A Spring Hunt

Taking his mind off other things, Blaewen leaves his keep for the green woods and sets out on a hunt. He brings with him a Forester and his pack of 5 hounds. I quickly generated a variant of Pendragon's Hunt rules.

The Hunt is divided into 3 phases: The Search, The Chase & the Kill.

The Search is a SR vs the Rarity of the animal. If wanting to randomly pick an animal an SR is made and the choice may be made from any eligible beasts from the highest level passed or lower. The roll may be modified by a hunstman who may roll a Bonus Die which may be substituted for either rolled die in the SR (and yes, you may create doubles this way). A Fumble will result in the character becoming LOST.

Blaewen set out to hunt whatever beast first presented itself and this turned out to be a red stag (Rarity: Level 1/ Avoidance: Level 2/ MR: 10 [2d+5 Combat dice]). His Forester rolls a Bonus Die which Blaewen uses in place of his own creating instead a 10 (double 5s) and a rerolled 5 + his Luck of 12 for a total of 27. Blaewen quickly find the Deer and he then pursues it.

The Chase is undertaken next and is also a SR, this time against the Avoidance level of the quarry. The chase may be modified by the presence of a Huntsman and/or Hounds. If the SR is unsuccessful the chase may continue for as many additional rolls as it takes but increase the level by one for each successive roll after the first. A Fumble will result in the character becoming LOST.

Luckily Blaewen has both a pack and a Forester and so he passes the second level SR necessitated by the Stag's Avoidance level. The pack quickly runs down the deer and Blaewen lets them loose upon it's antlers.

The Kill. This is basically an All-Out combat with the cornered creature. Hounds and their prey do not make SRs but merely inflict the rolled damage on each other. Damage done will kill/ wound hounds reducing the packs MR each round. 

Blaewen watches, from safety, as his pack attacks the stag. The pack starts with a MR of 35 (7 per hound) and Combat Dice of 4d+17; the total rolled is 28. The Stag swings it's antlers around hooking one hound and wounding another (combat dice: 2d+5, a total of 11 is rolled). The hounds easily overwhelm the deer but not without some blood loss.

Winter & Sad News

Blaewen returns home in Autumn and would normally take part in a hunt scenario, but I did not know that yet, so I just used the rules in Pendragon for Winter campaign advancement.
Blaewen sells the Charger he took from the Black Knight and brings home some additional income.
His horses all do well through the Winter.
Blaewen's Brother is married and Blaewen himself does not pursue marriage, though he does courteously call upon many of the eligible ladies of his own class. His heart may still be, in some small part, with his Lady of the Lake, though she did use him poorly.

When the worst of Winter's winds have blown and spring begins to be felt in the air, a dwarf comes to Blaewen's keep and brings terrible news. He informs the knight that the Lady had carried Blaewen's child and had recently been delivered of it but that the Lady took ill and soon died, the infant afterward following it's mother from this world.

The Adventure of the Knights of the Red Lance

Wastelands-(I added a location roll for a "building" as well: Standing Stones)-Intrigue-Noble-Knight (object of the Intrigue also Knight)

After leaving the arms of the Lady of the Lake, Blaewen heads South into the Wastelands. There, after several days of travel he comes on a hill topped by a Ring of Standing Stones. There, hanging from the limbs of a dead tree in the center of the ring, is a red lance. Beneath the lance two Knights are fighting. The one has a shield with a field of White and the device of a Red Hart's head, he is armed with a Great Sword.  The other Knight looks almost the same and his shield also bears the device of a  Hart, but this is Black, he is armed with a Mace.
Knight of the Red Hart
MR: 15
Combat Dice: 5d + 8 (Greatsword)
Armor: -13

Knight of the Black Hart

MR: 15

Combat Dice: 4d + 8 (Mace)

Armor: -10

After watching the Knights fight each other to exhaustion, Blaewen offers to mediate their dispute. "Let each of you fight me, in turn.  to the first Blood and whoever defeats me shall be considered the winner of your argument and shall claim the Red Lance." The Brothers agree and the Knight of the Red Hart takes on Blaewen first. The fight is over quickly as Blaewen draws first blood at the first set of blows (I did not use the All-out rules so it would be more clear who had drawn first blood. Blaewen defeated the Knight but his damage would have been absorbed by Armor except for a point of Spite damage that gets through.)
The Knight of the Black Hart then comes at Blaewen. He swings his mace and though his skill is less than Blaewen's he still manages to land a blow which draws blood (1 point of Spite damage.) He is the winner and claims the Red Lance of his own.

The Green Lady

The Green Lady
Reaper Figures, P3, Vallejo and GW Foundation Paints

This figure was obviously painted in honor of (and with input from) my daughter.

