Summer Secrets 07

[luke]

I am happy to announce that BWHQ will proudly continue our traditon of releasing a secret surprise project at GenCon this summer.

Anyone care to speculate what it'll be? (It's not the Magic Burner, joker. That one isn't a secret.)

I'll give you a hint: It does not contain any katanas or ninjas.

Preorders will be available sometime in June. We'll have secret surprise+t-shirt deals. Preorders will be, as always, signed and numbered. Preorders will receive a pdf of the supplement for free upon ordering.

-Luke

[Yokiboy]

Oooh... Artesia BW-style perhaps? ;) Kidding.

I'd personally love a Renaissance version of the BW Character Burner, so anything in that vein would float my boat.

Okay, how about a BW World Burner?

TTFN,

Yoki

[Merritt Baggett]

"It's not the Magic Burner"

sonnufabitch!

I have no clue what this is going to be. For all I know, it could be snagging the TMNT liscence from Palladium with the new burner being some freaky random mutant animal generator.

Oh wait, no ninjas...

Yeah, I got nothin.

[luke]

"For all I know, it could be snagging the TMNT liscence from Palladium with the new burner being some freaky random mutant animal generator.

Yeah, that's a double no-no: ninjas and katanas. Now the Robotech license on the other hand...

[Black Spectrum]

Ooohh, best news I've heard this year!


I'll give you a hint: It does not contain any katanas or ninjas.

Hm. This probably rules out a martial arts mini-supplement (Burning Fists?), which would have been my first guess...

Meh. Even if its My Little (Burning) Pony, I shall gladly send some filthy lucre your way, Luke! :D

[luke]

Meh. Even if its My Little (Burning) Pony, I shall gladly send some filthy lucre your way, Luke! :D

Hey Dro, he guessed it. You must be broadcasting from that satellite dish you call a forehead.

[stormsweeper]

I can't wait for all the forum threads complaining about the separate RP costs for combs and brushes.

[Iskander]

BW:Cabbage Patch - Dolls Gone Wild!

[Drozdal]

Hey Dro, he guessed it. You must be broadcasting from that satellite dish you call a forehead.

OK, cool, this OB 8 test is yours - take it, you deserve it (poor pony).

[mtiru]

Dolphin Burner!

[johnstone]

It's the Adventure Burner, which you mentioned in the interview with Clyde.

[luke]

He thinks he's so clever... But I do like a man who listens to my interviews.

[gooderguy]

i hope it's about guys running around taking sinful photos, eavesdropping and handcuffing people.

[Justin in Oz]

Is this release going to be a general release later?

If not, would you be able to post one to Australia? I will gladly pay the extra postage.

And the cost of a sixpack for your time.

[sanjwise]

Burning Hand of Vecna!

[luke]

Is this release going to be a general release later?

If not, would you be able to post one to Australia? I will gladly pay the extra postage.

And the cost of a sixpack for your time.
This may or may not go into distro. Not certain yet. Regardless, we do international shipping for preorders. It's only $10 USD an item.

[zipht]

BurningCruise where the ship visits the most burning places on the planet... oh and the pdf is smoking Hot.

[Drozdal]

BurningCruise where the ship visits the most burning places on the planet... oh and the pdf is smoking Hot.

Dude, you can even get Burning Speedos when you preorder that!

[stormsweeper]

This may or may not go into distro. Not certain yet. Regardless, we do international shipping for preorders. It's only $10 USD an item.

Which is cheaper than ever, given that our currency is in the toilet!

[stormsweeper]

Dude, you can even get Burning Speedos when you preorder that!

I still say the Bartender LP is overpowered. Especially that Bitchin' 'Fro trait!

[zipht]

Dude, you can even get Burning Speedos when you preorder that!

I am choosing to, "Run Screaming", with this failed steel check.

[Drozdal]

I still say the Bartender LP is overpowered. Especially that Bithin' 'Fro trait!
All i wanted to have was a shop and I ended up with that lousy mine...

[luke]

::yawn::

Oh what, were you all trying to be funny? I must have fallen asleep.

[Judd]

I'll give you a hint: It does not contain any katanas or ninjas.

Throw away line...or CLUE!

Looks back over the past crimes:

Serpent Sun, Jihad, Dark Elves...

Hmmm.

I'd say it was Burning THACO-related, but honestly, I think BW does that right out of the box. I don't see how a further supplement is necessary.

*continues sniffing*

[jchokey]

A BW engine for burning TV soap opera style campaigns: Burning Soap.

Or maybe sitcom scenarios: Burning Sit.

