Rudimentary Defenses (sage ability)

Provides understanding of basic military defensive structures, commonly used as outward works for more sophisticated structures or as hastily built structures to defend a camp or strategic position during war. The ability grants knowledge of how to plan and place palisades, ditches, embankments, berms, crude stone walls, sanitary channels, barracks, canteen and watchtowers, and how to make correct estimations for the skilled and unskilled labour required for these tasks. The ability does not, itself, grant any skill in the actual making of these structures, or how to lead labour crews; only the design of these fortifications is included. However, it does allow for making plans that can be followed accurately and easily by skilled workers.

The player character may personally design the layout according to their preferences, or pre-existing designs may be implemented. The materials employed are limited to earth, sand, gravel, logs and planks, bricks and broken stone. The total mass of material depends upon how much area is to be fortified and to what degre. Cubic feet of solid structure should be determined (ignoring empty space), and then calculated by total pounds of weight (taking note the density of material). Total time to create the structure, then, is 2.28 man hours per lb. No more than eight workers may be employed per 10 x 10 ft. area being constructed.

Some notes on these structures is included below.