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Forum: The Character Burner

For questions regarding character burning, traits, skills, Beliefs and Instincts, Faith, Grief, Greed and Hatred.

  1. Exclamation Sticky Thread Sticky: Online Character Burner update

    Hi all, If you have a Google account you can now register to use the (unofficial) Online Character Burner (OCB). You will be asked once to...

    Posted By pauld
    online character burner
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    08-19-2010 05:17 AM Go to last post
  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Skill with Two Root Stats

    Maybe I overlooked the answer, but in the description of skills, when it's got two things listed as the root (say, Agility/Perception) do you use the...

    Posted By Leningrad
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    09-24-2009 04:44 PM Go to last post
  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: Citydweller Temple Acolyte

    The traits for the Citydweller Temple Acolyte should be as they are listed below. They should NOT have Sworn to the Order. Temple Acolyte 5...

    Posted By luke
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    04-24-2006 12:30 AM Go to last post
  1. Advancing Faith B4

    The way I read it is impossible to advance Faith B4 without using the Practice rules (or getting help), since the lowest OB availible to test against...

    Posted By Bridger
    • Replies: 15
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    09-02-2010 09:42 AM Go to last post
  2. Creating a detective

    Hello, I'm creating a character for my first Burning Wheel (Revised) game. I intend for him to be fairly similar to Sherlock Holmes, a detective...

    Posted By Sylian
    • Replies: 3
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    09-02-2010 08:09 AM Go to last post
  3. Instincts for Jason Bourne-like character

    Hiya, I want to role-play a cool, ruthlessly efficient warrior. It's all going well in the sense that I got the LPs, the Beliefs and the Traits...

    Posted By Gilles de Rais
    • Replies: 34
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    08-26-2010 02:15 PM Go to last post
  4. Pick Pocket Lifepath

    In the City Setting the Pick Pocket lp has Plain Face for a trait. If that just a character trait or a typo for Plain Faced the C-O for Inconspicous...

    Posted By Peregrine
    • Replies: 2
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    08-20-2010 01:21 AM Go to last post
  5. Two characters sharing relation. Who's gonna pay?

    Hey. We are currently burning up our new game. More about it will come later when we are a bit further, but: One of the character is the...

    Posted By Archdaimon
    • Replies: 5
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    08-17-2010 09:09 PM Go to last post
  6. Missing description for Orc Trait

    There is a trait for Slave to the Dark LP in the Servants of the Dark Blood Setting called "Fearful Respect of the Servants"... but there is no entry...

    Posted By tigermuppetcut
    • Replies: 4
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    08-05-2010 03:30 PM Go to last post
  7. Racial Common Traits

    Hi there reading through the Character Burner it doesn't say how to handle racial common traits. My common sense tells me that every member of that...

    Posted By tigermuppetcut
    • Replies: 2
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    08-05-2010 12:41 PM Go to last post
  8. Soothing platitudes and Ugly truth

    Hi, Could someone give me an exemple of an intent/task (not in a DW) with those skills in actual play?

    Posted By Marune
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    07-30-2010 07:59 PM Go to last post
  9. Nimue... THoughts after reading the MaBu.

    Have you read Bernard Cornwells Warlord Trilogy about King Arthur? Do you Remeber Nimue? She is one of my favorite characters, and after reading...

    Posted By Archdaimon
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    07-25-2010 05:11 PM Go to last post
  10. Bilge-Drinker

    In sitting down to play our first Burning Wheel game, my friends and I came across the Bilge-Drinker trait. I'm hoping to get some clarification on...

    Posted By Blunkt
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    07-05-2010 10:01 PM Go to last post
  11. Female Inquisitor

    We are still burning our setting so it's still a work in progress. However, the idea seems to be that an all-powerful church rules the land through...

    Posted By Dwarinpt
    • Replies: 4
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    06-16-2010 07:57 PM Go to last post
  12. AdBu preview Beliefs questions

    Noob question #3,456,677: As regards the discussion on page 214 of the Adventure Burner, can one/should one write the Beliefs for a campaign as...

    Posted By Valannor
    • Replies: 7
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    06-16-2010 03:49 PM Go to last post
  13. Wink The Cheapest Relationship

    So, if a forbidden relationship is worth -1 RP, a romantic relationship is -2 RPs, and immediate family is -2 RPs, an incestuous relationship only...

    Posted By Odie
    • Replies: 11
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    06-08-2010 07:08 PM Go to last post
  14. Elf Unbreakable Trait

    I was looking through the various Lifepaths and Traits for Elves and noticed the Unbreakable trait. However, I can't seem to find a Lifepath that has...

    Posted By Shadowspawn
    • Replies: 2
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    06-07-2010 12:43 PM Go to last post
  15. Rounding Up Reflexes

    Is there a Die Trait that rounds up the Reflexes attribute?

    Posted By wanderer
    • Replies: 3
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    05-31-2010 09:31 PM Go to last post
  16. Tell me about orcs

    My players are getting ready to take their army north to fight orcs. But I've never used orcs in BW before. I've played around with the on-line...

    Posted By RRodger
    • Replies: 5
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    05-29-2010 10:02 AM Go to last post
  17. Domain-wise

    Is the Domain-wise listed under Speaker of Names (in the Magic Burner) actually "Domain-wise" or "-wise?" If its the latter can it be taken multiple...

    Posted By RRodger
    • Replies: 12
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    05-28-2010 09:08 AM Go to last post
  18. Help Me Cheat

    First session of a game with three 7(!) LP Spiteful Elves is coming up. This is building on a previous Orcs game we played where Orcs and Elves...

    Posted By wombleton
    • Replies: 9
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    05-21-2010 04:12 PM Go to last post
  19. A half-elf half-dwarf...

    One of my players has a character who is an elf with a dwarven stepfather. He's written a belief about a half brother who he'll track down. We...

    Posted By Glug
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 352
    05-18-2010 04:50 PM Go to last post
  20. I need a badass wizard

    My players love Circles. Don't have the right skill? Circle someone up to do it for you! Grrr... they've latched onto this a little too handily so...

    Posted By Glug
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 1,029
    05-14-2010 09:19 PM Go to last post

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