Okay, I checked the boards, but didn't find anything that fits what I'm looking for.
I'm going to be running a 4-person game in my homebrew setting (a sequestered plane), where the characters are good-aligned and preparing to depart on a heroic quest.
Basically, one of my players is a newer player that wants to play a sword and board Knight. Now, I don't have a problem with this. I like the class, I hope he has fun, I want this to work. I'm trying to work out a way to outfit the character well. He'll start at level 7, and has his option of rolling his stats or taking the following array: 15, 14, 16, 16, 15, 11
Available sources are WotC books, though subject to review. I don't mind some fun stuff, but I do want to keep power from getting out of hand. I'd also like to keep this a simpler build. Bear in mind, he's turned down Tome of Battle in favor of something a little easier to work with. It's a step up from the fighter he played in another campaign I ran. He's also pretty settled on human, which is fine; I have a hook worked out for that.
Bear in mind, I'm probably also going to replace Mounted Combat and any mention of Weapon Focus: Lance will be available for Weapon Focus: Any. If it was just a mounted charger, this would be easy, but given that the group is going to be involved in some dungeon crawling, I'd prefer to give him something he'd get a chance to use.
I'm posting this here because you guys are better at working at different levels of optimizing. I tried to get some feedback on the GitP boards, but I got an awful lot of ignoring the guidelines.
Thanks in advance!