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<blockquote data-quote="kallisti23" data-source="post: 5854136" data-attributes="member: 28634">I will begin by saying this is a great thread with a lot of really good ideas and insight.Firstly, I think that a 'sandbox'-style campaign would be a good approach for a questing knight campaign. That way, there would be several quests worthy of knights laying in wait for the PCs to happen upon, as well as several plots and miniplots in place to draw the PCs in, and rampaging monsters for brave knights to defend helpless peasants from. The sandbox style of campaign design accommodates PC initiative, and it is knightly to take initiative! Several of the ideas and suggestions given already in this thread could be patched together into a sandbox-style campaign.Also, there is the issue of Party composition... it occurs to me that, given all the family and business and military connections between nobles (including knights), there is boundless potential for non-knight PCs in a knight-oriented campaign. A couple of warrior-type PCs might be knights, but a cleric or monk PC might be a younger brother of a noble who went into the church, a bard or wizard might be an advisor, a rogue might be a courtier, and so forth. And finally, I highly recommend checking out the Birthright setting from AD&amp;D 2nd edition. Birthright was more about the PCs being landed nobles than it was about knights, but nevertheless I believe a lot of focus of Birthright is relevant to a knight-oriented campaign, and likely useful and inspirational.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kallisti23, post: 5854136, member: 28634"] I will begin by saying this is a great thread with a lot of really good ideas and insight. Firstly, I think that a 'sandbox'-style campaign would be a good approach for a questing knight campaign. That way, there would be several quests worthy of knights laying in wait for the PCs to happen upon, as well as several plots and miniplots in place to draw the PCs in, and rampaging monsters for brave knights to defend helpless peasants from. The sandbox style of campaign design accommodates PC initiative, and it is knightly to take initiative! Several of the ideas and suggestions given already in this thread could be patched together into a sandbox-style campaign. Also, there is the issue of Party composition... it occurs to me that, given all the family and business and military connections between nobles (including knights), there is boundless potential for non-knight PCs in a knight-oriented campaign. A couple of warrior-type PCs might be knights, but a cleric or monk PC might be a younger brother of a noble who went into the church, a bard or wizard might be an advisor, a rogue might be a courtier, and so forth. And finally, I highly recommend checking out the Birthright setting from AD&D 2nd edition. Birthright was more about the PCs being landed nobles than it was about knights, but nevertheless I believe a lot of focus of Birthright is relevant to a knight-oriented campaign, and likely useful and inspirational. [/QUOTE]

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