So far that's:
Kleinerkiller
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I'd like to have at least one more player, any takers?
DashaBlade wrote:I... might be interested. I'd have to see the core rules and all that, because I've never played Pendragon (though I have done D&D, Rolemaster, and Palladium Fantasy, so I can at least kind of groove with the whole chain mail and swords motif).
Couple of questions though - would I have to play an actual knight? Or could I be knight-adjacent, like a squire or a field doctor or something like that?
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CarrieVS wrote:I'm involved in two RPGs already. This sounds really interesting but I'm not sure whether I'll have the time. How often will we be playing/how much effort are you expecting (are we talking daily posts, or being online as much as possible? Some of our forum RPG games have been known to get quite intense)? How long is the campaign likely to last?
Cpt._Funkotron wrote:It's certainly possible to play as a squire, in fact in the campaign all the players are supposed to be squires for the first adventure, after which they are all knighted.
There are also alternate rules for playing a Lady, if that's the groove you'd like to rock.
I mean the system will support practically anything you'd like to play. I had one (in-person) game, where one player was a Danish spy, posing as a foot-soldier.
Knights are optimal for player characters because they
A) Have extensive training, nearly their entire lives.
B) Have access to the best weapons, the best armor, the best horses, the best food
C) Are at a level in society where they can hobnob with the great political players, but are not directly involved in politics on the grand scale
D) Have the welfare of their progeny ensured. It's a generational game, you play the first character, their son, and eventually their grandson. If he has land, he'll never have to worry about providing for his family
E) Are exactly the sort of people who would be sent out on quests. If a lord has a problem, he doesn't send some guys down to the tavern to fish out a whacky band of mercenaries, that's what his knights are for.
The issue with playing a character who is not a knight, is that you won't have the same level of agency as the players who do play knights. If you're a squire you'll be adventuring with whoever your mentor/employer is, but you won't have their knightly equipment (warhorse, lances, shields, swords, chainmail), and you'll have to be at their beck and call to handle their spare horses, polish their armor, cook their meals etc. If you're a surgeon you'll only ever be where your employer wants you to be, usually with their household or by their side while traveling. Other than keeping everyone in good health you won't have a tremendous amount to do. The secretly danish footsoldier I mentioned died in battle without children (being on the ground in cloth armor in a battle with thundering horses and pouring arrows isn't very conducive to one's health) and made his next character as a knight.
There's a maxim that was coined by Noah Antwiler (of the Counter Monkey series) about DM'ing star wars games: "Either everyone plays a jedi, or no one plays a jedi."
I'm a bit more flexible than that, but if you choose to play a non-knightly character there is going to be a disconnect.
Cpt._Funkotron wrote:A post from everyone at least every 2 days wouldbe ideal. I'll be much more available than that, so if the players are going at a decent pace I don't think I'll be the limiting factor. I'm not expecting a paragraph long reply, if a sentence will get the point across or it's all you have time for, a sentence long post will do fine as long as it keeps things moving.
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CarrieVS wrote:Cpt._Funkotron wrote:A post from everyone at least every 2 days wouldbe ideal. I'll be much more available than that, so if the players are going at a decent pace I don't think I'll be the limiting factor. I'm not expecting a paragraph long reply, if a sentence will get the point across or it's all you have time for, a sentence long post will do fine as long as it keeps things moving.
It's not the length of the posts, it's the being there to make them, and decide what to do. I could manage a post every day or two but I wouldn't like to be the one holding everyone up if it's moving faster than that, so I think I'll have to cry off this one.
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Piter Lauchy wrote:If this is still open, I'd like to join as well.
But before that: Someone else mentioned how this seemed to be very complex and I agree, especially because I have very little experience with tabletop RPGs. I don't want to get in over my head and bring down the game for everyone else. So, what I'm saying is, if the game is reasonably easy to get into, I'm in. Otherwise, I'm not.
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