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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dash Dannigan" data-source="post: 711884" data-attributes="member: 6306">As for most of the ideas so far presented these aren't metagaming, though they may appear so to the player if suddenly implemented. Most of these suggestions are realistically what these Jewel vendors what have already had in place, so I think you're missing the point my friend. Part of the reason you are having a problem with this is because you've allowed it to become a problem. A merchant peddling several thousand gp's in gems in his lovely store (keep in mind that an average joe schmoe-skilled too earns ~1 silver piece a week). Economically this store owner would have thousands to hundreds of gold to spend safe-guarding his wares. If a thief was able to walk in and grab a gem or two, like as not these would either be fake or some of the cheap baubles (10-15 gp). Gems worth as much as the thief is stealing would feed a D&D farm family for a couple of years...Now, as for implementing these safeguards (which in all honesty should have been in there in the first place), I suggest you do so gradually. First off, trained dogs are not uncommon and would never be "bad for business". Start with a beaded doorway, next place will have a dog, the next place might have a low-level retired wizard as an owner and has a bat familiar and so on. These are not metagaming but a realistic fleshing out of the D&D world. If the thief wishes to continue with these "easy marks" then he should find that the values for these gems are proportional to the level of security, i.e. no security = cheapo glass look-a-likes manufactured by "garbo-gnome #4". If the thief then sets his aim for those expenisve gems of unrivaled quality and astronimical prices, then expect an unmatched security detail and safeguards (can we say mother-of-all traps? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )Hope this helps you out and that everyone's suggestions (once implemented gradually) will not only prevent this problem but also help you flesh the world out a little more in the eys of your players, hopefully providing a more immersive game playing experience (ahe, if you're into that, that is <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=";)" /> ). Happy playing.edit- *smacking own forehead* you know what? If this is a tiny Thorp as you mention, then you will NOT find a gem worth thousands of gold pieces there. I mean what's the gold piece cap for a tiny village? 500gp? A 1000 gp fo a small town? Again, I'll have stress proportionality here, if the security isn't there, neither are the goods...</blockquote>

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