Random Things you might see in a rough part of town
These random things articles are designed as quick idea generators for time-pressed GMs who want to inject some additional details into their game, when you need some inspiration just roll a D20 and consult the table:
| No. | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Two rough looking individuals are standing over a terrified and much smaller figure, you hear one of the thugs mentions something about money whilst the other one cracks his knuckles menacingly. |
| 2 | A gang of youths is attempting to lever open the grimey window of a pawn-brokers using a length of metal. |
| 3 | A figure wearing a rough hewn cloak of a dark fabric hurries down the street, hood pulled low to diguise their features. |
| 4 | There is a clattering sound as an emaciated dog roots around for food in the rubbish and tin cans that line the sides of the street. |
| 5 | A man wearing a hat pulled over his face, walks past a member of the town guard, as they pass you see the glimmer of gold passed between their hands. |
| 6 | Two members of the town guard hassle a poor merchant, making veiled threats and references concerning his work permit. |
| 7 | A minor criminal is confined in the stocks, locals pelt him with rotten fruit and vegetables, jeering. |
| 8 | One of the characters feels a small hand dip into their pocket, as they look down they briefly see the face of a young child, the thief runs off clutching the character's coin-purse. |
| 9 | A man wearing clothes that look a good deal more respectable than his surroundings is selling a dark coloured purple powder to a number of customers, he claims that they boost innate magical powers and that since he likes the look of the PCs he'll even give them a free sample. |
| 10 | The symbol of a local gang or crime syndicate is crudely daubed on a bare patch of wall in white paint. |
| 11 | The body of a dead man lies in the gutter, his neck has a livid read mark on it attesting to the fact that he was strangle by some form of garrotte. |
| 12 | A man wearing little more than rags picks through the rubbish strewn in the streets, turning over detritus with a long stick as he looks for something salvageable to sell. |
| 13 | Two men step out of a dark alleyway, one of them menacingly swinging a cudgel, they demand money from the PCs or violence will follow. |
| 14 | A tattered wanted poster pinned to the side of a derelict building has a striking resemblance to one of the PCs, the criminal is wanted for theft and murder. |
| 15 | Somewhere nearby a mangy alleycay shrieks and then nimbly disappears over the rooftops. |
| 16 | A group of street-urchins follow the PCs pestering them for money, if the characters give them a few coppers then the children gleefully run off to spend their pennies. |
| 17 | A man wearing a long, beaked plague doctors mask walks slowly down the street pushing a cart full of bodies, people scatter to avoid him and make religious signs with their hands. |
| 18 | A couple of streets away someone screams for the guards, shouting that they have been attacked, their is no reply though. |
| 19 | A grim-faced town guard walks the streets in this run-down part of town, one of his investigations proved inconvenient to his superiors and he has been given assignment in this lawless neighbourhood as a punishment. |
| 20 | There is a scraping sound as a man wearing a peg on his nose scoops up horse dung from the sides of the street with a shovel, he bags it up in hessian sacks and then heaves the reeking cargo onto a groaning excrement piled cart that has the faded text Scrimscon and Sons Prime Fertiliser stencilled onto it. |
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Only 20? And what’s with the minimum of 15 characters in a comment.
Yep, afraid so, most of the Random Things articles (with the exception of the D&D Trinkets tables) have 20 options on them, since the articles were originally inspired by my playing of D&D 5E it’s one dice I guarantee most D&D GMs will have handy.
As for the 15 characters minimum I honestly don’t know, I assume that it’s a default setting in my WordPress, probably some sort of anti-spammer measurement.