Not everyone enjoys RPing the adventurer/soldier/mercenary etc.
Curious what kind of jobs you guys might have your character do and how you utilize your power/knowledge on the day to day (if you do). How important is your characters job in their RP?
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Taina’s job in the Circle was to be a field journalist, primarily in Ashenvale and Felwood before the Fourth War.
So, up until then, she knew a ton of hiding and perching spots as a Druid of the Talon. She’d always carry around a heavy tome of just notes, and then loose-leaf paper as well. Her thing was to make sure the wildlife and fauna weren’t disturbed or otherwise altered, since i Ashenvale there’s the lumber camp and Felwood is…well, it has fel.
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I still run Kopperschott Recovery, Acquisition, and Procurement (KRAP Industries, LLC) which is a setup that seeks and recovers just about anything - from scrap and salvage to archaeological items. Based out of Frostfire Ridge in Draenor, our corporate HQ (garrison) is fully equipped to get what you want to where you need it.
If we can’t find it, it ain’t worth KRAP!
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I focus most on occupation for my commoner characters. Two are authors, one owns a vineyard and the last and most recent one is the heir to a high profile fruit vendor.
A lot of my characters in general have at least some kind of side job. My main Death Knight, Sinothyr, sells the pelts of feral Worgen she kills while at home. She also serves as a Runesmith within the Ebon Blade; making and repairing weapons, armor, or assisting with runeforging when requested.
Zhaoyang, the main character portrayed on this Monk, is publicly a masseuse. I say publicly because I have haven’t actually portrayed her doing it since WoD, though she still does it on occasion narratively in addition to her ongoing martial training. Her mother is a teacher.
My Demon Hunter has started a Private Investigation business as a side job and potential aid in routing out lingering demons.
Though not technically her job, my main Highborne Mage, Astrea, is often concerned with research and has written a few books on the arcane arts. While it’s technically work she doesn’t really get paid for any of it. Until recently she was aiding the Sentinel Army, however even then I’ve never considered her a soldier; she certainly never acted like one.
Addendum:
My hunter, who is a gunman of sorts, was once a captain of a private trading ship; before it was captured by pirates…whose captain she killed…and crew converted.
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While Gordon’s (The character I’m posting on) has always been a soldier of some sort, he has published several non-fiction books in life and in undeath. They all have a focus on some specific point in either Human or Forsaken history.
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Vanndrel’s kind of still feeling his way back into working with the Alliance. Much like my previous Hunter before him (Who officially decided to stay behind on AU-Draenor at the end of WoD despite the fact he existed in Legion), Vanndrel’s running a hunting camp to help feed the Alliance military.
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Juspion is a magic crystal tech guy or an Artificer.
Most of his work has kept him around the Exodar generally just keeping the lights on doing general maintenance. He’s basically the Draenei you call when you need your crystals rewired or some other type of similar work.
On the side he may have procured rare Argunite crystals and Azerite samples and is studying the properties to see if the two share any similarities. I have a whole headcanon around that.
Otherwise at the moment the last RP session ended up with him connecting with the void, probably going crazy and now he’s off somewhere in space solving space mysteries.
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Not that I’ve thought of currently, but this kind of makes me wonder about something that I might make a thread about. People obviously have jobs in the world, but I kind of wonder the cost of living in various cities and places. Like is a handful of copper a day’s wages? Is that enough to get by? etc. Obviously it would depend on the job but like, your average person I mean.
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Sarestha never had a day-to-day job, as such. She saw herself as a Paladin-esque Knight of Lordaeron, however, so she often used to travel around doing odd jobs for people. A benevolent mercenary, maybe? She doesn’t need to eat, drink or sleep and nor does her horse so money was never her focus.
Some Forsaken needs a hand driving off some bandits? She was all for it. Repairing a fence so the growing of some srs mushrooms can commence? Totally helping. Guarding a supply caravan? Why not?
When it came to war, she served as an auxiliary in the army as well. Essentially, she held no major rank and didn’t desire to - she helped when help was needed. ICly she served a lot during the WotLK days and the Cataclysm, while largely returning to her odd-jobs in MoP and WoD. She got back into the Horde army in Legion and sorta stayed there through BFA, until she deserted the Darkshore Warfront not long after Baine’s arrest.
So no, Sara’s job has never been a day-to-day one. But she’s not above doing basic menial jobs. In a way, she prefers the basic service of helping her people.
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While it may vary from being a “job”, I like having something in mind for what my characters would be doing in between RP sessions.
Like this character collected and sold semi-rare plants. (Before her main marketplace was burnt down, that is. And then she tried to join the Sentinels, but I didn’t think she’d be a great fighter, so I decided that the Sentinels shuffled her over to running messages and healing the nightsabers who broke their teeth on Horde armor.)
