r/BurningWheel • • Jul 31 '26

General Questions One shot?

Some co-workers asked me to run a TTRPG at a casual get-together for a few hours. I’ve been absorbing Burning Wheel but wonder if it would work for a one-shot. Anyone done something like that before? A convention game for total newcomers that still feels satisfying?

Waffling between doing this and just running Cairn 2e, which I could teach in 10 mins.

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u/23glantern23 Jul 31 '26

There's a convention scenario called 'the sword' that may be fun to run. It has pregens