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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9741216" data-attributes="member: 5142">I don't think that you are giving Pendragon enough credit. It does its homework. The game leans heavily into the source material. It discusses the different versions of the tale, modern and medieval. However, it acknowledges that Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur is the primary inspiration for Pendragon, and the game book littered with quotes from Le Morte d'Arthur as examples to illustrate the inspiration for the mechanics. So hardly just Excalibur the RPG or T.H. White's Once and Future King.Honestly, a big part of what makes Arthurian Romance different is its underpinning emphasis on Christianity, virtue, and chivalry of knightly orders as well as their failings. Adventuring often involves quests where knights are tested in combat and virtue by both the mundane and marvelous. Arthurian fantasy also often features courtly romance, which can create moral dilemmas. The knights are not perfect, and often knights (and their associated families) are rivals with other knights.</blockquote>