Group Patrons - Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy

Group Patrons. There are ten group patrons in this chapter. Each of the group patrons includes two NPCs that are contacts for the player characters. If you aren't using a group patron then you can use the NPCs as extra villains or even henchmen for your campaign villain. You can allow your players to use the stores and other benefits of an unused group patron, but a good rule of thumb is to increase the cost by 150 percent. Adventurer's Guild Your group belongs to the Adventurer's Guild, a loose organization that supports those courageous-or foolhardy-enough to pick up the professional mantle of adventuring. Adventurers are a varied lot, ranging from less scrupulous bounty hunters, mercenaries and treasure hunters to more altruistic archeologists and explorers. But they share a common bond-all are thrill seekers who live luxuriously off the spoils they find in monster infested ruins and dungeons... assuming they continue to live. The Adventurer's Guild actively recruits young men and women to join their ranks by extoling the glamorous adventurer lifestyle: the gold and riches, the fame, and the groupies. Wide eyed neophytes-blinded by promises of extravagant rewards and lavish lifestyles-are quick to sign up. But those who actually achieve the dream of wealth and fame are few and far between. Most adventurers toil in obscurity, scrabbling to make ends meet as they chase that elusive "big score" that will vault them into the upper echelons of the Guild. For those lucky or talented enough to forge their own legends, the rewards are truly magnificent: fame and adulation, not to mention wealth to rival that of any merchant or monarch. Yet even those that achieve success are often plagued by metaphorical (and sometimes literal!) demons. The horrors they face on a regular basis are rarely discussed in detail, but many adventurers turn to drinking, drugs, gambling, and other vices in a desperate attempt to drown out the trauma of what they have witnessed. However, this...