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I'm not very familiar with Burning Wheel, but I am familiar with Mouseguard. The metacurrencies in Mouseguard are really quite weak and...

As I played the game, this is correct. A M-U in melee combat could not cast a spell. In 3e D&D terms trying to cast a spell in melee...

My interpretation of p.65 is that if a spellcaster begins a combat round adjacent to a melee combatant then they should not even attempt...

That's kind of my point exactly. Kenobi had a lot more riding on resolving the issue without conflict than his own personal safety. As...

Tell me more. For example, by the time you had played 7-8 years, how big were the top end dice pools of the players? By the RAW there...

Well first of all, there are no Jedi in this game. This is set during the early years of Rise of the Empire, and any surviving Jedi...

I mean they don't. Like at this point the can take down an entire platoon of Stormtroopers and that's using an attribute array for...

Let me try to refocus the discussion by focusing on the mechanics of what a force point does. It doubles your dice pools for the round...

As a practical matter, the "dramatically appropriate moments" in the campaign have come down to two types of actions. Using a force...

You are making unwarranted assumptions here. The PC wasn't gambling with the smuggler for profit. The PC was trying to befriend the...

As I recall, it was more tied to intent than drama: using one for evil purposes would lose it and gain you a Dark Side point (which had...

You only start with one of them and they must be used for a heroic task. If they are used for a heroic task in a dramatic way, you not...

I was moving in the other direction before I gave up in frustration with how enormous my house rules were becoming. I had moved to a 10...

For a long time I had considered the WEG D6 Force Point to be one of the more elegant mechanics in gaming. My positive impression of it...

Not hit to me but I'm happy to field it as well, even at the risk of colliding in the outfield and making the blooper real. a) We did...