Forum: Burning Empires Character Burner

I have a PC who's chosen one of the opposite side relationships to be his mother, who was the mistress of the former ruler of the planet. She is not...

I know with BW there's sort of an informal guideline of an instinct allowing you to do something before a Fight starts that would normally take 1 or...

As a human it is relatively easy to get 13 mental stat points (age in the 30's for 7 base, plus six +1 M lifepaths), to split between only two stats....

Hi all, I am thinking a bit about the sorts of people that maintain space stations in the Iron Empires. Obviously the Kerrn are pretty great at...

and I burnt up my first FoN. The player characters are seven, seven and six lifepaths so according to the rulebook I should go with nine, nine and...

I was surprised to note that the Kidnapper has Extortion as the required Lifepath skill, but Blackmailer doesn't have it at all. I would think that...

I'm thinking about making a Mukkhadish character, (a Mukkhadish spy master if you can beleive it) and I was curious about how Mukkhadish communicate....

How many do I get? say i'm a forged lord, with tons of resource points to spend. 19 say. 1. if i spend 2 points on a hammer patrol craft, do...

so the servitude slave setting is native to my world, how do i represent my slaves during character burning? are they just color that come with...

Here's my first shot at stating a Vaylen for my game. I decided to go with something odd- a Creepy Little Girl. She doesn't have much in lifepaths,...

So, for one of the FoN in the game I'm running, I want her to have two semi-uplifted tigers that follow her everywhere she goes. I don't really...

so i have a non FoN NPC in the GM camp, an ousted Lord Steward of the planet, who has just become engaged to the Vaylen FON NPC (who is truly a...

Just wanted to chime in, after playing a full phase as Station Security Chief & high-ranking-mafia-man David Marcoli, who is not a Figure of Note....

It just seemed like an odd omission. I mean, obviously the Hammer forces would have more uses for it (being armed almost exclusively with Artillery),...

Dunno if this is a kosher use of this forum. If not, I apologize. I just spent a while doing this and am pretty proud of and happy with it and...

I couldn't find any human lifepaths that include the Eugenicist skill. How might a human scientist or researcher access a skill like this one,...

Hey... What do you do with non FoN npc beliefs? Character Beliefs need to be specific and tied to the situation etc etc. Equal amount of...

Hey... Were doing a very BSG inspired game (cylons though are now kinda vaylen :). we know that BE is so internally consistent so we want to...

Hello I am a new GM to Burning Empires and Burning Wheel in general. In fact though I have read Burning Wheel several times this will be my first...

I was burning up a Forged Lord GM FON and wanted to make sure he had the ability to call on both the Anvil and Hammer of his world. Now, I...