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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 3929225" data-attributes="member: 6318">The motivations, aims and strivings of such folk in Faerûn are no less complex or diverse. None of them are simplistically to 'fight evil' outside internet fantasy. The good-evil framework itself is imposed, in this discourse, from outside: it's not how many folk of Faerûn see things except a few religious fanatics.Yes, in principle. But the situation we have is that out of Ed Greenwood's chosen story protagonists, the Knights of Myth Drannor are finally getting the spotlight after 20 years; and the timeline jump means that we may never get a Mirt and Durnan novel, and many other heroes of the Realms may never have their time in the sun: Randal and Silver Morn, Mintiper Moonsilver, Sharanralee Crownstar, the Company of Crazed Venturers, Mane's Band, Tamper Tencoin, and dozens more both in and out of print. At this rate, we're literally decades from that point.Quite so. There are adventuring bands of proud lonely antisocial psychopaths who need no help from anyone. Most of them don't last long. Folk who achieve great things do it as much by who and what they know as how big a fireball they can make.Some people like the 'just us against the world' vibe. I and others don't, at least not all the time. One size doesn't, and shouldn't be expected to, fit all.What? Manoeuvring against rivals and enemies, magical research, prayer, meditation, training, etc., creating works of art and craft, maintaining a social profile, managing retainers, travelling the Realms, travelling other worlds and planes, managing investments, going on adventures, mundane and magical espionage, crafting long-term enchantments such as wards, training apprentices, responsibilities in larger organizations, maintaining obligations due to alliances and agreements, conducting a primary occupation, manipulating others directly or incognito, reading broadsheets and chapbooks, miscellaneous acquisitive or benevolent works, romantic affairs, raising families, recovering from physical, magical and emotional injury, and eating, drinking, sleeping, living their lives, and other things the mighty of Faerûn do are not 'sitting on their bums'.</blockquote>

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