Noble Warriors

This is a campaign of knights and chivalric doings. Some of the characters are traditional medieval knights, some are their squires; others may be warriors or mercenaries accompanying their party, or other types of characters being escorted by them (noblemen and noblewomen, priests, etc.).

This type of campaign differs greatly from the Cavaliers campaign in that the Noble Warriors don't have to be staunch supporters of goodness and light. Some will be true heroes; some will be self-centered boors. But they share the common ties of knighthood and nobility, so they usually get along with one another.

For an idea of what sorts of adventures are appropriate to a Noble Warriors campaign, you need only read the books and see the movies, available in the hundreds or thousands, appropriate to such characters. In particular, the novels of Sir Walter Scott and the chronicles of the doings of Camelot are very appropriate source material (and, no, not all the knights of Camelot were Cavaliers; some were brutes).

In Noble Warriors campaigns, the heroes wander the land righting wrongs by sword or lance; they fight dragons which lair in menacing caverns in the deepest woods; they defend the land against infidels and invaders; they compete with one another in friendly tournaments and unfriendly clashes between rival kings or barons; and they raise and lead great armies on overseas crusades.

They also defend the prerogatives of their class. For instance, in a Cavaliers campaign, the PC heroes might join a peasant's rebellion against the land's rightful (but greedy and abusive) rulers, and even completely overthrow that land's system of rulership. In a Noble Warriors campaign, the PCs will instead help put down the rebellion . . . and then the good ones among them will investigate the cause of the rebellion, and perhaps depose the evil lords on their own. At that point, they'd elevate the next person in line for the throne or lordship—as long as he was a noble enough character.

In Noble Warrior campaigns, if the PCs all agree to it, they can all be unchivalric boors. Perhaps they all prefer to be robber-barons and ill-tempered knights. If that's the case, and the DM has no problem with it, that's fine.

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