Trade Guilds of

Waterdeep

A Downtime Activity
 Trade Guilds of Waterdeep
Written primarily for players looking to add Section 3: Character Options
some additional flavor to their characters, this ✸ Downtime activity. This includes a new
document provides rules for joining trade downtime activity, dumpcart diving.
guilds and downtime activities for guild work.
These rules are designed to be a low-mainte- Sources
nance activity, require little DM oversight, and In addition to the Player’s Handbook, Dungeon
provide a clear difference to factions. This Master’s Guide, Xanathar’s Guide to Every-
document is divided into three sections: thing, and Waterdeep – Dragonheist, the
following books were used as source material:
Section 1: General Information
✸ Calendar. This includes clarification of the ✸ Schend, David and others. Campaign Guide
treatment of weeks, workweeks, and to the City of Splendors, 1994.
tendays. Credits
✸ Downtime Sources. This includes ways
characters obtain downtime. By: Firbolg Factory
✸ Downtime Guild Work Income. This
includes some clarifications on guild work v 1.6
rules.

Section 2: The Guilds

Guilds are broken down into four main cate-
gories, which includes:
✸ Guild Characteristics. This section provides
some general details about guilds in Water-
deep and how to join them.
✸ Artisan Guilds. These guilds cover tradi-
tional crafting and artistic jobs such as
armorers, carpenters, musicians, etc.
✸ Labor Guilds. These guilds focus on more
mundane labor-oriented tasks such as
dungsweeping and laundering.
✸ Owners Guilds. These guilds are for the
owners of industries and properties such as
innkeepers, mariners, etc.
✸ Broker Guilds. These guilds focus on buying
from suppliers outside the city and selling to
businesses inside the city at wholesale
prices.
✸ Other Guilds. These are other guilds that
don’t easily fit into other categories.

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 General Information
This section clarifies a few details specific to
using trade guilds as a source for downtime
activity.
Calendar
To reconcile the treatment of work days
between Waterdeep – Dragonheist (and most
the other Forgotten Realms source books) that
uses a ten day calendar and Xanathar’s Guide
to Everything use of a seven day calendar (with
5 days being a workweek), for this publication:
✸ Workweek. A workweek is 5 days.
✸ Tenday. A tenday is 2 workweeks (10
consecutive days).
✸ Month. A month is 3 tenday (all months have
30 days each).
✸ Year. A year is 12 months, with 5 additional
holidays between some months (total of 365
days).
Example Month:
Days Off
The ‘week’ referenced in Xanathar’s Guide to
Everything is not being used for this docu-
ment. It considers two days off out of every
seven-day week, which the Forgotten Realms
setting does not consider. Depending on the
region, employer, and religion, a day off per
workweek or tenday might be granted (but
probably not for most commoners). The five
annual holidays between months are generally
observed by most citizens of the Realms.
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Downtime Sources
There are two main sources for a character to
acquire downtime.
Player declaration. A player declares its
character is taking some downtime between
campaigns. This can be either a stated amount
of time (tendays, months, or years), or it can be
the real-world time that passes between play
sessions for that character. If a player switches
characters, it can just state the shelved char-
acter is taking up guild work and the player just
uses the time that passed since the character
was last played as downtime.
DM reward. A DM can incorporate down-
time as a reward in addition to gold, experi-
ence, or levels. The season 10 Adventure
League reward structure is suggested:
✸ Character levels 1-4: 10 days of downtime (2
workweeks) per level.
✸ Character levels 5-20: 20 days of downtime
(4 workweeks) per level.
Downtime Requirements for Guild
Progression
As you will see later in this document, the
time requirements for achieving journeyman
and master are intentionally very high and can
not typically be achieved through just down-
time rewards. If a character wants to progress
in most guilds, it must take time off from
adventuring and dedicate it to the guild. If a
character just wants a steady source of
income to use its downtime days on, this addi-
tional dedication isn’t needed.
Downtime Guild Work Income
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything provides addi-
tional rules around work income as a downtime
activity; however, guild work typically includes
structured direction and supervision. For these
reasons, guild work provides a set wage with
no risk of complication.
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 The Guilds
Trade guilds have been a mainstay in Water-
deep for centuries and they have always had a
major influence on the city at large. Their
management and their skilled control of
commerce brought Waterdeep to its great
prominence as a center of trade for the Sword
Coast. The guilds have proven their worth to
the city time and again, as they have proven
their worthlessness in turn when attempting to
rule the city. For good or ill, competent or not,
the guilds are a controlling force in the city, one
constantly at odds with but held in check by the
Lords of Waterdeep.
The Guilds are not one whole power group,
but are distinct and different groups of people,
each dedicated to upholding the craft and
service (and related political agendas) of their
own choosing. Each guild’s trade determines
its importance and influence upon the city,
some often deceiving in their perceived power.
Guilds must be recognized by the Lords.
Applications for guild formation are seldom
recognized. Applications that would create
rivals in the same field(s) of trade as an existing
guild are always denied.
Guild Characteristics
All guilds within Waterdeep have certain
similar characteristics
Guild Halls
Each of the guilds of the city has a headquar-
ters of sorts, the guild hall. The guild hall acts
as a showcase of the guild’s trade or products,
a meeting place for guild members, the central
clearinghouse for guild business, and the
offices of the officers of the guild. For some
guilds, halls are often places of business run by
the guild.
Guild Law
Guild Law, the rules under which specific
trades are conducted, are distinct from city law
but can never conflict or override city law or the
known intent of such laws. Guilds pay careful
attention to all that is said by any Lord, and
govern their affairs accordingly. Waterdeep is
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often called ‘The Open City’ when trade and
guilds are discussed, because its guilds are not
all powerful, and cannot restrict trade to their
members alone; the Lords and Magisters are
strict and vigilant about this.
Applying For a Guild
Working at a guild-related profession without
being a member of that guild isn't illegal, but if
you practice a trade or operate a business
without becoming a member of the appropriate
guild, word spreads, and you'll find that your
coin isn't good as you thought it was. Materials
for your craft are more expensive, and your
sales will suffer.
