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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9542801" data-attributes="member: 6779310">There very much is a setting, but it's not entirely in prose. It's also built into the character gen and invasion mechanics. And the Tech burner section. About a third of that page count amounts to character gen. Maybe 10% is prose about the setting. Which is a lot more than Burning Wheel itself.When I ran it, I'd not read the graphic novels...  I logged my session reports on the Burning Wheel forums... Christopher Moeller said I'd nailed the setting... when all I did was apply the rules.Likewise, my run of Mouse Guard, the resulting story, when told to David Peterson (the author of the comics) got a "That's a pretty nifty and very suitable outcome..." tho' I'd read the comics, my players hadn't... and they still were able, based upon the rules and a singe page précis of the setting and tropes.The use of an extended task resolution in both Jyhad and BE is a great way to handle the technical progression of such an invasion, if one is willing to engage with such mechanics.  It works fine in Mouse Guard, too, but isn't actually in the rules of Mouse Guard.</blockquote>