Grandkhan
Telvanni Master Wizard
Arthur, King of Camelot and all of Britain, has died on campaign in France.
His greatest knights, the knights of the Round Table, are believed to be dead as well. In the chaos, Mordred, King of Lothian, has claimed that he is the rightful heir to the throne, anointed by God himself, and has brought out the Holy Grail to prove it. Whispers say the Grail is a fake - a fraud whipped up to support Mordred's claim to the throne. Others say that Mordred has forcefully wed Arthur's widow Guenevere , and imprisoned in the Tower of London alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury when they decried him as a fraud and traitor. He sits in control of Camelot with his consort Malfleur, a witch of great power, but his writ has little hold outside its walls.
Order in Britain has collapsed. It's Knights, once kept in check by the Order of the Round Table, run rampant across the country, doing as they will. Some succumb once again the banditry and wickedness that plagued the country before Arthur. Some ride seeking Adventures, as young Knights always have. And still others pledge their swords to the overthrow of King Mordred, or his preservation.
This, then, is the tale, of the Crisis in Camelot.
Welcome to my first IOT, Crisis in Camelot! As the opening scrawl says, players take the role of Knights of Britain, leading themselves and their warband to grand adventures. Gameplay will generally be in the form of purchasing soldiers for your warband, assigning where to move, and then giving plans/orders for how to resolve whatever adventure comes your way. The hope is to create and evoke the feeling and mythos of Arthurian legend: a world of mystery and adventure, and how the faults and foibles of all men lead to the rise and fall of Kings.
How to JoinHis greatest knights, the knights of the Round Table, are believed to be dead as well. In the chaos, Mordred, King of Lothian, has claimed that he is the rightful heir to the throne, anointed by God himself, and has brought out the Holy Grail to prove it. Whispers say the Grail is a fake - a fraud whipped up to support Mordred's claim to the throne. Others say that Mordred has forcefully wed Arthur's widow Guenevere , and imprisoned in the Tower of London alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury when they decried him as a fraud and traitor. He sits in control of Camelot with his consort Malfleur, a witch of great power, but his writ has little hold outside its walls.
Order in Britain has collapsed. It's Knights, once kept in check by the Order of the Round Table, run rampant across the country, doing as they will. Some succumb once again the banditry and wickedness that plagued the country before Arthur. Some ride seeking Adventures, as young Knights always have. And still others pledge their swords to the overthrow of King Mordred, or his preservation.
This, then, is the tale, of the Crisis in Camelot.
Welcome to my first IOT, Crisis in Camelot! As the opening scrawl says, players take the role of Knights of Britain, leading themselves and their warband to grand adventures. Gameplay will generally be in the form of purchasing soldiers for your warband, assigning where to move, and then giving plans/orders for how to resolve whatever adventure comes your way. The hope is to create and evoke the feeling and mythos of Arthurian legend: a world of mystery and adventure, and how the faults and foibles of all men lead to the rise and fall of Kings.
To join, fill out the following form:
Name: What is your Knights's name?
Home Region: What region of Britain does your Knight hail from? Choose from the following:
Spoiler Regions of Britain :
Moral Alignment: Choose from Righteous and Wicked. Moral Alignments affect Quest Point gain and are explained below.
Starting Position: Choose a hex grid location on the map to start in. This does not have to be anywhere close to your Home Region.
Starting Quest Points Allocation: See below for rules on how to allocate Quest Points for rolls. You start with 25 Quest Points.
(Optional) Backstory: Your Knights history and Backstory.
How to Play
Gameplay is divided into three phases.
Phase 1: The Spending Phase
Since you aren't playing as a country, rather as an individual, you don't really choose who you recruit. Rather you spend your Quest Points (effectively in-game currency) on rolls on a table, which then decides what you can spend on.
During the Spending Phase, you allocate some amount of points on some amount of rolls on one of two tables. I will then update with what you rolled and what you can spend further points on, which you then make a decision on. You can also spend a point per number to move your roll to something else - if another roll is required, then assume the previous roll stands.
The Commoner Followers Table costs 1 point to roll on. The Noble Followers Table costs 2 points.
The Tables are as follows:
Spoiler Common Followers Table :
Spoiler Noble Followers Table :
There will be two rounds of the Spending Phase
This is complex and probably better explained as an example.
Spoiler an example of the Spending Phase :
This is complex but I'll do my best to walk you through this.
Phase 2: The Movement Phase
After you have purchased additions to your Warband, you then decide where you want them to go. This is as simple as picking a hex within two hexes of your current location and posting where you want to go.
Phase 3: The Adventure Phase
Once you arrive at your destination, you will be presented with an Adventure. This can take many forms, but you never have to go looking for it - as a Knight, Adventure finds you.
Your orders (PMed to me rather than posted) should include the following:
1. How you respond to the Adventure and what you and your warband shall do. If two warbands are near each other, their Adventures will probably interact and may involve a fight - though this is up to you if you want to attack the other warband or not. Well... you and them.
2. What tactic you want to use when you joust. When two Knights meet (be the players or NPCs), they joust. This is not optional. The context around your meeting decide what the consequences of victory/defeat are - if you are cooperative then it is a friendly joust between friends, if you are combative then it is a furious tilt on the battlefield.
