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    Stay tuned in the coming days for a major announcement about the King Arthur Pendragon RPG

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    6 hours ago, TrippyHippy said:

    Please, please, please give all due respect to Greg Stafford’s Pendragon and The Great Pendragon Campaign with whatever direction you choose to take this game. It is, in my view at least, the very best fantasy roleplaying game ever penned. 

    @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. 

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    Crafting artifacts and glory *Obsolete*

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    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!

    Is Cakebread & Walton Alive, Dead, Undead or in the process of Resurrection?

    in Renaissance

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    On 4/21/2020 at 12:38 AM, doomedpc said:

    Hi Folks,

    It's the Peter Cakebread half of Cakebread & Walton. Thanks for all the lovely words I can't really express how much the support and encouragement means to me, I'm passionate about our games and know that you all are too!

    Long story short, C&W is still on hiatus, although our stuff is still available. Whether I'll be able to resurrect the company and get back to publishing new material is very uncertain. I really want to find a way to move forward, but, as some of you have guessed already, things are not that simple.

    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.

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    Who Were the Queen's Knights?

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    7 hours ago, Leingod said:

    IIRC, in Pendragon the Queen's Knights aren't a lifetime appointment like the Round Table, but something renewed yearly. There are knights who get their membership renewed yearly to the extent that it's basically a formality - Lancelot and Gawain in particular - but otherwise the membership varies by year. You can justify any knight with good courtly skills and Romantic inclinations (which I believe are the main requirements, rather than martial prowess or Glory).

    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.

    Beyond The Wall Map?

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    6 hours ago, Atgxtg said:

    Do you know what the resolution is? I have the hardcopy,  not the PDF. Maybe it would be possible to get a higher rez-scan. The one I posted above is only at 72 dpi , which is okay for a computer screen. We really want at least 300 dpi or so for a printable version to keep the details. I could look for my copy in storage and maybe scan it in sections and merge them into a bigger higher rez map.

    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.

    Beyond The Wall Map?

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    10 hours ago, redmoongoddess said:

    this is referring to the pdf, right? Which pages are the maps? I mean the detailed one, the one that Atgxtg posted an preview of above with all of the location names.

    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.

    PENDRAGON : Source of an adventure set in 480

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

    Posted · Edited by mandrill_one
    Added a question for the OP

    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.

    New edition coming up?

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    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!).

     

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    Dracula vs King Arthur

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    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???? 😆
     

    The End of the Pendragon Yahoo Group

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    On 1/5/2020 at 9:38 AM, Ringan said:

    Post acquisition by Verizon, Yahoo abruptly announced it would end its Yahoo groups service 😭  Groups are now no longer accessible to the public, and there was a KAP players' group dating back to 2001 that was affected. 

    The good news is that Yahoo is allowing users who had belonged to the group to download its data until the end of January, which encompasses:

    1. All emails sent to the group.
    2. The list of useful URLs the group had recorded.
    3. A number of player's aid files, including things like maps, house rules, compendia, etc.

    I was a member of the group, and was able to obtain it.  The Chaosium forums seem to be the new hub for KAP players, so does it make sense to share the files here?

    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/)?

    Heirlooms and Luck

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    1 hour ago, creativehum said:

    When I followed your instructions I think I also saw Goudy on the list.

    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).

    1 hour ago, creativehum said:

    since you seem facile with fonts, do you know which font was used for different kinds of text in the book. (I can sit there and compare as best I can, but if you are faster at identifying the fonts I'll let you tell me! If this would be work for you don't do it!)

    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).

    Heirlooms and Luck

    in Pendragon & Prince Valiant

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    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

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