To join, a character needs a skill desired by a
guild. This could be a proficiency, skill, or back-
ground. Whether it takes downtime to learn a
skill, or the character started off with one that
fits the guild the character would like to be a
member of, joining is as simple as applying
with the guild. Most applications for qualified
player characters are accepted unless the DM
disagrees with the guild’s acceptance of the
character for whatever reason.
Roster of Guilds
The majority of Waterdavians, living in a city of
contracts, negotiations, and commerce, are
required to interact with trade guilds; although
few guilds control their field of interest abso-
lutely. Most guilds merely use their strength of
numbers to do better than independent
merchants.
Guild type. This document breaks guilds
down into four categories: artisan guilds, labor
guilds, owners guilds, broker guilds, and other
guilds. Each type has a slightly different struc-
ture and advancement criteria.
Membership requirements. Most guilds
typically are only open to characters with
specific skill sets, either with proficiency in a
certain piece of equipment, skill, or having
specific background experience. The most
common requirements (subject to Dungeon
Master discretion) are noted in the guilds’
descriptions under the guild name; however,
this is not an all-inclusive list. If a character
meets any requirement, the guild is likely
willing to accept them as a member.
Artisan Guilds
These category represents the majority of
guilds in Waterdeep and includes crafting and
artistic-oriented guilds.
Guild Artisan/Merchant Background
The official guild artisan background
requires a 5 gp per month guild fee, which
requires players to continually track time for
their characters. This approach removes that
burden and just pays a lower net salary when
doing guild work.
A letter of introduction included in a char-
acter’s starting equipment may also include
how long a character served as an apprentice.
Artisan Guild Ranks
Most artisan guilds have three ranks: appren-
tice, journeyman, and master. These ranks
represents a combination of training, skill, and
seniority. In some cases (such as for actors and
musicians), it purely represents seniority,
where the senior members get the best jobs.
Each rank comes with additional benefits, to
include the benefits of prior ranks.
Apprentice
An apprentice is a trainee who is becoming
formally trained and qualified in a particular
type of trade.
Becoming an apprentice. To become an
apprentice in Waterdeep, a character must
complete a four workweek training program,
this does not have to be completed in consecu-
tive workweeks. This program provides instruc-
tions and training on both the various city
codes, regulations, and various permitting
requirements. This training costs 25 gp per
workweek and is required for all characters,
regardless of background or experience. For
some trades, such as actors, this training
program is largely just a formality to get in the
door, but is nonetheless required.
Benefits. Upon completion of the training
program, the character has:
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✸ An apprentice license to begin working for a
guild, which pays 9 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ Access to guild tools and equipment.
✸ 10 percent discount on supplies typically
used by the guild.
✸ A set of guild livery clothing.
✸ Provide training in a language or tool typi-
cally takes ten workweeks, this time is
reduced by a number of workweeks equal to
the character’s Intelligence modifier (a
penalty doesn’t increase the time needed).
Training costs 15 gp per workweek.
Journeyman
A journeyman is an experienced professional
who can work on their own under the general
guidance of a master. He or she may also do
service work and troubleshoots problems.
Becoming a journeyman. To become a jour-
neyman in Waterdeep, a character needs to be
at least level 5 and have worked for two years
(144 workweeks) as an apprentice under the
general supervision of a master. If a character
has the guild artisan or clan crafter back-
ground, up to one year of experience can be
applied to the two year work requirement.
Benefits. Upon becoming a journeyman, the
character has:
✸ A journeyman license, allowing the character
to do guild work for 14 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ Expertise in a primary tool or skill of the
trade for which the character already has
proficiency in (a character can only receive
this benefit once in its life).
Master
A master develops projects; lays out designs;
gets permits for construction, installations, or
performances; and oversees the work of jour-
neymen and apprentices.
Becoming a master. A journeyman character
needs to have worked for an additional two
years (144 additional workweeks) of trade
experience with a guild in Waterdeep to qualify
as a master. Work experience obtained from a
character’s guild artisan background can not be
applied towards this work requirement.
Benefits. Upon becoming a master, the char-
acter has:
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✸ A master license, allowing the character to
open his/her own business in Waterdeep.
✸ Eligibility to apply for a leadership position in
the guild.
Artisan Guilds of Waterdeep
The following is a list of currently registered
artisan guilds in Waterdeep. While some guilds
find themselves unable to leverage their collec-
tive power and fade away, but most of the listed
guilds have stood the test of time.
Apothecaries & Physicians
Guild
Proficiencies: Alchemist’s supplies, herbalism kit,
poisoner’s kit, medicine
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter,
sage
Headquarters: The House of Healing, The
High Road, North Ward
Livery: Cloaks and tunics (never caps) of black,
gray, and white bands, with a large white dia-
mond, bordered in gray with the long points
vertical, on chest and back
This is one of the richest guilds in Waterdeep
and the guild provides services of high quality.
It maintains a ‘Formulary’ in its headquarters
(open to members only) that records agreed-
upon formulae for many drugs and other
medicinal remedies. It also keeps in stock
some of the rarest ingredients needed to make
these medicines, dealing with far-faring sea
captains, traveling merchants, and caravan
leaders to gain these from the far reaches of
the Realms.
Armorers, Locksmiths, and
Finesmiths, the Splendid
Order of
Proficiencies: jeweler’s tools, smith’s tools, tinker’s
tools, thieves tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Metal House of Wonders,
Belnimbra’s Street and Gut Alley, Dock Ward
Livery: Gray cloaks with a single blue star on
the left shoulder
This guild represents the most skilled smiths:
those able to craft weapons, shields, and armor
superbly matched to the wielder and of lasting
quality; the ‘finest quality’ that mages
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enchanting weapons seek to find. Members of
this guild also fashion signet rings and stamps
for the guilds, noble families, and the Palace.
