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Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
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Author:  AsenRG [ Sun Oct 04, 2015 10:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
In a week, I'm going to run Dragon Warriors for a group new to the system, on a local "mini-con" (named Open RPG Day). And I'm planning to do something that's new for me, by running a pre-published adventure :mrgreen: !
(Yeah, shocking, I know).

I don't know most of the people that are going to be playing, but can more or less bet that most of them are going to be new to Legend in general (unless they've played Bloodsword, the odds of anyone having read Dragon Warriors are so close to 0 I'm not even counting). So, they're going to be not really familiar with the setting.

I know two players who have requested joining my game, specifically. One of them has played through Bloodsword books, but it was almost a decade ago, while the other one is completely new to the setting and the system. The system part isn't a problem, I'm going to provide pregenerated characters anyway (several Knights, a Barbarian, an Assassin, a Warlock, a couple Knaves, a Thane, a Priest, and a Hunter...and I might scratch out the Assassin and/or the Warlock). All in all, they're a nice retinue for a couple knight errants. I'll send them in on 2nd or 3rd rank.

That said, I'm wondering...how would you introduce new people to the setting? And they're going to need getting into it if they want to even survive.
Normally, I run longer campaigns, so it's not an issue. In this case, I'm going to need to introduce the players to the setting, and send them deal with an investigation right away.
So, how would you introduce new people, apart from copying the text from Serpent King's page, and reading it out loud before the game 8-) ?
Author:  Damian May [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
I think A Knights Tale is a decent intro.

The Tourney provides a 'closed' environment, theres a good mix of nobility and commoners to show aspects of feudal life. There are attendees from across Coradia to give a fair example of diffetent culures.
Author:  AsenRG [ Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
Yeah, the question is more how to help then get the mindset as fast as possible. I think I'm going to use the scene from the road from "The Hour Before Dawn" adventure to show them that both Kansas and D&D-land are Elsewhere.
That, and I confirmed that I'm going to have at least two players familiar with Bloodsword, which should help the others.
Author:  AsenRG [ Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
And I ran it. The players had fun, including the guy who hadn't seen a d20 before.
They even won three ransoms, including from a 9th rank Knight and from the 8th rank Knight, 3rd place on the archery, and saved a Senator's life. And they thwarted the main plot.

I'm afraid it wasn't a raging success, though, mostly because everybody got tangled in the setting names and ended up mistaking NPCs with each other. But overall, I had fun, so I can recommend the adventure who uses adventures in the first place, unlike me.
Author:  Damian May [ Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
AsenRG wrote:
And I ran it. The players had fun, including the guy who hadn't seen a d20 before.
They even won three ransoms, including from a 9th rank Knight and from the 8th rank Knight, 3rd place on the archery, and saved a Senator's life. And they thwarted the main plot.

I'm afraid it wasn't a raging success, though, mostly because everybody got tangled in the setting names and ended up mistaking NPCs with each other. But overall, I had fun, so I can recommend the adventure who uses adventures in the first place, unlike me.


Excellent. Lets see if our PCs do as well. :)
Author:  AsenRG [ Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
Damian May wrote:
AsenRG wrote:
And I ran it. The players had fun, including the guy who hadn't seen a d20 before.
They even won three ransoms, including from a 9th rank Knight and from the 8th rank Knight, 3rd place on the archery, and saved a Senator's life. And they thwarted the main plot.

I'm afraid it wasn't a raging success, though, mostly because everybody got tangled in the setting names and ended up mistaking NPCs with each other. But overall, I had fun, so I can recommend the adventure who uses adventures in the first place, unlike me.


Excellent. Lets see if our PCs do as well. :)

Depends on the diceroller and on your decisions, that's why I switched to referring to myself as a Referee instead of a GM. Our group arguably had it easy, because my wife guessed the source of the problem on the first day, so I did as the adventure instructs and the side events actually were the main event :D.


The nice part is, we had one of the few Bulgarian game vloggers at the table, so we might get another five minutes of fame out of it, and maybe so would Dragon Warriors :P !
Author:  Damian May [ Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Knight's Tale for people new to Legend?
AsenRG wrote:
Damian May wrote:
AsenRG wrote:
And I ran it. The players had fun, including the guy who hadn't seen a d20 before.
They even won three ransoms, including from a 9th rank Knight and from the 8th rank Knight, 3rd place on the archery, and saved a Senator's life. And they thwarted the main plot.

I'm afraid it wasn't a raging success, though, mostly because everybody got tangled in the setting names and ended up mistaking NPCs with each other. But overall, I had fun, so I can recommend the adventure who uses adventures in the first place, unlike me.


Excellent. Lets see if our PCs do as well. :)

Depends on the diceroller and on your decisions, that's why I switched to referring to myself as a Referee instead of a GM. Our group arguably had it easy, because my wife guessed the source of the problem on the first day, so I did as the adventure instructs and the side events actually were the main event :D.


The nice part is, we had one of the few Bulgarian game vloggers at the table, so we might get another five minutes of fame out of it, and maybe so would Dragon Warriors :P !


Lucilla will try hard not to get too many of us killed.

Fingers Crossed on the vlog. :)
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