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Tonight's RPG session was cancelled at the last minute because one of the players couldn't make it, so we ended up playing Tales Of The Arthurian Knights. Unlike last time we played, we managed to play through all three ages of the game, with different approaches to gaining renown.
Sir Gawain went all out for the Romance Renown (and managed to end up a king as a result of one of their events) and Sir Percival ended up mad for some time, wandering around the marshes to the east of England. As Sir Palomides I focused on the courtly skill of Diplomacy, with a secondary focus in Piety, focusing on Divinity Renown. And Dame Enid doubled down on the Villainy Renown, taking any underhand option offered, including attempting to sabotage a ritual at the grail castle (and getting mauled by the guardian lions as a result) and as their final act sabotaging the unguent being prepared in Avalon to treat Arthur's mortal wound so that it would be ineffective.
When the final 'Destiny' scores were totalled (which is how the winner is determined), the outcomes were pretty close, with Sir Gawain narrowly in the lead, and then Sir Palomides, Dame Enid, and Sir Percival following fairly closely.
It's a fun game, and the mechanic uses card draws for the encounters, which are then cross-referenced to select a paragraph from the game's big book (like a big choose-your-own-adventure series of sections) to provide the details of the encounter - all of which are fully in line with the Arthurian milieu (there are a lot of ghostly knights in those kingdoms!) and result in each player's knight generating an epic personal legend.
Sir Gawain went all out for the Romance Renown (and managed to end up a king as a result of one of their events) and Sir Percival ended up mad for some time, wandering around the marshes to the east of England. As Sir Palomides I focused on the courtly skill of Diplomacy, with a secondary focus in Piety, focusing on Divinity Renown. And Dame Enid doubled down on the Villainy Renown, taking any underhand option offered, including attempting to sabotage a ritual at the grail castle (and getting mauled by the guardian lions as a result) and as their final act sabotaging the unguent being prepared in Avalon to treat Arthur's mortal wound so that it would be ineffective.
When the final 'Destiny' scores were totalled (which is how the winner is determined), the outcomes were pretty close, with Sir Gawain narrowly in the lead, and then Sir Palomides, Dame Enid, and Sir Percival following fairly closely.
It's a fun game, and the mechanic uses card draws for the encounters, which are then cross-referenced to select a paragraph from the game's big book (like a big choose-your-own-adventure series of sections) to provide the details of the encounter - all of which are fully in line with the Arthurian milieu (there are a lot of ghostly knights in those kingdoms!) and result in each player's knight generating an epic personal legend.
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