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DrunkonDuty reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with
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In the amazing Green Knight movie, there's a weird, awkward sex scene that ends in Gawain being told "you are no true knight," not... -
DrunkonDuty reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
Alright, well my northstar for what is Arthurian is the works of Chrétien de Troyes. The codification of this originally Celtic...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to jian's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
Yes, in some ways Arthurian stories are a medieval version of superhero stories - they are often telling the listeners (often knights...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
The important thing about Arthurian Fantasy as opposed to other Fantasy is that Arthurian Fantasy is embedded in Chivalric Morality...
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The genre itself has the following tropes: 1) Knights do all the interesting stuff 2) The crown is fair and good, but bad is done in...
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My current solo Perilous Land campaign is about a young knight with a list of wanted criminals. He roams the land looking for them and...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Faolyn's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
I will probably be running a game in that genre, but when I do a search, all I get is recommendations for novels. OK, so the system...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Alas's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
Arthurian-style plots? My mind goes to Gawain and the Green Knight or Pellinore and the Questing Beast. A session/episode focuses on one...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
This review of The Grey Knight gives you a good idea of themes that are center to the adventure. I’d screencap or quote but I think the...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
But not typically as miserable as low magic D&D often implies, although the Excalibur movie and Monty Python and the Holy Grail lean...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Reynard's post in the thread What makes Arthurian fantasy its own genre, different from more traditional D&D-ish medieval fantasy? What are some Arthurian-style plots? with Like.
Pendragon is great, but it is a particular flavor of Arthurian, being generally much more grounded than a lot of actual Arthurian...
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread What Makes A Successful Superhero CAMPAIGN.Ahhh. Yeah, I see where you're coming from. Yeah, I'm not gonna rewrite an adventure that doesn't come up against a PC's, um...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread What Makes A Successful Superhero CAMPAIGN with Like.
I don't know. They're blending together. That's one thing I think DC Heroes nails with subplots. Messing with someone's secret ID is an...
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Were I GMing a PC like that, I’d allow it, with the caveat that the more regularly they started using it, the more inclined I’d be to...
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread What Makes A Successful Superhero CAMPAIGN.I'm okay with players vetoing some things. Like my example with secret id... (was that this thread or the other one?) ... if it...