Dux Bellorum – Arthurian Sourcebook for Chivalry & Sorcery

Dux Bellorum is a rules expansion for Chivalry & Sorcery 5th edition telling the tales of the historical Arthur.

The fate of Britain is in your hands!

Dux Bellorum takes you into a lost world! A Britain after the legions, where cities burn and where howling raiders invade once peaceful shores. Where the new faith battles the old, and people cower before fell powers and monsters of the night. The light of civilisation itself dims and flickers – but you can make it shine again!

This is not a world of fancy, it is the world in which the historical King Arthur might have lived. Dux Bellorum is steeped in the realities of the First Kingdoms to arise in Britain after the Fall of Rome. A world where your characters can forge their own legends of the Once and Future King!

The ancient Celtic tribes arise again. Warlords step from the shadows of departed generals and emperors, to battle Pictish, Scotti, and Saxon invaders, and even their fellow men.

One day, people will sing songs of half-remembered knights, of Bedivere, Gawaine, and Kay; but in DUX BELLORUM you can play the heroes such as Bedwyr, Gwalchmai, and Cai who birthed those tales, adventuring across the mystical yet historical lands glimpsed in the writings of Gildas the Monk, the Mabinogion, and the tales of Aneirin and Taliesin the Bard.

This is not the world of knights in shining armour (there are other games for that Arthur), this is the historical world as described by Gildas the monk.