Bakers’ Guild
Proficiencies: Cook’s utensils
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Master Bakers’ Hall,
The Street of the Sword, Castle Ward
Livery: White cloaks and hats with a light blue
chevron on the left shoulder or brim of each
The Bakers’ Guild is very wealthy. Its wares are
known to be of good quality, and many citizens
of Waterdeep live largely on breads and
pastries.
Basketmakers &
Wickerworkers League
Proficiencies: Weaver’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The League Office, Wall
Way, Trades Ward
Livery: Cloaks of gold, with red and purple
diagonal lines forming a cross-hatch pattern
on breast and back
This quiet guild has many members all around
the city (as basketmaking can be carried on
with ease in private dwellings, above the
shops).
Bowers and Fletchers
Fellowship
Proficiencies: Woodcarver’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Citadel of the Arrow,
Burnt Wagon Way, Trades Ward
Livery: White jackets or cloaks with red diago-
nal stripes
There’s enough demand for the guild’s wares
to keep all members busy, and the guild has a
respected inspection program (to ensure shafts
are straight, fletches secure, and heads of
sharp, symmetrical construction, resulting in
flights true to aim) that, in turn, guarantees that
nonguild bowyers and fletchers will never
command a substantial share of business.
Butchers Guild
Proficiencies: Cook’s utensils
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Butchers’ Guildhall,
The Way of the Dragon, Dock Ward
Livery: Crimson cloaks with purple lining
This guild represents those who slaughter and
cut up for sale, all manner of livestock, from
ankheg to yeti (although cattle and hogs are
more common. Guild law ensures that meat is
properly bled, hung, and smoked or seasoned
in certain ways, so that it is as clean and in as
good condition as possible, and without excep-
tion, the butchers who are in business in
Waterdeep are guild members. Many premium
restaurants buy only from this guild as they
typically provide the highest quality ages and
cuts of meats.
Carpenters’, Roofers’,
Plaisterers’, and Painters’
Guild
Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools, painter’s supplies
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Stone House, Telsham-
bra’s Street, Southern Ward
Livery: Red caps, pierced in the brow with a
row of three brass nails
This guild is extremely busy, with many
members; even casual labor hired by its
members must be enrolled in the guild.
Cellarers’ and Plumbers' Guild
Proficiencies: Mason’s tools, smith’s tools,
tinkerer’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Old Guildhall, Gaus-
tus Street, Trades Ward
Livery: Deep orange caps and cloaks, with a
red line trim border around all hems and
cuffs
This guild is small and highly trained. The guild
is strictly concerned with digging building foun-
dations, and keeping the sewers of the city
functional and safe.
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Chandlers & Lamplighters
Guild
Proficiencies: Tinkerer’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The House of Light, Scroll
Street, Trades Ward
Livery: Black caps with a gold flame device on
both sides of the head (and, for ceremonies
only, black tunics with a gold flame inside a
gold circle on the breast)
By day, guild members make candles (mostly of
tallow) at the House of Light, and repair lamps.
By night, they run about the city with glow pots,
tongs, and reach-poles, lighting lamps for the
city and for private individuals, usually nobles.
Guild members also sell candles, and, for a fee,
will guide the way through the city by night.
Cobblers & Corvisers Order
Proficiencies: Cobbler’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Cobblers’ & Corvisers’
House, Soothsayers’ Way, Trades Ward
Livery: Gray cloaks or caps, with a brown
human footprint (right foot, bare), toes upper-
most, on the right shoulder or cap-front
This guild is a quiet and busy lot, who make
and repair shoes, boots, and all forms of
footwear, including thick-soled wooden clogs
for use in rain and snow.
Coopers’ Guild
Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools, smith’s tools,
woodcarver’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Coopers’ Rest, Pressbow
Lane, Dock Ward
Livery: Brown caps and cloaks, with blue and
green trim lines at the hems
The Coopers’ Guild is always busy. Many
things that go aboard ships in Waterdeep’s
busy port, notably pickled fish from the Fish-
mongers’ Fellowship and the wares of the Vint-
ners’, Distillers’, and Brewers’ Guild, require its
barrels. Members of this guild cut, steam, and
shape the wood, and form and weld the metal
bands of barrels themselves (from foot-long
hand-keg, with rope handle, to 20-foot-long
cellar cask).
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Fine Carvers Guild
Proficiencies: Mason’s tools, tinkerer’s tools,
woodcarver’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: House of the Fine
Carvers, The High Road, Castle Ward
Livery: Royal blue cloaks with red and brown
lines as borders
This guild procures shipments of fine carving
wood from far Chult and from the South via
Tharsult. Aside from fine-quality small carv-
ings, the guild also completes large jobs (such
as all the benches for congregations in a new
temple, or the paneling and relief-carving of an
entire mansion or castle).
Glassblowers, Glaziers, and
Spectacle-makers Guild
Proficiencies: Glassblower’s tools, potter’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The House of Crystal,
Copper Street, North Ward
Livery: Pink cloaks or robes with a large white
circle on the breast
This guild is a small, highly professional organi-
zation whose members take care to give fast,
efficient, polite service. The guild procures the
finest sand (from certain beaches in the
Tashalar and in Tethyr) for the use of its
members in making glass, and provides emer-
gency equipment and glass stocks for their use.
Jesters' Guild
Proficiencies: Acrobatics, carpenter’s tools, disguise kit,
musical instrument, performance, weaver’s tools
Backgrounds: Entertainer, gladiator, guild
artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Jester’s Clubhouse, Shrimp
Alley, Dock Ward
Livery: None
This guild accepts a wide variety of actors,
makeup artists, set designers and costume
designers. Well beyond a stereotypical jesters’
troupe, its members enjoy a good reputation for
quality performances.
Jewelers' Guild
Proficiencies: Jeweler’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The House of Gems, Gem
Street, Castle Ward
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Livery: Deep purple robes with a triangular,
crown-cut white gem, point downward, on the
breast, purple hats with white plumes
Members of this small, tightly-knit and secre-
tive guild have the potential to wallow in
money. Often having bodyguards and taking
elaborate security precautions, they also hire
mercenary groups and adventurers privately, to
bring them precious cargoes of uncut gems
from afar.
