I am a little behind in prepping for the Boot Hill Cantons mini-campaign I was going on about a few days back, but here's something of potentially wider use for folks running Boot Hill and other western campaigns. Texas-sized thanks to those beautiful broken minds on this Google Plus thread that helped me crowdsource the baroquely over-done table at the bottom.
Starting Gear
All
starting characters come with cheap but functional range clothes, bed
roll, canteen, poor-quality horse and $5 to their name. Roll on the
following charts for the rest of your gear.
Distinctive
Piece of Finery
Pick
or Roll d20 Once
1 | Buckskin Jacket |
2 | No Name Poncho |
3 | Ten-Gallon Hat |
4 | Civil War kepi |
5 | Threadbare Butternut Confederate Artillery Jacket |
6 | Union Cavalry Uniform pants and suspenders |
7 | Furry Bear Coat |
8 | Top Hat |
9 | Sombrero, Campesino |
10 | Sombrero, Mariachi band-style |
11 | Bolo Tie |
12 | White Mexican Federale uniform, patched |
13 | Derby, arrow-stuck |
14 | Cowboy Hat, bullet ridden |
15 | Duster, bloody cuffed |
16 | Beaver Coat, full length |
17 | Spanish Boots, Spanish Leather |
18 | Fancy Mexican Riding Boots, silver spurred |
19 | Chaps, sequined |
20 | Calico Dress |
Hogpieces
and Other Primary Killin' Implements
Roll
d10 Once
1 | Repeating Rifle, 9-shot |
2 | Double-Barrel Shotgun |
3 | Fast Draw Revolver, 5-shot |
4 | Fast Draw Revolver, 6-shot |
5 | Single Action Revolver, 5-shot |
6 | Single Action Revolver, 6-shot |
7 | Buffalo Rifle |
8 | Civil-War Repeating Rifle |
9 | Repeating Carbine, 6-shot |
10 | Three Sticks of Dynamite, short fuse |
More
Killin' Dee-vices
Roll
d10 or Pick Twice
1 | Comanche Lance |
2 | Big Ass Bowie Knife |
3 | Throwing Knife (x2) |
4 | Tomahawk |
5 | Single-Shot Derringer (x2) |
6 | Two-Shot Derringer |
7 | Old, but Well-Oiled Cap & Ball Revolver |
8 | Long-Barrel Revolver |
9 | Calvary Sabre |
10 | Rusted Scatter Gun, 10% chance of it exploding when fired. |
Random
Crap
Roll
d100 Twice
01 | Dead US Marshal's Badge |
02 | Silver-Plated Single Action Revolver |
03 | Tombstone |
04 | Three coils of 60-foot rope |
05 | Small herd of goats (five) |
06 | Stubborn Old Mule named after an Old Sweetheart |
07 | Braying donkey named King's Kent |
08 | Silent mute “trail wife” but loyal |
09 | Hillbilly Musket (treat as Army Rifle) |
10 | A velvet-lined coffin |
11 | Silver whiskey flask with monogram |
12 | 30 Silver Dollars |
13 | Keg of Gunpowder marked XXX |
14 | Ten pounds of Deer Jerky |
15 | Three jugs of corn liquor |
16 | Holy Bible with cut out derringer space |
17 | Gold snuff case |
18 | Two pounds of chewing tobacco and spitoon |
19 | Bottle of Scotch, peaty |
20 | Amputation hacksaw |
21 | Prison manacles and chain |
22 | A set of spurs pitted and rusted |
23 | Rattlesnake, live |
24 | Guitar or banjo |
25 | Lonesome-sounding harmonica |
26 | Grave-diggin' shovel |
27 | Pocket watch on chain, Dad's |
28 | The prospector's will |
29 | Bearer bonds (50% confederate) |
30 | William Blake poetry, slim volume |
31 | tobacco, wacky, 2 "twists" |
32 | Small pouch of gold dust |
33 | 6 silver bullets |
34 | Assorted ladies hosiery |
35 | Deck of cards, marked |
36 | Deck of cards, unmarked |
37 | Piano tuning equipment (fork, hammer, mutes) |
38 | Old cracker tin containing several peyote buttons |
39 | Wooden leg, pilfered |
40 | Dime store novels, random assortment |
41 | music box |
42 | String of Chinese coins |
43 | One-horned ox |
44 | Dentistry kit |
45 | Undertaker's tools |
46 | Bible, natty |
47 | Miniature Vest Bible, steel-backed |
