101 non-treasure items to find in a mite lair

[Mark Hoover 330]

So mites are some of my fave monsters to use in my fey-heavy homebrew setting. They're not overly intellectual but very cunning, have some fun low-level abilities to vex PCs with and lots of love for bugs.

One of the things they're known for, in the fluff anyway, is their hideousness. It's suggested that when they use their Doom SLA that their eyes bulge out of their heads and other races pick on them for their size and lack of conventional beauty.

In my games this has translated to mites having a love for the grotesque, macabre, and otherwise "ugly" treasures of the world. I'm starting this thread for a list of items PCs may find in the lairs of such creatures:

1. Creepy dolls with missing eyes or hair

2. Ripped and soiled finery

3. Deformed body parts suspended in jars of formaldehyde

Please feel free to add your own comments or suggestions.

[Mark Hoover 330]

Really, nothin'? I'm just trying to set a scene here:

Descending down the root-lined shaft below the ancient oak tree, the earthen walls are lined with shallow niches revealing a macabre collection. Gobbets of wax in the rough shape and visage of mortals' faces, all melted and deformed stare back at you as if begging for freedom from their terrible fate.

So I guess I'm the only weirdo that's ever thought: what else do mites collect, besides loot for PCs to take?

[Hunt, the PugWumpus]

4. Arthropod vermin of all kinds. Cages wouldn't be ideal, but jars and pottery could serve as suitable habitable homes.

[tonyz]

5. A large collection of potion bottles... filled with baby pill bugs.

[Mark Hoover 330]

6. A collection of decorative greaves, bracers, helmets and buckler shields, all constructed from segments of insect shells and chitin

[Mykull]

(06) Daisy chain made of dead centipedes.
(07) Huge bucket filled with dried and flattened frogs.
(08) Milk churn full of stuffed voles.
(09) Four jars labeled "Kobold Repellant" filled with soap.
(10) Twenty gravestones with spelling errors in the epitaphs.
(11) Welcome mat with "Leave or Die" written in Goblin.
(12) Selection of nasty looking clown costumes, sized for Gnomes.
(13) Three delicate porcelain dolls in elegant lace dresses. Each of their faces has been deliberately sanded off with fine grit sandpaper.
(14) Five hat boxes each with a mummified Kobold head inside.
(15) Death records from a nearby town, going back centuries, line a bookshelf.
(16) Stirge mounted on a plaque, engrave with the name "Stabby."
(17) Dissected imp pinned to a board.
(18) Potted assassin vine seedling that undulates and can trap mice or fingers.
(19) Basilisk egg that has been drained through a tiny hole.
(20) Storm giant's molar that lets off tiny electrical sparks when metal is nearby.
(21) Clay jar with stale gorgon breath.
(22) Dried hellhound claw on a chain with several keys attached.
(23) Pseudodragon skeleton mounted on a childish diorama.
(24) Twitching length of kyton chain.
(25) Massive tome of diabolical contracts. Pressed between the pages like a flower is a long-dead goblin.
(26) Severed gargoyle claw used as a paperweight.
(27) Cracked stone cylinder engraved with glyphs. The glyphs tell the story of the lich whose phylactery it once was.
(28) Sealed glass tank full of spider eater eggs.
(29) Barrel filled with roc feathers.

This list compliments of various Campaign Workbook articles from Dungeon magazine.

[Mark Hoover 330]

30. A collection of gargoyle heads chiseled off their statues and removed from a nearby town

31. A number of plaques, each with a dwarf's beard nailed to it and an epitaph of victory

32. A library of taboo or obscene poetry and prose, scribed in Aklo

33. several digits; toes, fingers and other extremities, preserved in either honey or beeswax

[Woran]

34. Candles made of earwax

35. Children's stuffed animals, stitched together into some kind of abomination

36. A pouch full of pocket lint

[voodoo chili]

37. A necklace of crawdad claws.

38. A molted spider hat.

39. A skirt of frogs' legs.