Hey Armifer, this stuff is awesome. Thanks for sharing with us. I just had a question and a couple of comments.
First, I noticed Piercing Gaze is non-signature. If a Trader were to cast this spell, would it help mitigate the cloud-cover effect?
Second, just a couple of points for you to consider. I should say that I am fully supportive of systems with limitations. In general I find they make life more interesting. I do not expect you to change the limitations set out, nor am I asking for it. However I wanted to note the following things just in case you might not be aware.
Essentially, Traders are encouraged (sometimes strongly) to be indoors in certain circumstances:
- The Personally Owned Caravan. This is a prestige item that allows the Trader to travel within a "room" while going on caravan routes. It takes a lot of work and money to buy and decorate one and there are a number of neat features you can add to it (e.g. a bucket, a scale). There has been talk of tying personal crafting areas to the POC, for example an anvil set up inside. In general, the POC has kind of been the big reward for high level Traders for some time. For these reasons you might consider allowing POCs to be opened to the sky or have skylight windows installed that allow aura regen.
- Shops. Our shops are all indoors, so the indoors limitation might discourage Traders from standing in their shops to talk to customers. It won't be a big deal for me but again just something to consider.
- Crafting. Most (all?) crafting societies are indoors, so Traders who care about their aura regen might tend toward the craft(s) that allow work outside of a society. In particular I know that it's rather difficult to forge outside (though not impossible), and it's easy to do Outfitting outside. Not sure about Alchemy/Engineering.
- Navesi
