http://www.svincent.com/MagicJar/Economics/MedievalOccupations.html
I'm finding this pretty fascinating
We need to start assigning folks around here with those titles.
Who's going to be the pissprophet?
Not it!
Cool link.
That is a great resource for helping flesh out a RPG or fantasy world. I might have to use that in my miniatures campaign.
Me first dibs on the stewsman :P
Pooh!
This list is hardly complete. Every large breeding farm would have a knackerman. (In today's slaughter houses in america, believe he is called a knocker.)
Where is the gong farmer? Don't fash yourself over this, he's the guy who goes into sewers with a shovel to break up jams. (And yes, they could die from the fumes in tiny tunnels.)
And, of course, the most important worker in any medieval city, the ratcatcher. (Also, a very well paid craft.)
Quote from: besilarius on March 14, 2012, 05:41:50 PM
Pooh!
This list is hardly complete. Every large breeding farm would have a knackerman. (In today's slaughter houses in america, believe he is called a knocker.)
Where is the gong farmer? Don't fash yourself over this, he's the guy who goes into sewers with a shovel to break up jams. (And yes, they could die from the fumes in tiny tunnels.)
And, of course, the most important worker in any medieval city, the ratcatcher. (Also, a very well paid craft.)
Ratcatcher is listed.
I'd like to be the hayward. My previous experience includes having a fence.
Quote from: ScottP on March 14, 2012, 06:03:51 PM
I'd like to be the hayward. My previous experience includes having a fence.
I would have thought bathing in radioactive sludge was a more transferable skill, but there seem to be plenty of positions open, so help yourself.
Spent a bit more time looking through this list.
N.B. chirurgeon - surgeon
Same language as used in some of the WH40K novels. Interesting.
Quote from: LongBlade on March 14, 2012, 07:27:44 PM
Spent a bit more time looking through this list.
N.B. chirurgeon - surgeon
Same language as used in some of the WH40K novels. Interesting.
It's an old germanic or slavic term, methinks.
In Dutch a surgeon is a 'Chirug' IIRC it's the same in Polish and Czech. Smuck may be able to confirm.
Quote from: LongBlade on March 14, 2012, 07:24:32 PM
Quote from: ScottP on March 14, 2012, 06:03:51 PM
I'd like to be the hayward. My previous experience includes having a fence.
I would have thought bathing in radioactive sludge was a more transferable skill, but there seem to be plenty of positions open, so help yourself.
It was a rough time of my childhood in the 80s. I was trying to be a Ninja Turtle. It didn't work. Sadly.
Quote from: LongBlade on March 14, 2012, 02:36:17 PM
We need to start assigning folks around here with those titles.
Who's going to be the pissprophet?
Not it!
I have a nomination. ::)
Quote from: Centurion40 on March 14, 2012, 08:25:02 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on March 14, 2012, 02:36:17 PM
We need to start assigning folks around here with those titles.
Who's going to be the pissprophet?
Not it!
I have a nomination. ::)
Does he drive a new BMW ragtop?
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 14, 2012, 08:28:11 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on March 14, 2012, 08:25:02 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on March 14, 2012, 02:36:17 PM
We need to start assigning folks around here with those titles.
Who's going to be the pissprophet?
Not it!
I have a nomination. ::)
Does he drive a new BMW ragtop?
OMG. How did I not see that coming?
I seriously don't hold grudges. Out of sight, out of mind.
Not that I'm often in my mind even when I'm in sight.
How about a vaginarius??!!
Quote from: LongBlade on March 14, 2012, 08:36:19 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 14, 2012, 08:28:11 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on March 14, 2012, 08:25:02 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on March 14, 2012, 02:36:17 PM
We need to start assigning folks around here with those titles.
Who's going to be the pissprophet?
Not it!
I have a nomination. ::)
Does he drive a new BMW ragtop?
OMG. How did I not see that coming?
I seriously don't hold grudges. Out of sight, out of mind.
Not that I'm often in my mind even when I'm in sight.
I bit my tongue far too long back in the 'Olde Countrie'.
I think I'll start speaking my mind when it comes to Bags of Douche. If that works for me I'll move on to politics.
Baby steps for now...
EDIT: BTW, two or three Altbiers helps the process along. Salud!
Quote from: Centurion40 on March 14, 2012, 08:37:51 PM
How about a vaginarius??!!
Now. Now the thread is back on track.