# The V.A.L.U.E. of Skullport

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**Created:** [April 9, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.rpgvienna.com/t/the-v-a-l-u-e-of-skullport/5656 "2023-04-09T15:36:51Z")\
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# 💀 Homebrew Story Awards for Downtime Days:

## “Ear to the Ground”

> spend this Award to learn 3 rumours about topics important in the upcoming game session   
> 1 will be true, 1 will be mostly true, 1 will be partly true   
> doing this multiple times before the same game session will reveal the same three rumours   
> **cost:** 2 Downtime Days and 50gp

## “Forbidden Knowledge”

> learn a dangerous secret about something in the setting (but not nec. about the next plot)   
> **cost:** 10 Downtime Days and 250gp

## “Good Thing I Brought This Along Just in Case”

> spend this Award to get any one item from the Adventuring Gear list in the PHB (p150) till the end of the game session   
> **cost:** 1 Downtime Day and 100gp

## “I Have Trained for Exactly This”

> you can spend this Award at anytime in this campaign to get a “20” on a d20 on an ability check you would have rolled with proficiency   
> you must spend this Award before rolling - you cannot use it for a check after rolling   
> **cost:** 10 Downtime Days

## “It Was a Fake the Whole Time”

> spend this Award to have a duplicate of any magical or nonmagical item featured in the adventure, including any necessary casting of _Nystul’s magic aura_ to sell the ruse. Duplicates of magic items have no real magical power. You decide who currently has the fake, even if it doesn’t logically make sense.   
> **note:** should the task of an adventure be to aquire a specific item, you cannot use this Award for that specific item (but for any other item in that adventure)   
> **cost:** 10 Downtime Days and 500gp

## “Wait! I Have Talked to This Guard Before”

> spend this Award to start a backflash scene how you met and interacted with a guard 10 days earlier   
> all ability checks in the backflash scene will have advantage   
> **note:** only works on living guards (so neither contructs nor undead)   
> **cost:** 10 Downtime Days (plus maybe gold if you spend it during the “flash-back scene”)

## “You Really Had Me Going There”

> spend this Award to start a backflash scene how you secretly have tried to struck a deal with an antagonist 10 days earlier.   
> **cost:** 20 Downtime Days (plus maybe gold if you spend it during the backflash scene)

## “Working the Ranks”

> you gain a mission from a **Faction**   
> depending on your degree of success, your Reputation for that **Faction** will rise by 1 or 2   
> **prerequisite:** Faction Reputation 1+   
> **cost:** 10 Downtime Days

## “Training Montage”

> gain proficiency in one of the tools (or Languages) from your Faction   
> **prerequisite:** Faction Reputation 3+   
> **cost:** 10 Downtime Days and 200gp

## “Dirty Fighting”

> You gain the [**Martial Adept**](http://dnd5ed.wikidot.com/feat:martial-adept) Feat as a Homebrew Story Award.   
> **note:** should you have levels in the _Battle Master_ subclass, the superiority die gained from this Homebrew Story Award will still stay a d6.   
> **cost:** 15 Downtime Days and 500gp

## “Undercommon by Exposure”

> You pick up the local slang and learn _Undercommon_   
> **note:** people from **Skullport** can immediately spot your “upperworldy” accent.   
> **prerequisite:** being able to speak _Common_   
> **cost:** 10 Downtime Days

## “Shopping in Skullport”

> You use extra time to track down goods from various Underdark merchants.   
> **prerequisite:** being able to speak _Undercommon_   
> **cost:** 1 Downtime Day per shop visited

> **Dead Man's Corner (Spellbook/Zombies)**
>
> ![Olivia_Stillwater](https://www.rpgvienna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bf32ea53118fa04b9dd8bff6d019c9ef8b520c68.jpeg)
> 
> > This ramshackle and crammed shop is run by _Olivia Stillwater_.
> 
> > She lets you copy some spells for “free”: t.m. you do **not** have to pay an _ **additional** _ cost to the [cost to copy these spells](https://www.rpgvienna.com/t/the-v-a-l-u-e-rules/4829/1), but you have to swear an oath to _Olivia Stillwater_, that you will always memorize spells learned this way (in case a fire breaks out).
> > 
> > 📚 **Skullport firebrigarde spells:**
> > 
> > 1. _gust of wind (Evoc.), warding wind (Evoc.)_
> > 2. _sleet storm (Conj.), tidal wave (Conj.)_
> > 3. _watery sphere (Conj.)_
> 
> > 🧟 **Zombies:**
> > 
> > - you can buy 🧟 “zombies on a leash” for 50gp a piece here

> **Feathered Rat (Mounts/Familiars)**
>
> ![Ulvira_Snowveins](https://www.rpgvienna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/a/ab14f07b97791097f6c0de431871b0c71f6ed623.jpeg)
> 
> > A petshop run by the half-elf _Ulvira Snowveins_.
> 
> > She sells the following mounts:
> > 
> > - 🦬 _ **deep rothé** _ pack beast for 50gp
> > - 🦎 _ **giant riding lizard** _ for 100gp
> > - 🦡 trained _ **cave badger** _ for 500gp
> 
> > also, for a fee, she can teach someone to increase their list of summoned _familiars_
> > 
> > - add 🍄 [_ **campestri** _](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Campestri) to your list of conjurable _familiars_ for 50gp
> > - add 🐀 🧠 [_ **cranium rat** _](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Cranium_rat) to your list of conjurable _familiars_ for 50gp
> > - add 🐈 🪶 [_ **tressym** _](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tressym) to your list of conjurable _familiars_ for 100gp
> 
> > should you have a 🐉 [_ **pseudodragon** _](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Pseudodragon) familiar via your Pact of the Chain warlock feature, she can show you how to strengthen your bond:
> > 
> > - learn to share your familiar’s _ **Magic Resistance** _ trait as long as your 🐉 [_ **pseudodragon** _](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Pseudodragon) is within 10 feet of you, for 1500gp

