Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9651446" data-attributes="member: 42582">I agreed with all of your post, but this in particular seemed important to me.Burning Wheel - as you know - isn't the same in its techniques as Stonetop (PbtA) or BitD. But <a href="https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/burning-wheel-first-burning-wheel-session.736425/" target="_blank">here's something</a> that I think has a bit of similarity:Jobe, being unable to buy Halika any lunch, suggested he might be able to find some work for them instead. . . .

Jobe, having both nobility and sorcerers in his circles, and a +1D affiliation with both (from Mark of Privilege and a starting affiliation with a sorcerous cabal), initially thought of trying to make contact with the Gynarch of Hardby, the sorceress ruler of that city. But then he thought he might start a little lower in the pecking order, and so decided to make contact with the red-robed firemage Jabal (of the Cabal). With Circles 2 he attempted the Ob 2 check, and failed.The NPC Jabal was Jobe's player's invention - but not from nowhere: rather, in the context of a Circles test built around the player-chosen affiliation with the sorcerous cabal. I subsequently established Jabal's tower, having recently been rereading Tower of the Elephant, and also having in mind that Jobe had an instinct When I fall I cast Falconskin (and a tower can be a precursor to a fall).Jabal felt real.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9651446, member: 42582"] I agreed with all of your post, but this in particular seemed important to me. Burning Wheel - as you know - isn't the same in its techniques as Stonetop (PbtA) or BitD. But [url=https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/burning-wheel-first-burning-wheel-session.736425/]here's something[/url] that I think has a bit of similarity: [indent]Jobe, being unable to buy Halika any lunch, suggested he might be able to find some work for them instead. . . . Jobe, having both nobility and sorcerers in his circles, and a +1D affiliation with both (from Mark of Privilege and a starting affiliation with a sorcerous cabal), initially thought of trying to make contact with the Gynarch of Hardby, the sorceress ruler of that city. But then he thought he might start a little lower in the pecking order, and so decided to make contact with the red-robed firemage Jabal (of the Cabal). With Circles 2 he attempted the Ob 2 check, and failed.[/indent] The NPC Jabal was Jobe's player's invention - but not from nowhere: rather, in the context of a Circles test built around the player-chosen affiliation with the sorcerous cabal. I subsequently established Jabal's tower, having recently been rereading Tower of the Elephant, and also having in mind that Jobe had an instinct [I]When I fall I cast Falconskin[/I] (and a tower can be a precursor to a fall). Jabal felt real. [/QUOTE]

Verification