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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Dave" data-source="post: 5913936" data-attributes="member: 6687992">Not quite.1>  There are Bachelor Knights which were Knights without land.  They depended fully on their respective lord for upkeep and provision of arms.2>  That wiki does refer to the Knight-Service which is the period of time the Knight owes their lord for the provision of land to upkeep and maintain their arms.  The knight gets their weapons and the land for providing service to their lord (and being prepared to bring a set number of extra troops with the Knight).3>  If a Knight had something bad happen to say their warhorse (it got sick, grew old enough that it became winded) a Knight with just their land might not be able to afford to replace it.  The same goes for a full suit of armour (which was often taken as part of ransom at the end of a battle).Now, what you got from your Lord depended on your relationship and what they had available.  You lose your armour in battle and you likely will get some old set of armour to replace it which is not nearly as nice.-------------------I used to run Pendragon and loved the knightly feel of the game.Unfortunately, it is hard to run in a large group and not as many people are fans of just playing knights.</blockquote>