New Feierland Merchants: Librarium & Scriptorian; Artificer & Tinker

Two more exciting merchants and their associated services and trappings. The Librarium has some useful little bits and pieces for helping to generate random books. Between this and a table of random inspirations, books are no longer a problem. Much rejoicing. Enjoy!

17 (or more) New Feierland Merchants to come! Next up... I'm not sure. Maybe some weapons and armour or something.

It is reminded that Depression Of Any Kind is Illicit, punishable by Snail Tattoos.

Librarium & Scriptorian		Artificer & Tinker
Samuel of Sheep's Hood - Haunted 12 y.o.		Skalleglas The Wake - Gut-trusting 34 y.o.
Bortheus Bronnenbier – 77 y.o. Pessimist		Services	Cost (g)
Services	Cost (g)	Collude to build contraption	~ 5 per hour
Scribery	3 per page	Copy key (from mould)	15 or more
Translation	10 - 30 per page	Mend or redress	~ 5 per hour
Reading	1 per page	Unfasten lock	10 or more
Forgery & Fabrication	50 or more	Attach bit to piece	15 or more
Investigate unnerving tome	25 or more	Cog/Winchify item	35 or more
Parchment for the above	4 per page	Item	Cost (g)
Book rental (per week)	1 per 10 pages	Pin/needle	1
Item	Cost (g)	Whistle	6
Letter of Marque	250 - 2500	Flint & steel	10
Chalk rods (pouch)	1	Blank key (wax)	12
Charcoal sticks (pouch)	1	razor (cutthroat)	15
Quill	4	Plumbline (5 m)	15
Parchment	4	Quicklime (powder, fistful)	16
Waterproof parchment	10	Twine or string (ball)	16
Ink (black; 50 ml or 500 pages)	25	Bronze mirror	22
Inks (coloured; 50 ml)	50	Locket	22 + lock cost
Dubious local maps	10	Small mechanism/contraption	25
Map to undiscovered location	25	Scissors	26
Treasure map	50	Scales	31
		Lockpicks	34
Approx 150 books in the Librarium		Articulated wood mannequin	35
1 in 6 chance of book with specific topic/type		Lockbox	35 + lock cost
3 in 6 chance of book on a topic (random type)		Divining-Rod	34
In smaller Librariums, 1 in 6 chance of latter		Crank-drill	38
		Ring of keys	43
Book Type	Length (pages)	Lock & key, bad	45
1. Applicatory Manual	D100 x 5	Intricate folding candleholder	45-60
2. Traveller's guide/bestiary	D20 x 20	(Flower, squid, gothic, elks)
3. Folktome/Novel/Story	D8 x 40	Winchwork blade sharpener	64
4. Review/manifesto/critique	D10 x 20	Filter hood	65
5. Response to author	D20 x 10	Manacles or fetters	66
6. Philosophical manuscript	D20 x 20	Lodestone	66
7. Garrulous madness	D1000	Block & tackle	71
8. Play, poetry, or child's tales	D100 x 5	Clockwork clock	79
9. Religious codex	D6 x 100	Sextant	84
10. Biography	D6 x 50	Compass	106
	50 g + per page	Cogwork chopping machine	135
	Double if good	Articulated Clamourbird clock	149
Length: D100 x 5 pages		Tiny clockwork creatures	150 - 250
Approx 50 g per page, more if rare etc.		(Ox, octopus, moorhen, wolf,
250 words per page		squirrel, snake, rat, woman)
Avg. Book = 10 - 80 k words (40 - 320 pages)		Lock & key, robust	163
Maps are crap but give bonus to not be lost		Magnifying glass	235
		Music box	263
Write/copy 1/2 page per hour, 5 per day		Alchemical thermometre	369
Book costs ~ £2 - 16, more if fancy		Spyglass	1476
		Astrolabe	4000

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New Feierland Merchants: Cooper's Tavern

Here are the things you can buy from Cooper's Tavern! It's the only tavern in town, which makes it the only tavern in the land, as far as anyone can tell.

It is reminded that Unauthorised Hurdling is Illicit, punishable by Tarring And Feathering. Free-Hurdling is restricted to designated areas and Earl-appointed hurdlers.

