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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8120259" data-attributes="member: 18182">"Let's play a 'Knights of the Round Table' game!" does not naturally lead to all characters must be knights. Obviously, the actual knights of the Round Table would be a focus of such a campaign, but it's perfectly reasonable for a player to assume that a non-knight character attached to King Arthur's court would work just fine. They exist in the stories, why not the D&D campaign! My mind "boggles" that you think it's clear this would mean a knights-only campaign and are surprised players would push to play non-knight characters. Now, if you instead were more explicit with your players, "I want to run a Knights of the Round Table style game where all the PCs are knights in service to the king" THAT would be much more clear, and players should be expected to come up with knightly character concepts. But again, players trying to push the boundaries and create characters that feel different or unique shouldn't be an issue . . . at least for discussion. As stated upthread, in some Arthurian stories, Morded spends time as a knight of the Round Table and in some stories has a degree of sorcerous power (separate from his mom's). So, as a player, asking to play a Mordred-inspired knight with a degree of sorcerous (or warlocky) power, doesn't feel out of theme to me, but that's the point of discussion, to see if it would feel out of theme for the DM and other players.</blockquote>

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