[donbaloo]

My first guess is the BWHQ Photo Album: Friends Forever with witty captions by Dro. And though Dro can be pretty damn funny I'm not looking forward to it as much as I had anticipated.

My second guess:

Throw away line...or CLUE!

Exactly my thoughts Judd. No ninjas or katanas I think is a dead giveaway....its Burning HighSeas...the BW tuned specifically for booty snatchin', pistol balling, scurvy ridden goodness. PIRATES!!!

Although I like your Burning THAC0 hunch as well. Luke mentioned at MACE that he'd like to demonstrate for folks that regular 'ole old school gaming can run just fine in BW.

[donbaloo]

.....and t-shirt deals?!?!?!?

I just finished making my own BW shirt too....

[Merritt Baggett]

Exactly my thoughts Judd. No ninjas or katanas I think is a dead giveaway....its Burning HighSeas...the BW tuned specifically for booty snatchin', pistol balling, scurvy ridden goodness. PIRATES!!!

Heh, booty burner

[Deckard]

Ok, what about Your-Own-Con Burner?

This summer all things are going to change. This summer you can go on Gencon. Or create your own... if you have long way on So-Cal.
Choose your lifepaths, set your disposition and don`t forget about water. For speakers ;)

[jchokey]

I made some lame jokes before, but I'll give my *REAL* guess/hope: A BW/BE variation for a late Renaissance / early modern style game (c. 15th to 18th centuries) with more emphasis on firearms (up through muskets and early rifles) and with magic optional. Something that would be designed specifically for pirate/swashbuckler/explorer/French-Revolution type settings/action.

[zabieru]

I made some lame jokes before, but I'll give my *REAL* guess/hope: A BW/BE variation for a late Renaissance / early modern style game (c. 15th to 18th centuries) with more emphasis on firearms (up through muskets and early rifles) and with magic optional. Something that would be designed specifically for pirate/swashbuckler/explorer/French-Revolution type settings/action.

Oh shit yes please. I've been meaning to run the siege of Vienna a la 'Drawing of the Dark' in BW for ages.

[Z-Dog]

I got nothing...but money in my pocket for the pre-order.

damn! This is going to keep me up at night!

[Judd]

I think it is a Warhammer 40K hack for Burning Empires.

It came to me in a blur of prophetic brilliance.

[johnstone]

Nah, man. Nah.

It's Car Wars forged on the Burning Wheel.

WHEELS OF FIRE!!!!!

[Kublai]

BWHQ has had many glorious games of Car Wars back in the day. GLORIOUS!!!

[Caesar_X]

I made some lame jokes before, but I'll give my *REAL* guess/hope: A BW/BE variation for a late Renaissance / early modern style game (c. 15th to 18th centuries) with more emphasis on firearms (up through muskets and early rifles) and with magic optional. Something that would be designed specifically for pirate/swashbuckler/explorer/French-Revolution type settings/action.

Burning Musketeers. I'll pre-order that.

[Yagathai]

My guess: "Burning Sensation -- The Social Game Of Social Diseases."

[Merritt Baggett]

Nah, man. Nah.

It's Car Wars forged on the Burning Wheel.

WHEELS OF FIRE!!!!!

I was thinking that. I would be all over that like a fat man on pancakes.

But then I was thinking: I've already got a tech burner. All I'd really need to do is forge some unholy child between the Chase rules, Range n Cover and Firefight...

Still, hard to get more Burning Wheel then lighting your opponents tires on fire with your twin linked flamethrowers.

[Paul B]

¡Lucheros en Fuego!: Mexican wrestlers fighting for what they believe in.

p.

[jchokey]

My guess: "Burning Sensation -- The Social Game Of Social Diseases."

OK, back to the jokes then...

I'm sure they'd get sued by the Cash estate, but surely if you want to go that route, the obvious one would be "Burning Ring of Fire: The Game of Music Stardom". Or, if you wanted to be cruder, "Burning Ring of Fire: The Game of Post-Spicy Food Indigestion".

[Z-Dog]

My best guess:

some sorta adventure burner

that or burning musketeers (thor's love of the material makes me wonder....and BW wouldn't be that hard to translate)

or?

or....?

it's killin' me

any DAY in June picked for the pre-order? I wanna numbered copy (and a freakin' t-shirt! My Black Hands Gaming Society shirt is already frayed and tattered).

[pauld]

Nah, man. Nah.

It's Car Wars forged on the Burning Wheel.

WHEELS OF FIRE!!!!!

Surely this would be BURNING RUBBER! :D

My guess: Burning Babies "Fight against what your parents believe, Rugrats style"

[Durgil]

Work has gotten crazy enough for me that I was honestly considering not going to Gen Con this year, but this announcement, along with the opportunity to see the BW gang again, makes it very difficult to resist clicking over to their site right now and purchasing a pass.

