Poll: What medieval profesion would you do?

[Roofstone]

I'd be a knight, and find Castle Anthrax from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Side note: this thread reminds me of that one bit from Frasier: "Where are you getting these from? The Big Book of Medieval Professions?"

True on the side note.. Had it in the back of my head when I started thread.

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Side note: Yay for my birthday today! (3rd of july)

 

[Atticus89]

Medicine. Well... more specifically, an alchemist. People would come to me and I'd make them swallow strange mixtures in the name of "science".

I'd have to leave after I killed one too many people, which wouldn't be easy.

 

[skywalkerlion]

I'd go law, cause there isn't that much crime that a guard couldn't solve.

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence.

 

[Craorach]

Hard choice, I'd either be a woodsman (hunter, etc) or a soldier (longbowman).

I would't be a Lord.. for all its "benefits" it was hardly a comfortable life and you spent most of your time worrying about being killed by anyone who wanted your land.

 

[team star pug]

What is my profession?

HUAH! HUAH! HAUH!

 

[sheogoraththemad]

I voted Warrior but I probably end up adventuring or bandit

 

[Dyme]

I'd probably be peasant. Just like nearly everyone else.

Chose law though. Because I study law. I'd have reformed law so hard, you can't even imagine.

 

[DanielBrown]

Blacksmith, definetly. It's one of the professions I'd like to have today, but I'm pretty damn sure it's not worth it.

 

[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

What happens when you run out of ammo? =P

Interesting question, but I guess if one had the right form. One could just get some made from a blacksmith. Not like he will refuse, you got a Boomstick!!!(Necesarry exclamation mark) after all.

Thats the thing you only need two maybe three bullets so everyone understands its power, then you just work off peoples fear of it, threatening them. After all how are they to know its limited

 

[RJ Dalton]

Um, the fighter bit wasn't a profession (unless you were a mercenary, in which case you got lots of cash, but everybody pretended they hated you and ordered you to be driven away at the first opportunity to do so). It was a caste thing. You were born a knight and it became your responsibility to do knightly things by right of birth. Same thing with monarch, although the nobles in the caste system usually were able to do other things aside from cut people's heads off by order of the liege lord.
Just, thought I'd point that out.

Anyway, scribe, all the way. I'm a total book nerd and I love writing. Of course, this kind of assumes I was born in the noble caste and thus allowed to have an education, so I guess the above statement doesn't really apply much anyway.

Medieval times sucked.

 

[kinapuffar]

Thief has been my clear cut choice since I was 12 years old.
It's not even a competition, it stands so far above the rest it's ridiculous.

Although in later years I've realized it's conditional.
If I were to time travel back, and keep my knowledge, then of course I'd use that to invent the bicycle and discover america and all sorts of junk and become king of the world!
But if I were to be born during that time I'd definitely be a thief.

 

[Alar]

I'd be a smith. I've always have a fascination with metal working and metallurgy.

EDIT: You forgot religious jobs, like monk or priest or what have you!

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Well, probably a warrior or a knight or something along the lines of that. People back then didn't live very long so I might as well spend my short amount of time doing something meaningful.

 

[Ickorus]

I'd probably be a hunter, im not squeamish about killing animals for food and I know how to make a bow, now so good at aiming the bow but im sure I would learn.

 

[Farther than stars]

OK, I'd like to state that I'm principly against this sort of theoretical question, because the "what if" format doesn't sit well with my personal philosophies concerning metaphysical liberalism, but that aside and assuming that I still have the same personality then as I do now, I'd be a missionary.

1) I'd get to spread the word of God and being a Christian that's pretty much what I strive to do these days. (Remember, I still have my own personality, so I would be less of an evangelist of Isaiah's doomsaying and more of a preacher of Christ's teaching of human kindness.)

2) I'd be taught to read and write and that's more than most people of that time period could hope for.

3) In the more dangerous and violent times those were, I would be shielded by the protection of the Church and the fear of God - still very much in the hearts of men of that time period.

4) I'd get to travel to places and marvel at the many wonders of a greatly unexplored earth.

I'll add that my first instinct was blacksmith, but then I realised that achieving early-onset hearing deficiency wouldn't exactly be the best use of my time.

Edit: Quite in sync with my choice of profession; check out my sweet Cleric badge.

Edit (again): I like how, as the poll stands now, we'd create a pretty sustainable society together. You know, apart from all those monarchs who apparently want to create separate kingdoms for themselves with 10 subjects each. >.>
And I think I saw someone wanting to be a dragon? Depending on how you interpret this fantasy universe, that's either "oh no, there goes the village idiot in his dragon suit again" or "mommy! 0.0" (there goes the sustainable society in that last scenario).

 

[Jegsimmons]

mercenary who makes his own weapons and trains dragons on the side.

contrary to popular belief...they exist.

 

[Nudu]

Hey, where's Groom of the Stool? That's always been my dream.