Quick Merchant Ship

Whether you are running a sandbox hex crawl or a more linear narrative heavy story based campaign, this quick roll table allows a GM to generate a merchant ship on the fly with a single roll of a handful of your standard polyhedral dice. It paints the broad strokes, giving you enough detail to work with, without getting too specific to clash with your campaign setting. Allowing you to go in and flesh out the finer details to match your setting and GMing style.

Examples Merchant Ships:

Name: Foam Compass

Type: Dhow

Quality: Poor

Cargo: Barrels of Alcohol

Trouble: Lost days of travel to becalmed seas

 

Name: Iron Swan

Type: Cog

Quality: Poor

Cargo: Crates of exotic spices

Trouble: Become lost due to fog

Name: Gilded Quest

Type: Caravel

Quality: Fine

Cargo: Ingots of Metal

Trouble: Attacked by pirates

 

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