Acquisitions Incorporated

MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH
3rd-level enchantment
Casting Time: I minute
Range: 60 feel
Components : V
Duration: l hour

You address allies. staff, or innocent bystanders to ex-

hort and inspire them to greatness, whether they have

anything to get excited about or not. Choose up to five

c reatures within range that can hear you. For the dura-

tion, each affected c reature gains 5 te mporary hit points

and has advantage on Wisdom saving throws. If an

affected c reature is hit by an attack, it has advantage on

the next attack roll it makes. Once an affected creature

loses the temporary hit points granted by this spell, the

spell ends for that creature.

At Higher Le vels. When you cast this spell using a

spell slot of 4th level or higher, the temporary hit points

increase by^5 for each slot level above 3rd.

FACTIONS AND RIVALS

Other books detail the many power groups and factions

that operate in FaerOn and the Sword Coast (including

the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide). But a number of

new factions and entrepreneurial enterprises are central

to an Acquisitions Incorporated campaign-starting

with the group that an Acquisitions Incorporated cam-

paign is actually named after.

ACQUISITIONS INCORPORATED

Sometimes a group of heroes comes together in a way

that changes the paradigm forever. A group so magnif-

icent, so powerful, so larcenous, that adventuring has

never been the same s ince. For

years now, that group has been Ac-

quisitions Incorporated.

The brainchild of company

founder Ominifis Hereward Dran,

Acq Inc has cons istently maintained

a position at the bleeding edge of

adventuring technology, processes,

and marketing. The staff of Acqui-

sitions Incorporated. including the

company's highly varied roster of

inexpensive interns. engage in all

aspects of adventuring. Salvage, infiltration, legally

sanctioned life shortening, property redistribution, pro-

tection, removing protection, me rc handising-Acq Inc

does it all.

As Acquisitions Incorporated has grown, so too have

the opportunities provided by that organization to

neophyte adventurers looking for an advantage in the

rough-and-tumble world of professional dungeoneering.

From its humble beginnings in the basement of the

Silver Unicorn Inn in Fallcrest, Acq Inc has become

the only place to intern. boasting franchise opportu-

nities that can propel struggling adventurers into the

big leagues.

At Acqu1s1t1ons... I ncorpora t e d '. you inquire-and we

acqu11e .. "'. For more than a decade. other , people have

had things you've really wanted, a1~~ we ve ~o~e

over there to get those things eve~ ii they d1dn ~ want

us to do that. i:vpically, t?ey do~ .. t. ~~t we do~ .t d

work for them. we work for you. ~eve acqu11~ d

it all, but we specialize in staffs. gems, and stone

weapons of great^1. ineage .. \u ve do applv • a reasonable

surtax for rods. because rods. It's been a pro?lem.

This is Acq lnc in a nutshell: [~elenses_11egot1able.

JV\.erchandisc plentiful. Franchises available ..

-Omin Oran

DRAN ENTERPRISES

Dran Enter prises is the biggest rival of Acquisitions In-

corporated- and has the strongest possible connection

to that august organization. Founded

by a false version of Auspicia Dran

(Omin Dran's sister. claimed by the

creature known as the Wandering

Crypt), Dran Enterprises has a

well-established goal of wanting to

take over Acquis itions Incorporated

at any cost. even as the organization

profits from the endeavors of Acq Inc

employees and associates. Dran En-

terprises' strategy for accomplishing

this goal is built around providing adventuring services

even more ruthlessly and efficiently than Acq Inc. Hos-

tile takeovers, brutal rounds of downsizing, cor porate

espionage, and highly unethical be havior are just the

most obvious of the company's many tools.

With the death of the false Auspicia, Dran Enterprises

was taken over by Omin's other sister, Portentia. who

had operated in the shadows of the organization for

some time beforehand. Certain personal secrets no

doubt drive Portcntia's single-minded focus for Dran

Enterprises, but those have yet to be re vealed. (To most

people, at least. DMs can check out appendix A for more

information.) In the meantime, the organization focuses

on besting Acquisitions Incorporated at its own game

while growing ever more powerful and eventually

reaching the point where a corporate takeover of Acq

lnc can no longer be thwarted.

They_ say acquisition is a family business, and it's

certainly true for those of my house^ I h d ,

m · A • · a n t seen

y sister, uspicia Dran, for years. Decades. /'

A d th r · · m act

b n. en out o no.where, she returns with fresh.

ran~mg and_d_c~p1cably evil backing, trying to

acquire Acqu1s1t1ons Incorporated Be'. d

ourse I ves rs. definitely not on br·'nd · d mg I h acquire

d 6. u ,an ave

e n1tely ref used this offer. But I would like to know

what the dental plans are like at Dr E.

r, I l an nterpnscs

or a comp etc .V separate and unrelated reason. •

-Omin Oran

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