Commoners can get the Handle Animal skill. Thus, they would, I guess, be able to raise dragons; or, like, ride giant spiders.
Commoners can get the climb skill; thus being able to climb over those one-pixel fences that are inpenetrable to PC's.
Commoners can get the craft skill; which, I guess, means you can make stuff. Like a chair. And then you have a chair to sit on while the adventurers have to stand up all the time. Or a backscratcher, so you can scratch your back while the adventurers have to be tortured by itchy backs all the time.
Commoners can get the jump skill; two levels in Jump is clearly a double-jump, and three is a wall-jump.
Commoners can get the ride skill. Riding giant spiders.
Commoners can get the spot skill. Spot the traitor? Done. Spot the lost treasure on the other end of the world? Done. Spot the ground? Done. Spot your keys? Done.
Commoners can get the Use Rope skill. It doesn't say what you use the rope for. Maybe you use it to fix the human condition, or attain enlightenment, or deflect projectiles, or resurrect your buddy.
Commoners can get the swim skill; which means that they can go in water, unlike basically any video game character ever. Level two of swim allows you to swim through land.
Commoners can get the Listen skill, which is kind of useless; and profession, which is kind of stupid.
Commoners can get the Chicken Infested feat, the sole thing they are good for.
Now imagine your party is standing outside a dungeon, worried about what's inside. Before anyone can react, you've produced enough chickens to fill it to the bursting, until there's not enough room for anyone in there to breathe. Party being chased? Block off a hallway with chickens. Need battlefield alteration? Meet the new 'spell' my commoner can produce as a free action, which I call 'Wall of Chickens'.
Need to cross a ravine or pit? Fill it with chickens. Need to check for traps? There aren't very many traps that won't go off when ten thousand chickens are stampeded over them.
Team up with your wizard. The wizard uses Disintegrate to drop the BBEG in a pit, and you... bury them in chickens. Instantly.
Set up a Teleportation Circle into the BBEG's base. Stand over it. Produce chickens until their base literally explodes.
If you're ever in a situation where you can't survive, go for the broke and fill all of creation with chickens. Just imagine the reaction of people halfway around the world when every square inch of space in their world is suddenly and completely full of chickens.
It hardly needs to be said, but your party never needs to worry about starving again.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
book kingdom
book empire
that's a helluva lot of days
To my knowledge, this was a song released between 1940 and 1960. This was before the Civil Rights Movement was important.
AKA THE SAME THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO THIS VERY DAY.
Commoners can get the climb skill; thus being able to climb over those one-pixel fences that are inpenetrable to PC's.
Commoners can get the craft skill; which, I guess, means you can make stuff. Like a chair. And then you have a chair to sit on while the adventurers have to stand up all the time. Or a backscratcher, so you can scratch your back while the adventurers have to be tortured by itchy backs all the time.
Commoners can get the jump skill; two levels in Jump is clearly a double-jump, and three is a wall-jump.
Commoners can get the ride skill. Riding giant spiders.
Commoners can get the spot skill. Spot the traitor? Done. Spot the lost treasure on the other end of the world? Done. Spot the ground? Done. Spot your keys? Done.
Commoners can get the Use Rope skill. It doesn't say what you use the rope for. Maybe you use it to fix the human condition, or attain enlightenment, or deflect projectiles, or resurrect your buddy.
Commoners can get the swim skill; which means that they can go in water, unlike basically any video game character ever. Level two of swim allows you to swim through land.
Commoners can get the Listen skill, which is kind of useless; and profession, which is kind of stupid.
You forgot leap years.