Why Hire Adventurers?

[Theoboldi]

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.

Okay, but why? If its a collection of a bunch of more specific jobs, doesn't that just fix the issue? Usually a party of adventurers is a group of specialised individuals already that travels to explicitely find places where their skills are needed, usually in less settled parts of the world or where corruption and criminal activity are plentiful and the law is weak.

Or they're just groups of highly specialsed explorers delving into places outside of society to get rich. Seems to make sense to me in a setting that has such ruins.