Random character trinket table

[runequester]

From a character creation PDF I am working on: Random trinkets to begin the game owning. For the story/character fiends, you can come up with why your gnarly barbarian mercenary dude has a flute in his backpack.

1 Necklace (worth D20 gold)
2 Unusual feather
3 Ring (worth D10 gold)
4 Talisman of animal teeth
5 Lucky charm
6 Map fragment
7 Small religious symbol
8 Scented candle
9 Inspirational letter
10 Old hat
11 Tiny pet (mouse, ferret, small bird etc.)
12 Worn boots
13 Engraved helmet
14 Wooden figurine
15 Lucky dice
16 Flute
17 Worn pack of cards
18 Favourite mug
19 Lucky ancient coin (worth 1 gold)
20 Pipe

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Nice work, I like it! Have an exalt.

[Zenopus]

Very nice, runequester. For more variety you might break it down to two rolls:

1st d20 roll: item (flute, pipe, helmet, etc)
2nd d20 roll: adjective (old, lucky, tiny, favorite, etc)

This will generate 400 different combinations.

[Mushgnome]

Feb 20, 2013 11:47:46 GMT -6 Zenopus said:

Very nice, runequester. For more variety you might break it down to two rolls:

1st d20 roll: item (flute, pipe, helmet, etc)
2nd d20 roll: adjective (old, lucky, tiny, favorite, etc)

This will generate 400 different combinations.

Some of the "roguelike" computer games I play (like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup) use this procedural method to generate artifacts. You end up with fun stuff like "a slimy halberd" or "a distressingly furry robe."

[runequester]

Im going to try and expand it into a D100 table.

I have a second one that has "unusual but beneficial" items, I'll post that one later

[blackbarn]

We already use a table like this, titled "Traits & Tokens" where you roll 1d100 to get misc . items like you get here, but on certain results you instead roll on the traits table to determine facts about your character's background, etc. It's very popular. Not sure where I got the table though...