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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6983958" data-attributes="member: 19675">Sure it could: 1 or more casters casting from concealment- or possibly using things like still spell or silent spell, or items- to avoid detection, with a team of urchins to do the mid-stampede grabbing.  Thievery of this kind often involves teamwork.One of my other hobbies* is jewelry design.  I get a lot of my raw materials from <a href="https://www.intergem.com" target="_blank">Intergem</a> trade-show vendors.  The setting is essentially an indoor bazaar, with 100+ vendors with their wares set up on tables and some in locking cases.  Typically, there will be 2-4 people working an average booth.Foot traffic is in the thousands, and some booths may have a score or more customers at a time.Since I started going to their shows in the mid-1990s, security has changed a great deal.  After a couple of families got caught using their baby strollers as theft aids, no strollers were allowed.  After a couple of families got caught using their older kids as either distractions/screens or as the primary thieves, they barred all kids under 8.Do thefts still occur?  Sure.  But they're down.Still, despite there being tens of millions of dollars of stuff in these shows, there is relatively little armed guard presence.  A team of armed robbers could probably do pretty well there, but they don't even try.  (Those that do usually hit the vendors on the show's closing day, in the parking lot.)Better protecting the show from armed robbery could be done.  The vendors would appreciate it: a lot of industry insurance lowers or voids payouts if you don't resist when you're able.But with armed robberies in the halls being so rare, why would they?  It would cost them too much.Likewise, the feat you claim is the only thing it does well- and does it SO well, it would destroy the bazaar business model- is the purview of casters who are already pretty damn powerful, demographically speaking.  Why use this feat when a Major Image or a summoned lion will net you a bigger haul?  Why defend against this feat when there are so many more obvious threats- easier by far to simply do what merchants have always done to offset the costs of petty thievery: raise prices, distributing the cost of "shrinkage" across your thousands of customers.* yes, I have many hobbies.</blockquote>

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