(LFP) Yet-to-be-Named Burning Wheel Game

[defunctdeity]

Hey all!

Interested in a BW game amongst beginners (to the system, not RPGs)? We're looking for one more player.

The members already committed to the campaign will also be using this thread to hash out the details of the campaign/setting in true BW fashion. You too (potential player) can still help shape the details of this campaign if you get in now (and are accepted).

Please PM me if you are interested in joining us.

LET THE CAMPAIGN HASHING BEGIN!!!

So far one player has expressed interest in Elves.

I'm cool with Elves, but the rub here for me is I have not looked at Elves hardly at all. Life paths, Songs, Grief, none of it in depth - just been focusing on Man so far. Doesn't mean we can't do elves, just that I don't know if I could do them justice due to my unfamiliarity with their signature concepts (Grief and Songs).

Personally I'd prefer to keep it simple with Man only for my first go, but if it's what will keep everyone interested Im more than happy to do elves.

Thoughts?

[Spectreman17]

Hey, someone on the reddit thread suggested Twilight in the Duchy Verdorben as a Great intro mission to help everyone egt accustomed. Anywhere from 2-5 players.

If you'd accept my offer, I'd like to GM that, at least the first segment of it, for whatever group expresses interest, be it you and pointyearedrogue, or more.

I have all the character sheets and the .pdf of the campaign that I can share with y'all

[defunctdeity]

That doesn't interest me much just because I also have that pdf (I think I have everything they've put out for free ), and have read it through (a couple times >.<)... If pointyears is down for it though I can of course just rp like I don't know what's going on.

Also, I'm in correspondence with an interested person I found on r/LFG

[Spectreman17]

I would be interested in running that, but I would also be more than willing to play in your game as well (I'm a more the merrier kind of guy when it comes to PbP games)

How's about we let you run this game, and I'll see about running mine separately.

Funnily enough, I have not read through Humans at all, So I would be willing to learn them. I have thoroughly learned all the other races, even orc, just not humans.

Let's wait and see what Pointyearedrogue wants to do, an your other from LFG and then go from there.

[defunctdeity]

Works for me.

Does pointyears have time to devote to this? Haven't heard much from him beyond his first mention on reddit...

[PointyEaredRogue]

I love me some elves, so always down for that. Really, I'm up for whatever happens (but elves would be great).


And yes, I have time for this: I'm just a student during the day. Also, I'm a lady.

[Rusty Tincanne]

I am interested in playing if there is room. I am new to the system; learning in Marullus's game. A second, concurrent game would help cement the rules.

Any race is fine, though I am curious about playing an orc or human. If human, I'd be interested in wielding some magic maybe...

[defunctdeity]

Hi Rusty! I'm only really looking for one more player, and I have one person who's reached out to me already, I responded back to them several (6+?) hours ago and no response so far, so if they don't get back to me within 24 hrs (from when I first replied) OR if they turn out not to be a good fit, you're in as far as I'm concerned! Please stay tuned?

Thanks for checking in p.e.r.! Regarding the stock, with me not being familiar with elves, let's keep it simple for this go maybe and explore what other themes might interest you within the Human realm?

As a primer Id like to get you guys focusing on 3 main things to start: who, where, what?

Who? What's the campaign focus in one (or two) words? Pirates! ninjas... nobles? thieves... greek argonauts, etc.

Where? Where is the main "theatre" or setting for the campaign? Capital city, mages academy, a war front, enchanted wilderness, foreign trade caravan, etc.

What? What is the main drama or intrigue that the campaign will revolve around? Dieing king, foreign occupation, mysterious disappearances, warring clans, etc.

The "what" is likely to hinge most on the who, so maybe even save that 'til last, but maybe just have a what in mind when you're thinking of whos and where's that interest you, if that makes sense?

[Spectreman17]

Well, then I guess I'll open a third burning wheel game, because, Why Not

[defunctdeity]

Did you want to weigh in on what you'd like to do for this game?

I was looking forward to going through the collaborative worldbuilding process like the books describe, but I've also been working on some settings for my weekly group if you'd prefer me to pitch some ideas...?

[Keehnelf]

Just FYI, because of how the core racial elements work in BW, Orcs are VERY hard to make work in a mixed group with other races unless you're quite explicitly doing a Villainous and Miserable Bastards kind of game. Integrating Orcs with any other stock is a Very Advanced Technique.

