Trinkets
by Håvard
Trinkets is probably my favorite thing from 5E, but easy to use with any edition. For those who are not familiar with the concept, 5E presents a list of minor items that are mostly useless, but which can be used to add some flavor to a character's background or could lead to some adventure seed. I always make my players roll on the 1d% chart to determine their starting trinket.
Could we come up with a list of uniquely Mystaran trinkets? Note, there should be no long descriptions. Just one sentence at most.
by Robert J. Nuttman, Jr.
A length of leather cord, knotted at odd intervals along its length.
A thin golden necklace, adorned with a small, red gemstone pendant.
A game piece of reflective, slick black stone in the shape of a castle's tower.
by Håvard
3. A letter of recommendation from the Great School of Magic in Glantri, with smudged with drops of blood
4. A non-magical staff with runes carved in the Soderfjord runic tradition.
5. A sinister painting featuring a humanoid with an elephant-like trunk with a nightmarish landscape behind him.
by Cab Davidson
6. A small lead token embossed with "Good for one dance at Shenanigans, Portside Road, Alpha"
7. A signed picture of a gnome with the phrase "To Fuzan, with love, Captain Topcat".
8. A strange mask, looking somewhat like a humanoid face with tentacles, that has dried sand stuck to it.
9. A tiger cowrie shell with the word "Aquas" carved on top.
10. A small green board with intricate metal lines traced thereon, showing signs of burning and melting on one side, with the words "cooling system, reactor 4" written on it.
11. A locket depicting a dragon, inside images of a black clad knight with "E" underneath, and a white clad young woman with a tiara, with "A" underneath.
12. A hard rubber ball with "Draco Dodgers" embossed on it.
13. A ship in a bottle, with the word "Revenge" carved in scrollwork under the ship.
14. A tiny sliver of steel that glows blue
15. A tiny rock that you can only see by looking next to where it is - family legend is that it was a gift from the moon-cats.
16. A small purse of gold painted led coins.
17. A headband with an eagle feather attached.
18. A small, plain, but well made abacus
19. A replica "3rd place" bronze medal from the AC994 Ierendi Games
20. A figurine of a gladiator holding a trident and a net, inscribed "Marcus Attilius"
by Greenbrier
21. A tattered, folded paper which seems to have gotten wet at some point - a Glantrian seal is still legible, along with the words "Turn _____ at will" and the name "Humphrey".
22. An empty half-shell of a coconut which smells faintly of liquor and has the word "COARKE'S" carved on the side.
23. A shiny, golden colored hand mirror with cracked glass and the name "D. Moriamis" inscribed on the handle.
24. A small ceramic canister with a label reading "White Island sample" and containing a white feather and some coarse white hair.
by Robin
i used an adjusted version from a Dragon Article in my Broken Lands Expansion PDF for the Humanoids see pages 443-446 with over 100 trinkets
Canon there are
1; the DDC Money Documents, valued like paper money but only exchangeable in Darokin ar at DDC agents or banks elsewhere
2; The Minrothad Farseer (just a Monocular like pirates in movies mostly use)
3; Magic Needle of Pointing ( actually a magic compass not adjusted to the magnetic north , but otherwise, Or very sensitive reaction on nearby magnetic sources)
4; Glasses as described in text and images regularly (Monoculair or Bi-oculair)
5; The Gnomish Bumberchute (500gp) from DotE.
6; Yeti Glider from DotE
by Cab Davidson
Small wooden model of a Heldannic Warbird flying ship.
A bone figurine of a goblin with the makers mark "Bree Yark" cut into the base.
A hermetically sealed glass vial, containing slightly glowing water, with the words "Quasqueton Spring" visible on the base, from a certain angle.
A green ivory gambling chip marked "Rhodacters Casino, Gaity".
Decorated walrus tusk shoehorn commemorating the crowning of Yarrvik the Second, of Oceansend.
A badge depicting an elf holding one fist aloft, with the letters E.L.F. above.
by Håvard
36. A tiny book containing selected prayers from The Nameh
37. A broken chain that once belonged to an Iron Ring captive
38. A ball of Rakasta fur
by Cab Davidson
39. A small box of Corun clan lead traders tokens
40. A belaying pin marked "Property if Guild Elsan - Do Not Remove From Ship"
41. Replica of a rust monster, labelled "From the Museum of the Smiths Son, Ian"
42. A silver ring with a symbol resembling a lighthouse on the inside.
43. A military hat badge, depicting a black eagle.
44. Burned orc bones, in a jar clearly of halfling design.
by Håvard
45. A sailors scarf embroidered with the name Rory Barbarossa.
46. The claw of a dinosaur
47. A golden elven coin, inscribed with the worlds "1 leaf"
48. An envelope marked with "House Manteau"
49. a Falconer's gauntlet from Ethengar
50. An "L-shaped" metal object of Blackmoor origins.
51. A pair of gnome pilot goggles
by Giampaolo Agosta
52. A golden ring or medallion with the image of a kingfisher (see X11...)
by Cab Davidson
53. A strigil with the image of a gladiator on the handle
54. Two (impossibly) interlocking wooden hearts, made of different woods, inscribed 'heartshire'.
55. A small figurine of a warrior holding an oversized sword, with armour only worn on his left side, and a winged helmet hiding all of his face but for two piercing red eyes.
