[Discuss] Adventurer questions

[Samuel Knowlton]

>> Speak for your own bastards.  Everyone gets to RP their character's
background (within reason) as they see fit.  It would have been enough
to say that the third type was an unacknowledged bastard.  One you
don't even say is yours, no matter how obvious it may be.

They don't get to make their adventurer a noble.

The bastard son of a king and another noble is not going to be running 
around the woods chasing monsters.

To have a commoner in any way related to your noble family would be a huge 
black mark. Commoners can't possibly be related to nobles because commoners 
are a different breed of human. If a commoner becomes a noble, it's not that 
they did something, it's that we just never noticed all this time that they 
were realy noble, and oh we've just been mistaken about it! So 
congratulations, you obviously are a noble to be such a great fellow.

Your adventurer can, of course, CLAIM to be related to whomever he or she 
wants. But I'm pigeonholing adventurers into this third category because our 
adventurers would not have tutors or titles (they can't have those) -- and 
any real "noble" bastard could have both. You don't have to legitimize a 
bastard to give them a title - you just have to legitimize them if you want 
to give them your highest title upon your death. You can create them lord of 
whatever, suo jure, and bam, you've got what is essentially a brand new 
noble family.