If this has been duplicated, I apologize in advance as I missed it and there are 11 pages to go thru. Is there an index or can I use search to check for subjects?

The text says the only way to survive feasting in the Great Hall is to get a critical success on a Temperate roll. Later, it asks what the player knights do? Some may have passed out already, but may wake up from the sound. Others may be hidden away in the cow barn or some similar place, half naked with a laughing young lass.. [earlier rolls of indulgent meant you passed out early, and lust mean you found a willing lass to bed down with.]

So, does this mean only if you are still in the hall at midnight do you suffer the curse? If it was the drink, then passing out early should not negate it. Finding a young lass, a must assume, is after the feast has started, so one could have eaten or drank.

How have you handled it?

Bob

If this has been duplicated, I apologize in advance as I missed it and there are 11 pages to go thru. Is there an index or can I use search to check for subjects?

The text says the only way to survive feasting in the Great Hall is to get a critical success on a Temperate roll. Later, it asks what the player knights do? Some may have passed out already, but may wake up from the sound. Others may be hidden away in the cow barn or some similar place, half naked with a laughing young lass.. [earlier rolls of indulgent meant you passed out early, and lust mean you found a willing lass to bed down with.]

So, does this mean only if you are still in the hall at midnight do you suffer the curse? If it was the drink, then passing out early should not negate it. Finding a young lass, a must assume, is after the feast has started, so one could have eaten or drank.

How have you handled it?

Bob



Unless your knights did something VERY noteworthy in the battle thay are probably not in the Great hall. A TON of The greatest nobles ( Almost every baron in Logres), are in there packing the place. So if the poison is restricted to the Great hall then it is fine. If they were hurt in the battle they are probably in the hospital ( grievously hurt that is). Brsatias and Ulfius are in the hospital i believe , which is how they survive. So those are two possibilities. But in the end if they are in the hall, they are probably dead. If you do not want them dead then contrive it so that they survive, Its your game! ;D You could just give them a temperate roll and say that a success is good enough( not a critical). They might still die, but this is supposed to illustrate what a crap event this was, and be VERY tragic! if a player dies, it certainly illustrates that! :'(

My PKs had some great rolls in the battle, so except for the one knocked unconscious, it seemed like they had all earned a spot in the great hall. I'd been debating for weeks about how to handle it. They all succeeded (but didn't critical) their temperate rolls. Maybe, I thought, I'd just treat the King Uther period as an extended introduction to game, and have them start new characters for the anarchy period. But, as I described the effects of the poison, I saw the expressions of shock and horror, and they weren't good expressions; the deaths of Uther and the count were tragic. The PKs getting wiped out because they didn't critical a roll was just the players getting screwed. So I called for new rolls for humility- crits all around. I ruled they had mingled in the great hall, but overwhelmed with the attention, had retreated to the lower hall and missed the poison wine.

My new campaign has several years to go before reaching the feast so I don't have any definite plans yet. I'm probably just going to sidestep the whole thing and have the players miss out on getting poisoned- although with the way our battles with Book of Battles have gone, they might all end up in the hospital.

Based upon the reading of the feast, I am going to try the following:

If you have sampled the feast and are still in the Great Hall, then you will die. If you drank to excess but removed yourself before passing out, then you live. If you yielded to Lust with a lass, and are not in the Great Hall, then you will also live. If you are in the Great Hall, but rolled a critical on temperate, then you will live.

I will admit only the greatest of the knights who succeeded in the battle, although the one who saves the Earl when his horse is cut down, automatically gets an invite. I have also interwoven the fae into the story as well as prophecies, so I might incorporate one/both in obscure references as well. We will see. Thanks.

Bob

If this has been duplicated, I apologize in advance as I missed it and there are 11 pages to go thru. Is there an index or can I use search to check for subjects?


There's a search box above the posts - to the top right of the screen. You can type anything in their and search - be warned though, I have a feeling it only searches the area of the forum you're in when you type it in. Best tack is to click on the maginfying glass next to it - this opens up the advanced search option and here you can specify what you're searching for and where - you can also force it to check just topic headings to if that helps.

The search routines of most forums tend to be, well, crap.

A better method is to go to google, enter your search term there, then follow it with this:
site:gspendragon.com/roundtable

So, if you are looking for entries on the sword feast, you would enter:
green knight site:gspendragon.com/roundtable
or
"green knight" site:gspendragon.com/roundtable
in google

Click here for an example (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=green+knight+site%3Agspendragon.com%2Froundtabl e)