Cavalier: Changing orders


Rules Questions


I have a player that wants to change his Cavalier order. Here is text:

RAW wrote:
At 1st level, a cavalier must pledge himself to a specific order. The order grants the cavalier a number of bonuses, class skills, and special abilities. In addition, each order includes a number of edicts that the cavalier must follow. If he violates any of these edicts, he loses the benefits from his order’s challenge ability for 24 hours. The violation of an edict is subject to GM interpretation. A cavalier cannot change his order without undertaking a lengthy process to dedicate himself to a new cause. When this choice is made, he immediately loses all of the benef its from his old order. He must then follow the edicts of his new order for one entire level without gaining any benef its from that order. Once accomplished, he gains all of the bonuses from his new order. Note that the names of these orders might vary depending upon the campaign setting or GM’s preference.

So how would your rule in the case where a PC is 2/3 of the way through 6th level and denounces his order and starts following another?

A) He loses all abilities and he gains the abilities of his new order at 2/3 of the way through 7th level
B) He loses all abilities until he hits 8th level
C) Other


Well, if I had to choose. Since the text says "one entire level", and he is already mostly through his current level, I would say "B". He has to go the entirety of his 7th level without any benefits from his order in order to switch.

There is no level "6 and a half" or "6 and two-thirds". The game doesn't work that way. There is 6th level, and 7th level. In order to go "an entire level", he would have to both begin and end that specific level without those abilities.


Jeraa wrote:

Well, if I had to choose. Since the text says "one entire level", and he is already mostly through his current level, I would say "B". He has to go the entirety of his 7th level without any benefits from his order in order to switch.

There is no level "6 and a half" or "6 and two-thirds". The game doesn't work that way. There is 6th level, and 7th level. In order to go "an entire level", he would have to both begin and end that specific level without those abilities.

Thanks for the input.

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