Nyarlathotep wrote:I bear trolls no animosity, let us finally drive the wicked bears to extinction. Njubs of ALFA unite, you have nothing to lose but your fear of bears!
Hey...and what do you expect us woodsmen to practice wrestling with?! Yes, we had PCs do that on DD...back when I was a play...wow...long time ago.
Personally, I would say yes to crafting w/o DM assistance. Keeping in line with Boom's remarks and Fion's ideas/concepts (aww...means you have to read through the rest of this thread again...no apologies).
I have looked at/tested other PWs where variations of crafting are used...have had the most fun with DM unassisted crafting. Mostly because it gave the character something to do when nobody was on...of course the character should have IC reasons.
Was almost going to go into the semi-rant of let's make crafting PrCs...Weapon-smith, Armor-smith, Bowyer & Fletcher, etc...but that would actually be overdoing it. OTOH,
not every character is an adventurer...actually recall a few that did little to no adventuring, lest it was to accompany and record the tasks of others.