I don't understand Year 487 timing :

-Events
Adventure: GREAT SWORD FEAST
Setting: The Court of Sarum, at the Christmas Feast.
=> so i understand 487 christmas, at the end of the year.

Others adventures, LINDSEY and MALAHAUT EMBASSY happens after the great sword feast, in 487 !?

Did i miss something ?
i think GREAT SWORD FEAST should be in 486 Christmas Feast instead of 487 ?

I posted the exact same thing back when I ran the Great Sword Feast, so you're not alone. The official explanation is "just hand-wave it." I handled it the way you propose, as I recall, having the Feast in Christmas 486.


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Many of such discrepancies in GPC can be explained if you assume the Winter Phase — and thus Christmas Court — marks the start of the year rather than the end.

I did it this way instead of saying Christmas is the beginning of the year.

I am assuming Christmas is the end of the year and and Part of the Winter Phase Process.

Next in Lordly Domains it has a listing of Holidays and Festivals I have used this book to insert the 12 night into marking the beginning of the new year but the adventuring year for a Knight is still Starts on March 25th which is considered to be the first quarter day of the year in which a Lord and Vessel knights would pay their Taxes to the King and does forty days of service for his lord some do more then this as their duty.

Christmas marks the last quarter day of each year.

This is how i am running the timing problem and sticking to written Pendragon rules even if they are 4e.

I answered this in another thread: http://nocturnal-media.com/forum/index.php?topic=1379.msg16750#msg16750

For your convenience I reproduce it here:


Like others have stated here, the events of The Great Sword Feast from 487 are indeed part of the Winter Court of 486. Greg says that this is because the entries are "victims of the format". In fact this confusion could have easily been avoided. A sentence or two during the Winter Court of 486 could have pointed the GM to the fact that The Great Sword Feast should be played out as a continuation of that same Winter in 486. It is also confusing that the entry for 486 shows what's happening at the Winter Court of both Roderick and Uther, when it seems implied (if I remember correctly) that Roderick is actually present at the Winter Court of Uther (unless they both hold courts are different time points in the same Winter, which also makes sense). So the way to run this properly is as follows:

1) run the Winter Phase for 486 as normaly at the end of the scenario for that year (although some people run the Winter Phases from previous years as the first thing in a new session but this doesn't affect the sequence in any way).

2) the next gameplay session play The Great Sword Feast and remind players that this is still during the same Winter Court as the year before at Uther's. Let the players decide what they do for the Summer (Raids scenario, etc).

3) run the Pentecost court at Uther's for that year as usual (that is, before the Summer Adventures begin, which is the usual way for GPC; the PKs will hear rumors about the political situation, the planing of Raids, etc, as usual, except that this time they already know about it since the decisions were made in theit presence at Winter Court)

4) run the Adventures in Summer as usual.

There is of course some back and forth between the different events for that year as you can see from above and this could definetely have been better arranged and clarified in that year's entry, but it all makes sense in the light of what I posted above. Hope this helps future GMs with the same doubts about how to run this scenario.