"The village has a hundred people in it and there's a specialized priest and blacksmith and tanner but that's it. Someone in the village needs a new barn raised or house built maybe once every couple years, and that's not often enough to be the only thing someone does. And you don't get visitors often enough to tell them 'oh, you should send a team of housebuilders from the city, I'm going to want a house in the spring', and if they did come you couldn't afford them. And people are idly, when it's not planting or harvesting season, so they may as well improve their land."

"The village has a hundred people in it and there's a specialized priest and blacksmith and tanner but that's it. Someone in the village needs a new barn raised or house built maybe once every couple years, and that's not often enough to be the only thing someone does. And you don't get visitors often enough to tell them 'oh, you should send a team of housebuilders from the city, I'm going to want a house in the spring', and if they did come you couldn't afford them. And people are idle, when it's not planting or harvesting season, so they may as well improve their land."