Waterdeep	-	The Guilds	-	The North
1st Edition AD&D	-	-	-	Forgotten Realms

26. THE MOST CAREFUL ORDER OF SKILLED SMITHS
& METALFORGERS
Master: Hawkun Orsund (6th level fighter, Master Hammer),
Metalmasters' Hall
Headquarters: Metalmasters’ Hall, #225, The High Road
Southern Ward
Livery: grey caps with black plumes, red tunics with a
black vertical hammer head uppermost, on the breast
Entrance: 30 gp
Dues: 20 gp/year
Contact: the Master

This guild represents the everyday blacksmiths who
shoe horses and fashion such items as lamps, torch- and
sign-brackets, gratings and barred window frames, fireshields
and other hearth-ware, and chains. They also
make the simpler weapons, such as maces, hammers,
and flails. The everyday pieces of metal-work, from needles
and spikes to boot-jacks, kitchen hooks, latches and
hinges, to candlesticks, are the “bread-and-butter” work
of this Guild, whose members are always busy and who
prosper steadily.

Most Guild members are strong (16 ST and up), have
high CON, and a high tolerance for heat and noise. A
point of etiquette: never touch a smith’s tools except by
his leave, and state your requirements as requests, not
demands, or you’ll probably be told bluntly to take your
business elsewhere. Members of this Guild take pride in
working quickly, in designing things with efficient elegance,
and in reproducing replacements to exactly
match an original. DMs must devise prices for such
smithywork according to the complexity and size of an
item, judged against the item prices given in the Players
Handbook.

This Guild provides its members with cheap, readilyavailable
supplies of raw metals, brought by the shipload
from Mirabar and elsewhere, and makes, stocks, and
inspects smithy tools for the convenience of its members,
who may rent or buy such from the Guild.