fdw3773 Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Hi, everyone! I just posted Hero Designer files and PDF writeups for King Arthur Pendragon, Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot of the Lake in the downloads section from British legends. If there's sufficient interest, I may come up with writeups for some of the Knights of the Round Table and assorted villain knights they faced such as Mordred, Turquine, etc. https://www.herogames.com/files/file/526-king-arthur-queen-guinevere-and-sir-lancelot/ assault, Christopher R Taylor, AlHazred and 4 others 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdw3773 Posted June 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2023 Hello again, everyone! I just posted a new update of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad, Sir Lamorak, and Sir Percival. I used Fantasy Hero 3rd Edition rules for a much simpler character design. Enjoy! 🙂 Khymeria, assault and bluesguy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted July 1, 2023 Report Share Posted July 1, 2023 I like them! Would be cool to see Sir Tristram, and sheets for Merlin and Morgan le Fay. However, I have to ask, what Arthurian romances are you using as a basis? Or is this based on film and television representations? Because, for example, Percival in Perlesvaus is basically a horrifying sociopath, as opposed to Percival in Perceval, the Story of the Grail. Khymeria and fdw3773 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 Reading through the writeups, I like them. I feel like Guinevere should have more on her character sheet, but I don't know what! fdw3773 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdw3773 Posted July 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2023 On 7/1/2023 at 12:08 PM, AlHazred said: I like them! Would be cool to see Sir Tristram, and sheets for Merlin and Morgan le Fay. However, I have to ask, what Arthurian romances are you using as a basis? Or is this based on film and television representations? Because, for example, Percival in Perlesvaus is basically a horrifying sociopath, as opposed to Percival in Perceval, the Story of the Grail. I read a lot of Arthurian legends over the years and watched many related films (even the cringey Sword of the Valiant featuring Sean Connery and Miles O'Keefe 🫣), so I tried to blend Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, John Steinbeck's King Arthur and His Knights, John Boorman's Excalibur, and similar stories/films where the knights were generally depicted in a positive, heroic light. My write-ups are simply one fan's perspective on a topic I used to read a lot about when I was younger. 🙂 Khymeria and AlHazred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khymeria Posted July 3, 2023 Report Share Posted July 3, 2023 16 hours ago, fdw3773 said: where the knights were generally depicted in a positive, heroic light. My write-ups are simply one fan's perspective on a topic I used to read a lot about when I was younger. 🙂 Thanks, I enjoyed looking at them and they seem pretty much what the general public would envision. The popular take on the characters. fdw3773 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdw3773 Posted July 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2023 (edited) On 7/1/2023 at 12:08 PM, AlHazred said: I like them! Would be cool to see Sir Tristram, and sheets for Merlin and Morgan le Fay. Based on what I read, Merlin and Morgan le Fay would be surprisingly tricky to adapt. The stories I read could be considered low or medieval fantasy due to the limited amount of magic depicted over high fantasy stories like Dragonlance. Merlin didn't cast spells to the same extent as other fantasy magic users do (e.g. his ability often involved seeing into the future or disguise others with glamour magic versus launching magic missiles), and when he did, he potentially slept for months to recover. Morgan le Fay was similar. I remember reading Chaosium's Pendragon 4th Edition that had a really good description of how magic worked in Arthurian romance that drew upon Celtic mythology. 🙂 Edited July 4, 2023 by fdw3773 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdw3773 Posted January 13 Author Report Share Posted January 13 (edited) Updated versions of the characters for Hero System 6th Edition can be found here: Legends of Camelot Edited January 13 by fdw3773 Christopher R Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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