Upon Finding the Holy Grail

RPG system: Burning Wheel

By

Guy MacDonnell

Description

You have found the Holy Grail. But you are not alone for so have your rivals.

Take on the role of a key figure of the Arthurian Mythos and fight for what they believe!

The characters:

• Lancelot-formerly the best of the King's Knights. Now, an outlaw who has been banished from Camelot for having an affair with Guinevere.

• Mordred— the son of Uryens and Morgana, still a youth he takes after his mother and is clever beyond his years— perhaps too clever.

• Morgana— half-sister to King Arthur and now wife of Duke Uryens.

• Palamedes— a Moorish knight, captured in France who now claims conversion to Christianity.

• Guinevere— the unfaithful Queen, caught betraying the King with Lancelot, and ever since cloistered away in a convent.

• Uryens— Duke of the North, who knighted Arthur as a reward for courage at the siege of Leondegrace, and who ever since has pledged his fealty to Arthur as he did to Arthur's father.

• Parsifal— a squire without a Knight, now that Lancelot is an outlaw, he trusts only in God to guide his fate.

• Merlin- Adviser to the King, and master of forces beyond reach of most men.

This is a PvP scenario but that does not mean it'll be a battle royale! You must ally yourself with those who would support you and strike when the time is right. Burning Wheel is a great fit for this kind of game as it supports intrigue and argument.

Please note: I am not an Arthurian scholar for example In this setting, Morgana and Uryens are married which I don't think is canon. We're more interested in the human drama of the situation!

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