BLACK SHARK ENTERPRISES

As a wrap up to our discussion on guilds, today we will discuss the nature of the "thieves guild". During this series, I have emphasized how guilds are all about getting as much gold as they can. While this is the primary goal of any trade organization, normal guilds put a portion (often a large portion) of their money back into the community through public works projects. Most thieves guilds clearly do not follow this practice. Additionally, since thievery isn't truly a guil

I apologize for my poor health this week, but we've managed to make it to the weekend, even if we aren't all healthy and happy. This week we've been looking at guilds. We're going to end that examination with 2 tables - one with potential adventures and a second with influential NPC's. As it is always, I hope that you can find some use for these tables in your own games. Before we get to the tables though, let's talk just a little about the influences of guilds upon towns. As

As I said yesterday, guilds are all about the gold. That's only appropriate since they are trade organizations. Unfortunately for the guilds, there are many others that are also out to get that same gold. Below is a table for helping to determine the quarterly profits and losses for a guild or business expressed by a percentage of the working capital for the entity. Additional tables below flesh out the events responsible for the downturn, levelling out, or upswing in profits

This week we'll be looking at guilds. Guilds were first established in the early middle ages (10th-12th Century) as a protection against the unfair treatment and over taxation rampant throughout the feudal system. They continued to exist within the medieval world as a strange mix of trade unions, training schools, cartels, and civic-minded secret societies until well into the Industrial Age. As a matter of fact, over 100 modern corporations within the city of London have desc

The picture above is of the House of the Blackheads in Riga, Latvia. The Brotherhood of Blackheads was a trade guild founded in the 1300's. If you are intersted in the history of guilds, you should read about them in the link. Today's post is a follow up to yesterday's post that offered 20 different groups that your PC's might encounter. The hope is that this post will help to fix the imbalance of the previous post. This table is for guilds and other more organized groups tha