Adventurers or ...


 

Let's say that you are an hard work person, in an RPG village; maybe you're a smith, or a farmer, or a carpenter, or a baker. Your exact job is not important, the important part is that you earn your money with your hard work.

Let's say that you earn between 10 and 20 silver coins/day, which is between a modest and a comfortable style of living.

This would correspond to earning something between 100 and 200 Euros/day (you can assume 1 Euro = 1$ here).

Now, while you go on with your life, in the town arrives this group of strangers.

First of all, they have a lot of weapons with themselves, and they are not afraid to show them. Not the occasional spear or the long knife maybe, no, we are talking about military grade weapons, like longswords or even great swords, chain mails or plate armors, warhorses maybe, or something even more fancy than that.

These people, they take residence in the inn, and they have money. Just silver for the moment.

They disappear for a while, after having done a lot of questions about places where honest people would not go, and then they disappear, maybe for a day, maybe for a week.

When they return, their clothes are covered in dirt and blood, as if they have fought (and possibly killed) someone.

But now they are full of gold! They pay in gold for the inn, or even in platinum! This is the equivalent of people paying with 100 or 500 Euros bills their staying at the inn, or the lunch at the tavern.




So, we are talking about someone who:

  • goes around heavily armed
  • is clearly involved in some sort of fight
  • has suspicious activities
  • handles large amount of cash of dubious source
  • doesn't have a regular job


It's hard not to think about a crime lord after reading the above, isn't it?

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