Most interesting! Muahahahahaha!

[viktor_haag]

I haven't posted in a very long time, and this won't be a long or terribly meaningful post. I'm sure that those lj-friends of mine who would be interested in this thing already are well aware of its existence (I'm lookin' at you doc_mystery!), but let me add my voice to the slowly growing clamour: "Spirit Of The Century" looks very cool: from first glance it appears to be that much needed one extra step beyond "Terra Incognita" and I'm now strongly motivated to use this game as the basis for my Friday Night Group once our wandering members are back in the country again!

Last night I rushed home and un-earthed my copy of "Lands Of Mystery" and "Slavelords of Cydonia", all the while rubbing my hands and chuckling with glee.

I'm hoping that this will make a nice, rules-light counter point to the crunchy Burning Wheel game I'm running on Wednesdays. (And if you don't have Fudge dice, then follow this handy recipe to make some.)

(Oh, and thanks waiwode for contributing to the busting of my monthly gaming budget, yet again... 8))

Comments

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Roffle. You, kind sir, are welcome!

Although my group have loved Cold City, and I know they will love SotC, they've set up a resistance wave to Burning Wheel that I don't know that I'll be able to batter down. :( My guys seem to have run out of learn new crunchy systems fuel.

Doug.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I found through trial and error that you can sneak folks into it. Unlike most other rolegames, it really does help to take the book's advice. (a) Stick with the really simple systems to start with and very slowly introduce stuff, and (b) don't try to cram everything in at once. But Burning Wheel is crunchy, there's no doubt. And while it has an interesting character creation system, has the "implied not explicit setting" that I tend to fall heavy for in RPGs, and has several interesting features in its task resolution mechanics, I'm still not convinced that I'd prefer to play it over HERO, HeroQuest, Fudge, or a BRP variant. But on the other hand, it's pleasing my group, and the campaign's been going now for a year, and that's one of the longest kicks at the can I've ever had running something, so it must be doing something correctly!