Musicians, Instrument-
Makers, and Choristers
Council
Proficiencies: jeweler’s tools, tinkerer’s tools,
woodcarver’s tools, musical instrument,
performance
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter,
entertainer
Headquarters: The House of Song, Rivon
Street, Trades Ward
Livery: Scarlet jackets, with slashed sleeves of
white and purple, and deep green long cloaks
and matching hats, with white and purple
plumes
While accepting a wide variety of crafters, this
guild admits only skilled, accomplished arti-
sans focused on the performing arts as full
members, and its members enjoy a good repu-
tation for both quality performances and quality
instruments.
Pewterers and Trusted
Casters Guild
Proficiencies: Potter’s tools, smith’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Pewterers’ and Casters’
Guild Hall, The High Road, Castle Ward
Livery: White sleeveless surcoats and aprons
with the green silhouette of a tankard, handle
to the viewer’s right, beneath a bell
The guild livery depicts their two most popular
products: a tankard and a bell. Bowls and
hooks are probably the next most produced
items. The guild buys the raw materials, and
mixes a basic white metal mixture which it
sells to its members cheaply as the basis for
such castings, but members like to add their
own ‘secret ingredients’ to make their products
superior. Precious metals are rarely handled by
this guild.
Saddlers’ & Harness Makers’
Guild
Proficiencies: Leatherworker’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Saddlers’ & Harness-Makers’
Hall, Tulmaster’s Street, Southern Ward
Livery: None
This guild is responsible for making much of
the tack in Waterdeep and is the sole supplier
of griffon riding equipment for the City Watch.
Sail-makers and Cordwainers
League
Proficiencies: Weaver’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Full Sails (the League-run
tavern and guild hall), Dock Street, Dock
Ward
Livery: White cloaks and caps, and sky-blue
robes; on the breast of the robes, two darker
blue wavy horizontal lines (waves), and three
silver stars above them
There are never enough skilled merchants in
this guild to keep up with the demand for new
rope and sails; apprentices typically work on
repairing sails and rigging for all manner of
ships in the dock.
Scriveners’, Scribes’, & Clerks’
Guild
Proficiencies: Calligrapher’s supplies, painter’s
supplies, forgery kit
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Zoarstar, Quill Alley,
Trades Ward
Livery: Royal blue berets with silver quills on
them
This guild is a highly educated, professional
group of men and women who letter signs,
draw pictures (sometimes in front of a party
audience, upon a noble’s hiring), compose and
write letters, take dictation, design ornamental
scripts, draw up legal tallies, and set down
records, contracts, and accounts.
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Shipwrights Order
Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools, woodcarver’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter,
shipwright
Headquarters: Shipwrights’ House, Dock
Street and Asteril’s Way, Dock Ward
Livery: Cloaks and robes of blue, dun, and red,
in three broad vertical stripes
Although small in membership, this guild
collectively owns the construction sheds and
dry-docks of Waterdeep where ships are built.
Skinners & Tanners League
Proficiencies: Leatherworker’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: League Hall, Tower Trail,
Dock Ward
Livery: Leather armbands (almost a foot long,
worn on upper left arm) of gleaming brown,
with a red diamond representing a hide cut
into it, a black skinning knife raised up in the
center of this diamond
This guild represents those who skin each
animal slaughtered by a butcher, producing
leather, suede, vellum, and similar byproducts,
which they sell to other guilds for the making of
clothing, footwear, aprons, pouches, war
harness (leather armor), and the like. Tradition-
ally, this guild has made belts, scabbards,
baldrics, straps, and suspenders itself.
Smiths & Metalforgers, the
Most Careful Order of
Proficiencies: Smith’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Metalmasters’ Hall, the
High Road, Southern Ward
Livery: Gray caps with black plumes, red tunics
with a black vertical hammer, head upper-
most, on the breast
This guild represents the everyday blacksmiths
who fashion such items as lamps, torch- and
sign-brackets, gratings and barred window
frames, fire-shields and other hearthware, and
chains. They also make the simpler weapons,
such as maces, hammers, and flails. The
everyday pieces of metalwork, from needles
and spikes to bootjacks, kitchen hooks, latches
and hinges, to candlesticks, are the ‘bread-and-
butter’ work of this guild.
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Stationers’ Guild
Proficiencies: Calligrapher’s supplies,
cartographer’s tools, painter’s supplies
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter,
cloistered scholar
Headquarters: Stationers’ Hall, the High Road
and the Way of the Dragon, Trades Ward
Livery: White robes, with a black quill pen on
the breast
This guild consists of those artisans who make
both parchment and paper. The guild also
produces its own ink, blotters, colored waxes
for seals, gilt ink for use in illuminating docu-
ments, metal pen nibs, and the like.
Stonecutters, Masons, Potters,
& Tile-makers Guild
Proficiencies: Mason’s tools, potter’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Builders’ Hall, Coach
Street, Southern Ward
Livery: Gray cloaks and caps with an orange
pickaxe, handle vertical and blade at the top
This respected, busy guild has some of whom
quarry stone, some of whom cut, dress, and lay
stone, and some of whom make clay or earthen-
ware vessels or tiles, and lay tiles.
Street Laborers Loyal Order
Proficiencies: Mason’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Streets Office of the
Loyal Order, Dretch Lane, Dock Ward
Livery: Red caps, gray cloaks and tunics with
red pickaxe on right breast (point high, han-
dle down), red trim lines at hems and cuffs
Members of this order are among the busiest
workers in the city, with full members cutting,
dressing, and laying stones for streets (whether
smooth-paved or cobblestone) and apprentices
handling traffic detours, mortar mixing, the
hauling of stones, and the leveling of streets
during repairs or construction.
