So maybe I’ll see you in may at Can Games… if I can figure out how to get an invite.

I really really want to slap myself now…

@rmc: No I did not hear about ACTION CASTLE but I did hear Luke and Rob talk about something cool Luke was working on. Suffice it to say that I’d totally play it.

@Walkerp: I believe that Burning Wheel/Empire and Mouseguard can be great game when played with an average to good GM. I’m however convinced that it would become spectacular in the hands of a Great GM.

I’m really looking forward to try Mouse Guard and I’m also getting more and more curious about Burning Empire.

@sicnaxyz: Oh man, I wanted to die… I felt like I had committed a gamer capital sin. Anyhow, I’m apologize to both you and walkerp. Let’s play something next year, I’m sure there will be great games to chose from.

@Tyson: It seems flubbing diplomacy rolls with designers is a trait of mine. I nearly gave James Wyatt a heart attack when I snuck up to him at Gen Con and congratulated him for all the Ennies 4e had won. Poor guy almost collapsed.

@Colmar: Yes you got it right and in French ‘Night’ and ‘Rain’ rhyme… giving the expression a feeling of being both right and wrong at the same time.

Day and night, or sun and rain would be opposites in English, but day and rain don’t quite compare to each other. They’re on different axes. It’s like saying “We’re like cheese and toys.”

Is that the point? You’re so different that a comparison can’t even be made?
.-= Colmarr´s last blog ..SSTL 32: Within Baphomet’s Halls =-.

Don’t worry it happens to the best of us.
.-= Tyson J. Hayes´s last blog ..Character Considerations: Naming Your Character =-.

Burning Wheel is really awesome. I would’ve loved to get to spend more time to talk to Luke but we did manage to speak a little before the game while he was eating. Nice dude that designed a very neat game.

It would be nice to talk to you a little more next time. We got briefly time at the end of the day around a beer but there was too much sound in the bar.

I too was a little thrown at first by the level of crunch. Just looking at the character sheet intimidated me a bit. But I’ve been in a very rules-light phase for a while. More generally, the idea of strategizing mechanically as players, picking out the best rhetoric maneuver, choosing stats and bonuses and then when that is all done, announcing your move and then following that with pure roleplaying seemed dubious to me.

But wow, the results. In both Duel of Wits, which were the major action moments of the adventure, I felt I participated in some of the richest, most intense roleplaying I’ve done in a long time. And it wasn’t actorly, good-performance type roleplaying (though there was some good performing), but just really getting into the situation. It has to be noted that Luke is a great GM. He does an excellent job of using a few choice words to describe the scene so that it comes alive. His cadence of speech and the way he uses the NPCs to come at you is awesome as well. And obviously, he knows his own system really well.

But I am still pretty convinced that it was the system itself that got us to that level of awesome. Christian felt the same way I did and we are both reading the books together and critiquing them over at Midnight’s Lair if anyone is interested.
.-= walkerp´s last blog ..episode 5.5 – special Draconis episode 1 – an interview with the organizers =-.

I’m happy it turned out like it did. I was just surprised. And it’s a good thing you didn’t drag your bilingual players, we would have broken their translation brains with our high speed Quebecois French.

Thanks for showing up, I appreciate, I hope we can find a way for me to DM a session for all of you guys.

Cheers,
Michelle