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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 2154411" data-attributes="member: 813">Does it really make sense that everyone who puts a fort in the wilderness will suddenly attract dozens of raw warriors who are automatically loyal to him? Does it really make sense that guild of thieves will appear out of nothingness if the name level thief decides to put a shingle out: "Thieves' Guild"? Don't these kinds of things just scream "DM's decision"?I played/DMed all editions* of D&D at least once and I never had a character/PC who just decided to stop adventuring and petition the local lord for a plot of uncharted land and go off and build a stronghold. I always considered that text in the PHB an explanation for what OTHER high level members of that class would do. Did you have characters who would habitually abandon the adventuring life at 9th-10th level? In games I played in 9th-10th level was when it just started getting interesting.* Boxed OD&D was not attempted until the mid 90s so play of that game was influenced bu later editions. I never attempted 2.5 edition: Options and Powers. But then, by the time it came out, our 2e game was too house ruled to use much of any official material as written.</blockquote>