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<blockquote data-quote="Zustiur" data-source="post: 4496628" data-attributes="member: 1544"><p>Sorry if I'm repeating, I haven't read this thread in full, but I think the OP and many others have missed the most important use of craft.</p><p></p><p>What do you do when you're stranded without equipment? </p><p></p><p>Hope you have someone who can make good enough equipment to get you by for a time so that you can get real equipment. That's what.</p><p></p><p>Stuck on an island and need a canoe or raft to get off? Hope you've got a carpenter.</p><p></p><p>And similar situations. They're survival skills. </p><p>They're also down-time skills if you play that leveling up takes time and not all of your characters have synchronized experience.</p><p>One players spending a month levelling up? Might as well sell some baskets while we're waiting.</p><p></p><p>Trying to make an iron golem? Do YOU know how to forge metal?</p><p></p><p>Profession has much the same set of uses. They're survival(city) skills. </p><p>Need to spy on the nobles but don't have high enough diplomacy to act like one? Try being one of their cooks or cleaners or any number of other tasks.</p><p></p><p>The possibilities are endless if you actually bother to look for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zustiur, post: 4496628, member: 1544"] Sorry if I'm repeating, I haven't read this thread in full, but I think the OP and many others have missed the most important use of craft. What do you do when you're stranded without equipment? Hope you have someone who can make good enough equipment to get you by for a time so that you can get real equipment. That's what. Stuck on an island and need a canoe or raft to get off? Hope you've got a carpenter. And similar situations. They're survival skills. They're also down-time skills if you play that leveling up takes time and not all of your characters have synchronized experience. One players spending a month levelling up? Might as well sell some baskets while we're waiting. Trying to make an iron golem? Do YOU know how to forge metal? Profession has much the same set of uses. They're survival(city) skills. Need to spy on the nobles but don't have high enough diplomacy to act like one? Try being one of their cooks or cleaners or any number of other tasks. The possibilities are endless if you actually bother to look for them. [/QUOTE]
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