SirUkpyr

Another VERY good resource for names is:

Medieval Names Archive (s-gabriel.org)

They have such things as, in the French section, a list of every name which appears in the 1292 Paris census rolls, as well as lists of Merovingian names, with other sections for Occitan & Catalan, Spanish, Moorish, and others.

Great resource!

From my own campaign, I have one comment regarding the GPC.

If your players are not *really* into the Arthurian mythos - they may well not even know you're changing the story arc.

I threw in some stuff from the Vulgate Merlin, and my players had no idea that it was not part of the standard GPC.

So - when you go to change the GPC - remember that it is possible that the only person who will know that the GPC was changed - will be you - the changer.

For Arthor!

Sir Ukpyr

5 hours ago, klecser said:

The simple way to do it would be to find the modern value and simply multiply times the fractional difference of inflation. Of course, that wouldn't consider realistic fluctuations in gem markets at specific times, nor the fact that modern gems are likely mined more efficiently, but from less rich sources.

The question is how "realistic" you want realistic to be? If you want to end your frustration just use an inflation tool online?

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Not a half-bad idea - and while this may be the direction I go in - I would like to think that I'm not the first person to wonder what the values of games and jewels in the 1920s were.

I am having the devil of a time finding the values of various gems and jewels in the 1920s.

How much would a 1 carat ruby have been worth? a 1 carat saphhire? emerald? diamond? lesser gemstones?

Any idea where I could find this information?

Thanks for the assistancd!

On ‎8‎/‎26‎/‎2020 at 6:15 AM, beardo1976 said:

I love the Book of Uther, will we ever see any additional era books that support the Great Pendragon Campaign?  The Book of Anarchy, Book of the Boy King, etc?

Something for the later periods would be FANTASTIC - Romance and Tournament and Grail Quest era books would ALL be great to see, since while there are many who are in the early stages of the GPC, there are also quite a few of us running around in the later periods of the GPC.

Been busy - haven't had a chance to come back.

Thanks to you both both!

I know that one of the books details what the Wergild (non-Saxon version) in Pendragon would be for killing various people, but for the life of me I cannot recall if it was in one of the books or on Greg's old site.

If in a book, book and page would be highly appreciated.

If on the old site, well knowing where could help me find it (maybe - the Wayback Machine's search engine doesn't much like me - grin).

Thanks for any assistance.

thank you Morien!!

Hello everyone,

I am unable to find my notes on the Companion of Arthur and Round Table Knights that I had originally found on Greg's Pendragon Page.

THEN - I found that Greg's Pendragon Page has vanished, or at least the link I have on my home computer isn't working. I think I have the newer link on my work computer, because that was working on Thursday.

HELP please!

Thanks.

Morien - you rock! Thanks for the info.
Hzark10 - you also rock - and thanks muchly for telling me where to look - and in what page.

I think I will handle this in this manner. Limit the number of traits/passions (T/P) which can be "inherited". The "standard" will be *up to half* of the Father's famous T/Ps, with a dice roll determining how many that is. If the player wants to go as high as 2/3 of the famous T/Ps being inherited, then he has to tell me a good story for *why*.

I'm a HUGE lover of story, so long as it does not unbalance the gave vs the other characters.

Might also allow them some (5-10) extra skill points to use on those skills which Father was known for using a lot, but the player will not know how much will be available until after character creation is finished.

6 hours ago, Morien said:

See "Sons as Player Characters", p. 68-69.

Short answer:

Skills: no inheritance. (Save for the Family Characteristic.)

Traits & Passions: Identical to the Father's, or no inheritance.

 

Morien

pg 68-69 of which book??

I checked my hardcopy Pendragon 5.0, but pgs 68-69 are all about Traits and Passions.

I checked my PDF Pendragon 5.1, same results.

I even checked my Knights and Ladies (nope) and Entourage (only has 50 pgs).

Thanks for the assist.

PC knight is about to see his 21yr old son knighted.

Does the new knight inherit any of Dad's famous traits? any of Dad's skills.

I know he gets 10% of Dad's glory.

Thanks.

11 hours ago, Dethstrok9 said:

I personally think you are taking the rules too seriously. If you need a character to be a teacher at a college and they have a reasonably high skill level in the subject, they can do it. It still would be checks, and there are such things as bad teachers. When I run games, I do whatever works for the narrative. Just say if they have higher than 74% they can teach all higher grades, if you need a rule system to go off, but again the rules were made to make the game as smooth as possible for role-play and if you are ever in doubt or the system doesn't specify; you can simply make a call based on what you as Keeper think will work.

Thanks.

This all started when the player said "so how high does my skill need to be for me to be Seniors or Graduate students?". I wondered what others had done in this regard, and the idea of a person just out of college with their 53% in (college taught skill) teaching Seniors seemed crazy, but how high did it need to be.

Also love your comment about "there are such things as bad teachers". Made me think about "how low could the score go" (grins).

Thanks again.

On 4/29/2020 at 11:36 AM, Stormkhan Cogg of Pavis said:

Always remember that you may be qualified, highly, to do a job, but you may not get it.

There may already be a Chair in Archaeology at XYZ University who has less skill points than an Investigator, but he has the job!

Which - to be honest - does *nothing* to actually answer my question. My question was (and honestly still is) what level of skill is needed to teach a Junior level (300's) class in Mathematics or Chemistry or Archaeology? A Senior level (400s)? Graduate level (500-600s)?

