• PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
    45·
    5 months ago

    Roguelike shopkeepers know this trick - that’s why they always stand in front of the door as soon as you pick something up.

    • macniel@feddit.org
      7·
      5 months ago

      What you do not see or smell is Vizzini, the most serious Sicilian when it comes to death known to man.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    141·
    5 months ago

    Amateur move. The rest of the items are still in the shop.

  • cornshark@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 months ago

    Ah so that’s why the nazgul always hunt the ring bearer. They’re store security

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    Anti magic field and guards at the door if he’s not naive.

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      TBF: You meant True Sight. 🤓

      AMF’d nullify the magic store’s wares and the guards’d be at disad to do shit w/o it on them, anyhow.

      • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Who cares if your wares are temporarily nullified. Some scofflaw is making off with your child’s sword training money. Time to use AMF and beat them with a stick.

        But true sight is better. I totally forgot about it lol.

        • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          “Temporarily”? You’re implying that the caster’d drop the effect every time some “interested” buyer rando wanted to try something on, but throw it back up an instant later? That’s some shitty security, to say the least. Better to have a “dressing room” or “firing range” set up to isolate & restrict effects, rather than dousing the whole damn place with a muggled muzzle.

          • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            The guards would have AMF on themselves at the doors. But as someone else already commented a week ago truesight would be better in this situation.

            • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              Yeah. Me. 🤓

              Also, how big are the shops in your world? AMF @ the front door and yet ample room leftover for trial runs, etc.? What is this, a Star Trek economy? 🤣

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      5 months ago

      just have an enchanted fitting booth, sealed floor to ceiling and the door leaves no gap.

  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world
    71·
    5 months ago

    The price of the spell to undo the invisibility has now gone up to 100,000 gold.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    The ring is also cursed to be unremovable. You either need to get used to stealing every single mundane item from clothes to food every single day or pay the shopkeeper to remove it.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        That could make for a fun little side plot setup. Whole town is convinced it’s haunted, but it’s just some guy who doesn’t have a good grasp on common stuck in a cursed ring of invisibility.

  • Gutek8134@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    > Shopkeeper presses the big red button under the counter

    > Ring explodes