Why Hire Adventurers?

[Talakeal]

That's the same way I feel about "PCs shouldn't be special because they're PCs." No, they're not special (in universe) because (out of the universe) they're PCs. But they're PCs because they're special. If they weren't, we'd be following and looking at people who were special. Or in special, pivotal circumstances.

I have been trying to explain this concept for years.

The rules of the game are weighted in the PCs favor not for any simulationist reason, but because it is representing a post-hoc survivor bias; this is the story about the adventurers who changed the world, not all the adventurers who are lying dead in shallow graves and monster stomachs.