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Chapter 7: Occupation
Brickmaker
This occupation specializes in making bricks,
which are blocks of clay. Bricks may be dried in the
sun, but are often baked in a kiln. In some cultures,
city and palace walls are made of bricks. Daily wages
are typically 4 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Intelligence 75.
Gender: Female brickmakers are rare.
Race: Any but ogre.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Serf.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Brickmaking + 5 and Haggling + 3.
Equipment: A kiln.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For every thousand
bricks made successfully by a brickmaker, 1 AP is
acquired.
Training: None.
Guild: Brickmakers’ Guild. Each apprentice
must serve 6 years. A masterpiece must be produced
to become a journeyman.
Once an apprentice for 6 years, they may
make a skill check as they craft their masterpiece. If
passed at TH 36, then they become a journeyman.
If failed, then they may begin crafting another masterpiece
and make another skill check in 1d10 days.
The Aedile may overrule any masterpiece skill check,
because those in the guild who review the apprentice
may dislike them or choose to keep them as an
apprentice for some corrupt reason.
For a journeyman to become a master, they
must be able financially to open their own shop,
and receive the approval of the guild. To receive
approval, they must pass a Persuasion skill check.
The TH begins at 30 and is decreased by 1 for every
period of 6 months in which the journeyman has
worked locally with the guild. The Aedile may overrule
this skill check or apply any modifier deemed
appropriate.
Brotheler
This occupation specializes in the business
of prostitution, namely gathering and training
whores. A brotheler 1 gathers females who appear
attractive to males. Sometimes, female infants are
abandoned. A brotheler may purchase a female infant
as a slave, then raise and train the slave to be a
whore. Training a whore entails teaching her how
to get the most money from a male, and how to
please males.
Brothels are popular and profitable far and
wide. Most brothelers hire 1 or more ruffians to
stand near the exit of the brothel. The ruffians ensure
that whoever leaves has paid and has not harmed
a whore. If a whore is harmed, then ruffians will
intimidate the customer into paying for their damages.
If the customer refuses or is unable to pay,
then the ruffians will brawl or maim the customer.
Future attempts may be made to recover payment
for services rendered or injured whores. Daily wages
for a brotheler are typically 5 s.p. per whore.
Usually, a brothel is built with public funds,
such as taxes, and is leased to a manager, known as a
brotheler. The brotheler is responsible for recruiting
whores and making sure whores follow rules.
Brothelers provide board and lodging. A municipal
brothel is called a prostibulum publicum. The municipal
brothel is built at a main intersection in a
community. It is common for a whole neighborhood
to be reserved for prostitution. A brothel is
known as a ‘good house’ or ‘great house’.
Public baths also function as brothels. Public
baths do not outright employ whores, but chambermaids.
At a public bath, chambermaids must be
attractive and skilled at both cleaning, Seduction, and
Sexual Adeptness. In addition to steam rooms, public
baths also have bedchambers. Some public baths
have hours reserved only for 1 gender or the other.
Otherwise, bath houses receive both genders.
Aside from the municipal brothel, it is common
for a community to have numerous small, privately-owned
brothels. The private brotheler retains
2 or 3 chambermaids or whores on average. These
females may leave to visit their clients, or clients may
be received in the private brothel.
1. Information on brothelers has been obtained from Medieval Prostitution, by Jacques Rossiaud. For more information, see
the References section at the end of this book.
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