Woodworking

This skill covers every aspect of woodcutting and carpentry, from properly felling a tree to shaping boards and beams. One can create items like musical instruments or bows, and even boats, wooden and half-timbered houses, and palisades. This skill also includes working with horn, ice, and mammothon (mammoth ivory). The application Felling & Cutting covers properly felling trees. Joiner covers the treatment of wooden surfaces, whereas carpenters work the wood and fashion it into the desired shape.

Check: DEX/AGI/STR
Applications: Carpenter, Felling & Cutting, Joiner
Encumbrance: yes
Tools: depends on the material being worked (for example, ax, plane, knife, saw, and so on)
Quality: finish the item faster or with a better quality
Failed Check: the hero makes no progress.
Critical Success: the hero receives double the number of SP for the check (minimum of 5 SP). Remove all penalties accrued due to failed cumulative checks.
Botch: accumulated QL drop to 0 and you may make no further checks on this project.
Improvement Cost: B

• Fashion and fletch an arrow — 10 minutes, 10 checks
• Fell an old oak — 20 minutes, as many checks as necessary
• Make a chair from boards — 1 hour, 10 checks
• Make a chest or wardrobe from boards — 2 hours, 5 checks
• Carve a statue out of a mammoth's tusk — 1 day, 4 checks
• Create a musical instrument — 2 days, 3 checks