This game has items.
Lots of items.
One might even say too many items. I'm pretty sure the recentish restrictions on who gets to mastercraft are in part because staff were constantly inundated with a whole bunch of mastercraft requests.
A lot of these items, unfortunately, have really specific requirements. Sure, you can make a lot out of chalton hide, but there's that one recipe that needs chalton hide, a specific rock, and 2 kinds of cord, and god help you if you don't know it, because there's no way you could intuitively figure it out without having an example of the item to work from.
So I was wondering: What if there was a coded way to bring more of the game's forgotten items back into circulation? My mind went to 'recipe books,' but since we can't have books, what about a feature where you could pay a ton of money to an NPC, and he would tell you a random rare recipe? It would serve double duty giving merchant types more money sinks.