Random Starting Equipment: LotFP Weird Fantasy RPG

[Editor's Note: I corrected a minor error on the chart (an asterisk was omitted on the armor chart). Also the PDF of this chart can be downloaded here. ]

Ok gentle readers, one last chart for the hopper before you all begin to think of me as some kind of random table obsessive. (I rolled a “6” on a d6 before deciding to post by the way.) I promise that the next post will feature another Vancian creature write-up; off-the-wall variant class; throw-away rant about the inherent superiority of the Holmesian five-fold alignment or the like.

Here's a version of yesterday's tables modified to work with the economic-tweaks James Raggi slips into Lamentations of the Flame Princess. His price lists haven't received as much hooting and hollering as his heavily-flavored magic system and character classes (or hell even his encumbrance rules), but they should. With weapons, armor, and mounts (available to all classes) fetching some hefty prices and retainers and buildings conversely lower ones, the economics subtly steer players' choices in interesting directions at lower levels. The distinction between urban and rural costs seem to do the same. (“Rats, to get that suit of chain mail looks like we're going to have to hump all the way back to Carcosa.”)

There's definitely an implied feel in the text of the boxed set—and certainly a bit more explicit in Raggi's brilliantly-written adventures--that the lives of PCs in such a setting are destined to be short, spectacular affairs. All the more reason for my tweakage in anticipation of my own Skype mini-campaign.

Modifiers for Armor and Weapon rolls

-1 if starting in a rural area

+1 for each level character starts over 1^st

Class-based equipment

Fighter, Dwarf, Elf, Halfling: +1 on any weapon table

Cleric: Iron holy symbol

Magic User: Spellbook

Specialist: Specialist's tool

Chart A: Armor (Roll d6)

1,2,3,4,5	Leather
6,7,8	Chain*
9 or more	Plate

*-2 on all others rolls if 1^st level.

Chart B: Melee Weapon (Roll d6)

1	Garrote, Cestus
2	Minor weapons, Spear, Staff
3, 4	Small weapons, Rapier, Whip
5	Medium weapons, Mancatcher
6	Great weapons, Polearm
7 or more	Roll twice or pick minor silver weapon

Chart C: Missile Weapons (Roll d6)

1	None
2,3	Sling, Dart (x3), Blowgun
4,5	Short Bow
6	Long Bow, Light Crossbow
7 or more	Heavy Crossbow

(one free batch of ammo assumed)

Adventure Packs (Pick one)

All packs come with backpack, two small sacks, bedroll, water skin, tinderbox, and one week of iron rations

Pack A (10 oil flasks, lantern, shovel, two caltrops, whistle)

Pack B (10 torches, 10 pieces of chalk/charcoal, blank scroll, mirror, crowbar)

Pack C (five torches, five oil flasks, 60 ft. rope, grappling hook, wooden pole)

Extra cash (Roll d6)

1	5 gold pieces
2,3	10 gp
4	15 gp
5	20 gp
6	30 gp
7	60 gp
8	120 gp
9	250 gp