All professional thugs belong to their own guild, which is associated with the Thieves' Guild. Thugs keep their true identities completely secret, wearing hoods or disguises when engaged in professional activities. Many own ordinary shops, and can seem to be perfectly ordinary townsfolk. Unlike the Thieves' Guild, the Headsman Guild is not supported by adventurers or rulers. They are sometimes hired by other NPCs, especially evil ones.
Thugs strongly prefer stealth, treachery, and ambush to normal attacks.
Thugs rarely use magical weapons, preferring cheap but effective tools that could easily be left behind. Sometimes thugs may be hired as guards, if assured of high level clerical assistance when injured or slain. They may rarely be found working with bandits or other renegade groups, often unbeknownst to the bandits themselves. Thugs know methods to kill quickly, neatly, and silently. A thug also has the same special abilities as a thief of the same level, with the exception of scroll use at 10th level.