[Please contribute] Memento ideas

[Skars]

I'd like to do a table of mementos, items that someone would save to remember a fallen loved one. Any contributions would be much appreciated and I would be happy to provide a cohesive list once the entries have petered out. Here are a few to get started:

1d30?1d50?
1. A locket
2. Strands of hair
3. Baby teeth
4. A letter
5. Bottle of booze
6.
7.
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[Yag-Kosha]

Cool thread idea. Here's a few that came to mind:

6. The broken hilt of a blade (maybe with a partial handprint scorched onto it)
7. A skeletal finger in a jar wearing a signet ring (or a wedding band)
8. A small scrimshaw box with a love letter inside
9. A shrunken head
10. A silver comb with their hair still entwined in the teeth.
11. An embroidered handkerchief bearing their initials and a hint of their scent
12. A map or journal entry written in their own blood.

[DCCfan]

Something you always saw them wearing.

13 a favorite coonskin cap
14 a pair of silver glasses
15 a pair of fancy gloves
16 a pair of leather boots with gold buckles
16 necklace with holy symbol of their god

[Skars]

Great entires so far, thank you!

18. A glass eye
19. An urn carrying their ashes
20. Dried flowers from a wedding or funeral
21. Scars
23. Tattoo
24. key ring
25.
26.

[Yag-Kosha]

25. A matryoshka doll set depicting the person at various stages of their life.

[GnomeBoy]

26. book with personal inscription
27. a memento the person being remembered owned (of a previous person) [roll again]

[Fenris Ulfhamr]

28. a favored weapon (father's old sword, etc.)
29. The fang/claw/etc. of the beast that slew them
30. a chalice they drank from (possibly still stained with lipstick)
31. a gem containing a soul shard
32. Their corpse, skull, or part of a burial shroud

[Weisenwolf]

Good idea............

33. Heart in a glass casket
34. Brain in a jar
35. Full feathered Helm
36. Favourite old Cloak/boots/pyjamas
37. Spell book, Grimoire, scroll
38. Signature/seal ring
39. portrait
40. Clever horse
41. Pet demi-dragon
42. Town flat / house
43. Sailing boat
44. Country House / Hovel
45. Concubine
46. Little black book
47. Exotic gold tipped quill
48. Magic Green Ink
48. Magic item
49. Excellent Shield
50. Coat of Arms
51. Lucky Rabbits foot (With a luck pool?)
52. gnarled , worn staff
53. Favourite Floppy hat, embroided waiste coat, scarf
54. Mithril weapon, shield, helm or mail hauberk
55. Savings
56. Diary or Bio
57. A Key and a clue
58. Treasure Map
59. Terrible secret
60. Membership of a guild, Cult or Religion
61. An obligation, slavery or survitude
62. Unlabelled potion
63. Workshop or tools
64. Earing
65. Pipe and pipeweed
66. Shop or other business
67.
68.

[Skars]

"Magic Green Ink" aka Magic Marker Thanks guys, love the contributions!

[Fenris Ulfhamr]

67. A bottle of tears shed for the lost
68. An eerily lifelike painting
69. A lucky coin
70. A prosthetic limb/ peg leg/ crutch

[Weisenwolf]

71. Gold teeth
72. Magic mirror / Orb
73. Magic beans
74.
75.

[Skars]

Thanks to all that contributed. I leveraged these memento ideas for my new DCC RPG character class, the Revenant. I will share the details later after I clean it up.

[Blutimate]

Little late to the party, but I didn't see these:

Necklace made from the hair of the deceased (real thing we used to do here in the US)
Exciting Underwear from the deceased (even stranger if they wear it too)
Box of Fingernail clippings from the deceased
Character actually wears the broken (and thus, completely ineffective) armor of the deceased
Doorknob to the room of the deceased
Key to the mausoleum of the deceased


Gotta represent the weird and macabre,

David Rose

[Griffith]

Little late to the party, but I didn't see these:

74. Necklace made from the hair of the deceased (real thing we used to do here in the US)
75. Exciting Underwear from the deceased (even stranger if they wear it too)
76. Box of Fingernail clippings from the deceased
77. Character actually wears the broken (and thus, completely ineffective) armor of the deceased
78. Doorknob to the room of the deceased
79. Key to the mausoleum of the deceased


Gotta represent the weird and macabre,

David Rose

Numbered the ones from above.
And added these below:

80. A pressed flower in a book.
81. A charcoal sketch of the deceased on parchment in a scroll tube.
82. A fetus in a wax sealed jar.
83. A bent or dented coin, damaged in a historic battle.
84. The severed tongue of the deceased. Blackened and putrid, it still whispers secrets and "sweet nothings" to its possessor.
85. An intricately fashioned wood music box of gnomish make. When the lid is lifted, it plays the favorite song of the deceased.
86. A wool turtle-neck dickey stitched by the deceased.
87. The skinned face of the deceased that the possessor wears as a mask.
88. A quote or personal message from the deceased written on a scrap of paper.
89. A manacle and a bit of chain the deceased was forced to wear.
90. The soiled rag used to clean the body of the deceased before burial.
91. A whip or some other torture device the deceased was forced to endure.
92. Some sort of trophy, or medal, or a letter from the king honoring the deceased.
93. An arrow or spear head.
94. The favorite food of the deceased; preserved and wrapped in linen.
95. A vial or crystal atomizer of cherished perfume.
96. A favored musical instrument.
97. A well-worn pamphlet of poems or sonnets.
98. A frog in a soft leather pouch; hidden in its tiny amphibian mind are all the significant memories of the deceased.
99. A spider in a matchbox; when it spins its web a message from the deceased can be read there.
100. A cricket in an bamboo cricket cage; if one can decipher its chirpings, a prophecy from the deceased can be heard.