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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5783926" data-attributes="member: 54707">One thing I'd really like to see 5th Edition  address is the social elements of the game (read this any way you want, but by  that I personally mean - ), that is to say, how do the characters react to the  society they are in and how does that society react to them? I mean you  supposedly have very powerful men and women running around doing things like  slaying monsters and saving damsels and cities in distress, likely growing  wealthy, and their only interaction in their society is as mercenaries or  dungeon explorers? They'd have no greater societal impact, and society would  expect nothing more of them than, "be a perpetual adventurer of the  bizarre?"   Now I know much of this will be world building,  but I'd like to see ideas about heritage, nobility, titles, land and keep  holding, social status and obligations, kingmaking, and others get addressed,  even if only in outline form, so that DMs can develop worlds where the players  can role-play something other than Wizard or Warlord. And can adventure at  something other than "dungeon delve" or "monster fight scenario."I have  nothing against either, just don't think your experiences in life should be  limited to that kinda thing, even if you're nothing more than a fictional  character. To me, if the greatest impact I had in my world and the most  important thing my world thought of me was, "monster-hunter" (no matter how  thrilling that job may be in the short-run), that'd be a real grind and a mighty  small aspiration. I'd certainly hope, no matter how odd the world I inhabited, that I'd have far greater ambitions than that.   So, assuming you're with me, and you'd like to see  the opportunities for characters to become something other than a mere  monster-fighter, or dungeon-creeper, and you'd like to see the term  Adventurer include the idea of being an "Adventurer at any and everything," and  you'd like to see the Role-Play possibilities writ large in 5E, then how would  you do it and what would you think needs to be included?   How would you approach subjects like Social  Status and Interaction, large-scale Role-Play,  and wide-ranging Adventure handled in 5E? </blockquote>

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