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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 2830572" data-attributes="member: 515">I ran an urban campaign back in 2E along the same lines using the Complete Ninja Handbook. All of the PCs were members of a ninja clan aligned with a successful merchant clan. The PCs engaged in lots of spying/assassinations/sabotage/arson/theft against rival merchant clans. It was a lot of fun.Look at the Nightsong Infiltrator and Nightsong Enforcer prestige classes in Complete Adventurer. There also is some information in that book on thieves guilds and related organizations. You should find some ideas there you can use. Shadowdancer prestige class also makes a good character for this sort of campaign.One idea for a recurring foil: create a highly skilled catburglar-type thief who, at least starting out, is of a higher level than the PCs, with better developed skills, who appears from time to time to thwart the PCs' goals by stealing items they want first, or showing up at a location where they are trying to pull a job but the catburglar is trying to pull another job, or have the catburglar lead pursuing guards straight into the PCs during a job as a diversion so the catburglar can escape. Keep this going, off and on, throughout the campaign. The PCs will grow to hate the catburglar, and maybe even try to track him or her down. Then have a situation arise so the catburglar and the PCs are forced to work together.</blockquote>