A Royal Court is a busy place…

Thirty criminal and not quite so criminal gangs for your PCs to join, infiltrate or fight.

Perhaps the PCs are in the army now, or are trying to escape from it, or are serving as mercenaries or something of that nature. Here are thirty military units that they might have to face in combat and/or flee from.

7Terrorists (or freedom fighters, if you prefer that term. It depends whose side you are on.)

All knights, whatever order they join, swear to obey the Order’s rules, and most manage to do so, but for those few who fail and are forced out in disgrace, there is only one Order that is prepared to accept these failures and renegades, the Order of the Lost.

Different police forces have different internal police cultures and as most PC's break a lot of laws they are likely to fight law enforcement sooner or later.

With a thrumming of loud Harley engines, seven motorcycle clubs hove into view on the highway...

Once a murder has happened, to go back in time and prevent it might seriously mess with the timeline, and that is where the Time Patrol's Murder Squad comes in. They try not to kill anybody themselves, except in emergency defence of themselves or the timeline, but they are known as the Murder Squad because they are there to make sure the murders of the past happen.

When the Hexanjager Order was formed and brought the evil magic users low, they were loved by the people, but, just like many a group of vigilantes, they went too far and now their rule is just another form of oppression.

Where the rule of law is seen as being absent, weak, or too oppressive to want, and crime of all kinds flourishes, sooner or later people will take the law into their own hands and become vigilantes. Here are seven such gangs.

'If we the poor cannot enjoy our lives, you the rich will have yours taken away.' Police statement taken from a captured cultist, a member of Inanna's Avenging Hands.

Inanna's Silver Tongues are one of the most unpopular of all cults, hated by all other cults and criminal organizations and thought to be somewhat unpleasant even by those in law enforcment who make the most use of them. What they are renowned for, is the art of informing.

The Knights of the Holy Sun are the militant arm of the Jovian Church, dedicated to His Glory, and are well known and admired by many for their bravery in battle.

For a long time the Goblin criminals did not have their own organisation to protect them...until now.

Many knightly orders play lip service to women, but few take it seriously, and even fewer would allow women to join their order and ride in the ranks with them as equals. Yet the Knights of the Lady, it seems, truly do think of women as equals and have done this.

There were rumours spreading around the newspaper office about a "Press Gang" that would protect reporters. But only the owner and editor knew the true purpose of the Gang.

The Ambassador's bodyguard quaked at the sight of the uniformed skeletons guarding the main gates of the royal palace. "Don't be afraid," the Ambassador said. "They are King's Bones, the monarch's personal bodyguards, and are no threat to us unless we were to do something stupid like trying to attack His Majesty."

Most knights at least pretend to be on the side of Good and to defend the weak. Not so those of the Order of Rightous Victory-they are openly on the side of Evil and make no bones about it.At least, that is what they say to outsiders, but the truth is not quite as clear-cut as that.

Ma-O was a major God once, or so it is said,and whilst most of his worshippers ceased to worship him after his fall from grace, a very few remain, and can and do cause trouble out of all proportion to their numbers...

Many are the pirates who sail the storm-tossed seas, but few are more successful or more feared then the Regulators.