skills question

[Don Jones]

Always good questions from you, Eric.

We didn't include a formula because it depends so heavily on what you might be making. If you are trying to make a quick, useful dagger, that takes about two days from what I've found in searches. If you want to make an ornate sword with runes and animal designs in it, then you are looking at weeks. Woodworking would take a different amount of time altogether.

Grouping skills should go from the most general and generic to the most specific. Your example of glass-making is a good one. Glass-making has enough of the basics in common with Ceramics, that it could be group under that general skill. However, working with glass and making glass is different enough that glass-making should be a specialization under Ceramics.