Avalon Mesa: Martin Ambrose

Avalon Mesa: Martin Ambrose

Aug 23

The Avalon Mesa is nowhere in particular, at least nowhere I care to identify specifically. It’s somewhere west of the Mississippi and north of the Rio Grande. Somewhere east of the Pacific and south of Canada.  It’s really not too different from the setting of a lot of Westerns: out on the mythic frontier, a dusty place where cattlemen and farmers, rail barons and cowpokes, and a...

Avalon Mesa: Percival Kingfisher

Avalon Mesa: Percival Kingfisher

Aug 13

You’ve already met almost all of the main characters whose destiny has called them to the Avalon Mesa. In every case, we’ve tried to stay true to the essence of the Arthurian originals while taking appropriate liberties to bring the legendary knights and warriors of Arthur’s round table into the Wild (or Weird) West. At least in part because we’re talking about roleplaying...

Avalon Mesa at Gen Con: Now Part of Savage Saturday Night, One Spot Still Free

Avalon Mesa at Gen Con: Now Part of Savage Saturday Night, One Spot Still Free

Aug 08

If you’re looking for the Avalon Mesa, you’ve come to the right place. Well, unless you’re looking for information about a cosmetology school with campuses in Utah and Arizona that apparently has us beat on Google right now. We’re not those people. We don’t know anything about cosmetology. But we do know about the Arthurian Old West, because we are currently in the...

Avalon Mesa: Pale Horn

Avalon Mesa: Pale Horn

Aug 02

So if you’ve been paying attention to the previous posts about the Avalon Mesa, you’ve got a pretty good idea who our slate of characters really is. You’ve met the noble Arthur Britton (King Arthur), the vengeful Lance Franks (Lancelot), and the boisterous — and slightly dim — Kay Roman (Kay, or Cai, depending on how closely you stick to the Celtic originals). But...

Avalon Mesa: Kay Roman

Avalon Mesa: Kay Roman

Jul 26

By this point you probably have a pretty good idea of where, generally speaking, we’re going with the Avalon Mesa. We’ve seen King Arthur recast as the noble Arthur Britton, and the brave, flawed warrior Lancelot reimagined as the gunfighter Lance Franks. These guys are probably the two best known figures in the Arthurian mythos, but as our Knights of the Round Table step out of the...