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Vigilance
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Yeah there is a wealth of Arthurian fiction around. Its like if the Marvel universe had been invented before copyright laws, the amount of material of such a wide range that would have been produced.
My reason for including the spectral knights was to give non-round table knights a long term goal. Obviously if you wanted to serve Arthur and go on the Grail Quest your long term goal is clear.
But I didnt want to limit the choices of players to ONLY that (not to mention giving classes for villains).
So in keeping with my mission statement of being true to the tales, it was my sense of design philosophy that drove the inclusion of those classes, taking one or two knights and turning them into entire ORDERS of knighthood.
Chuck
PS Krieg- I did consider speckled knight PrC... I ultimately dubbed one of my own playtesters, who multiclasses between green and red and white the "speckled knight" of my campaign. And in honor of that, a speckled knight is unofficially someone who takes more than one sprectral knight PrC.
My reason for including the spectral knights was to give non-round table knights a long term goal. Obviously if you wanted to serve Arthur and go on the Grail Quest your long term goal is clear.
But I didnt want to limit the choices of players to ONLY that (not to mention giving classes for villains).
So in keeping with my mission statement of being true to the tales, it was my sense of design philosophy that drove the inclusion of those classes, taking one or two knights and turning them into entire ORDERS of knighthood.
Chuck
PS Krieg- I did consider speckled knight PrC... I ultimately dubbed one of my own playtesters, who multiclasses between green and red and white the "speckled knight" of my campaign. And in honor of that, a speckled knight is unofficially someone who takes more than one sprectral knight PrC.
Wombat said:Wow. I was totally unaware of this particular work. I now have another text I need to get ahold of!
(Checking New Arthurian Encyclopedia) (I love this book)
"An obscure but fascinating Irish tale, postmedieval but of uncertain date, is Eachtra an Amadain Mhoir ("The Adventures of the Great Fool"), which is distantly associated with the Perceval story and with the tempting theme found in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
As I said, new one on me; I had seen many other colours used for knights, but this is the first time I had heard a reference to purple. I stand quite happily corrected, not least for the fact that purple is, indeed, my favourite colour
Wombat
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Vigilance said:
Preach it. I have over 500 volumes on the topic, most of them versions of legends, rather than commentary thereupon
Most of them are "known quantities" like Mallory, Chretien de Troyes, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and various modern authors; others are pretty obscure, again including various modern authors
Vigilance
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Yeah I wish I could have used some modern sources. However, Once and Future King is still under copyright I believe.
Still, I'm proud of how the book turned out and I think all the hours of research I did paid off (I dont have a strict count of how much research, but I read about 3000 pages of material and worked on this book full time for about 3 months...).
Chuck
Still, I'm proud of how the book turned out and I think all the hours of research I did paid off (I dont have a strict count of how much research, but I read about 3000 pages of material and worked on this book full time for about 3 months...).
Chuck
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