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Episode 3 (Year 486) is up on YouTube!

I really, really like what we were able to get done this whole session! A year! in like 150 minutes! I'm very proud with this session overall and besides a few things I'll state below, if I can keep the quality of this session the standard, I'd be a very happy Pendragon GameMaster.

Things I will continue to do before the next session:

• poems are a nice touch (thanks Esoteric Order of Roleplayers for the idea!)
• sprinkle things into the game!
  • Pre-roll this year's random events
    • Winter phase misfortunes (and the season they occur in)
    • Winter phase solo events (and the season they most likely occur in)
      • ex: the NPC Tyngyr got the fight solo event in spring! It made perfect sense to align it w/ easter.
• Keep a rough list of NPCs in a spreadsheet for references
  • Note NPC stats/ages and traits
  • Note eligible marriage materials
  • Note rival knights
  • Note extended family stuff

Things I will change before the next session:

• Production
  • Overlays
    • I need to improve the size of the cam boxes and make taller the size of the Roll20 dice box.
  • Music
    • I need to find steadier music for the game
• Prep
  • Stream it!
    • Lots of people are interested in watching me roll/write up the solo events of our knights and NPC knights.

I'm not particularly well versed in this but my take -- law, faith, and justice are all subjective in pre-positivism arthurian society.

If the merchant is a commoner of a distant land, nothing will be done. They'd presume the merchant probably did something wrong and had it coming, shrug, and move on with their lives. If this case somehow gets the ear of someone highborn or religiously connected then things change. It's anyones game at that point as it could be demanding repayment, it could be demanding death ("she corrupted the knight and spent the money!") and entirely subjective to whims of the nobles or religiously powerful. 

Her name and familys rep will be dragged through the mud but again-- most would presume the merchant was in the wrong then presume the knight was bad without any further thought.

The book of feasts has some tables for meals, but in case you ever need more ideas, there's a twitter bot for Redwall feasts that can help spice up any party.

13 hours ago, 7dot62mm said:

I watched every episode of Lumpkin's campaign on YouTube and it was great. I'll definitely try to follow yours as well. Thanks for sharing.

 

Hey thanks friend! No promises but I'll see what I can do to get some of the old cast or even some of the Rollplay R&D crew to cameo.

Welcome
I want to share my current play through of Pendragon I've started a few weeks ago with two of my friends!  This forum has been a trove of useful information for prepping my game and I wish to get a generous check (or is it pride that drives me here?) sharing the fruits of that labor. 

Currently we've done: Session 0/Chargen, 485 #1 and 485 #2.

You may remember my face as one of those from Steven Lumpkin's actual play a few years back. Well I've come back and running my own. 

We're definitely making some rules mistakes here and there, but overall we're getting better and faster with the ruleset as both myself and colin have played some Pendragon before.

Here's our two knights as of the end of 485!

If you want to catch it live, we play 4-6pm PT on my twitch channel!
 

Totally using those weather tables for my Pendragon game that just started. Thanks creativehum!

Once the land and Arthur are one, I'll have to change it but right now we're 485 in the uther period.

 I made one slight adjustment -- I split up the rain tables so each option has 50/50 chance of fog. I really like the movie Excalibur and its one of my favorite touchstones of Pendragon fiction and it's got a ton of fog and low hanging mist.