An important part of the game is the time between adventures, during which player characters manage their estates, get married, age, and have children. This has caused it to become something of a cult game, even within the narrow confines of the RPG market.Īdventures are often political, military, or spiritual in nature, rather than dungeon crawls, and are often presented as taking place congruently with events from Arthurian legend. Like several other RPGs from Chaosium (most notably " Call of Cthulhu"), "Pendragon" has a literary basis, in this case the fifth-century Arthurian romance, " Le Morte d'Arthur", and it studiously avoids fantasy RPG cliches in favor of its source material. Title=Second Sight: The Millennium's Most Influential Company and The Millennium's Most Underrated Game And it's a great melding of game system with game world." [ cite journal Editor Scott Haring said "Pendragon" is one of the few RPGs that has a moral point of view. Publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & DesignĪccessdate=] In 1999 " Pyramid" magazine named "Pendragon" as one of "The Millennium's Most Underrated Games". In 1991, "Pendragon" (3rd edition) won the Origins Award for "Best Roleplaying Rules of 1990". It was originally written by Greg Stafford and published by Chaosium, then was acquired by Green Knight Publishing, who in turn passed on the rights to White Wolf, Inc.
"Pendragon", or "King Arthur Pendragon", is a role-playing game (RPG) in which players take the role of knights performing chivalric deeds in the tradition of Arthurian legend. (since 2004)ĭate= 1985 (1st edition) 2nd edition never released 1990 (3rd edition) 1993 (4th edition) 1999 (reprinted 4th edition) 2000 ("The Book of Knights") 2005 (5th edition) Publisher= Chaosium, Green Knight Publishing, White Wolf, Inc. Subtitle=Chivalric Roleplaying in Arthur's BritainĬaption= Cover for "Pendragon", 1st edition