[Bob the Fighter]

Definitely a good job for your first attempt.

Heck, a good job for a seasoned reviewer! Excellent! You definitely captured a strong sense of the game. Although it was slightly disappointing to not hear much about the skill system, in hindsight I see that as leaving the necessary blank space to get us jazzed up about the game without knowing every little thing about it.

I suppose one irksome point would be: is the passion/virtue system the only rules system I need to know to play? I'm assuming it's not, what with the risks involved in "checking" a virtue or passion to score a modifier; does the skill system correspond to the virtue rules? As in, roll (rating) or lower on d20; rolling exactly (rating) means a critical success? Are there pages of rules on armor and weapons and things?

But overall, you did a great job discussing the game's pride and joy, the thing that I've heard mentioned time and again in the context of what sets <i>Pendragon</i> apart.