I like that they are thinking of different ways to make the game experience new for players to replay with the Abydon and Skaen challenge settings. Items that wear away and destruct and encroaching fog of war? Ack! But those both, again, seem to affect combat more so than anything else (hence, the challenge). Nice thing about how much I enjoy PoE and Deadfire is that I’ll replay them without any enticements beyond what the vanilla game has to offer.
Will you be trying out the Skaen challenge then?