King Arthur Pendragon 5e: Current books?

crkrueger · June 25, 2017, 02:12:43 PM

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;971415And if you had edition 5.1 from the previous bundle, or perhaps from any other previous purchase on DriveThruRPG, you'll be uploaded to 5.2 automatically--and it is gorgeous.

Ooo, now I'm going to have to get the hardbound. Damn you.

Armchair Gamer · June 25, 2017, 02:52:27 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;971421Ooo, now I'm going to have to get the hardbound. Damn you.

I'd feel worse about that if I wasn't feeling the same urge.

RPGPundit · June 28, 2017, 07:33:02 PM

How anyone could like Pendragon and not want the GPC is beyond me.

Voros · June 29, 2017, 01:16:08 AM

Ken Hite just tweeted about the Bundle sale and called GPC the greatest RPG campaign ever.

crkrueger · June 29, 2017, 09:06:18 AM

Quote from: Voros;972079Ken Hite just tweeted about the Bundle sale and called GPC the greatest RPG campaign ever.

I don't think he's wrong. I think it surpasses even the great Call of Cthulhu campaigns.

Dumarest · June 29, 2017, 11:13:14 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;972039How anyone could like Pendragon and not want the GPC is beyond me.

Not everyone likes what you like. D&D, for instance.

I really don't care about playing against the backdrop of King Arthur's rise and decline and don't find it especially compelling. I don't care about preordained events occurring. I have the book. I might use it for ideas and let the PCs radically alter events but the vibe I get from it is that it expects all of those events to unfold regardless of what happens at my game table.

daniel_ream · June 29, 2017, 02:03:00 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;972039How anyone could like Pendragon and not want the GPC is beyond me.

Many things are beyond you. It's all right, no one holds it against you.

Dumarest · June 29, 2017, 05:14:57 PM

Quote from: daniel_ream;972162Many things are beyond you.

I almost said that but relented.

RPGPundit · July 02, 2017, 01:48:13 AM

In the case of Pendragon, though, that's what it's all about. It's Stafford's vision of the Arthurian legend.

And the GPC can be run in so many different ways. The idea that it's just one big metaplot that has to be followed where PCs have no influence is a very narrow way of looking at it.

RPGPundit · July 02, 2017, 01:48:59 AM

Quote from: Voros;972079Ken Hite just tweeted about the Bundle sale and called GPC the greatest RPG campaign ever.

It's the greatest RPG campaign book I've ever seen. And it had a huge influence on me. It's the reason that both Arrows of Indra and Dark Albion have future-timelines rather than past-histories.

Voros · July 02, 2017, 01:51:46 AM

Yeah read Stafford about GPC, he doesn't think it has to play out in any specific way but he does believe in tapping into an underlying mythic archtypes and events via play. Remember the dude is a Shaman.

John Scott · July 02, 2017, 06:15:37 AM

GPC is an intimidating beast but it can also be used as a backdrop for a campaign and a source for many ideas and adventures.

christopherkubasik · July 02, 2017, 10:00:38 AM

If anyone is interested, here's a post I wrote up a while back about playing King Arthur Pendragon against the backdrop of The Great Pendragon Campaign without the Player Characters become automatons through a straight-jacket meta-plot.

Dumarest · July 02, 2017, 01:14:49 PM

Greg Stafford doesn't play at my table so I actually don't care what the game is "all about" to him.

Voros · July 03, 2017, 12:04:42 AM

But Stafford is playing at your table: through your SOUL mannn!!:D