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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5695255" data-attributes="member: 54877">Burning Wheel can do dark or light fantasy equally well.  If you want to edge heavily into either one, you might need to make sure that everyone is onboard in spirit, so that the character beliefs are appropriate for that desired feel. If you have the Magic Burner, you'll definitely gravitate towards some magic systems more than others.   But as far as low magic or that particular type of grit, I'm not sure that BW will be a good fit here.  BW is not heavy on magic items, middle of the road on magic in general, and certainly has some grit to it, especially if you start with 3 lifepaths.  But in a long campaign, characters will be capable of producing some fairly strong effects.  OTOH, fighting will always be risky.  So it really depends on what you mean by grit, and how far you want to push it.</blockquote>