Magazines with KAP articles

[mandrill_one]

I've found another 2 official Spanish products (from Nosolorol) in my archive:

La Dama Misteriosa (The Mysterious Lady) - stand-alone introductory adventure

A la Caza de la Bestia (Beast Hunting) - stand-alone introductory adventure

I don't know whether they can be considered "magazine articles" or "supplements", probably the latter...

They were sold as PDF-only products, as part of a multi-system adventure collection that was directly crowdfunded by the publisher a few years ago. Unfortunately, in the meantime Nosolorol has stopped translating Pendragon and is no more selling ANY Pendragon products.

[AlHazred]

6 hours ago, mandrill_one said:

La Dama Misteriosa (The Mysterious Lady) - stand-alone introductory adventure

There was an adventure "La Dama Misteriosa" in the magazine Nivel 9 #10, written by Ricardo Dorda. I wonder if it's the same one?

6 hours ago, mandrill_one said:

A la Caza de la Bestia (Beast Hunting) - stand-alone introductory adventure

Awesome! I'll have to check it out.

[mandrill_one]

14 hours ago, AlHazred said:

There was an adventure "La Dama Misteriosa" in the magazine Nivel 9 #10, written by Ricardo Dorda. I wonder if it's the same one?

Yes, at first sight it's the same identical adventure (identical chapter names, etc.), but with a different layout. The only difference is that the stand-alone version also includes 5 pregenerated Player-knights, with a relatively brief background for each one.

I completely forgot that the same adventure was published in Nivel 9!

[AlHazred]

So, I noticed somebody (or somebodies) tagged a lot more Pendragon articles in RPGGeek, so I had more things to track down and put in the sheet. Most of them are reviews, so, not terribly exciting. But I noticed one of them, Die Sanduhr, a German RPG fanzine I'd never heard of, apparently had an adventure in issue #4. From RPGGeek, it looks like it's called "Holde Lady Ginevra" ("Dear Lady Ginevra, i.e. Guinevere"). Does anybody have this fanzine?

[AlHazred]

Somebody added 40 Ans de Jeux de Rôle to the list as a Periodical. I've moved it to the Supplements tab, but thank you very much for the addition! There are currently 3 of 4 projected volumes of this book. Each one covers a decade of the existence of the Cour d'Oberon forums, and they consist of a bunch of short scenarios for different games that came out in that decade, written by forum members. Tome 2 covers 1984-1993, and has both a Pendragon scenario and one for Premières Légendes de la Table Ronde that could be easily adapted to Pendragon.

The PDF versions are freely available at the link below, and softcover editions can be purchased at Lulu.com. The price is at-cost, with a small additional proceed going to a charity (a different one for each volume). The charity for Tome 2 is RESF, the Education Without Borders Network.

What a fantastic idea to celebrate forums that have been around for a long time! These books are highly recommended; even if French isn't one of your languages, it's easy enough to cut-n-paste into Google Translate!

http://couroberon.com/site2/

Edited June 20 by AlHazred

[AlHazred]

On 5/19/2024 at 5:57 PM, AlHazred said:

So, I noticed somebody (or somebodies) tagged a lot more Pendragon articles in RPGGeek, so I had more things to track down and put in the sheet. Most of them are reviews, so, not terribly exciting. But I noticed one of them, Die Sanduhr, a German RPG fanzine I'd never heard of, apparently had an adventure in issue #4. From RPGGeek, it looks like it's called "Holde Lady Ginevra" ("Dear Lady Ginevra, i.e. Guinevere"). Does anybody have this fanzine?

Through the kindness of somebody on RPGGeek, I was able to add "Holde Lady Ginevra" to the list. It's an interesting scenario, written by the fanzine editor after he bought Pendragon and was super-impressed with it.

[AlHazred]

So, I was watching yet another Role Player Independent auction on eBay start to head to collectors' prices, when somebody I know told me they'd let me peruse the issue I was interested in, #10. Then, he mentioned another article of interest, in issue #06. So, there's updates happening.

Edited June 25 by AlHazred

[AlHazred]

Role Player Independent #6 (May 1993)

"The Wicker Man" is less an adventure and more of an adventure outline. It's meant for Pendragon, Ars Magica, and Chivalry & Sorcery, which are three very different games with wildly different mechanics; there are no mechanics in the module. There's a tie to Beowulf which, eh, might or might not work; I feel like it's probably better to use an actual Arthurian element. The scenario centers on a druid assembling a Wicker Man; the druid has ulterior motives. I feel like there are a couple of good ideas in the scenario, but there's a lot left to the individual GM to develop.

Spoiler

The Beowulf element is a troll related to Grendel who is assisting the druid assembling the Wicker Man. That's not a terrible idea, but it would be better in Pendragon to use an Arthurian beastie, like a giant or something.

The druid is apparently "worshipping dark gods" and unleashes "demons" if he succeeds, which seems weird. I feel like, if you're adapting this for Pendragon, there's the potential for some interesting Paganism vs. Christianity dynamic you can do here, but it requires more nuance than was fit into the 3 pages here.

 

Edited June 29 by AlHazred

[AlHazred]

Role Player Independent #10 (September 1993)

"An Arthurian Faerie Tale" is a scenario taken from the author's home campaign, it's set in "Woodly County... on the very fringes of Arthur's kingdom." The knights' sire, "Sir Aeron, a Banneret," loses his young five-year-old child, Germaine, to a "mist" that rises off of the sea. From there, the scenario takes the players to Faerie, as might be obvious from the name. The scenario is a little long-winded, as, for instance, the initial setup takes up two of the five pages.

