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Had the idea today about this. Trying an all knight game, Something along the lines of the movie King Arthur. Any thoughts?

An all knight game would be interesting. Healing might become a concern. Perhaps if they have a church to return to between quests. Healing poultices might be good, too, or some other non-magical means of healing themselves. I think the synergy they'd be able to create would be pretty darn sweet. I'd play in it!

Hmmm....
I gotta say, this is where feats would help with party ability diversity.
Though, rumour has it that everyone only picks the 'good' feats anyway and it's sort of an illusion.

I suppose a Paladin or two mixed in might be justified, a Merlin type might actually work as a Druid instead of a wizard.

Following the lead Amazing Adventures, perhaps make a list of generic abilities for the knight to 'swap' with the RAW abilities, and build a few that way?

Of course, you could just leave it and it would probably be fine too.

Back in the day, I played in a group that was all either cavilers, paladins, or 'noble' clerics. It was a blast (well until the DM started showing favoritism to his girlfriend ...

That said, it wasn't a dungeon crawl type of game, and there was a lot of society/political in play to the role playing. So to make it work, the DM has to be ready for that, and the party has to be able to ply that type of a game. However, there was some great combat. Nothing like having a V formation of knights charging into a mass of orcs ... Oh what fun!!!

Karameikos was pretty much made for such a game. It is one of the Gazetteers done for Mystara, of which I only like Glantri more.

For such a game you may not want the character class to define "Knight" but the social position to do so. That way more of the classes will be able to qualify and round out the group. Even classes you may not want to be a "Knight" (ie cannot wear heavy armors, etc...) can eventually earn the social status, despite being a wizard, rogue, etc...

It certainly has merit, a small band of brave souls sent to do the Kings' work. One would think that such a troop would want diversity... a scallywag of a rascal, a flinger of the eldritch ways, and most certainly a member of clergy from the King's own faith. Restricting to a single class has potential but it also leads to complications.

I guess using that movie as reference I guess only Arthur would be a knight by the class. And at least one of Arthur's knights would be a barbarian. No one but Arthur was even a free man of sorts and a military officer. They were not knights until the end of the movie. The Romans pulled out and Arthur became king. So fighters, barbarians, and even paladins could be used. With a knight class leader.

Ronin77 wrote:I guess using that movie as reference I guess only Arthur would be a knight by the class. And at least one of Arthur's knights would be a barbarian. No one but Arthur was even a free man of sorts and a military officer. They were not knights until the end of the movie. The Romans pulled out and Arthur became king. So fighters, barbarians, and even paladins could be used. With a knight class leader.

Ohhhhh that movie .... I didn't read that part of your first post, sorry ...

With that as a base line, rgr more classes will be open to more diverse classes. From that, it should be easy enough and more like a standard party.

I wish I had all my notes and dragon mags. I remember there being a article in some of them about historic heros. One of them had Roland and his fellow knights (or was it El Cid ... I can't remember). One of them was a barbarian that was becoming a knight. However, in the heat of battle, if pressed, he liked to grab a club and go beserk. That would fit your idea. Unfortunatly, I could never convince my party to play in a setting/game like that, but I would love to.

Lord Dynel wrote:An all knight game would be interesting. Healing might become a concern.

Perhaps, but it may come down to the way you run the campaign.

Thinking about the King Arthur movie, I noticed that the knights weren't all generic so you might try to blend classes together for variation.

In traditional Arthurian legends, Glahad might be a paladin, but in the movie Arthur seems to fill that role because of his fierce conviction and code of horor -- perhaps a Knight Paladin. In the movie, Lancelot uses two weapons and reminds me a lot of an assassin. Perhaps a Knight Assassin? The names of the other knights are blurring in my brain at the moment, but one of them had a hawk and did a lot of tracking so might be a Knight Ranger. One had a big axe and talked about his bastard children -- perhaps a Knight Barbarian.

The point is that you could have some difference in the knights by having each divide his levels between knight and something else.

Not to mention that Merlin was something of a druid in the movie and there's no reason why there couldn't be some sort of magic-using knights in the campaign as well.

This could be a fun game!