Commoner Upgrade

[metaquad4]

Suggestions to put the commoner class to some actual use (it won't be useful for combat of course, but it will be useful for what commoners are useful - labour):

Progression:
Every 5 levels, Commoners can choose a skilled profession feat.

Level 10: Enhanced Background I - you gain a repeat of your background bonus (polygot = extra language and +2 to linguistics, etc.)
OR
You can choose an additional background.

Level 20: Enhanced Background II - you gain a another repeat of your background bonus (polygot = extra language and +2 to linguistics, etc.)
OR
You can choose an additional background.

Level 30: Enhanced Background III - you gain a final repeat of your background bonus (polygot = extra language and +2 to linguistics, etc.).
OR
You can choose an additional background.

New Feats:

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Epic Skill Focus I through X - You can pick a skill focus you already have; you get an additional +5 to that skill. This feat can be taken multiple times, up to a max of 10 times.
REQUIRES: Skill Focus, Character Level 21

Skilled Profession Feats:

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Carve Gemstone - if you have a light hammer and a dagger equipped, you can spend 1 minute (channelled casting) creating a gemstone carving.
You target a gemstone in your inventory and roll Profession (Carving/Sculpting) + d20; you obtain a carving that can be sold for an amount of gold equal to [roll*10 + gemstone's value]. This exhausts you for 20 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Carve Wood - if you have a dagger equipped, you can spend 1 minute (chanelled casting) creating a wood carving.
You roll Craft (Carving/Sculpting) + d20; you obtain a carving that can be sold for an amount of gold equal to [roll*3]. This exhausts you for 10 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Carve Stone - if you have a light hammer and a dagger equipped, you can spend 1 minute (chanelled casting) creating a wood carving.
You roll Craft (Carving/Sculpting) + d20; you obtain a carving that can be sold for an amount of gold equal to [roll*5]. This exhausts you for 10 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Work Metal - if you have a light hammer equipped and are near a fire (campfire probably), you can spent 1 minute (channelled casting) working metal scraps into ingots. You roll Craft (Metalworking) + d20; you obtain a random metal ingot for every 10 points. This exhausts you for 15 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Create Weapons and Armour - if you are near a fire (campfire probably), you can spent 1 minute (channelled casting) working a selected material into armour, shields, and weapons. You target a stack of materials (any that can be used to make items) in your inventory and choose a base item. You must have a light hammer equipped to work metal and a dagger equipped to work wood. You must expend 5 of a material to use this ability to make shields, 10 of a material to use this ability to make weapons, and 15 of a material to use this ability to make armour.
You roll Craft (Metalworking) + d20; you create a chosen item (choose from any base type) made out of the chosen material (whichever you clicked on). For every 10 points on your role, this item gains a +1 enhancement bonus. This exhausts you for 40 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.
REQUIRES: Work Metal to select any metal ingots with this ability.
REQUIRES: Carve Wood to select any wood materials with this ability.

Farm - in any nature area, you can spend 1 minute (channelled casting) growing a crop of your choice (Strawberries, Green Beans, any other fruit/vegetable on the server).
You roll Profession (Agriculture) + d20; for every 5 points, you obtain 1 of that crop. This exhausts you for 10 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Bake - if you are near a fire (campfire probably), you can spend 1 minute (channelled casting) baking bread.
You roll Craft (Food Preperation) + d20; for every 10 points, you obtain 3 bread loaves. This exhausts you for 5 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Cook - if you are near a fire (campfire probably), you can spend 1 minute (channelled casting) cooking food.
You roll Craft (Food Preperation) + d20; for every 5 points, you obtain 1 meal (choose from any food on the server). This exhausts you for 10 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Mine - in any underground area, you can spend 1 minute (channelled casting) mining for metal and gemstones. You require any hammer or warmace to use this ability.
You roll Profession (Mining) + d20; for every 5 points, you obtain 1 of a random gem or ingot. This exhausts you for 10 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Log - in any nature area, you can spent 1 minute (channelled casting) cutting down trees. You require any axe to use this ability.
You roll Profession (Forestry) + d20; for every 5 points, you obtain 1 of a random wood. This exhausts you for 10 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Sing - in any peaceful area, you can spend 2 minutes (channelled casting) singing a song. You must not be silenced for this ability to function.
You roll Perform + d20; for every 5 points, 1 person who listens to your song gets a random buff (+1d3 to all saves or +1d4 to 1d6 random skills or +1d20 temporary HP) for 24 hours. Listeners can only gain this buff once per rest. If you use this feat in a city or village, you also roll Perform + d20; for every 5 points, you gain 20 gold. This exhausts you for 5 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Dance - in any peaceful area, you can spend 2 minutes (channelled casting) dancing. You must be wearing cloth for this ability to function. You must be able to move freely for this ability to function.
You roll Perform + d20; for every 5 points, 1 person who sees your dance gets a random buff (+1d3 to all saves or +1d4 to 1d6 random skills or +1d20 temporary HP) for 24 hours. Watchers can only gain this buff once per rest. If you use this feat in a city or village, you also roll Perform + d20; for every 5 points, you gain 20 gold. This exhausts you for 10 minutes.
If you use this feat while exhausted, you suffer -10 on your roll and this feat goes on a 5 minute cooldown. You cannot use this feat while under attack.

Exhausted Definition: You are exhausted from your work. You suffer -5 to all skill checks, saves, AB, and AC. Resting or using a restoration effect will cure this. Working in this state will cause you to take 1d20 damage.

[Ghost]

How about just...

https://www.d20srd.org/srd/npcClasses/expert.htm

[ILLY]

I'm loving all the RP tools

[Kitunenotsume]

Regarding the class itself - I concur with Ghost; implementing the Expert class would be preferable.

Regarding Epic Skill Focus - We already have instances of Epic Skill Focus[link], that apply a single +10 to the skill, but only reach about 4 or 5 skills currently. Expanding the list would be nice. Weirdly, the existing feat requires 20 ranks, but not the Skill Focus feat. This seems a bit backwards, but is actually the P&P implementation[link]. I'd still support a feat progression like we have for other epic-upgrade feats.

Regarding the Skill Feats:
Was it intended to refer to various Skill-focus feats for craft and profession skills, or are you suggesting a complete new line of feats?

I can definitely appreciate the inclusion of skill-abilities, but their power-level does appear to vary quite widely.

Most are reasonable, but Mining would need a studious look at, especially if it has a chance to drop high-value gems or diamonds. I hope it is evident that a chance of expensive reagents is not equal to three loaves of bread.

It would also merit either a look at how channeled casts work, or using a different system (such as applying the Dazed effect for a minute and checking combat status + skill check when it ends). Having possible RP interrupted by 10 instances of "So and so is casting Work Metal", and the channeled-cast counter getting stuck if interrupted early, could put a significant damper on use both during and well afterwards.
I suggest Daze, as it still allows movement if appropriate for other things (like walking around a workshop), and self-defenses if needed, without permitting active combat and use of other feats or spells.

The Exhausted condition is a nice effect, and being able to remove it by Restoration is reasonable, but would be worth addressing the potential of a caster with such spells to just sit in one place, rotating through their skills to produce high-value goods every minute and cleansing off the debuff before using the next skill. Applying a global 10-minute cooldown to all such skill-feats would mitigate at least the ability to cycle through, but is by no means the only possible consideration.