Random table · d30
Tavern Rumors
What the regulars are saying tonight. Some rumors are true, some are half-true, and some were started by someone with a reason.
Press roll — or pick any line below.
- 1The miller’s new wife arrived the same night the river ran red.
- 2Someone paid the bard in old gold to stop singing a particular song.
- 3The bridge toll doubled because the lord is quietly raising an army.
- 4A sea captain is hiring sailors who can’t swim, and won’t say why.
- 5The graveyard keeper has been buying a lot of rope.
- 6Wolves were seen walking on two legs at the edge of the north field.
- 7The old wizard’s tower lit up last night — and the wizard died last spring.
- 8A merchant caravan came back with one more wagon than it left with.
- 9The temple’s holy relic is a fake; the real one was sold to pay a debt.
- 10A child found a silver key in a fish’s belly and is selling it to the highest bidder.
- 11Ever since the earthquake, the well water has tasted of iron.
- 12A famous duelist is in town under a false name.
- 13The baker’s bread cures headaches, and he won’t say what’s in it.
- 14Someone leaves gold coins on the chapel steps every full moon.
- 15Bandits on the east road let a priest pass by, then followed him.
- 16The mine reopened, but the miners are paid not to talk about what they found.
- 17A noble family is selling its heirlooms, one by one, through a fence.
- 18A ghost ship has been seen anchored in the bay at dawn.
- 19The new captain of the guard once rode with the bandits.
- 20A traveling circus left a cage behind. The cage is empty now.
- 21The mayor hasn’t been seen in public for nine days.
- 22Every cat in town left on the same night and came back three days later.
- 23A hermit in the hills trades potions for stories.
- 24The duke’s heir is a twin, and nobody knows which one inherits.
- 25An old map of the catacombs is hidden somewhere in this very tavern.
- 26A dragon was spotted — or a very large hawk, depending on who you ask.
- 27The tax collector was robbed, and the robber gave the money back to the farmers.
- 28The library’s oldest book is missing, along with the librarian.
- 29Strange lights move across the marsh in perfectly straight lines.
- 30The innkeeper never seems to age, and nobody knows how long she’s run the place.