Is there something like a skinner profession in this game?

[Angelhearth]

I'm not able to find much about this on the net. I have a leather worker, but that doesn't seem to include skinning, neither do any of the gathering professions seem to be even close to skinning.

[MistakeNot]

I'm not able to find much about this on the net. I have a leather worker, but that doesn't seem to include skinning, neither do any of the gathering professions seem to be even close to skinning.

Skins and hides can drop from all kinds of animals that you kill in the game, and no special profession is needed to make them drop. For retainers, any of the combat classes will let them gather skins/hides.

[Angelhearth]

Skins and hides can drop from all kinds of animals that you kill in the game, and no special profession is needed to make them drop. For retainers, any of the combat classes will let them gather skins/hides.

Oh someone holy! Seriously? I have to depend on rng to get skins?

[MistakeNot]

Oh someone holy! Seriously? I have to depend on rng to get skins?

To an extent. Once you unlock retainers you can send them out to hunt for skins in a reliable and predictable manner.
Or you can buy from the Market Board. Many types of skins can also be bought from various NPC vendors.

[Frizze]

Is it RNG? Technically, yes if you go out hunting for them. But most skins are ridiculously common. And a retainer sent on a hunting mission will bring back exactly what its supposed to(so a hunt for toadskins will always bring back a certain number of toadskins, usually split between normal and high quality). And being super common means most prices on the market are next to nothing.

[Jojoya]

Oh someone holy! Seriously? I have to depend on rng to get skins?

The RNG isn't that bad. There's usually a specific type of mob to kill and the hides/skins tend to drop in multiples. Unless you're trying to produce massive quantities of the same leather at one time, it doesn't take that long to farm what you need.

[Enkidoh]

Apparently there was a class originally planned for collecting animal hides (called 'Shepherd', or 'SHP' for short), and it even had a class logo (resembling a pair of deer antlers) and a (locked) Guildhall in Falcon's Nest in the Coerthas Western Highlands in the original version of FFXIV (1.0), but alas it appears SE has abandoned any plans they may have had for this class as all references to it have been quietly dropped (the SHP's Guildhall wasn't included in Falcon's Nest's rebuilding for HW, and there is no reference whatsoever anywhere in the game it even existed), so sadly this will never be coming I'm afraid.

As others have pointed out it's fairly easy to get the hides from monsters/animals as drops anyway so that is probably why SE never bothered implementing SHP as a class.

[Mhaeric]

and there is no reference whatsoever anywhere in the game it even existed)

I like to think the name of the forest in Lakeland just outside of the Crystarium is a reference. 'Forest of the Lost Shepherd" or something like that.