#GAME OF THRONES RPG GROUP SEATTLE SERIES#

Jon Snow became essentially an inexperienced mercenary knight, while Robb was the only one who really fit the knightly paradigm the game rules support. Lots of handwaving and 'He's handicapped - what does that mean in game terms? And what about the warg thing? He has no real skills and almost no noticable stats - what is he other than a description?' questions. With those in mind, we tried to see how the Pendragon mechanics handled them.Д«ran not so well.

#GAME OF THRONES RPG GROUP SEATTLE SERIES#

For a series of novels known for the depictions of knights in armor and grand tournaments, few of the main characters actually are knights. Eddard, we believed, was too much a GM character and a plot device to split the family and spur others onto adventure. Our first notion was to identify the 'player characters' of the books - the Stark kids (other than Rickon, who's just a dependent NPC), Danerys, Tyrion, and Catelyn. There's a natural bias in the Pendragon game system towards male knights as player characters, and we were noticing that characters like Bran, Sansa, Arya, Catelyn, Danerys, and Tyrion were poorly served with the Pendragon rule set. maybe not the magic system) you want without having to ignore the Arthurian background of the main book.Д¬lick to expand.The one big stumbling block we had was that so many of the Game of Thrones characters aren't knights, we found that the rules didn't adequately deal with them.

In fact, it's not even necessary to purchase KAT's main book, it is enough to buy the Book of Knights, and you'll find all the rules and game mechanics (err. Mysterious beasts (Dragons an giant wolves)ДЄnd probably many other stuff I'm forgetting. So here the stufff: why not using King Arthur Pendragon's game mechanics ? There are many stuff that can be directly taken from KAT and put into AGoT: We all agreed that the current D20 version is definitively unworkable, and we are not big fans of the other system, (I can't remember the name's. Hi! I don't know if this idea has been scooped or not (and without the search function, I cannot find out), but I recently had a discussion about AGoT RPG with some friends.

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