What non adventuring mundane gear do your chars carry?

[Natan Linggod 327]

As the title, what kinds of knick knacks, tools or stuff do your chars carry? I mean, even the special forces don't carry only mission specific stuff all the time.

Mine tends to vary by char but I usually have at least a couple of things unrelated to my chars adventuring.

Like my wizard who liked fancy tea so would always have a tea kettle and a few bags of different teas.

Or my ,somewhat idealistic, warrior who carried well read and well loved storybooks.

My artificer who had a chess set and would play games of chess against his helper homonculi.

So what's your knick knack?

[Paradozen]

Wizard: A self-authored cookbook on how to cook various monsters (with a few secret pages on humanoid creatures).

Monk: A suit of mock armor because he always wanted to be a knight.

Oracle: A fancy set of cups to conjure water in, as well as 2 styles of generic tavern mug. He doesn't drink alcohol but doesn't like standing out or being left out.

Druid: A long, complex, detailed list of every possible combination of words in the gnomish language that can loosely be translated into "stop reading my diary."

Wizard 2: A diary in which every page begins with "I prepared" to ward off anyone snooping (on the last page the sentence does end with explosive runes today).

Cleric: As much alchemical kindness as he can obtain from the gold gained through occasional bouts of perform (oratory). Doesn't worship a drinking god either, just hates hearing his party complain about hangovers.

[ZenithTN]

My obese wizard carries a sturdy chair instead of the iconic quarterstaff. Enter room. No fight? Have a seat & wheeze while everyone searches every nook. Contribute with Detect magic, Mage hand, etc.

[Gisher]

Pretty much all of my characters carry a musical instrument and put a few ranks into performance. I don't play Bards or similar classes; I just like the roleplaying aspect of it.

[Bladelock]

All my characters pick up a pair of masterwork manacles. Good for adventuring as well as fun.

[Matt2VK]

Fancy wine or very good ale, depending on the character.

So useful in a number of different ways by giving modifiers to a lot of different social skill checks. Run with it and see what you can talk the GM into giving you.

[Candi Payne]

Wild Quasit 185 Proof Orcish Whiskey

[Tim Emrick]

In 3.5, I had a fighter who collected holy symbols and religious texts. He honored a handful of gods rather than a single patron, so acquired silver (or better) versions of those symbols as early on as he could afford them.

[roguerouge]

I usually make sure to have a variety of outfits. Partly, so that it's easy to be adaptable to social occasions in town. But it's also a horror of the stench of an adventurer with only one pair of clothes. I'll play a murder-hobo, but I at least try not to look like one.

[ZenithTN]

Tim Emrick wrote:

In 3.5, I had a fighter who collected holy symbols and religious texts. He honored a handful of gods rather than a single patron, so acquired silver (or better) versions of those symbols as early on as he could afford them.

I like this foible. Mind if I bolt it onto a character?

[Gisher]

roguerouge wrote:

I usually make sure to have a variety of outfits. Partly, so that it's easy to be adaptable to social occasions in town. But it's also a horror of the stench of an adventurer with only one pair of clothes. I'll play a murder-hobo, but I at least try not to look like one.

Removing the stench and grime from adventuring is what Prestidigitation is for.

[Avoron]

One of my earliest 3.5 characters was a spellscale beguiler who was rather concerned with his own appearance and thus brought a mirror and a bar of soap when adventuring. He ended up having to eat the bar of soap to feign seasickness when impersonating a pirate captain, but that's another story.

Probably my favorite 3.5 character was a human wizard who carried around a bag of holding full of miscellaneous books he had picked up during his adventures. One of these books happened to be a diary written by his future self, in a mixture of languages he didn't know yet, which he translated in bits and pieces in his spare time.

I had a highborn dwarf rogue in Dragon Age who was a travelling merchant-prince, and he carried around a wheelbarrow full of miscellaneous trade goods, including, at various points, cheese, ink, oil, musical instruments, and copious amounts of tea. He successfully traded some of these items for weapons, information, and in one instance, a kidnapped noblewoman.

I had an archery-focused elf fighter in 3.5 who carried around the materials for making his own bows and arrows, at which he was quite skilled. It didn't really provide him with any tangible benefit; it was just a fun hobby.

I had an aasimar alchemist//paladin in Pathfinder who kept a fair amount of alchemical glue and accelerant on hand just in case she needed to glue anything together. Never did, sadly.

I had a halfling spellthief in 3.5 who carried all his extra wealth in salt.

[roguerouge]

Gisher wrote:

roguerouge wrote:

I usually make sure to have a variety of outfits. Partly, so that it's easy to be adaptable to social occasions in town. But it's also a horror of the stench of an adventurer with only one pair of clothes. I'll play a murder-hobo, but I at least try not to look like one.

Removing the stench and grime from adventuring is what Prestidigitation is for.

I'll give you that--but it's still the horror of wearing the same thing day after day.

[Gisher]

roguerouge wrote:

Gisher wrote:

roguerouge wrote:

I usually make sure to have a variety of outfits. Partly, so that it's easy to be adaptable to social occasions in town. But it's also a horror of the stench of an adventurer with only one pair of clothes. I'll play a murder-hobo, but I at least try not to look like one.

Removing the stench and grime from adventuring is what Prestidigitation is for.

I'll give you that--but it's still the horror of wearing the same thing day after day.

True. :)

[Chromantic Durgon <3]

I had one character who had bespoke outfits made in every major town and city she arrived in and promptly threw away when she arrived at the next one. She had prestidigitation and used it but she also didn't want to be scene "recycling her wardrobe"

I hoped one day to turn in one of the previous towns and see a hobo in an ill fitting pink silk number, sadly it never happened.