Let's vote up another Burning Wheel Character!

[Sith_Happens]

Originally Posted by The Glyphstone

Heck yeah.
1-She Who is Mighty and Has Earned the Ancient Right to be Named.

2-Call It Quits. We ain't standing for any Chattel status.

This.

And yeah, the "long hammy name" joke is mainly applied to Abyssals.

[Acanous]

1. She Who is Mighty and Has Earned the Ancient Rite to be Named

2. Whipmaster

3: Cattle Slave. Because I couldn't see that option there and not have at least ONE vote for it. Like an option in an old MUD where the coder was horribly misogynistic, I want to see it 'cuz it's guerunteed to be BAD. That makes me curious.

[Xefas]

I'm gonna go:

1) She Who is Mighty and Has Earned the Ancient Right to be Named

2) A second period of Swissledom

3) Call it quits

[Zelphas]

1. Named. For sure. Let's give her a cool name.
2. Call it Quits. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye... or a limb...

[FallenEco]

1) Named: Cause she must be awesome!

2) Call it Quits: because on,y a couple of characters can pull off an eyepatch.

[Fenix_of_Doom]

SWiMaHEtARtbN is the only way to go, a single digit is worth the trade of being named.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Originally Posted by Zelphas

2. Call it Quits. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye... or a limb...

Yaknow, I think this is the orc motto.

It seems pretty lopsided now (XD), but I don't have the books around. I'll update things late tonight.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Yup, definitely She Who is Mighty and Has Earned the Right to be Named! Which means...

DIE OF FATE!!!! (Yes, it is literally called the Die of Fate in the rules. I love Luke Crane.) Here's how it works. If it rolls a 1, our orc will gain the Missing Digits trait.

Just to keep the suspense up, I've decided to roll it under the video camera, so that you can see the result yourself. (100% no fudging. I decided that I was going to take whatever result came, and then I rolled it on camera.) If it's a 1, our orc gains the Missing Digits trait.

I'll proceed without telling you the result. Go watch the video, it's only a few seconds long. (Why? Because I'm evil.)

The link doth be here. ROLL AWAY!!

Now, then! As before, you may vote to "call it quits", or the following...

Our orc may ascend the ranks and become a Great One. I'm just gonna say right now, this is gonna give her heaps of prestige. Literally, as much prestige/wealth as she has accumulated thus far in her career. This would double her worth, and give her some sweet stat bumps as well.

She could also re-take any Born Great lifepath thus far that's been mentioned, if you are so inclined. Or she could drop into the Chattel setting. (If you're intent on that by this point, I figure it's not too hard to go back a page by now. Yeah...I'm lazy.)

Now, the Die of Fate risk is a Missing Eye.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, as before, do your top three votes. (Or top two, or one, if you wanna cut it off with "call it quits" at any point in your voting.)

[Knaight]

Time for a fall:
Scavenger

[Zelphas]

I'm going with my earlier vote. It's still fun and games now, but depending on how the Die of Fate rolls...

Let's Call it Quits.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

P.S., in case it gets uneven, I'm asking for top three votes still. (I'll briefly explain how runoff works in a spoiler.)

Spoiler

I start by only counting #1 options. If any one option gets half the votes, that option wins. If not, then I throw in #2 options and recount. Then, if any one option has half the votes, that option wins. If not, I throw in #3 votes, and look for a straight-out majority.

Naturally, duplicate voting is not allowed.

[Sodalite]

Great One, obviously. Up until now, we've been working towards this, for the basically the entire thead. Why give up on it now?

and if the dream really has died, I'll just Call it Quits.

[Sanguine]

My monitor is on its last legs and thus I wasn't able to see anything in that video.

Anyway, I am cool with losing an eye, and am in fact hoping for it.

So.

Great One

She Who Rules the Black Wolf Pack

She Who Bears the Lash and Drives Us Ever On

[The Glyphstone]

Great One

Call It Quits

A one-eyed Orc Chieftainess would be indescribably badass.

[Amphetryon]

Great One

She Who Rules the Black Wolf Pack

Call it quits

[Xefas]

Originally Posted by The Glyphstone

Great One

Call It Quits

A one-eyed Orc Chieftainess would be indescribably badass.

+1 on all counts.

Heck, if we get to be Great One, and don't lose an eye, I may vote for buying a missing eye trait anyway.

[Sanguine]

Originally Posted by Xefas

+1 on all counts.

Heck, if we get to be Great One, and don't lose an eye, I may vote for buying a missing eye trait anyway.

We can do that? I want to do that.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Originally Posted by Sanguine

My monitor is on its last legs and thus I wasn't able to see anything in that video.

