Lordly Domains
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- Mark Angeli
- James Palmer
- Ben Chessell
- Judy Routt
- Liam Routt
- Greg Stafford
- Michael Trout
- Stephen King
- Elsie Fowler
- Judy Routt
- Mark Angeli
- Gus DiZerega
- Lisa Free
- Elise Hurst-Fowler
| Land Titles, Wealth, Prey, War, Heraldry | |
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 Cover art by Stephen King | |
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| Publishers | Chaosium |
| Publication | 1997 |
| Genres | Arthurian |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing variant |
| ISBN | 1-56882-050-X |
Lordly Domains is a supplement published by Chaosium in 1997 for the Arthurian role-playing game Pendragon that expands on the powers and responsibilities of player characters who are noble lords.
Lordly Domains is a sourcebook for players, describing what a noble player character's responsibilities and privileges would be as a lord of the land. These are generally broken into:
- Administration: Maintenance of manor houses; revenue from villages in the lord's fiefdom; costs to maintain a noble's lifestyle, sponsor tournaments, upgrade fortifications, build new churches, keep a kennel.
- Social obligations: Obligations to fellow nobles, obligations to peasants, freemen and townspeople inhabiting the lord's fiefdom.
- War: New rules covering raid, siege, and invasions; fortifications and costs
The book also contains information about tournaments, falconry, a complete calendar of yearly festivals from Twelfth Night to Christmas, and heraldry.[1]
An adventure, "Of Allies and Enemies", pits the players against two evil knights who have taken a widow's lands near Oxford. The heroes must take over and administer the abandoned manor houses of the widow (using the rules for administration outlined in the book), and confront the evil knights.[1]
Publication history
Chaosium released the Arthurian role-playing game Pendragon in 1985, and one of the first supplements to be published was Noble's Book (1986), which explained how to own and govern land.[2] A fifth edition of Pendragon was published in 2005, and an update and expansion of Lord's Book was released in 1997 titled Lordly Domains, a 128-page softcover book designed by Mark Angeli, James Palmer, Ben Chessell, Judy Routt, Liam Routt, Greg Stafford, and Michael Trout, with cover art by Stephen King, and interior art by Mark Angeli, Gus DiZerega, Lisa A. Free, Elise Hurst/Fowler, and Judy Routt.[3]
The following year, Oriflam published a licensed French translation.[4]