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Chapter 7: Occupation
Reeve
The reeve is a peasant official who is subordinate
to the bailiff. The reeve is selected annually
from the populace. His main duty is to see that the
villagers who owe labor service rise promptly and
report for work. A reeve makes sure no herdsman
slips away to a fair, market, wrestling match, or tavern
without obtaining leave and finding a substitute.
On some manors, the reeve collects the rent. With
no formal schooling, the reeve keeps track of all
these facts and figures by means of marks on a tally
stick. For his labors, physical and mental, the reeve
receives no money stipend, but nevertheless quite
substantial compensation. He is always exempted
from his normal village obligations. The reeve has
an assistant, known variously as the beadle, hayward,
or messor, who serves partly as the reeve’s deputy,
partly in an independent role. Daily wages are 0 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Intelligence 75.
Gender: Male only.
Race: Human.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Peasant.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Haggling + 3.
Equipment: None.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For each day that no
villager is absent from work, a reeve acquires 5 AP.
Training: None.
Guild: None.
Ropemaker
This occupation specializes in making and
selling rope. Some ropemakers are called
cordwainers, since they specialize in cords, such as
laces for shoes. Others are called threadmakers.
Threadmakers spin flax to make linen, then may have
a dyer dye it, then sell it to either drapers or weavers.
Daily wages are typically 9 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Intelligence 75.
Gender: Female ropemakers are rare.
Race: Any but ogre.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Serf.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Haggling + 3 and Ropemaking + 5.
Equipment: None.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For each 100 feet of
rope made, a ropemaker acquires 1 AP.
Training: None.
Guild: Ropemakers’ Guild. Each apprentice
must serve 4 years. A masterpiece must be produced
to become a journeyman.
Once an apprentice for 4 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.
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