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Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 6
Promotion
Situation: It is night, between days of battle. In camp,
Bretwalda Aelle hosts a great feast of stolen cattle and
mead. Midway through the feast, he silences his men and
starts calling out the names of his lords, from the greatest
to the least. He pauses after each name to hear how that
lord and his men fared. Deeds are told and bravery
noted. When his call is answered by silence, he asks if anyone
saw the named lord fall. You can recount the death
or deeds of your lord, or a death you witnessed [lowest
of Orate and Compose: Critical = 10 Glory: Success = 5
Glory; Failure or Fumble = you are shouted down and
cannot try this again]. You should also give some account
of yourself and your comrades, either to Aelle or as scuttlebutt
passed around the army. Write this down and give
it to the gamemaster.
Then Aelle calls for brave men to fill vacant posts. The
gamemaster decides how many posts are open to players;
the warlord promotes player characters to those posts,
favoring the men who earned the most Glory or military
success (defeated superior foes, kept followers alive) that
day, and based on the accounts you and other players
have written.
Aftermath: Ceorls and heorthgeneats may gain land as
thegns, and landed thegns may be made ealdormen or
gerefas, if they showed leadership (normal Glory for gaining
an office). Great fighters may be elevated to Aelle’s
heorthwerod (200 Glory). You can battle-boast about
what you will do tomorrow in your new role.
[Glory Awards - One Time Honors: Page 1271
The feasting and drinking resumes. Aelle warns you to
stay sober enough to fight. [Temperate: Fumble = ignoring
the king’s orders, you get plastered. Gain a check to
Indulgent, and -5 to all skills on the first three Battle
Rounds tomorrow. Failure = as Fumble, but only -1 to
skills. Success or Critical = a good time, and no hangover.]
Note that lands gained as a part of the Battle of Badon
will soon be overrun by Arthur’s knights. Lands awarded
in other battles may be more permanent.
Rout and Rally
Situation: A numerous and terrifying foe (Round Table
knights; a berserk heorthwerod) begins to charge your
lines from across the battlefield. (Total Modifiers: -5)
Round 1: Each player character, and ld3 nearby nonplayer
leaders, tests Valorous. At least one non-player
leader must Fumble. Make a Rout Total as follows: +2
points per Critical, +1 per
Success, -1 per Failure, -2 per
Fumble. If the total is negative,
that many player characters
and other leaders flee
along with their followers,
starting with the ones who
rolled the worst scores. Add
the starting odds modifier to
the Rout Total, which cannot
get worse than -10 or better
than +5. Example: Five players
and one non- played
leader are involved, scoring 1
Critical (+2), 1 Success (+l), 2
Failures (-2), and 1 Fumble (-
2). for a total of -1. One
leader (the man who threw
down his sword and soiled his
trousers) must flee. The Rout
Total increases to -6.