:: Loot Batch #1 ::

Now that I've had some time to use my random People, Places, and Things generator for a bit, I've found that it's really efficient to just run up one page of "Things" at a time, print it out, cut up the items, and hand them out to my players as needed. Because each "batch" contains one weapon, one armor, one slot item, one grimoire, and so on, they are also really great for describing what a given auto-generated NPC might have on them (omitting the things that don't make sense, like armor on a mage).

For this reason, when it comes time to dole out loot, I usually describe the items as being on some dead adventurer who met their fate facing the challenge I just got done putting in front of the PCs.

"You fall down the pit, being impaled by the spikes at the bottom. Next to you lies the body of a dead adventurer, a spike impaling his skull. He's wearing some pretty nice gear, though, and you think you could salvage some of it...once you get off the spikes yourself..."

Got a big monster? Even better.

"As your finishing blow slices across the chimera's belly, the contents of its stomach spill out as well. Besides an assortment of crunched and chewed animal parts, you see a mostly-intact corpse that the chimera seems to have swallowed whole. Most of the adventurer's gear has survived the stomach acid for this long, and is probably still usable..."

So, here's your first batch of loot. Give it to one or two NPCs, dead or alive, and enjoy!
~Jay