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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 9212363" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Did you mean, &quot;no one is going to play an adventurer?&quot;&nbsp; I'm pretty sure that no one in the Fellowship of the Ring was, by trade, an &quot;adventurer.&quot;&nbsp; Farmer, however, would be pretty accurate for Samwise, Pippin, and Merry (Frodo was just a trust fund baby).&nbsp; Same goes for D&amp;D characters: there's no Adventurer class.So, theSword divides definitions up a bit, here.&nbsp; Is Gaming from Above when the PCs and/or their contacts are upper class, or is it when the related adventures are upper class?&nbsp; Interestingly, &quot;gaming from above&quot; is represented by the lord-heroes of LOTR, despite them actually &quot;fighting trolls&quot; (a gaming from below example).As GM, I don't care what the status of my PCs are.&nbsp; They're going to trudge through the mud and steal the hearts of princes no matter who they are.&nbsp; Obviously, I'll tie it all into a decent tapestry, but my game generally won't be Gaming from Below where the mantra is, &quot;we don't care who rules us or what they do, as long as we can peacefully live our sedentary lives, dance, and drink <s>Bud Light</s> beer.&quot;Aside, this guy would probably identify as &quot;fisherman&quot;:[MEDIA=youtube]PEe-ZeVbTLo[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 9212363, member: 6685730"] Did you mean, "no one is going to play an adventurer?" I'm pretty sure that no one in the Fellowship of the Ring was, by trade, an "adventurer." Farmer, however, would be pretty accurate for Samwise, Pippin, and Merry (Frodo was just a trust fund baby). Same goes for D&D characters: there's no Adventurer class. So, theSword divides definitions up a bit, here. Is Gaming from Above when the PCs and/or their contacts are upper class, or is it when the related adventures are upper class? Interestingly, "gaming from above" is represented by the lord-heroes of LOTR, despite them actually "fighting trolls" (a gaming from below example). As GM, I don't care what the status of my PCs are. They're going to trudge through the mud and steal the hearts of princes no matter who they are. Obviously, I'll tie it all into a decent tapestry, but my game generally won't be Gaming from Below where the mantra is, "we don't care who rules us or what they do, as long as we can peacefully live our sedentary lives, dance, and drink [S]Bud Light[/S] beer." Aside, this guy would probably identify as "fisherman": [MEDIA=youtube]PEe-ZeVbTLo[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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