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 use with Pendragon, Sixth Edition. This can be 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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It is a full colour, twenty-nine page, 26.94 MB PDF.
The layout is tidy and it is starkly illustrated.
Where is the Quest Set?
Where is the Quest Set?
Sir Balin: A Most Virtuous Knight is a scenario for Pendragon, Sixth Edition. It takes place in Forest Sauvage during the Boy King Period in 512.
Who should go on this Quest?
Knights of any type are suitable for Sir Balin: A Most Virtuous Knight. The Player-knights are expected to have sworn fealty to King Arthur or one of his supporters, the scenario suggesting the rival and occasionally feuding vassal lords, Duke Ulfius or Earl Robert of Salisbury.
What does the Quest require?
Sir Balin: A Most Virtuous Knight requires the Pendragon, Sixth Edition Core Rulebook and the Pendragon: Gamemaster’s Handbook.
Where will the Quest take the Knights?
The Player-knights are tasked by Sir Kay, Arthur’s adopted brother and trusted seneschal, to travel north to the Forest Sauvage and locate the manor of two great knights, Sir Balin and Sir Balan. With the constant threat of war from the northern kings who refuse to give fealty to Arthur, who they see as a pretender and an upstart, the young king is in need of allies. Both Sir Balin and Sir Balan are renowned for martial prowess and would greatly bolster King Arthur’s forces. The task is a simple matter of diplomacy, but the two-week journey is not expected to be easy. The first part of the campaign involves a road trip, similar to ones undertaken by the Player-knights if they have through the events of the Pendragon Starter Set following Arthur pulling the sword from the stone and being crowned.
However, before the Player-knights have a chance to properly seek Sir Balin’s allegiance to King Arthur, their host asks a favour of them. A fellow knight, one Sir Guy du Lak, has befouled the code of chivalry by kidnapping the mother of both Sir Balin and Sir Balan, an act that Sir Balin swears involved some kind of fairie enforcement. He asks the Player-knights to accompany him in rescuing her mother.
The majority of the events of Sir Balin: A Most Virtuous Knight are told in flashback, so ultimately, the Player-knights cannot alter the outcome, but this does not mean that the scenario lacks opportunities to roleplay or react to events, prove themselves worthy to be knights, and eventually, earn Glory. However, the scenario draws on a number of sources earlier than Le Morte d’Arthur and the exact details of Sir Balin and Nineve—the sister of Sir Guy du Lak—differ to that presented in Great Pendragon Campaign, so that may not fit what the Game Master intends for her campaign in the long term.
Should the Knights ride out on this Quest?
Sir Balin: A Most Virtuous Knight has tighter requirements in terms of timeframe than other scenarios for the Pendragon, Sixth Edition, but it still offers the chance for the Player-knights to involve themselves in the events of the wider events of the Arthurian saga.
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