| Author |
 Topic  |
|
Jelennet
Learned Scribe
Russia
131 Posts |
 Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 08:36:27
|
|
Imagine that you are born in the Realms. What profession would you choose there? And why?
|
|
|
Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 08:41:40
|
Royal Wizard of Cormyr or Larloch's advisor.  |
Every beginning has an end. |
 |
|
|
HelldoG
Learned Scribe
101 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 09:01:51
|
| Elminsters pupil... or butler. He's a great guy and working under him would be just awesome. |
Away with powergaming propaganda! | I <3 Powergaming!
Don't feed the trolls. Especially the clever ones. |
|
|
|
Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 16:21:44
|
| Scribe at Candlekeep. If the order of monks do not have a wow of celibacy that is. |
|
|
|
Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 16:24:24
|
| Gondsman, or a Sage of Candlekeep. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
|
|
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
|
|
Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 17:05:44
|
a berserker
then I'd get me some fine witches |
|
|
|
Acolyte Thirteen
Seeker
93 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 17:18:47
|
Adventurer! Or maybe archaeologist, specializing the the Old Elven Empires! |
|
|
|
Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
|
|
Acolyte Thirteen
Seeker
93 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 17:40:18
|
quote:
Originally posted by Acolyte Thirteen
Adventurer! Or maybe archaeologist, specializing the the Old Elven Empires!
Correction, archaeologist on Sage Snowblood's team! That scribe is amazing! |
|
|
|
Cleric Generic
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
565 Posts |
|
|
Diffan
Great Reader
USA
4426 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 18:09:17
|
Standard soldier #3, on gate-guard in Waterdeep or Suzail. 
I wouldn't mind on being a valorous Purple Dragon knight, charging into the ranks of the Zhentarim or Shades!!! |
|
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 18:11:52
|
quote:
Originally posted by Acolyte Thirteen
Adventurer! Or maybe archaeologist, specializing the the Old Elven Empires!
Oooh! Archaeologist is good too. Another passion of mine. And there's already precedent for it in the Realmslore as well. |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)
"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage |
|
|
|
Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2010 : 21:13:54
|
| changed my mind, a crime lord of Waterdeep seems more interesting |
|
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 01:12:10
|
quote:
Originally posted by Quale
changed my mind, a crime lord of Waterdeep seems more interesting
Provided Elaith doesn't get to you, as a young upstart, first. Right? |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)
"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage |
|
|
|
Penknight
Senior Scribe
USA
538 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 02:08:13
|
| An adventuring elven bladesinger, I think. Practicing the form of bladesong that's presented in the Complete Warrior prestige class. I like my arcane spells. Not just the buffing variety presented in Races of Faerun. |
Telethian Phoenix
Pathfinder Reference Document |
|
|
|
Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
|
|
Galuf the Dwarf
Senior Scribe
USA
489 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 03:39:13
|
| Probably an archivist or some form of philosopher for a dwarven city/empire, or an emissary/envoy for a dwarven nation in a human area like Candlekeep. Class-wise, I'd probably a Shield Dwarf Wizard 10/Loremaster 10 or Bard 10/Loremaster 10, at least from 3.5-edition standards. |
Galuf's Baldur's Gate NPC stats: forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8823
Galuf's 3.5 Ed. Cleric Domains: forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14036
Galuf's Homebrew 4th Edition Races: forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13787
Galuf's Homebrew Specialty Priest PrCs: forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14353
Galuf's Forgotten Realms Heralds and Allies thread: forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8766 |
|
|
|
Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 06:14:53
|
While if going to the Realms I'd want to be friends with Azoun...if born in the Realms, I'd have to be a Barbarian of the Ride, one of the Woodland Barbarians of the Border Forest (human also), or one of the Snow People of Thar...but I'd be a Ranger in class for sure!
I'm talking 1st Edition Ranger though! Florin Falconhand would be an awesome mentor...but being Montanan I've already got the same skills many rangers have: hunting, archery, horseback riding, tracking, foraging and etc...even been spear hunting before!
Yes, Ranger for me...and I'd aspire to be one of the Knights of Myth Drannor! I even made a character to run with my kids and wife tonight modeled after this concept...and inspired by Jelennet's question!
You can find Aerk Krage here:
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/forgotten-realms-of-yore/characters/aerk-krage
I'm the 230 pound (in that picture...a bit bigger now at 286 lbs) baldie on the left...and my behemoth of a brother on the right who is 6'5" and 510 lbs! He IS big-boned...his skull is so large and thick that he can't wear a baseball cap without cutting out the back of it!
Anyway...Ranger for me...and aspiring Knight of Myth Drannor!
EDIT: for typo from being too much under the influence of my meds! |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
Edited by - Dalor Darden on 11 Oct 2010 06:21:05 |
|
|
|
Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7968 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 06:58:24
|
I'd be a 2e Diviner. No contest.
An absolutely terrible class for adventuring, true. That just makes the specialty a rarer commodity. Who wants to get dirty and damaged in some slimy dark dungeon anyhow?
At low levels you can make a living Knowing the winning lottery numbers and such stuff. You can still function as a passable mage, if you've got the right spells.
At mid levels you could make a living hiring yourself out as a sort of "work from home" Detective and Spy, or Royal Interrogator, or freelance as a "Private Scrye".
At high levels you can make a living by charging adventurers and sages exhorbitant fees in exchange for your specialized abilities at finding/interpreting obscure knowledge. Do it right and they'll keep coming back for more.
