I am running a Gnome Cavalier from Taldor that is in Anderon(where the games is main setting. 2 of the other party are from Cheliax and are basiclly run-away slave. I don't really have a problem with a bounch of unbearded that wanna shake up the system in Cheliax. I have read a Dragon mag. on Knights and am tryen to make a Knights entourage. His goals are to become a traveling Champion to gain pretige, fame and fortune. He wants to rebuild his father manor in Taldor and public works of the Hamlet that the manor is in. I want to get into the Lion Blades. They are who I will be feeding information to. Is there any ideas that anyone can offer me to enrich this PC.
The dragon mag. is #299 Knights and Paladins. It covers good iedas on knights,but was wondering if theres any other ideas to make this PC good. I was wondering if someone might have more experiance with running Taldorian Knights for some rollplaying ideas too. Thanks for your help.
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Your ideas would work great for a human knight from Taldor, but gnome personalities in Pathfinder don't usually mirror humans that well. It might make sense for an individual gnome to want to mimic human nobility and act like a typical knight that way. But your story of wanting to rebuild his father's manor and all that throws up red flags to me. Gnomes are usually too flighty to have manors or noble relationships lasting across generations.
I actually play a gnome from Taldor in Pathfinder Society, but my gnome is a sorcerer from the fey forest in northern Taldor, and he doesn't take the nobility too seriously. He feigns loyalty to Taldor just because the petty squabbling of the nobles amuses him, so he wants to be included.
My suggestion would be to dump the part about already being a noble knight, and make him a gnome trying to become nobility by doing great deeds for Taldor. Your GM might play up the aspect that NPCs won't take him seriously because he's a gnome, so he has to work three times as hard as a human to earn respect as a knight.
Yeah his Father after many years took in his favrite illagetimate son to take his place eventually. Based from Gnomes of Golarion and well my favorite character in War and Peice Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov (and his son). Thought Gnome might shake it up a little. I think if Taldan Knight feat is an sign of what normally becomes knights it should be human or halfling.
After reading Advanced Player's guide and saw no perfered class for Gnomes as Cav's I figured I was starting on weird ground.
The GM and I figured a Bachelor(knight) being the lowwest we could find was a good level to start with in the Feudalism. Some of the roll playing things it suggests for a Bachelor in the Dargon Mag. was to build a manor for themselves and that they are eager to prove themselves and often die(thought that fit Gnome and adventurer).
Clockwork Knights and the like are just so hard to find info on and well Knights too for that matter (can't wait for Knights of the Inner sea).
I love running Gnomes and was looking for something challengeing. I usually stick to casting though. Thats why I'm tryen to get it as develpoed as I can.