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Trade Guilds of Waterdeep
Surveyors’, Map, &
Chartmakers’ Guild
Proficiencies: Cartographer’s tools, navigator’s
tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter,
cloistered scholar
Headquarters: The Map House, Waterdeep
Way, Castle Ward
Livery: Green robes with a crossed chalk and
dividers on the breast, green hats with white
plumes
Members of this guild design buildings and
draw the required blueprints for all new build-
ings in Waterdeep, and all renovations which
change the height of a building or add to its
outside extent. This guild also does all the
necessary surveying in the city, except for
private building sites and road construction and
repair sites, The guild maintains, at the Map
House, a large and evergrowing collection of
maps and nautical charts, which they will
purchase from any who offer good specimens
to them.
Tailors, Glovers, and Mercers
Order
Proficiencies: Leatherworker’s tools, weaver’s
tools, disguise kit
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Costumers’ Hall, the High
Road and Spendthrift Alley, Trades Ward
Livery: White glove, arm, and half-cloak (one
piece garment), decorated with blue and
green sequins in a repeating pattern of inter-
woven thread, leading to a threaded needle
picked out in sequins along the wearer’s fore-
arm; this is worn on the left arm, hand, and
shoulder, and is removed to do work of any
sort
This busy guild imports cloth and other
supplies (such as thread), and use much of
what other Waterdavian guilds make (such as
leather, textiles, carved and cast buttons, and
needles) to make literally tons of clothing, of all
sizes and fashions, from high-society ladies’
party masks to the leather breeches of a smith.
Every guild member has a personal specialty
(such as gloves or gowns), and prices, speed of
work, and durability vary widely.
Vintners’, Distillers’, &
Brewers’ Guild
Proficiencies: Alchemist’s supplies, brewer’s
supplies
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The House of Good Spirits, the
Rising Ride, Southern Ward
Livery: Purple robes with an upright drinking
jack in white silhouette on the breast
A small guild that produces a prodigious
amount of drink for Waterdavians and for
export. Guild members annually turn out thou-
sands upon thousands of barrels of wine, beer,
and various liquors, including the distinctive
‘zzar’: a Waterdavian fortified wine that is fiery,
orange, slightly almond flavored, and equiva-
lent to sherry.
Wagonmakers’ and Coach
Builders’ Guild
Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools, woodcarver’s
tools, vehicles (land)
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The Coach & Wagon Hall, the
High Road, Southern Ward
Livery: Brown cloaks with four white wheels
on each front shoulder
This guild builds and repairs coaches, wagons,
and other conveyances for overland trade and
travel (including, for extra fees, conveyances
with an amazing variety of secret hiding places
for use in smuggling and outwitting bandits).
The skill involved in making durable, beautiful
wagons is considerable.
Trade Guilds of Waterdeep
Weavers and Dyers, the Most
Excellent Order of
Proficiencies: Painter’s supplies, weaver’s tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: The House of Textiles,
Nethpranter’s Street, Trades Ward
Livery: Rainbow-hue dyed overcloaks and over-
gowns
This guild is busy and offends few. Its wares
are reasonably priced and its dyes good – they
bleed and stain little, and fade only slowly.
Guild members will gladly dye garments to
order, although patterns and devices must not
mock, closely resemble, or duplicate the
heraldic devices of the city, Lords, or nobles – a
Lords’ Edict on this point is strictly obeyed by
the guild.
Wheelwrights’ Guild
Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools, woodcarver’s
tools
Backgrounds: Guild artisan/merchant, clan crafter
Headquarters: Wheel Hall, River Street,
Trades Ward
Livery: Orange robes with a black, spoked
wheel on the breast
This guild makes coach, cart, and carriage
wheels, of specific woods steamed and bent,
and wrapped with iron bands.
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Labor Guilds
Several job functions in Waterdeep have been
collectively organized by guilds, with the goal of
gaining general respect by the city’s residence,
gaining collective bargaining power, or control-
ling the labor market for those jobs.
Labor Guild Ranks
As most labor guilds have only one guild
master (which is typically not available to
player characters), there are generally two
achievable ranks, based on seniority. Each rank
comes with additional benefits, to include the
benefits of prior ranks.
Apprentice
An apprentice is a trainee who is joins the guild
on a trial basis and can be kicked out at any
time.
Benefits. Upon being accepted into the guild
as an apprentice, the character has:
✸ An apprentice license to begin working for a
guild, which pays 9 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ A set of guild livery clothing.
✸ Free room and board at either a guild house,
or a local inn that is closely related to the
guild.
Journeyman
A journeyman has been with the guild for at
least two years (144 workweeks) as an appren-
tice under the general supervision of a jour-
neyman or master.
Benefits. Upon becoming a journeyman, the
character has:
✸ A journeyman license, allowing the character
to do guild work for 14 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ A perk specific to that guild, noted in the
guild description.
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Labor Guilds of Waterdeep
The following is a list of currently registered
labor guilds in Waterdeep.
Dungsweepers’ Guild
Backgrounds: Urchin
Headquarters: Muleskull Tavern,
Ship Street, Dock Ward
Livery: Cap with red and orange feathers
This is consists of those who clean the streets
(and, for a fee, the stables of others). Despite its
work, this guild can be quite influential.
Journeyman benefit. The Dungsweepers
have a traditional right to ‘glean the sweepings,’
keeping anything discarded for their own use. A
journeyman typically earns an additional 5 gp
per workweek of downtime by reselling items
found in the trash in the North Ward to market
stall and shop owners in the other wards.
Fishmongers’ Fellowship
Background: Fisher
Headquarters: Seaswealth Hall,
Seaswealth Hall Wharf, Dock Ward
Livery: Silver caps, with blue eyes upon
either side, or sashes of silver with a single
blue eye, worn hanging straight down from
the left shoulder
This friendly, informal Fellowship sorts, ices,
and sends their catches (eels, crabs, and fish of
all sorts) to the stalls of various guild members
by means of fish carts pushed by runners, all
over the City.
