''Savage Mountains'' is a 1991 role-playing supplement for ''

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''Savage Mountains'' is a supplement in which background information is provided on the city of Carlion-in-Usk as well as four adventures.

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, and expanded the game to allow many different knight types: "Even more notable was Chaosium's release of ''The Boy King'' (1991), which expanded upon the earlier ''Pendragon Campaign'' by fulling detailing the first half of that 80-year campaign. That same year, Chaosium published ''Savage Mountains'' (1991), an in-depth description of Cambria and the first of numerous sourcebooks detailing the lands and peoples of Britain."

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'' #34 (Jan./Feb., 1993), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "Overall, ''Savage Mountains'' evokes the full flavor of medieval Wales, while the location, descriptions and adventures allow for great diversity in player activity. Since King Arthur seems even more at home in Cambria than in Logres, do yourself (and the Pendragon) a favor - buy this product."

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{{reflist Pendragon (role-playing game) supplements Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1991

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