Editing Noble (section)

== "Noble" as a ''character'' class ==

[[File:Lance, a noble rogue.jpg|right|thumb|290px|Ready to backstab you, either with a dagger or his tongue.]]

[[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]] included the [[Aristocrat]] as an NPC class. Like non-[[Adept]] NPC classes, it’s deliberately too weak for player use, although it does enjoy good starting money, fittingly. Power of Faerun would introduce the 3 level Merchant Prince(ss) [[Prestige Class]]. Anyone with sufficiently high intelligence and Profession as a class skill (read: Anyone but [[Barbarian]] and Aristocrat) can access this at the earliest possible point, but practically a class with high skill points is required. The three required feats are all of minimal use and most of its abilities are only useful for their interaction with the subsystems in the same book, but it does gain a small bit of a casting from a limited list. 

The main [[Dragonlance]] book for 3rd edition introduce a player class known as "Noble". It can only be taken at first level because apparently [[Derp|nobody on Krynn is knighted or married into the gentry, apprenticed to a common trade/religious order only to be recalled to noble duties when their older siblings die, and absolutely never does any orphan discover they're a lost heir to a noble title]]. It has martial weapons, light armor, medium BAB, good reflex and will saves, and 4 skills from a socially focused list. Its only class features are picking one skill as a class skill, the GM fiat "favor" from the ''Star Wars d20'' Noble (see below) and Bardic Music. It's barely above an NPC class in power and thus [[Tier System|Tier 5]], mostly saved by the ability to get UMD or Iaijutsu as a class skill and possible cheese that having any bardic music opens.

In [[Pathfinder]], [[Vigilante (Pathfinder)|Vigilante]] has several class feature options that support playing it as a “noble” class. Paths of Prestige introduced the Noble Scion class, which is really just a social skill monkey chassis that’s only not unsuitable for a player character because it gives free leadership twice.

In [[Iron Kingdoms RPG]], human characters can pick Aristocrat as one of their two classes.  An Aristocrat is a strong social/interaction class, including the ability to learn languages; IKRPG makes a point of making language a barrier that can only be overcome by characters who aren't total murderhobos, so this is a very important skill.  Aristocrats also have access to some riding and leadership skills, placing them somewhere between the knight and military officer classes.  

[[Star Wars D20]] included the Noble class as a quasi Bard analog and, like all classes in the system, is a huge mess, but still one of the best non-force users in the system and one of only two classes with diplomacy as a class skill. ''Saga Edition'''s changes made the noble into a social skill monkey by default, with talent options allowing the class to function as a military officer, social butterfly, swashbuckler or more without necessarily being of nobility, rendering the name an artifact of the previous edition.

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