One Hundred Random Post-Apocalyptic Junk Items
30 November 2009 in Resources by Iain M NormanAt the weekend I was away with no access to computers or the internet, that didn’t stop me scribbling down stuff in a notebook to prepare for my first Mutant Future session this week.
Inspired by Jeff Rients and with the help of my six year old daughter I made a list of random items. This would be relevant to any post apocalyptic setting of course.
List after the jump…
- Old tractor tyre
- Broken wire rimmed spectacles
- Blunt woodsaw
- Length of 2×4
- 1d12 rusty nails
- Bottle of dried-up wood glue
- Microwave oven
- Garden hoe
- 1d2 glass eyes
- Wooden chair
- Paracord (1d20 feet)
- Rusty chef’s knife
- Broken bed
- Wooden broomhandle
- Shopping trolley
- Businessman’s sewing kit
- Hand bell
- Pair of skis
- Knitting needles (1d2)
- Christmas baubles (1d20)
- Enamel mug
- Cuddly toy
- Fountain pen
- Framed picture of ancient dignatory
- Restaurant menu
- Wooden toy
- Hairdryer
- Hair curlers (1d12)
- Garden leafblower
- Spade
- Instant noodles
- Drinks machine
- Bicycle pump
- Large innertube
- Petrol flymo
- Practical textbook
- Assault boots
- 1d12 blank numberplates
- Empty plastic bottle
- Glass beads (1d30)
- Ancient coinage
- Steering wheel
- Child’s bike
- Small mirror
- Cordless drill
- Music CD
- Batteries (1d8)
- Café table umbrella
- Bra
- Billy Bass talking fish
- Vinyl record
- Box of rucksacks
- Toy dog full of sand
- Nodding dog
- Crazy straw
- Calculator
- Solar watch
- Lead box
- Bag of wooden bricks
- Gas lighter
- Bag of marbles (3d6)
- Children’s Book
- Wedding cake bride and groom
- Half used scented candle
- Kitchen steel
- Smelly sock
- Whetstone
- Twelve issues of a magazine
- Clockwork musicbox
- Infant coffin
- Portable radio
- Flying ducks (1d3)
- Tea towel
- Umbrella skeleton
- 2011 calendar
- Chintzy cushion
- Children’s tea set
- Ladle
- Cans of food (1d12)
- Leather belt
- Box of light bulbs (1d30)
- Kerplunk
- Bag of set cement
- False teeth
- False eyelashes
- Pickled foetus
- No More Nails glue
- Penknife
- Plastic spork
- Zippo
- Rubik’s cube
- iPod, no headphones
- Survival matches (1d10+5)
- Curtain rod
- Wind up torch
- Barbed wire (1d20 metres)
- Dustpan and brush
- World map
- Rabbits foot keyring
- Kitchen sink
Enjoy. Know of any other cool random lists for Mutant Future, let me know in the comments.
Since the dark days of the late '70s, Iain has been playing and running RPGs of one type or another. When not with his wife and children or working as a software engineer/Photoshop monkey he spends spare time either shooting pointy sticks at pointless paper targets or spending time enjoying the varied worlds of role playing.8 Comments to One Hundred Random Post-Apocalyptic Junk Items
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Awesome! Good luck with your campaign. I know that this random junk generator will help! I have some useful links that I will have to dig up and pass on to you, when I get home from work I will do so.
Mutant Lord Carl
Here are some other links:
A pretty cool random junk generator for the Deadlands game, you input how many items you want and it generates them, you can set the rarity of the items, how large they are, and how much they are worth. Here is the link:
http://hoe.whatt.us/index.php?page=ranjunk
Another gem from the same site, possibly the single coolest free thing I have ever found on the internet (and that is saying a lot): a random settlement generator, complete with a description of what happened to the town in the apocalypse, what goods are available, what the local laws are, the local government, and randomly generated npcs! This one is pure gold!
http://hoe.whatt.us/index.php?page=newsettlement
Have you checked out Aeons & Augauries blog? He has LOTS of great material for Mutant Future, including new races that are pretty awesome. This is one of my favorite things that he has done, a list of events that could happen on the street in a ruined city.
http://aeonsnaugauries.blogspot.com/2009/08/crumbling-ruined-street-events.html
One more thing from the same blog, a list of non-medieval weapons like hockey sticks and such that would be commonly available in the aftermath of the apocalypse:
http://aeonsnaugauries.blogspot.com/2009/07/more-weapons-for-mutant-future-not-done.html
Have Fun!
Carl
Great stuff Carl, thank you! I’m off to generate some detail on the town they’ll be visiting.
I’ve taken inspiration from your Mutant Future campaign, particularly the whole background story behind the apocalypse. It just seemed more believable than the normal radiation driven mutations.
I’ve had some serious fun coming up with mutated names for local places! And I’ve managed to put our starting village on a hill that actually does have an underground NATO military base right next to it.
Excellent table!As a harassed GM, I’m always on the prowl for game-usable material such as this! Great work.
Glad it was useful! I will make sure to tell my daughter people enjoyed it. I used it myself for the first time last night.
We started Mutant Future and so I allowed three rolls each for some junk the players had accumulated over their lifetime.
Here’s my page with my lists as well as links to other pages where I’ve found lists (including this one).
http://www.mattneedham.com/mutant/MFlists.html
Thanks for the links Matt. I love random junk. My daughter wants to do another 100!
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