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Trinkets, Worthless, 11: These trinket are garbage plain and simple. They would be termed vendor trash or junk loot in video games. They aren’t touched by stray magic or mystery as with regular trinkets, aren’t made from valuable materials and aren’t particularly useful even if they aren’t damaged.

A cookie tin. Upon opening it, you discover that it’s full of sewing supplies.

A mildew ridden purse containing 15 copper pieces that have been battered, bent, chewed or otherwise mutilated.

A single, partially soiled piece of parchment with indiscreet scrawlings upon it.

A scrap of leather on which was penned a sonnet composed by a lacklustre poet.

A single note that says “I.O.U.” The handwriting is very sloppy.

A small wooden box that when first opened, is surprisingly full of spiders.

A wiry and crusty collection of what appears to be dried plant matter braided into many strands to simulate hair. It is perhaps the worst wig you’ve ever seen.

A tin ear with a hole through the middle. The back has three serrated pins, slightly wobbly, presumably meant to have connected it to a host's skull.

A perfectly rectangular orange.

A shortbow that was meant to ignite the arrows it fires. Unfortunately, the enchantment is so strong that it instantly disintegrates any arrow that is knocked and is completely unusable as a weapon.

—Click Here to be directed to the Hotlinks To All Tables post, which provides (As you might have guessed) convenient links to all of the loot and resource tables this blog has.

—Keep reading for 90 more trinkets.

—Note: The previous 10 items are repeated for easier rolling on a d100.

A cookie tin. Upon opening it, you discover that it’s full of sewing supplies.

A mildew ridden purse containing 15 copper pieces that have been battered, bent, chewed or otherwise mutilated.

A single, partially soiled piece of parchment with indiscreet scrawlings upon it.

A scrap of leather on which was penned a sonnet composed by a lacklustre poet.

A single note that says “I.O.U.” The handwriting is very sloppy.

A small wooden box that when first opened, is surprisingly full of spiders.

A wiry and crusty collection of what appears to be dried plant matter braided into many strands to simulate hair. It is perhaps the worst wig you’ve ever seen.

A tin ear with a hole through the middle. The back has three serrated pins, slightly wobbly, presumably meant to have connected it to a host's skull.

A perfectly rectangular orange.

A shortbow that was meant to ignite the arrows it fires. Unfortunately, the enchantment is so strong that it instantly disintegrates any arrow that is knocked and is completely unusable as a weapon.

A standard hinge and spring mousetrap with a desiccated mouse still caught inside.

A copper piece that has been bitten in half.

A fist size clump of hairy scalp wrapped in barbed wire dangling on a length of scarlet linen.

A waterskin half-filled with stale, brackish water.

A large side of spoiled meat wrapped in torn animal hide.

An opened stone bottle of strong, harsh alcohol.

A crudely fashioned hunting trap. It is made of gnarled wood and jagged iron hooks. It is too damaged to function properly but could be repaired and used to trap beasts, such as boar or deer.

A broken hazel wood staff scorched by flame.

A tiny boat crafted from a mouse's skull.

An aged cloth map detailed in a long dead language.

A cracked square mirror that reflects everything under a strange fuzzy layer. Creatures shown in the mirror seem to twitch or gain unnatural aspects.

A deer hide half way through the process of being tanned.

A set of damaged leather armor halfway through being mended.

A blanket made out of rat skins sewn together.

A wooden contraption that has drying plants pressed between two planks.

A half-eaten rat wrapped in a scrap of dirty, gore stained cloth.

A tightly strung lyre with residue on the strings that makes it look as if it has been used to cut cheese. The instrument is wildly out of tune. Along with the instrument the PC finds a brick of strong smelling cheese and a half eaten jar of olives.

A sprung mousetrap with no cheese and no mouse.

A bag of hard butterscotch candies, melted together by humidity and time.

A crusty used handkerchief. No monogram.

A few scraps of fine fabric, too small to make anything with.

A pair of eyeglasses, badly scratched.

A ticket stub to a play that was popular years and years ago but fell quickly out of fashion after the playwright was accused of plagiarism.

A ball of several feet of bundled up yarn, so badly knotted it might take hours to untangle the mess.

An earthenware jar containing a few common seashells.

A rock with eyes and a mouth painted on with the unskilled hand of a small child.

A small wooden box of stale tobacco leaf.

A rusty steel and smoked glass syringe.

A portrait of a plain, unremarkable woman. It looks old enough that the lady is likely long dead.

A small container labelled ‘Dr. Brown’s World Renown Elbow Grease’. It is nearly empty and smells foul.

A to-do list written in Infernal.

