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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alaric_Prympax" data-source="post: 308812" data-attributes="member: 176">Well the Tooks are the Noble family in the Shire, the Thain is in charge of the Shire Militia (not that it's called into action all that often).  If there are any Hobbits that are noble then IMO the Tooks certainly are them.The Brandybucks are another large and powerful family.  They even expanded the Shire by colonizing what became Buckland which was not part of the original land grant given to the Hobbits by the king.  The Master of Buckland seemed to be pretty respected too by the Hobbits of the Shire if not in a strange way.  We all know how queer the Brandybucks are.  The actually like boats! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />The Baggins seemed to be well respected throughout the Shire and were related to both the Tooks and the Brandybucks (well Frodo we know was).  Bagend seems to be a large Hobbit Hole as Hobbit Holes go and Bilbo inheirited it and we all know that he lived there before his little trip to the Lonely Mountain.So Pippin, Merry, and Frodo IMO would have at least a level or two of Aristocrat.  As ColonelHardisson has said and I agree that Pippin picks up some PrC levels equalling the Knight Protector of the Great Kingdom later on (converted to ME of course).  Merry would have picked up on the Rider of Rohan PrC (that is if one exisited, I've never seen one) or a few levels of Fighter focusing on the Ride, Handle Animal skills, and the Riding Combat Feats (but I will note he really never showed that much in the books for something like that, I'm just pointing it out for flavor).  I like the idea of Frodo having some Bard levels, it fits with him being knowledgeable about many things, his writing of songs, poetry, and books too (this works especially well with Bilbo as well), and all their "sneeking" everywhere.  Bilbo definately has levels of Rogue or Burglar.  I loved the line that went something like "Well go Burgle something!" which may have been only in the cartoon.I'll confess that giving Sam a level or two of Expert instead of Commoner I might have been "roll" playing instead of "role" playing.  Since his father was a gardener and Sam was taking up his father's duties I thought it fit better to let Sam be an Expert instead of just a Commoner.  Everyone thinks that skill points are important and this just helps out Sam a little more.Well this turned out to be much longer then I expected.Edited much later to fix some spelling, time was fleeting and I had to run out for a few things.</blockquote>

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