Is there any real world analogue to the Adventurer?

[Prince of Happiness]

Mountaineers. Guys like Steve House and Reinhold Messner who go to incredibly hostile terrain as unsupported as possible on new routes on mountains never climbed by man and in sometimes the most unsafe of political conditions...and live.

 

[Numion]

Mountaineers. Guys like Steve House and Reinhold Messner who go to incredibly hostile terrain as unsupported as possible on new routes on mountains never climbed by man and in sometimes the most unsafe of political conditions...and live.

They're like similar to adventurers, they travel long distances .. but there's no dungeon at the end of that distance! Where's the loot?

 

[Turjan]

Grave robbers. Poachers. Conquistadores.

 

[DarkKestral]

Grave robbers. Poachers. Conquistadores.

Archaelogists. Conservators. Freedom fighters.

 

[Turjan]

Archaelogists. Conservators. Freedom fighters.

As history is always written by the winners, and let's assume that the PCs are the winners, then you might also put it this way .

 

[DarkKestral]

As history is always written by the winners, and let's assume that the PCs are the winners, then you might also put it this way .

I know history is written by those in power. That's why I did it.

 

[Melan]

Grave robbers. Poachers. Conquistadores.

Best reply so far.

 

[JRR_Talking]

I guess "anyone taking a very high risk to gain both fame and fortune" (so that dis-counts a lot of athletes, extreme sport types, some scientists and such), where the risk is often other 'humans' and 'monsters' as well as climate, disease,


Pirates and privateers in c17th
20th century victorian genetleman after big game and lost cities
eygptian tomb raiders
seekers of aztec gold
folk looking for mythical places such as the elephants graveyeard, shangri-la, etc
lower scale stuff like the grave robber mentioned earlier and 'artful dodger' types
victorian independent detectives
modern day bounty hunter
actually probably quite a lot of victorian stuff
1830-1870's wild west guns for hire, prospectors and such. (such things in 'injun' territory)
crusaders perhaps,
ancient greeks

 

[Tonguez]

I guess "anyone taking a very high risk to gain both fame and fortune" (so that dis-counts a lot of athletes, extreme sport types, some scientists and such), where the risk is often other 'humans' and 'monsters' as well as climate, disease,


Pirates and privateers in c17th
20th century victorian genetleman after big game and lost cities
eygptian tomb raiders
seekers of aztec gold
folk looking for mythical places such as the elephants graveyeard, shangri-la, etc
lower scale stuff like the grave robber mentioned earlier and 'artful dodger' types
victorian independent detectives
modern day bounty hunter
actually probably quite a lot of victorian stuff
1830-1870's wild west guns for hire, prospectors and such. (such things in 'injun' territory)
crusaders perhaps,
ancient greeks

Yep every single one of these examples is a mecernary and that is what a DnD adventurer is - a person willing to take risks and face danger for the promise of loot.

 

[hong]

Soldier of Fortune bylines itself as "the journal of professional adventurers"....