Quote from: Ruben;387965Hello,

I'm currently working on the project. My bibliography consists of about 50 chansons de geste, famous or obscure ones, in old / modern French, English and Dutch. Plus about 3,000 pages of studies on Frankish culture & chronology. No decision to the precise contents have yet been made, but a short year-by-year chronology (767-814) similar to the Great Pendragon Campaign will almost certainly be included. Other topics: all important characters and their complete stories + adventuring ideas, descriptions of foreign lands & cultures (Saracens, Persians, Northmen, Huns, Saxons, Byzantines, Slavs, etc.) and of course a few specific Frankish rules & mechanisms.

I've also written a few adventures, adapted from the gestes, including The Battle of the Humble Squires (767, Enfances Ogier), The Gardens of Fortune (775, Orlando Furioso), The King Thief (784, Karel ende Elegast) and a complete Huon's Quest (810-813, Huon de Bordeaux), but I doubt whether they will make it to the game book. Maybe as supplements or pdf downloads, but that's not for me to decide...

Absolutely fantastic!

Welcome to theRPGsite, and please keep us all informed about how its coming along!

RPGPundit

QuoteHow is it coming along, if you don't mind me asking? How long have you been working on this, and do you have any vague idea on when this could hit the stores? I understand if you want to keep things under wraps, can't or are not at liberty to answer questions at this point.

I've been working on this book intermittently from 2002 on, i.e. from the days that Peter Corless (Green Knight publishing) owned the Pendragon game. Now Greg Stafford has his own game back again, and he's put the project back on track.

There's not much more content-related information I can give you, I'm afraid. All I can say is that I've finished the reasearch, and I'm now putting all my notes into the computer (will take a few months) before I can start the actual writing phase. My guess is that I will finish the complete product some time in the second half of 2011. But since I'm not a native English speaker, the manuscript would then need some serious editing. All in all, it's still early days to talk about possible release dates.

Cheers,
Ruben

All good Ruben, no need to sweat it. This sort of thing has got to be done right.
Doesn't matter how long it takes, from my POV.

Thanks for the feedback, by the way. It's very much welcome, indeed.

bump.

Any news on this project ?

I was just recently wondering the same myself.

RPGPundit

Hello good folks,

All player knights will be Christian Franks from the duchy of the Ardennes in the year 767, which is one year before king Pepin the Short dies and Charlemagne will become king together with his younger brother Carloman.

Finished:
+ Frankish society
+ Foreign lands & peoples
+ Your homelands (the Ardennes)
+ Wealth
+ Bestiary
+ Ambitions, Ideals, Glory, Traits & Passions
+ The complete Paladins chronology, which mingles historical events with the stories from 80 chansons de gestes (I've left a few some out), giving precedence to the latter, of course.
+ Rules & game mechanics; the rules differ only slightly from Pendragon. A few things are added to suit the setting, and have been validated by Greg Stafford, such as rules for prayers and miracles, the conversion of pagans, the seduction of pagan princesses and some new scores called Attitudes (how others think of you, like inversed Passions).

I still need to write the section on character and family creation, an introduction scenario and add a chapter about the paladins and other important characters (+some complicated genealogy trees).

The "problem" is that I've recently been promoted to a job which is going to cost me all my weekends. Still, I'll try hard to finish this project before the end of summer and then submit it to Greg...

Hello good folks,

All player knights will be Christian Franks from the duchy of the Ardennes in the year 767, which is one year before king Pepin the Short dies and Charlemagne will become king together with his younger brother Carloman.

Finished:
+ Frankish society
+ Foreign lands & peoples
+ Your homelands (the Ardennes)
+ Wealth
+ Bestiary
+ Ambitions, Ideals, Glory, Traits & Passions
+ The complete Paladins chronology, which mingles historical events with the stories from 80 chansons de gestes (I've left a few some out), giving precedence to the latter, of course.
+ Rules & game mechanics; the rules differ only slightly from Pendragon. A few things are added to suit the setting, and have been validated by Greg Stafford, such as rules for prayers and miracles, the conversion of pagans, the seduction of pagan princesses and some new scores called Attitudes (how others think of you, like inversed Passions).

