d20 4e Axe Initiative Games Raiders Guild Players Guide.pdf

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he Raiders Guild players guide introduces players to the guild and their foes. It includes

the history and politics of the force that stands between civilization and the darkest pits of

the unknown. Find adventure with the Raiders Guild and perhaps even play A new race,

the loyal batfolk known as Skreek.

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Author

Robin D. Laws

RaIDERS GuIlD PlayERS GuIDE

Contents

Welcome 3

The Organization 3

The Conlict 3

The Formula 3

Your Band Of Allies 4

Members 4

Council 5

Stewards and Concessionaires 6

Charter 6

Beneits 7

Obligations 8

Political Role 8

The Guild At War 9

Politics and the Enemy 9

When the Guild Is the Government 10

Guild History 10

The Legend Of Ogatanz Kushig 11

The Guild Begins 11

The Death Of Ogatanz 11

A Civilizing Force 12

To the Present Day 12

Implacable Foes 13

History 13

Organization 14

Political Inluence 14

Against Adventurers

Editor

Sasha Bilton

Art

Ben Wooten, Jeremy McHugh & Dave Allsop

Logo Design

Gareth-Micheal Skarka & Toby Coe

Layout Design

Fred Hicks

Layout

Sasha Bilton

Special hanks

Simon Rogers, Christina Buch-Petersen, Ralf

Schemmann, Dave Allsop & Toby Coe

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of the publisher is expressly forbidden.

Skreek

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Playing a Skreek

Skreek Adventurers

Skreet Racial Feats

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Welcome

Congratulations, adventurer! After months of

toil and trial, you, and the other members of your

adventuring band, have been chosen to join the

Raiders Guild. You have every right to be proud

of this great honor. he strength, bravery, and

magical prowess the competitors you overcame for

this coveted spot were considerable. Your sparring

partners, all honored members of the guild fought

ferociously. Certain of the strikes you sustained still

echo in your bones. Yet here you are, about to step

onto a rude wooden platform erected in the middle

of the guild compound. Assembled about you is a

motley band of heroes and explorers, among whose

company you are proud to stand. Garvius himself

will lead you in the raider’s oath and then present

you with your guild medallion.

From this moment on, you will be admired

by ordinary folk. hey depend on the guild for

protection from the predatory creatures of the

encroaching wilderness—and from the tyrants and

schemers of the cities.

In a lightless and hostile world, you have won

for yourselves an essential place in a far-lung

community pledged to mutual loyalty. Wherever

you go, you will ind a band of brothers and sisters,

united by valor, justice...and a taste for ale.

A ceremony is all well and good, you suppose. he

real honor will come later, after the salutes and the

thundering drums. hat is when Garvius will take

you aside and give you your irst mission.

When you are down in the dungeon, waist-deep

in muck, pressed against the wall by a desperate

foe.... When by dint of superior preparation and

boundless courage, you press back, slay the monsters,

and claim your prize...

...that is when you will truly earn the name of

Raider!

The Organization

In a world of loose authority, where a strong arm

holding a magic sword wields greater power than the

king’s men, the Raiders Guild provides solidarity and

support to both elite and up-and-coming dungeon

delvers. It acts as a clearinghouse for information

and opportunities, lobbies authorities on behalf of

the trade, and suppresses the eforts of bandits and

thieves.

G Why did Garvius recruit you?

o He saw me in action.

o A prophet told him I would fulill a mighty

destiny.

o I rescued another guild member from certain

doom.

o A great hero of the the guild, either a friend

or relative, put my name forward.

o I begged and wheedled and made a nuisance

of myself until Garvius relented.

o Other.

The Conflict

heir sworn antagonists are the Archivists, a

corrupt, reactionary league of historian-sorcerers

who ight to seal up the world’s dungeons and hoard

the arcane secrets hidden within them.

The Formula

Raiders Guild scenarios start in the middle of the

action, with a teaser sequence foreshadowing the rest

of the adventure. As guild members you always have

an inside track, going into the dungeon pre-armed

with vital information—usually a copy of the map,

often other intelligence giving you a tactical edge in

one or more encounters.