A dull letter opener, the handle has a griffon at the end with an illegible inscription, worn smooth with time.

A tankard with the handle broken off; the bottom also looks to be dented, as if dashed against something heavy.

A specimen jar of hardened gelatinous cube gel, so dry that it’s become powdery and useless.

A ratty leather wallet containing a thick wad of paper currency belonging to a now defunct nation, rendering them worthless.

A broken and rusted dagger with a brass hilt in the shape of an octopus.

A defaced stone bust of a fallen ruler.

A rude cartoon of the adventuring party, all of them mercilessly caricatured.

A small, crude, clay pot that looks like it was made by an apprentice potter on their very first day.

An old pair of wool socks that have multiple patches sewn into their frayed and fragile hems.

A common copper piece, both sides depicting a fat-jowled merchant. One face smiles cajolingly and the other sneers scornfully.

A heavy, black leather sack with a brown leather thong threaded through a series of small slits near its opening to serve as a drawstring. It contains a carefully wound ball of waxed twine, a three‐barb steel fishing hook with its points embedded in tiny cylinders of cork, and the remains of a broken lantern.

A matched pair of eyeball sized, square‐cut, dark green stones with bright red flecks. They appear opaque at first, but admit a faint glow through the edges when held to the light. Knowledgeable PC’s can identify the minerals as bloodstone.

A worn, weathered woollen belt pouch, originally dyed grey‐blue, holds bent copper coins in its roomy main compartment and a soiled handkerchief in each of two small exterior pockets. A belt, torn raggedly with the buckle‐end missing, is still threaded through the pouch's loops.

A clay jar filled with “Stinking Orc’s Foot” cheese.

An old and rusty axe head.

A child-sized short bow with a broken string.

The broken tip off a dwarf-crafted spear.

A terribly preserved sheep’s bladder which can be used as a container in an emergency.

A battered leather case containing a well-worn deck of cards, most of which are stained with wine.

A petrified cocoon of an unknown insect.

A single, partially soiled piece of parchment with indiscrete scrawlings upon it.

A glass jar large enough to hold a live chicken that instead contains only a greenish pickling solution and two dozen hard boiled eggs of indeterminate species.

A collection of leather scraps fashioned together into a vaguely humanoid doll.

A cloudy, dirty mirror that one can barely see their own reflection in it

A crudely stitched scarf made from ferret pelts.

A half-finished spell scroll stained with long-dried blood.

A mummified toad which, when squeezed, emits a large puff of foul-smelling black smoke from its mouth.

A cracked glass eye with some questionable stains on it.

A scrap of paper or parchment with an unintelligible note scribbled on it.

A dog sized carcass of an unknown beast that has been recently mutilated by something.

A roughly sewn doll of a cat with button eyes.

A fragment of slate with a fossilized fern.

A crude arrowhead fashioned from quartzite.

A set of colorful ceramic beads on a length of twine.

A petrified corpse of a minnow, hooked on a length of wire.

A small box, encrusted with dead barnacles and severely water damaged.

The scorched remains of a once-beautiful bouquet of flowers.

An old shortsword, long since dulled. A chalky black substance coats it, in place of rust.

A rusty cutlass with half the blade snapped off.

A piece of wood that sinks like a stone.

A twisted handle from a broken dagger. It has black stains.

A stringless lute with puncture marks.

A jar of mismatched cooking utensils. One has bloodstains.

A rusted iron torch bracelet.

A piece of sun-bleached driftwood.

An old and rusty axe head.

A small pouch full of burnt up expended spell components.

A set of four bone dice, so worn that one can barely make out the symbols.

A desiccated squirrel

A small cart of humble design, composed of old wood and rusted nails that struggle to hold the vessel together. The two wheels in the back are misshapen, and the mounting bars at the front are scuffed and worn from repeated use. A second look reveals numerous patches and fixes implemented by an experienced workman in the past.

An old half eaten book with a title on the spine that read “Biology of the common book worm and its dietar...” (The rest is missing).

A large mason jar of pickled monstrosity viscera.

A rusted pot filled with mummified deer hooves and pieces of antler.

A flour-sack dolly with yellow yarn hair. It’s missing one of its button eyes.

A thin wooden case, containing several broken pieces of charcoal, chalk, and a ruler.

A stained piece of parchment with a handwritten recipe for macarons.

A wide-toothed comb made of carved bone. One of the teeth is chipped.

A handmade plush elephant, made of mismatched scraps of blue fabrics. Its eyes are two black buttons, with stitched-on eyebrows set in a perpetually sad expression.

