Burning Wheel (one-shot)

Up next on my tour of tabletop games I'll be running a one-shot of Burning Wheel a character focused RPG that rewards playing into your characters core ideals. Rather than XP or levels to determine your advancement Burning Wheel is focused on your characters core Beliefs, Instincts, and Traits, both by playing into them and challenging them. The entire system is best realized in full campaigns with some of the most complicated systems specifically designed for impressive set piece conflicts. For this one shot though we'll be keeping things simple, resolving most conflicts with a simple D6 dice pool.

For the adventure itself I've been making a new setting inspired by the Thirty Years' War rife with political and religious turmoil. Your characters will be part of a caravan trying to leave the noise of the imperial city behind them. Unfortunately not everyone is the honest pilgrim they claim to be and someone's secrets seem to be hunting the caravan in the form of trigger-happy mercenaries. You'll need to work together if you want to survive long to find the liar among you and even then you'll have to decide if their sins are worth giving them up for.

As per usual I'll have all the supplies needed available along with a handful of premade characters that can be picked from, though if anyone wants to make their own character just let me know and I can show up early. All my premades will have empty space for everyone to make their own beliefs and instincts to give them your own personal flavor and allow everyone to get an idea how you play into the system.