Im pretty sure that the new skill is going to be the " dungeon-master-skill-thingy " .

i'm pinning my hopes on a skill where you create a dungeon. But the dungeon is designed to attract monsters. Like a subprime mortgage it will lure the monsters in and then you can kill them.

How about an entrepreneurial skill?

I would have said Business, but apparently it doesn't start with B, so maybe Merchanting or something like that

 

Each player would have their own instanced POB (Player Owned Business) consisting of Business Units (rather like we have rooms in our POH), and the higher level we are the more of these units we can have

 

Each Business Unit would be outfitted at our expense with some equipment and we would pay a worker to "harvest" the produce (rather like Miscellania)

 

But we would need the level in that skill for each unit - if the worker was cutting yews we would need the Woodcutting level, if they were killing abby demons we would need the Slayer level, and so on for all the skills

And we would gain the XP not from our own actions but from those of our workers

And we could sell the produce, hopefully making a profit after we've bought the original equipment and paid the workers

 

This could lead to endless forums discussions on strategy... Do we lose a lot of money at first to get more Business Units to make money later, or go for the steady moneystream approach? Are yews more profitable and/or better XP than abby demons?

 

And note that Jagex has recently been promoting clans...

Could this be because they see players grouping together to form a version of the old Runescape "companies" about which people so fondly reminisce?

 

I was JUST going to post this. Also, a reason why this may fit even more nicely... Jagex said it doesn't start with a B. But maybe it used to. Remember, Summoning was not that skill's original name when it started development...

What about Sailing?

 

No, just joking :). I have pretty much no idea about the new skill. It could be anything. The only thing that I can say that I think it will include is discoveries. A lot of new discoveries that will make us see RS in a whole new way. I don't know why or how, but I just think so.