Craft: Stonemasonry?

[Skaros]

Question for those with better memories than me...

Do any of the supplements have expanded lists and/or descriptions of craft skills?

Say, for instance, you were creating an earth genasi monk with a very high strength, that wanted to have some skill in physically constructing stone structures....walls, buildings, bridges. Think of the sort of well made stonework you'd expect to find in all those rampant abandoned dwarven structures the monsters in your world occupy

Stonemasonry? Stoneworking? Something else?

-Skaros

 

[Datt]

I think it was Stonemasonry in 2nd. So I would just go with that. The CharGen lists both Stonecarving and Stonemasonry. I would say Stonecarving is more for being a sculpture or something like that. While Stonemasonry would be the actual building of things with stone. He is a Mason that uses stone.

 

[kreynolds]

I prefer to handle the craft skills much the same way they handle them in D20 Modern...as short a list as possible. Basically, I'd have a single skill "Craft: Engineering, structural" that would cover all building materials. Exotic materials might have a higher DC, but that's as far as I'd take it. YMMV

 

[Datt]

Actually engineering is a Knowledge/Profession skill. I think it is listed as Knowledge: Architecture and Engineering. The knowledge people know how to build the darn thing, but is is the Craft: Carpentry/Stonemasonry that actually do the building. So the people with the Knowledge skill are the formen and the people with the Craft skills are the dozers.

 

[kreynolds]

Actually engineering is a Knowledge/Profession skill.

Yup. In D20 Modern, Structural Engineering is found in both Knowledge (actually listed as engineering under knowledge: physics) and Craft. However, you don't need to have knowledge of Engineering to have Craft (Structural). Like I said, I just like a simplified Craft list, and D20 Modern handles that quite nicely with broad categories. I do the same thing with skills in D&D.