Ultimate NPCs: Skulduggery is a 5E D&D sourcebook of ready-to-use rogues, thieves, assassins, and mercenaries for your tabletop campaigns, compatible with the 2014 and 2024 rules. This is the instant-download digital edition.
Step into the Tavern
The rooms are warm (ish), and the rates are low (almost suspiciously so). Just don't ask what's in the pies, and don't expect to have all your valuables come morning.
Inside you will find 30 finely crafted NPCs, each statted out at levels 1, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20, producing 180 unique characters. Occupying the seedy tap-houses and criminal underbelly of civilization, every one comes with a backstory, personality traits, and roleplaying cues.
How the Book Is Organized
The characters are divided into three sections by alignment, ten good, ten neutral, and ten evil, and each section opens with the guilds and factions those characters belong to. That gives you the thieves' guild or crime family behind the person, so a single NPC can pull an entire organization into your campaign.
Because every character is statted at six points across their career, the same person can recur as your party levels. The pickpocket they caught at level one can resurface as a crime lord at level sixteen, without you rebuilding anything. Unique magic items and spells appear throughout.
Why the PDF
Jump straight to the stat block you need at the level you need it, keep all 180 versions on a laptop or tablet behind the screen, and copy statistics into a virtual tabletop without retyping. So pull up a stool, try the ale, and meet the regulars.
