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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Associated with a particular guild, a guild keyrune is a ceremonial, stylized key, about 1 foot long, made from carved stone. Not a literal key, the item is a badge of authority that gives its bearer
access to privileged places in its guild’s headquarters and outposts. At the DM’s discretion, a character might be given a keyrune upon attaining a renown score of 25 in their guild
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’ Tools, Crowbar, 2 Pouches, Traveler’s Clothes, 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You eked out a living in dark alleyways, cutting purses or burgling shops. Perhaps you were part of a small gang of
like-minded wrongdoers who looked out for each other. Or maybe you were a lone wolf, fending for yourself against the local thieves’ guild and more fearsome lawbreakers.
Oath of Vengeance
Legacy
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, when a thieves’ guild grows too violent and powerful, when a dragon rampages through the countryside — at times like these, paladins arise and swear an Oath of Vengeance to set right
that which has gone wrong. To these paladins — sometimes called avengers or dark knights — their own purity is not as important as delivering justice.
TENETS OF VENGEANCE
The tenets of
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the crime. Most people are too daunted by you to report your wrongdoing to the Azorius.
Rakdos Guild Spells
Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature
For you, the spells on the Rakdos
Guild Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)
Rakdos Guild Spells
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motivation behind another strike performed in a different part of the city, or simply to spread fear.
As part of your covert work for House Dimir, you maintain a false identity as a member of another guild
. You can choose your secondary guild or roll to determine it randomly. This secondary guild membership determines a portion of your starting equipment and is also where most of your contacts come from
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
No career criminal in Baldur’s Gate operates without being aware of the Guild. Some studiously keep a low profile, carrying just the occasional smuggled load in with legitimate merchandise, or
only breaking knees when it can plausibly be claimed as an act of personal revenge. Others join up with crews for protection, or with the Guild itself. A few former Guild members have been cast out of
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, rot, and rebirth. You have spent your life in the slow churn of that ecosystem, in the dark places of the city where the messy parts of existence are on display. There is little squeamishness among the
light of the surface world, so your journey isn’t guaranteed to be safe.
Golgari Guild Spells
Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature
For you, the spells on the Golgari Guild
Criminal / Spy
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Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch
containing 15 gp
Criminal Specialty
There are many kinds of criminals, and within a thieves’ guild or similar criminal organization, individual members have particular specialties
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Dark Dealings in Yartar The city of Yartar is renowned as a place to make deals. Merchants, smugglers, mercenaries, and spies from all over the North meet in Yartar’s taverns and alleyways to do
business. Trade is the lifeblood of the city, and wherever trade flourishes, thieves are never far behind. The guild known as the Hand of Yartar is the largest and most fractious collection of scoundrels
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Example Adventurers’ Guild Clifftop Adventurers’ Guild Crime Syndicate Boromar Clan Dragonmarked House Any dragonmarked house Espionage Agency King’s Dark Lanterns Head of State Prince Oargev of New Cyre
Immortal Being Sora Kell Inquisitive Agency Finders Guild Military Force Redcloak Battalion Newspaper The Korranberg Chronicle Religious Order Templars of the Silver Flame University Morgrave University
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find a way to salvation.
2
You helped break a Guild protection racket afflicting a community of immigrants in the Outer City. Now, you can’t travel through that part of the city without your
dozen adopted grandparents inviting you in for a meal.
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Seeing a lost patriar after dark in the Outer City, you guided the wayward noble through back streets to safety. The patriar repaid your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
guild. For example, it would be highly unusual for a Devkarin elf (a dark elf) to join any guild other than the Golgari, and the Ordruun line of minotaurs has provided the Boros armies with generations
Golgari Swarm and the Selesnya Conclave Citizens of Ravnica aren’t born into guilds. An individual can choose to belong to any guild — or no guild. Some guilds, such as Selesnya and Boros, actively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
otherwise noted. Lighting Areas C1–C12 are dark, and characters must have darkvision or a light source to see. Cult members frequent areas C13–C26, so lanterns hung on wall hooks create bright light there
. Vestiges of the Waterclock Guild Part of the catacombs once belonged to an occult organization called the Waterclock Guild. The guild members are gone, though their bound elementals and clockwork
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
—though the Deathsgate Guild has a dark reputation, and its members often pick fights with Clifftop adventurers. House Jorasco has a large house of healing in the ward, and House Deneith has a recruiting
that hosts everything from circuses to aerial jousting. The Deathsgate district caters to adventurers, much like the Clifftop district of Upper Dura. Like Clifftop, it has an adventurer’s guild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
floated effortlessly down from the upper reaches of the chamber, and alighted on the chamber floor near the two of them.
— Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
House Dimir is Ravnica’s dark
couriers, information brokers, and librarians. But Szadek also used his guild’s expertise at gathering information to build a vast spy network, and before long, the secret operations of the guild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dark alleys. Sharn Watch. Clifftop is protected of the Daggerwatch Garrison and Watch Commander Lian Halamar. Halamar has no love for adventurers and is happy to catch guild members on the wrong side of the law.
