<<Fireworks don't do anything in combat do they? I'm talking about combat uses.

So Traders can throw firesworks anyone can make at enemies, but no other guild can?

Or, only Traders can make the damaging fireworks despite the whole idea of Crafting 3.0 being to open up crafting to everyone.

I'm not trashing your idea out of spite, in fact, I even had a partial proposal written up that was geared around Traders using items like molotov cocktails and automatons and stuff to achieve their ends. But I ran into the same issues as listed above. Why would only traders be able to use these items, and why wouldn't anyone just be able to make them?

-Evran

"RAGE + TEAR + EYE + RESO + HARM + DRUM + MISD + PRIDE + Your choice of Cyclic + AoE stun/knockdown as needed without losing buffs = OMG! I just crapped my pants!" -Evran

If you went with Mechanical Robots (think steam punk, not Star Wars) you could always argue that there was a guild secret much like "the keystone" used to be for The Masons (or so the lore goes).

-The Halfing

Well they could be given abilities centered around supernatural insight.

This can revolve around abilities which boost crafting significantly, knowing weaknesses and strengths in armor, using the sun and compounds to clarify gems.

The insight itself also doesn't have to be able to do anything on its own but would require components or other things to function. Such as an ability which causes solutions or devices to be more potent when the trader uses it(as long as said ability is up).


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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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The only real way you're going to get some good, meaningful development for Traders is to re-design the concept of the entire guild. The current concept doesn't have to be completely thrown away, but there needs to be more. Just like how choosing the Bard guild someone could decide to be primarily a combat or performance Bard.

IMO not only should they have a lore-filled concept but also one with a little combat potential for unique abilities.

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>>A Trader ought to be like a conquistador: bringing the financial force of civilization to bear on indigenous populations.

I like it -- something historical like the chartered companies like the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company or fictional like the the Trade Federation in Star Wars Episodes I-III. Proxy fighting is a good place to start, particularly if summonable minions are going to get universal support.


~Thilan

similar to that old game where talon the merchant that had a merchant army that came and fought for him.

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>>similar to that old game where talon the merchant that had a merchant army that came and fought for him.

Taloon - Dragon Warrior 4.