So. At present the second Apocrypha manuscript, which includes the Arthurian setting, has about 6,000 words in it, which means that it is, I think, more than the main Essence rules. There is more hand-written to add to the manuscript, but I wonder if it will go the way of Rocket Jocks, where I was aiming for 16 pages, then 32 pages and then it ended up about 128 or so.<\/p>\n
Of course, the elephant in the room with Arthurian RPGs is Pendragon from Chaosium. There I am lucky. Despite loving RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu and Stormbringer, I don’t know Pendragon at all. I created a character for it once. That’s it. So I can proceed in ignorance.<\/p>\n
I’m getting to recycle some research in this project, and also Borderlands. Borderlands has been part written as two RPGs, a wargame and the start of a couple of novels, so it’s good to see it feed into my vision of Arthur’s Britain.<\/p>\n
It want it be a mix if history, traditional Arthurian legend and faerie tales, so I think I ave something worthwhile to aim for, and I hope I can pull it off (ooh, Missus)<\/p>\n
What to to next.
\nCharacter generation
\nEquipment
\nMaps (and hope I can persuade Andy to do a decent map)
\nMore magic
\nFinish the included adventure
\nMore on religion<\/p>\n
Strewth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So. At present the second Apocrypha manuscript, which includes the Arthurian setting, has about 6,000 words in it, which means that it is, I think, more than the main Essence rules. There is more hand-written to add to the manuscript, … Continue reading