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The Burning Wheel
The Burning Wheel is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game independently written and published by Luke Crane. The game uses a dice pool mechanic (using only standard six-sided dice) for task resolution and a character generation system that tracks the history and experiences of new characters from birth to the point they begin adventuring.
The Character Burner contains rules and biographic elements for generating Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and Orcs as characters, providing each with unique exceptions or additions to the overall game mechanics. Humans have access to Sorcery and miraculous Faith, Elves have a Grief statistic and spell-songs, Dwarves have Greed, and Orcs have blasphemous Hatred.
The Monster Burner supplement includes pre-made monsters as well as mechanics and backstories for designing and building custom monsters, allowing the game to cover a much broader range of adventure and setting. This volume also contains four new and complete races for Burning Wheel: Great Wolves, Roden (anthropomorphic rats), Great Spiders, and Trolls.
The core game does not include a dedicated setting, but there are three setting supplements. In the core game, the rules, mechanics and backstory elements used in character generation imply a fantasy world by default, but can be easily modified, and the game includes mechanics for players to generate their own setting content during play, in the form of Wises and Circles tests.
The game has had three dedicated settings:
January 2004: Under a Serpent Sun is a dark post-apocalyptic setting inspired by the lyrics of a 1995 song of the same name by heavy metal band At the Gates. It was published as a short pdf supplement.
August 2005: Burning Sands: Jihad is a science fiction expansion of galaxy-spanning religious war. A blog associated with the creators of Burning Wheel describes this expansion as based on the Dune series. It was published as a short pdf supplement.
August 2007: The Blossoms are Falling is set in Heian-era Japan where players take in the role of bushi who is caught between honor and shame, and is involved in a conflict between Shinto priests and a Buddhist monks fighting for the crumbling state of Japan. It was published as a 212 page book, which has since gone out of print.
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The Burning Wheel
The Burning Wheel is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game independently written and published by Luke Crane. The game uses a dice pool mechanic (using only standard six-sided dice) for task resolution and a character generation system that tracks the history and experiences of new characters from birth to the point they begin adventuring.
The Character Burner contains rules and biographic elements for generating Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and Orcs as characters, providing each with unique exceptions or additions to the overall game mechanics. Humans have access to Sorcery and miraculous Faith, Elves have a Grief statistic and spell-songs, Dwarves have Greed, and Orcs have blasphemous Hatred.
The Monster Burner supplement includes pre-made monsters as well as mechanics and backstories for designing and building custom monsters, allowing the game to cover a much broader range of adventure and setting. This volume also contains four new and complete races for Burning Wheel: Great Wolves, Roden (anthropomorphic rats), Great Spiders, and Trolls.
The core game does not include a dedicated setting, but there are three setting supplements. In the core game, the rules, mechanics and backstory elements used in character generation imply a fantasy world by default, but can be easily modified, and the game includes mechanics for players to generate their own setting content during play, in the form of Wises and Circles tests.
The game has had three dedicated settings:
January 2004: Under a Serpent Sun is a dark post-apocalyptic setting inspired by the lyrics of a 1995 song of the same name by heavy metal band At the Gates. It was published as a short pdf supplement.
August 2005: Burning Sands: Jihad is a science fiction expansion of galaxy-spanning religious war. A blog associated with the creators of Burning Wheel describes this expansion as based on the Dune series. It was published as a short pdf supplement.
August 2007: The Blossoms are Falling is set in Heian-era Japan where players take in the role of bushi who is caught between honor and shame, and is involved in a conflict between Shinto priests and a Buddhist monks fighting for the crumbling state of Japan. It was published as a 212 page book, which has since gone out of print.