Cooper's Tavern		Cooper's Tavern (cont.)
Griswold Cooper - Helpful 34 y.o. Optimist		Griswold Cooper - Helpful 34 y.o. Optimist
Services	Cost (g)	Item	Cost (g)
Keep secret	Varies	Fare and swallows	(per meal)
Spread word	5 or more	1. Digger's stew	1
Find collaborator	15 or more	2. Swampgreens	1
Identify beverage	5 or more	3. Salty Chunks Pie	1
Arrange introduction	Free, or not	4. Maidensbean Pie	1
		5. Braised Hogsfern	1
Item	Cost (g)	6. Antlerbroth with chicken legs	1
Rooms etc.		7. Squalid Pigeon	1
Dormatory	½ per day	8. Flensed Lard	1
Short room	1 per day	9. Leech with Leperberry	1
Doored room	2 per day	10. Cheese and shameweed	1
Bracketed room (secure)	5 per day	11. Mudapple and Mystery-Meat	1
Chamber of Pride	10 per day	12. Blackroot & Crowcap porridge	2
Stabling	1 per day	13. Redcap and Galley-gnat slugs	2
To buy above:	~ 100 x	14. Mallet Blackfin stew	2
To rent space (per 3 m^2)	2 per day	15. Fish 'n' More Pie	3
		16. Fenbird & Frog Pie	3
Peasant party/carouse	5 per head	17. Beak Sausage	3
Decent party	10 per head	18. Feierlish Chunks Ahoy	4
Bath	2	19. Crab with Clayleaf	5
Fresh bath	5	20. Pinkrabbit Partridge	6
Fresh hot bath	10
Communal bath	3	Tavern Games
		1. Roach Drowning (bet on which drowns first)
Sexy folk	1 – 10 per hour	2. Wrestleboxing (Champion: Otto the Honest)
		3. Ratfights (actually any vermin)
		4. Would thou rather (Guess most popular answer)
Round of drinks (mead → beer)	~ 5-10	5. Trivia (Topic from random table)
Round of good drinks	~ 10 -20	6. Eats! (2 people bet to eat stuff; escalating)
		7. Ventish Ranks (Like Backgammon/MahJong)
Dranks, quaffs, and swills	(Jug/Bottle/Litre)	8. Stones (Stack spiders on face; Don't panic.)
		9. Guano (Wild bat; where will it poop?)
Mudapple Mead	3	10. Crapsack Roulette (Bags of mud/poop)
Mulroney's Mushroom Beer	3	11. Deadleg (Whole tav pairs off; punch leg 'til quit)
Fenreed Ale	4	12. Veterans! (Obstacle course; cannot use arms/legs)
Mongral Moss-Lager	5
Mourner's mudwine	10	Entertainment
Grog (Nauseating)	12	1. Folk Minstrels (Celebrine, Hon, Berghardt)
Hermit's Honey (Whiskey)	27	2. Firelord (Sherwood Claven)
Cruickshank's Famous Fae-Brewn	29	3. Storyteller (Old Ruk Gladstone)
Silk & Gangrene's (Black spirit)	35	4. Drum dancers (Jed & River Shunlocke)
Dead Horses (White wine ish)	42	5. Acrobat (Caris Syphemore; 75)
Desolation Cabernet (Red.)	53	6. Open Stage
Dawnfruit Liqueur	68	7. String Triplet (Ram, Chuntat, Todejum)
		8. Strongman (Fosh Baron)
Tea		9. Masquerade
Peppernettle	1	10. Pipers (Dressed as duck & drake; Pot & Willow)
Woldersapling	3	11. Charlie Meusmador Luthier: Lutist
Embleton oak	6	12. Chob Chyfles: Sad comedian.

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New Feierland Merchants: Merrygoer

Citizens are reminded that The Chesterville Herbalist, Laura Smallbadger, is of significant value to the township. Recent reports of Theft And Harrassment should bring sadness to all good citizens. Those Responsible have been identified and would do well to Turn Themselves In.

