(What it says on the tin, I’m wondering what sorts of stories were woven by generations of Knights in your Campaigns, what Legends were born, what Heroes were saved, and what fumbles and tragedies followed them?)
Hello all! A bit of a silly question, I was preparing a game of Pendragon and found myself not being able to find hag statistics which I was certain were in the core rulebook. As in the scary big magical troll-woman monster with claws. I'm pretty sure you fight them in one of the side adventures and they are all over Wales and Ireland too in the supplements, where are their stat blocks? Which book was it in? It's certainly not in the core rulebook...
I will thank you if you answer my queery.
New GM here, planning to start running a campaign from the GM Handbook start scenario onwards. Since the relationship between the Cymric People, the Saxons and the Picts are all important to the first few released adventures for 6e, I find myself unable to actually grasp these cultures and the core of what they represent. Can anyone provide a breakdown of all the British cultures, how they interact with each other and what that there sort of stereotype is?
Hi, I'm trying to figure out the prices and expenses in the Noble's Handbook - I swear there's so many off-hand things that assume I know prices or systems that aren't in here or the core rules, or called out. Right now I *think* I've figured out assized rent, but I'm stuck on understanding the expenses for Baronies - particularly the army. Looking at Banswall as the primary example, we can ignore the garrison, spearmen, and soldiers, as they are all provided for free by the Demesne. We know from the Manor section that Household Knights have wages of £4, which brings the wages of 5 Vassal Knights and 15 Mounted Sergeants to £144 annually. From this, we can parse down that 3 Mounted Sergeants and 1 Vassal Knight combine to be worth £28.8.
And that's where I'm stumped. As far as I can tell, this is the only book where Mounted Sergeants have been mentioned, and have no statements on wages or ransom that I can use to reverse engineer this. Anyone with more experience with the older editions mind lending a hand?
Hardcover now available for purchase in North America!
A year ago my friends and I wrote and released a PWYW Guide for new players and GMs to the setting, designed to be printed out and handed out at the table. We've fully revised it and invite owners of the prior version to download the new version, and anyone who hasn't got it to take a look as well.
Comments, critiques, and praise are all welcome.
https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/498248/The-Guide-to-Arthurian-Britain
The Knights of the Hounds - Now Expanded and Updated! The Knights of the Hounds are a mysterious order active on the frontiers of Logres. This supplement, designed for a Gamemaster running a Boy King era campaign, details these ‘Mongrel’ knights, their goals, and possible future. This expanded edition details more plot hooks, more seeds, and details about the various Knights of the Hounds that the Player-knights may encounter in their adventures. Within these pages, you will find:
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Has anyone else found the Pendragon 6e Core Rulebook surprisingly difficult to read?
I'm not talking about the writing quality or the setting, those are fantastic. The production value is also excellent. My issue is that I'm finding it hard to learn the game from the book.
The rules often feel scattered across different chapters, and I keep finding myself flipping back and forth to piece together how a mechanic actually works. It sometimes feels like the book is organized more around presenting the world than teaching the system.
From what I've read and heard, Pendragon itself isn't a particularly complex RPG. In fact, most people say the rules are fairly elegant once you start playing. That's what makes this surprising to me, I feel like the presentation is making the game seem more complicated than it actually is.
Is this just me, or did others have the same experience? If it did eventually click for you, was there a particular reading order, cheat sheet, or resource that helped?
Fairly new to the game, have all rule books for 6e, does anyone have suggestions or can poi t to where i can find how to create ladies in waiting for the PKs to marry so or at least court.
Due to Shipping Delays beyond our control - Pendragon Noble's Handbook hardcover and leatherette currently only available in Europe and the UK, but coming to North America and Australia soon.
The Pendragon: Noble's Handbook expands the core game experience with a wealth of character options, subsystems, and expansion to the popular Winter Phase.
*if you buy the PDF now from the Chaosium website we'll deduct the cost of the PDF from the price of the physical book.
Download location here.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hqpcPJ-EEIBKcvFarCgDnRUaQTGHwvSp?usp=drive_link
Just had a notification of an update for backers of Classic 1st ed Pendragon reprint. I think the only new thing is the keep cut away poster from The Nobles Book, but most of the files have been revised. Anyone know why?
BTW I had to use the Lore tag as no flair for 1st Edition or 3rd Edition listed? They probably need adding?
I been waiting to spring this on my players for a long time.
(Apologies in advance for other gms for the lack of rules and rolls explanation most of it is from my own homebrew and i have a shitty ass memory)
So Backrooms movie, i watched it, it’s great and gave me a ton of ideas.
So one of my players a exiled byzantine knight was returning to his manor during winter phase, on the road he was traveling there was a roman ruin in good condition which he paid carpenters and artesans to keep it in good shape, unfortunately his serjant failed on his security rolls and a robber knight and his pack settled in the ruin.
When he stumbled into them, he challenged the robber knight into a duel and he absolutely fumbled his charge roll, but he nailed his lucky roll.
Good news: he killed the opposing knight.
Bad news: he charged straight into a wall.
Mixed news: he was not dead but on a endless roman metropolis.
He spent the entire winter phase, trying to survive mythologicial monsters, got a exploration roll so bad he stumbled into the Minotaurs labyrinth (i know not roman related but i found it a good idea), and losing all his armor and his horse
Did not help that my other players are gremlins and to not make the game boring let them control his fate.
Whole thing ended when he saw a lance coming out of the wall, and decided to investigate it leading him to step back into the real world.
Winter had come to an end, and it was the beginning of spring, when he looked around he found it he was back at the ruin and the lance that saved him was the from the robber knights decaying corpse who's body was thrown near the wall.
He burned the whole place down and made his way back home.
I noticed that the pdf on DTRPG was updated in April. Does it incorporate any of the errata?
Do they roll on the same table during the winter?
On page 47 of the Core Rules in the red block titled New Player Advice. It says your size and strength should sum at least 21 so you get 4d6 damage. Then it says 27 for 5d6 damage
But then on the next page it says you calcite Weapon damage by size + str / 6.
Wouldn't 24 be the min for 4d6? 30 for 5d6?
Confused now
As I've been reading through the GPC, there seem to be a few modifiers listed for battles. Some just give a flat bonus, which I'm assuming apply directly to the battle skill roll, but other bonuses specify they are applied to the roll made on the "unit event table". Can anyone tell me what that actually is, and how to apply it when converting to 6e? I've seen lots of talk about converting battles from 5 to 6, but no-one ever seems to touch on that table. It seems to me like it might factor into the Intensity roll in 6e, but I'm not sure if that's right, or even how to apply it.
