Via RPG Blog II comes the news that King Arthur Pendragon will soon be back in print!
It's sort of a "new-old" publisher, actually--Stewart Wieck, formerly of White Wolf, has struck out on his own with a new company and brought the Pendragon license (and Greg Stafford) along with him. This is great news indeed, as the most recent edition of Pendragon and its essential Great Pendragon Campaign have been out of print (albeit still available in PDF) for too long now. Furthermore, although Greg Stafford has continued publishing supplements for KAP, they've been strictly a home-spun effort with a correspondingly high price point. Hopefully, Nocturnal will re-release these supplements under its own banner (and finally make them available in PDF form) at a lower price.
And hopefully we'll start seeing some more Pendragon material. Dare we even dream of seeing the pipe dream of a generic KAP-based system being released?
I wonder if it will be an entirely new edition? At any rate, this is very good news, especially if Stafford's self-published material becomes available at an affordable price. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteYeah I am looking forward to see what happens with Pendragon. And of course having more affordable books would let my group take a chance on the game. I've been wanting to do a Pandragon campaign for a very long time.
ReplyDeleteblizack: What I'd love to see is a reprint of the 5th edition rulebook with the Book of Knights and Ladies and maybe even the Book of the Manor appended. I understand what they were trying to do with the 5th edition book, focusing it on Salisbury knights in 485, but when that's the only option, it does rather turn the game into "the Role-Playing Game of Utherian Fantasy" rather than "Arthurian".
ReplyDeleteI imagine at the very least we'll see some tweaks and changes that incorporate some of the stuff that's been posted on gspendragon.com. Plus I recently read that Greg Stafford is trying to get a "family background" table put together that would cover the whole narrative arc (so something like 435 to 540 I guess); I would hope we'd see that as well.