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How would you go about creating guilds for the game?

I'm guessing that you mean guilds as in "Adventurers' Guild," "Thieves' Guild," and the like, rather than the more pedestrian "Weavers' Guild," or "Vintners' Guild." Although honestly the principle is the same.

Guilds are just organizations, and with any organization you should start by deciding why it exists. Then decide what sort of people would want to join, and what sort of people the organization will allow to join.
How do you apply? Do you have to find the right contact in a dark alley somewhere and arrange a secret meeting? Do you just walk in and say, "Hey, I'm interested?" Must you climb the Mountains of Sky's Vengeance to reach their hidden monastery?
What do you have to do to join? Sign a contract, pay some fees, and agree to give 10% of your gains on all adventuring contracts? Endure a rigorous probationary period of meditation and physical injury? Kill a government official? Be born into it?

Once you're in, what do you have to do to stay in? Loyalty, dues, regular attendance, and promises for aid are all common enough requirements.

Finally, what do you get out of joining? Assassination contracts? Free room and board in all shrines of Ergard? Invitations to royal parties? Your very own pegasus?

And that should about cover most organizations, if you just elaborate on those points. Hope that helps.

Actually that helps a lot! Thanks for the quick reply too.

I was lazy. I bought the Guild pdf's published by ENWorld. Plus I have bought other "Guild" books that I can remember the titles of right now.

The 2e Complete Thief's Handbook had a means to generate random thieves' guilds. To that, I would add the Palladium Ninjas and Superspies and Rifts Mercenaries for the more detailed "point buy" method, for other types of guilds.

dualj wrote:
How would you go about creating guilds for the game?

If you're playing in Aihrde (Erde), the Codex has several pages on guilds and orders that you can use or get ideas from.

Also, for thieves and the underworld, The Canting Crew from Gary Gygax is top notch!

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Thanks for the sources. I actually did at one point own the thiefs kit guide for 2nd ed. I just dont know what happneed to all the 2nd ed books I own. The only one I can find is the monster's manual.

Anyway, I am currently working on a thieves, assassin, and fighter's guilds.