PS - My guess is for a Burning Kingdoms (a sort of a feudal style skirmish/warfare/political rules for BW along the lines of BE), but an Adventure Burner or Swashbuckling/Renaissance supplement sounds pretty cool too.

[Drozdal]

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/43/oglethorpe2ka2.gif

[Z-Dog]

OK, I'm trying to pick this apart piece by piece ('cause it's driving me crazy).


secret surprise project

(It's not the Magic Burner, joker.

It does not contain any katanas or ninjas.

Preorders will receive a pdf of the supplement

So it's something you guys probably playtested recently. I can't remember anything about your games that stood out...except you did that Earthsea game....Earthsea...water...pirates?!?!

It's not a full blown game.......hmmmm.....Renaissance works w/ pirates...

[JB]

I'll give you a hint: It does not contain any katanas or ninjas.

Can you say it does not contain any cutlasses or pirates?

:)

I wish it would be the Campaign Burner or Adventure Burner, or Burning Kingdoms.

In any case, I will pre-order your precious little new secret, just because I like t-shirts and pdfs and BWHQ stuff in general.


João

[gooderguy]

using my investgative logic, i'm completely sure it has nothing to do with fantasy. BW is enough already that it covers all of the above be it samurai, pirates, earthsea stuff, adventure burner, etc.

since they just put out a sci-fi book, i doubt it's sci-fi, either. it's gotta be something modern-ish. maybe a little speculative fiction twist, but nothing more than that. along the lines of the 'under a serpent sun' setting but probably not as extreme.

maybe it's a BWHQ take on cops and robbers and internet and prostitution and drugs. kind of shadowrun done right.

[Yokiboy]

Burning Saddles! :D

A fully fleshed out wild west game on top of the BW engine.

[Z-Dog]

Burning Saddles! :D

A fully fleshed out wild west game on top of the BW engine.

that'd be pretty cool

[Kublai]

Except is would be called Blazing Saddles, duh!


He rode a blazing saddle He wore a shining star
His job to offer battle To bad men near and far
He conquered fear and he conquered hate
He turned our night into day
He made his blazing saddle A torch to light the way

When outlaws rule the West And fear fills the land
A cry went up for a man with guts To take the West in hand
They needed a man who was brave and true With justice for all as his aim
Then out of the sun rode a man with a gun
And Bart was his name, yes Bart was his name

[Yokiboy]

Except is would be called Blazing Saddles, duh!

That was my joke already, but I was sticking with "Burning" rather than "Blazing". Obviously I was referring to one of the greatest comedies of all time. :p

[Thor]

Reaching back a ways (http://burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2952)

Recorded on the Wiki (http://www.burningwheel.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wild_West_Lifepaths)

Also, let's not forget Burning Europe (http://www.burningwheel.org/wiki/index.php?title=Burning_Europe_Lifepaths)

[Yokiboy]

Recorded on the Wiki (http://www.burningwheel.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wild_West_Lifepaths)

Well aware of it, I'd still buy it fully fleshed out, as a book, in a heartbeat.

[stormsweeper]

Yeah, Burning Tumbleweeds is on the back burner of my back burner. I hope to get back on fleshing out the LPs later in the summer.

[Z-Dog]

Is the pre-order going to be in early June? Late June? Mid-June?

Got a mailing list we can sign up for?

[Fuseboy]

Did we get around to mentioning Burning Flesh, a hypothetical horror supplement?

[luke]

No mailing list. Check back here for more. More updates in a week or so. Hopefully, preorders will be up mid-June.

Playtesting is going well. And we were actually molested by ninjas for not including them in this supplement! It was whacky and spooky!

[Yokiboy]

How about Burning Barbarians, my dream Character Burner full of a ton of bronze and iron age style lifepaths. Iron thews and pantherish reflexes and all that jazz, full of back-woods type of brutes! Oh f*ck, now I drooled on my keyboard... ;)

Make it, and I will buy it. Please!

[mtiru]

And we were actually molested by ninjas for not including them in this supplement! It was whacky and spooky!

especially when those damn ninjas made the ninja stars and our belly buttons disappear!

[Clyde Rhoer]

I have no idea what the surprise is but I imagine it couldn't be the thing i see in my dreams, A Song of Ice and Burning.

[Paul B]

I have no idea what the surprise is but I imagine it couldn't be the thing i see in my dreams, A Song of Ice and Burning.

