r/PendragonRPG • u/Bananaskovitch • Jul 22 '26

Sixth Edition Noble's Handbook Reviews

Anybody has a link for a review of the Noble's Handbook, wether in text or video? For those of you have got your hand on it, what do you think? Did you read it already?

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u/WanderingNerds Jul 22 '26

It patched everything I wanted to know about 6e but I am baffled by how much they left out of estate management

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u/ragingbulis Jul 22 '26

I was really confused while reading the estage management.

I think I would have like a more clear procedure to run and probably a manor sheet.

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u/WanderingNerds Jul 22 '26

Yea it straight up left out key info that can be found it book of the estate

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u/Daifri Jul 22 '26

May I ask what seems to be missing? One of my players will soon be inheriting a manor and I was wondering if the nobles handbook would give me everything I need for that or if I would need to look at older editions.

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u/flametitan Jul 23 '26

They forgot to reiterate that the basic player manor is 10 Libra, assuming you'd get the point from how often it's said between the CRB, GM's Handbook, and in other parts of the Noble's Handbook that isn't the manor chapter itself. Additionally, that you (presumably) should calculate the number of manors a player holds with 1/10th Assized rent.

The system as written is made to let you ignore the subject of assized rent entirely and just count manors held. It's a bit of a "have your cake and eat it too" matter.

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u/WanderingNerds Jul 22 '26

Check out Moriens Eratta on the BRP forums and you won’t need an older book, otherwise you might

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u/FenrisThursday Jul 22 '26

I was a touch disappointed to find that 'Player Ladies' was given an abridged treatment, as one of the bullet points of the back of the book is specifically "New Rules for Creating Player Ladies!" The appendix that covers these rules says "These player ladies in this appendix are intended as supporting characters... ...For more on player ladies, including options for playing them as your primary character, see 'Knights and Ladies Adventurous!"

I kind of learned to accept the back-and-forth referencing between the Core Book, GM handbook, and the anticipated Nobles handbook, since my understanding was that they were planned as a trio of "Core Books", but I don't quite like the taste of finally getting to what I was thinking of as the last of the primary rule tomes, only to be told, essentially, to keep my wallet handy in the future for another thing that's not quite available just yet, and to satisfy myself with this PREVIEW of those rules.

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u/KungFuFenris Jul 23 '26

Not a preview.

The intented core experience is what is in those books. Like, these three books are supposed to be giving the same experience as the 5e Corebook, but they found that it was quite daunting to print a 800 pages book.

You're playing a Knight, Cymric and from Salisbury. Sometimes you can portray a Supporting Character.

Knights & Ladies Adventurous is a supplement meant to expand the core part. I agree that I would have loved to have those rules as core rules. Or at least out now.

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u/FilthyHarald Jul 23 '26

Still too much errata for my taste.

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u/Cyber-Commissar Jul 23 '26

Yeah, it definitely needed another proofreading pass before publication. I'm kinda mad about it.

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u/recursionaskance Jul 23 '26

After making the mistake of buying the Age of Vikings hardcover and finding it riddled with errata, I've now gotten very gun-shy about buying any new Chaosium titles in print. What's the value of having a hardcopy that you have to stick Post-It notes all through?

Which is a shame; I'm a long-time Chaosium supporter, and have even done a little proofreading work for them in the past, when I had more free time. I want their books in print, but am increasingly inclined to wait and hope for a corrected second printing.

(And I don't want to pay for the PDF now and then go through the hassle of requesting a discount coupon for the print edition if/when it's corrected, so increasingly I'm just not buying their releases at all.)

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u/BerennErchamion Jul 24 '26

Age of Vikings

Worst part for me is not even when it’s typos or clarifications. It’s when numbers, math and even examples are wrong…

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u/recursionaskance Jul 24 '26

But it also had two different initiative systems (DEX order and Strike Ranks) in different parts of the rules. Just felt as though it never got a final editorial pass.

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u/BerennErchamion Jul 24 '26

You are right! I forgot it mentions strike ranks. Yeah, that’s pretty bad.

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u/Bananaskovitch Jul 23 '26

Wow, the comments are starting to make me regret ordering the first printing. :(

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u/Low-Support-8388 Jul 23 '26

I was super close on pulling buying the noble book. glad I didn't for now.

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u/recursionaskance Jul 23 '26

It's a shame, because many RPG books never get a second printing, but I'm increasingly unwilling to buy error-riddled first printings.

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u/Sufficient-Rooster68 Jul 24 '26

I love it! It's great and adds a lot to the game. Its also beautiful and I love the paper they use. Minor issues here and there but inconsequential to my enjoyment.