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unseenmage
2016-09-20, 04:35 PM
Trying to figure out exactly how many people make up a royal court in Pathfinder.
D&D 3.5 Power of Faerun pg. 22 has a detailed list of personnel for Faerunian high courts. I'm looking for an analagous list for PF.

The NPC codex (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/npc-s/npc-8/king-human-aristocrat-10) tells us who accompanies a King, General, etc when they're encountered.
Kingmaker and Ultimate Campaign give us a short list of ruling offices.
The Settlement rules (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/gameMasteryGuide/settlements.html) give us the settlement stats for a generic city which includes rulers and their levels.

Are there other sources from which a Golarion royal court could be extrapolated?

Psyren
2016-09-20, 04:59 PM
Have you cross-posted this to the Paizo boards? Folks there would likely have an encyclopedic knowledge of PF sources that we lack, to say nothing of the designers themselves.

unseenmage
2016-09-20, 05:16 PM
Have you cross-posted this to the Paizo boards? Folks there would likely have an encyclopedic knowledge of PF sources that we lack, to say nothing of the designers themselves.

Thanks for the idea. Will do.

Edit Aaand done (http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2twx0?What-does-a-Golarion-royal-court-look-like).

Snow-blind
2016-09-20, 05:22 PM
Have you cross-posted this to the Paizo boards? Folks there would likely have an encyclopedic knowledge of PF sources that we lack, to say nothing of the designers themselves.
I can tell you right now that the "official" stance on almost any Golarion demographics related question is going to be along the lines of "it is up to the GM - they are free to choose whatever facilitates their story". Feel free to look around (or even ask James Jacobs yourself), but you are likely to be disappointed if you want something definite.

Since what you want probably doesn't exist, your options are as follows:

1. Come up with some reasonable assumptions about the demographics of Golarion and derive from there.

2. Hope there is a specific example or two in the APs which you can reverse engineer general rules from.

3. Pick whatever you want that "facilitates your story".