> **House Auvryndar (Poisons)**
>
> ![Auvryndar2](https://www.rpgvienna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/73c133272572a8451adb8a3389415fb9117d882c.jpeg)
> 
> > This drow house sells various poisons. _Malice Auvryndar_, who hangs around the _Bat’s Roost_ fighting pit, handles most of the “merchandise”.
> 
> > - (200gp) [Drow poison](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/poisons:drow-poison) [injury]
> > - (400gp) [oil of Taggit](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/poisons:oil-of-taggit) [contact]
> > - (600gp) [torpor](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/poisons:torpor) [ingested]

> **Nightshade's Caress (Potions)**
>
> ![Nightshade (3)](https://www.rpgvienna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ea4bbdb47f0ce2b43875d69b2742bc0c3982e9f7.jpeg)
> 
> > An apothecary shop run by the mummy known as _Nightshade_.   
> > She sells the following potions:
> 
> > - (50gp) [potion of climbing](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:potion-of-climbing)
> > - (50gp) **potion of embalming fluid** (as [potion of healing](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:potion-of-healing) but works on undead instead)
> > - (250gp) [potion of greater healing](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:potion-of-healing) (4d4+4 HP)
> > - (250gp) [potion of fire resistance](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:potion-of-resistance)
> > - (250gp) [potion of water breathing](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:potion-of-water-breathing)
> > - (1250gp) [potion of invisibility](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:potion-of-invisibility)

> **Poisoned Quill (Spellbook/Scrolls/Teleportation-Circle)**
>
> ![Tasselgryn_Velldarn](https://www.rpgvienna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a63c179dd7b806831f3ae7bd273c127e2c4738e7.jpeg)
> 
> > A mage shop run by the eccentric _Tasselgryn Velldarn_.
> 
> > 📚 **Poisoned Quill spells:**
> > 
> > You can pay her to copy spells from her spellbook.   
> > Prices are in _ **addition** _ to the [cost to copy these spells](https://www.rpgvienna.com/t/the-v-a-l-u-e-rules/4829/1).
> > 
> > 1. [**25gp**] _absorb elements (Abj.), comprehend languages (Divin.), detect magic (Divin.), identify (Divin.), illusory script (Illu.), mage armor (Abj.), ray of sickness (Necro.), shield (Abj.)_
> > 
> > 2. [**75gp**] _augury (Divin.), continual flame (Evoc.), gentle repose (Necro.), invisibility (Illu.), knock (Trans.), spider climb (Trans.)_
> > 
> > 3. [**150gp**] _counterspell (Abj.), dispel magic (Abj.), feign death (Necro), fly (Trans.), stinking cloud (Conj), water breathing (Trans.)_
> > 
> > 4. [**300gp**] _arcane eye (Divin.), dimension door (Conj), greater invisibility (Illu.), locate creature (Divin.), Mordenkainen’s private sanctum (Abj.), polymorph (Trans.)_
> > 
> > 5. [**750gp**] _cloudkill (Conj.), modify memory (Ench.), passwall (Trans.), Rary’s telepathic bond (Divin.), seeming (Illu.), teleportation circle (Conj.)_
> > 
> > 6. [**1800gp**] _guards and wards (Abj.), move earth (Trans.), programmed illusion (Illu.)_
> 
> > 📜 **Poisoned Quill scrolls:**
> > 
> > - _ **spell scroll** _ of _comprehend languages_ for 50gp
> > - _ **spell scroll** _ of _detect magic_ for 50gp
> > - _ **spell scroll** _ of _ray of sickness_ [attack +5; DC 13]) for 50gp
> 
> > 🛞 **Teleportation Circle**
> > 
> > - you can persuade her to use her _teleportation circle_ for a fee of 50gp per person

> **Sword & Sextant (Maps)**
>
> ![Sword_Sextand](https://www.rpgvienna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c388874d13a90d2938ad864d96d4afc929a6db02.jpeg)
> 
> > A map shop being run by a pair of halfling brothers _Oleander_ and _Will_.
> 
> > - crude map of **Skullport** for 50gp
> > - buy lots of maps of **Skullport** widely varied in age and quality for 500gp

> **Old Xoblob Shop (Trinkets)**
>
> ![Xoblob2](https://www.rpgvienna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/eca2c95aad48b068d527fc458c56a6b110c0436b.jpeg)
> 
> > This curiousity shop is run by the gnome _Xoblob_. It is famous for the stuffed _beholder_ that hangs above its front window.
> 
> > 💜 **Couriosities for sale:**
> > 
> > - a potion that permanently turns a magic item purple, for 10gp (max. 3)
> > - gain a random _trinket_ for 5gp (max. 3)

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_please keep in mind, that these Homebrew Story Awards only work at my table_

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