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Torchbearer
Publisher: Burning Wheel
by Hunter B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/24/2017 02:26:09

Torchbearer is a game about crawling through dungeons and fighting dragons. Sort of. Torchbearer is moreso a game about trying to scrape by a living and maintain your lifestyle by doing the aforementioned D&D stuff. It's a good game about people in bad places trying to work together.

  • It's eminently hackable. The Classes present in the game give you a good idea of what the game is about. As do the spells and miracles, and the traits, and everything else. And the mechanics are all very simple, an adventuring day is all about trying to be what's easiest and at the same time be professional and heroic, and figuring out how to do that mechanically and how you could slap together a class for that one concept you had isn't that hard if you pick up one or more of the supplements for additional character options.
  • The game gives players a wider degree of control of WHEN they choose to fail, and does that in its reward structure for acquiring the 2 mechanical currencies, Artha and Checks.
  • It's a simple game and easy to teach to people who are familiar with ideas in fantasy but not neccessarily with other roleplaying games, but maintains a good degree of tension and depth whilst playing.
  • It makes for good stories and better narratives. The game reinforces the very gritty down to earth dungeonpunk fantasy present in it with every single mechanic. There are mechanical warnings of when things are going to change in fiction, and so it's way easier to run a long-running story with stakes and player investment than other games (as a warning, when you run the game, don't focus too much on reinforcing the weight of those things while you run the game, the game does it already and it's easy to get burned out on tension if there are no releases in tension). I suggest you pick it up and get buy in from the people you want to play it with before you do. It's a good time if you've got folks interested in the very specific niche this game fills, and still alright otherwise.


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