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Not every stall in the market sells swords and 10-foot poles. The bustling trader’s wagons carry all kinds of curiosities and unusual trinkets. Whether the PCs are heading to the potion shop or just passing through the market square, here are 100 stalls to add a bit of color to their visit. In most cases, no prices are listed. Assume that everything is sold at about the same price as an equivalent item in the Player’s Handbook.

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1. Tasty meat pies made in the shape of otters. Delicious!
2. Bows carved with the likenesses of swans. Everyone is buying them!
3. Giant spider silk, the ideal rope. This is giant spider silk. It comes in a bag, and just sticks to itself, and possibly to whomever pulls it out.
4. Amuse all with my glove-puppet otyughs!
5. Painted shields of all sizes: you name it, we paint it.
6. Statues of griffons with moving heads.
7. Luxury leather carriage seats: keep your seat sweet.
8. Colored rope, handy for all occasions.
9. Four-pint pewter mugs carved like dragons, for people with a dragon-like thirst!
10. Huge candles designed to burn for weeks, very useful.
11. Spades, shovels, and picks! A proud spade seller who takes insults to his goods personally.
12. Who dares buy my purple worm whistle?
13. Outrageously colored velvet robes, the latest rage at court!
14. Wear a wig and look quite big. Wigs, from functional to the vast and ridiculous.
15. Scabbards with silver filigree depicting beasts. Every hero needs one!
16. Foldable large weapon stands: be the envy of your friends.
17. Stuffed stingers to hurl at your enemies.
18. Breastplates with gargoyle faces carved on them, all sizes available!
19. Mulled cider and wine to warm your bones.
20. Castle cakes. Cakes that look like castles but taste like honey.
21. The very latest in belts, gray leather.
22. Owlbear pelt scarves; you’ll be cold without one!
23. Be the envy of your friends with a dire rat trap!
24. Lost? Then why not buy a homing badger! Guaranteed to find their way home. They do, an hour after purchase.
25. Who’ll buy my lovely sweet-meats?
26. A home isn’t a home without a hippogriff weathervane.
27. Cabbages, specially imported. But not really.
28. Rusty sword? Use my miracle cloth to keep it clean. An oily rag scented with perfume.
29. Keep beholders from your door with this special repellent!
30. Guaranteed dragon bones.
31. Scented oil lamps, let your parlor be fragrant.
32. Herbs and spices, everything in one place!
33. Light the way with my candle helm. Watch out for burning eyebrows.
34. Lost your voice, can’t be heard? Buy one of my megaphones!
35. Dire ferret skins! Who’ll buy my dire ferret skins?
36. Certified musical sheep! Pan pipes shaped like sheep.
37. Toffee apples; who wants my toffee apples?
38. Sledges for sale, going fast!
39. Battling medusas? You can’t go wrong with a mirror helm! Yes, you can, because they don’t work.
40. Toby jugs, shaped like your favorite woodland creatures: badgers, stoats, and rabbits!
41. Buy a folding seat and relax where others can’t. Unless they have a rock or the ground to sit on.
42. Hammocks for sale, all colors, all sizes.
43. Who’ll buy their child a pet newt? Latest craze at court!
44. Be a star with your own miniature theater! Comes complete with stick puppets, a puppet horse, and miniature theater.
45. Homely, repulsive, scarred? Try my guaranteed dryad powder and get ready to fight them off! Alas, but no.
46. Scare off swarms of all description with my magical incense. Which is just normal incense in a fancy box.
47. Don’t lose your quart, buy a manacle tankard!
48. Fancy pavilions and tents of all sizes and colors.
49. Fur-lined helms for the warrior who wants to battle in comfort.
50. Wooden swords for sale, all types, practice in safety!
51. Hand bells for sale.
52. Get noticed! Get a Cloyd’s ruff.
53. Get noticed in battle, buy a person flag! A flag that sticks out of a backpack and tends to fall out frequently.
54. Go unseen at night with Golid’s darkmagic body paint. Powdered coal in a bag.
55. Muffins! Fresh muffins! Cinnamon and clove!
56. Spicy ale for sale.
57. Arrows; nice and pointy! The owner is unaware that a portion of his arrows are masterwork.
58. Carts and wagons, brightly painted, guaranteed sound. Nope.
59. Bric a brac. There is a 10% chance that any Player’s Handbook item worth up to 20 gp can be found here for one-third price.
60. Owlbear beaks, guaranteed protection against scurvy! Well, no protection against anything, really.
61. Powdered carrion crawler, cures warts instantly! Not carrion crawler, not curative; smell like nettles, act like nettles, are nettles.
62. Buy your love a rose that never dies! That’s because it’s a picture of a rose.
63. Fancy lantern silhouettes, casting shapes of bears, wolves, and hydras.
64. Be mighty with a fear helm. Helms with silly angry faces painted on them.
65. Wings that work! Instructions: go to a high place (say, a mountain), jump, and stretch those wings. Soon you’ll be flying like an eagle. And plummeting like a fool with fake wings.
66. Get tired easily? Then buy Donkin’s Easy Bucket, with the “hole that makes it lighter.”
67. Know which bolts and arrows hit with my color-coded feathers.
68. Big appetite? Buy a hefty plate, a tin plate for the adventurer with a big hunger.
69. Dried flowers for sale, all sorts, last forever.
70. Wheelbarrows for sale, very handy.
71. Magic mirrors, look in them and look better! A gnome mirror salesman who can’t stop admiring himself!
72. Cowbells! Clear-sounding cowbells!
73. Kittens for sale. Buy one for the kiddies today!
74. Foul facial diseases be-gone with Ramsey’s Belker Mist. Simply rub the mist upon the face and watch those unsightly boils vanish. Empty jar, empty promise.
75. Have a clever tattoo! Clever tattoos are painless and visible only to clever people.
76. Sexis Elixirs, cures for all. Sometimes an actual potion or two turns up in this stall for a very low price.
77. Maps! Maps of the world! Maps made up in an inn.
78. Armor oil, keep it shining bright!
79. Pasties, meat pasties, nice and spicy!
80. Cockatrice eggs! Well, goose eggs painted red.
81. Cheap armor, highest quality! Stolen armor.
82. Nettle ale by the barrel!
83. Poles for all occasions. A 10-foot pole salesman offers cunning variations, such as 11-foot and 9-foot poles.
84. Fiendish frogspawn, adults can be trained! Not when they’re not real, they can’t.
85. Cartwheels, spare cartwheels!
86. Pig trotters, fresh cooked today!
87. String, string, string!
88. Chalk: highest quality, imported.
89. Cure smelly feet with minty-rub! Mint, in fact.
90. Hear everything with an ear trumpet.
91. Trunks for sale, all sizes, wooden and iron.
92. Sandals, all sizes, a free wooden spoon with every pair!
93. Roper extract, see those muscles grow. Dried biscuit that looks, tastes, and acts like dried biscuit.
94. Make everyone happy with your own smiling moon face! Masks of all descriptions.
95. Rung rope, the latest craze! Depending on quality, this rope could give a +1 circumstance bonus on Climb checks or impose a –5 penalty when the metal rungs fall out as they are stepped on.
96. Walk like a cat with tigerboots. Boots with soft soles that fall apart within a week.
97. Oranges and lemons, fresh in today!
98. Make a noise, buy a drum. Drums of all shapes and sizes.
99. Genuine blessed items. Fake bones and objects from saints of all faiths.
100. Cure all wounds with cloaker-cure, the magic oil made from cloaker fat. Oil. It’s just oil.