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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nikolai" data-source="post: 1324279" data-attributes="member: 10130">No-one has yet mentioned Malory, so I thought I should. The Grail Quest kicks off in Book 13.<a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mal2Mor.html" target="_blank">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mal2Mor.html</a>The archaic languague makes it hard to get into. The Once and Future King by T. H. White is a classic modern retelling. The Grail stuff is in The Ill-Made Knight. What stuck me is that the Quest was a moral one. To get the grail you had to be virtuous, but also had to have be tested (repeatedly) and make the right decision at the test. This may be hard to convert to D&D; though it would be a refreshing change of pace. I know my players are a bloodthirsty lot and would fall at the first hurdle.This may not be a bad thing though. For example: Gawaine, Gareth and Uwaine slew seven knights at the Maidens' Castle. But even though the knights they slew were without doubt a bad lot, they sinned by handing out death too lightly and the path to the Grail was closed to them. I thought it was quite tragic that even though they had good intentions (smiting bad guys) and were doing what they thought was noble, by acting without thought they were unknowingly slamming the door in their own faces (Book 13, Chapter 16).</blockquote>