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The Once and Future King was published in 1938-1940 (in pieces, single volume is from 1958). Its prose is not terribly inventive or... -
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You might not want to use the system, but I'll suggest GURPS: Camelot, even if you just want background material, including notes on...
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I'm not an expert on Daggerheart rules but maybe have each character start play with 2 Virtues which the player gets to invoke for bonus...
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The author of Romance of the Perilous Land has some supplemental material on their itch.io, including a couple free adventures you might...
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I was all ready to waffle on about Arthuriana only to see that between @aramis erak, @Tonguez and @Benjamin Olson, what I was going to...
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For me, the biggest difference between Arthurian-esque fantasy and more conventional D&D-esque fantasy is that the latter tends to be...
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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... -
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I don't think that you are giving Pendragon enough credit. It does its homework. The game leans heavily into the source material. It...
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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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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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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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My favorite Arthurian rpg is Romance of the Perilous Land by Osprey Games. Neat little book with everything you need to play. It’s a...
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Arthurian-style plots? My mind goes to Gawain and the Green Knight or Pellinore and the Questing Beast. A session/episode focuses on one...