Loot Lists – 20+ Bookmarks for your Found Tomes

An entire story can be found in a single item, be it magical or mundane. They might spark player inspiration, reflect the personality of an NPC, or lead to a side quest.

Consider one of these found pressed into a Call of Cthulhu grimoire, a spell book for your Favourite Fantasy RPG, or a trinket for a scholarly character.

1. A narrow piece of vellum with a single prayer written on it
2. A cloth of gold with woven tassels hanging from it
3. A woven scarf of spider silk, patterned with red and black patterns
4. A piece of gold leaf, pounded flat and marked with Dwarven runes that lists the names of lost kings
5. A folded battle map from an infamous battle
6. A piece of fabric with a hand painted portrait of a dead queen
7. A strip of skin with an flattened eye that opens and moves when unwatched
8. A single hook of adamantine, bejewelled about the bend
9. A silk handkerchief embroidered with initials and the heraldry of a noble house
10. A lock of black hair that grows a little every night
11. The fletching of an arrow tied to a braid of hair
12. A glass bead hanging a page originally from another book
13. A braided string made from the hair of an unknown animal
14. A dried and pressed leaf from a dryad’s head
15. A single braid of hair from an otherworldly queen that glows when exposed to moonlight
16. A much stained piece of paper with a recipe for stew written on it
17. A scrap of plaid fabric that smells of tree sap
18. A flattened platinum strip with sliding taps to mark multiple pages at a time
19. A pressed pixie corpse that is otherwise perfectly preserved
20. A slender strip of gold that chimes when opened to the bookmark
21. A folded wanted poster of one of the characters
22. A torn end of a leather belt, inscribed with an ancient language
23. A piece of reptilian hide that shows part of a brand
24. An ink stained slice of bone
25. A shimmering feather
26. A folded contract with that has been signed by an official
27. A single sheet of mica that bends without breaking
28. An invocation dedicated to an elder god, written on a scroll and flattened between the pages
29. A thin slice of a dragon scale
30. A mummified tentacle