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July 7, 2024
This is the campaign I have been waiting for all my life. Period. It has the eerie feeling of "things are not quite the way they look", "your knowledge of the world is imperfect, and out there be dragons" I dreamt RPGs had long before I started playing them and that for the most part have never fully delivered. It might be a bit of an exaggeration of course. What is not is that I cannot wait to GM it. The only way this could be better is if had got to experienced it first as a player.
May 2, 2026
Pendragon has been a brand new rpg for me, my past experience being loads of Call of Cthulhu, among others. It's a fascinating system, whose focus upon the players strictly having to be knights allows for a great deal of nuance and character within those boundaries. With my players soon to complete 'The Sword Campaign' which comes with the starter set, and seeing that 'The Grey Knight' could chronologically come next, I hurried my way through it to get things ready for them!
The Grey Knight is an original tale and not an Arthurian classic, but it has all the hallmarks of one, from a supernatural, knightly challenge, to a quest with scads of little side-encounters, both related and unrelated, and characters and prophecies which will tie it in to later, more classical material. It's a fairly thin book, but is packed with a surprising amount of material that I foresee keeping my group (which meets for three to five hours once a week) occupied for a long time! It's a neat tale, and though it's rail-roady and needs players to stick to certain events in a certain timeline with any failure resulting in the demise of the entire quest, I don't see this as too much of a problem except for Gamemasters whose groups are particularly willful, and have a penchant for wanting to test boundaries.
My only complaints (from having not run it yet at least) are kind of the same complaints I've had for every other piece of Pendragon material thus far; it makes reference to stuff that's not yet released! It's very minimal and very small, and shouldn't keep anyone from actually playing the game, but the book, as others before it have, says to "See the Nobles Handbook" or "Look at a Map". The Map is, theoretically, included with the Gamemaster's Screenpack, an aid I'd love to have, except my FLGS has not been able to procure it, likely due to small print-runs of the pack. The Nobles Handbook, on the other hand, is not even available yet! I'm close, with it set to release this month (distribution and shipping willing!), but the Grey Knight is not current to this year, and anyone who bought it new would have had to sit on their hands for quite a bit. Once more i stress that none of these other materials are necessary to run the campaign; it's merely that this is a bad, and annoying habit the Pendragon books seem to have, of intertwining themselves with material that's been spread out across a large number of other books, which are both expensive, and inaccessible!
The Grey Knight is an original tale and not an Arthurian classic, but it has all the hallmarks of one, from a supernatural, knightly challenge, to a quest with scads of little side-encounters, both related and unrelated, and characters and prophecies which will tie it in to later, more classical material. It's a fairly thin book, but is packed with a surprising amount of material that I foresee keeping my group (which meets for three to five hours once a week) occupied for a long time! It's a neat tale, and though it's rail-roady and needs players to stick to certain events in a certain timeline with any failure resulting in the demise of the entire quest, I don't see this as too much of a problem except for Gamemasters whose groups are particularly willful, and have a penchant for wanting to test boundaries.
My only complaints (from having not run it yet at least) are kind of the same complaints I've had for every other piece of Pendragon material thus far; it makes reference to stuff that's not yet released! It's very minimal and very small, and shouldn't keep anyone from actually playing the game, but the book, as others before it have, says to "See the Nobles Handbook" or "Look at a Map". The Map is, theoretically, included with the Gamemaster's Screenpack, an aid I'd love to have, except my FLGS has not been able to procure it, likely due to small print-runs of the pack. The Nobles Handbook, on the other hand, is not even available yet! I'm close, with it set to release this month (distribution and shipping willing!), but the Grey Knight is not current to this year, and anyone who bought it new would have had to sit on their hands for quite a bit. Once more i stress that none of these other materials are necessary to run the campaign; it's merely that this is a bad, and annoying habit the Pendragon books seem to have, of intertwining themselves with material that's been spread out across a large number of other books, which are both expensive, and inaccessible!
April 3, 2025
An adventure/mini-campaign that follows on from the adventures in the Starter Set, The Grey Knight leads player-knights through three early years of King Arthur's reign. And "leads" is definitely the operative word here. The only real problem with Pendragon (other than that the Player's Handbook constantly makes reference to other volumes that aren't yet available) is that the action isn't really sandbox-friendly. Players who like to colour outside the lines may become frustrated by the very linear plotting. The adventure itself is slightly uneven in pace and danger, never quite threatening the players enough since it needs them around to witness the climax. Very fun to read, maybe less so to run.
May 29, 2026
First and foremost, these Pendragon books are just so beautiful. The trade dress and image selection is very cohesive and line up so great with the feel of the game, right down to the choice of paper. I just love having these books on my shelf.
I’ve yet to run a Pendragon game, though I’m very excited to give it a try. Reading through this book made me very excited at the prospect of running my first Pendragon campaign. It seems it will be unlike any other RPG I’ve ever run. I can’t wait.
I’ve yet to run a Pendragon game, though I’m very excited to give it a try. Reading through this book made me very excited at the prospect of running my first Pendragon campaign. It seems it will be unlike any other RPG I’ve ever run. I can’t wait.
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