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Thanks for this, Scotty!

@jeffjerwin, your campaign sounds like great fun! I'm running a single-player campaign, but not exactly multiple characters per player, though we may do that later once we're more comfortable with the system. At the moment, the player has one PK, and I'm running four NPKs who will mostly follow the PK's lead. These NPKs will also be something of an extra life mechanic: if the PK takes a death blow and an ally NPK is present (e.g. in a battle), I can say that the ally NPK dies instead (at least until the PK has an heir). A failure is a learning experience! I'd be tempted to say crits and failures get checks, myself.

Cool! That's a neat way to explain a family trait.

Awesome! I think posts are fine, but a PDF would be cool too. (Minor note: you have 'beet' for 'beer' twice under 'Ale & Beer'.)

That was my guess. I was thinking that, but I've been on some forums where newbies are expected to not start multiple threads, and I'm still feeling my way around here.

Hey, does anyone have an idea of if/when the Book of Salisbury might be coming out? (I'm not sure if I should just add queries in this thread or start new threads.)

Exactly!

Oh, definitely! I was thinking more like the 3x armour might be suited for wearing one day a year (or even just stick it on a stand in the hall and never wear it), whereas the 10x armour (with thicker gilding and better techniques) might be suited for wearing at the occasional big tournament. (You could also reduce a suit's apparent value by half each year it's exposed to significant wear, same as for fancy clothes.)

Ha! Thanks for the advice, sounds good to me!

Just for another reference point, KAP 5.2 in the price lists (chapter 8, page 190) mentions "For example, if a knight wished to buy gilded armor, the price might be triple the given amount or even more." That does seem a bit low to me, but going by Atgxtg's post, maybe you could say that triple value gets you a thin coating on a suit intended purely for ceremonial use.

Definitely! I hope to get some practice runs in before we start. Fortunately the basic mechanics look pretty straightforward.

These are neat! Beer and ale would be nifty too.

Indeed, but circumstances can change. E.g. Lord A used to like Squire B and knighted him, but since then Sir B has been seen talking to Lord A's unfriendly neighbours; maybe best to not let Sir B form too many connections with other prominent families. I'm not expecting it to come up very often, though, and maybe not at all. Thanks for the tip! We're mostly used to D&D (4e and 5e). Faster combat will definitely be a plus. I'm planning on lowballing most opposition until I get a better idea of how things actually work in play.

Thanks for the replies, folks! Thanks for that, I've found it. And the political angle just made me think of the flipside that sometimes a lord (particularly a suspicious one) might want to discourage bonds between strong vassals so they don't get too close. That makes sense. Yeah, playing a proper clan of knights could be fun! Thanks. I am a bit worried about continuity, because I keep seeing people comment about how lethal the Pendragon system is. The best way to find out is through playing it, I guess!

I'm hoping to start a Pendragon campaign in the near future, and I'm thinking about the starting characters' social network. (I'm planning a Salisbury 485 start.) Do any of the supplements talk about how squires are chosen? KAP 5.2 has this on page 48: "Usually your squire is a younger son of one of your lord’s other vassals, or perhaps the son of one of his allies’ vassals." So would they normally be assigned by the lord, or would the knight get to choose from known candidates? My vague impression (from reading some medieval history books many years ago) is that the knight-squire relationship was at least partly about strengthening connections between families. A father probably wouldn't take his own son as a squire, but might send him to become squires for a brother (the boy's uncle) or a close friend; alternatively, he might angle to get a richer, more powerful or more famous knight to take the boy on. (Not unlike the considerations of knightly marriage, in a way.) So could PKs have each other's brothers as squires? I'm also thinking it could be neat if a couple of the PKs had been squires to each other's fathers before the latter's deaths. Along a similar line, I'm wondering how likely it is that PKs might already be related. Vassal knights presumably tend to marry ladies from other vassal knight families. I'll leave that to player choice, though.

Thanks, rsanford! Is there somewhere I should be looking for the forum rules?

I may be running a Pendragon campaign in the near future, and this forum looks like the place to come to nowadays. Hello all!