Join us for a Sunday morning baptism of Metal. BWHQ will take you on a dark journey through the history of heavy metal & fantasy RPGs. We'll rock out & maybe even learn something.
Luke Crane (Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard) discusses game design in terms of his own "failed designs." He'll examine iterative design, the cost of making something wholly novel & the price of failure.
Robot alien judges from another planet have given you 3600 seconds to design an RPG to save the Earth from being turned into a Monopoly board for their giant robot bio-shark-slug children. Go!
Radek Drozdalski (Drozcast, Drozferatu) moderates this insightful discussion with Luke Crane (The Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard) on the origins of Burning Wheel.
Burning Wheel Headquarters UNITE! ASSEMBLE! WAKE UP! HELLO!
Summary:
Join Burning Wheel Headquarters (The Burning Wheel, Torchbearer, Mouse Guard, FreeMarket, etc.) in a lively discussion of their new book, The Burning Wheel Codex. Instead of Q&A, just complaining.
Dungeon World co-designer Adam Koebel takes you on a rambling (and sometimes disturbing) tour of his never-before-seen designer notes for his hit game, Dungeon Nerps.
Fantasy RPGs and Heavy Metal: A Match Made in Hell
Summary:
Adam Koebel, Luke Crane & Radek Drozdalski take you on a tour of the unholy marriage of metal & rad RPGs. Metal shall be played—dragons shall be slain!
An ogre & his raiders have stolen the village's harvest & kidnapped some people, taking it all to a demon-haunted mine. Will you dare the forbidden mine?
Description:
Snow falls from darkening skies in the village of Stenby. The village’s stockpiles of food are gone along with several of its people—stolen by the Ogre of Whelcrag and his raiders. They came three days ago during the Harvest Festival, slaying and burning until they had claimed all they could carry. The survivors could only watch in mute horror as the raiders retreated into the hills to the ogre’s lair: the cursed mine of Whelcrag. The raiders took the villagers’ food stores with them, along with several villagers and Fenna Stonehand, a paladin visiting for the festival. Pleas to the earl’s steward for aid have gone unanswered. The villagers will need help if they are to survive the winter. Will you enter the demon-haunted mine to rescue the villagers and steal back the food?
An ogre & his raiders have stolen the village's harvest & kidnapped some people, taking it all to a demon-haunted mine. Will you dare the forbidden mine?
Description:
Snow falls from darkening skies in the village of Stenby. The village’s stockpiles of food are gone along with several of its people—stolen by the Ogre of Whelcrag and his raiders. They came three days ago during the Harvest Festival, slaying and burning until they had claimed all they could carry. The survivors could only watch in mute horror as the raiders retreated into the hills to the ogre’s lair: the cursed mine of Whelcrag. The raiders took the villagers’ food stores with them, along with several villagers and Fenna Stonehand, a paladin visiting for the festival. Pleas to the earl’s steward for aid have gone unanswered. The villagers will need help if they are to survive the winter. Will you enter the demon-haunted mine to rescue the villagers and steal back the food?