Rather than being a pure dungeon crawl or wilderness adventure like the earlier B-series of modules, The Veiled Society is set in the Specularum, the capitol of the Grand Duchy of Karameikos, and involves the party in a struggle between the city's three major families (the Vorloi, Radu, and Torenescu). The plot is fairly linear, and the book comes with "paper sculptures" of houses and cardboard figures.