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I thought I was going to maintain radio silence for longer, you know. And somehow my xanga gets all my good invective. I really am happy with some of my last entries, and my LJ posts are fairly muddled. The Free Council, for example, have been on my mind for a while now, and I eventually just clicked fuckin' "Post" so I could be free of that particular post, but it didn't really go anywhere. Maybe I should have just made a short one entitled, "EVERYONE! HEY! I AM INTERESTED IN THE FREE COUNCIL!" and then just see what people had to say.
"I'M IN UR HALLOW DEMOCRATIZING UR (WO)MANS!"
Yeah. Like that.
Brantai is planning on running a Burning Wheel game over here, and I always get fired the hell up for that. You know, and it's funny, because this game is really crunchy, and skipping over rules or aspects of character creation really are detrimental. It's not like just ignoring how much you're carrying in D&D, because a lot of this stuff is kind of ingrained in the system. I get really pumped about playing or running Exalted, and some of that is simply because Exalted is really kind of over-the-top in terms of your generic power level, and it gives you some abilities that you can really just use and do something incredible. I'm not saying "level a town at character creation", though with the application of some sorcery, you pretty much can. I'm saying that, specifically speaking, at character creation, there is an easy-to-get power for Solars that just lets you instantly steal whatever you want, totally undetected.
Swiping gold from the party Fighter has never been easier!
And, well, in Burning Wheel, you have to spend a significant portion of your starting income on footwear. As in, "Do you have some? Spend a resource point." That's the kind of thing you can ignore, but it reminds me of the small caveat that a Barbarian in D&D needed to spend two skill points to read a language s/he had, where nobody else had to. That's pretty specific, and it only comes up once, ever. But then, you see that, and you realize there's a majority of NPCs that just have no shoes at all, which is an interesting mental image.
Try to avoid all those rusted nails, everyone.
"I'M IN UR HALLOW DEMOCRATIZING UR (WO)MANS!"
Yeah. Like that.
Brantai is planning on running a Burning Wheel game over here, and I always get fired the hell up for that. You know, and it's funny, because this game is really crunchy, and skipping over rules or aspects of character creation really are detrimental. It's not like just ignoring how much you're carrying in D&D, because a lot of this stuff is kind of ingrained in the system. I get really pumped about playing or running Exalted, and some of that is simply because Exalted is really kind of over-the-top in terms of your generic power level, and it gives you some abilities that you can really just use and do something incredible. I'm not saying "level a town at character creation", though with the application of some sorcery, you pretty much can. I'm saying that, specifically speaking, at character creation, there is an easy-to-get power for Solars that just lets you instantly steal whatever you want, totally undetected.
Swiping gold from the party Fighter has never been easier!
And, well, in Burning Wheel, you have to spend a significant portion of your starting income on footwear. As in, "Do you have some? Spend a resource point." That's the kind of thing you can ignore, but it reminds me of the small caveat that a Barbarian in D&D needed to spend two skill points to read a language s/he had, where nobody else had to. That's pretty specific, and it only comes up once, ever. But then, you see that, and you realize there's a majority of NPCs that just have no shoes at all, which is an interesting mental image.
Try to avoid all those rusted nails, everyone.
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