I had some more trinket tables and decided to experiment with making them into a very basic, quarter-page zine.

It’s eight pages including the front and back cover, with six themed d10 tables.  If you set your pdf printer to print 2×2 pages per sheet, double-sided, the 2×2 pdf should work (I got it working in mine at least); yell if it misbehaves?

 

Pleasant Small Things (pdf)

Pleasant Small Things (pdf, printable page arrangement)

Here is a handful of d6 tables for finding a nifty thing a starting character or random NPC may be carrying, a wee reward or treasure, or a bit of colour in a dungeon room.

The tables are for broad themes, but that doesn’t mean they need to map to a particular class / job / profession / etc — choose whichever you like.  The results could make an interesting wrinkle in a story!

 

Martial

01. a fragment of your ancestor’s blade
02. a letter of recommendation from a mercenary captain
03. armour patching kit with hidden skein of golden thread
04. scraps of parchment marked with heraldry sketches
05. two arrowheads edged with sanctified alloy
06. a kaleidoscopic tabard of embroidered patchwork

 

Tower

01. a slim greenstone scroll tube, engraved
02. four perfectly matched glass orbs
03. a gnarled staff cut from a thousandoak
04. string of worry beads, brass and bone
05. a packet of inscribed curse wards
06. half of a badly scorched rare text

 

Cloistered

01. palm-sized statuette of an ancient saint
02. illuminated document guaranteeing passage from hell
03. fragment of stained glass and lead
04. bronze censer in the shape of a lotus bud
05. sealed flask of holy oil, dark and viscous
06. apocryphal scriptures on tattered linen rolls

 

Shadowy

01. a tiny leather pocket that adheres to the skin
02. an ancient pierced coin, sharpened on one edge
03. two vials of thin resin laced with soot
04. scrap of paper with coded guild passwords
05. an IOU from a smallmerchant of spices
06. a long scarf of smoky silk fringed with weights

 

Relic

01. fragments of bone from a legendary figure
02. softly glowing serpent pearl
03. ivory grains from a unicorn’s horn
04. talon-tip broken from divination demon
05. phoenix eggcase fragments, cinnamon and myrrh
06. fractal core of an elemental spirit

 

Ornament

01. necklace of cowries and blue glass beads
02. polished abalone shell used to burn incense
03. golden ring incised with a stylized eye
04. heart-shaped locket of rose quartz
05. velvet ribbon trimmed with fox teeth
06. copper hoop earrings strung with strings of tiny bells

 

Crafter

01. oaken spindle, distaff and winder
02. leather roll of fishhooks, one of ancient bone
03. naalbinding needles and skeins of bright wool
04. a slim ivory case for reed pens and six pigments
05. woodworking burins and adze, mounted in cedar
06. six pouches of seeds, dibble-stick and broadknife

 

Prodigies

01. palm-sized egg with glassy smooth grey shell
02. signet ring with unknown crest in violet-gold alloy
03. portion of sticky ambrosial cake of divinity
04. ever-blooming blue rose
05. garnet carbuncle that looks like a cat’s eye
06. a tiny twinkling mote of silvery light

01.  five black violets dried between leaves of parchment, folded in a silver case

02.  a pair of gloves sewn from amber and ruby seed beads

03.  a tiny ceramic bird that flutters to life when breathed on

04.  a pair of lovingly polished knuckledusters with prisms on the business flats of the them

05.  a weathered, folded parchment in a leather envelope that appears to name the holder of the document as the heir of an important clan or family

06.  a handful of dried rose petals in a screw of waxed paper

07.  twin paperweights in the shape of frogs, blue-green glass with gilded eyes

08.  three quill pens cut from brightraven feathers

09.  a slim belt-sash woven from crimson wool mixed with silk

10.  the bones from the left forepaw of an unliving runepard

11.  a mysterious, dagger-like fang that glows faintly

12.  a jack of thinned oxhorn, mounted in gold and engraved with linked verses praising an ancestral hero

It’s already being A Weekend[tm].  So, a handful of small distractions to sneak into a game session.

 

01.  ivory beads, tumbled so smooth over the years with prayer and handling that the whorls of their entwined serpents are nearly worn away

02.  a piece of smoky obsidian worn and polished into the rough shape of a crouching frog with a butterfly in its mouth

03.  a delicate network of crystal nodes and hair-fine golden wire, intersecting and interlacing; is it a hairnet, a strange broad-collar, or something else?

04.  paired scribe’s palettes of smoothly polished ebony with brass fittings, each sporting a well for water, a slot for quills or brushes and six wells filled with brilliant colours

05.  a burnished unicorn’s skull inlaid with tiny patterns of petals, leaves and snowflakes in glittering gemstones

06.  a tiny, cunningly jointed figurine of a running deer, of ivory picked out in stained colours and gilding

07.  a moth in a glass bulb that glows with a soft blue phosophoresence

08.  a dagger honed from a split and ground human femur, carved with spiraling runes filled with cinnabar

09.  an ornate openwork arrowhead of silver-chased steel, its tang pierced for the leather thong it’s been strung on

10.  a folding game board and pieces in red and yellow cedar

11.  a tiny glass sphere that shows the phase of the moon

12.  a crackled prism of glass shading pink to violet, warm and comforting to the touch