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Natural Skills
« on: August 31, 2005, 12:34:00 pm »
Was going to put this in campfire cooking xp thread, but I think it requires its own thread as it is about natural skills for the wilderness. Most of which can be found in native tribes around the world.
Leather shieldmaking
Natural armor, such as tortoise shell, monster scales and hides.
Natural weapons, such as grizzly bear claws, pincers, manticore tails, horn spears and the like.
Campfire cooking, meat and fish, but also mattik(flour,water, and salt on a stick).
Woods used without milling(usually branches), made into smoke huts and drying racks and hut frames covered with hides.
Clay used to make pottery for oil lamps(fish oil or animal blubber), vessels for the storing of grain, juices and even used in the fermentation of fruit juices (apples, pears and sumac).
Berries used to make dyes for staining leather and bone.
Ochre and mineral salts found naturally used for dyes and scribing.
Resins from trees, some poisonous, some medicinal, some flammeable.
Extracts from plants, poultices, balms,ointments and presses.
Snares, leg traps, nets, pits, spike traps, swatting traps, boom traps.
Flint and obsidian for arrowheads, knife blades for skinning and hunting, spear heads.
Stone that can be quarried in the mountains and hills or found in the fields, used in the making of walls.
Without getting too overboard.
Anything modern for the natural classes as it is for monster humanoids, is found or fashioned from something found.
Hill giants use small tree trunks as clubs.
Stone giants use stone clubs made from solid rock.
Just examples.
I know its alot, but the crafts as they are can be so much more for all classes, as these skills all have to do with wilderness survival no matter the terrain. probably could easily be adapted to the existing crafts already available to the more modern of character classes that thrive in towns and such.
 

 

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