I was wondering if anyone knows of any named thieve's guilds that populate the Flanaess? I've found evil magical societies and dark cults, but no thieve's guild. I can simply make some up, but was wondering if anyone knew of any source information in the 3.5 line.
Thank you.
Other cities with thieves' guilds include Rauxes, Orred, Stoink (I think), Darnagal, Gradsul (several powerful ones), Littleberg, Oldred (specializes in burglary), and Rookroost.
Other than the Greyhawk Thieves Guild, however, I don't think there's much detail on any of them (Greyhawk's has quite a bit of detail, though). I'm not aware of any guilds that have names given other than "the thieves' guild," other than Dyvers' Alliance. The Alliance is mentioned in Slavers (a 2nd edition book), and doesn't have anything more about it than I've summarized above.
The Scarlet Brotherhood is something like a thieves' guild insofar as many of its members are rogues. They have more important things on their minds than burglary, however.
There are a number of organizations mentioned in Complete Adventurer and Complete Scoundrel that could be adapted to a Greyhawk campaign, though none of them are explicitly placed anywhere in the Flanaess. You could argue that the Eyes of the Overking from Complete Adventurer refers to the Overking of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy, and they're a group of rabid Aerdi who seek to rebuild the Great Kingdom to its full ancient extent.
- Septien Selfareine (the "White Lily"), guildmaster in Grygax (Ulek)
- Marmel Raveiz, quartermaster for Monmurg's guild (Hold of the Sea Princes)
Other very useful accessories I've used to "build" Thief's Guilds in my campaign are:
- http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/dd1/den.htm
- http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/lm/lm-lna1.htm
If you can get your hands on it, there are some info in the 2e Complete Thief's Handbook:
- Septien Selfareine (the "White Lily"), guildmaster in Grygax (Ulek)
- Marmel Raveiz, quartermaster for Monmurg's guild (Hold of the Sea Princes)
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Darn - I think my 2e complete thief is locked in my Dad's loft! Does anybody know if there is any background information on these two or just stat blocks? I might have to dig out my old stuff for my gazeteer!
Some LG regions have produced Metaorgs for the local thieves' guilds containing interesting names and a little bit of background. Generally, most thieves' guilds are just used as a game device to give larcenous rogue characters a place to hang out and train.
I've only done a write up on a few countries so far but Greyhawk, Rookroost (Fate of Istus), and LG Keoland (mostly about the Shadowdark freelancers) seem to have a fair bit of information. Renfus of Stoink runs the thieves in that Bandit city, and the Alliance of Dyvers is not a guild per se, but a loose association of local thieves.
Darn - I think my 2e complete thief is locked in my Dad's loft! Does anybody know if there is any background information on these two or just stat blocks? I might have to dig out my old stuff for my gazeteer!
Stats + full background
LG Onnwal extrapolated a lot on this, naming them The Wreckers and going into their history.
Also, thanks for the tip on complete adventurer. I picked that up today and found some nifty bardic colleges and thieves, bounty hunter, and rebel guilds.
the Alliance of Dyvers is not a guild per se, but a loose association of local thieves.
It's an association of local criminal families; I think of it as a council of mafia dons. The families of the Alliance act like the stereotypical Mafia in many ways.
Note that those are his 2E stats, he's a specialty priest of Kurell. In 3E that would translate to Rogue4/Cleric14 or Rog5/Cleric13.