Timeline for How to sabotage a blacksmith production?
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| Jan 13, 2019 at 20:52 | comment | added | Imperator | As to point 1, I agree that an insider is not needed- send a letter describing some fictional failure of the forge well in advance saying the order will be delayed, intercept the shipment, and make the replicas from there, then deliver on the delayed schedule. After all, you don’t need to spend all that time on high quality steel, when you can spend a quarter of it making it look high quality. | |
| Jan 13, 2019 at 19:38 | comment | added | corsiKa | The plus side is now not only has the city guard lost their material reinforcements, their enemies just got a major boon to their armories! "It's a two player swing!" | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 20:06 | comment | added | Magus | Also, I don't really think there's a solid reason for these saboteurs take this risk. Their trade is... well... whatever pays good money with the least chance of being caught. Don't you think it would be a little shady that a new shop happens to open up with tons of gear just after a major shipment from another shop was stolen? | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 19:17 | comment | added | pluckedkiwi | @Clockwork-Muse Craftsman have their own unique mark they put on the things they make - the maker's mark would be an instant indication of who actually made it. Obscuring a metal stamped mark would be difficult, so best ship it far away and hope to sell it all before word spreads about the switch. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 18:43 | comment | added | Clockwork-Muse |
This would also be profitable to the saboteurs, since they could still sell the high quality gear to someone else. - Why "someone else"? Why not just set up as another blacksmith in the same town, and sell the armor/weapons to the same city?
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| Jan 11, 2019 at 11:09 | history | edited | Magus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2019 at 2:55 | vote | accept | NewGM | ||
| Jan 10, 2019 at 16:54 | comment | added | void_ptr | 'And the fact that you've got "Replica" written down the side of your swords, and the fact that I've got "Desert Eagle point five O" written on the side of mine...' | |
| Jan 10, 2019 at 16:52 | history | edited | Magus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 16:08 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | +1 for giving the only answer I've seen so far that realistically works around the "the blacksmith would notice" problem without requiring the blacksmith to be a saboteur, in spite of what you wrote. They don't need an inside man to let them know what they're going to deliver; they just need what they deliver to be predictable and routine enough that the saboteurs can anticipate it. | |
| Jan 10, 2019 at 15:15 | history | edited | Magus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 15:07 | history | answered | Magus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |