Organized Crime, Gangs, Black Market, and Shady Dealers

Example Gangs:

Emerald Monkeys, The Sewer Pirates, The Bloodfist Tribe, Caravan of Shadows, The Rampant Dragons, Rustenford's guild of insurers, solicitors, & beggars, Sky-High Cloudsailors, The Thundersail Pirates, Flawless Assassins Guild, etc.

Black Market Specialties:

Thieves, cons, spies, mercenaries, assassins, prostitutes, loan sharks, racketeers, piracy, drugs, poison, illegal weapons, slaves, etc.

Drugs

• Gnommish Tobacco
  • Cost: 5 sp
  • Addiction DC: 15*
  • Alleviates the frightened condition after 1 minute of smoking. To smoke, an action is used to spark the tobacco and on subsequent turns a bonus action is used to inhale and exhale.
• Elven Bud
  • Cost: 5 gp
  • Addiction DC: ⁠—
  • Alleviates the charmed condition after 1 minute of smoking. To smoke, an action is used to spark the bud and on subsequent turns another action is used to inhale and exhale.
• Orcish Sugar Rocks
  • Cost: 5 pp
  • Addiction DC: 20**
  • Gain 10 temporary hit points, advantage on strength checks and saves, and +2 damage with melee weapons for 1 minute after 1 minute of smoking. To smoke, an action is used to spark the rocks and on subsequent turns another action is used to inhale and exhale.
• Dwarven Morphine
  • Cost: 50 pp
  • Addiction DC: 25****
  • Gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage for 1 minute. Additionally if you are reduced to 0 hit points within that minute, then you don't fall prone or unconscious until the end of that minute. To dose, an action is used to prepare a syringe and a subsequent action is used to inject the morphine.

Roll a Constitution saving throw per dose taken to avoid addiction. If addicted and unable to dose at least once every 24 hours, roll a Constitution saving throw to avoid gaining 1 level of exhaustion. Addiction is cured after 7 successful non-consecutive Constitution saving throws are collected. If another creature is proficient in the medicine skill, it can offer aid on a saving throw allowing the target to roll with advantage.
*Represents the necessary number of consecutive castings of the remove curse spell that can magically cure the addiction.

Type

Illicit