56. A boomerang, painted with a tribal insignia that appears to be a chameleon.
57. A small metal tag with screw holes, formerly attached to something, etched with "Smithy and Westron"
58. A polished piece of wood that fits in the hand, as hard as steel.
59. A silver spoon, embossed with the crest of a sea dragon rampant dexter.
60. A sealed glasss tube with a small piece of rock that floats therein, as if unaffected by gravity.
61. A dagger proportioned as if for a creature no more than a foot tall, made of an unknown metal.
62. An ornate gold painted lead token with the words "Une portion, Crêperie Ambrée" around the edge.
by Francesco Defferrari
63. A small painting in old Traladaran style depicting the heroic death of Ivan Marilenev against Duke Stephan's troops.
64. A copy of the Joshuan Almanac or the Poor Wizard's Almanac.
65. A card of one of the Guilds of Glantri on which is stamped the word 'Expelled'.
66. A flyer of the Ierendi Crown Tournament with many signatures.
67. A leaf of one of Alfheim home trees
68. A Thyatian paper stating the bearer was freed from slavery by his master
69. An Alphatian magical book with animated images
70. A gnomish machine box of unknown origin and use
by Cab Davidson
71. A small (3" by 3") empty wooden box with the words "Better Safe than Sorry!" on the lid and "Skyship of Love" on the underside.
72. A figurine of an armoured gnome with a string sticking out. Once pulled, the string retreats back in as the figurine makes the sound "THIS IS SNARTA!"
73. A small gold ankh that bears burn marks that should be impossible on gold.
74. A well folded wanted poster depicting notorious criminal, Bargle the Infamous, wanted dead or alive.
75. A chess piece depicting a Northman warrior biting his shield.
by Greenbrier
76. A brick made of bright orange coral
77. A copper-skinned doll of a little girl, wearing tiny wooden shoes and a dress patterned with colorful tulips
78. A 5 inch long carved wooden ship model, which hovers in the air for 10 minutes when the command word "Love" (carved on bottom) is spoken while holding the model
79. A pyramid-shaped copper paperweight with "Edairo 1988" written on the flat bottom in black ink
80. A scroll which reads "Meet me on [date here], midnight on beach 10 miles north of Filtot " when unrolled, where the date changes and always shows 47 days after the date the scroll is unrolled
81. A woodcut depicting a wedding scene, where a man in Northern Reaches garb stands looking at a girl in Imperial Thyatian attire preparing to walk down the aisle to join him
82. A sky blue pennant with white lettering which reads "University of Air Magics; Featherfall, Aeria"
83. An onyx cloak clasp with the initials "BGW" carved on the back
84. A small statue carved from a single piece of ivory, depicting the unlikely duo of an elf and a gnoll holding hands and smiling
85. A glass jar containing four mummified fingers - one human, one elven, one dwarven and one halfing
86. A bronze necklace holding 7 large alligator teeth, each carved with 1 letter and together spelling "E-R-I-A-D-N-A"
87. A Glantrian Crown coin, still magically glowing but showing the face of a Prince that nobody can identify
by Robin
89; Slighty worn Levis Jeans (not before 517 AC)
90; Slightly worn Levis Shirt (not before 517 AC)
91; Badly worn Levis Jeans (not before 517 AC)
92; Badly worn Levis Shirt (not before 517 AC)
93; Jeans rags (not before 517 AC)
94; 1d4 Levis copper buttons (not before 517 AC)
95; 4d4 levis copper buttons on a string (not before 517 AC)
(all from my Broken Lands expansion PDF not included in the table there)
96; Bottles (25cn) with unfinished Gunpowder(Smokepowder) (by Bruce Heard's Article Mystara and Gunpowder. NO sooner then 1007AC
97; Bottles (100cn) with unfinished Gunpowder(Smokepowder) (by Bruce Heard's Article Mystara and Gunpowder. NO sooner then 1007AC
98; original fat-paper (treated as such) Wrapped around a delicious looking cake/sweet bakery, priced at 2 GP
99; original fat-paper (treated as such) Wrapped around a delicious looking cake/sweet bakery, With a Note; Llove and cuddles Grandma
100; original fat-paper (treated as such) Wrapped around a delicious looking cake/sweet bakery, contents mushed and sticking on the inside of the paper
101; Minrothad Chocolatl Nutbar(actyally round dropping with nuts pressed in, they could not make real bars)
by Robert J. Nuttman, Jr.
A cotton tunic, embroidered with colorful thread, which spells out "I VISITED FIRE ISLAND AND ALL I GOT WAS"... but the bottom third of the tunic is burnt.
by Mysha
+1 Worn-off coin, vaguely recognisable as a low denomination, but probably too worn to be accepted;
+2 Crude shape of a horsey, of no particular artistry;
+3 Gnome tool, only recognisable for a gnome, you'd discard it, except that you might meet a Gnome who needed it;
+4 Hook with wear marks to a specific door (door not included);
+5 Hand-held sun-dial; not a clue what I was thinking about that one: You need a fixed spot, or a fixed moment / otherwise, all you can see is that you've just passed midday;
+6 A Meverov emblem, worn;
+7 Piece of utterly dehydrated Zzonga-fruit
+8 Part of a label of a bottle saying "...nest Snake Oil from far o...";
+9 Old metal ring, of the construction variety; no splicing involved;
+10 Very wide-toothed comb, with a rather Darokinian style of handle;
+11 Ends of string, tied together into a typical Sea-elven knot;
+12 Creature whistle (creature not included);
+13 Part of a fire striker, probably still usable for the owner, though probably not for anyone else;
Oh, dear; a rather unfortunate number:
+14 Piece of typical Ylari sandcake, though in this case with added bits of Rockhome, and a sprinkling of rose-buttons.