<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(http://www.joemadfan.com/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/261.jpg) (http://www.joemadfan.com/plugins/p17_image_gallery/images/261.jpg)</td><td> <strong>Sword</strong><br/><br/>"I have traveled like this many times, guarding caravans, or traveling to new jobs and towns, with a group or alone.  It is what most adventuring is, long quiet walks, sometimes interrupted by an ambush, and sometimes with a reward or new job at the end."  The warforged seemed to ponder that a moment.  "I do not understand why, why adventurers do this.  There is the monetary reward, yes, but the risk of death rises almost geometrically to the rise in reward, and it is just an endless cycle.  I did once travel with a paladin, and he said it wasn't for any earthly reward, but for the 'satisfaction of doing right' and following his god's will..."<br/><br/>She walked for another moment before commenting on that, "I didn't understand that at all at the time, but it seems to be the way of things, to find a higher, larger purpose than one's own immediate survival.  It seems to be the way humanoids can be needlessly happy in suboptimal conditions and continue their crusades."</td></tr></tbody></table>