Quote Originally Posted by Theoboldi View Post
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.
That adventurer as a fantasy profession is too generic and overlaps with multiple jobs that should be part and parcel of any given society by one name or another. It's basically a goofy name for a collection of much more specific jobs, and those specific jobs by nature make adventurers redundant in all but the most ramshackle societies.