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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrimJesta" data-source="post: 173055" data-attributes="member: 1949">IMHO you are stressing something that doesnt need to be stressed. You are the DM. You decide what shop has what, and its not hard to do it on the fly. You tell the PCs they mostly see, say, swords and maces that this smith slpecializes in. If they are looking for something else that the smith MIGHT have (again, you decide) have them either make a spot check or simply ask the smith. Then YOU again decide if they have it. To make it realistic, the smith will usually specialize in only a few areas. The other smiths in the Smithy Guild will have their own specialties. Thats all. Nothing more to it.As for names of places or NPCs, again...youre the DM. Make them up on the fly. Then jot the name down on a sheet of paper with its basic location and the smiths name (if they ask), or in the case of NPCs just the name and general 1 sentence description. With NPCs if they never will appear again, dont bother jotting it down. In cities people disappear into crowds or leave. And remember, like our own world people have the same names alot of times. Eldron down the street distinguises himself from Eldron the smith by the surnames (Eldron the Short and Eldron the Smith, for example).Theres no need to stress this sort of thing. If you arent all that good at making NPC names on the fly, make a list of 25-30 of each gender that might be found in that one city and then use that, intermingled with any you CAN come up with on the fly.Sometimes using names from books helps too. Just stay away from REALLY popular characters like Aragorn and Rand al Thor, hehhehe. But other characters will work with a different surname (Ive been in so many games where I met someone named Pippin Im starting to feel theres some conspiracy involved).Relax, dont panic, and let your mind flow. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />-=grim=-</blockquote>

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