User:AndrewTall/Craft

Crafts are frequently over-looked in the game, perhaps a warrior may forge a sword, or a wizard learn weaving to make a cloak, but in general labouring over raw goods to make a few coppers is not a heroic gaming experience. That's fine, but a little knowledge about some crafts can go a long way towards adding colour to a game, and explaining what sort of things may be going on in a domain.
Knowledge of crafts is typically passed down from Master to Apprentice or within a guild, and specific technicques are frequently closely guarded secrets that are carefully protected to keep the family in trade down the generations. Testing new ways of doing things tends to be rare - failure is expensive and when every copper coin counts, doing it 'the right way' is imperative. Innovations tend to arise only where someone has significant capital to allow them to experiment, or where the cost of failure is low.