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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnLynch" data-source="post: 6758507" data-attributes="member: 6749563">I run the Forgotten Realms so adventurers are a known thing and their deeds are immortalised in the tales of bards. However most people who set out to become adventurers, are more likely to end up as a mercenary or treasure hunter. A rare few successfully carve out a kingdom for themselves and use the law of might to hold onto that kingdom. So despite the fact that adventurers and heroes make up a significant portion of legend, most people don't end up being those heroes.As for the non-heroic adventurers? I couldn't try to estimate how much of the world's population count as them. Compared with the PHB races there are less adventurers than there are any single PHB race in the world (with the exception of Dragonborn, only because the majority of dragonborn who didn't return to Abeir were bodyguards and mercenaries). Arabel's chief industry is adventurers, however if the players were to travel to Suzail (only two days ride from Arabel) they could very easily find no adventurers in the entire city. Waterdeep is somewhere between these two extremes.So it just depends on where the players are as to how many adventurers are nearby.</blockquote>