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Recruitment

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Setting-Neutral

he Raiders Guild and Archivists can be added

to any setting, published or homebrew. With a

few adjustments of detail here and there, they add

structure, motivation and excitement to any fantasy

world.

MEMBERS

To qualify for provisional guild membership, you

must:

demonstrate at least a beginner’s proiciency in

YOUR BAND OF ALLIES

he guild consists of many autonomous chapters,

spread out among settlements and outposts great and

small.

Your DM decides whether the guild holds sway

only in one corner of a shattered world, or is equally

strong in every place that heroes dare to tread.

Each guild consists of three elements: the

membership at large, the leadership council, and the

stewards, a staf of salaried functionaries, answerable

to the membership through the council.

* chapter you’re applying to; sons and daughters

of past stalwarts and valiants (see below) are

automatically nominated, and are referred to as

legacies

* you must satisfactorily complete one mission as

assigned to you by the chapter assigner.

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Most Raiders Guild series begin under the assumption

that your highly-proicient 1st level characters have

already proven themselves, during the campaign’s

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* your chosen class, as shown by a series of tests

with guild trainers

be nominated by a current member of the

To go from provisional to full member,

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valiants who frequent a chapterhouse in a nearby

region.

Each year, a chapter holds its annual conclave,

a four-day afair known for wild carousing. he

craziest stretches of the bacchanal occur inside

the chapterhouse, so as not to scare the locals

and besmirch the organization’s carefully tended

reputation.

During the day, bleary and hungover raiders

debate guild business, ratifying proposals put

forward by council or raising new motions from the

loor. All policies not covered by the guild’s overall

charter (a very general document) can be changed

by member vote; the council is then charged with

executing them until the next conclave. he conclave

ends with the election process for new councilors.

It is also an occasion for recruiting new team

members, trading scuttlebutt on dungeons,

exchanging magic items, and romantic trysts.

To remain a member, you must perform one

assigned mission per calendar year. You can’t stack

them up—performing three mission doesn’t earn you

three years of loaing.

Guild insignia, which you can wear on your tunic

or carry on your person, indicate your membership.

hey serve if not as a badge of authority, then as one

of trustworthiness and competence. Ordinary people

know enough about the guild to tell whether you’re

wearing an outdated emblem. Neighborhood bullies

typically lee when challenged by someone wearing

valid insignia.

Prestige attends distinguished members. hose

of paragon level are ranked as stalwarts. Even more

prestigious is the valiant rank, which comes at epic

level. Stalwarts gain an additional vote at the annual

conclave; valiants get three votes. In big cities,

wearers of stalwart emblems rarely have to pay for

meals or drinks. Valiants are so admired that they

can make money by frequenting certain hotels,

taverns and eating establishments, as their mere

presence increases trade.

COUNCIL

he council oversees the implementation of guild

policy, as determined by the overall charter and by

the local chapter’s motions, as passed at conclave.

Positions are:

Guildmaster: the equivalent of a chairman

* Master-In-Waiting: the vice-chairman;

* automatically becomes guildmaster at next

meeting

Master Of the Cofers: treasurer

G The stalwart Raider I most admire is:

o A trailblazing hero of my own primary class.

o An inspiring exemplar of my race.

o A dedicated smiter of my most despised

enemies.

o A stunningly desirable adventurer, whose

mere glance speeds the beat of my heart.

o Whichever one who most recently bought

me a tankard of stout.

o Other.

Admiration

* Master At Large: councilor without

* responsibilities, except to vote and advise in

council meetings. here are either one or three

Masters At Large (to make sure the council

has an odd number of members and can break

ties). By tradition they are chosen from classes

otherwise unrepresented on council. In societies

where racial politics are an issue, they may be

chosen from otherwise unrepresented races.

Each year at the annual conclave the members

vote for all of the above positions except for Guild

Master and Past Master. Candidates often run as

In worlds where high-level characters are rare,

neophyte members may have glimpsed a stalwart

from afar, and heard only rumors of the great

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backstory. Your DM may instead choose to make your

irst adventure the inal element of your audition for

full guild membership. In this case, you leave your

probationary status behind upon successful completion of

this irst on-stage mission.

* Past Master: the previous year’s guildmaster

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