Best of luck otherwise, and welcome to the Wheel!

[Spectreman17]

As a primer Id like to get you guys focusing on 3 main things to start: who, where, what?

Who? What's the campaign focus in one (or two) words? Pirates! ninjas... nobles? thieves... greek argonauts, etc.

Where? Where is the main "theatre" or setting for the campaign? Capital city, mages academy, a war front, enchanted wilderness, foreign trade caravan, etc.

What? What is the main drama or intrigue that the campaign will revolve around? Dieing king, foreign occupation, mysterious disappearances, warring clans, etc.

The "what" is likely to hinge most on the who, so maybe even save that 'til last, but maybe just have a what in mind when you're thinking of whos and where's that interest you, if that makes sense?

Well, the honor bound warrior is always my favorite, perhaps a team assembled by the local religion to stop a cult that is trying to have our god killed. (I'm all about a Pantheon of dueling gods.

thoughts?

[defunctdeity]

Alright!

So that we can accommodate any hero-type (incase summon doesn't want to be the holy-warrior type) maybe the team isn't necessarily assembled by the gods church itself, but is just a band of devote people who have identified the problem (cultists making moves), and are organizing themselves on behalf of their patron? Maybe you've each suffered some injustice or attack at the hands of the Cultists, and that's what's drawn you together?

What's the deity stand for? And what does the Cultists (deity) stand for? What is the nature of the rest of the Pantheon for that matter (don't need specifics, just small, large, "Greek/Roman-like", DnD-like, or etc.)?

[Rusty Tincanne]

Hi Rusty! I'm only really looking for one more player, and I have one person who's reached out to me

Understood. I'll be watching how this progresses anyhow. Maybe there will be an opening some day.


@ Keehnelf: Thanks for the tip. Maybe someone will some day run an orc RPG.

[defunctdeity]

Well, I've got nothing but radio silence from the other person in line, Rusty. If you want the slot it's yours!

Feel free to start weighing in on the campaign detail creation if you want to play in my campaign.

[Rusty Tincanne]

Who are the current players?

I have no problem with a group being assigned by the higher-ups in a religion. After looking through the traits recently, I keep thinking it would be great fun to burn a down-on-his-luck beggar. Maybe someone who once had a future (so skills will be present), but definitely fallen from grace at the start of the story.

That said, if the other person posts/replies to you in the next day or so, I will bow out. Life happens, so their radio silence might be well founded. I know it has happened to me lots of times.

[defunctdeity]

Spectreman17 and pointyearedrogue are the other two players.

It's more about the diversity of relationships and connections to the storyline than any given players preferences really. The more angles we have coming at the storyline, the more interesting and entangled the story will be, and the better the RP opportunities.

Anyway, let's refine the deity and cultists (and to a lesser extent the pantheon) a bit more, then we can move onto setting, and then we can get into character specifics. As things shift you may find other inspiration.

What would everybody think about the Cultists being the harbingers of "the one god", and are working against the Pantheon for that reason? I think that could be more interesting than just a straight "my God is good, yours is evil" thing.

[Spectreman17]

Perhaps a Pantheon of 8 gods, or 7 is also a good number. And the cultists woship something ( maybe something different entirely, Demons, supernatural entity, false god) that they believe is the one True god and we're set out so stop them before they steal the power of the gods and make them mortal. we could be direct champions of the gods. each chosen by one of the more powerful gods.

[defunctdeity]

Okay, I'll start working on the specifics of the Pantheon.

I was envisioning more in the neighborhood of 4 Lifepath PCs, which might not represent champions of the gods that well... Besides, I think Beliefs and Relationships work best when the PCs ties to the plot are more personal, run deeper and intertwine a bit more organically. Champions of the gods is awfully deus ex machina - quite literally even

What about the setting? Are we in a holy city, a mountain temple, a remote country side? Where is this cult emerging?

[Spectreman17]

I don't want to take all the thunder with world creation, so Paging pointyearedrogue and Rusty Tincanne

I propose a bustling city, secretly above (or below) a leyline (or whatever mumbo jumbo we're using) for the gods, thus the point for the ritual as well. Plus a bustling city makes open warfare and detectiving more challenging. Especially if the local authorities have been inflitrated by cultists, so not the holy city, but some other city.