I am starting a campaign where the characters are beginning squires, using the rules in the Book of Knights and Ladies, p.57. It makes mundane foes like bandits much more of a challenge and single combat against a bear a truly scary prospect.

Question: Would squires get annual Glory for their Traits and Passions? I was thinking of awarding those at 1/4 the points a knight would get just as they get 1/4 the Battle glory (BoKL, p. 69), since the knights *do* watch/evaluate the squires but the squires don't have the same opportunities to shine.

Thank you very much.

In a previous edition, Squires gained 1/3rd the adventuring glory of Knights, and full annual glory.

In KAP5, they suffer no reduction in glory. They get glory for advbenturing as normal (they usually have fewer opportunities) and, I believe, gain annual glory from the time they start adventuring (the time people start noticing and talking about them).

I think the reason squires gain 1/4 glory for those battles is because it's assumed they were acting as squires - they weren't fighting, the were knights were. If you played a squire during a battle, and he was for some reason fighting alongside the knights rather than doing squirely things, I'm sure he'd get full glory.

It's not going to break the game if you award them less glory, though.

In a previous edition, Squires gained 1/3rd the adventuring glory of Knights, and full annual glory.

In KAP5, they suffer no reduction in glory. They get glory for advbenturing as normal (they usually have fewer opportunities) and, I believe, gain annual glory from the time they start adventuring (the time people start noticing and talking about them).

I think the reason squires gain 1/4 glory for those battles is because it's assumed they were acting as squires - they weren't fighting, the were knights were. If you played a squire during a battle, and he was for some reason fighting alongside the knights rather than doing squirely things, I'm sure he'd get full glory.

It's not going to break the game if you award them less glory, though.


That makes sense. Thank you very much.