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  1. 2012-07-22, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #66
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    Default Re: Annoying DnD stereotypes

    Quote Originally Posted by Xuc Xac View Post
    What do you think "adventuring" is? Back in the days of primogeniture, it was standard procedure for the non-eldest sons to join a mercenary company to try to make their own fortunes because big brother gets to inherit everything. If there had been dragon hoards in the real world in the middle ages, those guys would have been all over it.
    Workable though it is, you can't deny that the version of "noble adventurers" you speak of here is different than the one he's talking about. The runaways.



    Conan was a wise man of the wild. "Smarter and tougher because he's not weakened by civilization" is his core character trait.Rising to the top through cunning and ruthlessness is the basic plot of half the Conan stories. He even became king of a country by working his way up the ranks of their military as a mercenary and then staging a coup.
    Fine, fine. Replace "Conan" with "berserker" and we're right.
    Last edited by AgentofHellfire; 2012-07-22 at 03:37 PM.
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