Scientist. If that makes sense.
Shop owner.

Cowboy.

i too was disappointed we couldn't smith our own arrows. i like all these ideas for jobs btw. nothing to add.

They aren't professions, bud. They're pass times.

I can't be a professional woodcutter when I'm busy being the Dovahkiin, nor can I accept a job at a lumber mill. I'm told that if I'm looking for work, I can chop some wood. I am not told "Hey, we need a hand at the mill. Care to be at work at 8am ever day?"

More input in professions would be amazing. Really the only career you can have is "Dragonborn Champion of Skyrim"

Unless you wanna make 100 gold an hour chopping wood, mining, smithing, etc


Being able to take out an instrument and get tips and maybe even commissions and gigs would be awesome. Even if they used some quicktime, cheap ass Guitar Hero-esque system like Fable 3 did.

Taxidermist, mounting trophy fish and all types of wild.

Sin aspects? Hehe. Why not combine your trades? The Riften Vegetable Farm and Mustang Ranch! Drop on by, grab a hoe 'n a ho, and ho-ho-ho!

Okay, this isn't a profession (well, unless hijacking threads is a profession), but it'd be just neato if towns/cities occassionally held events or festivals (part of the random AI). You'd find out about them in advance either by posters or gossip from tavern/inn owners and if you didn't show up on the designated day(s), you'd miss out. "Yeah, about that guy you want dead ... he's gonna have to keep breathing for awhile because there's a festival in Solitude that week."

The types of possible events in such festivals are almost endless: brawl tournaments, gambling (playing poker against Maven and beating her flush with 4 deuces ... priceless), cheesy carnival games, artists selling paintings and sculptures to decorate your house with, blah, blah, and more blah.

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Bard, and the ability to write your own music.

I go to the bards collage, and can't play a damn flute? Who do I murder for this nonsense!?!

I would like to be able to open up a shop and sell whatever I want like a lot of NPC's do. It'd be cool if i could train an apprentice, have a store guard (like in Morrowind) and name the shop as well. There aren't many bookkeepers in Skyrim, so I think I would do that. Just go around collecting books throughout my adventures while my buddy mans the shop. I think it would be pretty fun.

that.... sounds..... decent

what town would that be?

Shops are essential, really.

You should be able to buy a bare building and chose from a list of "upgrades" similar to what you would find for the available houses.

A blacksmith would be able to purchase a forge, a smelter and a work bench. He/she could buy racks and cases to display his/her wares. A book-keeper could buy bookshelves. A food merchant could buy bins to keep his vegitables and fruits in. I think you get the idea.

Included in this should be the ability to buy warehouses to supply an entire town with grain or ores. You wouldn't be forced to mine or harvest for a whole town on your own unless you chose to do it on your own. It'd be more like a money sink, you have to watch your total poundage of grain and ore or you would find that all the town merchants have less gold and less to sell. Almost out of grain? Open up the warehouse shopping menu and buy 1000lbs of grain for 5000sep.

Can I be a ventriqualist? That would be pure awesome.

+1 to healer. You could even roleplay an evil doctor. The patients will ask you for help and they'll drink the potions you prescribe. Those potions could easily become poisons if the patient has rich enemies

Binman

Bounty Hunter, technically we already have it but not for random individuals.

I'm sorry, is there actually a game where you are hired at a company, asked to come in between 8 and 5 and work at a specific job?

Oh right, that's real life.

In-game professions are usually defined as some kind of job you can do that isn't combat-related, including trading, smithing, enchanting, mining, wood-chopping, alchemizing, etc. That's how it's defined in every other RPG ever, and I'm not sure why the Elder Scrolls should be held to a different standard.

Oh, I'd love to debate semantics with you all day long but I'm not going to waste my time.

To quote you, "some kind of job you can do." There are no jobs.

You expect me to be held to your standard of defining a profession? I think not.

It's not semantics. You're looking for an RPG to provide you with a traditionally-defined 9-to-5 job. That's not the only definition of job, and no game has ever provided the opportunity to engage in such mind-numbing tedium.

I can spend all day chopping wood and getting paid for it. I can spend all day mining ore and selling it. I can spend all day enchanting weapons and selling them. I can spend all day smithing weapons and armor and selling them. I can spend all day creating potions and selling them.

And these don't qualify as "jobs" because you don't have a boss telling you what to do? Because there are a few self-employed people who would beg to differ...

Guard! I like to say stupid things to famous dragonborns, thanes and whatever and get away with it.

Get away? That's curious. My Razor seems to disagree.
But working as a guard could be cool. I sometimes don a Guard armour and parade about in town to pretend I patrol. I just disable the guard who was supposed to follow that route, so I won't crash into them and get some comment ruining my roleplay.

And you aren't interested in mind-numbing tedium?

And no, once again, I am not going to debate semantics with you. I'm looking for an RPG to provide me with a profession, the original topic of this thread. At the time there are no fulfilling professions.

K, thanks, bye.

Again, you can do a job, and you can get paid for it. What about creating something and selling it for money do you not consider a job?

I'm actually quite happy about prostitution not beeing included in the game. Not that I'm some holy guy, I've already booked a table for me in hell, but after the Wit her every fantasy game had to be dark and had to have six amd racism in it.

You know which profession is missing? Skyrim lacks some decent loistics, or does every merchant just FedEx their stuff?

I try to not think about children while thinking about prostitution.