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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8317849" data-attributes="member: 4534">Depending on the campaign, sometimes I've leaned into the silliness.&nbsp; In my first 5E campaign, the kingdom had been at war for many years when suddenly, out of nowhere, peace broke out and a lot of people found themselves out of a job.&nbsp; The king and his privy council came to the conclusion that having a bunch of young, physically fit people trained to kill sitting idle was a recipe for disaster so they came up with the Adventurer's Guild.&nbsp; Adventurer's are free to accept &quot;quests&quot; to take care of problems the king doesn't want to spend gold on and they're not even taxed for it.&nbsp; Sort of.&nbsp; Adventurer's have an inflationary effect on their surroundings and the prices in the PHB reflect that.&nbsp; Nobody in their right mind pays 2 gold for a barrel but an Adventurer will because they're loaded and they're too embarrassed to look like skinflints.&nbsp; I think to feel a bit more real, adventurers have to be few and far between in the setting.&nbsp; And my example above most certainly does not fit the bill for believable.&nbsp; There are plenty of examples of real life adventurers throughout history.&nbsp; Marco Polo, Hernan Cortez, Lewis &amp; Clark, Pancho Villa, and Alcibiades son of Cleinias were all adventurers.&nbsp; There are always oddballs who don't quite fit in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8317849, member: 4534"] Depending on the campaign, sometimes I've leaned into the silliness. In my first 5E campaign, the kingdom had been at war for many years when suddenly, out of nowhere, peace broke out and a lot of people found themselves out of a job. The king and his privy council came to the conclusion that having a bunch of young, physically fit people trained to kill sitting idle was a recipe for disaster so they came up with the Adventurer's Guild. Adventurer's are free to accept "quests" to take care of problems the king doesn't want to spend gold on and they're not even taxed for it. Sort of. Adventurer's have an inflationary effect on their surroundings and the prices in the PHB reflect that. Nobody in their right mind pays 2 gold for a barrel but an Adventurer will because they're loaded and they're too embarrassed to look like skinflints. I think to feel a bit more real, adventurers have to be few and far between in the setting. And my example above most certainly does not fit the bill for believable. There are plenty of examples of real life adventurers throughout history. Marco Polo, Hernan Cortez, Lewis & Clark, Pancho Villa, and Alcibiades son of Cleinias were all adventurers. There are always oddballs who don't quite fit in. [/QUOTE]

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