Forum: The Character Burner

I'm considering a four-lifepath Chaplain for my group's new Burning Wheel campaign, but I'm stumbling over the lifepath requirements. Chaplain...

I'm a school librarian and a kid brought up a book called The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin. It deals with a child trying to feel himself and his...

I'm having trouble coming up with good beliefs for a more complicated NPC in an upcoming game. She's the personal Dueling Proxy (aka, the champion...

You said on story games that Burning Empires isa third revision of the Burning wheels rules, if that is true how do you burn new life paths or...

Hi, I was exploring the Human Noble Court lifepaths and I've come across this interesting Corporal Punishment Discipline Training in the Governess...

I am having a little trouble deciding how much new traits would cost. Some traits cost 1 or 2 points, but many of them are mostly little features...

What exactly can general skill points be used to purchase? The book says "a skill in the character's starting list the character stock's list or...

So I know no one likes ninjas but I want to be one. We are playing four LPs so I will take peasant born, (Ninja), farmer, farmer. LP of Man btw. ...

I'm trying to burn a orc Night-Seeker and I can't find what kind of skill is "Garrote"... I'm from Spain and in spanish aa garrote is a club.......

So I had a quite lengthy Session 0 with my two gaming friends for our first attempt at BW. And, of course, some questions came up. First the...

After much flipping of pages in the Mannish LP traits and general traits, and after going over the character trait lists and the MonBu trait lists I...

Two sessions ago in my Orion game (13th century power politics and family backstabbing, yay!) one of the PCs spent the last fate and persona to...

Hey I've got a quick question about the Arcane Devotee lifepath in the Noble Setting for Man. The trait "base humility" - what exactly is this? My...

Say I'm burning up a Mannish character and I take the Fey Blood trait, which allows me to select the Essence of Earth trait from the Elven trait...

So... If I burn up a character with Potter, Blacksmith, Alchemy, Astrology, etc. that all require tools, can I use just one workshop for all those...

Hi folks, I was messing around with lifepaths trying to see if I could conceive of a concept that I couldn't make work. As a consequence of this,...

Hi all, I have been having a bit of a play-around with upper LP characters trying to work out whether I'd need to tweak a few of them to get what...

I know I saw something about Sacred Vows posted here at one time with more ideas then was in the Roden Lifepaths. I searched and have only found a...

Can I take Fey Blood more than once thus netting multiple traits from multiple bloodlines? Lets say I have a Born Peasant > Vagrant > Gravedigger...

Here's something I've wondered about before, but never really sought out an answer. Let's say I want to make a Dwarf that fights with an axe or...