You are an employee of the Martel Merchant Group. The MMG is a massive organization that spans the entire continent and beyond. They have representatives in every major city and are slowly expanding their reach. As an employee, you received intensive training in sales, persuasion, investigation, deception, martial arts, shadow & assassination arts, etc.
There are various departments that are centered around the role that you will fulfill. You have been sent out to a large city to advance your own goals and by extension, those of the MMG. The MMG prides itself in providing any and every need that their customers desire. However, their main business is the acquisition and sale of information.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion, Stealth
If you are proficient in stealth and choose it again, you gain expertise in it.
- Tool Proficiencies: Thieves tools
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A black MMG uniform, expertly tailored, a set of traveler’s clothes, a medallion of a Heron (the mark of the MMG), thieves tools and a pouch containing 75 gp.
At its forefront, MMG is a general goods organization. However, it’s real line of business is as an information broker. Employees are trained to resist interrogation and torture as well as deception when all else fails.
There are other competing organizations but on smaller, more niche scales.
| d12 | MMG Business |
|---|---|
| 1 | Information Broker |
| 2 | General Merchant |
| 3 | Enforcer |
| 4 | Shadow Assassin |
| 5 | Shadow Thief |
| 6 | Appraiser |
| 7 | Bounty Hunter |
| 8 | Dungeon Explorer |
| 9 | Adventurer |
| 10 | Spy |
| 11 | Master of Secrets |
| 12 | Procurer |
As an established and respected employee of the MMG, you can rely on certain benefits that employment provides. Goods and items are discounted for employees in good standing. Your fellow guild employees will provide you with lodging and food if necessary, and pay for your funeral if needed. In cities and towns, the MMG hall offers a central place to meet other members of your profession, which can be a good place to meet potential patrons, allies, or hirelings.
MMG wields tremendous political power because of the secrets that it keeps and those that it sells. If you are accused of a crime, they will support you and if a good case can’t be made, MMG will do everything that it can to relocate you (provided that you are following MMG’s rules of conduct. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the MMG, if you are a member in good standing. Such connections might require the appropriate rank and status of yourself or those you know.
The MMG is not a charity. While on a MMG mission, they provide a stipend. Your contributions lead to bonuses and an increase in status and rank.
Suggested Characteristics
MMG has a great amount of political influence among the various kingdoms not because it wishes to establish its own political power but because they are happy providing the service - finding and keeping secrets and making untold amounts of gold
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it — I’m a perfectionist. |
| 2 | I’m a snob who looks down on those who can’t appreciate fine art. |
| 3 | I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick. |
| 4 | I’m full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion. |
| 5 | I’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play. |
| 6 | I like to talk at length about my profession. |
| 7 | I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle tirelessly to get the best deal possible. |
| 8 | I’m well known for my work, and I want to make sure everyone appreciates it. I’m always taken aback when people haven’t heard of me. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Community. It is the duty of all civilized people to strengthen the bonds of community and the security of civilization. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Generosity. My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. (Good) |
| 3 | Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her own livelihood. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Greed. I’m only in it for the money. (Evil) |
| 5 | People. I’m committed to the people I care about, not to ideals. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Aspiration. I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | Exercising my trade is my favorite thing in the world to me. |
| 2 | I created a great work for someone, and then found them unworthy to receive it. I’m still looking for someone worthy. |
| 3 | I owe the MMG a great debt for forging me into the person I am today. |
| 4 | I pursue wealth to secure someone’s love. |
| 5 | I work hard so that one day I will receive the Platinum Heron from the MMG for my many contributions to the organization. |
| 6 | I will get revenge on the evil forces that destroyed my place of business and ruined my livelihood. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’ll do anything to get my hands on a piece of secret information. |
| 2 | I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me. |
| 3 | No one must ever learn that I once stole money from guild coffers. |
| 4 | I’m never satisfied with what I have — I always want more. |
| 5 | I would kill to acquire a noble title. |
| 6 | I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals. |
There are many visible employees within the MMG that only work under that capacity. However, higher ranked empires fulfill multiple roles - one visual and one in the shadows. There are other employees that only work from the shadows. They fill the roles of internal & external enforcers.
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Posted Feb 16, 2020Quality stuff, added
good details