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''Noble's Book'' is a 1985 fantasy
tabletop role-playing game A tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG or TRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a kind of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech and sometimes movements. Participants d ...
supplement for ''
Pendragon Pendragon, or (, ''pen dragon''; composed of Welsh , 'head, chief, top' and / ''dragon'', 'dragon; warrior'; borrowed from the Greco-Latin word , plural , 'dragon , ; ) literally means 'chief dragon' or 'head dragon', but in a figurative sense ...
'' published by
Chaosium Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fic ...
.


Contents

''Noble's Book'' is a supplement for the second edition of ''Pendragon'', and this indexed manual is intended to provide information on whatever a noble
player character A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional Character (arts), character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters tha ...
may encounter.


Reception

Paul Cockburn Paul Cockburn is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Paul Cockburn worked for '' Imagine'' magazine, published by TSR. Cockburn later led the new editorial team of ''White Dwarf A white dwarf is a Compa ...
reviewed ''Noble's Book'' for ''
White Dwarf A white dwarf is a Compact star, stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very density, dense: in an Earth sized volume, it packs a mass that is comparable to the Sun. No nuclear fusion takes place i ...
'' #78, and stated that "Not bad this, and worth buying – just so long as it isn't revised in a month or two ...." J. Michael Caparula reviewed ''Noble's Book'' in ''
Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer ''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the la ...
'' No. 77. Caparula commented that "''Noble's Book'' is a commendable work. the Castle Keep poster is a real bonus; it is the first truly historical representation I have ever seen in a game publication."
Stewart Wieck Stewart Douglas Wieck (May 10, 1968 – June 22, 2017) was one of the founders of the publishing company, White Wolf, Inc. He was also one of the original writers of Mage: The Ascension. Career Stewart Wieck was born in Freeport, Illinois, in 1 ...
reviewed ''The Nobles Book'' in ''
White Wolf The Arctic wolf (''Canis lupus arctos''), also known as the white wolf, polar wolf, and the Arctic grey wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Island to Ellesme ...
'' #7 (1987), rating it a 10 out of 10 and stated that "To be honest, Pendragon is not complete without this book. It contains much needed information about owning and governing land, presents new large scale combat and glory rules, etc."


References

{{reflist Pendragon (role-playing game) supplements Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1985