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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3488689" data-attributes="member: 29014">[SBLOCK=Fenris]-Ah, I can't be of overly much help there, but I can definitely suggest Familiarity over EWP-You only ever get the Shield of your primary aspect.  The rest is correct.  Note that there is a special feat that requires you to have a secondary aspect and no notorious flaw (since having a notorious flaw means you only deal with five aspects anyway) that gives you an extra aspect and its powers.  It can only be taken once.  Hero's Challenge short version: It is a call-out to a worthy enemy for a duel.  As long as your own allies don't mess with that by butting in, you get a bonus, and if the enemy breaks it by fighting with allies, she gets a penalty unless she makes a save.  Works well for a Musketeer--they often like to challenge people to duels-Okay cool-The Charisma for your character is fine and makes sense--don't think you have to change it at all.  I was just commenting on the flavour bit about the daughters mentioned in the family background <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (though males do not follow the interesting genetic tendencies of shared traits with charisma like the females, so really it doesn't matter).  As for the male chance to marry upwards, that isn't really a function of the male's Charisma, actually--a male marries upwards by finding a slightly higher noble house with a relatively-unattractive daughter that they can't pawn upwards to gain a more prestigious ally, so they marry her downward to one of the more powerful/useful lower families.  So really, marriage is a convoluted function of the guy's family power, the girl's looks, the girl's family's prestige, and possibly other sorts of intrigue in a big tangled web (just like marriage in real life!...if you're a noble, I guess)You don't have to take a flaw--it just makes it easier for you because your code is less strict.  A lack of Justice basically means that everything else on that list trumps Justice for you.  Knights are not always Good-aligned, but a Lawful Good Knight who lacks Justice does so because, while still Lawful because of the strict honour code he follows, he has some tendencies towards Neutral Good type acts--he places loyalty to friends, acts of charity/kindness/mercy, the will of the church, etc above Justice.  Examples:  Lawful Good Knight Paladin with Justice as a Heroic Flaw finds out that a priest who is also the greedy baron's Master of the Treasury has been embezzling money for church funds, including acts of charity and repairs/expansions for the church.  The knight doesn't turn the priest in--her first duty is to the church, even if she must ignore Justice.  Lawful Good Royal Knight in service of the Queen discovers that she has been illicitly sleeping with the Duke of Buckingham.  Rather than expose her unlawful actions, he acts to preserve her honour at all costs, as loyalty to his liege is his first duty.  Lawful Good Knight Hospitaler convinces his companions not to cut down the murderous orphaned street urchin-turned-witch, despite the fact that Justice and the law call for the little girl's head.  In fact, he doesn't even send the girl to prison--the girl seemed desperate and in need of love, and perhaps redeemable if given a home, love and attention, and a good example of how to live an honourable life, so he adopts her instead but keeps her under his eye.    All of these situations can occur without the Heroic Flaw for Justice, but they would be moral dilemmas that cause a decrease in one category of honour and increase in another if this was the case.  With Heroic Flaw, this can be something your character is known for, and an easier choice both in and out of character (since you don't lose any honour at all for it).  [/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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