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You inherent a bank account (assuming you have banks in your game) that all it has in it is a map that leads to local job board and a note that says "git off ya bum and git a job"
You inherit a bag of unsent letters. They all go one particular individual. Could make a few novels of romance poems with the things. Probably important to figure out who your uncle was talking with. Who knows, maybe you inherited something from them too.
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137: You inherit a summons to the fey court. Apparently it was served nearly 200 years ago for a crime your ancestor committed (though it is not detailed, or alternatively it is excruciatingly detailed), and the court date is scheduled for one week from today.
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137: You inherit a summons to the fey court. Apparently it was served nearly 200 years ago for a crime your ancestor committed (though it is not detailed, or alternatively it is excruciatingly detailed), and the court date is scheduled for one week from today.
137b the hearing was a week from yesterday due to lack of attendance was found guilty now must (redeem/outrun/kill/bribe) your way out of this
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Artistic tendency and eccentricity have always been regular bedfellows, but never quite so literally as in the case of an unexpected acquisition by means of the passing of a particularly prudish aunt who, apparently, had far more prurient interests than advertised.
In her will was left the contents of a room that she had filled with a number of excruciatingly inappropriate magical items of entertainment and indulgence. Chief among them are a series of entirely-too-anatomically-correct replicas of the venerative organs of male demi-human, humanoid, and monstrous humanoid beings; a set of numerous straps of leather that can be arranged to make a set of unexpectedly effective, if not obscenely revealing, leather armor akin to a torturer's raiment; and, most notably, an excruciatingly disturbing profane painting of a certain beloved moral figure of the community, engaging in debauchery straight out of a Lammashtan Revelry.
Examining the painting will eventually locate a hidden compartment, and a ring stashed away within. If worn, and something is framed with the fingers as if being assessed for a portrait, and the activation word of 'Magnificent!' is spoken, the picture portrayed in the frame changes to whatever is being imagined by the wearer of the ring, with the observed as the subject of said imaginings in the painting. The quality is always intensely realistic.
136. Your very male self and your three brothers receive the key to a safe which your mother's note states that can only be opened by her daughter.
You are also presented with a belt which will let one of you deal with that detail.
Would removing the belt cause the wearer to revert back to his male form or would he be stuck as the new "daughter"? That would be kick awesome.
138. You receive a key, inherited from your great-grandfather/mother who was a member of a powerful adventuring party, along with a place and date. Going to the place at the required time, you meet several others, all descendants of the original company, outside a large vault with a number of keys and a note on the door: "Open when the time of the prophecy is nigh." That would be now...
so necro with
139 your strange uncle who you see rarely and only during the new moon left you a letter describing your new condition...
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140. You've inherited a large iron box from your father, chained and locked. There was also a letter, instructing the executor to release the key to you after 10 years, unless...
You didn't pay attention to that last part, because you figured you'd just break into the box. The local locksmith spent hours trying to pick the lock and failed. Your safecracker friend didn't even try to pick it, but he did try to buy the box off you. You took it to a tavern and bet a barbarian 10gp he couldn't break the chains, but his +1 greataxe wasn't enough to cut it. (Hey, you won 10gp.)
Now, rumors of you and the box are starting to spread. Unpleasant thuggish types have started showing up at your door to bet you they can break the chains. Other unsavory folks keep pulling you aside on the street to strongly suggest that you sell them the box. An old friend of your father's came by to beg you to throw the box in the river. A Kuthonite cleric left you his calling card and politely requested that you notify him when you get it open. What did the executor say about they key again?
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141. You've inherited your great-grandmother. How? Turns out great-grandpa was a masterful conjurer. Not the wisest, but cunning and powerful. He took an erinyes as a companion and lived happily with her for many years. Your grandparents passed away years ago, they were adventurers. Your mother died of a plague. Your father just passed. The contract now comes to you. Great-grandma must serve the eldest male of the family (or female, at need) until her obligations are met. The obligation? One century of service. When the time is up, she claims the soul of whomever that person is. It's year 99....
