Over time, Nocturnal made a couple of patches to the fifth edition core book. Wieck’s new Nocturnal publishing house was the home of Pendragon for some years, until recently it made its triumphant return home to Chaosium. The original release of 5th Edition, with its cover art depicting Arthur fighting… erm… a giant piggy, came about through ArtHaus Games – an imprint of White Wolf, would ya believe it – before the purchase of White Wolf by CCP and the departure of Stewart Wieck, whose baby the ArtHaus imprint was. The fifth edition of Pendragon has proven to be its longest-lasting edition, having originally been published in 2005 and remained supported by some publisher or another ever since. Continue reading “The Arcane Top 50 – Where Are They Now?” → That meant it focused more on brief news snippets, reviews, and fairly entry-level articles on subjects than it did on offering much in the way of in-depth treatment of matters.
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It took largely the same approach to its own subject matter (primarily RPGs, with some secondary consideration to CCGs – because they were so hot at the time they really couldn’t be ignored – and perhaps a light sniff of board game content) that Future’s videogame magazines took to theirs, particularly the lighter-hearted PC Gamer/ Amiga Power side of things rather than the likes of, say, Edge. Truth be told, taking a look back at Arcane in more recent years I’m less impressed than I was at the time. To get something which was informative, read well, and looked nice, print media was still just about where it was at.
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Sure, even by this early stage the Internet was already becoming an incomparable source of both homebrewed material and cutting-edge RPG news, but much of that was in the form of Usenet and forum discussions of variable quality or ASCII text files. With other RPG-focused gaming magazines available in the UK either consisting of patchy US imports or a few local magazines published on a decidedly variable basis (whatever did happen to ol’ Valkyrie?), the arrival of Arcane was immensely welcome. But would Paladin win the same accolades and favours that its Arthurian cousin had earned?Ĭontinue reading “Kickstopper: Get Along, Get Along King Charlemagne, Get Along King Charlemagne…” → The myths of King Arthur and those attached to Charlemagne had always had parallels before Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain popularised the Arthur legend, the nobility of France, Normandy, and Norman-ruled England looked to Charlemagne as their model of chivalry, and the troubadour poetic tradition which flowered in the 12th to 13th Centuries took inspiration from Arthur and Charlemagne both.įor some time, as a result, fans of Pendragon have considered the game fertile ground for adaptation to the Charlemagne legend, since that tradition and the Arthurian mythos have so much in common thematically.
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The parting was amicable, so far as anyone knows, and it included the licence for the 5th Edition Pendragon game line, which White Wolf had previously put out under their ArtHaus imprint.Ī string of new supplements for the line followed, along with a couple of revisions of the core rules, and then in 2017 came Nocturnal’s most ambitious project yet. Nocturnal Media was founded by Stewart Wieck, who’d previously been one of the cofounders of White Wolf until he departed in 2010, a few years after the CCP acquisition and around the time White Wolf’s in-house RPG-writing process was being wound down before eventually being outsourced to Onyx Path.