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2019-07-20, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Forgotten Realms: Contraband and Smugglers
One of my players has picked a smuggler (criminal background) and I'm wanting to use it. Seems a good way to give the party a reason to travel to a particular town.
So I need ideas on things they could be tasked with smuggling.
Preference for items that the party will be more interested in delivering to the targeted destination than just taking for themselves.
I'll start with an example to get the ball rolling:
Unicorn Ivory: A shady dealer in Neverwinter needs someone to sneak a parcel of unicorn ivory out of town and deliver it to the Arcane Brotherhood in Luskan.
Edit: for clarification; I'm looking for suggestions that would be settings appropriate for the Forgotten Realms. Not wacky hijinx or lol-random encounter fuel (I do that elsewhere ).
This is for the serious side of the setting, for organised crime and understandably restricted trades.Last edited by Zhorn; 2019-07-20 at 10:08 AM.
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2019-07-20, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms: Contraband and Smugglers
Take a look at this thread we did a while back. Should be pretty easily reworked into something usable!
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2019-07-20, 09:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms: Contraband and Smugglers
Halfling feet. They're known to bring the owner good luck.
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2019-07-20, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms: Contraband and Smugglers
Dragon body parts... scales, teeth, claws. If your party is a bit less wholesome, make sure they're metallic dragons.
People. This could be an extraction (i.e. "I need to get out of Baldur's Gate on the Guild will kill me!"), a kidnapping, or it could be discretely moving slaves around.
Religious relics. Not necessarily Relics, but relics... smuggling holy symbols of forbidden gods into a city would be a good place to start.
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2019-07-21, 11:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Forgotten Realms: Contraband and Smugglers
A magical bomb that not only causes massive destruction, but leaves an Anti-Magic Zone in its wake. Blast radius is up to you.
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2019-07-22, 12:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2014
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2019-07-22, 12:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
Re: Forgotten Realms: Contraband and Smugglers
Smuggling very frequently did not transport anything inherently forbidden; one of the most common class of items smuggled is anything that has high taxes laid upon it in the legal trade. Carrying in wine or cloth that has never been subject to the loving inspection of the revenue men could be a possibility.
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2019-07-22, 01:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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