Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
Knighted Lord
"wearing armor is easy convincing the council of elders now that is hard"
prereq: Warlord, Chainmail Proficiency and Trained in Diplomacy
benefits proficiency with plate armor and +2 on history.
Rationale
I love Knights (Arthur and Lancelot and Gawaine but also Charlemagne and Roland for the win) and based on the offerings of Essentials previews ... So Does the current D&D Development Team and they do it with a passion 2 of the the first 8 classes arguably target Knight archetypes... wow.
Ok call me way too picky - I am not massively happy with how either the knight class or the cavalier invokes a Knight.... I posted an earlier blog which basically presented a house rule opening up the fighting man to being a skilled individual - I think heroic fighters are skilled in more fiction than not and the old stereotype should be dead.
My take on the knight is a tad different I want to start with well not Arthur or Charlemange specifically but with the educated nobleman raised to lead men... the Knighted Lord... The players handbook already had a class who was strongly oriented towards this already it was called the Warlord (so maybe the players handbook also favored 2 knights eh? Paladin and Warlord) - the flavor text of this class mentions the Knight Commander!
The warlord is close but misses on perhaps only a very small arena. The Warlord lacks the shining armor I hybrid with Paladin to give him it but that honestly that seems like a heavy handed thing to have to do especially when such a Knighted Lord might have less than Holy personality in an era where might made right.
CON and the Knight
Realism divorces stamina from plate armor strangely enough the stuff is actually easier to wear than chain in this regards (assuming the weather isnt overtly hot)
And In spite of being known as the greatest knight/fighter of all history Lancelot was also known as being of poor endurance he was often found sleeping at inopportune times (and subsequently oggled by females) - sure most definitely a paladin and Like Arthur also of Auspicious birth (see hit points and being raised by the lady of the Lake).
So about the Knighted Lord our Warlord whos fluff and function is so close already to a knight shoud he be stranded at scale without having to unrealistically and unmythically have to pump his constitution????
What to do? eh.... one thought was just to reduce/remove the CON requirement for Plate... that might be one solution. .. The melee oriented battlefront warlord could then take his Plate without having to pump constitution or engage in hybriding.
The other thought i had was to have a feat like the Armored Warlord -- perhaps one which skipped scale and jumped to Plate armor and brought another feature of the nobility in that thing called diplomacy.... how about calling it knighted lord.
Do we need another way to build a Knight or is that a King? No but heck it can be fun.
"wearing armor is easy convincing the council of elders now that is hard"
prereq: Warlord, Chainmail Proficiency and Trained in Diplomacy
benefits proficiency with plate armor and +2 on history.
Rationale
I love Knights (Arthur and Lancelot and Gawaine but also Charlemagne and Roland for the win) and based on the offerings of Essentials previews ... So Does the current D&D Development Team and they do it with a passion 2 of the the first 8 classes arguably target Knight archetypes... wow.
Ok call me way too picky - I am not massively happy with how either the knight class or the cavalier invokes a Knight.... I posted an earlier blog which basically presented a house rule opening up the fighting man to being a skilled individual - I think heroic fighters are skilled in more fiction than not and the old stereotype should be dead.
My take on the knight is a tad different I want to start with well not Arthur or Charlemange specifically but with the educated nobleman raised to lead men... the Knighted Lord... The players handbook already had a class who was strongly oriented towards this already it was called the Warlord (so maybe the players handbook also favored 2 knights eh? Paladin and Warlord) - the flavor text of this class mentions the Knight Commander!
The warlord is close but misses on perhaps only a very small arena. The Warlord lacks the shining armor I hybrid with Paladin to give him it but that honestly that seems like a heavy handed thing to have to do especially when such a Knighted Lord might have less than Holy personality in an era where might made right.
CON and the Knight
Realism divorces stamina from plate armor strangely enough the stuff is actually easier to wear than chain in this regards (assuming the weather isnt overtly hot)
And In spite of being known as the greatest knight/fighter of all history Lancelot was also known as being of poor endurance he was often found sleeping at inopportune times (and subsequently oggled by females) - sure most definitely a paladin and Like Arthur also of Auspicious birth (see hit points and being raised by the lady of the Lake).
So about the Knighted Lord our Warlord whos fluff and function is so close already to a knight shoud he be stranded at scale without having to unrealistically and unmythically have to pump his constitution????
What to do? eh.... one thought was just to reduce/remove the CON requirement for Plate... that might be one solution. .. The melee oriented battlefront warlord could then take his Plate without having to pump constitution or engage in hybriding.
The other thought i had was to have a feat like the Armored Warlord -- perhaps one which skipped scale and jumped to Plate armor and brought another feature of the nobility in that thing called diplomacy.... how about calling it knighted lord.
Do we need another way to build a Knight or is that a King? No but heck it can be fun.
