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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 1577893" data-attributes="member: 19675">I don't know- there were all kinds of absentee parents among the wealthy upper classes of Europe and America, both royals and commoners.  There were even those who brought their kids along, tutors in tow.Tangent- Y'know, that could be a campaign:  The household of Bloodstone Manor goes on "safari"   in some remote wilderness, and things go wrong...  Shipwreck, ambush by natives, vicious animal attack, earthquake, war, opening to the CENTER OF THE EARTH collapses behind those who enter, somebody reads the spell opening a seal to another dimension - anything you want to cut off the family from immediate return to civilization.  All of the PCs have to either be part of the Bloodstones' family, friends, guides, or neccessary servants.  A Miskatonic University archaeological dig would work the same way...  End TangentBesides, full-time adventurers w/kids will obviously create the next generation of adventurers who, because their parents weren't around... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Edited to correct punctuation error.</blockquote>