Comments on: 30 Days of The Burning Wheel: DO SOMETHING! Those Beliefs are there for a reason! http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/ Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:03:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: The Seven-Sided Die » Spinning up the Burning Wheel http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-19194 The Seven-Sided Die » Spinning up the Burning Wheel Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:03:03 +0000 http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-19194 [...] DO SOMETHING! Those Beliefs are there for a reason! [...] [...] DO SOMETHING! Those Beliefs are there for a reason! [...]

]]> By: Action vs. Reaction - Treasure Tables http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-337 Action vs. Reaction - Treasure Tables Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:23:35 +0000 http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-337 [...] In his most recent post about playing Burning Wheel, Steven Jarvis discusses the tendency of many players to react instead of act. [...] [...] In his most recent post about playing Burning Wheel, Steven Jarvis discusses the tendency of many players to react instead of act. [...]

]]> By: Tim http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-316 Tim Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:56:00 +0000 http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-316 Nice distillation of the stuff we've been mulling over for the past few weeks. Thinking about the "not powerful enough to directly challenge the Sorcerer Kings"...Beliefs aren't necessarily going to solve that problem, though their being more immediate in nature would certainly generate more Artha, which would help. I think we had a basic disconnect in character generation (or conversion, in this instance), in that we didn't build characters capable of DOING what the game is about. We should have revised character concepts so that having more lifepaths would have made sense. The existing characters are competent, but they're not Conan-like heroes, by any means. Maybe they're just a bit...scattered? None of them are really good at any one thing. Tim Nice distillation of the stuff we’ve been mulling over for the past few weeks. Thinking about the “not powerful enough to directly challenge the Sorcerer Kings”…Beliefs aren’t necessarily going to solve that problem, though their being more immediate in nature would certainly generate more Artha, which would help.

I think we had a basic disconnect in character generation (or conversion, in this instance), in that we didn’t build characters capable of DOING what the game is about. We should have revised character concepts so that having more lifepaths would have made sense. The existing characters are competent, but they’re not Conan-like heroes, by any means. Maybe they’re just a bit…scattered? None of them are really good at any one thing.

Tim

]]> By: Chris Peterson http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-310 Chris Peterson Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:13:15 +0000 http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-310 I never thought of GTD from an RPG player or character's perspective. Food for thought. Your idea of Next Actions for characters sound a lot like The Shadow of Yesterday's "Keys". The player chooses their Keys, which fulfilling (as a Next Action) awards them XP. They can buy and sell Keys when they feel like it, such as their character's changing interests. They get to choose new Next Actions. I never thought of GTD from an RPG player or character’s perspective. Food for thought.

Your idea of Next Actions for characters sound a lot like The Shadow of Yesterday’s “Keys”. The player chooses their Keys, which fulfilling (as a Next Action) awards them XP. They can buy and sell Keys when they feel like it, such as their character’s changing interests. They get to choose new Next Actions.

]]> By: Alex Fradera http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-308 Alex Fradera Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:25:22 +0000 http://sjarvis.com/2006/05/31/30-days-of-the-burning-wheel-do-something-those-beliefs-are-there-for-a-reason/#comment-308 Cool. As a BW fan (though yet to start a campaign) and a GTD fan I think the analogy is pretty sound. I'll be keeping it in mind! Cool. As a BW fan (though yet to start a campaign) and a GTD fan I think the analogy is pretty sound. I’ll be keeping it in mind!

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