I picked up Burning Wheel Gold at GenCon 2011, but I’m only able to sit down and write something about it now. The reason it has taken me so long to write anything in regards to this book is both a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing is that I live here in Northern Kentucky and the gaming community is small and somewhat insular. In addition to this, I did not have the time to invest to find people that were playing Burning Wheel. These two things kept me from playing the game until recently. The good thing that came from this though is that I’ve met people from the Burning Wheel community that have helped me get playing via Skype. It has been a great experience and allows me to be able to speak about Burning Wheel Gold from a place of experience as well as teaching me that you can not talk about Burning Wheel without talking about the community. Read the rest of this entry »
Buy this. Stop asking questions or going to wikipedia to read about it. Just go buy it.
Brian Jacques, a British born author went a different way. Showing propensity as a writer at the age of ten with a story even his teachers didn’t believe he could have written, he created a world set in medieval times of a mouse named Matthias and his quest for a sword.
Redwall was published in 1986, and was born from stories Jacques would spin for children at Royal Wavertree School for the Blind when doing milk deliveries. Each species of animal has different accents, which when read gives distinction of the characters. Hares (don’t call them rabbits) have a militaristic British accent, hedgehogs sound Scottish and Mole Australian. It can make for difficult reading at first, but once you get into the swing of things, the characters roll around your head easily. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s here! It’s here! My copy of The Burning Wheel’s Magic Burner is here! The Mail-Man brought it in the mail today.
You may recall that Magic Burner is the book I was unable to purchase due to unavailability at this month’s Fear the Con 2. So I ordered the thing. Now it’s here and I’m very excited.
And now begins the long wait.
You see, I can’t read any of my Burning Wheel books until after I have completed my THIS EMPIRE EARTH (TEE) sandbox prep. Why you ask? Because like a magpie, I am often distracted by shiny things.
I know myself well enough to understand that if I read Burning Wheel now, I’ll be filled with an overwhelming desire to scrap TEE’s current system and replace it with something more Luke Crane-ish.
It has all happened before. It will happen again.
Stay. On. Target.
So, all four of my The Burning Wheel books are up on the shelf where they will remain unread until such time as my TEE notes are complete. Yet another motivation to get things rocking.
I’m scheduling my group’s first game in This Empire Earth for April. Lots to do between now and then to prep the talking monkeys, man-eating aliens, and hawt frog ladies.