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.
A tool for Games Masters and Players alike, Ultimate NPCs: Skullduggery is a collection of fully fleshed-out characters to populate your game world. Occupying the seedy tap-houses and criminal underbelly of civilization, you’ll find a variety of thieves, assassins and mercenaries within, each with the backstory and statistics necessary to run as an NPC or player character.
So pull up a stool, try the ale (don’t mind the lumps), and meet the regulars…