Take the flaw Chicken Infested from Dragon Magazine and max Handle Animal. Pull out a horde of chickens and have them peck your foes to death. Or just fill the world up with chickens and suffocate everyone. Or create a black hole once the amount of chickens reaches a critical density.
This is why optimizers regard the Commoner as the most powerful class ever.
i would love to try something like this... problem is that is if the rest of the players "doesn't play along" you will not really enjoy it... A party full of commoners might work though...
On a different note, can you come up with a truly powerful/almost-broken commoner-based build?
Ok.. let's not make it so hard... say... 5 levels?
But isn't it all about the roleplaying? I mean, what could be better for roleplaying than a commoner? Because everything is a challenge, the opportunities will be so much greater, and when you do succeed at something instead of being handed victory on a silver platter, your rewards will taste all the more sweeter!
A real roleplayer would choose Commoner over any other class.
I like how much love the fighter gets despite the large "fighters suck" crowd. Some of us just like breaking out the great sword and whooping some butt.
