Everything Thieves Guilds Do

[TarionzCousin]

Thieves' Guilds can pay for their continuted existence in a number of ways:

1. Cutting purses
2. Begging
3. Burgling -- sneaking into buildings and stealing things
4. Safecracking
5. The protection racket
6. Selling information
7. Smuggling
8. Bribing to assist with many of the aforementioned endeavors

What else?

 

[Nightfall]

Sacrificing innocents to powers and infernal beings.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Pimping

 

[Nightfall]

Which isn't easy, as I and others can testify to.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Drug dealing.

 

[Nightfall]

Bootlegging too!

 

[Polydamas]

Providing outlawed vices in general (the aforementioned as well as gambling, a few others)
Blackmail
Murder/Kidnapping/Thuggery for hire
Seizing/maintaining control of key/profitable services (open or behind the scenes)
Fencing stolen goods
Money Laundering
Confidence scams

 

[RedShirtNo5]

Forgery of documents
Selling forged goods
Selling black market goods (drugs, poison, weapons, "black magic")

 

[Nightfall]

What no selling white magic to off set the black then?

 

[DarkKestral]

What no selling white magic to off set the black then?

I'd say it would generally be a member-only service. Or it would involve selling white magics that are restricted in one church for one reason or another to those who wouldn't normally be able to have access to them.