# Tourist profession **URL:** \ **Category:** The Drawing Board\ **Created:** [March 18, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490 "2014-03-18T14:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![Senrain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/senrain/32/11388_2.png) [@Senrain](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Senrain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/1 "2014-03-18T14:03:57Z")

Give us a tourist profession that starts out with a Hawaiian shirt, khaki shorts, flashy camera, and a cash card. Would be cool if they didn’t start out with a big chunk of the map revealed too. Goddamn tourists. ---

**Author:** ![halberdsturgeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@halberdsturgeon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/halberdsturgeon)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/2 "2014-03-18T14:19:21Z")

Don’t forget the restaurant map and all the food. ---

**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/3 "2014-03-18T14:51:38Z")

Nethack much? Dont see why not actually. ---

**Author:** ![Lord\_Sunder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/lord_sunder/32/215_2.png) [@Lord\_Sunder](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lord_Sunder)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/4 "2014-03-18T15:10:12Z")

EEeee! Nethack :3 ---

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/5 "2014-03-18T23:45:05Z")

[quote=“John Candlebury, post:3, topic:5490”]Nethack much? Dont see why not actually.[/quote] ---

**Author:** ![One-Eyed\_Jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@One-Eyed\_Jack](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/One-Eyed_Jack)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/6 "2014-03-19T06:47:01Z")

In my opinion “it’s a thirdhand reference to discworld” is not a good reason to include a feature in a game. Professions are bloated as is ---

**Author:** ![Sean\_Mirrsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Sean\_Mirrsen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sean_Mirrsen)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/7 "2014-03-19T07:26:13Z")

[quote=“One-Eyed Jack, post:6, topic:5490”]In my opinion “it’s a thirdhand reference to discworld” is not a good reason to include a feature in a game. Professions are bloated as is[/quote]The way I see it, there is no reason not to include it. We have a shower victim, a student, a backpacker, a cop, a fireman, a lumberjack, a homeless person, a chain smoker, we have all kinds of professions and “professions”. A tourist is a perfectly valid kind of person who could have survived the apocalypse - that alone is reason enough to include it. We should also have an expensive-ish “Amateur Cyclist” profession, who starts with nothing but basic clothing, a water bottle, a bicycle helmet, and a folding bicycle, plus a point of driving skill. ---

**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/8 "2014-03-19T07:29:12Z")

> [@Sean Mirrsen](#): > > We should also have an expensive-ish “Amateur Cyclist” profession, who starts with nothing but basic clothing, a water bottle, a bicycle helmet, and a folding bicycle, plus a point of driving skill. Wait a sec, gonna pr that. ---

**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/9 "2014-03-19T07:39:15Z")

> [@John Candlebury](#): > > [quote=“Sean Mirrsen, post:7, topic:5490”]We should also have an expensive-ish “Amateur Cyclist” profession, who starts with nothing but basic clothing, a water bottle, a bicycle helmet, and a folding bicycle, plus a point of driving skill. Wait a sec, gonna pr that.[/quote] Hadn’t landed when I punched off. I’d suggest the compression clothes: you were out cycling when the evac came down, and managed to rife to a shelter. As for the Tourist: FEH! to the nethack reference, but one made with DDA gear might make it in. Tourism and street maps would be good, probably a PDA as well, decently loaded cash card would help, and definitely a duffel bag. Can’t have a knife though. (Can’t take 'em on the plane!) ---

**Author:** ![Dominae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/dominae/32/53_2.png) [@Dominae](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dominae)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tourist-profession/5490/10 "2014-03-19T17:21:34Z")