[Discuss] Adventurer emigration
Tom Vogt
tom at lemuria.org
Mon Sep 17 22:01:31 CEST 2007
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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