I made a thing.

I always considered horses to be too boring and mechanical in Pendragon, considering how important they are in a knights life. To add some flavour to the game I've added house rules (yay!). I've also drawn descriptive coat-color images for the horses in the table.

http://w.ikabodo.se/index.php?title=Rules_for_Horses

Please feel free to use these if you feel like it.

Edit: I realized this should probably be moved to the House Rules section, please feel free to move it!

Gilmere this is lovely! I'll totally use it.

Am also following your campaign closely. Exciting play!

--Khanwulf

Gilmere this is lovely! I'll totally use it.

Am also following your campaign closely. Exciting play!

--Khanwulf

Thanks! It was a bit of a chore to draw all the horses, but it was fun delving down into horse genetics for some time. :) If nothing else I can better describe horses in play now.

There are still some details in the horse rules that needs fidgeting, such as a better way to keep track of the heard and the horses in new sheets. And probably some tweaking of the traits table. When you go through a few horses in a short time "oh, another leaper" might become a thing.

Edit: Also, thanks for the interest. :) We're on a bit of a break now till december because of real life issues. But looking forward to getting back to it!

Cool table.

I always felt horses needed to be mechanically more interesting, but the only thing I've done is change how the bonus for using them works and the extra damage of a lance charge.

When mounted instead of +5/-5 you use the DMG value of your horse to set the amount. So a charger is +/-6 and thus if you have a better horse than another rider you get a net advantage.

When charging I give everyone +1d6 damage and additionally add the DMG value of the horse as a bonus. So a 5d6dmg knight charging from the back of a charger deals 6d6+6 damage.

Nicely done Gilmere, thanks for sharing!


T.

Nice work.

One question: Do you use the modifier also to the color? So a noble never has a bay charger?

Nice work.

One question: Do you use the modifier also to the color? So a noble never has a bay charger?

Thanks!

Well, yes an no. It's storyteller discretion.

It depends on what horses was used to "better" the herd.

If the player receives a horse as a gift from the king, I'd grant him the color bonus. If he simply get's it from a regular herd for a lord, it'd not give it. It depends. But I'd rather be generous about it if it enhances the feeling. How often do you get really cool horses? It's quite possible to get a horse with cool color, but less good traits.

I probably should make that more clear in the text.

Nicely done Gilmere, thanks for sharing!


T.

Thanks, no problem. :) I love this community!