An old leather bridle harness and reins, cracked and worn but for the mirror-polished brass hardware, which always feels sun-hot to touch. The reins are creased and dyed brown with old blood in places, stained green with grass in others.

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Ludon, the Goblin Cleric and Ghost Hunter! Drawn for Omega Thrall, who is running a home game of Curse of Strahd for their kiddos! Thanks for the support, as always! 🖤✨

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Ditching D&D Beyond or never got it in the first place? Here's some free/pwyw resources.

Dicecloud. This online app allows you to make and track character sheets for free! It does a lot of the calculations for you, just like dnd beyond would. Best overall replacement. (Thank you, @chryslerisdead)

PWYW Class Character Sheets by Emmet Byrne. These character sheets in my opinion, are easier to fill out and harder to mess up, with class-specific features built-in. You can easily edit them digitally, and there's even multiclass/homebrew options. Slap em on Google drive or something, share with your DM, lots of options.

Point-Buy Calculator. Easily automates character stat creation if you're using the Point-Buy system.

5e Level Up Tool. Select your class, select your level, get a digestible checklist of everything you need to do to level up. This one is SO GOOD and so slept on.

5e Spellbook. A quick way to reference your spells and build a Spellbook with a ton of filters.

Encounter Calculator. I know challenge rating isn't everything, but this is a good/fast way to see how balanced your encounters are, at a glance, at least in the eyes of the source books.

RPGbot. Lots of resources for DMs and players: encounter builders, dpr calculators, and lists of player options with sample builds and optimization suggestions, which may be helpful to folks new to the game.

Bonus: Online Tools (System Agnostic)

Here.fm. This is the alternative I use instead of roll20, because it's faster/easier. Drag and drop in maps and tokens in seconds, built-in library of stickers you can use for effects, draw right on the virtual tabletop, use temporary drawings to map out moves, built-in dice rollers, and options for proximity chat. I use it in combination with discord (just have players join your here room muted), but it could be used entirely on it's own, I imagine. Not built for ttrpgs, but works incredibly well for them.

Kenku.fm. A PWYW mini browser focused on mixing and sharing music to your dnd games through whatever app you use, with helpful discord support. This app also LEGALLY bypasses the issue that got all the YouTube discord bots shut down, so you can share YouTube audio worry-free.

Additional Resources (Aka, stuff I found out about after I originally posted this):

flapkan. Holy shit, this might be the BEST character sheet option on this list! Form-fillable pdfs with fully automated built-in prompts to auto fill features and spells, built-in Point-Buy and other automated calculations, and it generates a lot for you. Can be used digitally or you can print!

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Attack-In-The-Box
Weapon (flail), uncommon ___

A colorful box sits at the top of this weapon’s wooden handle. Within the box is a coiled spring beneath the flail’s spiked head. The head springs out from the box the first time you make an attack with it, granting you advantage on the attack roll and creating a random effect. Roll a d6 and refer to the table below to determine the effect. You can use an action to stuff the head back into the box, or use a bonus action to cause the head to harmlessly spring from it.

| d6 | Effect |
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| 1 | The target is covered with magical confetti and can’t benefit from being invisible for 1 minute. On a hit, the target’s face is also covered with the confetti, causing any attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn to be made with disadvantage. The confetti vanishes after 1 round.|
| 2 | The head is replaced with a comical boxing glove. On a hit, the target takes the weapon’s damage and is pushed 10 feet away from you. The head then returns to normal.|
| 3 | The box erupts with a chorus of music. You gain a d6. You can choose to roll the die and add the result to any ability check or attack roll you make in the next minute. When you do, the die is lost.|
| 4 | On a hit, the target must also succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be affected by the *hideous laughter* spell. This version of the spell ends at the start of your next turn or when the creature takes any damage.|
| 5 | A second flail head springs from the box after the first. You can use a bonus action immediately after the attack to make one additional attack with the flail against the same target. On a hit, you don’t add your Strength modifier to the damage roll. The head then returns to normal.|
| 6 | The flail’s head is comically large. On a hit, the target takes an extra 6 bludgeoning damage. The head then returns to normal.| ___

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Custom D% tables (a tutorial)

I’d originally typed this out a while ago, but figured I’d clean it up a bit and repost.

Hey fellow DM’s,

 Do you need custom d% tables for your game? Would you like know an easy way to make them? I’ve got you. I’m using excel here, but you can use a piece of paper and a calculator, this is really easy, I promise.

 Let’s say you have 8 options for whatever roll it is… Colored rocks, for example. Ok, so divide 100 by 8 and you have a 12.5% chance of any of those options happening.

