Dead Man's Pack (5e Equipment)

A set of travelers clothes (either of an archaic design or otherwise dated in their fashion sense), a trinket of special significance (choose one or roll on the Gothic Trinkets table), one hooded lantern with a tinderbox, and 1 sp.

D100	TRINKET
01–02	A picture you drew as a child of your imaginary friend
03–04	A lock that opens when blood is dripped in its keyhole
05–06	Clothes stolen from a scarecrow
07–08	A spinning top carved with four faces: happy, sad, wrathful, and dead
09–10	The necklace of a sibling who died on the day you were born
11–12	A wig from someone executed by beheading
13–14	The unopened letter to you from your dying father
15–16	A pocket watch that runs backward for an hour every midnight
17–18	A winter coat stolen from a dying soldier
19–20	A bottle of invisible ink that can only be read at sunset
21–22	A wineskin that refills when interred with a dead person for a night
23–24	A set of silverware used by a king for his last meal
25–26	A spyglass that always shows the world suffering a terrible storm
27–28	A cameo with the profile’s face scratched away
29–30	A lantern with a black candle that never runs out and that burns with green flame
31–32	A teacup from a child’s tea set, stained with blood
33–34	A little black book that records your dreams, and yours alone, when you sleep
35–36	A necklace formed of the interlinked holy symbols of a dozen deities
37–38	A hangman’s noose that feels heavier than it should
39–40	A birdcage into which small birds fly but once inside never eat or leave
41–42	A lepidopterist’s box filled dead moths with skull-like patterns on their wings
43–44	A jar of pickled ghouls’ tongues
45–46	The wooden hand of a notorious pirate
47–48	A urn with the ashes of a dead relative
49–50	A hand mirror backed with a bronze depiction of a medusa
51–52	Pallid leather gloves crafted with ivory fingernails
53–54	Dice made from the knuckles of a notorious charlatan
55–56	A ring of keys for forgotten locks
57–58	Nails from the coffin of a murderer
59–60	A key to the family crypt
61–62	An bouquet of funerary flowers that always looks and smells fresh
63–64	A switch used to discipline you as a child
65–66	A music box that plays by itself whenever someone holding it dances
67–68	A walking cane with an iron ferule that strikes sparks on stone
69–70	A flag from a ship lost at sea
71–72	Porcelain doll’s head that always seems to be looking at you
73–74	A wolf’s head wrought in silver that is also a whistle.
75–76	A small mirror that shows a much older version of the viewer
77–78	Small, worn book of children’s nursery rhymes.
79–80	A mummified raven claw
81–82	A broken pendent of a silver dragon that’s always cold to the touch
83–84	A small locked box that quietly hums a lovely melody at night but you always forget it in the morning
85–86	An inkwell that makes one a little nauseous when staring at it
87–88	An old little doll made from a dark, dense wood and missing a hand and a foot
89–90	A black executioner’s hood
91–92	A pouch made of flesh, with a sinew drawstring
93–94	A tiny spool of black thread that never runs out
95–96	A tiny clockwork figurine of a dancer that’s missing a gear and doesn’t work
97–98	A black wooden pipe that creates puffs of smoke that look like skulls
99–00	A vial of perfume, the scent of which only certain creatures can detect

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Cost: 12 gp
Weight: 5 lb

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