Has anyone ever converted the setting of Pendragon?

Spellslinging Sellsword · July 18, 2017, 08:52:31 PM

Awesome to see it go live. Looking forward to getting it.

crkrueger · July 18, 2017, 10:06:49 PM

Woohoo. Gonna get the hardbound of Paladin and Pendragon 5.2. Might get some of those dice too, they're the first custom dice I've seen in a while that aren't so busy with art I can't read them.

Psikerlord · July 19, 2017, 12:53:53 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;975565Nope, that is equally boring. But I see they are going for a theme. I just see nothing about the chosen art that says "ADVENTURE AWAITS! EXCITEMENT ENSUES! PLAY ME!" If I didn't already know Pendragon was awesome, I might not look past the covers.

I love the black adn red flag but otherwise agree

Psikerlord · July 19, 2017, 12:54:30 AM

Quote from: Thegn Ansgar;945131I have a new group who is interested in trying Pendragon, and I'm not all to familiar with it (it always seems to happen that I get groups who want to play games I've never ran or played before), but there's some desire to change the setting from an Arthurian one, to the Viking Age, or perhaps the contest of the throne between Harald, Harold, and William, with a more gritty historical take on it, rather than the romanticism of Arthur.

Would it be much work to change things? Would I even really have to change much (the knightly virtues would be one thing I think)? Perhaps there's some source book out there that I could use to aid in things (I'm generally knowledgeable about the time periods at hand, and so on that front I wouldn't need too much really).

For reference, I have managed to get:

Pendragon 5th Edition
The Great Pendragon Campaign
Pendragon Saxons

If you're going for a viking theme, the recent Ice Kingdoms book would be worth a look

Dumarest · July 19, 2017, 01:54:28 AM

Quote from: Psikerlord;976550I love the black adn red flag but otherwise agree

Yeah, the art isn't bad, it's just dull and says nothing about the games. I'll surely buy them as long as finances allow, it I don't think their choices for covers were very inspired. I see the are going for a uniform this-is-a-series look, but they could still have that plus dynamic action instead of "a guy riding a horse for no particular reason and ignoring you as he looks off to the side at nothing." Still, I love Pendragon and would love to see these games when they are available.

TrippyHippy · July 19, 2017, 05:07:50 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;976563Yeah, the art isn't bad, it's just dull and says nothing about the games. I'll surely buy them as long as finances allow, it I don't think their choices for covers were very inspired. I see the are going for a uniform this-is-a-series look, but they could still have that plus dynamic action instead of "a guy riding a horse for no particular reason and ignoring you as he looks off to the side at nothing." Still, I love Pendragon and would love to see these games when they are available.

They are based on the covers of the Spanish edition.

Dumarest · July 19, 2017, 06:41:33 PM

Quote from: TrippyHippy;976617They are based on the covers of the Spanish edition.

Therefore they're good? :confused:

Psycho was a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, too...

TrippyHippy · July 19, 2017, 09:07:43 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;976717Therefore they're good? :confused:

Psycho was a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, too...

Therefore they weren't commissioned as a seperate thing by Nocturnal. The whole design was brought over, including internal layout, because it was deemed to be more attractive than the current edition.

Voros · July 19, 2017, 10:57:46 PM

The internal art is pretty excellent I think.

RPGPundit · July 22, 2017, 01:41:02 AM

It does look stunning, though I'm sad to hear it won't have year-by-year play in the style of the Great Pendragon Campaign. That would have been awesome.

Spellslinging Sellsword · July 22, 2017, 07:11:19 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;977243It does look stunning, though I'm sad to hear it won't have year-by-year play in the style of the Great Pendragon Campaign. That would have been awesome.

I've contemplated using the Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories as a guide to do such. Never got past the "that could work" stage.

RPGPundit · July 25, 2017, 04:17:17 AM

I had considered, for some while, converting Pendragon to run an Imperial Roman campaign.

TrippyHippy · July 25, 2017, 04:24:51 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;978029I had considered, for some while, converting Pendragon to run an Imperial Roman campaign.

Yep, that'd work. The Equestrian order of Rome were essentially knights.

The Ancient Greece idea might work too, although I do wonder whether the standard, medieval style combat style in the classic Pendragon mode actually matches the lighter armoured style of Hoplites. I think they'd have to modify it so it didn't rely on armour rolls.

What else?

EDIT: Actually, a very important 'what else?' is a new updated edition of The Great Pendragon Campaign, in the same Spanish format and with an included index.

RPGPundit · July 28, 2017, 07:11:04 AM

Quote from: TrippyHippy;978034EDIT: Actually, a very important 'what else?' is a new updated edition of The Great Pendragon Campaign, in the same Spanish format and with an included index.

What would need updating?

TrippyHippy · July 28, 2017, 08:50:54 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;978998What would need updating?

The Book of Uther period, was updated in a supplement and added an extra five years to the timeline.

In the case of the Index, it was actually edited out along with the NPC Characters booklet because they had page number limitations. I'd like to see them included in any new edition.