Journeyman benefit. All the high quality
seafood products the character can eat, and
business contacts in all the major restaurants
and food vendor stalls in Waterdeep, along with
a 10 percent discount at most restaurants.
Launderers’ Guild
Any applicant
Headquarters: The House of Cleanliness,
Slipstone Street, Trades Ward
Livery: White caps and cloaks with an
open human hand, fingers uppermost and
spread, in silver on the breast of the cloak
and center peak of the cap
Members of this guild are an overworked lot,
who labor around the clock (most are family
businesses, with the family members working
in shifts) to wash the dirty garments of Water-
davians in open-topped tubs full of boiling
water and scented soap, and usually stirred
with long poles. Everyone buys his or her own
scent: some use cider, some use wine, some
use straight perfume, and some use strong
herbs, but the guild provides various soaps for
its members at cheap rates.
Journeyman benefit. Free scented laundry
services, providing advantage on certain
Charisma checks in social situations.
Trade Guilds of Waterdeep
Salters, Packers, and Joiners
Fellowship
Any applicant
Headquarters: Shippers’ Hall, Oar Alley,
Dock Ward
Livery: Yellow cloaks and high-peaked caps
with a black-spoked carriage wheel on the
breast and center brim, with a black sail
curved around it
This guild employs many young folk as
runners, to keep its constantly-moving
members in contact with each other and with
the Master at Shippers’ Hall. Salters, packers,
and joiners are the professionals at preparing
goods for shipping long distances.
Journeyman benefit. Business contacts with
all the major importers and exporters in Water-
deep, and a 10 percent discount on most major
imports.
Waterworkers Guild
Backgrounds: Pirate, sailor
Headquarters: Watermens’ Hall, Dock
Street, Dock Ward
Livery: Blue shoulder-raincloaks, white
shapeless hats
This guild is one of the busiest and most impor-
tant in the City of Splendors. Its members keep
the harbor clear of all litter (discarded crates,
discarded seaweed from fishing nets, discarded
bodies, etc.), run myriad small skiffs and ferries
about the harbor and up and down the
seashore of Waterdeep (for hire), and load and
unload almost all of the ships that dock in
Waterdeep’s busy harbor.
Journeyman benefit. Business contacts with
all the major ships frequenting Waterdeep and
the occasional free passage to and from a port
of choice.
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Owners Guilds
On some occasions, business owners have
chosen to form guilds to improve the competi-
tive landscape or implement rules for the
collective benefit of their businesses.
Owners Guild Ranks
Ranks in owners guilds are titled more as a
custom of guilds than an indication of actual
role within a guild and is determined by a
combination of assets owned by the member,
and length of time in the guild. Each rank
comes with additional benefits, to include the
benefits of prior ranks.
Apprentice
An apprentice is a someone who has qualifica-
tions desired by the guild, but who may not own
any assets applicable to the guild (such as a
character with a background as a sailor that
doesn’t actually own a boat may be an appren-
tice in the Mariner’s Guild).
Benefits. Upon being accepted into the guild
as an apprentice, the character has:
✸ An apprentice license to begin working for a
guild, which pays 9 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ A set of guild livery clothing.
Journeyman
A journeyman is someone who owns assets
applicable to the guild (such as a ship owner
may be a journeyman in the Mariner’s Guild).
Benefits. Upon becoming a journeyman, the
character has:
✸ A perk specific to that guild, noted in the
guild description.
✸ Guild membership increases an owner’s busi-
ness by an amount necessary to cover guild
fees.
Master
Masters are elected (largely a popularity vote)
with at least four years of membership.
Benefits. Upon becoming a master, the char-
acter is allowed to vote on significant decisions
of the guild, which normally require majority
vote. There is no limit on the amount of
masters within an owners guild.
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Owners Guilds of Waterdeep
The following is a list of currently registered
owners guilds in Waterdeep.
Carters & Coachworkers
Fellowship
Proficiencies: Vehicle (land)
Journeyman requirement: Ownership of a cart,
coach, wagon, or other land vehicle that is used in
a business
Headquarters: The Road House, Carters’ Way,
Southern Ward
Livery: Dark blue cloaks and long-peaked caps,
with silver trim
This guild is an association for all Waterdavian
who own carts, wagons, coaches, litters, and
winter sleighs and sledges, used in their busi-
ness as a direct source of income. Most individ-
uals who possess their own private vehicles are
not guild members.
Journeyman benefit. A journeyman is given
one carriage token per month, which can be
used or given as a gift. The token is used in the
place of currency and provides free carriage
transportation within Waterdeep for the token
holder and one guest. Journeyman are also
given free storage for one vehicle if needed, but
are also expected to provide parking to another
member if the member has the space.
Innkeepers Fellowship
Any applicant
Journeyman requirement: Inn, tavern, or similar
establishment ownership
Headquarters: Fellowship Hall, Waterdeep
Way, Castle Ward
Livery: None
This organization is one of the oldest of all the
guilds of Waterdeep. Formed long ago as a
means of protection, the guild now functions
primarily as a means of sharing information.
Journeyman benefit. Ten percent discount
for room and board at any inn in Waterdeep for
the member, or a member’s guest. Black lists
and news of thieves, con-artists, brawlers,
mages with urges to let off spells, and other
‘problem patrons’ who are making the rounds
from inn to inn are shared among members.
The guild also actively works to reduce rivalries
between guild members.
Mariners’ Guild
Background: Sailor
Journeyman requirement: Ship or other water
vehicle ownership
Headquarters: Mariners’ Hall, Cedar
Street, Dock Ward
Livery: Red hats with white plumes, red shoul-
der cloaks
This guild consists of all ship captains and
merchant fleet owners who are based in, or
who often put into, Waterdeep.
Journeyman benefit. Free piloting training
into and around Waterdeep’s harbor; access to
emergency warehouse space (and a ‘free’ dock
– that is, the guild pays all docking fees – with
room for one vessel to load or unload from the
guild warehouses); and accommodations and a
private bar for visiting members at Mariners’
Hall.
