JohnB's Games

Before it gets complicated - if you want a distant (fluffy) connection with a minor aristocratic family, that adds to your character back-history and gives you some minor RP possibilities but doesn't really add any crunchyness - talk to the DM. This probably won't let you use a Nobiliary Particle in your name.

If you want a stronger association with a Noble Family, you can do that too. However, Noble Families are always involved in politics, and you will get sucked into this at some point. The closer you are to the head of the family - the more likely you are to get sucked in. Unless you make a very good case, it will be a minor noble family, tweaked to fit my world. If you want to be heavily Noble, you can use two or more of the techniques listed below to have links with more than one noble family. However, we work out the details later - so that we get a noble family that suits you and fits my game.

• NPC Class: Aristocrat - You may choose to start the game as an L1 Aristocrat. You can be within one generation of the head of a Noble Family - a nephew or niece - but with no chance of inheriting the title. You might want to check Schooled Aristocrats out as well.
• Feat: Noble Scion - You start the game with the Noble Scion feat, although you must meet the pre-requisites. You are within two generations of the Head of the Family and one of your parents is an aunt, uncle, niece or nephew of the Head of House.
• Trait: Noble - You are associated with a Noble Family in the area, but are more than two generations from the Head of Family.
• Trait: Noble in Exile - You are associated with a Noble Family from out of the area, but are more than two generations from the Head of Family.
• Trait: Lesser Noble - Your family still has the trappings of Nobility, but has no real power.

In all of these cases you would be entitled to us a Nobiliary Particle in your name as described here.