Yes - a 50-74% means you are a professional and are qualified to do a job, and 75-89% makes you an expert.

I would presume that at 50% you can teach Freshman level (100s) classes, and probably at the 50-74% score you can teach Sophomore (200s) classes as well. It is in the higher levels that I am seeking advise.

My thanks for the assistance.

Hello everyone,

One of the PCs in my game is a professor of Egyptology (skill 80).

He asked what other things could he teach, and I had (and still have) no idea what skill level is needed to teach various classes.

I would presume that a minimum of 51% to teach Freshman classes (the 100s), but what is needed to be teaching Sophomore (200s) or Junior (300s) or Seniors (400s) or graduate students (500-600s)?

My thanks for any assistance you can provide.

SirUkpyr

Gorgeous art!!

What exactly will the Codex Mirabilis cover?

Finally finished the Red Blade adventure, as we had to skip our November game due to *life*.

They find Pig-Boy, and decide that he should not be killed by his father, so they get him into the stables and disguise him as one of their squires - then have some of their squires ride out of the castle to go hide about half-days ride past the first hamlet they had encountered.

King Cadwalader returns with his victorious "army", and when the ruckus begins to "find Pig-Boy!" - the players come out of the guest house, armed and armored, and loudly proclaim that they had helped Pig-Boy to escape so he would not be killed.

Evil king screams "kill those miscreants and FIND PIG BOY!!" - at which point one PK takes a spear and throws it at the king - critting - and killing him with one shot.

Some of the knights and warriors attack the PKs, while a few try and get to the Red Death Blade, but one PK is faster and grabs it.

Fast forward - PKs have taken Pig Boy to the Castle of the Crane, where one of them tells King Garan "I think all of Cadwalader's son's were named Pig Boy - since he planned to eat them".

It was a fantastic game. They are thinking of giving the cool sword to the PK with the lowest sword skill, as there is little point in having a 30 Sword Skill if you cannot crit.

45 minutes ago, Atgxtg said:

Yeah, and I usually run a test if the situation is important. Being Indulgent might not matter most of the time, but being indulgent when  sitting next to a lady you are trying to impress might be. As a rule I thumb, I figure that if success isn't worth a check, then the roll isn't worth forcing, and vice versa.

I am sooooo stealing that thumb!

8 hours ago, Morien said:

Reminds me of the time I sent the PKs to Anglia to see how cruelly Duke Hervis was oppressing the Angles there. The PKs actually had more sympathy for the Angles than the Duke, and thought that the Duke deserved every rebellion that he got. If I recall correctly, they ended up complaining to Arthur about it, and given that they had some significant political counters (having saved Arthur from Camille), Arthur actually stepped in to start reining Hervis in.

When I had the PKs going through Anglia on an adventure (part of the whole Camille and the Saxon Rebellion), we had one PK with a Hate Saxon of 20 who saw nothing wrong with how the Angles were being treated. The "low-life saxon rat-scum deserve to be starved to death". Other PKs disagreed, and as one of them was an RTK that RTK-PK basically told the Duke that the rebellion was his own fault for treating the Saxon's so inhumanely, dishonorably, and unchivalrously. A few passion and trait rolls later, Duke Hervis is challenging the RTK to a duel of honor to the death - the RTK pointing out that as they are both RTKs they cannot fight to the death - the Duke fumbling his "prudent" and renouncing his being an RTK - and the RTK then killing the Duke in the judicial challenge.

Then - after all that - and much very good RP - the RTK in question replaces Duke Hervis - and now gets to clean up the mess and retire as an active PK.

Much fun was had by all, and the PK who started it all rolling with his super-high hate saxon then proceeded to go "hmmm - maybe I need to lower that passion just a bit".*laughs*

1 hour ago, mandrill_one said:

You're very welcome!

If I may, you are sorely missing some serious entertainment (and other chances to honor Greg's memory...) if you don't also download and play the other free "We Are All Us" adventures (for Pendragon - by Greg himself! -, Call of Cthulhu, Runequest and HeroQuest). They are available strarting from here:
https://www.chaosium.com/we-are-all-us-free-adventures/

*Laughs*

Am already running the Quest of the Red Blade, and plan on running the CoC adventure as well.

THEY ROCK!!

19 hours ago, mandrill_one said:

Here you go:

https://www.chaosium.com/content/FreePDFs/WeAreAllUs/2019/The Sword of Kings - 7th Sea.pdf

Thank you Thank you!!

Where would one find the free download for 7th Sea?

I tried to find it in the 7th Sea forum, but could not find a link to the download.

Does anyone have a link?

2 hours ago, Tizun Thane said:

You only need the Book of the Estate to fully understand the book of the Warlord, and Book of Armies is useless if you don't have Book of Battle.

I would disagree.

While the Book of Armies is more useful when used with Book of Battle, even by itself it can be useful in terms of figuring out who the PKs are facing during any round of battle. It creates good flavor text for the GM to use.

While I agreed with Greg's basic idea that being recognized as "Chivalrous" should be more difficult than reaching the *80 threshold in 6 traits* - I did not think it should require all of the traits to be *at* 16, especially as we have chivalric knights who were pagan in canon.

I set the threshold at 90 points amongst all 6 traits, and it seems to have worked out fairly well.

Oh lots of very cool information.

Thanks Tizun Thane for mentioning both Dragons of Britain and Saxons, as I have both!

This group went through the Gorbudok the Fiend in the Forest Sauvage (or however it is all spelled) before, so another fiend might not make them blink as much. We will see.