Why Hire Adventurers?

[Theoboldi]

The issue for me boils down to; if adventuring is common enough to be a profession as opposed to sellsword/mercenary/bounty hunter/bailiff/busybody, the land must be so riddled with problems it probably doesn't deserve to be saved even if it can be.

But.....aren't all of those things literally professions? Rare professions for sure, yet they still exist even in a world without goblins.


Like, I'm not even sure what the argument is anymore. Just that they're too common? The lines drawn all strike me as somewhat arbitrary and too much based on a very specific experience of our own world. And heck, by what measure are they common? What setting are we talking about? Genericfantasyshire is so vaguely defined that we can only make assumptions.