Weird Tables: Corpse Bits 4 Ca$h

Arch-wizards, alchemists and taxidermists crave various chunks of monster anatomy for their own peculiar purposes, and sometimes they’re willing to pay good money for such things! Players who recognize this may get into the habit of chopping up everything they encounter and hauling the bits back like deranged slaughterhouse workers. To keep the PCs from overdoing it, you may wish to limit such sales to specific requests (or “quests” for short) proffered by enchanters for whatever fresh ingredient they happen to need at the moment, as determined by the

REAGENT BOUNTY TABLE

Roll twice on a d20 to determine what weird thing the local magician desires. If this offers a nonsensical result, like a ghoul horn or hellhound wing, ignore it and roll on the “special reagent” table instead.

Roll	Creature	Reagent
1	Basilisk	Blood
2	Cockatrice	Bone/Skull
3	Doppelganger	Brain
4	Dragon	Ear
5	Ghoul	Eye
6	Giant	Flesh
7	Gryphon	Genitals
8	Harpy	Hair/Feathers/Scales
9	Hellhound	Hand/Foot/Paw
10	Hydra	Heart
11	Manticore	Horn/Antler
12	Medusa	Liver
13	Minotaur	Nose
14	Mummy	Saliva
15	Ogre	Skin/Hide
16	Owlbear	Stomach/Intestine
17	Troglodyte	Tail
18	Troll	Teeth/Beak
19	Wereolf	Tongue
20	Wyvern	Wing

SPECIAL REAGENT TABLE

Roll 1d12.

Roll	Reagent
1	Carrion crawler tendril
2	Displacer beast hide
3	Fire beetle gland
4	Gelatinous cube gelatin
5	Giant scorpion stinger
6	Giant spider venom
7	Giant toad tongue
8	Killer bee honey
9	Ochre jelly protoplasm
10	Rust monster antennae
11	Shrieker spores
12	Stirge proboscis

Appropriate payment will vary based on how much gold you want to put into the PCs’ hands. In the past, I’ve generally offered 1d6 x 100 gold pieces for reagents. Now I’m considering monster HD x monster HD x 100 gold pieces. This may inspire PCs to go after monsters that outclass them in order to earn some sweet loot!