I’ve actually played quite a few of these games on your list, which is interesting, because I always feel like my group is so conservative and hard to sell on new games, but I guess they have given me a lot of leeway over the years. I really need to get _Swords Without Master_ to the table someday.

I have run _Lady Blackbird_ at many a con and it is always a delight. I also love _In a Wicked Age_, though I feel like it’s harder to sell for reasons I can’t quite explain. Probably because LBB is “it’s Steampunk Star Wars” and everybody is on the same page. You also get a lot of the killer features of _Shadow of Yesterday_, distilled down to what is essentially a quickstart.

I have played a fair bit of _Polaris_, and I utterly cannot imagine it working as a one-shot. There’s just so much there, in terms of setting and worldbuilding and ritual and character development. I guess you could get a little _amuse-bouche_ of it in a 3- or 4-hour slot, but I think 4-6 sessions of 3 hours apiece would make it into a completely other (and way better) experience. Of course getting exactly 4 players who can each come to every session has never been my crowd’s strong suit…