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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MichaelSomething" data-source="post: 4829935" data-attributes="member: 51168">Another thing you have to account for is the blacksmith.  Is he/she cappable of producing said sword if he wanted to?  To make magic weapons in 3E, you have to have caster levels.  In 4E, you must have the ritual caster feat and have a level highter/equal to the item your making.  Also, how popular is said blacksmith?  If the blacksmith has a good business record or is popular for other reasons, people may not want to attack him/her.  Would you join a mob to attack an innocence business?  Most mobs form for another reason and devolve into looting. The crowd is another thing to consider.  The people who form the mob would most likely be evil and choatic (since they ARE a mob).  I imagine they would be difficult to control even if you manage to get them all together.  If the crowd gets out of control, what is the player's course of action?  Is there a bard in the group?  What if a fight breaks out?     I personally think the best solution is to follow the other's advice and use the player's desire for a sword as a quest hook.   If you're doing this in 4E, a skill challenge would be worth cnsidering.  In any case, simply rolling a dice and consulting a table feels inelagent to me. There are simply too many factors to boil it down to one dice roll.</blockquote>