I've been binge watching these things and they're really great. I like that you get the creators (when possible) and explain the game before giving your editorial-style view. I also really enjoy the intro and I wouldn't ever suggest cutting any of it out... *turns to look at a different camera* ... but I would suggest showing only one at a time. They're all good and entertaining, and it shows the breadth of your games with the different genres, but it feels long if you watch the episodes one after the other. And that's how people watch things now. I think it might work better if you use only the starting one of the real world and then one "session" per episode. Maybe randomize what genre gets played as well. This isn't so much a critique as an outsider trying to be helpful, because I really do like these. ^_^
Burning Wheel has a lot of really great ideas. I just wished that it was written somewhat more clearly. One major issue I had was that it used terms that were not explained before. So you read something about FoRK or GRIEF even though it has never been explained before what sort of mechanics do apply for that and what is meant by "FoRK" or "GRIEF". Finding a definition/explanation thirty pages later on is a nuissance.
I'm not seeing it. FoRKs are first mentioned, as far as I can see, on page 36, with the very same paragraph mentioning there is more detail on it later. You have to wait a whole 2 paragraphs before it explains what FoRKs are and the basics of how they're used. I see Grief first mentioned on page 19, and gives a brief mention defining what it is, along with the other main emotional attributes. It In the very same paragraph it mentions there is a whole chapter to cover rules about these. These terms are not just used and then left undefined. Burning Wheel rules are very dependent on other parts of the rules, all working as a whole. The outline of the rules comes first, so you can start to get an idea how the whole system works, before it gets into details about the individual parts of the system. Do you want detailed explanations of individual parts before you're given an general outline of the system as a whole, what it does, and how those parts generally work with each other? A high level overview and general outline of the system (available for free with the Hub and Spokes PDF, which is just 70 or so pages of the book), and then later going into detail is the proper way to introduce new systems. Finding detailed info about those specific parts is what an index is good for. The Burning Wheel book has this covered. Now some of the undefined and unexplained Traits, many of which are in-jokes or pop culture references, _that_ I can see a valid complaint about it not being clearly written. Fortunately those are rather few in number. The problem you're describing? I see the opposite, and think that part is done well.
@@elysium1976 It's possible you're looking at different books. There was the original Burning Wheel, Burning Wheel Revised, Burning Wheel Gold, and finally Burning Wheel Gold Revised, afaik. The first book was definitely formatted more poorly than following books.
