alex_greene said:
I think you can lump in Merchants and Citizens into one book, same as Drifters and Rogues - whereas Merchants make their trade by buying and selling goods, Citizens make their living by hawking their own trade skills (so, for instance, a Citizen with a free trader could set up his ship as a mobile tailor's studio and convert part of the cargo bay into his workshop).
I disagree; Merchant Prince should have rules for ports, startowns and civilian ships while Citizen should have rules for cities, towns and those parts of worlds outside of the starport. This would be separate enough to warrant separate books.
Though as an aside, a good career for the Citizens book (
which must be separate from other books) would be the Traveller - a more middle-class and upper class version of the Wanderer, who isn't a mooch like the Noble: Dilettante.
alex_greene said:
Likewise, you could, in principle, llump together Entertainers and Nobles - both are larger-than-life personalities with vast egos that can only be assuaged by the adulation of millions of Little People. Only one difference: Entertainers work hard at entertaining the people, and Nobles only work hard at irritating them.
H'mm. Since journalism is considered an Entertainment sub career path, you might need to include a bit on investigative journalism in the Entertainers book too - and if so, because they're essentially both research and investigation tasks, and since journalists and scholars both rely upon their notes getting published, maybe then you could throw in Scholars with the Entertainers and Nobles, too.
The second paragraph is why I'd put Entertainers and Nobles as separate enough to warrant separate books: Entertainers can come from any level of society and go anywhere, while nobles (both born and made) are specifically upper-crust. And besides, if you put them together, you won't have room for the TAS reporter!
And no, keep Scholars with a separate book!
