Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica

CHARACTER OBJECTIVES

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The impetus for adventuring might come from within

the player characters' own guilds, rather than from ex-

ternal guilds. Each guild e ntry in th is chapter provides

some examples of missions that the guild might send

its members on. These missions can also serve as side

quests that a character is asked to fulfill while engaged

in a larger task that involves the whole party.

GUILD CHARACTER OBJECTIVES

d8 Adventure Goal

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Find an item that is important to the guild.

Get information from a guild member.

Protect or rescue a guild member in the midst of a

catastrophe.

Free a guild member from captivity.

Find a missing guild member.

Kill or capture an enemy of the guild.

Help a guild member who's in trouble with the law.

Recruit someone to join the guild.

ADV ENTUR E HOOKS

Each guild section includes a table of adventure hooks-

events that might drive adventures but don't necessarily

involve specific locations or villains. They offer a general

description of circumsta nces that can lead to adventure.

Choosing a Guild

Here a re the main ways to approach the choice of guild

for your adventure:

Choose a guild that has an aesthetic or a story that ex-

cites you and that will lead to the sort of villain or type

of adventure you want to build. The following section,

"Adventure Types,'' shows how different guilds are

natural fits for certain types of adventure.

• Pick a guild that fits your players' tastes. The introduc-
  tion to the Dungeon Master's Guide offers some guid-
  ance for crafting adventures to please different kinds
  of players. The guild or guilds your players choose will
  also help you understand your players' desires. It's a

QUICK BUILD

To make a simple location-based adventure quickly, follow

these steps:

1. Choose a guild (or use the Guilds table in chapter l
   if you want to choose randomly). The adventure will
   take place in that guild's location, as described in
   this chapter.


2. Determine the adventure goal us ing the table associated
   with that location.


3. Use creatures associated with the guild (shown on the
   tables in chapter 6) to populate the location.
   Optionally, you can use the Location Connections ta-
   ble in this chapter to link the location you're using to a
   second location. You can either select a location based
   on the result of that table or determine the second loca-
   tion randomly.

12 j CH/\rTEI< .i I CREATING ADVENTIJRES

safe bet that a player who creates a Rakdos character

is looking for mayhem and combat, while a Dimir

player is more interested in intrigue and sabotage.

Armed with that understanding, you can better craft

an adventure experience aimed at your players.

• Go with a guild that easily provides a villain to face. A
  few guilds make very straightforward villains: Gruul,
  Rakdos, Dimir, and Golgari.
  Let a die decide the guild, using the Random Guilds
  table in this book's introduction.
  The guild you choose will provide a potential location,
  villain, mission, or adventure hook, as well as point you
  toward the type of adventure you're going to run.

ADVENTURE TYPES

Certain guilds lend themselves to particular types of

adventures better than others, as shown below. If you're

interested in running an intrigue adventure, where the

heroes must unravel twisted plots within plots, you'll

want to choose a different guild from what you would se-

lect if you want to run a dungeon delve that will take the

adventurers into the labyrinthine undercity.

DUNGEON DELVE

Beneath the urban environment ofRavnica is an entirely

different city-the dark, dank undercity, where vermin

and horrors lurk and the Golgari Swarm maintains

its elegant courts. Indeed, thousands of years of devel-

opment have buried countless layers of construction

beneath the current surface streets, making the under-

city much larger than the surface city, though much of

it is inaccessible. But if a sinkhole or other catastrophe

opens long-sealed vaults and exposes them to the sur-

face again, who knows what horrors might be revealed?

DUNGEON DELVE GUILDS

dl2 Guild

1- 3 House Dimir

4- 8 Golgari Swarm

9-10 Cult of Rakdos

11 - 12 Simic Combine

WILDERNESS

Though the world is covered with streets and buildings,

Ravnica also has its wilderness areas, including the

ruined rubblebelts haunted by the Gruul and the sylvan

wilds cultivated by the Selesnya.

WILDERNESS GUILDS

d6 Guild

1- 4 Gruul Clans

5-6 Selesnya Conclave

PLOTS AND INTRIGUE

Every guild has its internal politics, making it easy for

characters to get caught up in intrigue-particularly

within their own guilds. Certain guilds a re more likely

to involve themselves in the politics of other guilds,

which makes them particularly good villains for in-

trigue-based adventures.