A professional skill is way for a player to round out their character’s background or personality. Professional skills never have any impact on game play other than the rare, incidental situations where, at the marshal’s sole discretion and under no obligation, the character may gain some roleplay insight or otherwise unavailable information. For example, a player who has the Professional Skill: Sailor may find themselves in a situation where they must steer a boat, or raise or drop an anchor. The marshal may let the player do this if it fits within the story or module.
The character does not ever gain any kind of income, item, exclusion, information or preference by having a Professional Skill. Using the above example, the character who chooses to learn Professional Skill: Sailor does not get a boat, trade routes, connections, contracts, cargo, insight into the economic machinations of the Nobles or a land, receipt of cargo, exemption of their monthly maintenance fee, a place to sleep out-of-game (i.e. on the boat they do not have), etc. Any of these benefits must be earned in-game if ever possible and do not ever come from this skill.
A character may only have one Professional Skill for every 10 Levels, excluding their starting Professional Skill, rounded down. So a Level 14 character may only have an additional Professional Skill; once they turn Level 20 they may learn another if they wish. Characters whose race is Common Man start the game with twoProfessional Skills, instead of one. They are still bound by the limit on the number of additional Professional Skills they may purchase. For example, a Level 20 Common Man could have four Professional Skills.
The list of approved and accepted Professional Skills is given in the following list:
Animal Trainer, Artist, Baker, Bartender, Blacksmith, Candle Maker, Carpenter, Cartwright, Clothier, Cobbler, Cooper, Crop Farmer, Dairy Farmer, Fisherman, Furrier, Gaoler, Glass Blower, Guardsman, Herder, Hunter, Innkeep, Laborer, Lumberjack, Mason, Merchant, Miller, Miner, Pig Farmer, Rancher, Sailor, Scribe, Servant, Shipwright, Shop Keeper, Soldier, Tanner, Teamster, Thatcher, Tinker, Town Crier, Trapper.
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