Gatherer Skills
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The gatherers are people who collect, in one form or another, material to make finished products. To this end the gatherers are the people at the beginning of the economic cycle and instrumental for the enhancement and indeed the function of society.The following are the Gatherer skills: Farming, Herding, Hunting, Husbandry, Mining, Shearing, Woodcutting. New players are allowed no more than one skill from this category.
This skill considers how well the person can grow crops on a large scale for sale in an exterior market. Naturally, players who wish to be farmers should have some skill in this category. Please note that this is different from the gardening skill since this involves large amounts of produce to be sold.
Sometimes called shepherds, this skill reflects how well the player can manage flocks. A player who wishes to portray a simple rustic kind of figure may wish for some basic knowledge in this skill.
This skill explains how well the player can collect game in the wild from eggs to deer. Players who wish to become rangers or wildmen may want to opt for skill in this category. Also, nobles may want some skill in this category for court hunts.
Skill in this category entails the ability to successfully breed animals from rabbits to pigs. Potential farmers may wish to consider this category. At high levels, husbandry reflects the quality of the animal bred. Horses and other ridable beasts are excluded from this category and come in under Stablekeeping skill.
The miner skill is the ability to set up and conduct mining operations from quarries and tunnels. Such deposits may include gems, metals of diverse kinds and coal for furnaces. The independent smith may need some basic knowledge in this skill; alternatively, smiths may employ miners. In addition, land-holders who have deposits in their lands may have use for such a skill.
The Shearer is a person who collects wool from sheep. Often this wool is used by weavers and tailors in the making of clothes and sails.
The woodcutting skill considers how well trained the player is at the collection of wood. This skill could be considered by those who wish to be involved in the ship building profession or a potential side skill for a carpenter. Alternatively, shipbuilders would hire carpenters who would hire woodcutters (that applies to the mighty mass-producing shipyards of Numenor).
