Do you buy/carry trinkets in-game?

[domino]

I'm wondering if other people bother spending the coin/weight to give their characters other stuff.

Everyone's got the rope, or the grappling hook, or the torch. But does anyone buy the bell? Or the mirror? Or stuff like that?

 

[Kafkonia]

We don't tend to buy it so much as... acquire it over time.

Whether it's the rogue's shiny stone (she's simple that way), the half-orc barbarian's necklace of ears (like those candy necklaces raver kids like to wear), or my cleric's minotaur-scrotum-coinpurse (he really didn't like the guy), we always seem to wind up with unusual doodads over the course of the adventuer.

 

[domino]

I was thinking more like the trivial equipment available at the beginning.

The bell, or the chunk of canvas, or the mirror, or the iron pot, or the whetstone. The stuff like that that doesn't directly lead to killing things and taking their stuff.

 

[the Jester]

Yes, I see pcs purchase trinkets and doodads a lot.

 

[Harmon]

Flint & steel, Mirror (steel), plain gold ring 10 gp, nice towels 2x, 250 gp worth of arrow making materials, blood stones 50 gp/ 1x, Pitons 5x, Jeweler's Loop, Signal Whistle, etc.

I tend to go a little overboard on the items- those are just a few from two different characters. Characters starting with a small bit of jewelery is pretty common for my characters, I like the feel of knowing what my character has and what he would carry.

 

[demiurge1138]

...the half-orc barbarian's necklace of ears (like those candy necklaces raver kids like to wear)...

Your barbarian kept a necklace of ears too! So did one in my Eberron game. He called it the "necklace of rememberance". It was hilarious.

But yeah, I always try to put all sorts of random stuff in my character's gear when I actually get to play. Like a whistle. Whistles are very handy.

Demiurge out.

 

[Rika]

Yes.

Flint & Steel, chalk, bell, mirror, signal whistle, etc.

They're all hold-overs from dungeon crawling. Awfully useful on occasion though.

Beyond that I usually have trinkets and little things that are important only to the character.

 

[TemplarSaint]

All of my characters have started with odds and ends and acquired more over time, depending on the character. Fish hook and line, soap, whistle, quills and scrolls for poetry and a sliver lined goblet for wine are some of the items I've started with.

 

[The Shaman]

Yes - both souvenirs and minor equipment.

 

[Odhanan]

What about buying land, a house, creating a business, investing?