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If the wielder of the Cruel saex described above wants to
withhold a blow (Pendragon page 163), his own Honor
must beat his own Cruel (boosted by the saex’s) in
opposed resolution: the winning roll determines whether
the blow did 1/2 or full damage. This principle applies to
other items used against their natures. Unwilling armor
might fail (resist 1/2 normal points), belts fall off, houses
grow icy cold, and so on.
4. Glory/lnsight Gain by Items: An item’s Glory and
Insight increase by “experience checks” as if they were
Skills with the same rating (Pendragon page 151-152).
Items gain a Glory/lnsight “experience check” whenever
their owner gains 100 Glory/lnsight and could not have
done so without the item, or when
the owner gains 1,000
Glory/lnsight in any fashion.
Items also gain Clory/lnsight as
in Step 1 if enchanted with
new abilities.
5. Glory/lnsight Gain from
Owning Items: Gain the
Item’s Glory as an annual
Glory award.
6. Attrition of Items: See
page 136.
Names: Any item covered by
these rules deserves a name
announcing its prestige and powers.
This might be a descriptor (the
Heart Blade), a name (Joyeaux), or
anything else the gamemaster or player
decides.
Recognition: Items can be Recognized independently
of their owners, at +I to Recognize per 5
points of the item’s Inherent Insight/Clory.
Other Kinds of Item: With some imagination, these
rules can apply to things other than tools and weapons.
For example, they might apply to an old tree tended by
druids, a standing stone, a tower, a shrine, a lineage of
horses descended from a faerie stallion, and so on.
Extraordinarily Glorious Items: Excalibur, the Grail, the
Philosopher’s Stone, the Ring of the Nibelungs, and other
equally legendary items contain more power and Glory
than can be indicated by mere rules.
Other Cultures: Saxons! includes these rules because of
the great passion and mysticism with which the Beowulf
poet, among other Anglo-Saxon writers, describes
weapons, halls, ships, and ornaments. The rules apply,
however, to all Pendragon cultures. Since these cultures
regarded even skilled artisanship as a sign of divine favor,
distinctions between “magic” and “non magic” Glorious
Items should be avoided.
Traits, Passions and Noncombat Skills
Courtesy
Saxons test Courtesy to remember the laws and customs
described in Chapter 1 and to behave
“courteously” within Saxon culture. The linguistic
divide between Romans and
Celts on one hand, and Saxons or
. Germans on the other, penalizes
Courtesy by -10 when used for
understanding or communication
between these two broad
cultures. This penalty decreases
to -5 or less for Saxon federates,
British laets, conquered
Saxons and their Cymric rulers
after Phase 2, and other cases
determined by the gamemaster.
Honor (Battle Boast)
Honor (Battle Boast) is a directed Passion consisting of
points added to Honor under certain conditions. The
Passion originates when you publicly boast that you will
accomplish a certain difficult combat goal, possibly under
certain restrictions (“I will kill a bear, barehanded”). Test
[Honor, Proud, and Orate: for each roll add the following
modifiers to Honor (Battle Boast) modifier: Critical:
+3. Success: +2. Failure: No effect. Fumble: -21. Note that
the Orate roll can be Inspired, perhaps by Love, Hate, or
Loyalty.
If the three rolls Produced no Positive total, Your boast
was not credible: otherwise, the total increases your
ono or only for fulfilling that boast- For Simplicity, YOU
should have no more than two Honor (Battle Boast)
directed Passions at once.
Your Honor (Battle Boast) modifier lasts Until YOU fulfill
the boast or until fulfillment becomes impossible: then it