12-15-2011, 06:02 PM | #11 | |
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12-15-2011, 06:03 PM | #12 |
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Fantastic ideas all around! You got my mind-working now!
(And I've actually wanted to read Camelot 3000, never got the chance though) I do like the idea of the PCs training to replace the old knights, that would be a real twist. I think that would entail sending them on very classically styled 'quests.' Which could be very interesting and entertaining, more-so as they've got to save ammo, and other limited resources, or learn to use mounts and lances, etc. Hmmm, got me thinking alot now. |
12-16-2011, 04:53 AM | #13 | |
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12-16-2011, 05:54 PM | #14 | |
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Also, if I recall Malory, Arthur was a bit more tolerant of difference than most Middle Age rulers. One of his knights was Sir Palomides, a "Saracen" and "paynim." So he might be willing to tolerate odd folks. (Perhaps not Americans . . . ) |
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12-16-2011, 10:19 PM | #15 | |
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12-17-2011, 09:26 AM | #16 |
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Re: Weird War II - Avalon?
A suggestion: Alan Garner's books 'Elidor' (1960's schoolkids do the Mabinogion) and especially 'The Wierdstone of Brisingamen' reference British legends in a (then) modern way.
The legend of Alderley Edge is included, where Arthur and his knights sleep until needed, while an agent (possibly Merlin) finds white horses for them, and possibly recruits more worthy knights to sleep 'under the hill' until needed: recalled from memory, 'when England's mothers weep, they shall ride forth, and in a battle thrice won, thrice lost, upon the plain, sweep the enemy into the sea'. By the entry of the USA into WWII, we could say that most of the knights have already fallen in the fighting, such as the Battles of France and Britain. Recruits are needed... |
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