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This is an organization, and we use the term loosely, that enrolls adventurers and gives them access to jobs. Jobs generally range from "[[Fetch Quest|find my cat]]" to "destroy [[Bonus Boss|Omega Volcano Satan]]", and are posted by random locals who can't, [[Holding Out for
Jobs generally are posted on a bulletin board (or encrypted dataserver or cork slab, depending on the setting), where certified adventurers sign up for them. "Certified Adventurers" is basically a euphemism for [[Anime Hair|spiky haired]] [[Wangst|obsessives]], [[Action Girl|teen girls]] [[Seen It a Million Times|who will almost certainly]] [[Rebellious Princess|turn out to be princesses]], and other protagonist types.
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== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Resonance of Fate]]''
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* The latter ''[[
* ''[[Avernum]]'' has a bulletin board in every town that supplies you with jobs and quests.
* The old ''[[wikipedia:Eamon (computer game)|Eamon]]'' computer game had the Guild of Free Adventurers, the place where you always started your adventures and where you returned when you finished. It had a number of functions you could access while there. May be the [[Trope Maker]]
* Your party in the ''[[
* This is the primary mechanism to get missions in ''[[Wing Commander (
** Ditto generic missions in ''[[Escape Velocity]]''.
* ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' games have something like this, but those are more function-specific and function more like actual medieval guilds than the odd job clearinghouses that epitomize this trope.
* The Adventurer's guild in the ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' series, although they typically only granted you the low level stuff, big things had to be done by convincing people you were the one to do them.
* The Trouble Center in ''[[Paper Mario:
* The PSP game Legend of Heroes features one of these.
* ''[[
* ''[[Agarest Senki 2]]''
* Quest Cards in the first [[Fable (
* [[Star Wolves]]
* [[Rune Factory 2]] and [[Rune Factory 3]] have a bulletin board where townspeople post quests
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' has a very videogame-esque job board at the school, complete with estimated number of souls the students will receive on completion of the mission.
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* Occurs in some ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|D&D]]'' settings:
** Adventurer's Guilds are common in ''[[Eberron]]''. The city of Sharn has two competing ones, the Clifftop and Deathsgate guild.
* [[Shadowrun
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