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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

5/13/2006 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.

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.

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.

3/1/2006 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.

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.

2/15/2006 Eric J-D: Why Some Folks Dislike Fight!
...and by "some folks" I of course mean me. <wink> Over on the Harn Forum I have been engaged in an ongoing discussion about Burning Wheel's "Fight!" mechanics and the…
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Participants: Eric J-D, Arturo G., abzu, Wolfen, Bankuei, Lamorak33, Valamir, rafial, Lisa Padol, jchokey, Durgil, Storn.

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.

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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.

10/30/2006 epweissengruber: Burning Wheel in Toronto: Fantasy Japan Setting
If anyone is interested, IndieRPG Toronto will be starting up a BW game:  Original thread: http://roleplayers.meetup.com/261/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2348962 Here is the spiel.  If you are interested, PM me here or sign up…
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Participants: epweissengruber.

2/21/2007 baron samedi: (Burning Empires) What are Inner Demons exactly?
Hi everyone, Reading the Burning Empires RPG, I come upon an interesting rule - Inner Demons - that evoke Trevor Faith's Monkey King (in the graphic novel album no.1), but…
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Participants: baron samedi, Glendower, Iskander.

4/5/2007 Gaerik: Combat without the Fight! mechanics
At the end of the basic rules section of the BW book, Luke suggests going and burning characters and playing the game.  That's cool because the core rules really aren't…
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Participants: Gaerik, rafial, abzu, xenopulse.

6/7/2007 abzu: Summer Secret Surprise 07 Hint
[url=http://burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?p=41456#post41456] [b]SUMMER SECRET SURPRISE 07[/b][/url] Once again, we're releasing a secret surprise project at GenCon. Preorders begin Monday, June 18th. [list] All preorders will be signed and numbered. [*]Preorderers will…
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Participants: abzu, Marhault, WildElf, Gaerik, The Dragon Master, Thor Olavsrud.

8/1/2007 woodelf: etymology of burning
OK, this has been bugging me for a couple years now, and i just never think to ask it somewhere useful: What is the etymology of "burn"/"burning" as used in…
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Participants: woodelf, abzu.

1/17/2008 David Artman: Burning Empires and Missing Man Play?
Our group is pondering running Burning Empires, but we (well, I) have a concern: There is a fair-to-middling chance that one or two folks (in a four- to six-person group)…
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Participants: David Artman, pfischer.

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