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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Forrester" data-source="post: 118263" data-attributes="member: 1279">The Mage Guilds idea is a good one.However, the Mind Blank pendants/hiring of Beholders or Illithid is going to be very iffy for all but the highest level merchants. I would guess that a pendant that gave its wearer a continuous Mind Blank would cost 90k+. And the guards you would have to have around to protect you (and it) would cost almost as much. Now, this is perfectly reasonable for a store selling 20k items every day -- absolutely reasonable! But that's only going to happen in the biggest cities. What do the smaller-time merchants do, that have no items more expensive than 2k or 3k? They maybe have 50k to 100k to spend on protections (if that -- I'm completely guessing here). They can't afford to hire Beholders (except maybe really old blind ones <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) or Illithid, and they can't afford those Pendants. So what do they do?</blockquote>