Clifftop Adventurers’ Guild Sharn’s Clifftop neighborhood, located in the upper part of the Dura district, has long served as a crossroads for adventurers and soldiers of fortune. A dwarf named
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) 2 Daggers, Thieves’ Tools, Crowbar, 2 Pouches, Traveler’s Clothes, 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You eked out a living in dark alleyways, cutting purses or burgling shops. Perhaps you
were part of a small gang of like-minded wrongdoers who looked out for each other. Or maybe you were a lone wolf, fending for yourself against the local thieves’ guild and more fearsome lawbreakers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
or B: (A) 2 Daggers, Thieves’ Tools, Crowbar, 2 Pouches, Traveler’s Clothes, 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You eked out a living in dark alleyways, cutting purses or burgling shops. Perhaps you were part of a
small gang of like-minded wrongdoers who looked out for each other. Or maybe you were a lone wolf, fending for yourself against the local thieves’ guild and more fearsome lawbreakers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
, the sinister forces of the Dreaming Dark have infiltrated many places of power within the city. You can replace one or more of these threats with other groups from Eberron: Rising from the Last War—such
work (House Tharashk’s Finders Guild or House Medani’s Warning Guild), you also can incorporate conflicts with rival houses, as described in chapter 5. This section outlines the three conflicts suggested above, the goals of the villainous groups involved, and possible plot arcs tied to them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, the Esoteric Order, and the Guild of Starlight and Shadows. Hidden workshops of the Closed Circle might still be found in Sharn, where vengeful liches or other wizards of the Circle practice their dark arts in hiding.
with opportunities for work and camaraderie: the Clifftop Adventurer’s Guild and the Deathsgate Guild. Membership Benefits. Those who are accepted into either adventurer’s guild must pay dues of 12 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
adventurer’s guild—though the Deathsgate Guild has a dark reputation, and its members often pick fights with Clifftop adventurers. (See the “Adventurer’s Guilds” section for more information.) House Jorasco
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
or public outhouses, members of the Dungsweepers’ Guild make multiple rounds each day, collecting urine and excrement separately — for use in industry and agriculture, respectively. Take comfort that
in Waterdeep, you’ll always find a pot to piss in. Also notice how clean the streets are kept. This upkeep is due in large part to the hard work of the Dungsweepers’ Guild. Dungsweepers can be seen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Inside the Cult As one of Ravnica’s original guild founders, the demon Rakdos has been part of Ravnica for millennia. Members of other guilds know Rakdos through his reputation for capricious cruelty
and megalomania, but those who join the guild idolize him for his magnetic presence, which inspires art and encourages utter wantonness. Because Rakdos finds destruction entertaining, his cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Sykane, the Soul Hungerer. Sykane’s gift is the power to raise the recently deceased. This dark gift allows its beneficiary to cast the raise dead spell as an action. After it has been used three
. The shaft leads up to area X6. Characters who touch the amber sarcophagi are offered dark gifts by the evil vestiges contained within them (see the “Amber Sarcophagi” sidebar). West Sarcophagus. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Jarad’s sister, Savra, took control of the guild before him. Various groups of people and monsters coexist within the swarm, their relative power waxing and waning with the years, and through it all
, the guild goes on. The three most important power groups within the Golgari are the Devkarin elves, the medusas (also called gorgons in Ravnica), and the insectile kraul. Jarad is an undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
guardian force of the wealthy Upper City, exists only to serve the patriars — the city’s detached upper class. Meanwhile, crime flourishes under the control of the Guild, which oversees almost every
living in the city, their talents traded as briskly — and often just as openly — as those of any other professional. For all its shadows and dark dealings, Baldur’s Gate is not without its lights. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, gemstones, and rare minerals
Organizations: The Miners’ Guild, the Stoneheart Enclave
The defenses in Outer Blingdenstone paint a picture of a paranoid people under siege, but once past the final gates
Blingdenstone, omitting the second paragraph if they arrive unescorted. You leave the dark tunnel behind and step into what looks like another world. These aren’t sinister drow caverns or harsh, bare stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
poisons laced with the whispers of a dark entity. 6 A dragonmarked heir whose fortunes were ruined in the Last War founds a cult within their house. 7 The local thieves’ guild turns from mundane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
and other predators shadow travelers on the Grassroads or stalk the thri-kreen folk who wander the Llanos. And among the Green Doctors, a guild of healers and scholars, old tales warn of strange
whistling creatures that sometimes pass into Atagua from dark realms—and that might someday emerge in unstoppable numbers to consume this land.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Waterdeep. The adventure Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and the “Volo’s Waterdeep Enchiridion” section of that book (available at the DMs Guild as a separate download — www.dmsguild.com) provide a ton of
going to let that happen without a fight. The recent hostilities between groups such as the Xanathar Guild and the Zhentarim have been made even worse by the increasing sway of the company. A noble
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Before the characters can investigate further, they are assaulted by members of the Xanathar Guild. Bugbears Attack At the end of a dead-end side alley south of areas L1 and L2 is an iron grate that
of the Guild of Butchers. Given that fresh meat is in short supply in winter, Sora could hardly turn it down. If the characters see fit to tell her that the meat came from chopped-up humanoids, Sora
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
civil delicacy. The Watch, the guardian force of the wealthy Upper City, exists only to serve the patriars — the city’s detached upper class. Meanwhile, crime flourishes under the control of the Guild
or throats make a decent living in the city, their talents traded as briskly — and often just as openly — as those of any other professional. For all its shadows and dark dealings, Baldur’s Gate is not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
you a noble—even if you’re a few steps removed from true power? Or are you a guild artisan or soldier? Most Mror have embraced modern martial techniques, but a few minor clans still cling to barbarian
dwell in the deep, or you could be a warlock who’s forged a pact with a Great Old One patron, one of the dark powers in the depths. Pride in Possessions. From the wealthiest clan lord to the humblest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Rival Princes When the characters arrive at the square, read or paraphrase the following: Locals crowd a shaded square, listening to a fervent argument between two well-dressed human men wearing dark
are my people!” Kirina interrupts. “I value the friendship of the Aurum Guild, and I stand with my friends in their time of need. But don’t worry, Prince Simbon. We can find something safe for you to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
heresy, while clinging to the power and prestige they’ve wrested from other houses. A dark elf who challenges another for superiority and fails, or who fails to respect the hierarchy in some other way
sunlight either live as recluses or find a community where their heritage and upbringing give them an advantage, such as an assassins’ guild or a company of adventurers. Even in such cases, these