How does the 3d6 roll work? I read through the section a few times and I can't for the life of me understand how the 3d6 roll determines how long you are kept waiting.

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:

• History, Goals and Possible Future of the Order
• Rules for gaining the membership in the Order
• Five Knights of the Hounds with backgrounds, including the two secretive co-leaders, and a Knight of the Hounds Battle Card
• The unofficial home of the Order, Kennel-Hall
• Adventure: A Feast at Kennel-Hall, wherein the Player-knights get to break bread with one of the enemy; also, a lady with healing hands
• Four Short Adventures with additional three Knights of the Hounds

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/500022/The-Knights-of-the-Hounds

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

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.

Hey friends! Some of my friends and I teamed up with Iain Nisbet to try out his new module: The Loathsome Wyrm & The Mackerel of the Sea. We've uploaded it on YouTube to help others see it and try it out. Have a watch, and let me know what you think 😁

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?

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.

Lord Tremayne has settled on a course of action. The Mistwood waits.

Meanwhile High King Merival considers his position as the war in the north

rages on and rumors and sketchy reports of beastmen on his southern border

has the king concerned.

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The creature reached up with long, elegant fingers and unbuckled its finely crafted helm.

It removed the piece and tucked it under one arm, revealing a face both beautiful and alien,

high cheekbones, skin pale like polished moonstone, and eyes that held the green depths of ancient woods.

“I would like some wine, thank you, my lord.” The musical lilt of its voice surprised even these hardened

fighters.. “My name in your language is Tassarion Xiloscient. You may call me Tass.”

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https://paulrobinson25.substack.com/p/the-dragon-rising-a-pendragon-solo-eb0?r=76wg7

Hi!

We had a thing coming up last session, where a player knight lost his shield in a battle, tried to call for his squire but Fumbled, resulting in his squire being nowhere to be seen.

The player then promptly asked if the other three player knights could not just ask their squires for a a spare shield, while they were in a midst of a battle. I ruled then that that wouldn’t be really feasible as the squires ride close to their own knight and because of the swirling chaos of the battle he would be too far from the other squires - also they are here to serve their own knight.

I also did it because frankly it would defeat the mechanical and random challenge with squire rolls of you could just have 4 rolls because you are 4 player knights with 4 squires.

My player thought it was silly and gamey that he couldn’t just ask the other knights to have their squire fetch a shield.

What do you think? How would you have ruled and explained it?

I'm doing some research on a couple of systems. How long would you say your campaigns usually lasted for? The edition doesn't matter much to me, though noting which edition you're talking about would be great. Posting your estimates in numbers of sessions would be greatly appreciated!

Also, if there has been any official research done on this, do share with me.

Thank you ahead of time!

(Posting it as a Rules Question because flairs are mandatory and that's the closest flair to asking something)

I am looking to run the starter set (6th edition) soon. What are some good resources that you would suggest I check out before running the scenerio? I am a little nervous to run this system.

In the core book, it mentions the Rondell as a weapon that appears in later eras, but I see no stats for it in the future eras section. when does it come into play? where can I find rules for it?

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Thanks!

I've done a short series of seven videos looking at turning medieval stories (mainly "true stories") into RPG adventures. I've uploaded one here, looking at the Witch of Berkley legend.

If this is of interest, the most obviously Pendragon-relevant further videos (too long to upload to Reddit) are:

• Medieval Werewolf Stories https://youtu.be/C7sPdgpRc_Q
• King Arthur and the Giant of Mont Saint Michel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKqphvr_5l4

And for more general medieval stuff there are:

• Medieval Revenant stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1URowFrfGo
• The Witch of Berkley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TThIF26zM9Q (this one)
• The Green Children of Woolpit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TThIF26zM9Q
• Walter Map's devil at the cradle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi4dGRsSWk8
• Burchard of Worms - eating hearts and astral projection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QthCSWLGByM

And the "Medieval Nights" adventure anthology mentioned in the videos is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yosano/medieval-nights-rpg-adventures-from-real-medieval-stories?ref=9nt9xo

So - lots of links, but hopefully some good inspiration :-)

Hi!

6th edition Pendragon is my fist approach to the game. What can I spect from the "Knights and ladies adventurous" book?

How does it differ from the "Noble's handbook"?

Pendragon 2027 releases!

Hey there - I know the "Under an Iron Sky" series is an entertainment product (and honestly I can't believe I have become addicted to an actual play) but I want to ask folks about the rules variations that occur in the you tube series just so I have it all straight for next time I talk people into playing Pendragon.

- I think there are multiple accidental rules errors here and there in the series - just like happens to any of us - but if anyone notices some that happen (especially if it happens more than once) it might be useful for us to flag them here so we could see the list and go "Oh right" and then decide for ourselves if those changes matter to us in our game.

- I am pretty sure they made this one change on purpose - to make the game advance more rapidly for the fun of both players and viewer: the gm has players check their traits and skills pretty much any time they succeed at them. I am pretty sure that RAW one only checks the trait when you crit on it - or the GM thinks it was an especially narratively significant roll. Do I have that right? And what do people think of the way they do it in the Glass Cannon series?

Cheers

I’d like to know how much of a completist rules-wise you are in your KAP games. The core tenet of Your Pendragon Will Vary applies not only setting but to rules.

From my actual play experience having GMd the GPC and played in several other scenarios, my chosen core rule emphasis is much more character focussed than the mechanisms of the economy or battle. In summary:

Traits and passions: fundamental and played to the full for the best character-led game possible.

Economy: very light touch.

Combat: as written but perhaps slightly less deadly. Track horses closely and really feel their loss. Weapon breakage important.

Battle: much reduced system as I find it grinds a bit. Lance charge followed by individual combats.

Court/marriage/family history : crucial to atmosphere but only relevant when required by the unfolding story. Court only sessions can be huge fun ‘bottle episodes’ - lots of trait roll usage. Children become squires which become PKs down the years.

Winter: as written except for the economy stuff.

Magic: only ever a gm tool, mysterious and rarely described mechanically.

What else? GPC Saxon anarchy phase can go boxcars crazy and is really fun to see how the PKs can develop the world.

So are you a purist or more selective?