I'm starting a new campaign this Friday night and would just like to put down some thoughts. Any comments or suggestions welcome.

The GPC will form the superstructure for the game, but I want to thread through scenarios and NPCs of my own, or ones adapted from other scenario books and sources. These forums have been invaluable in helping form my ideas.

I have two female players and so I want to present fun, credible options for them. I have no problem with female knights. I decided descendants of Cordelia or Boudica with a tradition of female warriors in the family would work well, and doing a search Here I found someone else has had the same ideas. I think that would work well, and would allow a link into the famous characters and locations from British history, so that's my preferred option. If one of them does decide to go for a Lady character, I'm considering making her the daughter and heir of a Bannerette knight and have the PK manors be held from her.

I found a great looking 'photo' of a Saxon beach landing online and that has inspired me for the PKs first adventure. My plan is for the newly knighted characters to be sent on a routine patrol in the woods south of Salisbury. Merlin turns up and orders them to follow him through the woods immediately. If they follow, they find themselves overlooking the beach landing. Merlin points to the largest ship, which is still to land.

"That ship carries an evil that has walked the earth a thousand years, yet never on the soil of this fair isle. Make sure it will not yet!"

The ship has a large covered cage or box on it, which occasionally shudders and from which terrible bellows and roars can be heard. It is a Troll, but hopefully the PKs can cause enough chaos on the beach that it can't be unloaded. Of course it's just putting off the inevitable, it'll be landed later, but it puts paid to these guy's schemes for a while at least. I was inspired by a line in the Saxons supplement where it says the Saxons have 'brought their monsters with them', I imagine meaning it figuratively, and describes Trolls and Werewolves and such. I thought, well, maybe some of them literally did just that!

Merlin wasn't referring to the Troll though, he was actualy talking about a Saxon warlock that leads this small force. He will become a major protagonist against the PCs and Merlin throughout the campaign. It will be his magic behind the undead kings of The Grey Knight and Spectre King, and some adventures of my own devising I'm still mulling over. He doesn't work for the Saxon leadership of Britain directly, but is pro Saxon in the same way that Merlin is pro British, except where much of Merlins bad press is from people who misunderstand him, this guy's bad press is entirely deserved and in fact doesn't cover the half of it.

Another poster (sorry, I read it a while back and can't remember who) here said he used the Agravine encounter in Grey Knight but for a Silchester knight to build some conflict with them. Consider that idea nicked. It's a great scene.

These ideas and the GPC should get me started. Other than that, I'll see what the players enjoy about the game and play up those aspects. I can't wait until Friday.

Simon Hibbs

Your campaign approach sounds similar to my own. Use the GPC has a framework for the greater arc of events in Britain which your group of players interacts with. But there is also lesser arcs in the campaign reflecting local and personal issues.

And drawing from the vast reservoir of available materials to flesh that out with adventures, challenges, or simply interesting things to encounter.

For lady knights I usually have them encounter an order of female knights at some point - which I locate at Kenilworth Castle. Not original since they appear in an adventure in one of the supplement books. I figure this is a place that would be supportive of the issues a lady knight might face, and also a potential source for handmaiden/squires who are combat trained.

Hm. sounds like a few very good plot ideas. I might steal that and use ti myself. ;)

About female players and female knights. I have two female players in my group and they are willing to play male knights. I want a female knight to be a extreme rarity and so try to persuade my players to stick to male knights.

Hm. sounds like a few very good plot ideas. I might steal that and use ti myself. ;)

About female players and female knights. I have two female players in my group and they are willing to play male knights. I want a female knight to be a extreme rarity and so try to persuade my players to stick to male knights.


The monthly campaign that I am currently a player in has a female player. And she is playing male knights simply to keep things less complicated.

Not sure if I will get a female player for the upcoming campaign. If so, I think I'll insist on a male knight for her initially, but will discuss the issues with running a female knight and then address it with the second generation.

In the event one of the girls took a male knight character and the other a female knight. I think I'm basically going to ignore any potential gender issues, except maybe have some Romans be a bit distainful of female knights and just make it one more reason to dislike some rivals they were going to but heads with anyway.

The characters were on a patroll with a dozen sergeants searching for the base camp of some Saxon raiders when they bumped onto Merlin who ordered them to follow him and strode off into the woods. Five minutes later they arrived at the coast 20 miles to the south and came across the Saxon landing and we had our first skirmish. It worked well and I think everyone had fun. They were very hung ho.

The players were mincing up the sailors on the beach a bit easily so the Saxon sorcerer enchanted the water between the beach and his ship and sent a few of his bodyguard heorthgeneats over the side and they charged the players, their horses riding on the surface of the sea. One of the players wheeled round his horse and went charging off out into the sea to meet them. Great stuff! We had to wrap the session just as that combat gets started. I hope the player is careful, of the sorcerer will drop the spell and he'll be in the drink, horse and all.

Next week well finish the combat, then report the events on the beach to Earl Rodderick and be knighted. I had a blast. To some extent this will steal some of the thunder from the adventure where they defend Merlin while he picks up Excalibur for Uther, but on the other hand it should, build up a lot of trust with him so getting fitted up for the abduction of Arthur will be more of a shock.

One of the knights is pretending to be Christian but is a secret Pagan. At least that seems to be the players intent. I'm not sure what she intends with that, but ok. Has anyone ever had a player do something like that?

Simon Hibbs

I've had a Roman knight player who was Roman Christian on the surface but was a follower of Mithras in secret. My take is you could have a Roman "pagan" who is a member of a cult and thus not a practicing Christian. Though I'm not sure how it would play out in the long term - probably will handle similar to a Cymric pagan interacting with the various Christian authorities.