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142. You go to see your impoverished leatherworker father, clutching his last toole on his deathbed. You think back guiltily, wondering if you couldn't have helped him more, so that he wouldn't have had to sell his tools off, one by one, until he didn't really have enough left to make a living through his chosen trade. If only you had followed in his footsteps, instead of becoming an adventurer!
As you bend closer to hear his dying words, you wonder if that might not still be possible. between labored breaths, he gasps out:
"Soon, my boy, soon. Soon, this awl will be yours."
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144: A bump on your road - Early in your adventuring career (before you reached level 1) you helped your master save a tribe of wild elves from some minor menace. You didn't speak a word of their language at the time, and spent an evening with a very grateful lass that night after dancing with her. The next morning you leave, never to see her again.
It has been a few years since then, and her face has faded to a vague memory. That is, until a little girl shows up at your door baring a message that her mother died of fever. A letter letting you know you have inherited the job of raising your daughter comes with her.
145: A completely unwarranted sense of self-importance.
146: Sheet Music of the Beyond: A family member of yours left you the sheet music to his pipe organ. While seemingly normal on the surface, the notation is odd and reveals a code to an extremely complex musical piece that unnerves all who hear it. Among the deceased's notes is a single scrap of paper used as a bookmark which reads: "Never on a blood moon."
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147: Grandma got run over by a reindeer. You saw it happen. She showed up under the tree, bandaged up, Christmas day, but you know Santa exists. After that you got some great Christmas presents, including a wand of stabilize, and a wooden sword that's bane to undead.
144: A bump on your road - Early in your adventuring career (before you reached level 1) you helped your master save a tribe of wild elves from some minor menace. You didn't speak a word of their language at the time, and spent an evening with a very grateful lass that night after dancing with her. The next morning you leave, never to see her again.
It has been a few years since then, and her face has faded to a vague memory. That is, until a little girl shows up at your door baring a message that her mother died of fever. A letter letting you know you have inherited the job of raising your daughter comes with her.
I had a male character idea who have this as a 'running gag', the list of kids including: Half-Fiends, Half-Celestials, Harpies, Medusas, Feys, etc...
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148. You inherit a unicorn horn and a scroll of "True Resurrection" from your grandmother. As it turns out she spent several years as the travelling companion of a unicorn and left the unicorn on good terms after meeting your grandfather. The unicorn was killed by a lich years later and your grandmother had spent the last few decades hunting down the lich and retrieving the unicorn's horn. She was not powerful enough to cast "True Resurrection" herself, and now needs you to find someone who can bring back her dearly departed friend.
149. You inherit one of your father's younger concubines, well into her sixth month of pregnancy. The child is your father's, making them your half-sibling. They are to be raised until the age of majority in your culture, but are not legally entitled to anything else of the estate.
150. You inherit the ancient taint of your family bloodline as you begin developing the traits of a tiefling.
151. You inherit the ancient blessing of your family bloodline as you begin developing the traits of an aasimar.
152. You inherit the blood oath of your grandfather, who swore that nobody of his family line would enter Heaven/Nirvana/Elysium so long as the dreaded lich [insert name here] still lived.
153. You inherit a boon favour from a black dragon extracted by Lamashtu-worshipping grandfather. The black dragon arrives with a "Demon Mother's Mask" and a contract binding the black dragon to grant "One half-draconic offspring" to your grandfather's first adult female descendant.
154. You inherit your distant Qadiran ancestor's undine harem, located at the bottom of the Arcadian ocean.
I had a male character idea who have this as a 'running gag', the list of kids including: Half-Fiends, Half-Celestials, Harpies, Medusas, Feys, etc...144: A bump on your road - Early in your adventuring career (before you reached level 1) you helped your master save a tribe of wild elves from some minor menace. You didn't speak a word of their language at the time, and spent an evening with a very grateful lass that night after dancing with her. The next morning you leave, never to see her again.
It has been a few years since then, and her face has faded to a vague memory. That is, until a little girl shows up at your door baring a message that her mother died of fever. A letter letting you know you have inherited the job of raising your daughter comes with her.
