I just bought Scion: Demigod.

Quote from: PseudoephedrineI'm downloading the fragmentary chapters of the Magic Burner already. To be honest, I play in an incredibly fiddly variant of Iron Heroes already, so I'm not too scared by Burning Wheel's complexity in combat. The main problem would be only having one copy of the books, so I'm hoping pdfs are available somewhere.

You can buy the PDFs for the Lifepaths to help with character creation. But they are $7 per race, IIRC.  I just said screw it and bought a second set of books for $26 or whatever. Most people I've played with get their own shortly anyway. Generally speaking you are creating the characters when all together anyway. If you've got a wifi laptop at the table or are doing this from home a guy named Paul Drussel is building an online character builder (( http://www.drussel.net/charburner/charburner.html )). You need the Character Burner book though to get in, username is page 73 of the Character Burner, 15 rows up, 1st word, password is the two hyphenated names following that (including the hyphen).

I know I would like to have a PDF version of the rules. I've got one for Burning Empires and it's great. But I've had that discussion with Luke, and it ain't happening till BWR isn't being printed anymore. Given that last I heard BWR sales rate is still on the increase that's not going to happen in the foreseeable future.

You'll probably want to run The Sword demo first. If someone plays the Roden (ratman) that race is in the Monster Burner but the book isn't critical since any of his Traits not found in the Character Burner are statless Char traits. That demo is good because it gives sort of an idea of what the possibilities are for the game, and you can get a handle on the mechanics without creating characters, even if you don't ever take your own game to that extreme of player character centric driven action.

Then figure out what you want to do for a setting. The BW board, especially the Spark forum is a huge resource for help with invoking the setting you want.

P.S. Burning Wheel's character gen is a lot of work for a full PC character. Part of it is the fiddly bits of the system and the other part is you are laying the foundation for the campaign right in the characters. So try not to freak out if you spend a full session on the "characters", if you plan to play for a large number of sessions. Because what you really are doing is hashing the point and tone of the campaign. I can, and have, run a pickup session with complete noobs (they'd never openned the book before) with zero prep work and zero prior notice. We were off and playing in under 10 minutes. But they selected out of the prefab example characters at the back of the BWR book, changing 1 Belief for each of them.

TMNT rocks. I wish I could get us to go back to playing it. It was the third game we ever ran, and Ninjas and Superspies was the fourth. I'd love to revist them someday in a hilarious 80's style romp!

I'm way behind on posting to this thread.

I do have to note that I found a copy of the GURPS Traveller 25th anniversary limited edition. Signed by Loren Wiseman, Steve Jackson, and Marc Miller. 110 out of 610.

I'm not generally a collector but the price was super low for any rpg book and I figured it was a no brainer.

Only now do I realize that at that store I must have over looked that book for months and months.

Am I a fanboy?

I played TMNT&OS pretty recently, actually, my half completed play report is on THIS very site

Lore of the Forsaken and Blood of the Wolf for $1.20 something each and $4.00 shipping total. Since I'd like to run Werewolf: the Forsaken sometime in the far future I figured it was a worthwhile investment.