Adept Play

Adept Play

Tag: Burning Wheel

A fantasy game by Luke Crane, published by his company Burning Wheel Headquarters in 2002.

Monday Lab: How Long …

Monday Labs, Situations, Solo play, System Matters, Twosie play

September 3, 2018

Ron Edwards

Amber, Apocalypse World, Bacchanal, Burning Wheel, Chronicles of Skin, Clover, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Everway, Fiasco, Hero Wars/HeroQuest, Kult, Monsterhearts, My Life with Master, Primetime Adventures, RuneQuest sensu lato, Sorcerer, Spione, Stock Birmingham 0:0, Swords of the Skull-Takers, The Beast, The Mountain Witch, The Quiet Year, They’re Onto Me: Red, Zombie Porn

… Has This Been Goin’ On? Alternative equally music-meming title: My Only Friend, the End. Or, wait, how about, Stop! In the Name of What? This is about how long we play, in real time. It can refer to the length of a session, how many sessions relative to a given fictional situation, how long…
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Monday Lab: [AA]IIEE[EE]!

Combat rules, IIEE, Monday Labs, System Matters

July 9, 2018

Ron Edwards

Amber, Blades in the Dark, Burning Wheel, Castle Falkenstein, Champions sensu lato, Circle of Hands, Comme il Faut, Dirty Secrets, Dogs in the Vineyard, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Dungeons & Dragons sensu lato, Exalted, Hero Wars/HeroQuest, InSpectres, Lace & Steel, Lovecraftesque, Mongrel, My Life with Master, Over the Edge, Primetime Adventures, RuneQuest sensu lato, Sorcerer, Spione, TFT: Melee, The Pool, The Riddle of Steel, Undying, Zero

Intent, Initiation, Execution, Effect – fictional things, probably the single most direct fictional content to be interfaced with real-people speaking and using rules, in the hobby. In a recent dialogue with Zac Porcu, he called it “the beating heart of role-playing.” Briefly: design zone 1 is to establish a linear order and then to carry…
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