Expanded Profession

A profession often encompasses many smaller areas of expertise, and these auxiliary skills can come in handy in situations beyond just making money or answering tradespecific questions. Below are some sample additional uses for Profession skills, and GMs are encouraged to create their own.

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Expanded Heal	Knowledge Astrology	Knowledge Nature
Expanded Craft	Knowledge Ritual	Profession Herbalist
Expanded Profession	Perform	Practical Profession

Task	Profession Skill	DC
Determine hardness and hitpoints of a structure	Architect or engineer	20
Prepare trail rations (takes 1 hour per day’s worth of rations)	Baker or cook	10
Obtain a legal permit	Barrister or clerk	15
Get someone released from jail who has been imprisoned for a minor crime1	Barrister	20
Ask a special favor from a judge (such as arresting someone)	Barrister	30
Brew alcohol of exceptional quality	Brewer	20
Notice poison in a beverage	Brewer	25
Skin an animal and tan the hide	Butcher, shepherd, or tanner	10
Slaughter and butcher an animal	Butcher, cook, or shepherd	15
Reduce a legal fine or tax by half the result of the check in gp2	Clerk	20+
Cook a meal of exceptional quality	Cook	20
Notice poison in food	Cook	25
Find potential clients within an establishment or large group	Courtesan	10
Assess a social hierarchy	Courtesan	15
Continue steering a vehicle when you take damage	Driver or sailor	5
Take cover (as the Ride skill) while steering a vehicle	Driver or sailor	15
Identify a non-creature plant	Farmer or gardener	10
Rejuvenate dying plants	Farmer or gardener	15
Provide 1 day’s worth of food for yourself and others in the wild or trapper	Fisherman or trapper	153
Recall the rules of a game of chance	Gambler	10
Get a hunch regarding whether a game is rigged	Gambler	20
Reduce an average or lower cost of living by 50%	Innkeeper	153
Sate hunger or thirst for 1 day	Herbalist	10
Identify common medicinal herbs	Herbalist	10
Identify rare medicinal herbs	Herbalist	15
Aid another on a Knowledge check using reference material	Librarian	5
Recall the name of a rare book	Librarian	15
Determine where an item was manufactured	Merchant	104
Recall where a common good fetches a higher price	Merchant	15
Safely deliver a child	Midwife	15
Safely deliver a child despite complications	Midwife	20
Grind a small piece of a nonmagical substance into powder hardness	Miller	10+Hardness
Identify common metal or semiprecious stone	Miner	5
Identify rare metal or precious gem	Miner	15
Ignore half hardness when attacking a stone or metal object	Miner	20
Increase carrying capacity for 8 hours as if Strength were 2 higher	Porter	15
Unload a vessel in half the normal time	Porter	20
Navigate a ship in fair conditions	Sailor	20
Pilot a ship safely through a hazardous seaway	Sailor	25+
Determine which scribe wrote a document	Scribe	104
Copy a document (30 minutes per page; requires a blank book)	Scribe	10
Illuminate a manuscript (1 hour per page)	Scribe	20
Determine the quality of woolen textiles	Shepherd	10
Determine whether a weapon or armor is of masterwork quality	Soldier	10
Estimate the size of a military force	Soldier	15
Identify advantages and disadvantages of a military formation	Soldier	20
Keep horses fed in the wild	Stable master	10
Fit or remove barding in half the normal time	Stable master	15
Recognize damaged or sabotaged horse tack	Stable master	20
Determine the quality of leatherwork (and tell if it’s masterwork quality)	Tanner	10
Aid another on an Escape Artist check to get out of a trap or snare	Trapper	5
Reset a trap in half the normal amount of time	Trapper	20
Scavenge wood suitable for campfire or shelter	Woodcutter	5
Ignore half hardness when attacking wooden object	Woodcutter	20

1. A major crime typically requires a trial involving a series of Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Profession (barrister), and Sense Motive skill checks, as well as appropriate Knowledge checks.
2. To a minimum of 25% of the original value.
3. Provide this benefit for yourself plus one other person for every 2 points by which your skill check exceeds the DC.
4. Increase the DC by 5 if the item is from a region the character is unfamiliar with, and by another 5 if it’s more than 20 years old. Exceptionally rare or ancient pieces can’t usually have their origin identified in this way.

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