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ROBERT G. SCHROEDER Book of Sires Sample file SampleThis page intentionally left blank file King Arthur ™ 5th Edition Book of Sires ROBERT G. SCHROEDER SamplePublished by Nocturnal Media file MMXVIII Acknowledgements The King Arthur Pendragon roleplaying game created by Greg Stafford Author: Robert G. Schroeder With contributions to the text by: Veli-Matti Pelkonen Developer and Contributing Editor: Veli-Matti Pelkonen Editors: Orrin Loria, Roberto Mandrioli Managing Editor: Greg Stafford Proofreaders: David Larkins, Malcolm Wolter Art Director: Malcolm Wolter Design and Production: Malcolm Wolter Cover Design: Malcolm Wolter Cartography: Malcolm Wolter Cultural Icons: Matthew Ryan NPC Portraits: John Bridges Medieval-syle Illustrations: Brian Abshier Publishing: Alan Bahr, Stephan Wieck All maps copyright © 2018 by Malcolm Wolter. All rights reserved. Used with permission. All other pictures and illustrations are from iStockphoto.com and various royalty-free sources, such as DoverPublications.com, ClipArt.com, Liam’s Pictures from Old Books, and other diverse works in the public domain. Published by Nocturnal Media, 2018 Book of Sires v1.0. New version designations are editions that include corrections or additions. Copyright © 2018 Nocturnal Media All rights reserved. Reproduction without the written permission of the publisher is expressly forbidden, except for the purposes of reviews, and for the blank record sheets, which may be reproduced for personal use only. Pendragon® is a registered trademark of Nocturnal Media. All rights reserved. All characters, names, places and text herein are copyright by Nocturnal Media. SampleJoin us on the forums at http://nocturnalmediaforum.com/iecarus/forum/forum.php file – ii – Contents INTRODUCTION The Jagent Picts .......................28 The Romans ..........................28 Like Father, Like Son . 1 What’s New? . .2 CHAPTER III CHAPTER I Regional Event Tables . .. 31 Aquitaine .............................31 How to Use This Book . 5 Brittany ..............................49 Time Periods of The Great Pendragon Campaign .............................5 Cambria ..............................68 Your Family ...........................6 Cornwall .............................87 Great-Grandfather’s Glory ...............6 Cumbria ............................116 Inherited, Knighting, and Title Glory .....7 Estregales ...........................147 Glory Gained Prior to 439 ...............7 Logres. .160 Marriage Glory .........................7 Logres: The Saxon Shore ...............163 Bride’s Lands. .7 Logres: The Midlands .................187 Unlikely Heiresses ......................7 Logres: The South Counties ............214 Ancestral Homeland. .7 The March of Aurelius Ambrosius ......239 How to Use the Event Tables ............15 Decision Years ........................15 APPENDICES The Supreme Collegium ................16 Appendix A: New Rules . 245 Get Out of Death Option ...............18 Appendix B: Campaigns Starting Passions Gained upon Death ............21 in Other Years . .245 Gifts, Rewards and Loot ................21 Appendix C: More Complicated Families . 262 CHAPTER II Appendix D: Foreign Player- Stories of the Peoples . 23 Knights and Exiles . 264 The Aquitainians ......................23 Appendix E: Notable Personages . .266 The Berrocinga Saxons .................24 The Cymri ............................25 Appendix F: Chronology . 271 The Cornish ..........................26 History of the Campaign ..............274 SampleThe Irish .............................27 Bibliography . file. 277 – iii – Sample file Introduction Like FatheR, Like Son “Then Sir Bors wept for joy, and he prayed to God it might prove as good a knight as his father was.” — Le Morte D’Arthur, XI, 4 he King Arthur Pendragon™ Core Rule- THIS BOOK PROVIDES book offers a single Homeland for 1. Year-by-year events for different regions, Player-knights: Salisbury. Yet Salisbury complete with their regional differences is a very small part of Arthur’s future (or quirks) and varying points of view. realm. This book examines many more areas. Some lands will forever be hostile and so are outside the 2. Details of the rise and the fall of the Tyrant scope of this book, and some initially hostile lands Vortigern, the arrival of the Saxons on the will become friendly. To forever close off these lands shores of Britain and their subsequent in- limits the possibilities of a grand campaign. vasions, and the struggle of the noble A campaign This book allows Gamemasters who wish to Britons against the Saxon tide to be even- can be set in base a campaign outside of Salisbury to discover tually championed by the Pendragons. London, or the background for whatever area they wish to use. 3. The part played by a character’s father and Huntland, or Within these pages you will find yearly family event grandfather in these great historical events, any other tables for the following homeland regions: Aquita- and how their views are molded by their place in nia, Brittany, Cambria (including Estregales as a Logres experiences (in other words, Passions and