Paul Tevis Discusses Burning Empires

[luke]

Paul does an amazing, honest and indepth review of Burning Empires for his podcast, Have Games, Will Travel. It's 70 minutes long, so sit back and enjoy!

http://havegameswilltravel.net/index.php?post_id=342519

-L

[IMAGinES]

Made my way through it yesterday - I loved the anecdotes from his campaign, and it's good that he got through a whole Phase before reviewing. I'd get my friends to listen except msot fo them couldn't be arsed with podcasts anyway!

[ptevis]

Thanks! I felt that waiting until we finished Infiltration was the only way to do it justice. It's funny: we were sitting around talking about the episode before the game last night, and folks were mentioning things I didn't say. It's a testament to how rich the game is that I can do an hour+ review and still leave stuff out.

--Paul

[Jaroslav]

I was stoked when I got my latest episode of HGWT and saw what the topic was. Paul is a fantastic podcaster (I think he spends less time off-topic and laughing at his own jokes than any other gaming podcaster), and I have only played Burning Wheel, so I was interested to get such a detailed rundown on what was different about Empires.

Paul, I only wish you had done a review of BW in similar detail (you haven't, have you?) I would just get people to listen to that to convince them to play. You describe games in such a clear manner. (I don't think I'd ever try to start someone on BE without trying BW first, there's a lot of extra material there that would scare off casual gamers.)

It's also nice to hear that somebody else is not regularly able to schedule 4+ hour game sessions.:)

[ptevis]

Paul, I only wish you had done a review of BW in similar detail (you haven't, have you?)

Next time I'm running or playing a BW campaign (and I really want to), I will.

[luke]

:rolleyes:
No you won't.

[luke]

:rolleyes:
No you won't.

You're not going to call me on this, eh?

[ptevis]

I wasn't going to, but now that you ask...

[luke]

aw, you thought I was just being a dick!

[ptevis]

Nah, I just figured I'd let my actions speak louder than words.

[NeilFord]

Just wanted to add my voice of thanks to Paul for a fantastic episode of HGWT (not that they aren't all great). It helped clarify a number of things for me about BE and has placed it firmly back on my "I must give this a go" list.

I'll also say "Yes please!" to something similar about BW.

Thanks for making the train journey in to London pass so quickly :)

- Neil.

[Glendower]

That was inspiring! Now I gotta talk to the group about starting the Invasion Phase of Prometheus Chained.

[ptevis]

Merci beaucoup. You can expect to hear more about BE as we continue to play it.

--Paul

[Jaroslav]

:rolleyes:
No you won't.

I guess Luke was right. Paul has announced that Episode 111 (released last night, I believe) will be the last full-length HGWT. I, for one, am bummed, though I'm glad he's not vanishing from the podcasting world altogether.