What's in the bag? A d66 table

Back in January I shared a d66 table for what you might find in the woods.  It's the kind of thing I use when hexcrawling or just as a random table when the party does not head right to a location entrance but instead choose to "look around first."

In that same spirit below is another d66 table for "What's in the bag?"  I am not sure about your games, but I am not shy about having bodies pop up here and there to reinforce the idea of the world being a very dangerous and uncertain place.  Occasionally with the body, a bag with something odd, unusual or creepy in it will be found to push the "oddity" meter another notch up.  Sometimes, just a stray bag left behind in a dungeon, found along a river bank, filched off a cart from a merchant or stolen from a person in town should contain something unexpected.

If you are the kind of Referee who likes to have an arsenal of little interesting oddities to toss at players then this kind of table is great to have on a 3x5 card ready for work.  I like the strange and unusual to pop up and add a little unsettling feeling to the game. Consider it an added mystery for the players, "Well what the hell is it and what can we do with do with this?"

Some folks can go over board with the blood and gore and dark cults of the elder gods blinding horror stuff in an attempt to say "THIS IS HORRIBLE MIND BENDING EVIL!" but player reaction can be less than impressed.

I've never had that kind of stuff "wow" or intrigue a group as much as hitting them with something small, odd, and unsettling like, "You find a bag with a greasy hand shaped object in it. Each finger is a partially burned candle and a pulsing black mass seems to shimmer and writhe in the palm of the hand."  Step back and watch the player sit and debate all the odd stuff it could be and as the Referee hearing the players debate and talk about it, THEY will toss out a better idea of what it could be then I could possibly write!

Anyway, here is the table.  Grab 2d6 and put it to work for you!

d66	10	20	30
1	Candles shaped like fingers	6 colored threads, each is 6 inches long	A collection of 100 feathers
2	Used bandages	6 wet pairs of long-johns	24 stones in different colors
3	A Jar of Eyes	Carved bone flute	Pine tar and 3 brushes
4	Tub of lard and 6 pieces burnt bread	6 metal bars wrapped in purple leaves	6 metal vials and 3 bamboo vials
5	Glasses with 4 color lenses	A book with all black pages	Floor plan of a tower
6	44 folded cloth napkins	Climbing spikes and a hatchet	a 1' angry squirrel
d66	40	50	60
1	Small pot of ink and brushes	Dehydrated fruit, maybe its fruit	A stoneware jug covered in hair
2	Partial eaten foot, humanoid	Onyx box with gold sigil	Broken pottery and hair
3	3 orange keys on a ring	3 Birds in wood cages	Dried fish and rotting cabbage
4	Bottle of Old Ogre whisky	Four undead rats on leashes	A rattle made of finger bones
5	20' of chain and 2 locks	60' silk rope	2 fry pans, and 6 snakes in a box
6	Idol made of stitched skins	Strange tin of tobacco and odd pipe	Gem shaped like a clawed hand

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