The original purpose of a squire was just to hold things for a knight! https://twitter.com/sabato__n/status/1233515720551653376 …
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This is something Monty Python and the Holy Grail gets right. The knights trot along looking gallantish while a dude carrying all their shit follows behind.
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brb gonna roll a haughty knight who acts exactly like a golf player and has an NPC like "for this battle I recommend the... claymore, sir"
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[knight cleaves beast in half with one swipe] squire: 2 under par! well done sir [scribbling with a quill]
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I remember one group I played in had a character like this, he was a merchant who had a little cart for his merchandise and also the stuff that the rest of the group was too lazy to carry
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As long as they dole out the XP equally .
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Another reason Followers used to be a thing. I think it was like 9th level that fighters started accumulating them in first ed Ad&D? The transitional phase between dungeon crawling and kingdom management.
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This is kind of what hirelings and followers were for originally too. But they don't really work very well in a world with Fireball in it.
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Not 100% on the in-game mechanics, but sounds sort of like why one wants air/missile defence IRL. Best hire a decent shield-wizard or buy good deflective charms.
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This is the form of warfare from which we get the term "chivalry", which literally means "horsemanship", and refers to the general set of rules necessary to make mounted combat viable
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