$100 Pendragon Recommendation
May 25 2023
Finishing up my Chaosium RPG recommendations we have Pendragon. There are not too many current edition products but luckily everything other than the first two are truly optional.
King Arthur Pendragon Core Rulebook v5.2 ($20 PDF)
The Great Pendragon Campaign ($25 PDF)
With the core rules and GPC you have 80+ sessions of gaming, albeit focusing on Christian Knight PCs.
The Great Pendragon Campaign - The Uther Expansion ($5 PDF)
Prepends 5 years to GPC. This is also included in The Book of Uther ($20) but having looked at much of the KAP 5E supplements I'd recommended avoiding them unless you want to add an exquisite amount of detail.
Book of Armies ($20 PDF)
The above being said I found Book of Armies quite useful. It is basically random tables to generate opponents during a battle with separate tables for each region and each battle even. And since Pendragon knights mostly fight other knights and warriors these tables are also useful for random encounters.
That's $70 which leaves enough to buy three or four classic adventure books:
Blood & Lust ($8 PDF) - 4 adventures
Tales of Mystic Tournaments ($10 PDF) - 3 adventures
Tales of Magic & Miracles ($6 PDF) - 5 adventures
Tales of Chivalry & Romance ($6 PDF) - 4 adventures
These four books add adventures you can sprinkle in every two or three years though they are all after Arthur becomes high king.
King Arthur Pendragon Core Rulebook v5.2 ($20 PDF)
The Great Pendragon Campaign ($25 PDF)
With the core rules and GPC you have 80+ sessions of gaming, albeit focusing on Christian Knight PCs.
The Great Pendragon Campaign - The Uther Expansion ($5 PDF)
Prepends 5 years to GPC. This is also included in The Book of Uther ($20) but having looked at much of the KAP 5E supplements I'd recommended avoiding them unless you want to add an exquisite amount of detail.
Book of Armies ($20 PDF)
The above being said I found Book of Armies quite useful. It is basically random tables to generate opponents during a battle with separate tables for each region and each battle even. And since Pendragon knights mostly fight other knights and warriors these tables are also useful for random encounters.
That's $70 which leaves enough to buy three or four classic adventure books:
Blood & Lust ($8 PDF) - 4 adventures
Tales of Mystic Tournaments ($10 PDF) - 3 adventures
Tales of Magic & Miracles ($6 PDF) - 5 adventures
Tales of Chivalry & Romance ($6 PDF) - 4 adventures
These four books add adventures you can sprinkle in every two or three years though they are all after Arthur becomes high king.