Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Trinkets

When you make your character, you can roll once on the Trinkets table to gain a trinket, a simple item lightly touched by mystery. The DM might also use this table. It can help stock a room in a dungeon or fill a creature's pockets.

d100	Trinket
1	A picture you drew as a child of your imaginary friend
2	A lock that opens when blood is dripped in its keyhole
3	Clothes stolen from a scarecrow
4	A spinning top carved with four faces: happy, sad, wrathful, and dead
5	The necklace of a sibling who died on the day you were born
6	A wig from someone executed by beheading
7	The unopened letter to you from your dying father
8	A pocket watch that runs backward for an hour every midnight
9	A winter coat stolen from a dying soldier
10	A bottle of invisible ink that can only be read at sunset
11	A wineskin that refills when interred with a dead person for a night
12	A set of silverware used by a king for his last meal
13	A spyglass that always shows the world suffering a terrible storm
14	A cameo with the profile's face scratched away
15	A lantern with a black candle that never runs out and that burns with green flame
16	A teacup from a child's tea set, stained with blood
17	A little black book that records your dreams, and yours alone, when you sleep
18	A necklace formed of the interlinked holy symbols of a dozen deities
19	A noose that feels heavier than it should
20	A birdcage into which small birds fly but once inside never eat or leave
21	A lepidopterist's box filled with dead moths with skull-like patterns on their wings
22	A jar of pickled ghouls’ tongues
23	The wooden hand of a notorious pirate
24	A urn with the ashes of a dead relative
25	A hand mirror backed with a bronze depiction of a medusa
26	Pallid leather gloves crafted with ivory fingernails
27	Dice made from the knuckles of a notorious charlatan
28	A ring of keys for forgotten locks
29	Nails from the coffin of a murderer
30	A key to the family crypt
31	A bouquet of funerary flowers that always looks and smells fresh
32	A switch used to discipline you as a child
33	A music box that plays by itself whenever someone holding it dances
34	A walking cane with an iron ferrule that strikes sparks on stone
35	A flag from a ship lost at sea
36	A porcelain doll’s head that always seems to be looking at you
37	A wolf’s head wrought in silver that is also a whistle
38	A small mirror that shows a much older version of the viewer
39	A small, worn book of children’s nursery rhymes
40	A mummified raven claw
41	A broken pendant of a silver dragon that’s always cold to the touch
42	A small locked box that quietly hums a lovely melody at night, but you always forget it in the morning
43	An inkwell that makes one a little nauseous when staring at it
44	An old doll made from a dark, dense wood and missing a hand and a foot
45	A black executioner’s hood
46	A pouch made of flesh, with a sinew drawstring
47	A tiny spool of black thread that never runs out
48	A tiny clockwork figurine of a dancer that’s missing a gear and doesn’t work
49	A black wooden pipe that creates puffs of smoke that look like skulls
50	A vial of perfume, the scent of which only certain creatures can detect
51	A stone that emits a single endless sigh
52	A rag doll with two red dots on its neck
53	A spring-loaded toy with a missing crank
54	A mason jar containing a harmless but agitated animate ooze
55	A black wooden die with 1’s on all the faces
56	A child’s portrait with “born” written on the back, along with the next year’s date
57	A dagger-sized shark tooth
58	A finger that’s taken root in a small pot
59	A toolbox containing the remains of a dangerous but broken clockwork arachnid
60	A pitcher-sized, opalescent snail shell that occasionally, inexplicably shudders or tips over
61	The logbook of an ice-breaking ship called The Haifisch
62	A small portrait of you as a child, alongside your identically dressed twin
63	A silver pocket watch with thirteen hours marked on the face
64	A woodcut of a wolf devouring its own hind leg
65	A planchette etched with raven skulls
66	A moist coral figurine of a lamprey with arms, legs, and a bipedal stance
67	A bronze fingertrap sculpted with roaring tigers
68	A pearl necklace that turns read under the full moon
69	A fossil of a fish with humanoid features
70	A plague doctor’s mask
71	A paper talisman with smudged ink
72	A locket containing the smeared image of an eyeless figure
73	A canopic jar with a lid sculpted like a goat
74	A jack-o’-lantern made from a small, pale gourd
75	A single high-heeled, iron shoe
76	A candle made from a severed hand
77	A clockwork device that beats like a heart
78	A blank masquerade mask
79	A glass eye with a live worm inside
80	A sheet with two eyeholes cut in it
81	The deed to someplace called Tergeron Manor
82	An ornate, wax-sealed crimson envelope that resists all attempts to open it
83	A mourning veil trimmed in black lace
84	A straitjacket covered in charcoal runes
85	A tattered, burlap mask with a crooked smile painted on it
86	A green ribbon designed to be worn as a choker
87	Dentures with mismatched, sharpened teeth
88	A warm, fist-sized egg case
89	A copper ring with “mine” engraved on the inside
90	A glass ampoule containing a neon green fluid
91	An eye patch embroidered with a holy symbol
92	A severed big toe with a nail that continues to grow
93	A journal that has been heavily redacted
94	A glove with a mouth-like design stitched on the palm
95	An ornate but empty reliquary made of silver and fractured glass
96	A ceramic figure of a cat with too many eyes
97	A crumpled paper ticket bearing the words “admit none”
98	An electrum coin with your face on one side
99	A shrunken gremishka head that twitches when anyone casts magic nearby
100	A sunburst amulet with a red stone at the center