48 | Three sasquatch teeth |
49 | Scalps, notable figures |
50 | Scalps, comrades |
51 | Diploma, college |
52 | Dead or Alive Wanted poster, you |
53 | Dead or Alive poster, twin brother |
54 | Bullwhip, lovingly maintained |
55 | Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment, Made From Genuine Rattlesnakes |
56 | Pabst's Okay Special (22% alcohol, take 2 teaspoons 3x daily) |
57 | Dr. Wengert's Hepatica Pills |
58 | Dromgooles Bitters |
59 | The Mormon Elders' Damiana Wafers, for Strengthening the Brain, Nerves, and Sexual Organs |
60 | Crane's Laxative Mint Chewing Gum |
61 | Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Renovator |
62 | Jayne's Vermifuge |
63 | Saddlebags with secret compartments |
64 | Ridiculously ornate shotgun, small bore, once used by a Portuguese Duke to shoot partridges. |
65 | Worn but still razor-sharp skinning knife. |
66 | 2 pound bag of coffee beans |
67 | Coffee hand mill |
68 | Autograph book |
69 | Ten Confederate gold pieces |
70 | Gold pocket watch |
71 | Vial of nitroglycerine with dropper |
72 | French's ladies' underwear, made in Chicago. Red satin & black lace |
73 | Cargo manifest and letters taken off a Civil War smuggler/blockade runner |
74 | Domino mask or red handkerchief, conceals identity perfectly |
75 | Crystal skull, stolen |
76 | Head in a box wrapped in brown paper and string |
77 | Last letter from a famous gunslinger |
78 | Hound dog, scrawny but tenacious |
79 | Child named William |
80 | Branding irons in small shapes that can be used to 'correct' brands on cattle |
81 | 20" cast iron skillet with lid |
82 | Harness and tack for plough-mule |
83 | Three iron blades for ploughs |
84 | Rusty sickle |
85 | Five axe-heads in various sizes, just add handles |
86 | Sixty-two pounds of nails in an oily sack |
87 | Apache medicine bag |
88 | Three sacks of oats |
89 | 20-pound Bag of flour |
90 | Plunger Detonator, 26 notches cut in box |
91 | Belt buckle big enough to hide a derringer behind it |
92 | Basket of paper roses. |
93 | Letter promising a job in Machine, Montana. It's a month old. |
94 | Knife with an elk horn handle. |
95 | String of Five Wild Horses, Unbroken |
96-00 | Upgrade Your Horse (stackable) |
Very cool stuff, keep us abreast of this game my friend. Cheers for this.
ReplyDeleteAutomated here, under "Character Features": http://www.lastgaspgrimoire.com/generators/the-seventh-order-of-the-random-generator/
ReplyDeleteHope it's cool I did that. I've been wanting to test out how Logan's "Choose Your Own Generator" works. Turns out, it works great!
You can right- or control- click on the generator title on that page to bookmark it, or just click and drag to your bookmark bar, although it won't save specific results (the bookmark will generate anew each time.)
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DeleteVery cool - especially the last one, which seems ripe with adventure hooks.
ReplyDeleteGood day Chris!
ReplyDeleteI would like to translate these fast packs, and put it into a fan made supplement of a game. Obviously with referencing this page and stating that you are the author.
The main reason would be the translation... I tried to come up with reasonable alternatives, to keep the spirit of the list, but there are some items which are simply too good to pass up.
Would you allow this?
Thanks a lot!
I love the idea of finding your character unexpectedly saddled with a child named William or a carefully wrapped head in a box. There just has to be a good back-story there.
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