It's not a bad scenario. It has a real whimsical faerie-tale feel, which is rare in published scenarios. I would redo parts of it to use NPCs from other scenarios to do a little foreshadowing. The scenario reads a little roughly in parts, but it's memorable, and that counts for a lot. I have spoken to people who remembered playing this scenario 20 years ago, which is a good enough recommendation to give it a shot if you have access.

Getting it is tricky. Role Player Independent shows up relatively reasonably often on eBay; it's not impossible to find like, say, the UK fanzines Beaumains or Maelstrom. So, good luck!

Edited July 12 by AlHazred

[AlHazred]

So, some of the items on the list are extremely problematic. Most of these were fanzines with extremely limited distribution, and many of them I've never seen pop up in auctions online. In the interest of maybe finding someone who owns them and can comment on the contents, here is the list:

• Aslan International, #11 (a UK fanzine expired by Andrew Rilstone, it had a focus on story games.)
• Black Mole, #1-5 (the previous fanzine from Beaumains editor Gareth Jones. It wasn't exclusively Pendragon, but it had a bunch.)
• Cent Prétentions, le n°8 (a French fanzine from 1993, issue #8 was apparently focused on Pendragon.)
• Interregnum, #29 (Pete Maranci's APAzine, I've read that there's a scenario that can be adapted for Pendragon called "The Adventure of the Whispering Hill" or "The Mystery of the Whispering Hill" or something.)
• El Juglar número 0 or 1 (a Spanish fanzine from the 90s from Malaga, apparently the first issue (0 or 1) had Pendragon content.)
• Machicoulis, le n°2 (a French fanzine.)
• Maelstrom #1 (Jun 1995) (a UK fanzine.)
• Œcumen, le n°0 (Oct 1995)(a French fanzine.)
• REVES, les n°3 & 8 (a French fanzine.)
• Torden og Lynild 1993 #2 (a Danish fanzine, this was the club periodical for CONSIM. This issue has an article with house rules for family events and castle building.)
• The Unnamed #3 (1993) (a UK fanzine.)

@Tizun Thane will find several of these familiar, I suspect.

These are drawn from previous threads about Pendragon, and from reviews in other periodicals of the fanzines. 

Edited June 30 by AlHazred

[AlHazred]

Noticed somebody had updated RPGGeek to include Rúna, a professional Hungarian RPG magazine from the 90s, and that someone has uploaded (as far as I can tell) the whole run into archive.org. I have now added another adventure from Season 5 issue 1, "A Bajba Jutott Hölgy" ("The Damsel in Distress"), which involves King Bagdemagus' daughter, Lady Elenore. It's only two pages, but there's a nice twist to it. I don't know that I would necessarily use it as written, it needs to be fleshed out, but it's better than the other scenario called "A Damsel in Distress" that was in The Great Book of Pendragon Treasures.

Spoiler

Players expecting an easy time dealing with bandits or Saxons can be properly overwhelmed when it turns out Lady Elenore is in the company of a delusional Fairy Knight and his Giant squire. It feels like the kind of episode that might have been in one of the wilder Arthurian stories, and I like that it effectively encourages the PKs to try roleplaying solutions, since those opponents will be difficult for all but really powerful groups!

 

[Tizun Thane]

On 6/25/2024 at 10:08 PM, AlHazred said:

"The Wicker Man" is less an adventure and more of an adventure outline. It's meant for Pendragon, Ars Magica, and Chivalry & Sorcery, which are three very different games with wildly different mechanics; there are no mechanics in the module. There's a tie to Beowulf which, eh, might or might not work; I feel like it's probably better to use an actual Arthurian element. The scenario centers on a druid assembling a Wicker Man; the druid has ulterior motives. I feel like there are a couple of good ideas in the scenario, but there's a lot left to the individual GM to develop.

I read it recently for the first time, aind I agree with everything. Not a big fan of the dark druid trope. It's too much D&D to my taste. And the troll is a bit out of place. 

But the adventure itself is still ok, and could work. It could be provide a nice change of pace for your campaign. 6/10.

On 6/27/2024 at 9:57 PM, AlHazred said:

Role Player Independent #10 (September 1993)

"An Arthurian Faerie Tale" is a scenario taken from the author's home campaign, it's set in "Woodly County... on the very fringes of Arthur's kingdom." The knight's sire, "Sir Aeron, a Banneret," loses his young five-year-old child, Germaine, to a "mist" that rises off of the sea. From there, the scenario takes the players to Faerie, as might be obvious from the name. The scenario is a little long-winded, as, for instance, the initial setup takes up two of the five pages.

I agree with everything. Good adventure, with lots of potential, but very chatty. It's understandable, because it's an intro adventure. A solid 8/10. I really liked it.

[Tizun Thane]

thanks to @AlHazred, I checked "Holde Lady Ginevra", a german adventure written for the year 519.

I read it after an automatic translation, so if I understood the core concepts of the adventure, I am sure the poetry was lost in translation.

The adventure presents an interesting challenge for the year 519. Guenever is kidnapped and your PK have to rescue her.

As it stands, the adventure is unplayable. But there are many good ideas, the seeds of what could be an extraordinary quest. 

 

[mandrill_one]

It isn't a KAP magazine article, so maybe this is the wrong forum thread, however someone on Facebook's "Pendragon RPG" group has posted images of a CCG called "Quest for the Grail", which is obviously thematically linked to KAP. They also say that it plays a lot like KAP (whatever this means for a CCG), and that it's been out of print since 20 years at least.
I have found the discussion there very interesting and informative. Really recommended!

 

Edited July 13 by mandrill_one
Changed “forum” to “thread”