Landscaping

Landscaping (Domestic/Technical) by Taalismn

Landscaping is to the outdoors what Interior Design and Architecture are to the indoors. Landscaping focuses primarily on the aesthetically-pleasing arrangement of natural elements(plants, stonework, water, and ground contours) around buildings and outdoor facilities, but it also has applications in land conservation, ground usage, erosion and flood control, military fortification and camouflage(proper landscaping can create natural barriers to easy approach and deny invaders blind spots to hide in). Elements include laying stonework, discerning and implementing proper soil drainage, and placing of appropriate plants. Landscapers can work on scales as small as a suburban house lot to a sprawling golf course or mansion, with needed tools ranging from shovels to heavy earthmoving equipment. Landscapers may also be called upon to work on projects such as flood control dikes or beach repair efforts. A failed roll means that the landscaping effort is an aesthetic flop or a terrain disaster(swampy ground where it shouldn’t be, crumbling hillsides, collapsing stonework, more rapid shoreline erosion, etc.).

Note: Landscapers get a +3% to Detect Ambush/Concealment for spotting concealed security measures and structures on landscaped grounds, and a +1 to Perception for spotting signs of deliberate landscaping(can pick up on patterns of planting or earth placement).

Prerequisites: Gardening

Base Skill: 45 % + 5% per level of experience. +5% if Botany and +3% if Geology are also taken. +3% to Military Fortification and +5% to Camouflage skills if the landscaper has enough time and resources to spend on a thorough job.