The Planar Vagabond's Guide to the Multiverse

Heroic Old-School Roleplaying
Core Rules: Fantasy Equipment Tables

Below are the equipment tables for a standard fantasy campaign. They may be superseded by campaign-specific ones.

Adventuring Equipment

Equipment Details

• Backpack: Leather bag with shoulder straps, holds 400 coins.
• Block and tackle: For lifting and hauling.
  • Reduces weight by 75%, uses 4x as much rope.
• Caltrops: Small metal spikes, covers 5’ square area.
  • Creatures moving through have 2-in-6 chance of being wounded by spike.
  • Wounded creatures move at 50% for 24 hours (or until healed).
• Candle: Casts dim light in 5’ radius, burns 1 hour.
• Cooking pots: Various pots and pans useful for cooking by campfire.
• Firewood: Burns 8 hours.
• Holy symbol: Carried by divine spell casters, often as a pendant or attached to their shields.
  • Gold: Grants +1 bonus to 2d6 roll when turning undead.
  • Wooden: Inflicts -1 penalty to 2d6 roll when turning undead.
• Holy water: Blessed water, inflicts damage on undead, loses blessing when removed from vial.
• Ink & quill: Vial of black ink and large feather for writing.
  • Colored ink costs double.
  • Enough for 50 pages of writing.
• Iron spikes: Used to wedge doors (open or shut), rope anchor, etc.
• Lantern, bullseye: Narrows light to beam, 60’ long and 20’ wide.
  • Includes shutters to hide light and protect flame.
  • Can also cast light in 30’ radius.
  • Uses one oil flask every 4 hours.
• Lantern, hooded: Includes shutters to hide light and protect flame.
  • Casts light in 30’ radius.
  • Uses one oil flask every 4 hours.
• Lock: Basic iron lock with key.
• Musical instrument: Price listed is for standard quality, higher quality costs up to 10x more.
• Oil flask: Lasts 4 hours in lantern, can be used as a weapon.
  • Can be used to create a 3’ diameter pool that burns for 1 turn (doing 1d8/round damage to creatures who pass through it).
  • Monsters with a fire attack are not harmed by fire.
• Paper / parchment: 1’ square sheets.
• Rations, iron: Food preserved for traveling.
• Rations, standard: Fresh food.
• Rope: Can hold 3 up to 3 people.
• Stakes and mallet: Wooden mallet and 3x 1.5’ long stakes, useful against vampires.
• Tent: Can fit up to 2 adult humanoids.
• Thieves’ Tools: Small case containing tools for picking locks.
• Tinder box: Useful for lighting fires.
  • Takes 1 round, 2-in-6 chance of success.
• Torch: Burns for 1 hour, Casts light in 30’ radius.
• Twine: Can hold 30 lbs weight.
• Vial: Glass vial that holds up to 1/2 pint of liquid.
• Waterskin: Holds up to 2 pints of liquid.
• Wolfsbane: Herb that repels lycanthropes with a successful hit in melee combat.

Weapons

Melee Weapons

Melee Weapon Details

• Blackjack: On successful hit, target must Save vs Paralyze or be knocked unconscious for 1d6 turns.
• Garotte: While target is entangled, inflicts damage automatically each round.
• Polearm: Includes any weapon with a long pole tipped with a cutting / spearing weapon (ex: Glaive, Halberd, Pike).
• Whip: On a successful hit, may either inflict damage OR entangle.

Ranged Weapons

Ranged Weapon Details

• Sling: Typically uses stones, bullets add +1 damage (1d4+1 total).

Ranged Ammunition Details

• Sling bullets: +1 damage with sling (1d4+1 total)

Weapon Properties

• Blunt: Can be wielded by cleric.
• Charge: Doubles any damage done after moving at least 60’ while mounted before attacking.
• Entangle: On successful hit, target must Save vs Paralyze to be able to move or attack.
  • Entangled victims can make new saves each round.
• Light: May be used in offhand when dual-wielding.
• Reach: Grants a extra 5’ reach for determining melee range.
• Reload: Takes a round to reload, can only be fired every other round.
• Slow: Always attacks last in a round.
• Stealth: May only be used to attack unaware humanoid creature from behind (4+1 HD max).
• Thrown: May be used as ranged weapon (short, medium, and long range indicated).
• Two-handed: Requires two hands to use.
• Versatile: May gain Slow and Two-handed to deal indicated damage.

Armor

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