Mildred Bark - Mad, Well-paunched 37 y.o.			Mildred Bark - Mad, Well-paunched 37 y.o.
(For Commonfolk to rudely parrot real taste)			(For Commonfolk to rudely parrot real taste)
Services	Cost (g)		Item	Cost (g)
Impart delusion of attractiveness	~ 10		Masks	2D6 + 10
Misunderstand cultural trend	Free		For Huge Mask	X 5
Accentuate flaws	~ 15
Express envy of ones betters	Free		Piece of bark with holes in it
Reduce muddiness of outfit	2 +		Piece of meat with holes in it
Shirk responsibility for overdose	Free		Clay and mud effigy of lizard
Obtain rumour about nobility	55 +		Dog's head with string
Item	Cost (g)		Heavy clay bovine effigy
Marmon'd Hog-oil (for hair)	25		Crude mockery of nobility
Mudwash	7		Indistinguishable tangle of weeds
			Toadstool
Festive Tinctures (per hit)			Mighty Hirsute
Folk tonic	1		Damp Leaves
Hearthstone	2
Wedding powder	3		Tattoos
Sailor	5		Small	5
Rare herring	7		Medium (half limb)	20
Doglock	7		Large (whole limb, etc.)	37
Scents			Stack of hog meat, etc.
Stonemold	4		Heptagon
Essence of Gander	6		Map to house, tavern, etc.
Roastmeat oil	7		Name and/or address
Coppergreen	9		Sleeping hog
Flower-swill	11		Child or Partner's face
			Caltrop'd wire
Wigs & Headdery			Flaming skull
Rabbitcap (dead rabbit, string)	15		Phrase in foreign language (?)
Burgher's Tress (knotted braid)	18		Recipe for gruel
Crown of Toad (one dead toad,	19		Burning witch/wizard
mouth encircles head)			Pitchfork
Weevil-wig (Tied to weevils)	19		Duck with arrow in it
Hoof-crest (assorted hooves)	22		An eel breathing fire
Feierlish tails (assorted tails)	24		Some religious thing
			Three swamp-flies
Jewellery			Half-sawed Elf
Rock with string	2		Small crab
Woven feather band	4		Handful of flowers
Shameweed fibre chain	3		Furnace
Goathair braid with Horn eye	16		Tongs and Hammer
Carved elkbone ring	14		A small wren
String of shells	7		Two Puppies
Mudrock bracelet	11		Smoke from a crevasse
Fungustring chain w/ tree-gall	21		A Horse
Roachshell necklace	9		A Dead Horse
Feathers stuck in amber	23		Three women plucking hens

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New Feierland Merchants: Apothecary & Chirurgeon

The Town-Crier wishes it known that the Bowyer/Fletcher, Carmichael Fletchersson, has taken to terrifying acts and miscreant behaviour, and has fled the town to the Sorth after Evading Capture. Last seen Chewing On Shadows and Writhing Unpleasantly on Dock Street. Acting Captain Fat Michael offers a reward of 1500 coins for his apprehension. Any pieces of children found in his possession should also be returned.

