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Trinkets for your fantasy dungeon adventures and campaigns of caves and underground.
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Trinkets of the Underground
Broken manacles, strange rocks, and dungeoneering equipment and fungi from underground ruins and cave complexes. Fantasy dungeon trinkets might be found on adventurers, miners, dwarves, in an parked wagon, an alcove, cave corner or a treasure trove.
So here are trinkets for your characters in cave and dungeon campaigns.
There is a fantasy trinket generator at ChaosGen. Trinkets in pdf form at Trinkets of Cave and Dungeon on DriveThru RPG.
100 Trinkets of Dungeon and Cave
| 1d100 | Fantasy Underground Trinkets |
|---|---|
| 1 | a small stone statue of a basilisk |
| 2 | a crystal jar filled with strange mosses |
| 3 | a bronze oil lamp, inscribed with an ominous ballad about a miner |
| 4 | a treatise on the ecosystems of massive underground ruins |
| 5 | a list of one hundred things to take underground |
| 6 | a shard of obsidian, bearing the mark of a famous dwarf artisan |
| 7 | a tunic made for a creature with six tentacles |
| 8 | a clay cube depicting a chest, claw, torch, stalactite, beetle and fungi |
| 9 | a slimy bone key in the shape of a mushroom |
| 10 | a bottle of a fermented fungal brew, no-one wants to try |
| 11 | a single manacle containing a skeletal foot |
| 12 | a shard of stained glass with a face trapped inside |
| 13 | a length of charred, knotted rope |
| 14 | a ghostly poison ring that whispers the name of an undead priest |
| 15 | a battered steel helm that smells of vomit |
| 16 | a unfathomable dungeon map, which its bearer keeps dreaming of |
| 17 | a stone doorstop marked with "property of Marr" |
| 18 | a piton driven through a lizard skull |
| 19 | a bone mask with small eyes forming the mouth, nose and eyes |
| 20 | a folio with pressed fungi of various forms and colours |
| 21 | a puzzle box with many tiny secret doors |
| 22 | a pouch of shiny stones and folded parchment marked with squares |
| 23 | an eerie centipede puppet which makes animals uneasy |
| 24 | two twisted metal lanterns, fused together |
| 25 | a richly decorated card depicting an baleful ooze, labelled "24 of 40" |
| 26 | designs and diagrams for an overcomplicated trap |
| 27 | an amber amulet of a snake, which becomes to a bat in total darkness |
| 28 | four clay dolls depicting a warrior, a thief, a priest and a user of magic |
| 29 | an onyx egg said to hatch into a creature from a plane of Chaos |
| 30 | a stone box carved with the story of a cursed underground city |
| 31 | an eye made of igneous rock, said to be a key for an planar portal |
| 32 | a metal grate with tufts of yellow fur |
| 33 | a rusty iron bar said to be from a legendary prison |
| 34 | the statuette of an eight-armed spider demon |
| 35 | a door hinge inscribed with a riddle in a subterranean language |
| 36 | a tankard carved with a treasure map for a well-known ruin |
| 37 | a chunk of partly carved alabaster which attracts fireflies |
| 38 | a crown of fungi and mushrooms |
| 39 | three dead rats on a pole |
| 40 | a tiny stalactite that will hang from anything |
| 41 | a hexagon made of six bones |
| 42 | a book titled "50 Wrong Answers to Common Puzzles" |
| 43 | a vial of dark oily lotion, that smells of despair |
| 44 | a folding shovel which won't stay unfolded |
| 45 | a damaged sign warning of slippery stairs |
| 46 | a cracked sheath containing a petrified dagger |
| 47 | an embalmed tentacle, which twitches when rats are near |
| 48 | an eldritch compass meant to find portals, but instead finds rockfalls |
| 49 | a leather pouch of iron ingots |
| 50 | a copper amulet with the likeness of a smiling imp |
| 51 | a preserved reptilian hand, marked with symbol of a death god |
| 52 | a solid chunk of cheese, home to a harmless tiny scaled purple worm |
| 53 | an embalmed white winged beetle |
| 54 | a dull copper crown, that gives the wearer the feeling of being watched |
| 55 | a necklace of square obsidian coins |
| 56 | a snapped off lever from a famous ruin, a memento of a grandparent |
| 57 | a detailed twelve-step plan for searching a chest |
| 58 | a stone bracer, decorated with moving contorted figures |
| 59 | a love pendant containing pictures of two sparkling rocks |
| 60 | a cloak of spidersilk, that catches on most things |
| 61 | a locket with a shifting face and name of a city, you found in a rockfall |
| 62 | an earth elemental the size of your finger, scared of water and fire |
| 63 | a small wooden box with a really obvious secret compartment |
| 64 | a book title "A Guide to Rude Words of the Under Realms" |
| 65 | a toy mining pick of bronze |
| 66 | a drum of an odd leathery hide, that makes no sound |
| 67 | a detailed map of ruins in an underground lake, that no-one can find |
| 68 | a bent iron door hinge |
| 69 | a foot-shaped orange fungi, that twitches occasionally |
| 70 | a small skeletal snake that misunderstands any commands given to it |
| 71 | a puppet of a fish humanoid with massive disturbing eyes |
| 72 | a bronze coffer, with a shrunken piece of mystery meat |
| 73 | a bat wing covered in glowing goo |
| 74 | a piece of fungus that looks like you |
| 75 | the spiky, curved horn of an unknown creature |
| 76 | a coin that glows in the dark, depicting a sigil on each side |
| 77 | a ring of broken metal keys |
| 78 | an empty clay potion bottle labeled "Elixir of Treasure Finding" |
| 79 | a bronze cylinder, with swirling orange gas inside |
| 80 | a mushroom covered in harmless yellow mould, that moves to music |
| 81 | a pouch with five different coloured sticks of chalk |
| 82 | a reflective purple scale, with moss growing on the edges |
| 83 | two long fangs, entombed in a translucent rock |
| 84 | a tarnished blade, marked with three runes related to shadows |
| 85 | a deed to a mine, long abandoned |
| 86 | a crystal spiderweb, said to shatter if ever exposed to sunlight |
| 87 | a gland from a giant fire beetle, that glows for a few days each month |
| 88 | an iron key said to be from the dungeon of Crystalwick Fissure |
| 89 | a tile, advertising the services of "Clang, Secret Door Finder" |
| 90 | an obsidian spear point with a dwarven rune |
| 91 | a small lizard-insectoid hybrid, carved from bone |
| 92 | a quiver of short sticks, each with various markings |
| 93 | a tiny clockwork goblin with twin pickaxes, which shakes when wound up |
| 94 | a brass ring inscribed with the motto "Rocks fall, everyone dies." |
| 95 | a stale fungal bread, stamped and dated to a century ago |
| 96 | a eternal torch which goes out at inconvenient times |
| 97 | a piece of polished rock that show reflections with glowing red eyes |
| 98 | a mesmerizing eye, embedded in quartz |
| 99 | a tentacled fish figurine, that gives the bearer dreams of a shadowy sea |
| 100 | a bloodstained dart, said to have slain a famous adventurer |
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There is a fantasy trinket generator at ChaosGen. Trinkets in pdf form at Trinkets of Cave and Dungeon on DriveThru RPG.
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