As we turn our attention to the Book of Uther, we'd like to take your temperature on your expectations. What would you like to see the most?

There's no guarantee that we'll use any of the ideas proposed here, but we'd like to hear from you and the results may very well impact the final product.

This is the final entry in the series of books (starting with the Book of the Estate and followed by the Book of the Warlord) dedicated to the Uther Period and the Early Phase of the GPC, and we thought it's be nice to get some early "wish list" feedback to compare to our first draft, which is already in-hand!


Thanks,


T.

I want all of it! ;D

Although I voted for a more expansive timeline, the King's Progress is HUGELY important in this Period. Remember, Uther has no capital... it is ALL a Progress and it is the only way to encounter the King. So information to describe and narrate such a thing is definitely important.

I want all of it! ;D


Seconded!

I want all of it! ;D


Seconded!

And a +1 for me.

I would love to see Book of Uther explore more about Uther's claim to the throne. In particular I am interested in understanding why he did not assume the same power that his brother Aurillius Ambrosius and why the other powerful Warlords did not all support his claim.

Recently I had a conversation with some other KAP players who made the comparison of Aurillius Ambrosius with William I (The Conqueror) and Uther with William II (Rufus). This made a ton of sense to me, but wasn't something I picked up on from reading the GPC. "My" Uther was based more on Harold II, (who ironically was Anglo-Saxon) assuming the political situation was more like the Saxon kingdoms than the Normans (I have Authur playing the role of William I).

I'd also love more details on the role of the Sheriff and the King's progress.

Edit: Probably more details on the Supreme Collegium and its relationship with the crown as well.

My big question would be:
How does this book enhance my campaign?

Off the top of my head, especially given how cramped my game years already are, I don't think I would need all that much information on the king's officers and stuff like that, since it is almost a certainty that the Players would never achieve such rarified heights. However, having a bit more information on how to run Uther's Court would be welcome. And I see no problem with having a King's Progress, although GPC pretty much already tells me where to find Uther for the Winter or Spring court.

Given free rein, I would very much like to make Uther's timeline start from 480, at the death of Aurelius, and examine, like luckythirteen said, why Uther's reign is hampered by the uppity dukes. There is also a conflict with the basic rulebook's family history description of Uther's crowning and GPC's description that I would like to be fixed. The additional 50% (5 years) of Uther's reign of course needs more stuff happening, too. So given the options, I think I would go for:
1) Expanded (and corrected) timeline. And why this happens.
2) Scenarios for the expanded timeline (and reshuffling of the GPC ones to match).
3) Running scenes at Uther's court.
4) King's progress and why I should care about it.
5) Might be nice to have an 'alternative' GPC start-up there: PKs as household knights of Prince Madog! How would this influence the campaign (of course, a need to shift to Uther's service or some other Lord when Prince Madog dies).

I would love to see Book of Uther explore more about Uther's claim to the throne. In particular I am interested in understanding why he did not assume the same power that his brother Aurillius Ambrosius and why the other powerful Warlords did not all support his claim.

Recently I had a conversation with some other KAP players who made the comparison of Aurillius Ambrosius with William I (The Conqueror) and Uther with William II (Rufus). This made a ton of sense to me, but wasn't something I picked up on from reading the GPC. "My" Uther was based more on Harold II, (who ironically was Anglo-Saxon) assuming the political situation was more like the Saxon kingdoms than the Normans (I have Authur playing the role of William I).



I've always imagined Uther being the parallel to William the Conqueror whenever I thought of such things, but I might have been influenced by T. H. White's treatment (which does indeed seem to have strongly influenced the GPC's drawing parallels between the different stages of the Arthurian saga and the real history of medieval England - down to the civil wars that end Arthur's reign being the counterpart to the Wars of the Roses).

Maybe Ambrosius echoes William the Conqueror in both coming from across the Channel to lay claim to the British throne (though Ambrosius' right to it is much less ambiguous than William's was - and doesn't wind up appearing as an outside invader who took over the island and parceled it out to his Continental followers).