malchya
10-18-2012, 05:40 PM
Just curious about the placement of the Wasteland and if everyone else uses it as published. My favorite area of Britain, geographically, is the Lake District. It is very reminiscent of my favorite area of the US, the Ozarks. Long before Pendragon hit the stands I tried running an Arthurian campaign of 1st edition AD&D (using the character stats from the D&DG and the board game Knights of Camelot) and based my pcs out of the kingdom of Rheged, located smack in the midst of the Lake District. This was in the days before the internet, and I spent a considerable amount of time and money trying to make this area come alive for my players. I purchased the Ordnance Survey maps of Roman Britain, every travel guide then in print, solicited travel brochures from towns and points of interest in the Lake District and put it all together in my own hand drawn maps of Rheged, Caerlyle and Penryth. I then proceeded to pen a 30+ page history of Rheged along with genealogies of and coats of arms for the royal and noble families.
As may be understood, I was loathe to discard all of this effort when I purchased the boxed first edition of Pendragon and, down through the years, I have kept my version of the Kingdom of Rheged firmly in what the published literature calls the Wasteland. I've moved the Wastland south of Rheged and had it verge into northern Wales.
As may be understood, I was loathe to discard all of this effort when I purchased the boxed first edition of Pendragon and, down through the years, I have kept my version of the Kingdom of Rheged firmly in what the published literature calls the Wasteland. I've moved the Wastland south of Rheged and had it verge into northern Wales.