Fantasy roleplaying game in which you fight for your beliefs.
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Fighting an opponent with higher Reflexes
Say you have a character with Reflexes B4 — pretty standard for many kinds of PCs and NPCs in Burning Wheel.
That character is likely to eventually face someone with Reflexes B5 or B6, maybe ...
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How can I model Burning Wheel probabilities in AnyDice?
I have a basic intuition about dice in Burning Wheel, but it's handy to be able to look at actual probability distributions to hone your intuition. Especially since important rolls can involve ...
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What's the purpose of not allowing tests to be converted in Burning Wheel?
I'm currently reading through Burning Wheel Gold and found a very odd quirk; the rules say that tests for advancing Skills or Stats cannot be converted to a different sort of test (for example, ...
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How can I effectively advance Perception, Faith, or Resources?
In Burning Wheel (Gold, also Revised), there are some stats — specifically, Perception, Faith, and Resources — that only advance when you succeed at a test.
This makes advancement much ...
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How does the GM effectively help players find Traits?
I've encountered a problem in Burning Wheel in the past, and I'm looking for a better way to address it in the future. The default Traits List in the Burning Wheel Gold rulebook (p310-355) contains, ...
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Losing Resources due to tax: what happens to the tax dice afterward?
I have Resource B3, with 2 dice of tax from previous failed rolls.
I fail another test. Let's say it's Routine. Now the tax has reduced my Resources to 0. According to the book, I permanent lose a ...
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Does injury affect the helping dice I grant to others?
My character has a skill at B5. Let's say it's Navigation. Because I have five dice in the skill, if I use my Navigation to help another character, they'll gain +2D instead of the more typical +1D.
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My doctor failed Treatment; is there any way I can get bonus dice for Recovery?
My character is injured. A midi wound, let's say.
I get help from a doctor who fails Treatment. I know I have to eat the consequences of that failed Treatment (losing a point from an ability, in the ...
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How can I simplify Duel of Wits to make it more like Bloody Versus?
My problem
We're playing Burning Wheel (Gold). About once every two sessions, we run into this problem with Duel of Wits:
We want the graduated outcomes of Duel of Wits: we'd like to start with two ...
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Can I get a stat test and a Beginner's Luck test from the same skill in an extended conflict?
Burning Wheel Gold states that only the highest test in an extended conflict counts. For example, if I roll Axe four times in fight, getting two Routines, a Difficult, and a Challenging test, I'd just ...
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Can you use relationships to get NPCs to come to you?
In Burning Wheel (both Gold and Revised), players can (and are strongly encouraged to) start with a close connection to one or more NPCs, in the form of the relationship mechanic.
Now, it's pretty ...
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How do I meet people outside my Circles?
In Burning Wheel (both Gold and Revised; these rules are nearly identical), the Circles attribute represents people you might already know, or at least have some connection with through mutual ...
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Can skill points be used to buy arbitrary wises?
In Burning wheel character creation you get a bunch of general skill points and a larger number of skill points to use on skills listed in lifepaths (I'll call these normal skill points).
The general ...
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Encouraging players to not cheat the item purchase system?
I'm running a campaign for a group of friends who - while not new to roleplaying - are new to the idea of a generic resource points system. For context only (still system-agnostic advice), I'm talking ...
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What die rolls are open-ended?
In Burning Wheel Gold, so far as I can tell, the following tests have open-ended die rolls:
Magic
Perception
Any skill-based test with the funky little squiggly S after it (which are generally ...