Apothecary & Chirurgeon			Apothecary & Chirurgeon Cont.
Berwulf Ni Sionuir - Happy, Fearless 30 y.o.			Berwulf Ni Sionuir - Happy, Fearless 30 y.o.
Services	Cost (g)		Item	Cost (g)
Hair Butchery	2		Medicines
Diagnose Malady	10		1. Foxglove	12
Assess Quality of Physic Garden	35		2. Hellebore	14
Amputate & Cauterise	30		3. Hemlock	17
Bloodletting	22 per month		4. Henbane	18
Ongoing Apothecation	50 per month		5. Sweetwood	26
Clystering (Bowel cleanse)	27		6. Markelweed	29
Trepanning	43		7. Gall of Willowspider	32
Maggotting	21		8. Owlhound tail	38
Item	Cost (g)		9. Feierlish Shrewsblood	63
Note: Both blood & hair are used in evil sorcery;			10. Unearthly Apples	74
Both are treated very carefully and suspiciously			11. Sanguine sulphur	81
Plague-Doctor mask	55		12. Newtspine	96
Mandrake root	115		Cause of Malady	(D66 roll)
Snake oil	24		Astral Influence	11
Smelling salts	14		Planets	12
Leeches (per fistful)	15		Gypsy or Pygmy	13
Leeched citron	31		Stolen memories	14
Uric purificant	5		Gobblin or Fae	15
Buckthorn Syrup	14		Bitter thoughts	16
Acid vial, concentrated slug	63		Excess/Dearth of fire (Yellow)	21
Bandages (per mangling)	5		Earth dearth/excess (Black)	22
Fertility-Trinket	44		Excess/Dearth of water (Phlegm)	23
Tattoo of Barren-Belly	35		Excess/Dearth of air (Sanguine)	24
Luckstone	28		Gods	25
Lye (per vial)	52		Elf-shot	26
Soap (per bar)	25		Curse of yellow bile	31
Divining-Rod	34		Curse of black bile	32
Salve; Skullcap seeds	14		Cursed phlegm	33
Salve; Snailslime (burns)	7		Cursed blood	34
Salve; Coppered wine (foulery)	32		Hatred (Yellow)	35
Salve; Betony & Owl gall (head)	46		Melancholy (Black)	36
Salve; Horehound tincture (chest)	27		Despair (Phlegm)	41
			Longing (Sanguine)	42
Tonic; Vitrious	40		Uncommon visions	43
Tonic; Black	40		Estranged pulse	44
Tonic; Yellow	40		Hidden Worms	45
Tonic; Sanguine	65		Hidden Critters	46
			Fiends of Hilddegrad	51
Anaesthetic/sedative/poison			Backward shadows	52
Mandrake dwaleh	56		Witchcraft	53
Sheeprot dwaleh	31		Dynastic curse	54
Laudanum	64		Mischievous siblings	55
			Unsettled grave	56
Humours			Secret beetles or maggots	61
Yellow (Hatred, fire, summer, warm/dry)			Crows	62
Black (Melancholy, earth, autumn, cold/dry			Ghosts or Ancestors	63
Vitriol/Phlegm (Despair, water, winter, cold/wet)			Weak jokes	64
Sanguine (Longing, air, spring, warm/wet)			Kindness	65
			Sympathy	66

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How Much Does Art and Craftwork Cost?

I'm sick of trying to use my brain to answer this question on the fly. There needs to be variation: Most of the art needs to be cheap, but some of it needs to be really expensive. So! Solved with one dice-roll! Hieronymus Bosch - Christ in Limbo Art Prices For New Feierland: 1) Roll 3D6, and add them up.
2) For each 6 rolled, add a zero to the number.
3) For better/worse art, roll more/less D6. 4) For large pieces, multiply by 2, 5, 10, or 20. e.g. 3D6: - 4, 2, 6 = 12 g. - I rolled a 6, so add a zero: 120 g. - If it were as big as a horse, I might make it cost 20 times that: 2400 g.

I Tried Building a Monster-Creation-Table and Ended Up Creating a Monster

I like making monsters but I often don't know where to start. I have, therefore, made some tables that give me what I need to create excellent and fun encounters. Turns out some of the things write themselves, some of the things aren't monsters, and sometimes I end up with things I don't think I'd have otherwise thought of. It seems more powerful than I intended. I am pleased, but need to refine some things. I rolled straight on the tables, and these are the first 6 things they churned out:

1) "The Raven and The Bull". A magical ballad or story; a lilting Fae given tonal flesh. The story tells of a raven, which frustrates and thwarts a young bull of his opportunities to impress and court young heifers. He becomes furious, but the raven is too cunning and elusive to be trampled. The young bull's rage instead brings great harm to those kind beasts around him, who in turn get angry with him and he is ostracised. The song, once heard, is unforgettable. When afflicted folk find anger in their company, the swirling, dirgy ballad may slink forth from their mouths. Their angry fellow, hearing the chorus, may enflame and do violence upon those around him/her. The weakest willed enfuriates will cruelly eat their victims, unless bodily restraints are applied. The fae-song thus propagates, feeding on the rage of folk.  

2) The Monks of Makery. A chasm, from which dull, copper light emerges. Inside, a sect of outcasts worship the formless, brazen mists that pool in the central, bottomless void of the pit. It demands, they say, the crafts and makery of all things, and in return nourishes them with warmth and life.

