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And I for one will simply stop buying Chaosium products if they start allowing this.

531 (Romance period) for the Greatsword, Hammer and Flail, so not surprising they are not in the Starter Set.

I love what I am seeing here. It looks like what the battles feel like in the sources. Knights fighting minor enemies while looking around to find glorious enemies or leaders then trying to fight through the flow of battle to get to these worthwhile targets. I will be adapting this already in my own current campaign to test it out. Can’t wait for 6th edition.

Loving the way the books will be divided. I’d also like to mention that the pregen art is gorgeous. Greatly expressive characters, enjoying the art style.

You can also add Marine of Alarie and her troop of women from Wigalois, Silence from the Roman de Silence, Avenable from a Merlin romance and of course Britomart and Palladine from Spenser’s Faerie Queen. All women knights from Arthurian litterature. Technically Spenser’s also adds Amazons and at least one huntress knowledgeable and in fighting . In the litterature the reactions are either acceptance (Marine, Spenser’s) or they had to pretend to be men (Avenable and Silence) to act as knights. I didn’t know about The adventures of Orlando and Melora, thanks for giving something to look for so I can read it.

This is awesome news. I will personally take more Vulgate, regardless of the topics 😃 Curious to see the military advice, less for gaming reasons but for a academic ones. Thanks for bringing that up, I missed that news.

There are also some very interesting examples of Women knights in Arthurian litterature: the Wigalois from Winrt von Grafenburg has Marine of Alarie and her troop of women warriors (all noblewomen with no male kin left beacause of the villain of the story) helping the eponymous hero in his adventures. She meets Gawaine who basically goes cool beans a woman knight and nothing more is made of it. We have Silence and Avenable/Grisandole from their stories (basically the same story Woman hides she is a woman becomes the King/Emperor best knight) Le roman de Silence being the best version as far as I am concerned, but the archetype is interesting in both versions. Then of course Spenser’s Faerie Queen has Britomart and Palladine. In both cases they are simply treated and presented as renowned knights. There are also Radigund the amazon queen and her army of amazons. Would love eventually to play an Amazon that decides to go see what the chivalry thing is all about. I have never felt the need to fight canon to include as many women knights and warriors as I felt like. Not sure, however how strength differences between men and women matter much in a setting with fairy knights, solar powered heroes and knights that can pick up their cut heads from the floor. The authors of the time didn’t care about things like these and neither do I. My arthurian stories have never been about the historical but rather the mythical.

The Tandareis and Flordibel also has Flordibel daughter of the king of far away India sent as a lady in waiting to Guenever. So not China or Korea but east nonetheless. The Arthurian litterature is very cosmopolitan in general with people from all over showing up at the court of Arthur or with Arthurian knights going to the ends of the Earth.

Yes I have the same issue as you do. The rules are not explicitly explained. If like most of us you’ve played previous editions it seems clear, but for a newbie gm it might be needlessly confusing and when I look at a Quickstart I assume being a newbie GM that never tried the system before. It is a small but annoying flaw in an otherwise excellent Quickstart and I am sure it won’t be difficult to fix, but the basics in a Quickstart have to be crystal clear. Hope that makes sense

I might have been unclear Morien. My issue is exactly yours, the example they use is 15 + 5, but what happens if the bonus is +10? We know how to treat a 25, but a first time reader might figure it out, but in a Quickstart it need to be stated in a much clearer way. In fact the best way, might be to have the skill 18 better explained. In fact, the example make it seem that the skill of 18 only benefits from +2 as « however, their effective Skill is boosted to 20. ». That need to be better unpacked especially for a Quickstart.

I cannot see anywhere how bonuses are applied. I mean, I know and I am sure everyone on this board knows. But I would think a Quickstart would make it clearer. What happens if your skill is 15 and you get a + 10. It can be guessed by reading the rules, but it should be much clearer, since Pendragon has always been a bit different than other Rpgs. If someone reads this with no prior experience, we want them to have as smooth an experience as possible. The adventure itself is great, the QS is pretty and very attractive. Everything’s you want to draw new people in.