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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razz" data-source="post: 3321477" data-attributes="member: 3014">I have an interesting question. I have a player who wants to play an Urban Druid, but her role in the world is similar to a journalist. She wishes to work for an employer who has her gather information for them to collect and spread throughout the city. A newspaper, so to speak. My problem is I do know newspapers existed in 18th century, and I think they did beyond (obviously not a large production, because there was no printing press). Possibly. I'm no history buff. I believe the main way people received their news was from travling minstrels and bards, and official news came from the town criers. But I am sure there were those who collected information, composed and outlined it, organized the information, checked the facts and rumors, and then spread the news via written text even back then. Or am I wrong? Again, I am no history buff. I'm going off assumptions.I ask the community if you know anything how "journalists" worked then, and what was the correct term for such people?Thanks for your help.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>