3) Khanezzar's Fingers. A spidery, ten limbed abomination crafted of alchemically treated man- and beast-flesh. The central mass is a stitchery of hide and maws, surrounding pulsating and purpling organs. It is the servant of a mad, lost alchemist, who commands it to covet and collect treasures and food for his work and sustenance. The passages of command are carried on leylines, and these words might be acquired in order to control the thing...

4) Mists of Madness. Writhing, tentacled sacs that live in the frozen fogs of New Feierland. The instincts and emotions of manfolk, particularly those of dreamers, draw them forth from their icy nests. The take nothing, but bring gifts of overwhelming paranoia, confusion and distrust. They thrive, dance, and reproduce to the moorish delights of humans succumbing to and exaggerating their gifts. Madness often follows, and these sorrowful folk may be found, helpless, in the shadows of receding night.

5) The Hungerer. A large, emaciated serpent that eats the bones of virtuous folk. It stalks the night. It attacks by spewing forth a mass of grey bile, that stretches and sticks like a spider's silk. Helpless victims are dragged into cursed pits, where they hang and starve, until their bones can be drawn from their flesh and consumed. The beast, perhaps due to its diet, is incapable of lies or verbal evasion.

6) Vulheulla. Home to the lost, desperate, and hopeful. Vulhuella is a magnificent bastion, built of Celestine bricks, gilded with gold and bronze, and fed by a river of alchemical silver. There are tales of travellers, wracked with grief, loss or despair, who find this place beyond the edges of civilisation. Most who visit its glorious walls or speak with its beauteous, alluring folk are forever lost to the world of men. Those few that return are forever changed, and burdened with treasures.

10 Craftsfolk of New Feierland

Sometimes in games, buying stuff is a bit exciting but then you're like "oh that's all there is? cool".

I don't want that to happen. Equipping a character is often among the earliest things a player will do in your game. Some like this to be fast and efficient, to get into play as soon as possible. That's fine and easy to do. This post isn't about that.

This post is about making that equipment process, that early introduction of a player to your game and setting, into part of the game. Set the tone and turn it into play. Get your players thinking in the "right" kinds of ways, picturing the world they're pretending to explore and/or ruin. If a simple necessity (sort of) such as equipment purchasing consistently presents them with a sample of the game's energy, players might start to think in terms of their character and the world s/he inhabits. Increased enjoyment should hopefully follow.

There's still a lot of finalising to do in my game (many of the details need to be eloquently scrawled, etc.), but here are some places you can go to get stuff in New Feierland. Each will, of course, have its own list of stuff, services and modifications.

1. Prostheticist
Misplacement of a piece of your body can occur unexpectedly and without provocation. Despair not, young chap or chapette! It needn't be the end of your thriving! Come visit Macintosh's Prostheterie for a great range of custom limbs and organs!

2. Obscurer
Esoterica and Obscurisms. Trinkets and Curios. Ornament. Gimcrack. Accoutrement. Paraphernalia, Contrivance, Apparati, Ornament Again. Somethingrother. Biscuit. Honestly, I don't even know where most of this stuff came from. Whoever made them are probably dead or an elf or a dead elf. Buy something.

Curses Of New Feierland

Working on magic for the game. It's taking a while since the system I'm designing is unprecedented. It will hopefully be tremendous and gloriously acclaimed or universally reviled. Or maybe just quietly and unpassionately dismissed. Anyway, the list of things I wanted to be spells ended up being 98 long, so that's pretty convenient. I will make two more for 100 total. Here are some of the curses:

Curse Of:

1. The Empty, from which one's tubes fall unto the earth, intact.

2. The Sycophant, from which obsequiousness infects.

10 Farms of New Feierland

I am making a game. It will be great. Here are some types of farms you will probably burn down by accident.

1. Leperberry Vineyard:
A fibrous, greyish vine that produces globular berries with the appearance of leprous skin. Taste of liver and honey.

2. Shameweed Cages & Squiddery
A long, rubbery sea-algae, originally named due to heavy consumption by the poorest and least capable of early settlers. Shameweed is now a staple for most households.  Served best with whiskey.