
How are the life paths organized within settings? I'm having trouble understanding... It doesn't seem to be alphabetical, for example, but maybe I'm missing something...
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Participants: jaw6, abzu, Ron Edwards.

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2/21/2006 talysman: BW website broken?
I just tried using both Firefox and Internet Explorer to access the Burning Wheel site, and it seems that most of the dynamic (PHP) pages return just a blank page.…
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Participants: talysman, rafial, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Iskander.

3/1/2006 Judaicdiablo: [Burning Sands] Incorporating the Propagana War Effectively
From the Burning Sands rules: “The Propaganda war is meant to supplement the situations played out in the game, not be the main focus.” One of the most engaging, but…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, abzu, drozdal, Iskander.

3/6/2006 ffilz: Does anyone have the scripting sheet download available?
I've read all about the loss of the old download area. It looks like the scripting sheet hasn't made it back up yet. Might there be some way for me…
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Participants: ffilz, rafial, Wolfen, Thor Olavsrud.

3/31/2006 Tommi Brander: First (real) character burning
With only one player. The character concept started as elven merchant. Citadel born, wanderer, lead to wilds, gatherer and chandler. Are there no elven merchants in the citadel? Beliefs were…
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Participants: Tommi Brander, Paka.

5/13/2006 khelek: New Announcement!!!
Check out Luke's major announcement over at the BW Forums!!! Rocking! http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=8
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Participants: khelek, Iskander, ejh, Brand_Robins, Miskatonic, abzu, Eric J-D, Thor Olavsrud, demiurgeastaroth.

5/23/2006 abzu: Burning Empires Preorders
http://www.burningempires.com/preorder.html Hello my peeps! As you may or may not know, I'm publishing a new game this summer called Burning Empires. It's kind of like Burning Wheel, but with…
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Participants: abzu, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik, Thunder_God, jenskot, IMAGinES, Iskander.

5/25/2006 jaw6: Question about trait requirements
It's not clear to me how to work with trait requirements. In other words, "are the trait requirement retrograde prerequisites, or anterograde requirements?" I may be making this harder than…
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Participants: jaw6, Thor Olavsrud.

6/9/2006 abzu: Burning World
http://www.burningwheel.org/wiki/index.php?title=Burning_World Come and add your location to our Burning World! So cool! -Luke
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Participants: abzu.

6/30/2006 Angaros: Bandwidth limit exceeded on bw.org
How long will the downtime last? Can we help out in some way? I need my fix! /Jocke.
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Participants: Angaros, Anders, Thor Olavsrud.

7/26/2006 abzu: Thor Blogs about Burning Empires
Thor's writing an article about the production of BE on his blog: http://urdwell.blogspot.com/ Scroll down for Part 1. (Damn chronological blogs)
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Participants: abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Paka, Matt, Durgil, Jason Coplen, Iskander.

8/30/2006 Zebulon: Extra folks and The Sword
Hey all, I'm going to run my first demo game in two weeks, and there's a very real possibility that I'll have 6-7 players.  I'm excited about Burning Wheel, and…
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Participants: Zebulon, Thor Olavsrud, abzu.

9/4/2006 Kicker: [Burning Empires] Figure of Note Relationships
This coming Saturday, God willing and the creek don't rise, I'll be running the first of two sessions of Burning Empires.  Let me first say to those responsible that I…
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Participants: Kicker, Iskander, mtiru, eruditus.

9/5/2006 eruditus: [Burning Empires] Inspiration on Crack
Okay so I am on page 352 and chugging away. My god this game is cool!  It is almost overwhelming the sheer amount of possibilities that I think of when…
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Participants: eruditus, N.riweeni.

9/11/2006 tonyd: [Burning Empires] When is it OK to hull a PC
Reading through the Burning Empires rules, it looks to me like it's quite possible to have a situation where a PC gets hulled, and the player continues to  play the…
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Participants: tonyd, Thor Olavsrud.

9/18/2006 DaveyJJ: Can someone explain magic within the BW system please?
I'm exploring systems to play after 20-25 years out of RPGs. Alot of the mechanics of BW appeal (I think) after reading through the downloads available, buit I'm a little…
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Participants: DaveyJJ, mtiru, Thor Olavsrud.

9/21/2006 Sinistraphobia: Luke Crane, Guest of The Gamestas
I wanted to invite folks over to listen to Episode -10 Part One, which contains an interview with Luke Crane.  Check it out at the front page of The Gamestas. …
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Participants: Sinistraphobia, abzu.

10/8/2006 tonyd: [Burning Empires] Cheat sheet for Firefight
Whenever I play a new game, I create a number of cheat sheets for my own use. I have a very visual mind, and not a great memory, so the…
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Participants: tonyd, mtiru, Anemone, drozdal.

10/12/2006 dsellars: [Burning Empires] one on one
Hello, I some how missed all the news about Burning Empires even when a friend of mine kept on talking about it.  I think I was thinking "hmm, yeah Sci-fi…
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Participants: dsellars, mtiru, Oddball, Thor Olavsrud, abzu, eruditus.

10/23/2006 Salar: Universalis as creator of worlds
Hi all, I've just bought Universalis and spent my weekend reading through it (instead of working) and I must say I'm really impressed by both its simplicity and it's depth…
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Participants: Salar, fredrikr, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

10/23/2006 tonyd: Fun: A Burning Empires Cosmology
The other day I was stuck at a coffee shop for an hour with my sketchpad and no book to read, so I made up a little Burning Empires cosmology…
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Participants: tonyd, abzu.

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