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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 2921210" data-attributes="member: 40398">A lot of us complain about the cliched 'you all meet up in a tavern looking for work' campaign start, and with good reason. For experienced gamers, it's old and stale. However, I sometimes find it hard to come up with good alternatives to the tavern scene. I've come to realize that maybe this is because of the way we play d&d; that is, we often play it still holding on to our modern sensibilities. Need a job? Go pick up the want ads/town bulletin at the local mom & pop's/tavern!In a medieval world, everyone already has a job from the day that they're born. They train thru childhood and when deemed ready to start working by their superiors, they are assigned a specific place to work. No want ads, no resumes, no references. So I've been thinking, has anyone tried starting a campaign in this vein? Say, starting out an 'adventuring party' in their backwater human hamlet; so that they all have to be human (or perhaps a 1/2 breed) and a 'standard' class (fighter, cleric, druid, ranger, wizard) and don't need to meet up in the tavern because they already know each other and already have a job/mission given them by the town elders. In order to accomplish this mission, they soon must leave for distant and exotic lands; as they visit other nations and cultures, more options become available to them.This situation might be similar to certain electronic rpgs (FF is the one that I've played): the group encounters a specific character in their journeys, and the DM announces (possibly after the PCs get to know the NPC) that a player can 'trade out' a current PC in exchange for the new one.Or the situation might be simpler: upon arriving at a new community that has new/exotic races after a long and harrowing trek, the DM announces that any players are welcome to create new PCs using this culture's race and class options.Anyone ever done this? Have any comments anyway?</blockquote>

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