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<blockquote data-quote="wishfrog" data-source="post: 7799425" data-attributes="member: 7015713">When we first played through the Great Pendragon Campaign, I set aside my copy of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur because I didn't want to know the details of what would happen. One session stands out in particular: the queen is to be burned at the stake. Some of our party stood with the king, and some put themselves between the torches and the queen, and fought their fellow knights. Not because we were supposed to, but because the game system and the material of the GPC drew us into the myth. Yeah, an RPG psychopomp!Having run through it three times now, start to end, when I pick up my Morte d'Arthur and read it now, it's not dry material. I am continually asking myself, Why did Sir Balin do that? What was it like for Sir Bors when he reappeared at court? Would I strike the lady down? Was Sir Pellinore satisfied? The text is alive, because I was (am) part of it...I enjoy a lot of role-playing games, but I have never been transformed by one. And that is the true magic and genius of Pendragon.Thanks for that article, that got me to stop, and think about Pendragon, and remember all the good times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wishfrog, post: 7799425, member: 7015713"] When we first played through the Great Pendragon Campaign, I set aside my copy of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur because I didn't want to know the details of what would happen. One session stands out in particular: the queen is to be burned at the stake. Some of our party stood with the king, and some put themselves between the torches and the queen, and fought their fellow knights. Not because we were supposed to, but because the game system and the material of the GPC drew us into the myth. Yeah, an RPG psychopomp! Having run through it three times now, start to end, when I pick up my Morte d'Arthur and read it now, it's not dry material. I am continually asking myself, Why did Sir Balin do that? What was it like for Sir Bors when he reappeared at court? Would I strike the lady down? Was Sir Pellinore satisfied? The text is alive, because I was (am) part of it...I enjoy a lot of role-playing games, but I have never been transformed by one. And that is the true magic and genius of Pendragon. Thanks for that article, that got me to stop, and think about Pendragon, and remember all the good times. [/QUOTE]

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