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Avalon
07-28-2016, 10:28 AM
Hello guys, this is the second time i make this great campaign (for me the best RPG campaign of all times with miles of difference to the next one) Now i have bought Book of Uther, it´s a nice supplement for Pendragon but i have a little problem. I want to start on year 480, and most of tables of Salisbury Family History (p.41 corerulebook) are wrong. Cause of this is that Player Knights, their fathers and grandfathers will born 5 years before. ¿Now the fathers of my characters will die on the Knight of Long Knives? i´m a bit confused with this and other events.

Thank you!

Morien
07-28-2016, 11:54 AM
The Book of Sires will address this issue:
http://nocturnalmediaforum.com/iecarus/forum/showthread.php?2781-Update-on-Coming-Items&p=23576&viewfull=1#post23576

However, here is a 'quick fix'. Simply ignore what the Salisbury Family history is saying about your father's birth and marriage, and what it is saying about your character's birth. The whole bit about the father marrying an heiress is wrong, just forget all about it; instead, the manor has been in the patrilineal family since the beginning.

Since the campaign begins in 480, and you want your character to be 21 years old, this means he would have had to be born in early 459 (or the end of 458, but it is easier to do "age = current year - birth year"). Since it is unlikely that the father and the mother hit the jackpot on their wedding night (which would have had to be in Spring-ish 458 at the latest), lets say that the father was already 25 years old at the start of 459, which gives some room for big sisters, too. This means that the father would have been born at the start of 434, which is not a problem, and became an adult in 455. He would have been knighted then too, and likely married soon after to get some heirs. Just assume that the father is getting no event or garrison events between 455 and 458 so that he doesn't die before the eventual Player-knight has time to be born, and then start rolling. I would NOT kill the father's off at the Night of the Long Knives, if they survive until 463, since that short-circuits the rest of the family history completely. NotLK is just for getting rid of the grandfathers to simplify the family rolling.

There you go. Hope it helps.

Avalon
07-28-2016, 12:16 PM
Thank you, i will try to order the events to get a new Family History as you said :D