We totally nailed a PC similarly to this in a campaign a couple years ago. They saved a village of marsh elves from a black dragon. He ended up spending the night with the chieftain's daughter and now has a half-elf/quarter-orc/quarter-human kid. He was a total whore throughout the campaign up to that point, having a farmer's daughter in every village. The rest of the party saw what the GM was doing and helped to railroad him into it. Needless t say, his character is no longer so promiscuous.
We totally nailed a PC similarly to this in a campaign a couple years ago. They saved a village of marsh elves from a black dragon. He ended up spending the night with the chieftain's daughter and now has a half-elf/quarter-orc/quarter-human kid. He was a total whore throughout the campaign up to that point, having a farmer's daughter in every village. The rest of the party saw what the GM was doing and helped to railroad him into it. Needless t say, his character is no longer so promiscuous.I had a male character idea who have this as a 'running gag', the list of kids including: Half-Fiends, Half-Celestials, Harpies, Medusas, Feys, etc...144: A bump on your road - Early in your adventuring career (before you reached level 1) you helped your master save a tribe of wild elves from some minor menace. You didn't speak a word of their language at the time, and spent an evening with a very grateful lass that night after dancing with her. The next morning you leave, never to see her again.
It has been a few years since then, and her face has faded to a vague memory. That is, until a little girl shows up at your door baring a message that her mother died of fever. A letter letting you know you have inherited the job of raising your daughter comes with her.
My idea was a bit 'darkier', basically, the guy is so damn cute, that before he can say yes or no, he is naked with a female on top of him... every so often, a girl/woman show up at his door with (at least) a baby. the guy is kinda rich with a big property, so...
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155. You inherit your father's pet lizard, the one he never let you near and was almost religiously protective of. When you receive the pet in its literally gilded cage, it is accompanied by a letter from your father. It reads "Please take care of Barnaby, the witch's curse on him should wear off in a year at this point."
156. You inherit an inkpot of devil's blood from your uncle. Any contracts written in it will be upheld and enforced by the legions of Hell itself, but all signatories to any of its contracts will be damned to dwell in Asmodeus' Pit upon their deaths.
157. You inherit your estranged aunt's three-legged, blind, toothless cat named "Lucky". You begin noticing that you a lot of surprise attacks miss you for some reason.
158. You inherit the duty of guarding a gate to a dimensional portal that leads to an unspeakable evil bent on destroying all of living creation, along with command of the entire [insert slightly-different alignment here] guardian corps.
159. You inherit your father's belt. You remember him often saying he was only able to marry your mother because of the enchantment on that belt.
160. You inherit a frog that dances and sings whenever you are alone with it.
161. You inherit a "Bag of Tricks", but every animal you pull from it becomes progressively larger. First it was a mouse, then a guinea pig, then a cat and now a fox...
158. You inherit the duty of guarding a gate to a dimensional portal that leads to an unspeakable evil bent on destroying all of living creation, along with command of the entire [insert slightly-different alignment here] guardian corps.
158.a) your job is to make sure no goody two shoes get in, and that the bleeding carpet is rolled out when the Masters show up.
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158. You inherit the duty of guarding a gate to a dimensional portal that leads to an unspeakable evil bent on destroying all of living creation, along with command of the entire [insert slightly-different alignment here] guardian corps.158.a) your job is to make sure no goody two shoes get in, and that the bleeding carpet is rolled out when the Masters show up.
You didn't get the reference. Clearly you do not know of all the versatile functions of a lead sheet.
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160a. "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal..."
162.) You have spent quite a while honing your sorcerous powers, inherited from some dragon ancestor. Then, one night, you receive a magical message. It seems that your draconic great-something-grandparent has finally passed away of old age. He decided to pass his vast hoard of treasure to the first of his descendants who can discover where he hid it. Of course, this is a dragon who has lived a VERY long time. As such, there are hundreds of claimants to the hoard now.
You didn't get the reference. Clearly you do not know of all the versatile functions of a lead sheet.158. You inherit the duty of guarding a gate to a dimensional portal that leads to an unspeakable evil bent on destroying all of living creation, along with command of the entire [insert slightly-different alignment here] guardian corps.158.a) your job is to make sure no goody two shoes get in, and that the bleeding carpet is rolled out when the Masters show up.
