Yeah, it's definitely more plot seed than magitech. I feel like I should do a whole supplement some day on more-techy-magitech, but any time I talk about a supplement before it's written I curse it, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fingers crossed for her and her family.

I'll add it in. It should be comparatively common for Elementalism and Oneiromancy.

Magic that controls the flow of commerce (Poromancy, as the book currently calls it) is possible but obstructed by the Travel lattice. What if the Red Space used to be a compact (rather than expanded) dimension that was used for scrying, but someone flipped it inside out to use it for storage instead?

(And they ruptured it by accident at the same time, which is why the flow drains right out of it.)

Also, with everyone able to do magic a would-be police state would have to expend resources against sousveillance from its own citizens. In other words, it might not be worth the hassle.

It's the threat that the state can see you that makes panopticons possible. Select a random citizen to spy on every now and then displays the threat with minimal infrastructure.

We've already got safe instant teleportation as impossible just because.

A possibility is that an ancient civilisation developed a Great Work that blocked Scrying. Scrying defined as direct perception outside the line of sight or outside a certain distance. Defense against Scrying is more valuable than Scrying, really so this seems quite plausible.

• Psychometry forces the PCs to actually go places and interact with whomever might be there.
• It's definitely hard for the GM to write plots with long-range scrying in mind - unless scrying countermeasures were also nigh-universal, which makes players wonder why they even have the ability to scry in the first place.
• If there were methods for essentially unrestricted scrying, there would need to be at least one civilization based entirely around that sort of total surveillance, and I wanted the game's themes to go in a slightly different direction.

I should probably put something about scrying into either "What Magic Can't Do" or the "Not impossible, just underdeveloped" section. It might even deserve its own "can of worms" sidebar, since there's some empty space available on the next page.

I suspect the issue may have been splicing together the cover with the rest of the document using Preview. I haven't had trouble with Preview before, but I tried putting them together with Acrobat this time. Hopefully the new version will work.

Service vs Despite:

The inhabitants of this land defend its health and beauty against a wicked demigod who holds nature and humanity in contempt for not measuring up to his impossible standards of perfection. His being trapped there doesn't help his mood any.

Path of Peace: Belief → Earthpower

If I can get it to my proofreader in early December (and assuming she's got time then), she can probably get it back to me in late January or early February. Then I'll have to do at least one proofing run to make sure the colors come out right. Those take 2 weeks under the best of shipping conditions.

Sorcerously Advanced: Interregnum Edition (PDF download, ~80MB)

Page xx references and some typos will still be present. Everything else is, at least in theory, just about ready for publication.