Booka
03-08-2013, 08:18 PM
Hi,
I already read the basic Game two times and while planning my take on the GPC as a gamemaster, I discovered that many of the concepts that make Pendragon so unique are quite alien to my Players.
Our last campaign was D&D 4th edition. It is essentially a Boardgame and we all wanted to return to "real" roleplaying. In the good ol´days it took us hours to create highly customized characters and 5 page backgrounds where common.
With this in mind I can only think of two (read 2) actual Player deaths in more then 15 years of roleplaying. One returned to life via Raise Dead, the other by Warhammer fate point.
High character lethality (or better, the fact that your PC will die no matter what) and KAPs mechanic that make you lose control of your PCs behaviour under special circumstances is what makes KAP unique. Also the importance of religion.
Now I have the following idea to bring these concepts to my Players and learn the rules at the same time:
A played prologue for the GPC.
As setting I chose one of the (at least for me) most interesting events in KAP history, the "night of long knives".
-The Players will play pregenerated characters with a lot of traits and passions above 16 to show them how this defines their characters personality and influences their behaviour
-Maybe historical characters they later meet again with their own PCs
-Maybe their own family history (instead of rolling a dice the PCs play out if their own father survived the night of long knives)
So I have the following questions:
What do we know besides what is written in KAP 5.1 ?
-It was at Stonehenge in 463
-Vortigern and Hengest attended
-I think I read somewhere that Vortigerns son was leader of the rebels, was he killed, what was his role ?
-the armys where nearby and were later destroyed because their leader were missing ?
-Role of Merlin ? Maybe he foresaw the events but let them happen or something (just my idea)
Also what role played the battle of Cambridge one year before and what happened there?
This is about flavor and atmosphere rather than historical accuracy.
Thank you and regards, I hope my english is ok
Books
I already read the basic Game two times and while planning my take on the GPC as a gamemaster, I discovered that many of the concepts that make Pendragon so unique are quite alien to my Players.
Our last campaign was D&D 4th edition. It is essentially a Boardgame and we all wanted to return to "real" roleplaying. In the good ol´days it took us hours to create highly customized characters and 5 page backgrounds where common.
With this in mind I can only think of two (read 2) actual Player deaths in more then 15 years of roleplaying. One returned to life via Raise Dead, the other by Warhammer fate point.
High character lethality (or better, the fact that your PC will die no matter what) and KAPs mechanic that make you lose control of your PCs behaviour under special circumstances is what makes KAP unique. Also the importance of religion.
Now I have the following idea to bring these concepts to my Players and learn the rules at the same time:
A played prologue for the GPC.
As setting I chose one of the (at least for me) most interesting events in KAP history, the "night of long knives".
-The Players will play pregenerated characters with a lot of traits and passions above 16 to show them how this defines their characters personality and influences their behaviour
-Maybe historical characters they later meet again with their own PCs
-Maybe their own family history (instead of rolling a dice the PCs play out if their own father survived the night of long knives)
So I have the following questions:
What do we know besides what is written in KAP 5.1 ?
-It was at Stonehenge in 463
-Vortigern and Hengest attended
-I think I read somewhere that Vortigerns son was leader of the rebels, was he killed, what was his role ?
-the armys where nearby and were later destroyed because their leader were missing ?
-Role of Merlin ? Maybe he foresaw the events but let them happen or something (just my idea)
Also what role played the battle of Cambridge one year before and what happened there?
This is about flavor and atmosphere rather than historical accuracy.
Thank you and regards, I hope my english is ok
Books