Stablemasters’ & Farriers’
Guild
Proficiencies: Animal handling
Journeyman requirement: Horse or other steed-
related business ownership
Headquarters: The Guild Paddock, Walltower
Walk, Trades Ward
Livery: Deep blue hats with white plumes
This guild represents all who breed, train,
capture, tame, house, and tend horses and
other riding animals, including aerial steeds
(but not aquatic creatures, lizards, or great
cats), and sets standards for such care.
Journeyman benefit. Free veterinary aid,
free horse shoeing services, cheap rates on
feed by buying in bulk, and free mount boarding
of up to two mounts.
Trade Guilds of Waterdeep
Broker Guilds
Several times in Waterdeep’s history, attempts
have been made to control commodities
coming in and out of the city. For the most part,
these attempts fizzle out within a few years;
however, a few guilds have been able to gain
significant control of a specific market and can
influence the movement and prices of those
goods throughout the city, although these
guilds are still not able to claim a monopoly.
Broker guilds focus on buying from suppliers
outside the city and selling to businesses inside
the city at wholesale prices.
Broker Guild Ranks
As most broker guilds have only one guild
master (which is typically not available to
player characters), there are generally two
achievable ranks, based on seniority. Each rank
comes with additional benefits, to include the
benefits of prior ranks.
Apprentice
An apprentice is a trainee who is joins the guild
on a trial basis and can be kicked out at any
time.
Benefits. Upon being accepted into the guild
as an apprentice, the character has:
✸ An apprentice license to begin working for a
guild, which pays 9 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ A set of guild livery clothing.
✸ 10 percent discount on goods controlled by
the guild.
Journeyman
A journeyman has been with the guild for at
least two years (144 workweeks) as an appren-
tice under the general supervision of a jour-
neyman or master.
Benefits. Upon becoming a journeyman, the
character has:
✸ A journeyman license, allowing the character
to do guild work for 14 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ A perk specific to that guild, noted in the
guild description.
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Broker Guilds of Waterdeep Furriers & Woolworkers, the
Solemn Order of
The following is a list of currently registered Background: Guild artisan/merchant, outlander
broker guilds in Waterdeep.
Headquarters: Guild Hall of the Order,
Farmer-Grocers Council Waterdeep Way, Castle Ward
Background: Guild artisan/merchant, outlander Livery: Gray woolen cloaks trimmed with fur
Headquarters: The Market Hall, Traders’ (winter), skullcaps of gray wool with a fur
Way, Castle Ward fringe (summer)
Livery: Cloaks or sashes of bright green; With a rigid inspection system, this guild
in early summer, fresh floral blossoms worn attempts to control most of the city’s trading in
at the left shoulder wool and furs, insuring quality and supply.
This guild is a consortium whose membership Membership typically includes ranchers, trap-
changes with the fortunes of harvest (but typi- pers, hunters, etc).
cally consists of farmers, gatherers, pilgrims, Journeyman benefit. First choice on most
etc). The Council determines prices for raw furs and wools entering the city; as well as a
grain and arranges milling and warehouse facil- free set of top-quality cold weather clothing.
ities in the city (both of which it controls); the
milling business provides the guild with its
bread-and-butter operating money. The guild
also receives regular funds from the Lords in
return for keeping the city’s granaries and
icehouses full of provisions, to feed the Castle
and the Palace, and have emergency food on
hand in case of siege or crop disaster. The
guild also arranges market stall space for its
members.
Journeyman benefit. First choice on most
products entering the city; as well as priority on
grain supply during any potential food short-
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 Other Guilds Journeyman. Open only to spellcasters who
have been with the guild for at least one year,
benefits include:
This category is for guilds that are relatively
unique unto themselves. ✸ 10 percent discount on most spell compo-
nents.
Watchful Order of Magists & ✸ 10 percent discount on all spell scrolls of 2nd
Protectors level and below (limited to five per month).
Proficiencies: Arcana, calligrapher's supplies Anyone caught reselling discounted scrolls
Background: City watch/investigator, cloistered will have this benefit removed.
scholar, sage ✸ Tutelage under a master, allowing the
Other requirement: Spellcaster
member to add one spell of choice (2nd level
Headquarters: Tower of the Order, The Street or below) to his/her spellbook or ritualbook,
of Bells, Castle Ward with no cost or time requirement.
Livery: Dark purple cloaks, with a white human
hand, fingers together and uppermost, on the Master. Master rank is only available to casters
left shoulder of 5th and above, and the character must have
been a guild member for at least two years.
Probably the most uniquely guild in Waterdeep, Benefits include:
members of the Watchful Order form a more or
✸ 10 percent discount on all spell scrolls of 3rd
less sociable association in the city, working
level and above (limited to five per month).
together to keep an eye on any spellcasters who
Anyone caught reselling discounted scrolls
opt not to join their guild. This guild protects
will have this benefit removed.
the less-powerful wizards (and novices to the
✸ Free, secure storage of a backup spellbook or
Art) of Waterdeep, and attempts to influence
ritualbook.
the more powerful wizards outside the guild in
the city. Not all members need be spellcasters
and there are no testing or licensing require-
ments for the various guild ranks, other than
spellcasting ability and seniority.
Apprentice. Open to both spellcasters and
noncasters, benefits include:
✸ Working duty as either a city guard or fire-
fighter, which pays 9 gp per workweek of
downtime spent working (net of guild fees).
