"Win Glory, honor your Passions, and pass the sword to your heir."
Pendragon casts you as a knight in the legendary Britain of King Arthur, from the turbulent Boy King period onward. Rather than dungeon loot, you chase Glory, wrestle with opposed virtues, and let Passions like love and loyalty drive heroic and tragic choices. Play spans decades: knights age, marry, and die, handing the campaign to their heirs. Chaosium's definitive 6th edition refines Greg Stafford's celebrated system into a sweeping chronicle of honor, war, and romance.
Sub-Roman Britain reimagined through Arthurian romance. Player-knights hail from Salisbury in the kingdom of Logres, serving amid Saxon invasions, feuding nobles, faerie enchantment, and the slow rise of Camelot across a chronicle that unfolds year by year.
Personality Traits
Thirteen opposed virtue pairs, each summing to 20 — like Valorous versus Cowardly. A roll under your Trait can compel your knight to act nobly or shamefully, whether you wanted it or not.
Passions
Love, Loyalty, Hospitality, and Hate rate your knight's deepest drives. Invoke one and roll under it for a surge of inspiration in a crisis — but failure can leave you melancholic or maddened.
Glory
Every deed, feast, and act of largesse earns Glory instead of experience. It measures a knight's renown across a lifetime and can even raise a whole family line toward legendary status.
Generational Play
Each game year closes with a Winter Phase resolving aging, wounds, harvests, and childbirth. Knights grow old and fall, so the campaign passes to sons, daughters, and heirs across decades.
Open in Session Zero to let every player vote and see the results.