Interesting, Kevin is using the trope of “this is an ancient manuscript which I discovered and translated”.
If this keeps up I expect a clean layout, with knotted-line borders and fancy initial capitals to call out important bits.Īuthor’s foreword. Celtic knots & illuminated starting letters. The font is kinda gothic handwriting style, but readable.
#KING ARTHUR PENDRAGON RPG PAGAN SHORES PLUS#
There are 8 Chapters, plus intro and index, covering about 350 pages. All common weapons are depicted, people have at most their primary weapon and a knife. No pockets, but pouches and hand-sized chests are used for storage. A group of three very successful adventurers are leaving a Roman villa with loot, the other two are waiting to ambush the adventurers. 5 people, 2 definitely male because mustaches, one looks probably female.
#KING ARTHUR PENDRAGON RPG PAGAN SHORES PDF#
My pdf has cover art as the first two pages. With my introduction out of the way, let’s look at the book. Some of what I know is probably wrong or outdated, so I’ll keep my comments clearly separated from discussion of the book. I have some knowledge of the period, and know some useful resources. I’ve never read any of his writings, but in 710 he is alive and writing to lots of people. And the description of the feasting hall, talk of arm rings, etc, are a decent description for life in this era. The story will not be written down for a couple centuries, but the oral tale might exist now. Wood watchtowers seem like they would be useful & could be built, but wood buildings famously don’t leave evidence for the archaeologista. I don’t know if there were wooden castles yet. Nope, no stories of life written in vernacular English yet. At least, not as we would recognize them. Round Tables, questing Knights, castles, etc would not exist yet in 710. If there was a historical King Arthur, he might have lived in the 500’s, but all the stories we’ve read date from 900 or later. Some stories are explicitly post-Norman Conquest, and IMO Friars, Sheriff of Nottingham as written, and “the king’s forest” don’t really exist yet. And most of the friars & monastic orders you might know of haven’t been founded yet. Raiding Europe, looting gold from monasteries, Led Zeppelin, longboats and horned helmets? The first Viking raids are 80 years in the future. The Reconquista doesn’t start for a few more years. The Bayeaux Tapestry as a resource for what wars were like is even further in the future. Charlemagne’s grandfather, Charles Martel, is alive but has not become king yet. Charlemagne is arguably the earliest you could see “knights” as a real thing. Cathedral schools, which are somewhat the ancestor of universitie, don’t exist.
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