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Chapter 7: Occupation
Butcher
This occupation specializes in cutting, preparing,
and selling meat. Animals such as chickens
are kept alive so that the customer can decide which
animal they want butchered. Each morning at sunrise,
females who can afford to buy meat go to the
butcher to select breakfast for the family. Most often,
animals are butchered and preserved in the end
of fall so that food may be supplied during the winter.
Butchered meat is preserved with salt or by
smoking it. Butchers are known for substituting human
flesh for swine, since both meats taste so much
alike. Daily wages are typically 9 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Strength 90, Hand-
Eye Coordination 100, and Intelligence 85.
Gender: Female butchers are rare.
Race: Any but ogre.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Peasant or serf.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Haggling + 3, Weapon (Specific). The
specific weapon is a cleaver.
Equipment: Cleaver.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For every 50 creatures
butchered successfully, the butcher acquires 1
AP.
Training: None.
Guild: Butchers’ Guild. Each apprentice
must serve 8 years. This guild mandates that butchers
must not mix the meat of male and female pigs,
or male and female horses. Violators must pay 100
s.p. to the guild. The dislike of mixing meat from
different sexes is common to most characters.
Once an apprentice for 8 years, they may
apply for employment as a journeyman with their
guild.
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.
Cabinetmaker
This occupation specializes in building, decorating,
and selling cabinets. Typically, only nobility
and royalty have cabinets of any kind. Daily wages
are typically 10 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Hand-Eye Coordination
90, Spatial Intelligence 90, and Intelligence
(overall) 85.
Gender: Female cabinetmakers are rare.
Race: Any but ogre.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Serf
Religion: Any.
Skills: Carpentry + 5, Haggling + 3, and
Weapon (Specific). The specific weapon is a knife.
Equipment: Wood and knives.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For every cabinet
built successfully, 1 AP is acquired by the cabinetmaker.
Training: None.
Guild: Cabinetmakers’ Guild. Each apprentice
must serve 11 years. A masterpiece must be
produced to become a journeyman.
Once an apprentice for 11 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 1d100 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.
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