King arthur pendragon rpg resources series#

In 2005, King Arthur Pendragon was inducted into the GAMA Hall of Fame:ДЄ revision of the original Book of the Manor. However, in the sorry event of your character's death, you may start playing your original character's son and heir - assuming he has one! This provides impetus to gain enough glory to secure a good marriage and start producing offspring - thus underscoring the importance of family in a feudal society. This, combined with the deadliness of combat and the unavoidable decline of eventual old age, ensures that all characters will die after 30-50 game sessions.

The rest of the time, either the weather makes the roads impassable, or your character has feudal or familial duties that keep him from spending his time as he sees fit. There are additional differences to further reinforce the setting, such as slightly more complex combat rules, and most notably a system to quantify passions and personality traits in playable and meaningful terms.ДЄlso noteworthy is that Pendragon is a dynastic RPG: unlike the frantic pace of many games (where little, if any, time passes between adventures), in Pendragon there is typically one adventure per game year. While vanilla BRP uses a percentile system, Pendragon simplified everything by converting to a single d20. It was one of the first skill-based (as opposed to class-and-level based) systems. Pendragon uses a variant of the Basic Roleplaying System developed by Chaosium in the late 1970s. I would like to plug the earlier four-volume edition of Howard Pyle's as well - it is ostensibly a kid's version, but it is well-written, beautifully illustrated, and engaging. White's The Once And Future King is generally considered the best single-volume source for the modern reader. It is, however, a literary tradition, so if you'd like to go past sterile encyclopedism, T.H. If you have little or no idea of what exactly the Arthur cycle is about, start with Wikipedia for a brief overview. Thus it is not historical, nor is it fantasy rather, it is romance, in the literary sense of the word. It is primarily based on the vision of the Arthur cycle present by Sir Thomas Malory in Le Morte D'Arthur. It has a long and rich publication history and has been widely lauded as one of the best fusions of system and setting in the history of roleplaying. It was first published in 1985 and remains in print today.

King Arthur Pendragon is the premier Arthurian RPG in the hobby. Comments about the individual publications should go under the particular item finally, metacomments/feedback/suggestions about the list itself should be made as a comment on the entire list. If you have general comments to make about the entire RPG, including edition wars, please make them under the first item.

When in doubt I have used page count ratios and/or my sense of the book's presentation via its ad copy. Many books do not easily fall into one of the above categories in particular the region books for 4th edition. Click on one of the category names to be taken to the first item in that category.ДЇor the executive summary of where to start with the game, please click here. The organization of the list is as follows:ДЄll of the above categories will be sorted in chronological order, oldest to newest. It only includes English-language versions if a similar list is made covering any or all non-English versions, let me know and I am happy to link to it.

King arthur pendragon rpg resources series#

Thanks to fuzzydice82 for suggesting this series of geeklists.ДЇor geeklists exploring other systems, please check out the RPG System Metageeklist. The goal of this geeklist is to serve as a list of all material published for the King Arthur Pendragon RPG, with commentary and links to help interested gamers make a decision about the game, and where to start.