What's a word for a non-adventurer?

[Morrus]

commoners

Doesn't completely fit, but its how I think of them.

Even the nobles and princes?

 

[LordEntrails]

Even the nobles and princes?

I know, that's why I said it doesn't fit all that well.

If its a category you need, what about using several nouns?
"Commoners, Nobles, and Merchants"
or "Townsfolk, Outlanders, and Others"

 

[Lanefan]

The problem is, there's more to it than a binary adventurer/non-adventurer divide. At the very least you've got:

Commoners (peasants, townsfolk, etc.)
Specials (nobility, trade guild barons, etc.)
Quasi-adventurers* (militia, stay-at-home temple clerics or lab mages, sages, etc.)
Adventurers (who could previously have been any of the above)

* - or whatever other term you choose that indicates people who can slowly gain levels (or the equivalent) but who do not adventure to do so.

Which means, unfortunately, that to cover all the non-adventurers properly you're probably stuck with calling them "non-adventurers".

 

[Morrus]

The problem is, there's more to it than a binary adventurer/non-adventurer divide.

I know what the problem is!

 

[Celebrim]

Ordinaries?

 

[LordEntrails]

"Commoners, Experts, & Nobles"

 

[ccs]

How about Citizens?

 

[Morrus]

I know, that's why I said it doesn't fit all that well.

If its a category you need, what about using several nouns?
"Commoners, Nobles, and Merchants"
or "Townsfolk, Outlanders, and Others"

That is a solution, and one I considered, but it breaks from the bestiary’s format. It would grate on me!

 

[Morrus]

How about Citizens?

I mentioned that in my initial post.

 

[Dioltach]

NPCs
Members of the public
Sane