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a smattering "white talking" black nerds who love anime yes, and fat hideous women with truly unfortunate haircuts also yes
this is why universities need to be liquidated
See the first part is actually pretty cool, and then they had to put in the "I hate western civilization" part after.
And an actual bit of sanity at the end, even if its coming from the anti-reason marxist standpoint epistemological perspective.
It's part of dumbing down the hobby. Fantasy used to be dark and gritty and adventures died. A lot. The memey murderhobo lifestyle fits best for impoverished outcasts that have little to lose and gamble it all on a life of adventure.
People that are part of expansive multigenerational families have a lot more to lose. But with modern game design, death happens very infrequently there's rubber bumpers on everything keeping the poor babies from having to be part of an interesting story that may contain some tragedy.
In real life, explorers very rarely involved their families, or encouraged their children to take up the trade. I can't actually name a single one, but I'm sure it's happened at least once.
Like you said, going into the wilderness to fight bears isn't exactly a long term plan. Even the best ones, like Lewis and Clark, often died young. Lewis died a very RPG death: killed by bandits at the age of 38. Or possibly killed himself. Hard to say.
The idea of a generational adventurer's guild is cool, but only really works in a Playskool Presents: RPG setting where death doesn't lurk around every corner.
I just played our first session of Warhammer Fantasy 2ed. Paths of the Damned Series. I had to burn a fate point to avoid death in the first session. Death by a wolf, no less...