Mark Atkinson (Tyndale on the forum) and I are very happy to announce that burning-harn.net is now live. Please check it out at:

http://www.burning-harn.net/

This is a non-commercial fan site about the use of the Burning Wheel RPG rules with the Hârn setting.

There is quite a bit of material on the site, but we plan on continuing to update it with additional content.

We hope that you find this to be a helpful resource. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about the site, or if you have contributions that you would like to make.

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-- Jim Chokey

"Argent, chief embattled tenne. A coney of the field and crossed carrots proper"

Looks very nice. I especially liked the additional lifepaths, which I hope to use.

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Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from SCIENCE! -- Agatha Heterodyne

I've never tried Burning Wheel but have heard good things about. Might be time to really take time and check it out.

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Bloody Bohemian Earspoon Inn

Thanks for the kind words, folks. If you have any suggestions-- or if you think you might like to contribute something-- let me know.

In the meantime, I thought I'd mention that I've made a few updates since going live last weekend, including the addition of an "Updates" page:

http://www.burning-harn.net/intro_updates.html

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-- Jim Chokey

"Argent, chief embattled tenne. A coney of the field and crossed carrots proper"

I have BW and was hoping to run it this year with my players, and was looking for a setting.
I just got the new book Adventure Burner, are you familiar with it?
If so would it be easy to use those adventures in Harn?

Allan

Hey there!

Yes, I have the Adventure Burner and think it's awesome. Not necessarily so much for the adventures themselves (although they've definitely been improved from the prior versions), but for stuff like the chapters on beliefs, and complications, etc. Really good advice on how to build both characters and stories and beliefs for a specific type of setting/campaign.

That said, I do think some of those adventures could be readily adapted for the Harnic setting. In fact, I ran a Harnic variant of "The Sword" (called "The Spear") a Harncon a few years ago. I don't think it actually went over very well because I upped the number of PCs to six, and tried to introduce some magic rules-- and I also had no prior experience running con games. But... I think the idea is basically sound and have the ideas for a revised version (strictly for four players) sketched out, with the characters having just discovered the spear of the great Jarin hero Barryn Albarra-- and the trying to resolve who gets it. Instead of a Dwarf, Elf, Man, and Ratman, however, the four characters are an Ivinian, a Jarin nationalist, priest of Ilvir, and an Ymodi barbarian instead. I think it would also be possible to run this as a an actual Harnic "sword" adventure, maybe with the Sword of Kalsten being the object instead. Really, it could be done with *any* artifact, that you could have four people all making a claim too.

I also think it could be really fun to do "The Gift" in the Harnic context, especially given the nearly thousand year lack of communication between the Sindarin and Khuzdul, and the truly profound hostility that the Khuzdul have. It may require tinkering with a few apects of the Harnic setting-- but that could maybe be done by setting it a few years in the future (724 TR, or so), when, following the surprise death of King Hamazdul of Azadmere, a delegation of Sindarin travels to Azadmere for his son's coronation/accession, in the hopes of repairing ties by offering him a truly rare and remarkable gift.

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-- Jim Chokey

"Argent, chief embattled tenne. A coney of the field and crossed carrots proper"

Thank you, very helpful
Allan

I've been away from HarnForum for a while, but revived interest in Burning Wheel as a system for Harn has brought me back. Just thought I would say that the sight is beautiful, Jim, with wonderful content on it. I am really looking forward to diving in to your Burning Shek-Pvar rules as soon as I get the Magic Burner.

Oh, and the gateway to the site is exquisite!

Hey, thanks for the kind words. Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but I had been off of the forum for a while. Tyndale is responsible for commissioning the gateway/splash-page art from Richard L... and I have to agree, it is awesome!!

FYI: There are some new updates today! The first in about two months. (I didn't mean to have such a long gap, but I wasn't really producing a lot of content after the bike accident...)

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-- Jim Chokey

"Argent, chief embattled tenne. A coney of the field and crossed carrots proper"

A new update: A page has been added in the Faith section for Barbarian/Tribal gods. I've added entries on the Adaenum, the Anoa, and the Chymak so far. More to come.

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-- Jim Chokey

"Argent, chief embattled tenne. A coney of the field and crossed carrots proper"

Thanks for posting this. I've been interested in Burning Wheel and Hârn for a while now. Maybe this will inspire me to actually do something with the books.

FYI: In light of the recent update about "Burning Wheel Gold" (essentially, the game's 3rd edition), coming out this summer, I'd like to say that I do not know, what impact, if any, it will have on the Burning-Harn website.

Once it comes out, I'll take a look at it and figure things out from there.

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-- Jim Chokey

"Argent, chief embattled tenne. A coney of the field and crossed carrots proper"

Jim, I would be open to some BW play test and or creative writing projects...

Gimme a call...

OK, will do!

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-- Jim Chokey

"Argent, chief embattled tenne. A coney of the field and crossed carrots proper"