Playtesting Burning Wheel and Wushu Jackie Chan Adventures for Gamicon 2013

Yesterday in Iowa City we playtested Burning Wheel and Wushu Jackie Chan Adventures for Gamicon 2013.

The playtesters were: Dan G.K., James S., Val, and David M-K.

Burning Wheel is a game set in a fictional Tolkien-esque setting with elves and dwarves and humans. It is Luke Crane's creation, found here. Dan G.K. GMed the adventure called The Sword, in which the three Players tried to figure out how their characters could get the sword for their own personal reasons. In the end we came to a great compromise and no one was injured.

The next game was Jackie Chan Adventures using the Wushu system. David M-K GMed this game. I had created pregens: Jackie, Jade, Uncle, Tohru, and Captain Black.

Wushu is an RPG about cool characters and kung-fu dramatic action scenes. It is a game where the principle of narrative truth trumps realism and in many ways traditional game results. The Wushu RPG system was developed by Dan Bayn. Check it out here.

The Players choose Jackie, Uncle and Tohru. We were on a limited time to test this game, but it was fruitful to test in the time we had because only one of the Players was really familiar with the animated series.

The suggestion to include information explaining more about the series and about the Traits was a great one to help other unfamiliar Players. I'm also planning to create a relationship map as well show people at a glance how characters know each other.

The adventure itself went alright and I have some notes on how to establish a few things for running it in the future. Thanks again to the awesome Players who participated!