What’s that? You don’t want every option to have an equal chance of happening? Well, that’s easy too. Take your list of all 8 things and put a 12 next to each of them. Note this will leave a remainder of 4 (note the total above is 96), but we’ll come back to that.

 Now… which of those 8 things are the most common and which are rarer. Add or Subtract 2 or 3 from each respectively. (And be sure to track the “remainders” as you increase and decrease it) … when you’re happy with the spread, make sure those numbers add up to 100. (In excel you can use the =SUM function).

Things to consider for the frequency of the “things” on your list:

 - Proximity should increase frequency. If thing #1 is very far away and thing #2 is very close, you should take the 2 or 3 points away from thing #1 and add them to thing #2 - because the closer thing should be more frequent.

 - Resources, Motivation, hell - even chance could play a part in the frequency of your thing, but you’ll have to decide what else plays into it based on your own needs per chart.

Now, once the points are set and the numbers total 100, you’re ready to start laying in the ranges for the rolls using those numbers. (* Special note - if you’re using excel you’ll want to format those cells for text - otherwise it’ll stubbornly reformat it to a date every damn time.)

Your first option will be 1- whatever range you had (18 in this example). So you have Red rocks with a range as 1-18. Then you take the second options range (in this case 9) and add it to the previous total  (18+9=27) So Orange rocks have a range of 19-27. Keep following that until you’ve got all your ranges down and boom… your table is done.

More or less things? Still no problem. Divide 100 by X, and follow the same steps. Easy. You’ve got this!

Happy gaming fellow Humans! Feel free to ask questions if you need help with any DM stuff. I fucking love talking about D&D

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📚 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙧 | 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙩 📜

A bespectacled human with a well-organized library on wheels. The merchant deals in rare tomes, spell scrolls, and ancient maps. He is a wealth of knowledge and can provide valuable information about the world.

1. The Alchemist's Handbook

2. Folktales from the Western Mountains

3. Map of the Underdark

4. Spell Scroll of Fireball

5. Tome of Ancient Spells

6. Essays on Planar Travel

7. Book of the Dead

8. Chronicle of Ashardalon

9. Grimoire of Elemental Magic

10. Codex of Infinite Worlds

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Behold!

My latest pixel art creation, a menacing Mind Flayer straight from the depths of the Underdark. 🧠🦑

Excited to share that this design will soon be available on my Redbubble store as a print, t-shirt, mug, and more! Stay tuned for updates.

Which design do you prefer? With a book on the belt or without?

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you can always steal from wizards of the coast. it's always morally correct.

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shawl of shade 🏹

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𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙘 𝙄𝙩𝙚𝙢 | 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥

𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘙𝘢𝘳𝘦

This sleek black wand is made of a smooth, polished material that seems to absorb all light that touches it. When held, it hums with a barely-audible energy. The wand has 10 charges and regains 1d6+4 expended charges daily at dawn.

As an action, the wielder of the wand can expend 1 charge to instantly teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space they can see that is in dim light or darkness. This ability can be used a number of times per day equal to the wielder's proficiency bonus.

In addition, while holding the wand, the wielder gains the ability to see in darkness as if it were dim light, and they have advantage on Stealth checks made while in dim light or darkness.

The Wand of Shadowstep is highly sought after by rogues and other sneaky adventurers who rely on their ability to move undetected. However, its ability to teleport in and out of darkness also makes it a useful tool for those who need to make a quick escape or strategic repositioning in battle.

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No name yet. Thoughts? Cobalt ink, pale blue resin, pink foil, inked rose gold.

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Two of my players have a collaborative backstory: one is a refurbished Warforged with amnesia, and the other is a young artificer prodigy who found her and fixed her up. 🔧🤖

Because the party doesn't really have a healer, the artificer's player had the idea to use Shocking Grasp to be able to revive the Warforged to 1 HP. ⚡️👈

Is this mechanic kinda broken? Yes.

Is it super cool and fun? Of course!

Don't forget to let your players be creative and have fun, even if it breaks the rules sometimes.

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Long overdue, but these guys are finally finished! And you can get them as stickers in my Redbubble shop!

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Roll a d6 at the start of combat to see who the PCs are fighting.

a goblin

a goblin

a goblin

a goblin

ONE TRILLION GHOULS

two goblins

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Think Teleport Via Plants...but it's a Mirror! Great to put in your Headquarters...but, maybe keep it covered? Or facing a pit of spikes\lava? Please follow, reblog and <3 for Daily Magic Items!

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Another of my TTRPG monster series! My gold foil, coffee-painted Displacer Beast is fully stocked on my Etsy.