Guildhall Job Complications

Need a guild job that creates pressure before anyone reaches the dungeon?

Use this table when the party visits a guildhall, faction office, or trade house and you want the job offer to bite back. Each result adds suspicion, leverage, trouble, or a strange reason to investigate.

Guildhall Job Complications Table

d12	Result
1	A soot-stained mason offers urgent work, then denies knowing the sealed plans.
2	The clerk announces your names, although nobody here should recognize you.
3	Rival apprentices steal the contract, dropping keys to a forbidden archive.
4	A guildmaster pays in gemstones stamped with tomorrow’s royal execution date.
5	The job board bleeds ink around one posting marked already completed.
6	An old porter asks protection from coworkers wearing his dead face.
7	The roofers barricade upstairs, demanding their stolen thunder back.
8	A polite inspector fines the party for crimes listed in advance.
9	The guild seal burns anyone who signs without reading the margins.
10	A courier arrives twice, each carrying different instructions from the same patron.
11	The basement forge starts printing badges for a guild not founded yet.
12	Your employer vanishes mid-handshake, leaving payment and a desperate apology.