165 Crafts, Professions, Occupations, Backgrounds, Guilds
Justisaur
research. #'s after a guild indicate position in medieval London.
Not everything had a guild, so if you don't see one listed for a craft
or profession, then it didn't have one. Depending how primitive or
advanced some of these could obviously be combined.
I'm intending to use this as a 'pick on or random' for backgrounds in
4e...
1 Craft/Profession: Soldier: Engineer (War Machines)
2 Craft: Alchemist
3 Craft: Apocathery (Herbalist) Guild: Apocatheries
4 Craft: Armorer Guild: Armourers & Brasiers
5 Craft: Baker Guild: Bakers
6 Craft: Basketweaver (baskets & wicker items) Guild: Basketweavers
7 Craft: Blacksmith Guild: Ironmongers #10/Blacksmiths
8 Craft: Bookbinder (creates books) Guild: Stationers
9 Craft: Bookseller (copies books) Guild: Stationers
10 Craft: Bowyer Guild: Bowyers
11 Craft: Brewer Guild: Brewers
12 Craft: Broderer (embroydery) Guild: Broderers
13 Craft: Butcher Guild: Butchers
14 Craft: Card Maker (playing cards) Guild: Playing Card Makers
15 Craft: Carpenter (wood furnature with nails) Guild: Carpenters
16 Craft: Cartwright Guild: Cartwrights/Wainwrights
17 Craft: Clockmaker Guild: Clockmakers
18 Craft: Cobbler (shoes) Guild: Cobblers
19 Craft: Constructor (buildings) Guild: Constructors
20 Craft: Cook Guild: Cooks
21 Craft: Cooper (barrels) Guild: Coopers
22 Craft: Cordwainer (Leatherworking) Guild: Cordwainers
23 Craft: Cutler (guild) (bladed tools - sicles, scisors, cutters,
knives, razors, cutlery) Guild: Cutlers
24 Craft: Distiller (Guild: Vintner) Guild: Distillers
25 Craft: Dyer (both making dye and applying it) Guild: Dyers
26 Craft: Fans Guild: Fan Makers
27 Craft: Fletcher (guild) Guild: Fletchers
28 Craft: Founder (brass & bronze items) Guild: Armourers & Brasiers
29 Craft: Fuller (guild) (making cloth from woven wool) Guild: Fuller
30 Craft: Furrier Guild: Furriers
31 Craft: Gemcutter Guild: Goldsmiths #5
32 Craft: Girdler (belts & girdles) Guild: Girdlers
33 Craft: Glassblower Guild: Glass Sellers
34 Craft: Glazier (glass window making & staining) Guild: Glaziers
35 Craft: Glover Guild: Glovers
36 Craft: Goldsmith (jewelry & other items made from precious metals -
silver, gold, platinum) Guild: Goldsmiths #5
37 Craft: Hatmaker Guild: Felters
38 Craft: Horner (leather & horn bottles) Guild: Horners
39 Craft: Illuminator (Illuminates books) Guild: Stationers
40 Craft: Joiners (wood furnature with glue) Guild: Joiners
41 Craft: Knitter Guild: Knitters
42 Craft: Locksmith
43 Craft: Loriner (the metal parts of horse saddles, bridles,
harnesses) Guild: Loriners
44 Craft: Mason Guild: Masons
45 Craft: Miller Guild: Millers
46 Craft: Musical Instruments
47 Craft: Needlemaker Guild: Needlemakers
48 Craft: Oculoust (spectacles, crystal balls, prisms) Guild:
Spectacle Makers
49 Craft: Paper & Ink Guild: Stationers
50 Craft: Perfumes
51 Craft: Pewterer Guild: Pewterers
52 Craft: Pottery
53 Craft: Rope/Netmaker
54 Craft: Saddler Guild: Saddlers
55 Craft: Salter (preparing salt & spices for use in food & preserving
meats) Guild: Salters #9
56 Craft: Shipwright Guild: Shipwrights
57 Craft: Silver & Gold Wire Drawers (making silver & gold wire for
embroydery) Guild: Silver & Gold Wyre Drawers
58 Craft: Skinner Guild: Skinners #6
59 Craft: Spinner Guild: Woolmen
60 Craft: Tailor Guild: Merchant Tailors #7
61 Craft: Talow Chandler (tallow candles & soap) Guild: Tallow
Chandlers
62 Craft: Tanner
63 Craft: Thatcher (thactch rooves)
64 Craft: Tiler & Bricklayer (make & install roofing tiles & building
bricks) Guild: Tylers & Bricklayers
65 Craft: Tinker (repairs tools such as pots, blades)
66 Craft: Tobacconist (making pipes & blending tobacco) Guild: Pipe
Makers & Tobbaco Blenders
67 Craft: Turner (lathe woodwork) Guild: Turners
68 Craft: Upholder (upholstery & matresses) Guild: Upholders
69 Craft: Vintner Guild: Vintners #11
70 Craft: Wax Chandler (wax candles) Guild: Wax Chandlers
71 Craft: Weapon Smith
72 Craft: Weaver (tapestries, rugs, cloth)
73 Craft: Wireworker (anything with wire: fishhooks, cages)
74 Profession: Acrobat
75 Profession: Adventuerer
76 Profession: Animal Breeder
77 Profession: Animal Handler
78 Profession: Animal Tamer
79 Profession: Arbitrator
80 Profession: Architect
81 Profession: Artist
82 Profession: Assayer Guild: Goldsmiths #5
83 Profession: Barber Guild: Barbers
84 Profession: Barrister
