Thursday, June 19, 2025

d100 - Hireling Hobbies or PC Pastimes

For a little diversion, here’s a table that contains a hundred ideas for Hobbies/Pastimes that might be useful for adding to Characters. Whether we’re decorating downtime descriptions, or coloring a Camping situation, I find that these can sometimes add a bit of fun details to Retainers and Hirelings, but I thought why not open this up to Player Characters as well? This might make a good Player Facing “roll or choose” type table for any Player looking to add a little more detail or embellishment to help elaborate on what their Character might find amusing or rewarding in that little bit of “spare time” they might get before, during, and after Adventuring.

Whether or not any of these passive pursuits merit tangible or mechanical impacts on the Game and its assorted Challenges however is something I’d rather leave as an exercise for the Table. I can see a few coming up in certain specialized situations, but it’s always more fun to Play in order to find things out!


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