Has anyone here ever played the Burning Wheel RPG?  It's a relatively new (< 10 years old) system that I keep reading about in blogs lately.  From what I understand it uses a simple dice pool-based skill-check system, and everything I read about it says that it lends itself to character-driven campaigns.

Apparently there are a couple official campaign settings; one heavily inspired by Dune and an historical setting based on Heian-era Japan.

Anyway, it seems kind of interesting.  Does anyone have any first-hand experience with this?

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EPT is another kettle of fish entirely. Its about as old school as you can get. Back in the day, different settings had different rules systems. I think with either burning wheel or EPT you're more likely to get an existing group to try a game than to make a game group for those systems out of whole cloth.

I'm interested in dark sun 4e just to see how they handle the setting with all the stuff they added in. To make 4th ed they had to make some major changes in the standard setting (and forgotten realms for that matter) It will be interesting to note if they just mash all the new races etc into dark sun or just try to produce something consistent with the old setting but with 4e rules.

Heh,

At least you get to the road for the plant to kill you (funny story about that actually..... Woad!) In the classic Sci-Fi game traveller you could have your character get killed 3/4 the way through character creation!

Traveller is awesome, though I've definitely lost a character during the creation process.

Character creation is REALLY intense.  Get this: you roll on a table for the attributes of your home world - technology level, landscape, climate, et cetera; these affect the skills your character possesses.

I've never actually played a game of Traveller, but I've read through my book a decent bit (my version is Mongoose Traveller which is fairly recent) and rolled a few characters.  Since then I've been dying to play.

Originally traveller was to be kind of generic but had something of a standardized setting (kind of like original dnd) I never did a Third Imperium game because canon material and I dont tend to get along.

I played traveller a lot (about 25 years ago) but have the newer Mongoose system comming in the mail. I'd run a few games with some variant rules (dice pool skill checks?) once I check everything out.