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Not all games can or should be Burning Wheel, but every game can learn from it (www.runehammer.online)

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Hankerin Ferinale simplifies Burning Wheel down to three steps:

Map Relationships with Intent

Reinforce Relationships Again and Again

Build Massive, Compound Stakes on Dice Rolls

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Burning Wheel is my favorite game I've never played.

I picked up the books at a local game shop, back when it came out as a two-volume set wrapped in a paper band. A lot of it was honestly the interesting form factor, and how neat the pages looked. Then I got Burning Wheel Gold, which I blame for my weakness for chunky, digest-sized, hardback RPG books.

Anyway! For all the reasons the article states, there's a lot of value in the system even if you don't run it. The BITs are great (and seem like a more fleshed-out version of 5e's BIFs), I've always kept "let it ride" in mind to keep games moving, and I try to clearly get the intent from your players before rolling dice.

I'd still like to get Burning Wheel proper to the table, though. :P

As another thought, I just considered that "let it ride" is sort of the opposite of the clocks system popularized by Blades in the Dark, at least when building towards a goal rather than triggering a consequence. I'll have to do some re-reading and flesh out my thoughts on that!