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I am currently running a "dungeon delving" campaign (in the Ptolus campaign setting), and one of the characters has decided that she wants to get some side income by carving chess sets out of monster carcasses they have come across and selling them.

This is novel enough that I feel I ought to develop some further plots from this. So, any ideas for:

  • the kind of people who might buy such chess sets
  • what kinds of shenanigans might develop from something like this - supernatural or otherwise?
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[–] goldseal@dice.camp 3 points 1 week ago

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Buyers are probably novelty buyers: rich or well-off wanting to impress.
A gift for
- son/daughter graduation
- husband anniversary
- guild master (maybe bribe?) / superior birthday
- winning a chess tournament

Shenanigans
- there's a thief who started 'collecting' them
- anyone who loses a match experiences violent emotions
- they move at night by themselves
- one church forbids playing with them, citing recent violent case