{"id":311,"date":"2015-05-21T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T20:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2019-02-11T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:02:52","slug":"would-you-pay-the-terrible-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Would You Pay the Terrible Price?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re playing Torchbearer, characters are almost certainly going to die. That&#8217;s the nature of the beast. But what then? By default, you start a new character at level 1. I&#8217;m a fan of that myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TB_The_Terrible_Price.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TB_The_Terrible_Price.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TB_The_Terrible_Price.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/TB_The_Terrible_Price-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a>But there are alternatives!<\/p>\n<p>Some of you have managed to raise your characters to level 5 or even higher. And some of you have met an untimely end in bad circumstances. After playtesting this a bit on our end, we wanted to give you a view into how we view death at Burning Wheel HQ. Behold:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TB_The_Terrible_Price.pdf\">Playtest rules for meeting death in Torchbearer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck. And remember, death is often a mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re playing Torchbearer, characters are almost certainly going to die. That&#8217;s the nature of the beast. But what then? By default, you start a new character at level 1. I&#8217;m a fan of that myself. But there are alternatives! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/?p=311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playtest","tag-new-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torchbearerrpg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}