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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.

12/15/2003 rafial: BW and No Myth
In my Tarshish game, I've been seeking to follow the "No Myth" style of GMing, in so far as I understand that concept as it has been presented at the…
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Participants: rafial, joshua neff, abzu.

11/19/2003 abzu: A Question of Faith and Timing
So my roommate Rik, Dro and I were we up late watching some bad sci-fi the other night and brainstorming some notes for BW. One thing that Rik and I…
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Participants: abzu, taepoong, LordSmerf.

11/15/2003 LordSmerf: Kudos for Burning Wheel
I got my copy in last night, i spent this morning reading the Burning Wheel itself, the Character Burner will have to wait until i get done with this... Here's…
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Participants: LordSmerf, abzu.

10/31/2003 abzu: 1 Year Old!
So today, Halloween, is Burning Wheel's first birthday. After a year of hustling we've moved hundreds of copies of the game, been to eight conventions: Ucon, Ubercon 1, Gazebo of…
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Participants: abzu, Matt Wilson, rafial, drozdal.

10/28/2003 Matt Wilson: Lifepath question
Hey Luke: Wilhelm "rafial" is talking about running a game of BW coming up in the rotation, so I've been trying out a couple lifepaths to see how things work.…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, abzu, rafial.

10/28/2003 bcook1971: The Burning Wheel: First Pass
I was skipping around, reading each part within the book that pertained to the idea I was interested in, not really making good progress. Then I had a chat with…
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Participants: bcook1971, abzu.

9/29/2003 abzu: Beliefs and "Reality"
So we watched Big Trouble in Little China last night. The entire movie can be really (really) nicely explained in BW terms. But one of the foremost aspects of the…
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Participants: abzu, bcook1971, rafial.

9/23/2003 bcook1971: Preliminary Thoughts
I bought 3 Forge games a few weeks back: Sorcerer, The Riddle of Steel and The Burning Wheel. Can't remember why BW made the list . . . I'm pretty…
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Participants: bcook1971, abzu, AnyaTheBlue, Kaare Berg, taepoong, drozdal.

9/19/2003 AnyaTheBlue: Groan...
I have been eagerly consuming my copy of BW piecemeal since I got it a couple of weeks ago. Fantastic stuff. But. But....but....but.... Fiber ball? Geez.
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Participants: AnyaTheBlue, abzu.

9/5/2003 Garbanzo: Shades?
Hey, all. Over in the thread called Ken Hite Reviews Burning Wheel, I was really surprised there was no mention of how Shades contribute to character building and advancement.…
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Participants: Garbanzo, Valamir, Tony Irwin, taepoong, abzu, Lxndr.

9/5/2003 abzu: Ken Hite Reviews Burning Wheel
Scroll down to "Wheels on Fire." http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=77 whoa.
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Participants: abzu, Clinton R. Nixon, ethan_greer, Tony Irwin, Valamir.

9/2/2003 Catalyst: BW scripted combat
Hi, all. I think I'm a new BW convert and I wanted to babble about it. There's a lot to digest in BW. I've been taking my time since the…
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Participants: Catalyst, drozdal, taepoong.

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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.

1/10/2004 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.

1/19/2004 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.

1/21/2004 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.

1/22/2004 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.

1/25/2004 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.

1/25/2004 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

3/23/2004 joshua neff: stormbringer, the one ring, & the holy grail
I'm wondering if I missed something in my read-throughs of the rules or if the mechanics aren't there. Are there actual mechanics for magical items, like magic swords & potions…
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Participants: joshua neff, taepoong, abzu.

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.

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