I'd like to pick the community's collective brain:
I'm looking for a list of stolen objects, famous thefts, heists, cons and similar criminal activities and people responsible for them.
I know of a number off the top of my head, but I'm looking for more of them to see what works best for my purposes.
This isn't for anything for publication btw. :)
Are you looking for real life or in Golarion.
In Golarion, the one that I know most about is the World Breaker, a giant siege engine built by Alkenstar and loaned to one of Taldor's Exploration armies for when they tried to tame the Mwangi Expanse. The Gorilla King stole it and it now belongs to him.
Are you looking for real life or in Golarion.
In Golarion.
Well, Razmiran has to win on the best con thus far, with the veiled master aboleth involved with Thassilon a close contender.
I thought I recalled something about a Sun Orchid elixer heist at one point, but can't remember or find where I read that, so it may have been in one of the numerous homebrew things I read too much of :)
Will post more if I think of them. Good queries.
-TimD
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Well, mine are more like places that seem perfect for the famous heists once you get some ideas for the things.
The Pathfinder Tales novel, The Worldwound Gambit would be a solid place to get some inspiration for some possibilities.
I think Galt, old-Taldor cities and Westcrown would excellent places to look for inspiration. Maybe Caliphas and Katapesh.
. . . . As for objects, if you want something memorable, don't do the cliche famous painting, religious text or sculpture. And don't do the obvious magical artifact or relic. Think of something cool that's not a real-life cliche and not a D&D trope.
... Maybe like the first coin ever thrown down "bottomless chasm" in Absalom's Petal District surrounding the Starstone Cathedral, found a couple hundred years later by a powerful Divination spell -- stolen from an old temple of Cayden Cailean's on the Avenue of the Hopeful, from its place of honor (framed of course) above a top-shelf bar. It's just a simple copper piece, not magical -- quite tarnished, thrown down the chasm for luck from a luckless commoner whose name and story are lost to time.
The Red Raven is a not-quite-like Robin Hood figure in Galt. He appears in "W 3, Flight of the Red Raven", one of Paizo's 3.5 modules, and makes off with a locally-important artefact. I believe that there is also a PFS scenario which refers to him.
Durvin Gest's theft of The Silken Purse, which eventually led to the creation of the Field of Maidens.
-TimD
Certain champion of Aroden's corpse being stolen and turn into a Harlot Queen lich could count in this category.