I can't imagine a more perfect fit. Just got done with AGOT, and the entire time I was convinced the book had to be a transcript from a BW game.

p.

[Yagathai]

Alas, despite my repeated entreaties to George, he went with Green Ronin instead of Luke & co.

[Clyde Rhoer]

I just saw that today at Martin's website after making that post. Oh well. Back to the positive, what's the surprise?

[Merritt Baggett]

Patriarchal pus permeating pernicious pit-traps.

Burning, of course.

[Judd]

I thought Burning Shadowrun but then he said no ninja and no katana.

Hmmm.

[ldd23]

I was hoping for Usagi Yojimbo but again, no ninjas or katanas..

-Greg

[johnstone]

Giant monsters and mecha?

American Gods?

Streets on Fire - urban law enforcement setting, all the art looks like BBoys "Sabotage" video?

Prison on Fire? ...Batongaville!

Ooooh, Drow elf lifepaths!

[luke]

Ooooh, Drow elf lifepaths!

Didn't I do that already?

[Yagathai]

And very well, at that.

[johnstone]

Yeah? Where's the two-fisted fighting training and the scimitars, smart guy?

[Sempiternity]

You know, the specific exclusion of ninjas and katanas only makes me think that it *is* a supplement with a Japanese - Heian Era, maybe? - or at least Asian/Oriental theme... ;)

[santovendetta]

It could be an ancient China supplement, I'm not sure if they had katana or not.

Burning Middle Kingdom

[Merritt Baggett]

Katanas?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Goujian_s_sword.jpg

We don't need your stinking katanas!

[Taladel]

Witch Burner - Luke will be selling stakes and bales of straw.

My idea - Burning Longboats. The Viking Age.

[JB]

And what about for a spy game, secret agents stuff, summer secret surprise 07?

[JB]

Witch Burner - Luke will be selling stakes and bales of straw.

My idea - Burning Longboats. The Viking Age.

Any of the above would be awesome!

[Paul B]

Official announcement of the organization that, when analyzed two decades from now, will be recognized as the beginning of the war that ended the roleplaying industry:

Players And Publishers Against the Patriarchy (PAPAP)

2007: The Year Luke Killed Your Fun

:D

p.

[Yagathai]

Burning Tubes: The Forge vs. RPG.net

[ChrisG]

WHEN!

[Z-Dog]

*Lurking...hovering...twiddling thumbs in shadows...with credit card in holster*

[luke]

Gotta finish this round of edits.

Shortly, shortly...

[khelek]

Ah ha!

Though deduction, investigation, and reading between the lines we have discovered the Item in question probably has TEXT!

Remember you heard it form me first!

[pseudoidiot]

I'd almost be willing to bet at this point that there might even be the possibility of graphics!

[luke]

You will be seeing one such graphic shortly.

[Z-Dog]

Ah ha!

Though deduction, investigation, and reading between the lines we have discovered the Item in question probably has TEXT!

Remember you heard it form me first!

Excellent, excellent.

I'll bet my second born it might allude to dice.

[donbaloo]

You will be seeing one such graphic shortly.

Just for clarity, in case shortly is interpreted differently between the North and South, should we be checking in on the quarter hour, hourly, daily, or weekly? Its sort of starting to feel like one of those call-in radio prizes and we're just waiting for the key phrase. 8-)

[luke]

Ok, I promise I'll put up the next clue tomorrow morning. Today got away from me with those edits and the fact that I had to watch My Best Fiend.

[johnstone]

Which is a damn good movie.

[Drozdal]

Which is a damn good movie.

Indeed.

In 20 years from now I'll be the guy with crazy eyes, holding a hatchet to your throat Luke.

[Ningauble]

Hi, first post here. Just registered to make a guess!

Considering the current pirate hype, the two stat blocks (pirate & ninja) which i saw on these boards, the movie, the mmorpg and so on, I would guess it could be about them!

[luke]

You should probably look into this thread:
http://burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4367

[eruditus]

Please feel free to point me in the correct direction if this was already answered:

So if we pre-ordered when will we recieve the pdf?

[khelek]

After JULY 18th! Hopefully at 12:01 AM on July 19th... but likely a day or so after. for Burning Empires, Luke got the PDFs out quick (like a bunny).

[The Dragon Master]

Haven't seen this brought up yet. When would the Surprise be available for pre-order?

[Drozdal]

Haven't seen this brought up yet. When would the Surprise be available for pre-order?

Ehem, when was the last time you clicked on the main page (http://burningwheel.org/)?

[The Dragon Master]

LOL. I came here directly from a link on The Forge, and haven't seen the Main Page in about 4 months. Thanks for the redirect!