Guild of inventors and tinkerers:

Lore primary:
Weapon and Armor Secondary:
Magic and Survival Tertiary:

Guild would focus on alchemy, forges and crafting. Would be able to craft Crossbows and siege weapons. Magic would aide craft/forge/alchemy. would also use what they have made in conjunction with magic for combat.

I thought of something similar to this back when the lore split was first being discussed; it seems sensible to me, because none of the current guilds are really focused on the creation of items. Traders are the only existing guild which really revolve around defining the mundane economies of scale which would exist in order to support so many guilds of adventurers and supernaturalists (i.e. I think Barbarians forge, for the moment, mostly because there will never be a Blacksmith's guild).

The only change I would make is that I would personally like to see them as a completely non-magical guild, because making them another magic-using guild would (IMO) severely limit the possible uniqueness of their niche in Dragonrealms.

Hypothetical Guild A: Uses magic, just like everyone else, to power their supernatural feats of engineering
Hypothetical Guild B: Uses actual knowledge of engineering to power their supernatural feats of engineering

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"I hate you so much right now." -GM Armifer

I do think this is an interesting idea.

OTOH, maybe something like this could be done as a reboot of the trader's guild...

Would sure make it a lot more viable than the current set-up.

-pete

> Perhaps it's time Traders enjoyed a wide broadening of their guild definition which other guilds have enjoyed recently.


Zeyurn and I are working on putting together a trader task force for '10. It will include some of our best coders. So yes, hopefully before '10 is over we'll see some significant progress for traders.


- GM Dartenian

Though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night! - Sarah Williams

Honestly I think it would make a HUGE difference if they were renamed from "Traders" to something else. Something that could encompass the trading side, but could also be focused on crafting/inventing/engineering.

The idea of being defined by yak movement is pretty disheartening.

-- Player of Niieth

Philosophers of the Coin

I hope this is for some general lore guild love:
some of the top coders for traders
Z for bards

I think the entire idea of an engineer guild is what lore primes should be.

Nikpack

The gods are jerks. No, really.
-Armifer