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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alratan" data-source="post: 1873199" data-attributes="member: 14774">1. adventurers as a separate class of people   No, as suggested by someone else, PCs tend to belong to some parent organisation of social group, be that as agents of a local lord who graduate to serving the crown directly, or as prospectors funded by a merchants guild. The closest there is to a seperate class of adventurers, are seen as bandits, the type of people who go round desecrating tombs and upsetting the social order, and are usually stomped on by the powers that be, commonly via the PCs.     2. PCs as exceptional characters   No, not until they get seriuosly high level. My general rule is that it takes about 4 years per level for levels 1-5, 8 years for level for 6-10, 12 per level for 11-15, and 14 per level for 16-20, for people to advance in level when they are doing what is normal for their proffession. This means that your average middle aged farmer is going to be 5th or 6th level, and in most places, one of those levels will be in warrior. This even extends to elves and dwarves, which explains why civilizations so vulnerable to attrittion, due to their low birth rates, can survive.     3. clear distinction between PCs and monsters    Certainly. A clear in-game cultural distinction. Most humanoid races are rabidly prejudiced.     4. arcane/divine magic divide    Yes, always good for a bit of conflict     5. PCs organized into a cooperative party structure   Usually, see point 1. When people are coming up with character concepts, I ask them to work together to explain why they are together as a team, and who sponsored them.     6. medieval European setting (well, a more hygenic version, anyway)   Yes, except for the more hygienic thing. It's actually noticeably nastier. If there are mosters lurking on your doorstep, communities can't afford dissidents or criminals, and a feudal type division of labour is even more neccassary and harsh.     7. race = culture   Yes, and no. I try and make individuals less stereotypical, but also to empasise that the different cultures are actually quite alien to each other - a dwarven/elven longevity distances them from humans alot, and different races aren't really motivated by quite the same things.     8. epic or heroic plot scale    When PCs get high level enough, they will find that an epic plot will have crept up on them.</blockquote>

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