An excellent, expensive, very well made and very big supplement/campaign book for Pendragon 5th ed. from White Wolf's Arthaus imprint. My opinion: Should be made available together with the rulebook in one single massive volume.
Re: [RPG]: The Great Pendragon Campaign, reviewed by Bobo (5/4)
Great review, Bobo!
This sounds like the sort of product that could keep a person entertained for a very long time. How easy was this to read? It sounds like there are lots of little fiction and historical bits.
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Re: [RPG]: The Great Pendragon Campaign, reviewed by Bobo (5/4)
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Originally Posted by C.W.Richeson
Great review, Bobo!
Seconded. It hits just the right balance between informative and entertaining.
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This sounds like the sort of product that could keep a person entertained for a very long time.
Indeed. Given it covers an 80 year period, and you generaly play one scenario a year in the game, usualy taking 1-4 sessions per scenario, you could easily fill around 2-5 years of weekly sessions if you played through it at a leisurely pace.
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How easy was this to read? It sounds like there are lots of little fiction and historical bits.
Its not bad, although I do find myself having to franticly scan to find important little bits of information. (such as exactly when merlin disappears. That was amazingly tricky to pinpoint) There isn't actualy that much fiction. Most of it is presented as game data, plus quotes from NPC's, and small excerpts of the books that the game is drawn from. There are some very detailed accounts of the way things will go in if the PC's don't interfere, (and this is generally quite tricky to do in the scripted parts of the game. ) such as battles and court interactions.
Re: [RPG]: The Great Pendragon Campaign, reviewed by Bobo (5/4)
Sounds like fun.
One thought re. single largest adventure ever for an RPG: I believe that Beyond the Mountains of Madness (for Call of Cthulhu) just trumps it in page count, by about five or six pages.
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Re: [RPG]: The Great Pendragon Campaign, reviewed by Bobo (5/4)
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Sounds like fun.
One thought re. single largest adventure ever for an RPG: I believe that Beyond the Mountains of Madness (for Call of Cthulhu) just trumps it in page count, by about five or six pages.
Curse you, Chaosium!
But then, Ptolus is also a serious contender in a way.
Regarding the amounts of little fiction bits and historical chuncs: the mix is very good, and there is hardly any superfluous stuff in it. Only a few instances of really important events turning into a kind of long cut scene, but the rest is mostly turned into adventures, adventure seeds and events the players can get involved in.
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Re: [RPG]: The Great Pendragon Campaign, reviewed by Bobo (5/4)
I'm not quite clear what character writeups are lacking. Friendly NPCs? Readymade PCs?
Also, a nit: at the very least, spell Queen Guinevere's name consistently.
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Re: [RPG]: The Great Pendragon Campaign, reviewed by Bobo (5/4)
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Full writeups were supposed to be available in a free PDF supplement, but in the end this turned out to be quite a big file carrying a small pricetag of $5 or thereabouts.
Where can I get this?
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Re: [RPG]: The Great Pendragon Campaign - characters and index
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I'm not quite clear what character writeups are lacking. Friendly NPCs? Readymade PCs?
Also, a nit: at the very least, spell Queen Guinevere's name consistently.
Oh... well, it's just in keeping with the literature. With that insane width of spelling variations for names, I thought I... ah, hell. Tried to keep it constant, I swear.
For the character thing: WW did release the writeups for the first (Uther) period as a free PDF; you only have to pay for the other 9 chapters' characters. (Hmpf).
The free PDF can be downloaded here.
To give an idea of what's missing, the free PDF contains stats for Uther, Merlin, Prtince Madoc Ap Uther, Uther's bodyguard Brastias, Earl Roderick, Duke Gorlois, Duchess Ygraine, and King Aelle.
Oh joy! I see there's an index in PDF-format as well! Apparently it's been up since last year, and I never knew.
Hell, that might have tipped it over to 5/5.
(Edit: the nice colour map from the rulebook is also available here for free)
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