A practical role
Search for Carpenter or Wheelwright, or try an authored task such as repair wagon wheels. Literal catalogue and task matching helps find a role; it does not interpret any arbitrary request.
Find the people who make the world work.
Professionals
& Trades
A wheelwright repairs the wagon. A farrier tends the horses. A crew keeps the estate running. Find people for practical fantasy work, compare their capabilities and plan what it costs to hire them.
Individual hires, property plans and workforcesWindows access through Desktop Command Centre
Start with the work
One carpenter, or a whole operation.
Keep the first hiring decision simple, then explore the deeper staffing tools.
A person with a capability
Compare the candidate’s current work, specialty, availability and pay. A trade name alone is not a promise of advanced skill or willingness to accept your job.
A plan before a commitment
See the roles and quantities a property or project may need. Adjust the composition and inspect the estimates before choosing actual hires.
An ongoing campaign record
Keep chosen people and assignments in your account. My Staff separates people, workplaces, crews, contractors, staffing plans and fictional finances.
Define the work
Discuss the job before choosing the hire.
Adventurers speak with a craftsperson beside tools, supplies and a stable. The illustration suggests a useful hiring conversation, not an application screen.
Decide what must be done, which capabilities it needs and what your campaign can afford. For animal work, check the person’s skill stage yourself rather than relying on the animal selection alone.
A deliberate hiring sequence
Find. Compare. Name. Save.
Open the product on Windows through your VISINVOKE account and Desktop Command Centre.
01 · Find a suitable profession
Use profession, task, animal or browse choices. Refine the query and family when you need more focused results; there is no next-page control for the initial search results.
02 · Inspect capability and cost
Read all four capability stages, then compare the Level 1 candidates. Recommended skill in a plan does not change a newly hired person’s starting level.
03 · Choose a name and terms
Select a name or enter your own, choose the employment arrangement and review optional details. Availability and preferred employment are descriptive prompts for your decision.
04 · Confirm a hire in your account
Hire/save requires Cloud access and the selected product entitlement. Wait for the confirmed response; if Cloud fails, use Retry Cloud before relying on a saved record.
A working fantasy world
Useful people. Clear roles. Deliberate costs.
Use a focused tool for hiring and staffing rather than rebuilding each worker by hand.
Find a professional for the job
Search profession names, aliases and authored tasks, or browse families and animal-related roles. Compare the actual capability, not just the occupation label; refine your search when the first results do not contain the role you need.
Compare Level 1 candidates
Generate four candidates with a specialty, availability, hiring cost and weekly pay. Review their capability and optional background before choosing a name and saving a hire to your account.
Choose the name that fits
Choose from several name options, request More Names or enter a custom name. Name changes keep the candidate’s other details; use a different seed when you want a different candidate set.
Plan a staffed property
Choose a built-in property, scale and optional facilities, then build a role plan with quantities, recommended levels and cost estimates. Review the facilities for your setting; a plan does not automatically hire staff.
Build a crew for practical work
Prepare bridge repair, harvest, caravan and other job-based crews. Adjust role quantities and compare costs before hiring people, assigning existing staff or saving a workforce representation.
Advance the same saved person
Every new candidate starts at Level 1. Pay explicit upgrade costs to move the same person through four capability levels, without XP, training periods or an automatic campaign calendar.
Keep staff in your account
Use My Staff to inspect people, workplaces, crews, plans and finances. Reassign a primary workplace or record an additional duty without creating another person or a duplicate weekly wage.
Review fictional payroll
Keep hiring costs, weekly pay and advancement spend separate. Calculate periods and manually record a payment in copper pieces; real subscription charges are separate from these fantasy costs.
Four ways into the work
Individual people and larger staffing questions.
Choose the workspace that matches the task.
Find a Professional
Look up a trade or practical task and inspect candidates. Magic profiles range from No Magic to High Magic and filter built-in profession choices.
Staff a Property
Choose the property, scale and optional facilities. Add lodging or food service where it suits the operation, then inspect the combined role requirements.
Build a Crew
Choose a job and scale, then adjust quantities. Bridge repair, for example, combines carpentry, masonry, labour, transport and specialist bridge work.
My Staff
Review saved people and plans, inspect crews and workplaces, and calculate fictional payroll. START HERE and HELP explain the current controls and concepts.
People and work in context
Give the operation a believable workforce.
A wagon is being repaired while companions review a map in a busy working quarter. The illustration brings a practical job and its workers together.
The useful result is a reviewed candidate or staffing plan: profession, capability, quantities, costs and the decisions you still need to make. It is not an automatically completed project or a generated image.
Keep plans and hires distinct
Revise the plan, then review the people.
A recommended role is a starting point for your own staffing judgement.
Rebuild after changing the controls
Changing scale, facilities or magic does not update an existing result until you choose Build or Rebuild. Inspect the newly calculated quantities before saving.
Review a saved plan update
Updating a staffing plan recreates its role rows and resets their hiring and assignment counts. Check filled positions against your people after saving changes.
Check skill before assigning
The assignment tools match profession and active status; they do not enforce the plan’s recommended level. Verify the person’s actual capability yourself.
Review records after a status change
A dismissal or archived workplace does not automatically reconcile every crew roster or plan count. Check those records separately from active payroll.
Use the right representation
A planned crew is different from an active workforce.
Choose how much individual detail the campaign needs.
