Running skill checks for Profession(gambler) will ALWAYS net you a positive income. In fact, you can make just as much money in the average day as a LAWYER (barrister) or any other seemingly well to do profession. Why do you guys think people are so fantastic at betting in Golarion?
Also, profession (gambler) could well be the skill required to run a gambling establishment without being stabbed, in which case making money is kind of easy.
More silly is that an average Int 10 commoner can be a lawyer and a doctor.
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Profession (Town Fool) nets you the same amount of income as you'd get from Profession (Barrister). It's best not to think too hard about the Pathfinder economy.
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More silly is that an average Int 10 commoner can be a lawyer and a doctor.
To me that isn't as big of a deal, given enough time, pretty much anyone can learn anything. What does kind of bug me though is that they'd learn it at the same rate as an 18 Int character (although I suppose you could argue that it took less effort for the 18 Int character since they managed to find time to improve in other areas).
Yeah, no, 10 Int lawyers actually don't bug me all that much now that I stop to think about it. Huh, good to know I guess?
Profession (Town Fool) nets you the same amount of income as you'd get from Profession (Barrister). It's best not to think too hard about the Pathfinder economy.
Maybe the lawyers don't make more because they secretly have hearts of gold and give their excess money to said town fool.
BWAHAHAHAHA NOPE. Oh well, one can dream
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Also, profession (gambler) could well be the skill required to run a gambling establishment without being stabbed, in which case making money is kind of easy.
I believe that is usually how simply rolling the profession check would work. Seeing up a table at a local watering hole where the house gets a cut of your winnings in return for giving you the space to work.
At least I remember seeing that in at least one western. Tombstone maybe? Probably others.
To truly be a lawyer, you need the Outsider type with the Evil and Lawful subtypes.
"Lawful" is completely unnecessary for the practicing amoral lawyer. You know the law, and as such, how to break it all the while making it appear that it is being upheld. What you do is only illegal if you both get caught and cannot find and adequately (not necessarily accurately) represent the obscure legal precedent justifying your actions.
I miss my max ranks Bureaucracy corporate lawyer Exlated character now.
A competent poker player who plays the odds, doesn't fall prey to superstition, who looks around for rich but dumb poker players, and bets carefully, will on average make a profit. The 'profession roll' doesn't make allowances for occasional losses, but you could make a loss in business too.
(Cracked article on being a poker professional.)
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More silly is that an average Int 10 commoner can be a lawyer and a doctor.
I've met plenty of lawyers and doctors that are of pretty average intelligence. It's often more a matter of opportunity then innate intelligence. Now a good lawyer or doctor. That's another issue.
I'm saying that the commoner will be both a lawyer and a doctor. Like Dr. McNinja, only Dr. McLawyer.
Int 10 Doctor in Golarion:
"I diagnose that you are suffering from... disease! I recommend a course of going to a level 5 or better cleric."
You could also do profession beggar
The thing with begging though, is in major metropolitan areas, you can actually make really good money either begging or street performing. I know that in Lima (Peru) the average beggar will make triple what the average laborer will make if they patrol the tourist areas. Likewise, I know a couple street performers (really cool guys too, very interesting world perspective) in Mexico City that made enough money that they own an unmortgaged highrise in the heart of the city after only performing for 5 years.