The old guardian of Boulder, Colorado is dying, and he
needs a successor. Every secret society in existence is jockeying to take his place and tap the ancient powers he commands. Who will seize the title, and can the guardian himself control who succeeds him?
Omac is a precious ball of ice floating of S-421 in the Kodiak System. Her industry is vital to interstellar trade. So vital, in fact, that Baron Zdrajca must capture and secure her before his fleet can move on to higher profile targets. The hitch? Omac must be captured intact. She cannot be bombarded. She must be assaulted. A simple matter, usually, but Omac is peopled by a Kerrn anarchist syndicate and they have risen against the Baron. Now it's bloody fighting, poorly armed anarchists against the imperial assault troops. You're playing the anarchists. Can you win this desperate fight to save your world and preserve your people's freedom? Or will Omac fall and your people be enslaved?
Buring Empires is Luke Crane's latest project -- a mix of Chris Moeller's brilliant comic fiction, The Iron Empires, and his own award-winning system, The Burning Wheel. This is a science fiction game like none other. Come and explore the mechanics that allow you to play out impassioned arguments and blazing firefights while simultaneously using macro maneuvers to determine the fate of your world.
Omac is a precious ball of ice floating of S-421 in the Kodiak System. Her industry is vital to interstellar trade. So vital, in fact, that Baron Zdrajca must capture and secure her before his fleet can move on to higher profile targets. The hitch? Omac must be captured intact. She cannot be bombarded. She must be assaulted. A simple matter, usually, but Omac is peopled by a Kerrn anarchist syndicate and they have risen against the Baron. Now it's bloody fighting, poorly armed anarchists against the imperial assault troops. You're playing the anarchists. Can you win this desperate fight to save your world and preserve your people's freedom? Or will Omac fall and your people be enslaved?
Buring Empires is Luke Crane's latest project -- a mix of Chris Moeller's brilliant comic fiction, The Iron Empires, and his own award-winning system, The Burning Wheel. This is a science fiction game like none other. Come and explore the mechanics that allow you to play out impassioned arguments and blazing firefights while simultaneously using macro maneuvers to determine the fate of your world.
Omac is an inhospitable planetoid-sized hunk of ice orbiting S-421, the Kodiak System. No one would ever want to go or live there, if it weren't thickly veined with the precious ore Coltain, an essential element in the manufacture of Distortion Drives and thus vital to interstellar trade. So vital, in fact, that Baron Zdrajca must capture and secure her before his fleet can move on to higher profile targets. The hitch? Omac must be captured intact. She cannot be bombarded. She must be assaulted. A simple matter, usually, but Omac is peopled by a Kerrn anarchist syndicate and they have risen against the Baron. Now it's bloody fighting, poorly armed anarchists against the imperial assault troops. You're playing the anarchists. Can you win this desperate fight to save your world and preserve your people's freedom? Or will Omac fall and your people be enslaved?
Buring Empires is Luke Crane's latest project -- a mix of Chris Moeller's brilliant comic fiction, The Iron Empires, and Luke's own award-winning system, The Burning Wheel. This is a science fiction game like none other. Come and explore the mechanics that allow you to play out impassioned arguments and blazing firefights while simultaneously using macro maneuvers to determine the fate of your world.
Omac is an inhospitable planetoid-sized hunk of ice orbiting S-421, the Kodiak System. No one would ever want to go or live there, if it weren't thickly veined with the precious ore Coltain, an essential element in the manufacture of Distortion Drives and thus vital to interstellar trade. So vital, in fact, that Baron Zdrajca must capture and secure her before his fleet can move on to higher profile targets. The hitch? Omac must be captured intact. She cannot be bombarded. She must be assaulted. A simple matter, usually, but Omac is peopled by a Kerrn anarchist syndicate and they have risen against the Baron. Now it's bloody fighting, poorly armed anarchists against the imperial assault troops. You're playing the anarchists. Can you win this desperate fight to save your world and preserve your people's freedom? Or will Omac fall and your people be enslaved?
Buring Empires is Luke Crane's latest project -- a mix of Chris Moeller's brilliant comic fiction, The Iron Empires, and Luke's own award-winning system, The Burning Wheel. This is a science fiction game like none other. Come and explore the mechanics that allow you to play out impassioned arguments and blazing firefights while simultaneously using macro maneuvers to determine the fate of your world.
The prodigal son has returned home on the even of Grandfather's death in order to collect his inheritance. He was outcast for murdering his elder brother. Thus his younger brother stands in line for grandfather's accumulated gifts. Will you accept him back into the family, or will you end this feud here and now?
Without warning, without mercy, the invaders came. They overwhelmed our defenses. They struck down our strongest heroes. With everything on the line, can you prevail against the inhuman menace that has stolen so much from you? Battle the invasion the With Great Power...way!
Once upon a time, as far north as north can go, the people were dying at the end of the world. But hope was not yet lost, for a few brave knights still heard the song of the stars. Players collaborate using elegantly simple rules to roleplay chivalric tragedy set in a fairie-tale apocalypse. System will be taught, beginners welcome.
With crops dying in the field and children sick in their beds, the Faithful are sorely afflicted, and it's up to the Watchdogs of the Lord to put right what ain't. Roleplay God's Watchdogs protecting the faithful in a West that never was. Mercy, Judgement. Life, Death. They're all in your strong hands.