What kind of Smith?
In the AD&D Toolkit application there is a feature that reads all of the inventory of all the characters in a campaign into a list, and then that list is subdivided by categories of shops that sell each item. For instance, a Carpenter Shop may sell wood chests and furniture, but would not sell Longswords. Within the application, shops are created by the DM with price ranges and chance-to-be-in-inventory for each shop. DMs then have price lists and availability for each item in the game. Even custom ones!
So among my couple dozen shop categories, I have a few smith-related. I want to have some variety, rather than just a Blacksmith who sells everything metal. What subdivisions do DMs mostly populate their towns with? Blacksmith(horsehoes, spikes, arrowheads, hand axes), Weaponsmith(metal weapons of more than simple production), and Armorer(armorsmith?) seem the most popular in my "research" thus far. Ive recently learned there are titles of Metalsmith, Whitesmith and Brownsmith too but they historically seem to be redundant or not relevant to an AD&D campaign.
- do i have the above right, historically speaking?
- do you have anything more you can add to this conversation of Smiths?
- is there a "smith", maybe one of the above, that in old-timey times would produce both weapons and armor?
- do you have Manual/page# to share from AD&D sources that are relevant?
