Drugs, Beads of Force, smoke bombs, caltrops, etc.
Pipe, flint/steel, tobacco, left-handed tobacco, dust of coughing and sneezing, couple doses of poison, masterwork pocketwatch, onyx, black sapphire, amethyst, silver ring with the Seal of Solomon, spare hair ties and tampons for my daughters, ...
You know, "the usual"...
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A joey. Oh, wait...we're not talking about marsupials here, are we?
Wheetstone, weapon blanch, sunrods, treats for the driuid’s Companion, hairbrush, +2 shrinking defending adamantine lucerne hammer…
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Fishhooks. Pickpockets really like finding those.
Basically all the small stuff you would need for daily life. Since a lot of clothes from the medieval times did not have pockets they used pouches. This is even truer for people wearing armor. This would include money, but also a lot of personal items. Due to the lower technology level characters are going to need stuff that modern people do not. Since I don’t smoke there is no reason for me to light a fire. But a character in a game probably will. Think of what women carry in their purses and that will give you a start.
Hands. How else do you get stuff out without pouring it out? That's inconvenient in combat to say the least.
Hands. How else do you get stuff out without pouring it out? That's inconvenient in combat to say the least.
I too kept a severed hand in my pouch. It belonged to a nice lady whose ghost helped me out.
I have a specific pouch just for hands... the hands of my enemies.
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Basically all the small stuff you would need for daily life. Since a lot of clothes from the medieval times did not have pockets they used pouches. This is even truer for people wearing armor. This would include money, but also a lot of personal items. Due to the lower technology level characters are going to need stuff that modern people do not. Since I don’t smoke there is no reason for me to light a fire. But a character in a game probably will. Think of what women carry in their purses and that will give you a start.
Purses either wind up horribly cluttered or tend to have modern things in it. Keys (not for an adventurer), tampons (Don't think they are in Golarion), makeup (maybe), aspirins and other portable medicine (only for an alchemist although potions might count), pen and paper (this can go in), money (this would go in).
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@Bjorn In order
1) Generally if you pare a purse down to essentials its usually only modern things that get in there. Its when you start adding generic things like a scarf, receipts, umbrella and so on that it starts to get cluttered. Absorbent materials yes but in a mideval period I imagine they're more likely to go into a backpack rather than a pouch due to size. If your wandering around like most adventurers are I can't see you needing keys on a regular basis. They could but that example was specifically small modern medicines. Except for alchemists with the right discovery they tend to be a lot larger in pathfinder.
Alchemical remedies do exist in the game. In fact they sometimes are equal or even better than modern medicine. No reason that an alchemist could not come up with a super absorbent material and have something similar to a tampon.
Thing like Pens exist even if they are not the modern ball point pens we use. Combs and other grooming tools would be something many people carry. Don’t forget something to cover smells. Considering how bad smells got in medieval times people often carried around something they could smell to help cover the stench. Spices were also very expensive in medieval times so someone with wealth would probably carry around some to season their food.