Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur <link to online version?> collected all the legends and tales of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table,
and first presented the stories in the forms we are familiar with today.
Arthur's knights represent the concept of chivalry to modern readers more than any other person or group.
Chivalrous conduct basically means playing fair.
Taking advantage of your opponent's misfortune is dishonorable, as is fighting him at better-than-even odds.
A chivalrous knight shows respect to ladies and good clerics, but is suspicious of sorcery, and will avoid it if possible.
To win fame and prove their virtue, knights will often undertake quests, usually swearing on oath that their efforts will be unceasing until their goal is achieved.

The Knights of the Round Table may not fit into some AD&D worlds,
but DMs may find it intererting to spice up their campaign with a trip to Arthur's Britain.
More useful information can be found in TSR'S KNIGHTS OF CAMELOT Fantasy Boardgame.

<rule of thumb: Com should usually be higher than Cha ... these are 'knights in shining armor', after all ...>

The following are all good || neutral knights of the Arthurian legends.
All practiced chivalry in some form or degree.

 

The Average Knights of Renown	Knights of Quality
Abellius	Accolon o' Gaul
Ablamor o' the Marsh	Agravaine (brother of Gawaine, betrayer of Launcelot)
Aglovale	Balin
Alisander	Barant Les Apres (King of the Hundred Knights)
Allardin o' the Isles	Bedivere
Bagdemagus, King	Bohort
Belleus o' the Pavilion	Bors de Ganis
Berel	Bruin le Noire (La Cote Male Taile)
Blamor	Dinadan
Bleoberis	Ector de Maris
Brandiles	Florence
Breunor	Gaheris (brother of Gawaine)
Brian o' the Forest	Kay (Arthur's seneschal)
Cador o' Cornwall	Lavaine
Caradoc	Lionel
Carados, King of Scotland	Marhaus
Chestelaine	Miles o' the Lands
Clegis	Pelleas
Dagonet (Arthur's court jester)	Percard (knight of the black lawns)
Darras	Percivale
Dodinas le Savage	Perimones (the red knight)
Ebel	Pertelope (the green knight)
Edward	Sagramour le Desirous
Elias	Trantrist o' the White
Epinogris	Ulfius
Ewaine	Uwaine
Feldenak	Wisshard
Felot o' Langdue	-
Floridas	-
Gahalatine	-
Gainus	-
Galagers	-
Gaunter	-
Gilbert	-
Gilmere	-
Gouvernail (Tristram's squire)	-
Griffet	-
Hector	-
Helior le Preuse	-
Herlen	-
Hervis de Revel	-
Hontzlake o' Wentland	-
Ider	-
Kehydius	-
Lanceor	-
Lucan de Butterlere	-
Mador de la Porte	-
Managgen	-
Melias	-
Meliot de Logres	-
Naram	-
Ontzlake	-
Patrice	-
Pelles, King	-
Persante of Inde (the blue knight)	-
Persides	-
Priamus the Saracen	-
Sadok	-
Safere	-
Segwarides	-
Sarlons	-
Uriens, king of Gore	-

The following knights are evil through and through, and will go to any length to win a battle.
They can be counted on to have a wide variety of dirty tricks up their sleeves.
The concept of chivalry means very little to them and it is to be used solely for the advantage it gives them over others.
 

The Average Knights of Renown (Evil)	Knights of Quality (Evil)
Andred	Breunis Sans Pite
Damas	Edward the Knight Perilous
Gringamore	Mordred
Helius	Turquine
Hue the Knight Perilous	-
King Mark	-
Meleagrance	-
Phelot	-
Pinell	-

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Arthurian Miniatures
Knights of King Arthur (boxed figure set - The Armory)
Merlin the Wizard (boxed figure set - The Armory)
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Balin
 

Sir Bors

Sir Kay
 

Pelleas*

Percivale*
 
 

