This hub is your stash of low-power, high-flavor D&D 5e trinkets: everyday objects, small oddities, and mundane treasures that feel like they belong to the world. Think curios, keepsakes, oddities, and relic-adjacent pieces—items that don’t change the math of the game, but instantly change the story. No “+1s”, no balance headaches: just grounded, non-magical props loaded with hooks, rumors, and texture.

Drop them into any campaign as background treasures: something a character pockets, inherits, steals, or can’t quite throw away. Each object is designed to spark adventure seeds, reveal old crimes and debts, and create those small “wait—what is this?” moments that make a setting feel lived-in instead of generated. Use them as MacGuffins, as pocket-sized mysteries, or as personal tokens your players keep as fetishes, trophies, or private little superstitions.

Each article in this series zooms in on one single item and gives you what matters at the table:

• A compact backstory (who made it, who carried it, what it witnessed).
• Adventure hooks you can deploy immediately (rumors, complications, consequences).
• In-world context (why it’s here, why it matters, who might want it back).
• A DM-friendly approach: easy to reskin, easy to relocate, easy to plug into any setting.

These aren’t “loot tables” in the grindy sense. They’re flavor-first treasures: the kind of thing that sits in a pouch for ten sessions until it suddenly becomes the key to a bargain, a betrayal, a reunion, or a haunting. Some read like humble “common items”; others feel like oddities you’d find in a cabinet of curiosities; others carry the emotional weight of a keepsake. A few may even feel like relics—not because they’re mechanically magical, but because the world treats them as meaningful.

Treat this page as a growing Dungeons & Dragons 5e trinket library: a curated list of common items, mundane treasures, curios, oddities, and keepsakes you can hand out as physical “cards” at the table. Bookmark it, come back whenever you need a quick burst of flavor, and keep adding small, memorable details your players will remember long after the gold is spent.