I'm not sure for the reference, tempted to say Green Lanterns. and doing inversion/twisting can be fun.
163) You inherit a major artifact magic longsword sword. If you do not have a caster level it counters any hostile magic targeting you or any allies who also don't have caster levels as if it were a level 20 wizard casting dispel magic. If you are not normally proficient with longswords you are treated as proficient with it and treat your level as your BAB for attacks made with it. It provides fast healing 1.
Unfortunately it comes with a geas to help women in danger and doesn't distinguish between a woman being yelled at by her husband, a woman being sacrificed to demons, and an eyrines being menaced by a paladin.
what about fights between women?
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I'm not sure for the reference, tempted to say Green Lanterns. and doing inversion/twisting can be fun.You didn't get the reference. Clearly you do not know of all the versatile functions of a lead sheet.158. You inherit the duty of guarding a gate to a dimensional portal that leads to an unspeakable evil bent on destroying all of living creation, along with command of the entire [insert slightly-different alignment here] guardian corps.158.a) your job is to make sure no goody two shoes get in, and that the bleeding carpet is rolled out when the Masters show up.
Wrong again. Order of the Stick. Specifically, Lord Shojo.
164. You inherit a Wayfinder that doesn't point north, casts a "Silent Image" of a dashing looking pirate instead of "Light".
165. You inherit a tankard of ale from your uncle. Whenever you drink from it and then look away, it mysteriously fills up with more ale.
166.) A curse? Wait, are you sure it's a curse? It's too awesome!
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167. You inherit a burned, grease-stained, stinking towel from a family friend you recall having a smile that was much too wide for your comfort. (Cookies if you get the reference.)
168. You inherit a manor in the middle of the countryside. After sleeping in one of the rooms for one night, you leave to find that all the walls of the hallway have the words "Get out" written in some red substance.
168. Amniville Horror.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384806/
The Amityville Horror
I have spelling problems.
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169 You inherit... you! It seems your granny was feeling lonely, and commissioned a simulacrum of you. Don't you feel guilty now for not visiting more often?
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170. You inherit 2d4 adorable kittens all exactly specified in your aunt's will...written 3 years ago.
171. You inherit a magical lamp, with a genie inside. The genie grants no wishes, and can only leave the lamp a few hours each day due to the wishes made by your ancestor. The genie hates the situation, but seems to be taking a shine to you, as they share one part of your alignment(something they did not with your ancestor). They are something of a pariah in their community for allowing themselves to be bound in this way, and their kinfolk often seek out the genie to slay it and free it from its situation.
172. You inherit a magical ring, with strict rules to never put it on- it is very slowly regenerating the person you inherited it from. If you put it on, that person would be forever lost, but the ring's regeneration trait would pass on to you. The decedent will be fully regenerated in about a year or so, and will regrow slowly from the digit the ring sat upon.
173. You inherit, a warehouse! Unfortunately, it's full to the ceiling with crates. You can pull crates out one at a time out through the door. Roll on the random crate chart topic for each crate. Various businessman, your party's sponsors, and other interested parties will gather. You can probably sell most crates, I am going to say 2 thousand till someone volunteers a more accurate estimate. One of them is the crate of crates, the previous owner overused that one.
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I am not sure if this counts, but I will put it up anyway.
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You inherited an arch nemesis! Some random bbeg thinks you are the reincarnation of his old heroic rival who died a mundane death. The bbeg is determined to finish things once and for, so naturally he kidnapped someone close to you and declares "we will finish this where it all began!" Then disappears. Now you have to find him and put an end to this once and for all.
176. You must transport these cages back to the first world location to get them to function automatically.
177. You inherit a chest and the key. Inside are 7 black suits and mirrorshades. The suit, even if worn under demon armor, casts a powerful illusion so observers only see the suit and a normal native being(DC20 will save) and receive the telepathic suggestion that "You do not want to get involved". The mirror shades suspend any detection powers that would discourage participation in an adventure, like detect evil in Baba Yaga's house if the wearer is a paladin. These magic items reform to fit the wearer.
Your ancestor was an MIB and possibly also a monster. A GM can also present this item if the characters have to venture into a devil worshipping country to fight Rovagug cultists.