[Discuss] Adventurer class feature request: Tell tales

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 1 Oct 2007 at 7:58, J. Stephens wrote:

> A commoner with a claim on a region?
> 
> Let's face it, adventurers are stinky, dirty, unwashed, dishonorable, *peasants*! 
> If they do a service for the realm then they earn the well-deserved reward of 
> being tossed a few silver coins, and allowed to live for another day so they can 
> perform *more* services for the realm. The thought that a commoner could 
> have a claim on a large tract of land that rightly belongs to a noble? 
> Unthinkable.
> __________________
> 
> That's how you play an adventurer but many people do not play them as
> peasants (that's how I think of them though)...they are
> "unrecognized/bastard nobles" so many people expect to have some
> "noble" actions.  

Your advy can have any backstory you want. In the eyes of nobles he's still 
nothing more than any other commoner. Let's face it, you and I both know that 
the difference between an advy and a noble is an entry in a database. To our 
characters, the difference is as plain as night and day. A noble is a noble, and 
commoner is *not*. Nobles couldn't care less what the commoners say, so long 
as they keep the farms prducing food, and the mines pulling gold out of the 
ground.

It's the lack of recognition on the part of nobles that prevents an adventurer 
from being recognized as a noble. If the nobles recognized the advy as a noble, 
then they would be a noble. But they don't, so the advy is just another dirty 
peasant. And since the nobles have the only opinion that matters...


-- 
Rob

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