Use some of your income to hire and equip a small squad of tough goons ... buff 'em up a little with some of your non-Divination magic. And who knows better how to hide from scrying? (Except possibly an Illusionist or Abjurer?) |
[/Ayrik] |
|
|
|
Kyrene
Senior Scribe
South Africa
727 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 10:18:34
|
| A Lantanna (of the human sort) scribe/gardener/tinkerer (probably something like Commoner 4/Expert 1) on sabbatical from Candlekeep, working with my gnomish counterparts to create Weave 'software' (like the autonomous persistent spells of ancient Netheril) to enable the masses to use our invention (the ‘Gnomeberry’) to teleport without error money, send unlimited send spells and limited (about 20 uses per day) ghost image spells every day. Oh, I'm already doing that?!? |
Lost for words? Find them in the Glossary of Phrases, Sayings & Words of the Realms
|
|
|
|
Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 11:29:37
|
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Quale
changed my mind, a crime lord of Waterdeep seems more interesting
Provided Elaith doesn't get to you, as a young upstart, first. Right?
yea, we could do business |
|
|
|
Bladewind
Master of Realmslore
Netherlands
1280 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 13:38:47
|
I'd be a cowled, staff wielding traveller, accompanied by a black dire wolf, wandering the roads and advising rulers and peasantry on living in "Cyclic Balance". Few would know my name, as most would recognise my presence mostly by the change in the shape of the landscape I have travelled. In combat I'd be a stealthy earth mage who's mastered an acrobatic martial art style blended with spelltraps I merge into the earth.
I'd look like a Half-Tashalan Half-Thethyrian human, and I'd be a geomancer/druid of Gond active in Calimshan and the Swordcoast. I'd proselytize a heretical dogma of achieving balanced communities by integrating magic (tech) with nature on a large scale. By harnassing the "divine" energies of nature (curbing and harnessing the dieties of Fury) with brilliant artifice on strategic places (wind- and watermills, urban wind tunnels, lightning conductors) Fearuns societies can achieve a new golden age of progress.
Whenever I'd have enough funds or experience to start travelling the planes I would do so. I'd want to solidify my ties to the Seelie court, the Domains of Silvanus and Gond. I'd study the planes in search for even more examples of "untapped" divine energies and return to Fearun with plans to harness the limitless energy of parallel portals, links to planes of energy, and time manipulation to generate even more free energy. |
My campaign sketches
Druidic Groves
Creature Feature: Giant Spiders |
|
|
|
Shadowaxe
Acolyte
United Kingdom
16 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 13:46:18
|
I would open up the Dragonriders' Gentlman's Club first!  |
Mead, mead, from the honey bee,
How I long to drink thee. |
|
|
|
Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 14:18:30
|
A spy sounds promising, too. To work behind the shadows sounds cool enough. |
Every beginning has an end. |
|
|
|
Elfinblade
Senior Scribe
Norway
377 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 16:55:27
|
I'd like to be a scribe at any library. Candlekeep or the one in Silverymoon springs to mind. Or maybe study magic in Evereska
A Harper scout in some northern forest sounds tempting also. |
|
|
|
Kno
Senior Scribe
452 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 19:38:12
|
| I'd work in a festhall, why would you want to rot in a library |
z455t |
|
|
|
Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 19:42:21
|
quote:
Originally posted by Kno
I'd work in a festhall, why would you want to rot in a library
Because its the only place I can think of in the Realms where I wouldn't become completely paranoid. Candlekeep is the safest place I can think of in all the Realms. There's plenty to read and plenty of visitors, so as I said, as long as there is no vow of celibacy it sounds perfect. |
|
|
|
Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2010 : 00:46:37
|
quote:
Originally posted by Jorkens
quote:
Originally posted by Kno
I'd work in a festhall, why would you want to rot in a library
Because its the only place I can think of in the Realms where I wouldn't become completely paranoid. Candlekeep is the safest place I can think of in all the Realms. There's plenty to read and plenty of visitors, so as I said, as long as there is no vow of celibacy it sounds perfect.
Yeah, but I'd expect that the nightlife wouldn't be all that...  |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
I am the Giant Space Hamster of Ill Omen! |
|
|
|
The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2010 : 01:10:24
|
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Jorkens
quote:
Originally posted by Kno
I'd work in a festhall, why would you want to rot in a library
Because its the only place I can think of in the Realms where I wouldn't become completely paranoid. Candlekeep is the safest place I can think of in all the Realms. There's plenty to read and plenty of visitors, so as I said, as long as there is no vow of celibacy it sounds perfect.
Yeah, but I'd expect that the nightlife wouldn't be all that...
Not until the Lady Hooded One arrives, that is. |
Candlekeep Forums Moderator
Candlekeep - The Library of Forgotten Realms Lore
http://www.candlekeep.com -- Candlekeep Forum Code of Conduct
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium -- Volume IX now available (Oct 2007)
"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
Zhoth'ilam Folio -- The Electronic Misadventures of a Rambling Sage |
|
|
|
Tren of Twilight Tower
Seeker
51 Posts |
Posted - 12 Oct 2010 : 03:18:48
|
He thinks: Eh, the night-life they say? I hope we are thinking here of very same type of the night-life!?
He speaks: "Please let me not interrupt your most excellent conversation, good sirs. Surely I am not the only scribe eager to learn about night-life particulars of Candlekeep!"
To not go completely off-topic, let it be known that my desired profession would be a sorcerer. And hopefully it would be a sorcerer with enough power to burn half of Faerun, freeze the other half, and electrocute all its accessories. 
Tren |
|
|
|
Topic |
|
Your profession in the Realms
