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I've heard a lot about Burning Wheel that made me interested. But is it only good for playing in the included fantasy setting?

How hard is it to hack/reskin it into some other setting?

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[–] pteryx@dice.camp 1 points 35 minutes ago

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From what I can tell, adapting it requires writing entirely new species, and therefore entirely new sets of lifepaths, from scratch... and while some specific adaptations exist, like Burning Empires and Mouse Guard, there doesn't seem to be the kind of culture of homebrew surrounding the game to help with arbitrary adaptations. (Or at least there wasn't a decade ago, when you could actually *see* communities on the open web instead of them being locked away in Discord...)