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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 2917085" data-attributes="member: 3929">Yes. If the PCs have their wealth equivalents then very likely they wouldn't even need to ask the wizard to cast Identify for them, but it seems odd that you would cite appropriate wealth as a reason why the PCs should pay out the nose considering the purpose of this thread.If they had their wealth equivalents, and yet did not have a way to identify items independant of an NPC wizard, then I might say they deserve it. But you've been saying that you didn't do exactly that!Damn right it's a threat. If someone is trying to rob you, you can either get robbed, threaten them so they don't rob you, or you kill them. And of that killing is the only one that could possibly be Evil. The wizard is trying to skeeve them out of money by providing a service at much more than market price for reasons like he wants to have more pocket money. The service the PCs provide is martial protection, but the wizard is not compelled in any way to compensate the PCs for that risk. So, unless he is compelled to compensate the PCs for getting in the way of raging orc barbarians, then the PCs shouldn't be compelled to pay silly fees to finance his 401k.</blockquote>