Shepherd Keyword?

> >Parhaps for a cottar. And even so, I'd say the main ability is farming,
> >or some kind of craft. I still think speeh herding is simple (at least
> >considering that learning it costs as much HP as difficult crafts or
> >fighting skills (especially if CC is just 1HP to advance)).
>
> I think shepherding is difficult. A shepherd will have to constantly tend
> the sheep to avoid disease and probablty treat common ailments too. You can
> lose the entire flock through inattention (I'm reminded of Gabriel Oak at
> the beginning of Far from The Madding Crowd).
>
> Thom

On other point -- most of the keywords we have for the Orlanthi are warrior and adventurer oriented.

In TR there should be cottar, carl and herdsman keywords, though I am of the opinion that they are easily derived.

Shepherd would be something like (this is off the cuff, mind you):

Physical: Climb, Ranged Combat (Sling or Bow) Mental: <Animal Herder>, Scan for Danger, Tend <Animal>, Train Alynx, Tula Geography
Personality: Patient, Enduring
Relationships: to Clan
Magic: Chose a god from Orlanth, Voriof, (male cattle counterpart of Voriof?)

I could have added in things like tracking and the like but that would make it too similar to Hunter. Know Domestic Animals could be Know Animals, forex. And Tend Animal could be be subsumed into <Animal Herder>. Abilities like Find Good Pasture and Tula Geography seem to be be mutually exclusive as well. I went go with the latter as Shepherds don't usually take their sheep too far away and Tula Geography is a bit broader skill.

Voriof:
Entry Requirements: be a shepherd
Physical Skill: Endure Weather, Staff Fighting Mental Skill: Evaluate Sheep, Shepherd, Sense Predator

Affinity
Sheep (Find Lost Animal, Heal Hurt Sheep, Speak To Sheep, Whistle Up The Sheep)

Secret: Ram's Virility (acts like the male counterpart to the Uraldan secret)

This seems odd in what is usually viewed as a boy's god! The more fertile and curative Sheep stuff I left for Nelvana (sp) as that seems to be the Orlanthi way of doing things. The men get out and do stuff and the women fix what the men have screwed up.

Or am I on the wrong list? =)

Jeff