Now it's the holidays, I've asked my friends what they want to roleplay, and to my everlasting delight they picked Pendragon! However, things have gone a little unusual very early on, and I want to get people's opinions.

The adventure is the introductory one in the 5th edition rulebook. When the squires were fighting bandits in Imber, one of the party got horribly wounded by a stray critical hit and was on the verge of death. The players decided to go fetch a doctor with a higher chirurgery skill then what was available in Imber, and decided to go back to Vagon to borrow Sir Elad's personal physician. There had to be a complication to this, of course! One of the squires rode south to Vagon, where he found that Sir Elad had been called away to fight raiders from Levcomagus, and his physician was with him. I then introduced Sir Elad's bored teenage daughter, Adelle, told the squire that she was a really good healer, and that they could potentially get into LOTS of trouble if he took her to Imber to tend to their friend. So, of course, he promptly helped her escape the castle.

The wounded squire is now back up to 4 hit points. The players have convinced Adelle that she needs to return to Vagon, but haven't figured out how to get her back without getting into trouble. What I'd like to ask is - what sort of punishments might Sir Elad hand out to the squires for running off with his daughter, if he finds out? I'm really not sure what the possibilities are, and where you think this could go from here.

That is a great story idea.

I don't know how Sir Elad might react, but the more unreasonable, the better.

I like it.

How about as Sir Elad is technically in charge of the army of Salisbury, he always 'arranges' for the knights to be in the most dangerous areas of a battle, until they make amends to him some how?

Some squires would consider that a reward...

Some squires would consider that a reward...


which gives sir elad plausible deniablility?
" hey I didn't put them into the thick of the battle for any dark purpose. I was homoring the men for God's sake!" hahah :-X

The situation has been resolved. We're now a few years ahead of there.

Alain, who helped Elad's daughter kidnap herself, confessed everything and then failed an Orate roll opposed against Elad's Vengeful (which Elad also failed!) Sir Elad thought that Alain was a complete idiot, but didn't actively persecute him: however, it did mean that Sir Elad forwarded everyone's name to Earl Roderick except Alain's. Alain would have stayed a squire indefinitely, but at the Battle of Mearcred Creek he disguised himself and fought in the shield wall. He won a duel against a Saxon champion and helped save the Earl's life when the Saxons broke the shield wall, and so the Earl knighted him on the spot. Sir Elad still thinks he's an idiot though (for disobeying a squire's duties).

You can find the game here, by the way: http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=31067
(It's a Warhammer website, but the roleplaying forum has some good people and it isn't too fussed about what the RPs are about :) )