Dan Reviews: The Great Pendragon Campaign

The greatest RPG campaign ever published.

[chrismais]

Funny I am coming across this now Dan. I played in a Pendragon campaign around the time of Uther.I am thinking of using the Pendragon system to run a Thundercats game. Hear me out. The Thundercats are essentially paladins Knights of the Round Table. Jaga is Merlin. Lion-O is Arthur and Claudus is Uther. The exploding Thundera the death of the old ways and the Cats Lair is Camelot on Third Earth. And well the Sword of Omens is Excalibur. Morgana le Fey is ostensibly Mumm-rah and the armies of evil that follow his command are thr Mutants. I am working out a precursor series to what was seen in the 80s several generations back before the cataclysm the destroyed Thundera where might made right before the code was introduced and the ancient sword that governed that power of rule before it became a symbol of justice was new. Can it be done ? We will see..

[nicobuffing]

We only got through to the I think before final year of the Uther period, my players disliked being kind of railroaded and only being extra's on the set as they called it. I stressed that the anarchy period was coming up and that they would have more choices of their own to make, but they were not interested anymore and we stopped playing. I loved to GM this game, seeing all the story development and seeing my players houses grow and them making a name for themselves, but not everyone was happy at the table. One player had his knight die quite young and he had a very young son that was now the squire of another player, but he felt he had even less of an influence on the game in general now. Finally we stopped and I am still sad about it, I just ordered all the new Book of... things I saw were released and I can enjoy myself for hours just lookin through the tables and rules for all levels of play, it is just so extremely detailed.

[luigi]

Hey Dan, That video was great, I am just starting my very first pendragon campaign and that helped me understand the idea behind the campaign.

[CraftedVision]

If anyone is willing to run this online and wants another player - please let me know :)

[TheJDough]

Stellar review!

Are you ready for Pendragon 6e?

[Malifor]

Would like to get your opinion on The Book of Uther and The Book of Sires.

[Patrick-lufy]

Thanks that was a great review. How would you integrate any of the older supplements into this pendragon campaign? Thinking of all the 4th ed books in particular. Could you make a vid on that. Thanks again.

[chrisyother]

Thank you for your excellent review!!! Where did you score that in hardcopy form? I can only locate it via pdf on Chaosium's website. I would recommend to anyone thinking about running this campaign to check out Michael Woods excellent BBC series In Search of the Dark Ages. It is a little dated but still very interesting. Thank you again for this fantastic review!!! I just have to find someone to run me through it!!!

[sethpeterson]

Did Nocturne make an edition if this in full color like 5.2?