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Thanks Atgxtg. I do have the GPC and intend to follow it along. I also picked up the Book of Uther recently but haven't read it yet. I wasn't sure about the other supplements. I don't think my players are going to want to get into estate management too much. We only play for 3 hours a week and I want to focus the sessions on them roleplaying and doing cool stuff. So I was just going to stick to the rules in the core book. And none of us are wargamers so I'm still in two minds about the battle system. I've only glanced at it so far. Luckily one of my players has made an outdoorsman Knight. A ranger if you will. And he declared that the bear could not have been attacking people without cause. So now I am spinning a whole adventure of outlaws in the woods using dark magic to terrorise the poor little villagers... who are not as innocent as they appear. But it should give us time to learn the combat rules better, etc, before throwing the GPC at them. And gives me more time to read it and get ready.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. My player didn't attack the bear from horseback with a lance or spear. He used the horse as a battering ram! (Much the same way a police officer might use his car to ram a crooks car off the road in high speed chase.) I couldn't find any rules for this so just improvised. I suspect they will try this again against other opponents at some point. Running down men during battle I expect. The next time I do a hunt I will spend a bit more time thinking about the woodland and the terrain. Try to describe the mud, low hanging branches, strange mists, random birds flying in their faces as they blunder their way through it. I imagine that woods in the 5th century were a lot more alive and mysterious then they are today. Thanks for the quick combat rules summary. I was thinking of putting them in a flowchart to use at the table. I am using KAP5.0 (The one with the boar on the front cover) as I bought it years ago for another group. That group fell apart before I had a chance to run it. Are the rules explained differently/better in 5.2?

Hello! I recently started my first Pendragon game and I am pretty sure I stuffed up the bear hunt from the core book. Luckily my players are cool about things. I just wanted some feedback from GMs who have run it before on a few things. If that is OK? The PC's hunted the bear on horseback. Now is that realistic? I assume horses would be OK on forest trails and worn paths, but if the bear ran off into heavy woodland would a horse be able to follow? Would the rider risk hurting the horse by doing so? (I've never done any horse riding in real life myself.) Now I couldn't find any rules for moving across difficult terrain in the rules, so I assume I would apply a -5 penalty to skill roles to control the horse and keep up the chase? Once they found the bear one of my players decided to charge it with his horse. This sounded... um... not a great idea to me... anyway I made the player do a horsemanship role to see if the horse would let him. Then used the damage value from the horse stats in the book. Was that right? (At this point I stuffed up the combat rules and didn't make it an opposed attack so the horse didn't take any damage. I am very much stuck in the DnD method of "I hit you, then you hit me" style of combat.) I forgot a load of combat rules like knockdown. I imagine watching a fellow PC being pinned to the ground with an angry bear tearing lumps out of him would have focused the other players minds a bit! Still getting my head around traits. Should I have made the players make a Valourous roll before they could engage the bear in combat? One of my players has a 16 in it. There were more questions but I have forgotten them... they may come back to me. BTW - Is there a GM screen for this game? I google it but couldn't find any. Thanks for reading!