Appendix 3

Solo scenario is a short scenario designed to be played by just one player and a Gamemaster. Such scenarios have several uses:

• Additional Experience. These provide relatively painless ways to try to get experience checks for some of a character’s Traits, Passions, or Skills.
• Previous Experience. These scenarios can supplement the Previous Experience section of character generation, with Gamemaster approval. A player might want his or her character to be older than 21 years at the start of the game, and a solo scenario adds more interest and history to a new character than the standard character generation system can offer.
• Compensatory Play. Maybe someone missed a couple of games,did while he was away. Alternatively, a character might have chosen not to participate in an event or adventure andfor the player and character to do while the rest of the game continues.
• Private Business. Some things are done primarily in private — specifically, in King Arthur Pendragon’s context, the practice of romance.

Several solo experiences appear in this section: “Your Own Land,” for example, addresses a knight’s activities while taking care of his manor and other properties. “Vassal Service” is a similar sort of solo scenario dealing with a knight’s service to his lord. “Lost in the Woods” is perhaps the most oft-used scenario; Gamemasters can let a player use this solo whenever the character declines, for whatever reason, to participate in the ongoing scenario. “At the Crossroads” allows for that famed activity of knights in the stories, who spend a surprising amount of time idling away the weeks by waiting by a crossroads, bridge, or ford— and jousting for sport with every knight who comes along. “The Lover’s Solo” can be used as a primer for the would-be romantic knight; however, this solo is reserved for use only after Arthur becomes king and weds Guenever.