Mador de la Porte

Mordred

BIBLIOGRAPHY \ GAMES (reference)
Pendragon: Chivalric role-playing in Arthur's Britain (Box set)
Pendragon Campaign: Plot, magic, and scenarios
Noble's Book
The King Arthur Companion: Guide to the people, places, and things of Arthur's Britain
The Grey Knight
Tournament of Dreams: Challenges for sword & virtue
Knights Adventurous: Expanding the world of Pendragon
King Arthur Pendragon: Role-playing in Legendary Britain (3rd ed.)
Boy King: Arthur claims the throne of Britain
Pendragon, 4th ed.
Blood and Lust
Perilous Forest
The Spectre King
Beyond the Wall: Pictland and the North
Land of Giants: Scandinavia and the Beowulf cycle in the time of King Arthur
Lordly Domains
Tales of Chivalry & Romance
Tales of Magic & Miracles
Saxons! Wolves in the fold of Arthur's Britain
Tales of Mystic Tournaments: Adventures in the world of King Arthur
Book of Knights (King Arthur Pendragon)
Tales of the Spectre Kings
King Arthur Pendragon (5th ed.)

Conquests of Camelot
 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by francisca
Wow! It was listed as stock #1009 in the 1981 "Gateway to Adventure" catalog I got in my Basic Box set (Moldvay edited). Same page as "Warlocks and Warriors" and "Divine Right".

As I don't like Arthurian legend, it doesn't surprise me in the least I don't recall the game.
It surely made no particular sales success or i would have remembered it.
 

Heh...

Anything based on Arthurian legend is bogus.
Besides, the majority of the knights of that make-believe court were far from chaste, let alone celebate.
Consider Sir Lancelot boinking the queen, the king begetting a bastard son by rape.

Cheers,
Gary
 
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by BOZ
i take it then, it wasn't your idea to have them in DDG. 
i've never made any use of that section, myself.

Right you are!

Brian Blume oversaw that particular project.

Cheers,
Gary

Here is the list of most of my short fiction that was published as individual storues.
Sadly, I can not find the Fafhrd & Grat Mouser one that runs to about 30K words as I recall :\

...
“Duty” (Fantasy short story in Excalibur, anthology) Warner Books, 1995
...

Cheerio,
Gary

<check if this one is Arthurian, which would be strange, given Gary's noted distate for the Mythos>
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Odnasept
Hisssss! You have displeased Tiamat! Dragons must be all-powerful! Curse the giants! Cuurrrssssse themmm!!!

Seriously though, I have often found that smaller, more cunning dragons could present an especially well-played challenge to PCs (this October will mark the ten-year anniversary of my players' lamentation of the power and strategy of a 28-hit-point Young Adult Black Dragon and her 8-hit-point hatchling, for example) without having to be restricted to the status of 'unkillable gods' as one DM I know has done. Your statements also remind us of the fact that your game predates the video game RPG and had instead traditional and classical mythology as inspiration, which (at least in the West) does not require dragonkind to be at all all-powerful.

Which leads me to another somewhat dragon-related question, though I promise it will be the last at least until I come up with the next one.  I recall the appearance of 1st Edition AD&D stats for the characters of the Arthurian Legends (I believe that Merlin was 23rd Level  ), and as I read more of them I have become curious to what extent they may have inspired/influenced any aspect of AD&D (I am thinking also of various chromatic colours of dragon that appear therein).

Once again, thank you for all your insightful replies,

A fellow gamer and designer,

Odnasept

Mileus never did a decent motion picture in his life as far as I am concerned 

What you say about small dragons is quite so IMO.
One of my toughest encounters was with a young red one that had both spider climb and invisibility spells...
A surprise breath attack from above, then a plummeting one with fang and claw wrought a lot of havoc.

Can't say who did the Arthurian Legend sa=tats--surely in The Dragon magazine. <correction: DEITIES && DEMIGODS>
Although I am a fan of Celtic myth and John Boorman films, I do not care for Authurian Legend at all.
If you have read my short story, "Duty," written from Excaliber's POV, you'll note just how little I enjoy the story. 

May inspiration never desert you,
Gary

Ever read "The Archer" trilogy by Cornwell?
It centers around a search for the Holy Grail.