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@TrippyHippy, this is an understatement! KAP is the very best roleplaying game ever penned, bar none. IMO, of course. ;-) It's also an understatement to say that I'm eagerly awaiting for this(these) announcement(s). I'm positively bouncing off the walls! Regarding "due respect", I don't doubt that the current Chaosium's management are the best people to give KAP the honor it deserves, and to keep true to Greg's vision for the game. After all, Greg himself chose to bring KAP back to Chaosium under this management, and he also personally chose @sirlarkins as his successor as line manager.

Ah well, guess I'll just wait for the Codex Mirabilis to be published... Shouldn't be much longer...

Sounds interesting! Is it (legally) available somewhere in the web?

Hi Adaras, to which books exactly are you referring? I only remember magic rules for KAP in 4th Edition, but they don't explain in much detail how to make magical artifacts. I don't know of any KAP "book of magic", as you call it. Is it a French language supplement? In any case, it makes sense that artifacts from the stories are few and far apart, are very important, widely known and grant exceptional abilities: they are the matter of legends. So, whoever gets them receives Glory, since the PK becomes "the famous knight Xyz, who wields the legendary sword Zxy that can kill any giant", and so on. Artifacts made by player magicians, OTOH, shoulnd't usually be so powerful and shouldn't grant such superhuman powers, thus getting them does not grant any Glory. Of course, no one is stopping you from letting your player manufacture a legendary artifact granting Glory to the owner, but the character should be an exceptionally powerful magician, they should forfeit most of their magic power permanently to produce the artifact, and there should be high chances of failure. And it should be the accomplishment of a lifetime. My 2 denarii, of course!

Hi Peter, sorry for the late reply; if you're still reading here, my best wishes to Ken for his recovering health, and to both for any new (or old) endeavors that you want to accomplish. I imagine you already did that, but have you tried to approach Chaosium for help in continuing your game lines? They are very passionate about RPGs, and K&W books always struck me as some of the best-produced RPG books from a small company out there... And they're clearly up Chaosium's (Dark) alley! As someone else already suggested, Modiphius could be another possible partner. Apart from this, I just wanted to let you know that I am immensely enjoying the Clockwork of Orange campaign. Thanks to both you and Ken for these fine products.

I can confirm: in KAP 5.2, to be a Queen's Knight a PK must win at least one annual contest or tourney. So, it seems to imply an annual membership review.

The map in the PDF is 72 dpi, just like your image. IMO, it's NOT ok for a computer screen, since you can barely read the placenames on it. However, I fear that posting a higher resolution scan from the paper copy would be against Chaosium's copyright. I wouldn't suggest anyone to do it without their written permission.

Yes, I can confirm that the PDF on sale at Drivethrurpg.com, or on Chaosium's own webstore, contains two pages (one for North and one for South) with the detailed map, which is exactly the one Atgxtg posted above. Although, I must say that scan resolution is not that high, and the typeface size used in the map is really small, so it's not the best reading experience on a PC screen: as soon as you start zooming in to read the tiny writings, letters become pixelated. Don't know what happens when you try to print this one; I suspect that you'd be better served by the original map on paper (I own it, but cannot access it at the moment). The map is on the two last pages of the PDF file. In the original book, it was glued to the inside back cover.

You mean, a bit like this document by Scruffygrognard? 🙂

@SirGarethBeaumains These news are really intriguing! Can you tell us more without infringing on some NDA? I've been running KAP on and off for 15 years now, and Beaumains remains my Grail, never managed to obtain a copy...

@Darkloutre, please understand that sharing published material is illegal, and you are asking precisely that. @Darkloutre, le partage de matériel publié est illégal, et vous demandez exactement cela.

I am sure that the English version of BoK does not include any scenario, just 2 pages of instructions to build scenarios. I have the book before me in this moment. I am also almost sure that the name "Thankhad" is never mentioned in any of the English-language books published over the years. I did an automatic's word search on the PFDs of all the books, and found nothing. Edit: By the way, @Crabus, what is the title of this scenario? I've never heard of it.

Well, I was just hoping you, and any other (BoS) authors were at work on it! Thanks for the info!

You're working on The North right now, am I right? If not, you should be...

I've downloaded and am already using them, they are gorgeous! Thanks! Can we have more of these? Just a few? :-)

Regarding the correspondences between old and new names, some long lists can be found in this thread in the old Nocturnal forum: https://greathall.chaosium.com/Pendragon Forum Archive/index.php/t-2696.html Hope it's useful!

If I remember correctly, dividing the GPC and/or the KAP rulebook up into 4 different era books was another one of those projects Greg had been working on for years. I was part of his "household knights" group for contributing to projects, and I've seen files on these changes at least since 2015. This didn't stop him from producing the 5.2 edition! Personally, given the situation and the passing away of Greg, I think that KAP couldn't be in better hands. The people at Chaosium (and David Larkins in particular) have the utmost respect for Greg's work and gaming legacy, and are also very good at making games (personal opinion again!).

Beautiful! I can't wait to have it in my grubby hands... And these pictures make me even more eager!

Seems really intriguing! My compliments to your player. Maybe, you could pass to him this information: here in Italy it is rather difficult to buy the GN! Apple iBooks: not available, at least outside the USA-Canada; iTunes App Store: not available, at least outside the USA-Canada; Comixology: not available; B&N Nook: available, but not sold outside the USA-Canada; Anazon Kindle: finally, I manged to buy it from Amazon. Now guess which was the last option I tried???? 😆

I'd definitely LOVE to see it published.

Thanks Ringan for saving these materials! I for one would be grateful if you shared the files here. Maybe the Forum administrators could find a more "suitable" accommodation for them, possibly in the Great Hall (https://greathall.chaosium.com/)?

I looked again, and couldn't find Goudy in the PDF's font list. However, it could depend on the exact printing you are looking at (I don't know which is mine, but it bears both GS Pendragon's and Nocturnal Media's logos). I'm pretty sure Helvetica is nowhere to be seen, since it's a "sans serif" font that would be very conspicuous among the serif fonts used everywhere. Symbol and Wingdings are of course used for symbols and small glyphs within the body of the text. Times New Roman seems to be the main font used in the whole text. I think that all main titles are written in Buccaneer. However, I haven't found any instance of Windlass, which is a caps-only font (at least in the free version).

I can only answer your off topic question. Adobe Acrobat Reader's Properties menu turns out the following fonts for BoK&L's PDF: Buccaneer Helvetica SymbolMT TimesNewRomanPS Windlass Wingdings Apart from Helvetica, Times New Roman, Symbol and Wingdings, which are all fonts commonly available on most PCs, the remaining two are available as free downloads online: Buccaneer: https://www.wfonts.com/font/buccaneer Windlass: https://www.dafont.com/it/windlass.font

Just looking at this page made me put DIE on my reading list! Thanks for the news!

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing your game with us!