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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9871438" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Key tropes of BW play:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GM builds adventures based upon on-the-character-sheet goals set by players</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All actions need to specify goal separate from method to accomplish it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Players can back down if the difficulty is too hard. Uses their turn, but nothing else</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GM expected to state difficulty AND "If this fails…" clause BEFORE rolls are committed to.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Detailed single-table conflict systems (multiple: Fight, Range and Cover, Duel of Wits)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Very non-detailed combat option with single opposed roll resolution. It's called "Bloody Versus."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Non-martial combat (Duel of Wits) common</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">conflict winner gets goal, loser gets a concession scaled to how much progress they had made.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Let it Ride: You never double up a given roll. EG: Infiltrating the castle: You roll once, and the GM compares it to each foe en route.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use it to raise it; above 4th rank of skill, must use it at a task you cannot normally succeed at to raise it. Help, FoRKs, tool bonuses, condition bonuses adjust the needed difficulty for a given experience category, so, functionally, you have to accept a non-success task failure to advance</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Expendable points to modify rolls - some before (Persona, Deeds), one after (Fate - open end the 6's.) Collectively called Artha; Dice from Artha don't adjust how hard a given tasak is for experience, so Artha's the only way to not fail and still count for the hardest difficulty.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Say Yes or Roll the Dice.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Anything affecting a character sheet needs a roll, player agreement is NOT enough.</li> </ul>Aside from the specific conflicts, Burning Empires is the same game.BE Conflicts include: Duel of Wits (identical to BW), Battle, I Corner Him And Stab Him With My Knife, Invasion.Battle is mass combat, ICHaSHWMK is personal combat but is different from BW's Fight or Range & Cover. Invasion is a metagame.BE adds:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Very limited rolling, so<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> lots more "say yes"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bloody Versus much more palatable to players</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Scene budgets</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">players frame half the scenes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Roll budgets per scene</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PVP at 4-5 players with GM</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">built in metaconflict (Invasion by a Go'a'uld-like species)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">two conflict system invocations per session limit: one called for by the GM, one framed or converted by the players.</li> </ul>The BE setting, the Iron Empires, was originally inspired by Classic Traveller and Stargate, plus an unfiltered-through-traveller additional dose of Dune.</blockquote>

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