✸ Direct and immediate assistance through
Waterdeep’s legal system if the member
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 Character Options
Waterdeep, along with several large cities Common Minor Items Table
throughout Faerûn, provide adventurers the d100 Common Minor Item
opportunity for big-city downtime activities. 1-2 Armor of gleaming (hide armor)
3-4 Bead of nourishment
Downtime Activity 5-6
7-8
Bead of refreshment
Boots of false tracks
9-10 Candle of the deep
This downtime activity is available to any char- 11-12 Cast-off armor (hide armor)
13-14 Charlatan’s die
acter in a large city with a significant popula- 15-16 Cloak of billowing
tion of noble houses. 17-18 Cloak of many fashions
19-20 Clockwork amulet
Dumpcart Diving 21-22 Clothes of mending
With the age-old saying “one’s trash is 23-24 Dark shard amulet
25 Dread helm
another’s treasure”, some bigcity dwellers have 26-27 Ear horn of hearing
learned that many residents in noble districts 28-29 Enduring spellbook (empty)
toss out perfectly valuable items into the dump- 30-31 Ersatz eye
carts in alleys behind their estates. This activity 32-33 Hat of vermin
34-35 Hat of wizardry
represents a character’s attempt at sifting 36-37 Heward’s handy spice pouch
through dumpcarts, looking for items with 38-39 Horn of silent alarm
resell value. 40-41 Instrument of illusions
42-43 Instrument of scribing
Resources. Performing a job requires one 44-45 Lock of trickery
day of effort. 46 Moon-touched sword (shortsword)
Resolution. To determine how much money 47-48 Mystery key
a character earns, the character makes an 49-50 Orb if direction
51-52 Orb of time
Intelligence (Investigation) ability check. 53-54 Perfume of bewitching
Consult the Earnings Table to see how much 55-56 Pipe of smoke monsters
money is generated according to the check. 57-58 Pole of angling
Complications. Each day of dumpcart diving 59-60 Pole of collapsing
61-62 Pot of awakening
produces an accumulating 20 percent chance 63-64 Potion of climbing
that the character will be discovered by the 65-66 Potion of healing
local dungsweeper’s guild, which lays claim to 67-68 Rope of Mending
all ‘sweepings’, including everything in dump- 69-70 Ruby of the war mage
71 Shield of expression
carts (day 2 would have a 40 percent chance of 72-73 Smoldering armor (hide armor)
discovery, etc), this chance resets every tenday. 74-75 Spell scroll (prestidigitation)
They surprise the character while its head is 76-77 Spell scroll (purify food and drink)
78-79 Staff of adornment
buried in a dumpcart, rough it up, and tell it to 80-81 Staff of birdcalls
get lost; leaving the character finding nothing of 82-83 Staff of flowers
value for the day. 84-85 Talking doll
86-87 Tankard of sobriety
Earnings Table 88 Unbreakable arrow
89-90 Veteran’s cane
d20 Earnings 91-92 Walloping ammunition (20 sling bullets)
1-5 Nothing of value was found 93-94 Wand of conducting
5-15 1 gp worth of items were found 95-96 Wand of pyrotechnics
16-24 3 gp worth of items were found 97-98 Wand of scowls
25+ A common minor magic item was found, 99-100 Wand of smiles
consult the Common Minor Items Table.

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 Appendix B. Other Waterdeep Publications
Forger’s Guide to Waterdeep
Have you wanted assets to build a forgery
scenario into your adventures, wanted more
realistic wax seals for your missives, or wanted
your character to become a master forger? If
so, this might be for you. Intended for both
Dungeon Masters and players, this document
covers all the major organizations found in
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Waterdeep:
Dungeon of the Mad Mage, and Curse of
Strahd (with numerous other organizations
covered in legacy publications). This publica-
tion includes:
✸ A summary of the rules of forgery and forging
equipment
✸ 180 unique digital wax seals listed below
with PNG files (plus a couple other failed
forgeries and a variant for RP purposes),
which can be printed out on notes, titles,
deeds, orders, whatever
✸ A Master Forger NPC
✸ A hook to get a character down the path of
becoming a Master Forger
Seals include:
✸ 23 Factions
✸ 15 Temples
✸ 78 Noble Houses
✸ 6 Dwarven Clans
✸ 44 Trade Guilds
✸ 2 Cities (Waterdeep & Skullport)
✸ 5 Governing Bodies
✸ 7 seals from Barovia as a bonus
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/313071
Trade Guilds of Waterdeep
House Phylund
Written for players, dungeon masters and game
designers, this document is designed to provide
both historical and current details on House
Phylund. If you’re a player who chose the noble
background for your character, a dungeon
master looking for additional flavor for your
players, or a game designer wanting to add
House Phylund into your campaign, this is
intended to be a resource for everyone. Serving
as a compliment to both Waterdeep: Dragon
Heist and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad
Mage, this document includes:
✸ Family history and notable historical
members (all from canon)
✸ Full-size images of the family crest and family
seal
✸ State of the current House
✸ Faction relationships
✸ Family rivals
✸ Detailed maps of the estate house, ware-
house, watchspider breeding caves, and
hunting lodge in the Ardeep Forest (29
images)
✸ Watchspider with details, statblock, and
DDB link for ease of use
✸ And more!
Welcome to your House.
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/346889
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Deck of Decks

This section features another of the author’s products, the Deck of Decks,
which is an actual physical deck of 54 cards (standard poker-sized cards,
each with 3 images) that serves a total of five purposes:
✸ First and foremost, it is a standard 54-card deck of PLAYING CARDS
that can be used for any non-D&D card game requiring up to 54 cards.
✸ It is a deck of 5e compatible TAROKKA (TAROT) CARDS that can be
used in an TTRPG game. This is the center image on all 54 cards.
✸ It is a DECK OF MANY THINGS. This includes 22 cards (the two jokers
are shared with the deck of illusions) that can be pulled out into their
own deck for game play. Full deck vs. standard deck and cards with
enmity are also identified. These are cards noted with a red dragon in the
top left corner.
✸ It is a DECK OF ILLUSIONS. This includes 34 cards (including the two
jokers that are shared with the deck of many things) that can be pulled
into their own deck for game play. These are cards noted with an eye
image in the top left corner.
✸ It is a DECK OF COMMONS. This includes 52 cards consisting of a
variety of common magic items that can be used for a variety of purposes
including random loot generation. These are cards with a large bluish
banner in the bottom right corner.

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