separate entry), Cornwall (Jagent included within), Directed Traits that they gained that are Cumbria, and Logres, which is divided into three inherited by the character). smaller areas. Homelands are provided for Aquita- 4. Help to track realistic and individual Inher- inian, Cymri, Irish, Pict, Roman, and Saxon char- ited Glory from the character’s ancestors, acters. For each region, there is a short history based on actual historical achievements. section that gives the background of the region to players and Gamemasters. The family events con- 5. Assistance in creating a character’s family tinue to build on this history. Each year in the family background, starting in 439 AD, and events also includes a summary, giving a more ending (for the most part) in 484 at the in-depth look at the history that is important to the start of The Great Pendragon Campaign game campaign. (GPC). Some of the tables do end earlier, The book divides into three chapters plus ap- as the events there no longer matter for a pendices. The first chapter is advice on how to use campaign in Logres. this book, how to set up the Player-knight’s families 6. The option to run this background with a and homelands, and how to use the event tables of different starting date (such as 480 in the the third chapter. The second is a quick synopsis of Book of Uther, or dates after 485 in Book of how a character will see their world and the story Knights & Ladies). See “Appendix B: Cam- of their people. The third and largest chapter consists paigns Starting in Years Other Than 485” of the regional event tables, giving a short introduc- for advice on varying the campaign starting tion to the region followed by the yearly events that date as well as important events in Logres affect a family living in that region. The final section from 485- 509, based on the events in the Sampleis the six appendices. GPC, for the Gamemasters’ convenience.file – 1 – 7. Advice on how to modify the default as- wishes to change some events (for example, so that sumption of the Player-knight being the all the grandfathers die defending Constantin) for eldest child of his father, to allow more story purposes, they are welcome to do so. varied family structures. 8. Advice on how to handle Player-knights WHAT’S NEW? coming from different backgrounds as they vast amount of information is contained within bring their own regional views with them. A these pages, including part of the revised and 9. Event tables containing a wealth of region- updated history of King Arthur Pendragon from 439 specific information that can be used as to 485. At first glance, the regional event tables may background for campaigns set outside seem to duplicate the same material, but a more Salisbury. detailed examination will reveal differences, some- times vast ones. This is intentional. In Arthur’s time 10. Event tables that can also be used to play a there were no newspapers, computers, or easily- prequel campaign with the grandfathers obtained history books. Thus, word-of-mouth was and the fathers before the actual campaign the most common way for communication to pass based on The Great Pendragon Campaign on from one individual to another. Errors can and begins. Or, indeed, they can form the basis do occur with this method. Stories are told and of a full campaign set in Vortigern’s day, too! retold and grow with each rendition. Certain groups will color their version to highlight what they con- The 5th century onwards, the so-called Sub-Roman sider important. This book attempts to capture some Britain period, is the true Dark Ages when it comes of this variety by modifying what a character knows. to historical documentation. We must depend on There are deliberate changes from the Salisbury The event the literary sources from centuries in the past. Poets Family History of King Arthur Pendragon 5.2, pp. tables in the and storytellers in the halls of their kings crafted 47–65. This book follows Historia Regum Britan- Book of Sires genealogies to connect their kings to illustrious niae more closely, and also encompasses a much may result in forebears. It is those legends that Geoffrey of Mon- wider area than just Salisbury. Some mistakes, such more inherited mouth drew upon when he wrote Historia Regum Glory for new as confusing the King of Logres and the High King Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), characters — of Britain, Menevia being in Salisbury, and Uther giving us an exciting tale of the Tyrant Vortigern, but no more being elected as the High King in 480, are cor- the coming of the Saxons, and the struggle of the than a couple rected in this book. Some changes have been made Britons against them. As this is a game set in the of hundred in order to make the story flow more smoothly, such world of the legendary King Arthur, Geoffrey of points as moving the second visit of Saint Germanus from Monmouth’s tales provide the basis for the events of the very busy year of 443 to the more sedate year of the King Arthur Pendragon world from the late 5th 447, and spreading Vortimer’s first rebellion to cover century onwards.
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