[Discuss] Adventurer emigration

[Tom Vogt]

J. Stephens schrieb:
> No commoner in a medieval society is a "free spirit". Actually, for all
> practical means, he belongs to some noble.
>
> How many nobles would really want their "belongings" wandering around 
> the continent?  The simple in game actions of adventurers convey the 
> intent of "free spirit".  It seems that the adventurers I've seen in 
> game are RPd one of two ways.  They are RPd as to be "illegitimate 
> nobles" - dad was a little loose one night on the road to war and 9 
> months later out popped little Junior OR they are RPd as a member of a 
> noble family that has been cast out.

Which is why they don't toil the fields like everyone else, yes.

>   In either case, I think they would hold less ties to a region/realm 
> than a normal noble with title would.

Totally backwards for a medieval-oriented game. Nobles are the ones with 
mobility and freedom. The only freedom a commoner enjoyed was freedom 
from starvation, at least most of the time.



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