I am glad - I was concerned perhaps I had chosen poorly. I have been thinking quite hard about what would be fun to play.
Do you have any preference?
Rules:
- Pendragon
- Rules Lite
- Black Box
I could modify the Pendragon rules so that we captured important statistics. It can be a fairly lengthy creation process though so I would probably amend it.
I could go with Rules Lite - meaning a very simple set of numbers and values
I could go wth black box - which is the direction I am leaning where there are no statistical values. Instead, we use Qualitative descriptions "He is an excellent commander, Milord" as opposed to "Command 15"
My lean is black box but I also know Pendragon pretty well.
Historical or ahistorical Setting:
I am already convinced I can't do justice to 100% historical accuracy, however by Historical I mean setting the campaign in Wessex just before the age of vikings. Here we have a nice Medieval campaign with very familiar Welsh, Cornish, Mercians and the like. I would most certainly take poetic license and my concern there is with purists.
By Ahistorical, I mean I could create a fairly simple Kingdom, set in a fantasy world where it still feels very medieval, much like the world of Witcher, Game of Thrones or Warhammer.
It doesn't even have to be English - it could be French, Irish or Germanic for that matter.
High Fantasy or Low Fantasy:
I lean towards Human-centric campaign with very low magic - so that Druids and Wizards may exist but they would be rare and possibly/likely charlatans.
I could be convinced to use a Fae Courts, Dwarven Stone Masons, Goblins and Giants and such - more of a high fantasy game.
Scale:
What is the scale - my original vision is a nice walled city as the center of the campaign surrounded by 6-10 manors all having 3-4 villages each as the player's domain, as part of a larger Kingdom - although I may decide to move the location to someplace on the border to make it easier to expand without warring within the Kingdom.
However, I could be convinced quite easily to expand to a Kingdom, with multiple cities and a bit larger scale, perhaps setting the game in Winchester (the capital of Wessex) with a young Prince Alfred the sole heir to the crown. (or something comparable if the campaign is not Wessex)
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