rotwang's office). This has included a whole load of Random Roleplaying Stuff -- manuals, programmes from conventions long past, old character sheets and so on. I don't think they come much more random than this list, though. I think it dates from about 1993 or so (judging by its having been written on the back of some convention flyers from around then). I'm guessing -- and I could be wrong here -- that it was intended to be a Random Desk Drawers Content Table...- Used match
- Fag butt [can't you just tell this was compiled by a UK rather than a US resident -- and some time ago, at that]
- Plectrum
- Ring found in cracker
- False moustache
- Book of matches from random restaurant
- Used stamp
- Battery (dead)
- Mobile phone
- Receipt from supermarket
- Business card
- Floppy disk (contains 6 GIFs, one saved article from rec.humor.funny and a pirated copy of Lemmings)
- Sock
- E.E. "Doc" Smith paperback
- Pencil shavings
- Champagne cork
- Plastic dinosaur (triceratops)
- Bookmark
- Hairpin
- Old shirt button
- Cardboard bit from Party Popper
- Twiglet
- Shergar
- Lord Lucan
- The body of Elvis in a Lancaster bomber
- Alien communication device (which looks like one of the other items on the list)
- Towel (oh, so that's where it was!)
- Watch, stopped at 3:29 pm
- Phonecard (one unit left)
- Potion of Rainbow Hues
- CD box (broken)
- Gate (pick random destination)
- Glove, woolly, one
- Can ring
- Teaspoon
- Screwdriver
- Street map of random city
- Dice
- Jigsaw piece
- Rubber (eraser!)
- AD&D trading card, Captain Kazhal, 10th-level fighter
- Fluff
- Pen
- Pencil
- 1D3 remote controls (if appropriate era)
- Loose change
- Earring
- Sultanas
- 1/2 a biscuit
- Dead gerbil
- Last will & testament of random person unconnected with scenario
- 2d10 £10 notes (old series) in roll, secured with elastic band
- Broken elastic band (perished)
- Colony of sentient cockroaches
- Card to send back to record club [record? how quaint] to avoid getting the editor's choice (dated three months ago)
- half-eaten slice of pizza (roll on random pizza table)
- T72 tank
- used condom
- Rusty drawing pin (1 hp damage, roll to save against tetanus)
... er, yes. ;)