I still need to write the section on character and family creation, an introduction scenario and add a chapter about the paladins and other important characters (+some complicated genealogy trees).

The "problem" is that I've recently been promoted to a job which is going to cost me all my weekends. Still, I'll try hard to finish this project before the end of summer and then submit it to Greg...

Hello good folks,

All player knights will be Christian Franks from the duchy of the Ardennes in the year 767, which is one year before king Pepin the Short dies and Charlemagne will become king together with his younger brother Carloman.

Finished:
+ Frankish society
+ Foreign lands & peoples
+ Your homelands (the Ardennes)
+ Wealth
+ Bestiary
+ Ambitions, Ideals, Glory, Traits & Passions
+ The complete Paladins chronology, which mingles historical events with the stories from 80 chansons de gestes (I've left a few some out), giving precedence to the latter, of course.
+ Rules & game mechanics; the rules differ only slightly from Pendragon. A few things are added to suit the setting, and have been validated by Greg Stafford, such as rules for prayers and miracles, the conversion of pagans, the seduction of pagan princesses and some new scores called Attitudes (how others think of you, like inversed Passions).

I still need to write the section on character and family creation, an introduction scenario and add a chapter about the paladins and other important characters (+some complicated genealogy trees).

The "problem" is that I've recently been promoted to a job which is going to cost me all my weekends. Still, I'll try hard to finish this project before the end of summer and then submit it to Greg...

QuoteAny news on this project ?

Hello good folks,

All player knights will be Christian Franks from the duchy of the Ardennes in the year 767, which is one year before king Pepin the Short dies and Charlemagne will become king together with his younger brother Carloman.

Finished:
+ Frankish society
+ Foreign lands & peoples
+ Your homelands (the Ardennes)
+ Wealth
+ Bestiary
+ Ambitions, Ideals, Glory, Traits & Passions
+ The complete Paladins chronology, which mingles historical events with the stories from 80 chansons de gestes (I've left a few some out), giving precedence to the latter, of course.
+ Rules & game mechanics; the rules differ only slightly from Pendragon. A few things are added to suit the setting, and have been validated by Greg Stafford, such as rules for prayers and miracles, the conversion of pagans, the seduction of pagan princesses and some new scores called Attitudes (how others think of you, like inversed Passions).

I still need to write the section on character and family creation, an introduction scenario and add a chapter about the paladins and other important characters (+some complicated genealogy trees).

The "problem" is that I've recently been promoted to a job which is going to cost me all my weekends. Still, I'll try hard to finish this project before the end of summer and then submit it to Greg...

Sounds awesome.

Please keep us posted.

Karl der Große?

Very interested in something Stafford wrote, this is a first.

The Continent FTW.

I'm pondering the timing of the game, seems to me the reign of Charlemagne and the formation of his peers would be bigger on adventuring than starting before that. Is there a specific reason for starting during Pepin the Short's rule?

Will the game cover issues of loyalty?

Quote from: Silverlion;461487I'm pondering the timing of the game, seems to me the reign of Charlemagne and the formation of his peers would be bigger on adventuring than starting before that. Is there a specific reason for starting during Pepin the Short's rule?

My guess: you play a squire in the intro adventure, and become a knight at the end of the first year.

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QuoteOriginally Posted by Silverlion View Post
I'm pondering the timing of the game, seems to me the reign of Charlemagne and the formation of his peers would be bigger on adventuring than starting before that. Is there a specific reason for starting during Pepin the Short's rule?

My guess: you play a squire in the intro adventure, and become a knight at the end of the first year.

You guessed correctly

The order of paladins is founded by Charlemagne after the Battle of the Humble Squires (767). The period after that is mostly about the rebellious barons (Ogier the Dane, Renaud of Montalban and his brothers) and the conquest of Lombardy (773-774). Then come a few years based on the Italian romances (Boiardo & Ariosto) focussing on Roland's passions, up to the dramatic battle of Roncesvaux (778).

In order to allow player characters to play this crucial period, one should start in/around 767...

QuoteWill the game cover issues of loyalty?

Yes, but the base passions have been reduced. Honor will cover both Honor, Loyalty and Hospitality. The other main passions will be Love (family), Love (Charlemagne) and Love (God). The latter 2 will have a use for prayers and miracles.