Small named crews begin as plans
Save Crew / Workforce from a small builder result creates an empty planned crew. It does not generate and hire each named member automatically.
Large aggregate crews affect payroll
Saving an aggregate workforce makes it active and its anonymous roles count toward weekly payroll. This is different from saving a hypothetical staffing plan.
Convert a role deliberately
An existing matching hire can fill an anonymous workforce slot. A fresh hire records its own hiring cost and wage, so review the resulting costs rather than assuming they stay identical.
Keep this product’s scope clear
Professionals & Trades is a standalone fantasy staffing tool. It has no direct Combat PRO handoff, automatic project completion or real-world employment and payment service.
Choose access for your toolkit
US$1.99 per month for one selected generator.
Begin with a free VISINVOKE account, then review the selection and subscription you require.
One selected generator: US$1.99/month
Select Professionals & Trades individually. A free account does not by itself include paid generator access.
Five selected generators: US$8.99/month
Choose five eligible standalone generators for your toolkit. The selection pack does not include every VISINVOKE product.
Review larger packs in your account
Choose more selection capacity when it fits your use. Review current options and reselection terms in your account before changing a subscription.
Fantasy costs stay separate
Copper-piece hiring and payroll values belong to your campaign. They are separate from real US-dollar subscription charges and do not transfer actual money.
Advance a familiar person
Pay explicit costs to move the same saved person from Level 1 to Level 4. Capabilities change; the current weekly wage does not increase. No XP or training period is required.
Calculate a chosen pay period
Use weekly, monthly, annual and period estimates. Record a payment manually and reverse a recorded payment when needed; no automatic campaign clock advances.
Keep an appropriate history
The finance summary uses the latest 500 transactions. Keep your own complete campaign history when you need totals beyond that recent window.
Share only reviewed public fields
The player-facing projection is inside the DM workspace, alongside other private details. Review public notes and share only the intended fields; there is no dedicated export or player-delivery control.
Cloud saving has no offline fallback. After a version conflict, use Retry Cloud to reload before deciding what to save again. Custom profession definitions are saved separately and do not appear in built-in candidate search.
Continue your tabletop preparation
Related products. One account.
Each card opens its own public website. Review purpose and access separately; links do not promise included access or automatic synchronisation.
Desktop Command Centre
Discover and open your supported Windows products through one connected VISINVOKE account.
VISINVOKE Battlemaps
Explore environment packs for the workplaces, roads and expedition locations your campaign visits.
Combat PRO
Prepare and run tabletop encounters in a separate product with its own access. Professionals & Trades does not send staff directly into it.
D&D Image System
Create fantasy character, creature, item and location imagery for your tabletop preparation.
Professional Image System
Create guided commercial visuals for websites, brochures and other creative projects.
CYBERTECH
Explore a separate futuristic RPG world with its own characters, rules and progression.
Product artwork illustrates fantasy professions and practical work, not application screens or actual generated image output.
Quick answers
Candidates, workforces and account saving.
Know what is planned, what is paid and what still needs your judgement.
Does a staffing plan hire everyone automatically?
No. Built-in property and crew plans show quantities, recommended levels and estimates. New hires still begin at Level 1, even when a plan recommends a higher level. Choose hires or assignments explicitly and check each person’s actual skill yourself. Saving a small named crew from the builder creates an empty planned crew; saving a large aggregate workforce creates an active crew whose anonymous roles count toward weekly payroll.
How do seeds and names change candidates?
The same seed and choices produce the same four candidates, including when the seed is left blank. Generate again with unchanged choices repeats that set. Change the seed to vary the people; More Names and naming style change name choices without changing capability, wages or other details. Check any DM notes after renaming, because existing name references in those notes can remain unchanged.
Do magic and animal selections guarantee suitability?
No. The selected magic profile filters built-in profession search and plans, but an animal selection does not automatically enforce the animal’s required skill or magic level when candidates are created. All candidates begin at Level 1. Read the profession’s four capability stages and decide whether the individual can perform the task in your setting. Custom plans also need your own magic suitability review.
What can I save or export?
Hires, workplaces, staffing plans, crews and custom definitions use your entitled VISINVOKE account. Local discovery can continue when Cloud saving is unavailable, but there is no offline saving fallback. The current interface has no dedicated copy, download, print or structured roster export. The player-facing projection sits within the DM workspace: review public notes and share only those fields, not a screenshot of the whole person window.
How do payroll and advancement work?
Hiring records a one-time cost and an ongoing weekly wage. Paid advancement changes the same person’s level and capability; it does not increase their current weekly wage. Leave, unavailability and death pause individual payroll, and dismissal ends it. Payments record an amount you choose for a period, with a reversal action for a recorded payment. There is no automatic campaign clock or actual money transfer. The finance summary uses the latest 500 transactions, so retain your own complete history for a long campaign.
Can I create my own professions and crews?
You can save and archive custom profession definitions with four distinct capability stages and explicit hiring, wage and upgrade costs. Those definitions are not available in the current built-in candidate search or generation interface. Custom property and crew composers use built-in profession roles with quantities and scales. Review magic suitability and advancement costs separately; a saved duration or leadership note does not run a project schedule.
Continue in VISINVOKE
One account. Find the right people for the work.
Create a free VISINVOKE account and choose the required standalone generator access.
Get Desktop Command Centre from your account installer page. Sign in on Windows, then open Professionals & Trades.