Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition and the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, The Companions of Arthur is a curated platform for user-made content, but for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of Arthurian legend and romance, Pendragon. It enables creators to sell their own original content for Pendragon, Sixth Edition. This can original scenarios, background material, alternate Arthurian settings, and more, but none of this content should be considered to be ‘canon’, but rather fall under ‘Your Pendragon Will Vary’. This means that there is still scope for the authors to create interesting and useful content that others can bring to their Pendragon campaigns.
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The Adventure of the Forester Knight is a scenario for use with Pendragon, Sixth Edition.
It is a full colour, eleven page, 7.51 MB PDF.
The layout is tidy and it is nicely illustrated.
Where is the Quest Set?
Where is the Quest Set?
The Adventure of the Forester Knight is set in one of the remnants of the ‘Wild Wood’, the old forest which once covered the realm, such as the Forest Sauvage or the Forest Adventurous.
Who should go on this Quest?
The Adventure of the Forester Knight does not have particular requirements in terms of its Player-knights as written. However, Player-knights with a good Folklore score will be useful, whilst Pagan Player-Knights and Player-knights with a reasonable score in their Worldly Trait will have an advantage, whereas Christian Player-knights and Player-knights with a higher score in their Spiritual Trait will be at a disadvantage.
What does the Quest require?
The Adventure of the Forester Knight requires the Pendragon, Sixth Edition rules or the Pendragon Starter Set.
Where will the Quest take the Knights?
The Adventure of the Forester Knight begins with the Player-knights travelling through one of the older forests in the country. The beasts of the forest seem to huff and snuff around them in the undergrowth either side of the trail they are on, following them all the way to desolate glade where they come upon a fellow knight who has clearly spent the day chopping down the trees all around him. The knight, Sir Hervise, is the Forester Knight of the title, a forlorn figure, who as he later tells the Player-knights, has been cursed by his faerie mother-in-law who thought him an unsuitable match for her daughter. Sir Hervise asks the Player-knights for their help in lifting the curse.
There is some toing and froing, involving roleplaying rather than real investigation, but eventually the Player-knights will learn the answer to the riddle that is the means of the lifting the curse and step over into the faerie realms. There is the issue here that Christian knights will have difficulty doing so and if a player rolls badly, he will find his knight unable to participate in the climatic scenes of the scenario and thus unable to engage in the best part of the scenario which takes place in the faerie realm. This does not mean that they will not earn any Glory at the end of the scenario, but simply not gain the opportunity to use and potentially improve skills and Traits. If successful, at the end of the scenario there is an amazing reward for one Player-knight, especially if his favoured weapon is an axe!
The Adventure of the Forester Knight can be played through in a single session, two at most. It is easy to slip into a campaign as it begins as the Player-knights are travelling and it could easily run in conjunction with The Tree Hazardous, before or after, or even in the middle of!
There is some toing and froing, involving roleplaying rather than real investigation, but eventually the Player-knights will learn the answer to the riddle that is the means of the lifting the curse and step over into the faerie realms. There is the issue here that Christian knights will have difficulty doing so and if a player rolls badly, he will find his knight unable to participate in the climatic scenes of the scenario and thus unable to engage in the best part of the scenario which takes place in the faerie realm. This does not mean that they will not earn any Glory at the end of the scenario, but simply not gain the opportunity to use and potentially improve skills and Traits. If successful, at the end of the scenario there is an amazing reward for one Player-knight, especially if his favoured weapon is an axe!
The Adventure of the Forester Knight can be played through in a single session, two at most. It is easy to slip into a campaign as it begins as the Player-knights are travelling and it could easily run in conjunction with The Tree Hazardous, before or after, or even in the middle of!
Should the Knights ride out on this Quest?
The Adventure of the Forester Knight is decent mini- or sidequest that does take a while for the story to play out and the Player-knights to become involved in the action. Its easiest use is as mini-quest for a few Pagan Player-knights, since there is a chance that a Christian Player-knight will be stopped from playing out the final scenes, though this does not mean that such a Player-knight could not shine. Overall, The Adventure of the Forester Knight is an engaging quest that the Game Master can prepare and have ready to run when needed.
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