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Torchbearer Basic Rule Book for Levels 1 5 This game harkens back to old school rpg play It is well written and has a great flow from the writers It handles a lot of time eating issues that older pen and paper rpg systems use by actually making time in town mean rolling dice and doing quick things to assist the overall feel of the game Enjoyable read I will be running this very soon for my gaming group Danny Torchbearer Basic Rule Book for Levels 1 5 Somewhere between Mouse Guard and Burning Wheel lies Torchbearer If you ve got a dungeon crawling itch to scratch but are every bit as concerned about character and roleplaying as you are about loot.

Torchbearer is a riff on the early model of fantasy roleplaying games In it you take on the role of an adventurer seeking his or her fortune To earn that fortune you must explore fornlorn ruins brave terrible monsters and retreive forgotten treasures However this game is not about being a hero It is not about fighting for what you believe This game is about exploration and survival You may become a hero You might have to fight for your ideals But to do either of those things you must prove yourself in the wilds Because there are no jobs no inheritance no other opportunities for our deadbeat adventurers This life is their only hope to prosper in this world Torchbearer Basic Rule Book for Levels 1 5 you d be hard pressed to do better than this game Torchbearer Basic Rule Book for Levels 1 5 Presently it is my favorite iteration of Luke Crane s Burning Wheel system It strips out a lot of the mechanics I tend to trip up on and find fault with and instead is a highly streamlined and efficient engine for dungeon delving and survival It tends towards a tone of simulation where the details of resource use and management are central to play yet are never bothersome to track It drops the ever faulty lifepath system of core Burning Wheel and institutes a GM player turn order elaborated upon from Mouse Guard and this structures the game such that I am hard pressed to imagine it going badly Torchbearer Basic Rule Book for Levels 1 5