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Spooky Trinkets
Creepy dolls, preserved eyes, strange amulets, things that aren't quite right... Spooky trinkets might be found on mysterious npcs, dead adventurers, old ruins, in a graveyard, on a cultist or anywhere at night.
So here are trinkets for your characters in spooky campaigns.
There is a fantasy trinket generator at ChaosGen. Trinkets in pdf form at Spoooky Trinkets on DriveThru RPG.
100 Spooky Trinkets for Fantasy and Horror
| 1d100 | Spooky Trinkets |
|---|---|
| 1 | a deck of cards depicting undead animals |
| 2 | a note asking you for forgiveness, dated ten years in the future |
| 3 | a crystal goblet with the last words of a martyr |
| 4 | a small book with the tale of the Necromancer and the Courtesan |
| 5 | a knotted rope that carries visions of death |
| 6 | a pair of ears on a cord, that glow red on sacred ground |
| 7 | a disconcerting picture you drew, but don't remember drawing |
| 8 | a bottle with a moving tentacle inside |
| 9 | a drawing of a pair of cultists with their mouths sewn shut |
| 10 | a necklace of fingers, you won playing at dice |
| 11 | a spiked bone cat mask with real whiskers |
| 12 | a model octopus of wire, that wraps tentacles around anything nearby |
| 13 | a warped piece of wood from a coffin |
| 14 | a holy symbol owned by a priest who betrayed everyone they loved |
| 15 | a cursed copper amulet, stolen from a dead relative |
| 16 | an amulet of a goat's head with bronze horns and angry eyes |
| 17 | a wooden model horse with a headless rider |
| 18 | a puppet of a goblin with an overly long tongue |
| 19 | a wig of greasy grey hair |
| 20 | a pickled hand with six fingers |
| 21 | a tiny pumpkin that glows at night |
| 22 | an illustrated manual of a ritual to be performed on a full moon |
| 23 | a toy crow who greets you with a prediction of doom each morning |
| 24 | a diary of a cursed immortal poet, who visits a specific inn each decade |
| 25 | a veil, sewn with five portents of an apocalypse |
| 26 | a set of metal pipes, which emit a screeching when played |
| 27 | a rusty knife adorned with heretical symbols |
| 28 | a tiny scarecrow that haunts your nightmares, but you can't get rid of |
| 29 | an unopened letter from a dead relative |
| 30 | a belt made of hanging nooses |
| 31 | half a painting depicting a grinning skeleton with a bloodied axe |
| 32 | a preserved foot with a spike driven through it |
| 33 | a pair dice made from the knuckles of one of your grandparents |
| 34 | a bone whistle which only works around midnight |
| 35 | a stuffed squirrel holding a scythe |
| 36 | a painting of a village, depicting a ghostly version of it |
| 37 | a lump of obsidian with your likeness trapped inside |
| 38 | a dead two-headed snake corpse, coiled around a wooden wand |
| 39 | a white mask depicting a contorted face |
| 40 | a copper casket, covered in moving contorted figures |
| 41 | a mouldy hankerchief with bits of slime in it |
| 42 | a satin glove with a zombified hand inside |
| 43 | a small skull with teeth of moldy green stone |
| 44 | a heavy bone key, that twists when held |
| 45 | a yellow stone with many holes, which attracts spiders |
| 46 | a wooden pipe that creates greenish smoke, forming batlike shapes |
| 47 | a melted copper coin flecked with blood |
| 48 | a petrified clawed foot |
| 49 | a coffin made of reeds, with a dead mouse inside |
| 50 | a dulled sunburst medallion which makes people sad when held |
| 51 | a skewer with six eyeballs |
| 52 | a clay wand ending in a leering skull |
| 53 | an amulet of eyes, a family heirloom with another eye every generation |
| 54 | a bronze idol of a part-dwarf, part-badger creature |
| 55 | a love letter from a werewolf |
| 56 | a black bloodstained hood |
| 57 | a key to a long abandoned mansion |
| 58 | a small lantern etched with the three names from your family |
| 59 | a pouch of dead butterflies |
| 60 | an embalmed rat with a second head stitched onto it |
| 61 | a list of eight ways to destroy a vengeful spirit, with crosses beside six |
| 62 | a patch of flayed skin |
| 63 | a bracelet of a cousin who died in the hour you were born |
| 64 | a set of ceramic ogres with tiny heads? |
| 65 | an odd knife with a glass half moon blade |
| 66 | a jar with brownish slime and a writhing forked tongue |
| 67 | the deeds to a crumbling tower in a cursed wood |
| 68 | a small prayer book with several pages ripped out |
| 69 | a flint miniature of a human-rat hybrid |
| 70 | a bird totem that chirps unhappily near sacred ground |
| 71 | a small mirror that shows the viewer at their worst |
| 72 | an oil lamp, whose light is always flickering |
| 73 | a sticky ladle, which creates a small amount of spider stew every dusk |
| 74 | a red ring that reminds you of your darkest hour |
| 75 | a torn sleeve from a velvet gown |
| 76 | a puzzle box that opens when saliva drips onto it |
| 77 | a mummified eye |
| 78 | a slate from a tomb, with three words scratched into it |
| 79 | a copper beetle, which at night becomes a swarm of insects |
| 80 | a web of purple thread, with a fly headed sprite in the middle |
| 81 | a clockwork spider that loses legs when it walks |
| 82 | a rusty sickle blade, marked with sinister runes |
| 83 | an egg of metal wire, with a dead slug inside |
| 84 | a wooden figurine of a sorcerer devouring their own arm |
| 85 | a porcelain doll's head that whispers promises at night |
| 86 | a torn page, with the tale of a play that sent watchers into a berserk rage |
| 87 | a birchwood amulet with a sinister face, which whispers strange words |
| 88 | a pouch with rusty bent nails and a fat finger with many holes |
| 89 | a pair of iron shoes with high heels |
| 90 | an old bracelet, inscribed with three jokes about executions |
| 91 | an ivory pendant with a Death rune, given to you by a ghost |
| 92 | a grinning obsidian frog, which smoulders in direct sunlight |
| 93 | a leather glove that's always a little too tight |
| 94 | a portrait locket, with a pumpkin-headed figure inside |
| 95 | a music box with clockwork clowns that plays funeral music |
| 96 | a black evening dress the size of your hand |
| 97 | a miniature ceramic dog with four eyes |
| 98 | a journal of poetry written by seven murderers |
| 99 | a jar of worms which devour one another and split into smaller ones |
| 100 | a coin of iron, depicting a distorted faerie |
More Spooky Tables
There is a fantasy trinket generator at ChaosGen. Trinkets in pdf form at Spoooky Trinkets on DriveThru RPG.
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