DCC RPG uses a character creation system that has the player roll on an occupation chart that determines what the character did before he became an adventurer. Each occupation also comes with an undetermined set of skills that can be called upon when making a check. I use the word undetermined because DCC RPG has no skill system, per se -- if the character is attempting something he would have learned in his occupation, the skill is trained. Roll a d20. Otherwise, it's untrained. Roll a d10.
Since we've done away with Elves, Dwarves and Halfings for our Xeria hexcrawl, we decided to make a unique occupation table for each of the four human races we've designed instead. Here's the table for the Espadians, a race of humans who are essentially eccentric musketeer nobles. They wear fancy clothing, hold frequent balls, duel with rapiers for honour, and create beautiful works of art from glass, including the three splendid glass spires in their city of Espada.
Espadian Occupation Table (1d20)*
- Glassblower's apprentice (blowpipe as staff, glass bauble)
- Architect's apprentice (dagger, parchment and quill)
- Servant (kitchen knife as dagger, 'lucky' trinket)
- Noble (rapier, large finely crafted satchel [50lbs])
- Messenger (letter opener as dagger, supple leather shoes)
- Herald (dagger, brass horn)
- Excavator (shovel as staff, 1lb sand)
- Foreman (hammer as club, speaking trumpet)
- Tailor (scissors as dagger, needle and thread)
- Dressmaker (scissors as dagger, 2 yards fine cloth)
- Lookout (sling, brimmed hat)
- Duelist (rapier, fine gloves)
- Blacksmith (hammer as club, steel tongs)
- Ostler (staff, bridle)
- Chef (rolling pin as club, fine spices)
- Merchant (dagger, cask of fine rum)
- Deckhand (knife as dagger, 50' rope)
- Scholar (dagger, 10 candles)
- Conman (dagger, quality cloak)
- Actor (dagger, fine clothes)
*The items in brackets are the character's trained weapon and starting trade good, respectively.
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