Editing Adventurer (section)

==Adventuring as a Job==
Recently we've seen an influx of new settings where being an Adventurer is an actual, real job description. Often employed in an [[Adventurer's Guild]], this trope plays everything about the typical [[PC]] completely straight, but builds it into the setting as an accepted and regular part of life. Need to fix a house? Get a carpenter! Need a troll dead before he steals all your sheep? Get an adventurer!

Increasingly common in [[Isekai|medieval]] [[Anime|animu]], it does see some use in western settings as well (wild west gunslingers and pirates of the sea and space variety all fit the adventurer mold well). [[Order of the Stick]] has run with this since the very beginning, but since its a self-aware pastiche of RPGs in general, that's to be expected. Many a DM create similar worlds, since that completely circumvents the need to make a group of ''wildly''  different people of different creeds and races come together for realistic reasons. You can just say that they are adventurers for hire, and Bob's your uncle.

Ironically, despite being considered a modern anime invention, the adventurer's guild concept was used in one of the oldest [[Dungeons & Dragons]] settings, [[Mystara]], and played absolutely straight.