Poll: What medieval profesion would you do?

[CosmicCommander]

Queen King, obviously.

Who shalt be my noble jester?

Alright, alright. I'll go get the pants that have a flap where my arse is.

... I don't know if we're talking about the same type of jester.

Aren't they those things you sleep with and eat?

 

[spectrenihlus]

I'd be the actual power behind the throne MUAHAHAHAH

but truly I'd rather be a lord with a small piece of land away from stupid wars.

 

[martin's a madman]

I'll do medieval science.

 

[Feralcentaur]

I'd be a Fighter for a couple of reasons,
1.) I have a fascination for medieval weaponry and actually getting to use some in a real battle sounds awesome.
2.) It'd be the quickest way for me to hurry up and die since living in the Medieval era would likely suck.
3.) If I'm lucky, I might just eventually get a higher position and do well enough to be awarded land that I earn in conquest which I can rent off to Farmers thus making life not completely suck.

I'll do medieval science.

But what happens if you were to cause society to advance past the Medieval era?
Or get executed for heresy or witchcraft?

Edit: Perhaps I'll instead just use my knowledge of History to predict the future and become recognized as a prophet or something.

 

[Amondren]

Bard I get to be the most useful party member

 

[synobal]

pft how about a member of the clergy, I get to boss around the nobles, and generally be corrupt while fleecing the peasants for what little wealth they have. While terrifying them about hell. Plus I can make the nobles pay me or else I excommunicate their asses and next thing you know they are social outcasts. If someone really gets on my nerves it's inquisition time.

 

[Flyingchciken93]

Maybe a daring thief or a infamous highwayman, or a time traveller from our time you know so i could have a gun, gives me a nice advantage

 

[Arsen]

The bard or scribe. The guy who writes countless things. It fits me rather well.

 

[SilentCom]

I would either be a warrior or craftsman. I voted warrior because my ancestors on both sides of my family were of the warrior/ noble class. (German nobility, and Japanese Samurai).

 

[AngryNerd]

I'd like to be a hunter. You would get fresh meat.

 

[Rensenhito]

Entertainer. I just love entertaining, and that's a timeless art.

 

[Commissar Sae]

Technically most of the soldiers were also manual labor/farmers in their time off. There was very little in the way of professional soldiers except for the nobility and their bodyguards. (Sorry historian in me speaking up)

That said I wouldn't mind be a crasftsman. Maybe a Miller, since it takes some skill and would actually be fairly interesting. Also helps that I worked at a 400 year old mill for a summer so I more or less understand its workings. Hucking frogs into it might take some getting used to mind...

 

[Condor219]

So my fine motor sucks and I hate manual labor, and I'd rather not be "Law", whatever that is. And I suck at medicine and don't want to die a week after I join the army.

That leaves monarch and entertainer. Eh, I'll go with entertainer. Probably realistically what I would have been (that, and philosopher/astronomer isn't up there, otherwise I'd be that)

 

[awnman]

merchant so i earn heaps make a bank buy my own army and take over muhahahaha

 

[Toaster Hunter]

A warrior of some sort, probably a foot soldier. I would prefer a knight, but I don't know how to ride a horse.

 

[TheCommie12]

Leecher...it also my surname

 

[loc978]

I'd dabble, I think. Become proficient enough to blend in anywhere... and be an assassin.

 

[MoeTheMonk]

I'm surprised Priest or Monk or something similar isn't up there, but if I had to pick one from the list it'd be a tossup between Guard and Fighter, probably guard though.

 

[Greatjusticeman]

Honestly, I'd be someone like Bronn from A Song of Ice and Fire.

Just a badass with no significance to the world, but willing to do certain things and gain power if it serves my means.

But hey, I wouldn't mind being the heir to the throne of a kingdom as well. Honestly though, it'd suck hardcore to live in medieval times unless you were a noble or a knight.

Bad.

 

[KingFall]

Longbowman. So long as I have a good bow and a good bag of arrows, a sword and some functional chainmail. Which I can get, since I'm English (Longbowmen, yea? ) and they warred with the French every other day or so. Join the archer company of some lord.. loot, hoard, hire my own band of men, hire them out to a lord ( Probably the one I was employed to before) Loot, pillage, repeat. Profit. Retire eventually to a small village somewhere in England. Sit in dark corners wrapped in a darker cloak, smoking a pipe and scaring passersby.

ARROWS FTW
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