Sup /tg/ , In my setting to be a knight you have to be one of

They have to free all the girls from various towers and dungeons.
And have no intercourse with any them

First screening is recruiting from universities and the like, so the intelligent part can be reasonably granted, then it's time for physical tests where you have to score a minimum to pass. No test is like the one that came before it and no one knows what the score needed to pass is, thus everyone is on their toes and strives to exceed his limits. This is also the first way to test mettle and willpower too.

After that a fair number of aspirants will have been discarded already and deeper tests may start, along with training that more closely resembles the activities that knights will have to perform on the field. Lack of sleep and preparation for these tests is paramount as it mirrors ever changing condtions during service.

The nature and form of these tests largely relies on the tech level, organization of the knightly order and how much magic there is.

>>48358138
>No test is like the one that came before it and no one knows what the score needed to pass is

Look I get why you probably think this is a good idea but it might not be. All it would do is encourage and perpetuate myths of knighthood being a club where only daddy knight's kid gets chosen for performing good.

Which could be a benefit or a hindrance, depending on how you want knighthood to be perceived by outsiders and commoners.

>>48358200

To clarify, this is the type of scenario that could occur: "Dad told me test 1 is do 1000 pushups in an 8 hour period, and test 2 is a surprise exam of doing 100 chinups immediately after finishing my last push-up. Guess I better pace myself and rest before finishing my pushups!"

>>48358200
If it really happened, that would be a further way of ensuring that only the most intelligent apply in the first place.

Obviously you have them all take a written exam, followed by a tournament trial of arms.

You skim the top percentile of performers off the top and offer the rest of the top say, thirty percent training as men at arms.

>>48358236
In case it wasn't clear, the whole point of what I said is to ensure that when Kiddie McKnightywannabe will get to the physical tests ready for his pushups he'll have to run a marathon instead.

>>48358138
I think having the test be random every time would be kind of pointless for a knight. The test should be related to what knights are primarily doing in war, like long knight rides before a battle or charging across a field as fast as possible. That's why modern armies (and ancient ones)
have standardized physical tests.

>>48358334
This is a screening test to discard the ones that don't reach a minimum of physical fitness, ensuring you don't have to waste much time preparing them before actually starting the training. OP specifically mentioned that you need to be exceptionally strong to get knighthood, riding a horse is not the best measure of that. I already addressed the specialist training happening after the initial screening phase.

And while it's true that modern armies have standardised training, some special forces units use exactly the method I'm talking about.

"you see that mountain? climb it"

retarded ahistorical fucking of an historical concept tied to social class, distribution of power, government of territory not!knights

make a better setting that isn't stupid

OP here i was thinking that only about 10 people qualify to be a knight, so what could be a good first test so by the end of it there are only about 300 applicants? i was thinking in a battle royale but that would be quite long

>>48358630
This is why hisfags get flak anon, kindly go back to your board.

>>48358656

I literally just told you anon. If you want to go that route for gameplay purposes though, you can always cut time by playing a series of mock battles instead of a long battle royale. Puts focus on the PCs and saves time while the rest happens in the background.

Make them run , after 1 hour the men standing win

>>48358829
This is not a difficult task of you don't make them run as fast as possible.

>>48358900
I wanna have faith in anon and think that he meant the players

They have one hour to bring the head of a monster

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>>48358981
>they cut off the kings head

There is a species of monster in some forest, they need to retrieve its eggs

Dick ups
Lay on stomach, and get an erection, people who raise the highest win

Points system.
1v1 Sparring. Every win is one point.
The top quarter competitors go on.
After that, a shooting competition with the most common ranged weapon around. They must shoot four targets at 10, 30, 50 and 100 m as fast as they can. Outer 20% is one point, inner is 5, 10% is 7 and inner 5% is 10. Time bonus is 100/time in seconds.
After that, they must answer some logic riddles. You have to decide which, what I think is smart could be incredibly simple and vice versa. 5 points per riddle.
Finally, live fire exercise. They must breach into a [insert humanoid enemy] lair and bring back the greatest amount of ears/tails/whatever. One point per token.

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>>48363815
53 keks