Table 1-34: Nature of Assistance Being Rendered (d20)

For use with Table 1-11: Master Table of Villainous Plans

These tables are best applied to a mastermind villain, although the party might run into the minions or the other organization first. Discovering a mastermind who has been secretly assisting a just-defeated evil group is a good way to create a follow-on adventure.

d20 Nature of Assistance

1

Acts as agent for the group when his help is requested (his identity is known to the higher echelons of the group).

2

Arrests or sues the group’s enemies

3

Assassinates the group’s enemies

4

Brings victims or prisoners at the request of the top echelons of the group, who know villain’s identity

5

Brings victims or prisoners, anonymously

6

Brings victims or prisoners; the top echelons of the group know the villain’s identity, but there is no interaction other than the villain’s gifts

7

Provides advice

8

Provides healing and/or alchemical potions when needed

9

Provides hideouts and secret identities for members of the group

10

Provides information from the villain’s spy network (advance warning if the group’s headquarters are about to be raided, for example, or maps into their targeted locations)

11

Provides legal assistance (pardons or favorable verdicts) from a position of power, or pays bribes if not in a position of power

12

Provides magical assistance such as charm spells when needed for the group’s plans

13

Provides money (secret benefactor)

14

Provides money: top echelons of the group know the villain’s identity and ask for money or loans when necessary

15

Provides monsters as allies when violence breaks out

16

Provides weapons and armor

17

Seeks recruits for the group using his own channels of power

18

Speaks on behalf of the evil group

19

Villain acts as agent for the group, but wears mask when meeting with them or acts through intermediaries – the group does not know the identity of the agent. An example would be acting as a fence or a negotiator.

20

Villain supports the group with propaganda and rumors, but members of the group do not know who he is