85 Profession: Car Man (cart operator) Guild: Car Man
86 Profession: Caravaneer
87 Profession: Carriage Driver Guild: Carriage Drivers
88 Profession: Cartographer
89 Profession: Chimney Sweep
90 Profession: Chirugeon
91 Profession: Clerk Guild: Parrish Clerks
92 Profession: Councellor (Wise Man)
93 Profession: Courtier/Courtesan
94 Profession: Dancer
95 Profession: Dentist
96 Profession: Drill Instructor (trains in the use of weapons)
97 Profession: Entertainer (Actor/Singer)
98 Profession: Ferrier (horse shoes) Guild: Ferriers
99 Profession: Fisherman
100 Profession: Forrester
101 Profession: Fortune Teller
102 Profession: Fruiterer (fruit & nut farming)
103 Profession: Gambler
104 Profession: Gardener (vegtable farming) Guild: Gardeners
105 Profession: Grain Farmer
106 Profession: Grave Digger
107 Profession: Guard (private or police)
108 Profession: Guide
109 Profession: Herald
110 Profession: Herder
111 Profession: Hunter
112 Profession: Innkeeper Guild: Innholders
113 Profession: Interpreter
114 Profession: Jack of all trades
115 Profession: Juggler
116 Profession: Landlord
117 Profession: Launderer Guild: Launderers
118 Profession: Logger
119 Profession: Magician
120 Profession: Merchant: Clothier (sells cloth, not finished items)
Guild: Drapers #3/Habidashers #8/Clothiers #12
121 Profession: Merchant: Fishmonger Guild: Fishmongers #4
122 Profession: Merchant: Fruiterer (sells fruit) Guild: Fruiterers
123 Profession: Merchant: Grocier (sells vegtables) Guild: Grocier #2
124 Profession: Merchant: Mercer (general stores) Guild: Mercers #1
125 Profession: Merchant: Trader (buys/sells outside of town, county
or country) Guild: World Traders
126 Profession: Messenger
127 Profession: Money Lender
128 Profession: Musician Guild: Musicians
129 Profession: Navigator
130 Profession: Noble
131 Profession: Painter-Stainer (paints & stains wood) Guild: Painter-
Stainers
132 Profession: Pattenmaker (wooden clog shoes) Guild: Pattenmakers
133 Profession: Pavier (roads) Guild: Paviers
134 Profession: Plasterer Guild: Plasterers
135 Profession: Plumber Guild: Plumbers
136 Profession: Poltier (keeper of poltry for eggs & meat) Guild:
Poltier
137 Profession: Priest
138 Profession: Prize fighter (exhibition fighting, boxing, wresting,
gladiator)
139 Profession: Rancher
140 Profession: Rat Catcher
141 Profession: Sage
142 Profession: Scribe (Notary) Guild: Scriveners
143 Profession: Server (Barteneder, serving wench)
144 Profession: Shearer
145 Profession: Slaver
146 Profession: Soldier: Archery
147 Profession: Soldier: Calvalry
148 Profession: Soldier: Infantry
149 Profession: Soldier: Navy
150 Profession: Soldier: Officer
151 Profession: Spy
152 Profession: Stable Hand
153 Profession: Tavernkeeper
154 Profession: Teamster (unskilled labor) Guild: Lightners
155 Profession: Trapper
156 Profession: Tutor
157 Profession: Underworld/Merchant: Fence (Pawn)
158 Profession: Underworld: Assassin
159 Profession: Underworld: Beggar
160 Profession: Underworld: Burglar
161 Profession: Underworld: Con Man (Snake Oil Salesman)
162 Profession: Underworld: Pirate
163 Profession: Underworld: Robber (Bandit, Armed Robber)
164 Profession: Underworld: Thug (Organized crime - Protection money,
Gambling, etc)
165 Profession: Vetrenarian
- Justisaur
Baird Stafford
<bf19ba36-0dc0-439e...@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whatever you want to call them... I've come up with 165 after a bit of
> research. #'s after a guild indicate position in medieval London.
> Not everything had a guild, so if you don't see one listed for a craft
> or profession, then it didn't have one. Depending how primitive or
> advanced some of these could obviously be combined.
> I'm intending to use this as a 'pick on or random' for backgrounds in
> 4e...
IIRC, a similar list was published in one of the 2E "Waterdeep"
supplements.
<snip>
Baird
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> Whatever you want to call them... I've come up with 165 after a bit of
> - Justisaur
Amazing list! Super useful for my setting. Couldn't thank you enough!
Here's the generator I made, if anyone would like to see it:
http://www.generatorland.com/preview.aspx
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Justisaur
not sure.
I just plug it in a spreadsheet and generate with that anyway. Glad it
was of some use to someone besides me.
- Justisaur