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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 6566601" data-attributes="member: 49017">Some of that may not be an ideal fit for Pendragon, then, because PC knights are basically "named characters" in a medieval romance game and are quite notably better than ordinary footmen. They can be beaten, but it'll take a fairly large advantage in numbers to do it.That it's probably realistic for the era of history/literature in question, where armoured knights were a dominant factor in battle (and of course were generally the people with the resources to go places). They're not likely to be a match for the greater knights, though if you're creating your own setting then that may be a different matter. Lancelot might be a rough equivalent to Superman; the PCs are lesser heroes, but still significant; or even some bits of Indian mythology, though the greater heroes are well out of the power scale Pendragon covers.It does however have a fairly normal BRP experience system, where it's a lot more likely that your character will expand their skills in width as much or more than they do in depth after a while. Skills over 20 aren't at all easy to improve. There's also support for running manors and larger domains, the latter more in supplements than the main rules. If you want some extra rules to cover characters who aren't "knights" or the equivalent, take a look at <a href="http://www.pensee.com/dunham/pdp.html" target="_blank">Pendragon Pass</a>, an excellent fan-work that converted the Pendragon system for Glorantha but includes material that might be useful for other settings. What it won't give you is really epic power levels in the way some games provide, but it's also not as "gritty" as, say, Runequest.There's material for regions outside the south of England, covering Scotland, Wales, Ireland and pre-viking Scandinavia among others. It suits a setting such as mythic Greece, with heroes who may have an entourage of followers but in battle they're the people who matter most; or Romance of the Three Kingdoms China, where again named characters are a match for a large number of normal soldiers, and the clash between those on each side is pretty decisive. If that's not the sort of game you're looking for then Pendragon probably isn't the best fit compared to some other BRP variants.</blockquote>

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