Urban Dressing: Guildhalls by Brian Liberge is a role playing game supplement published by Raging Swan Press for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.
The supplement is available as a 10-page PDF from DriveThruRPG for $2.45 but was purchased at a reduced price as part of a special bundle. Two pages are the front and rear covers, four the front matter, Contents and Foreword and one is the Open Game License. The PDF comes in two versions, one designed for print and high-end devices, the other for mobile and low-end devices.
The supplement is intended to create guildhalls and has a number of options.
A: Types of Guilds is a d100 table with 16 results. The results are skewed towards more likely guilds; there will be far more craft guilds than assassins’ guilds for example. Each result has a brief description of the guild, or guild type; craft guilds will need the craft defining.
B: Guildhalls has a d10 (though called d20) table of guildhall quality. There are then three d20 tables for overall description of the quality, of three different levels. Next is a d6 table (again called d20) of amenities.
C: Initiation, Motivations and Rumours starts with some brief paragraphs on joining and benefits. There is then a d20 table (called d10) of initiation rites, a d20 table of guild motivations and a d20 table of guild rumours.
D: NPCs has a list of ten NPCs to encounter in the guildhall. Each is given a name, alignment, class and level, appearance, personality, mannerisms and hooks.
Urban Dressing: Guildhalls in Review
The PDF is bookmarked with major and minor sections linked. The Contents is less thorough but is hyperlinked. Navigation is good. The text maintains a two-column format and some minor errors were noticed, such as the mislabelled tables. There are a number of pieces of black and white stock art, up to full page in size. Presentation is decent.
This supplement just feels a bit lacking. The Amenities table in particular seems rather short, with only six entries, and these entries are rather bland as they are intended to work for every type of guild. Some guilds would definitely have interesting locations that are not described here. Urban Dressing: Guildhalls has some good elements, but overall could be better, and it can be found by clicking here.
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