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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1904315" data-attributes="member: 3146">My take on this: there's no such thing as a "little" magic shop.As soon as you start talking about permanent magic items--much less items above simple +1 swords and armor, you're talking 4,000-8,000gp each. If the owner of the "magic shoppe" has enough money to buy that kind of material on speculation, then he's not really a small business. I look at it more along the lines of fictional portrayals of arms merchants, or P. Schuyler and Sons in the Arcanum computer game. Even if their shop looks to be pretty small, it's the kind of shop that has a small but exclusive clientelle. The owner is going to be connected to the rich and powerful (after all, nobody else can afford to buy from him). If he doesn't appear wealthy and successful on the outside, that's either because he's:A. a slobB. hiding his money (perhaps avoiding taxes or avoiding attention from the local crime bosses)C. Hiding his business (maybe it's illegal)Either way though, the owner is probably the type to play hardball like the Casino owners in Ocean's Eleven or any dozen other similar movies. "You mess with me, I don't just come after you, I come after your family and everyone who even ever said "hi" to you on the street."So, my suggestion: the owner hires a bunch of high level adventurers to track down and kill whoever stole from his store, to make their deaths semi-public, and to leave a calling card telling everyone who's attuned to that kind of thing: "This is what you get for messing with my magic shop." After all, we know the owner has a fair amount of money. (He bought the items after all). We know the owner has some good connections. (He has other customers). Etc.Another suggestion, riffing off of option C--maybe the items were stolen in the first place. Not only will the owner of the magic shop come after the PCs. It may well be that their previous owners will come after the PCs as well.</blockquote>

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