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Originally Posted by Kromm
It's a fairly critical skill to a group of modern spies. It simply doesn't exist when I run fantasy campaigns, though!
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In my upcoming fantasy campaign, when the PCs recruit sailors for their ship, I plan to offer them an Administration roll as one of the options. Of course, if they go that way, they'll get
assigned a crew by the seafarers' guild, rather than getting to pick—probably meaning that I'll roll randomly on the list of possible crew and give them the first half dozen.
But the people who do administration are usually fairly invisible in fantasy campaigns. The steward who manages a castle while the knight is out slaying dragons or liberating the Holy Land, or the chancellor who manages the royal correspondence, is there to enable the people they work for to do the interesting and dramatic stuff. And in a lot of fairy stories magic substitutes for administration—if the wizard can conjure up feasts and pavilions you don't need much logistics.
Bill Stoddard