Personal disagreements aside, forcing people into the Courtier class is explicitly against the rules of the game. As such, why not allow newbies to play as a courtiers if they want to? Heck, I'd be in favor (I know, much more work, sorry) of a choice on character creation between warrior class or courtier class, depending upon what you want that noble to be. I wanted to roll a noble who was just going to be a statesman and play a courtier but I had to fight battles and do civil and police work until my H/P were high enough; it would have been nice to just be able to jump into being a courtier.
