[Mr Jack]

This is a capsule review and, in this particular case, it really shows. Had I written a review from a read through I'd have probably written something similar apart from the odd desire for a single tome - having the two seperate makes play much easier.

However, and I'm now thirteen years into the GPC, the truth is that the book is, like the Pendragon main book, poorly organised and painfully lacking in important details. The campaign does not give you what you need to run it; but relies instead on you improvising fluidly throughout the campaign and reading well ahead in case you break something on the way. You have, on occasion, to break the rules of the game to keep it running.

Pendragon and the GPC sit together as a whole; but it's not a complete, designed whole into which the GM slides but a confused mixture of incomplete parts into which you are required to insert your own innovation and creativity.

Don't get me wrong, I love both Pendragon and the GPC; but neither of them are as well designed as they should be.