Cabinets of Curiosities, (also known as kunstkammers) were small private museums often found in wealthy homes (such as Highdark Hall) prior to the 20th Century. Typically housed in a single room, such collections could contain curios ranging from the delightful to the macabre. As discussed in the Ghastly Affair Presenter’s Manual, the strange Cabinet of Curiosities is a great place to begin a story.

Roll 1d10 times on each table (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, and Artifacts) for every 10 foot square section of the Cabinet. Alternately, use the tables to help determine an object that a collector may commission the Player Characters to obtain on their behalf.

Animal Curiosities (d20):

1. A horn grown from a human forehead
2. Alligator / crocodile / python hide
3. Bezoar stone
4. Bones of a prehistoric animal
5. Colorful eggs
6. Crustacean shells (crab, lobster, crayfish, etc.)
7. Deformed babies (preserved in jars)
8. Dried seahorse(s), or starfish(s)
9. Feathers from a tropical bird
10. Human corpse(s), flayed, embalmed, and posed.
11. Mounted bird(s)
12. Mounted insects (butterflies, beetles, spiders, etc.)
13. Narwhal tooth
14. Paper wasp nest
15. Preserved animal(s) (in jar[s])
16. Seashell(s), unusual
17. Skeleton(s)
18. Skull(s) (human, animal, deformed)
19. Taxidermied animal(s)
20. Two-headed animal taxidermy

Vegetable Curiosities (d20):

1. Bamboo sample
2. Bottle gourd
3. Cactus
4. Carnivorous plant
5. Coco de mer
6. Dragon’s blood resin
7. Dried Fungus
8. Exotic Wood
9. Frankincense (or myrrh) resin
10. Hashish
11. Leaf from every species of tree in the country
12. Loofah sponge
13. Mandrake root
14. Opium
15. Papyrus
16. Pine cone(s)
17. Pressed flower(s)
18. Rose of Jericho (Resurrection Plant)
19. Seeds
20. Tagua Nut (Vegetable Ivory)

Mineral Curiosities (d20):

1. Agate
2. Asbestos cloth
3. Bones encrusted with minerals
4. Clay, exotic
5. Coral(s) (shaped like a hand, or other object)
6. Diamond
7. Flint arrow heads
8. Fool’s gold
9. Fossil(s)
10. Geode, split
11. Gold nugget
12. Hag stone (non-enchanted stone with natural hole)
13. Hematite cube
14. Jade sample
15. Mercury in vial
16. Meteorite
17. Obsidian
18. Opal
19. Pearls, exotic (baroque, blue, black, etc)
20. Petroleum in a vial

Artifacts & Relics (d20)

1. African mask
2. Ancient amulet(s) (Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, etc.)
3. Bizarre painting(s), drawing(s) or print(s)
4. Chinese acupuncture needles
5. Document written in invisible ink
6. Egyptian mummy
7. Glass model of a sea animal
8. Idol from the South Seas
9. Indian or Aztec religious statue
10. Iron maiden
11. Microscope(s)
12. Mirror(s)
13. Mummified “mermaid” made from a monkey and fish stitched together
14. Porcelain with glaze that changes colors in heat.
15. Rare or strange book(s) (bound in human skin, on forbidden topic, written in an unknown language, etc.)
16. Spyglass
17. Strange cloth (changes colors from different viewing angles, unusual color, etc.)
18. Torture instruments (pincers, skinning knives, whips, the pear of anguish, etc.)
19. Wax anatomical model
20. Weird Object (Hand of Glory, Imp Bottle, etc.)