Spoiler

It was a 3. No missing digitses.

And yeah, "Missing Eye", like many other things, is a trait. It's a negative trait, but it can totally be bought. (In Burning Wheel, traits can be wonderful fodder for "fate", which is a sorta meta-currency that acts as your XP when spent.)

I am unsurprised by the voting thus far.

[Xefas]

Originally Posted by Sanguine

We can do that? I want to do that.

To note, for those that don't play Burning Wheel-

You might be familiar with games that have the idea of Flaws and Perks, or just Flaws. Wherein, you buy a Flaw of some kind, which is a permanent and passive penalty to something and, in exchange, you get more points, or feats, or whatever, to buy another permanent and passive bonus to your character.

The problem with that, as many of you may have encountered, is that it leads to people wanting to buy Flaws that never actually effect them or, in the case of the bright eyed and bushy tailed optimist, they buy a very flavorful flaw in their area of competence, that comes into play a lot, and it hinders them grievously, to the point of severely outstripping any benefit they got from taking it.

Burning Wheel makes you buy negative traits, with the same points that you would buy positive traits. Why? Because every time a trait hinders you, you get Stuff. And the Stuff you get is always awesome and you always want more of it.

So, players are only going to buy traits that will actually come into play and be applicable and interesting. You won't see someone buying Landlubber in a Wild West game, because it costs them a point, but when are they going to be on a boat to get Stuff for it?

On the other hand, if I were in a Wild West D&D game, why wouldn't I want to buy a -1 penalty to all checks at sea in exchange for Power Attack or Spell Focus? It's pointless and uninteresting. Perfect!

So, if we buy Missing Eye (a 3pt trait) we can get Stuff every time our missing eye hinders us in an interesting or dramatic way. Like, say, any time we need to be able to see properly. That won't come up, right?

[Acanous]

Go Big or Go Home.
1. Great One
2. Scavenger
3. Cattle Slave

[CarpeGuitarrem]

<gives Xefas a Persona point>

[Zelphas]

Originally Posted by CarpeGuitarrum:
P.S., in case it gets uneven, I'm asking for top three votes still.

Oh. Well, to add my other two options:
2. Great One. 'Cause that's awesome.
3. She Who Bears the Lash and Drives Us Ever On. This would also be fun.

[Fenix_of_Doom]

We've been heading to it for a while now, so why not just give in?

Great one, the only way to party.




On an unrelated note, I'm interested to note that orcs can also double lifepaths, I thought it specifically wasn't an option because of lifepath limitations. I figured that orcs simply had an advance or die culture.

[Sith_Happens]

1. Great One.

2. Call it quits. (As others have said, go big or go home.)

[Acanous]

I'm going to keep voting for the best and worst possible outcomes *Until* she loses something in a Life-or-death experience. That sort of thing builds character.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Originally Posted by Fenix_of_Doom

On an unrelated note, I'm interested to note that orcs can also double lifepaths, I thought it specifically wasn't an option because of lifepath limitations. I figured that orcs simply had an advance or die culture.

Yeah, sorry I didn't clear that out better. The main reason I encouraged people to keep taking new lifepaths was that, well, a lifepath limit is a limit, and orcs take more than four lifepaths to really shine.

Anyhow, Great One it is!! She's gonna need one worthy name...

And now, the moment you've been awaiting...the Die of Fate!!!

Anyhow, I'll spoiler the actual result at the bottom. We now find ourselves with pretty much the same options as before. We can call it quits, retake Follower, Named, or Black Destroyer (the Swissle path), take Servant of the Gate, or...heh. There's not actually any option for a Great One to fall directly to the Chattel setting. Naturally.

If we don't call it quits this time, the Die of Fate bestows a missing hand. May the odds be ever in your favor...

Spoiler

The Die of Fate result was...a 2. So, our orc still escapes mayhem.

[Sodalite]

You know what? I'll go for Servant of the Gate first, with Call it Quits second. I wonder if we can manage a hit on all of the end-of-the-line lifepaths?

Edits: Doesn't look like it's going to crawl past 1. That's cool though, it's not like it's bad, and I can see how having so many lifepaths could get both unwieldy and just sort of ugly.

[Zelphas]

I still say Call it Quits. She's a Great One now, let her kick back and relax.

[Sanguine]

Originally Posted by Zelphas

I still say Call it Quits. She's a Great One now, let her kick back and relax.

By kick back and relax you mean go on epic adventures, right?

Anyway if it's still available I say.

1. She Who Rules the Black Wolf Pack

2. Call it Quits

[Xefas]

Call It Quits.

Time to spend those mounds of points we just got.