Hi all!

I'm going to run a GPC game in a few weeks bu on the side of the saxons! Do some of you have already done it and have some advice? Do you know where I can find in pdf the saxon character sheet of the Saxon! supplement?

My advice would be to firstly make sure that you have the Saxons! supplement. It's invaluable for running any game where they're more than just something for the PCs to kill this week.

Secondly, using the Saxons! book and/or the early family history section of the 5th edition rulebook as a template, start the game earlier than GPC. Having the Saxon PCs come over with Hengist and Horsa will give them much more time to play in before Badon Hill, which marks a several decades downturn for the Saxons.

Either way, enjoy- my own players ended up more in sympathy with the Saxons in what was supposedly a standard GPC, with most families marrying into Saxon nobility and ending up leading Saxon warbands to Camlann.

Do you know where I can find in pdf the saxon character sheet of the Saxon! supplement?


It's here: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=1420&it=1

Enjoy :)

I already have the supplement saxons! both in pdf and in paper, but i'm just looking for the character sheet in pdf.
It's like people just looking for the character sheet of the regular 5th pendragon edition. they propably already have the book, but they just want the character sheet in pdf :);)

D'oh - now I feel silly! Note to self, make sure you read the post properly before answering next time! :D

Hi there Finn56. How's your Saxons game going? I'd be really keen to hear about it.

I'm a couple of weeks away from starting my own Saxons campaign. I am starting mine in AD 500, coinciding with the Angle migration from Angeln to Anglia. I am actually dramatising the migration by turning it into a violent expulsion by the Danes. Starting the campaign so late means that the battle of Badon will happen about half way through, at the end of the first generation of PCs, turning the whole campaign on its head, which I am looking forward to.

I've been particularly inspired by the treatment of Saxons in The Coming of the King by Nikolai Tolstoy. While the book is largely written from a Cymric perspective, a couple of chapters are written from a Saxon perspective and really emphasise the difference between the Cymry and the Saxons, at least in the milieu of the book. The Saxons come across as bloodthirsty, superstitious, arbitrary and with a different sense of honour. Closer to the Saxons as orcs of straight Pendragon than the Saxons as noble Dark Age folk of the Saxons! supplement, which doesn't excite me that much (though it is a fabulous supplement otherwise).

I'll post a summary this WE of the two game sessions we had.
I choose ne normal starting date in the Saxons book and it begun in Hastingas, and evolved a lot! :)