Adapting Third Edition Templates To Fourth Edition

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by mlangsdorf

Even historical knights who are warriors vary from William the Conqueror's mounted spearmen in heavy mail to zweihander wielding infantrymen in Maximillian plate. It's not a precise term and it covers over 1000 years of history.

And you sometimes see the term knight used as a broad "cultural translation" for heavy cavalry going back an extra thousand years before that - which isn't entirely unjustified, as the cost of maintaining a warhorse means such a warrior is almost always a landlord or a sworn officer thereof (i.e. the equivalent of a European knight).