Pendragon

Anyone on /tg ever ran or played a Pendragon game? How does it shape up compare to Dark Heresy and 5e d&d?

Character creation is a tedious pain, but the family history you get out of it is perfect for writing up.

What he said.

It also plays very well once you get past creation. The mechanics are smooth and fairly simple, if a touch fiddly at times and all work together to promote the feel of Aurthurian fantasy. That said, however, I personally prefer their other Aurthurian game, Prince Valiant. Very simple narrative system that actually works quite well for both shorter and longer games. You can find scans of it online, and they're coming out with a new version in January. It's worth checking out if you like the genre.

>I personally prefer their other Aurthurian game, Prince Valiant

Brother?

Very good game, captures the extremes of Arthurian fantasy quite well and I love the dynastical element to it.

It is very different to DH and 5e, you should only run Pendragon if Arthurian fantasy interests you imo, as a player you can come into the game and enjoy it regardless but I feel to DM it you need to enjoy that type of myth/legend/setting.

What does it do to capture that feel?

Mostly the personality traits and passions.

The traits are essentially dichotomies of character traits that your player as points in. For example, Chaste/Lustful, Trusting/Suspicious, Just/Arbitrary, etc. These define your characters morals and the DM will have players roll against their personality traits at times and this will force the player to act a certain way. An example would be a knight with 16 Lustful vs 4 Chaste encountering a naked young maid bathing by the stream and the player saying "I avert my eyes and walk past", the DM will straight away say "Well, roll against your chaste" and if they fail they will ogle or make a comment or w/e. These traits give characters those defining virtues and flaws that you see in Arthurian characters.

In addition you have passions, these are things that your knight is so passionate about that you can call on them to help you in situations. Maybe your passion is Loyalty to your Lord? Well if someone insults your lord and draws their sword then you could roll passion and be vastly vastly more powerful in that moment which again reflects the Arthurian style of great power coming from a heroes passions. The passions can also send a player mad which is typical Arthurian style madness of "Run into the woods and bathe in dirt" type stuff.

Also Dynasty management, playing as children and gaining land. Wives, courting, etc.

Also, there is a stat for "Saxon hate" if that doesn't sell this game I don't know what will

>Also, there is a stat for "Saxon hate" if that doesn't sell this game I don't know what will

This IS a stat I appreciate in games.

Is it actually possible to play a galahad sort or is his purity beyond the standards of the game?

Probably, but it would be very difficult.

I figured. He's rather an anomaly.

Easier to manage lancelot and fuck everything up forever due to your passions?