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I mean, if we go by the Auction House as a means of gauging the game world’s economy, then over a decade of endless war has completely tanked the economy in a manner Cataclysm did predict with its changes to Westfall.
I mean, what cheese maker or farmer can afford to buy anything when a random green item sells for almost 10k gold?
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Fal’therin was a Farstrider of Quel’thalas for nearly 3000 years. He dedicated his whole life to defending his Kingdom and people. As a Blood Elf, he’d attained the rank of Ranger-Captain.
Since becoming a Void Elf though, and having fought alongside the Horde not so long ago, he hasn’t been entirely eager to go to war with his former comrades. He’s refused his old rank and, despite still considering himself a Farstrider of Quel’thalas, largely gets by doing actual hunting, and selling the meat to butchers. So that’s his main job now. Although he did end up in the war given that Farmers were being called up (According to the Lost Honor cinematic), and I figure an experienced elven commander would be too. Though he did only participate at the ranking level, and with no real desire to be permanently military.
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Bar’therin Duskreach (The long lost grandfather of Fal’therin who I posted on above) Is a Nightborne Magister fascinated with the changes, both physical and cultural, undergone by the elves since he went under the bubble.
His job now is a researcher/author. He’s trying to write a book about the variety of modern elves, in magic, culture and physicality.
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Hafren is a peddler. She runs a small shop in Stormwind where she buys unwanted goods and resells them, as well as having an inventory she obtains through… other means. It’s mostly honest work.
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Does assassin count?
Enekie has no particular love for the Horde as an entity, but not a lot of enmity for it, either. Killing targets is a matter of making money to pay rent, a process she finds tedious and will struggle to avoid at all opportunities.
But it’s easier to do than being a chef, which is a dabble for her.
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This character started out to see if I could pull off a civilian whose lively hood was dependent on interacting with others through RP. Just threw her out there and rolled with the punches.
She started out as an aspiring/struggling model. She’d do fashion shows, serve as eye candy at stalls during RP markets, and guerilla-style marketing for products/events/services, etc. I even sold ad space in her TRP profile. A lot of a satire related to aspiring social media personalities and people who’re famous for being famous.
Work/pay was sporadic, so the reality is that she spent most of her time trying to attach herself to those wealthier and more influential than herself while self promoting.
Over a year ago it all paid off. She got picked up by Firebrand Enterprises, where she received pay in exchange for playing up the the company anywhere and everywhere. Eventually she got a full time gig in publicity and hiring. It all continued until she’s now the head manager of public relations, advertising, hiring, and personnel services. She’s become something of a work-a-holic and is constantly handing out business cards or schmoozing.
I have no actual background in business or advertising, but I very much enjoy engaging others with an interest in my hobbies (RP being one of them), explaining things, and helping get them involved.
To that end, I do take the character’s job a bit further- going so far as helping maintain the guild’s website, forum threads, and keeping an eye out for opportunities in the RP community. I also enjoy supporting promoting participation in RP events and the community at large.
It’s also a fun chance to try out various theories/techniques related to dealing with people in general.
It’s been a blast.
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Yeah, actually! My worgen mage is a professor, while my goblin hunter’s also a professional gearhead, producing motorbikes as both a hobby and a side-gig!
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This character is a bartender who hosts regular public bar nights! It is pretty much her whole (social) life. Most of my RP nowadays revolves around that or people I meet there. I also have a Dwarf who took over her husband’s shipping and trade business when he died, a Gnome who runs a motor club and does some mechanic work on occasion, and a pensioner-aged toon who enjoys her retirement from…something. I have not worked the details out yet. All of my other characters do not really have “regular” jobs.
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I cannot for the life of me figure out how to convincingly RP jobs. So I just leave it vague. Altielle doesn’t have any support from family, so all money she earns is hers, which means she has to have some kind of job. I figure it involves research or something, but I have zero experience with that field IRL so I try not to bring it up a lot.
For a while she contracted with the military as pretty much a living weapon, using her felfire to clear entire sections of Darkshore and smoke out night elves. But I think it’s obvious why she doesn’t do that anymore.
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Slania Mistwight acts as a courier for people because she travels around a lot and wants to keep herself too busy to focus on the current political client. It started as her bringing letters across faction borders via other monks at the Temple of the Five Dawns and she’s continued from there.
She delivers for a pretty paltry sum. What she does earn mostly goes to keeping her wyvern healthy and happy. The rest she spends on books and potions, bandages, salves - stuff to assist her work as a healer for hire.
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