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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1188852" data-attributes="member: 177">There's something simple to note here.  At least by the DMG standards, a really big metropolis is about 25,000 people.  You can fit that many people into a modern stadium.Now, he's working among only a small subset of those people - shopkeepers.  Meaning he's got a limited market.  There are only so many people in the city who will buy aparticular thing. Eventually, it will get around what he's doing, and they will stop buying his stolen goods.  Bluff and Diplomacy are nice, but they don't overcome everything.  If there's been a Merchant's Guild meeting that mentions him, he suddenly has nobody to sell to.</blockquote>