The Lady's Boon (Jousting the Black Knight)

The Lady of the lake uses her Enchantress ability to Enamor Sir Blaewen to her and ensure that he will be "motivated" to accomplish her boon.
In a tower nearby lives the Black Knight. He is as devoted to his infernal ways as the Lady is devoted to Avalon and in the course of their disagreements he has taken a magical potion of the Lady's and she would like it back. She asks Blaewen to teach the Black Knight a lesson and retrieve the Potion.
Balewen rides through the woods to a clearing at the base of the Black Knight's tower where the evil man himself is waiting.
(I did not have power when playing this encounter so I winged it, thus it's not completely in line with some of the suggestions on the Bestiary Page)


Black Knight of the Tower
STR 16          Lance 5d
CON 28         Sword 3d
CHA 15         Armor -10
Adds: +4

The Joust was run as an All-Out melee (see the House Rules Page) and was to the death.
First round both Knights make their Jousting SRs (Level 1 vs STR, since neither has this as a Trait), so no one is unhorsed. The Black Knight take the much harder blow at 11 points and  Blaewen loses 4.
Second pass, again both knights manage to stay on their horses and again the Black Knight in his lighter armor takes the harder blow (both Knights are rolling in the low 20s pretty consistently).
Now the Black Knight is down to 4 CON & Blaewen 6.
Sir Blaewen decides to try and use his Persuasion Trait to convince his opponent to yield. Since the Black Knight is so evil I decide it will be a level 2 SR, which Blaewen fails.
A third pass is made and the evil Knight is Killed by a final heavy blow (he had taken an additional 11 points of damage.
Blaewen recovers the potion and a bag of coppers from the dead Knight, taking his warhorse as a prize as well. Baewen returns to his  Lady of the Lake and convinces her to let him keep the potion (Again a Persuasion SR). It turns out to be a CHA enhancing potion and he gains a whopping 6 point permanent gain to CHA!
Unbeknownst to Blaewen drinking the potion carried a pretty serious risk of becoming permanently under the sway of the lady, but she failed her CHA SR and Blaewen merely accrues the benefits.
As it is, our hero stays with the lady for three months, into Autumn, before she fumbles an Enchantress roll (for dramatic purposes I extende this to one per month not one per day [see Traits Page]). He then makes his way South, into the Wastelands...

First Adventure: The Giant's Moor

I. The Giant
Moor-Rescue- Mundane- Shepherdess-(Faery-Giant)
When setting out on Adventure Sir Blaewen sets his horse to the South towards the Moors. After 3 days of riding through the wilderness (with no random encounters) he hears the screams of a damosel in distress and rides to a vantage point. There he spies a Giant (I rolled STR x5 and got = MR 75, 8d+38 ) pursuing a shepherdess with bad intent. A giant of this size is clearly beyond Sir Blaewen's ability to kill in a straightforward fight, so he decides that he will attempt to surprise the Giant and land a free attack. I make a 2nd level SR vs DEX and succeed. He also attempts to hamstring the brute, thus settling the matter. His SR vs Swordsmanship fails and so Sir Blaewen sneaks up on the Giant from behind and drives his sword deep into his torso (reducing the Giants MR to 40 something ) . Blood flows in buckets from the giant who turns, swinging a club wildly and knocks Sir Blaewen back. The Knight takes 4 points of damage, after armor. He stands and dodges the giant's next swing (SR3 vs DEX due to armor), and then strikes another hard blow against his enemy (reducing the Giant another 20 some points). Failing his next attempt to dodge, Sir Blaewen stands back and calls to the suffering Giant. He offers his mercy if the giant will leave the shepherdess alone. A 2nd Level SR vs the Persuasion Trait was made and succeeds. The giant grunts his assent and limps off into the depths of the Moor. 
Notes: I gave Blaewen many opportunities to utilize his Traits since that was the only way he would have a chance to defeat it. 
II. The Wolves
Moor-Combat-Mundane- beasts- Wolves-6

A Lady of the Lake
Reaper Miniatures, P3 Paints

Blaewen, unwisely, decides to proceed into the wilds while still suffering from his wounds. A few days later, upon another fog shrouded moor, he is beset by a pack of six wolves. I ruled that only three wolves at a time could engage the knight. He uses his Swordsmanship trait to inflict any damage on one wolf at a time. Unfortunately for Blaewen I miscalculated the Combat Dice for his opponents. The Wolves had MR:12 (2d+6) but as a group of 3 they would have a MR of 36 with Combat dice 4d+18. Instead I added the dice together for a total of 6d+18! Blaewen, depite his armor was slowly nipped to unconciousness and would have provided a meal for the wolves had not a Lady of the Lake & her armed men shown up and scattered the beasts.
III. The Castle of the Lady
Sir Blaewen was taken by the Lady and her company to her castle, several miles to the East. There he was healed after a long rest... She asked of him a boon, to defeat the Lord of the XX, at his domicile some miles from there.
Before the next adventure I will roll on the (soon to be created) Romance table.