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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 4119158" data-attributes="member: 93">The local lords might sponsor adventuring groups in order to promote themselves - and to build relationships with powerful PC-types who can back them in their political and military struggles.  They'd invite the PC's to their dinner parties to tell outlandish tales of danger and magic, and to make sure the other nobles know that they have powerful people at their beck and call.In that sense, it wouldn't be the government as a whole that sponsors the adventurers, but individuals who comprise the government who sponsor them.  The added benefit for the nobles would be that powerful PC's are a danger to them - their power means that they could overthrow the government - but if they co-opt that danger by allowing them access to political power they can (ideally) control the PC's.  Or at least mitigate the danger.</blockquote>