Zot

The most remarkable thing about Zot, which is in some respects a typical medium-sized Toswald fantasy town, is the immense gap present between its rich and its poor. Wealth disparities are common enough in Toswald, but Zot’s entire middle class can fit inside a large horse cart, and in fact horse carts are where the whole of the middle class usually spends most of its time. Every member of the class is employed by some rich person or another to ride around the city and recruit “adventurers” to explore the dungeons the wealthy spend their time and money building, decorating, and populating (over 90% of the towns wealthiest are members of the Dungeon Enthusiasts). For their part, the poor people are too busy trying not to starve to death to be recruited very often, and most of them are too savvy to be tempted down into a dungeon where horrible monsters lurk around every corner, anyway. The middle class recruiters thus rely mostly on gullible travelers passing through the town.