Jousts consist of three passes. Knocking your opponent (either by scoring a wound that unhorses them or by depleting all two of their wounds) off their horse is considered an automatic victory, but in the event of three passes without anybody being knocked off the victor is the Knight who has scored the most wounds on their enemy (counted as lance breaks), even if the wound is saved by the Knight's armour. This is seen as a lance break, which is in effect how the points are scored - the knight who breaks the most lances is the winner.
Before a joust, if you do not have a bonus from your Home Region that grants you a Lady's Favour automatically, you can roll for one. This represents a lady gifting you her veil, wimple, or even garter (scandalous!) as a sign of her favour. The GM rolls 2d6 - if you get a double then you the number rolled as re-rolls (which are used automatically whenever you fail).
When you joust, you pick which tactic you want to use. The tactics decide when you strike in your joust and what bonuses you receive. The tactics are as follows:
Spoiler jousting tactics :
3. Whether you want to offer a plaisance or not, and whether you will accept if offered. When two knights meet, they can offer to joust a plaisance ("for pleasure") or a la guerre ("like in war"). There are actually three choices here; to joust a plaisance, to joust a la guerre, or to joust a la traitre, which is to pretend to joust a plaisance but at the last minute change your strike to a killing blow.
Jousts a plaisance do not count wounds for the purposes of any combat afterwards, and Knights cannot die. A joust a la guerre is worked out as normal. A joust a la traitre can be noticed in time by a Knight who is being attacked, but if not, the treacherous Knight needs to roll 1 lower to hit and the victim must roll 1 higher on their armour to save a wound.
Righteous Knights must offer a plaisance when jousting another Righteous Knight. Failing to do this automatically makes you Wicked. A Righteous Knight jousting a la traitre also automatically makes you Wicked.
You do not necessarily have to accept a la plaisance if offered. If the charged Paladin rejects a true or faked offer, (who charges decided by die roll), then the joust continues as if nothing was offered.
This is slightly complicated so once again I'll illustrate with an example.
You may (and I highly encourage you to) include RP details in your orders, which might potentially affect the Adventures that you get.
After I recieve orders I will update with how your Adventure went, what Quest Points you earned, your casualties, and any Advancements you may have received. Play then moves to the Spending Phase again.
Spoiler a jousting example :
Quest Points, and Righteous/Wicked Paladins
Quest Points are gained after every Adventure as follows:
+2 Points for taking part in an Adventure
+2 Points for taking on an Adventure in a way that would make any normal man despair at the odds of
+2 Points for successfully completing an Adventure
+2 Points for successfully taking on an Adventure in a way that would make any normal man despair at the odds of
+2 Points for every Knight (including regular knights that are part of a Warband and not PCs) your Warband or yourself defeats
Additionally, depending on whether you are Righteous or Wicked, you gain or lose points for different things:
Righteous Knights
+2 Points for taking a Wicked Knight or some other Villain out of action (cumulative)
+1 Points for taking a Demonhost out of action (cumulative)
+1 Points for offering a la plaisance
-1 Points for fleeing from a challenge or Adventure
Wicked Knights
+2 Points for taking a Righteous Knight or some other Hero out of action (cumulative)
+1 Points for taking out a Grail Knight out of action (cumulative)
-1 Points for offering a la plaisance
There are several ways to move from Righteousness to Wickedness. The first is to refuse to offer a la plaisance to another PC Righteous Knight. The second is to joust a la traitre. The only way to move from Wickedness to Righteousness is to Achieve the Grail Quest through Knight Advancement, as discussed below.
Knight Advancement
For every 6 Quest Points earned, your Knight will get a randomly selected Advancement. These Advancements can be a magical gift, a trait which gives a bonus, extra (free) followers, or a Promotion (cumulatively: from Knight of the Realm to Questing Knight to Grail Knight). They may also, if you are unlucky, screw off on a Quest on their own, leaving the party and it is treated as if you they have died - you get a new, fresh, Knight without any traits they may have accrued (but with all their magic items).
Promotions are a special case. Once your knight has received the Questing Knight promotion, you are officially On A Quest (ostensibly for the Grail, but it can be for whatever you want to call it). It helps me a lot for writing purposes to nominate something suitably epic for your Knight's Quest - if you have Questing Knights in your warband their quests are seen as sufficiently meh enough not to really merit explicit adventures, though if you want to nominate quests for them you can - it may affect your adventures, as writing and RP does. Your Adventures may change when you are on a Quest, to something suitable to pursuing it. Another Promotion for your Paladin to Grail Knight will mean that your Quest immediately comes to a climax in your next Adventure, but otherwise your Quest may climax on its own through normal Adventures (though no guarantee). Completing a Quest through normal adventures gives your Knight an automatic promotion to Grail Knight, and if Wicked, may automatically make them Righteous should you choose - by achieving the Quest, they have redeemed their nature and failings and are once again in the bosom of God. Alternatively, you may actively reject the Grail on the conclusion of your quest and become a Demonhost, which means you will continue to be Wicked.
Achieving the Grail Quest is the only way you can move from Wickedness to Righteousness.
All Knights receive a free Advancement roll on signup.
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