Fireborn

[Crothian]

Fantasy Flight Games has but together a really creative game in Fireborn. The idea is that the characters are humans that used to be dragons. Only they don't know that, but discover it as the game goes on. At first it reminded me a bit of the White Wolf games, since nearly all of those have human discovering he is something more and has to deal with the new view on world that give him. But Fireborn does better then those games. Fireborn allows the players to be their human selves in modern london (setting for the game) and also to play the Dragon in all its glory in the mythic ages.

The mythic ages are taken right out of folk lore and it is one of the best representations of that kind of old Earth that I've seen. I'mk not as sold on the modern day stuff with magic coming back and the enemy that is unnatural monsters that the new Dragon/human needs to face off against. That's a nice part but pales in comparison to the writing and describtions of the mythic ages.

The rules are an interesting take on the dice pool concept. One has abilitie4s that corospond with the elements. Each is rated by a number and forms a dice pool for that element. Each elemtn covers different types of actions and it is pretty well defined. The different dice pools though can be moved around allowing for additional strategy in the game.

I have yet to actually play the game, but copies of the books seem to be flocking to me in the past month so it might be destiny.

 

[The_Universe]

I looked at it last year's gen con, and while I thought the concept was interesting, I was disappointed that it went with a proprietary system. It seems to have been the kind of thing that would have made a killer (and unique!) setting for Mutants and Masterminds Superlink, or something like that. I'm not sure it could have been done with D20 Modern or one of it variants (In fact, I don't think it would have worked), but I will say that something like this would have been a great deal more interesting than Urban Arcana, etc.

Of course, I'm sure I'll get flamed (as one generally does) for wishing even more products were D20 or OGL, but alas - there it is. I really do wish that.

 

[Quickbeam]

This is one of the new games a buddy and I intend to play at Gen Con this year. I'm excited by the concept and the reviews I've heard...and would be all too happy to receive any of the overflow Fireborn material you've got Chris.

 

[Crothian]

This is one of the new games a buddy and I intend to play at Gen Con this year. I'm excited by the concept and the reviews I've heard...and would be all too happy to receive any of the overflow Fireborn material you've got Chris.

If you want to talk trade, I'd be up for that.

 

[fett527]

Crothian,
Is it Fireborn or Fireburn? It's Fireborn in your thread title but you call it Fireburn in your text. Just curious.

 

[DMH]

The Fireburn is a typo. Just go to http://www.fantasyflightgames.com and check it out.

 

[Ashanderai]

My group played fireborn a little while back and it was awesome. It is one of the best RPGs I have played. Our DM had a very cool story involving Jack-the-Ripper as a member of our reincarnated brood and his modern reincarnation was stalking us. He had been driven insane by taint in the mythic age as a dragon and was stalking the rest of our brood in our reincarnated lives as he stayed insane throughout all his incarnations. It made for a great horror game in modern London, while allowing us to be incredibly powerful dragons dealing in intrigue and mass destruction as powerful lords of the world in the mythic age.

The system took a little time for us to wrap our heads around while we were on the learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it is really easy to use.

Unfortunately, one of our players didn't like the system and wanted to move on to other things. Our agreement before playing bound us agree to moving on to another game if any of us didn't want to continue with Fireborn after a few sessions. So, we moved on, but vowed to play Fireborn again later when the chance arose. That player has since moved away and we will probably pick up another game of Fireborn late this year, after we finish some other games we wanted to try.

 

[Ghostwind]

Hey Chris, if you've got extra copies of the GM book and first adventure, email me and we'll talk trade or something.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Yeah, Fireborn is always on my to buy list but it seems destined to stay on their... No one to play it with but I’ll probably pick it up soon anyways since its getting such love on a d20 dominated board.

 

[mcrow]

Fireborn has a concept that I haven't seen before so that in it's self is cool these days. If you are one of those people who hate bad editing the books will make you ill, but if not you find them quite good. If you are OK with pool systems you will like this game.