Murder Hobo Platinum Express

Poleboy:

What is good in life?

Murder Hobo:

Kill, loot, drink, repeat

After discussion about how horrible your murder hobo must be in this age of murder hobo eat murder hobo i have decided to make the ultimate murder hobo setting in my current campaign. So will have Blood Sand Beach township described next post here.

It is a new age of dungeon exploration and exploitation.
Kill the monsters and leave nothing of value.
Kill em rob em and forget em

Past Murder Hobology Posts
Old murder hobos
Murder Hobo Shanty Towns
Murder Hobo Hirelings
Murder Hobo Shanty Town Events
Murder Hobo Shanty Town Problems revised
Murder Hobo Shanty Town Seasonal Visitors

Murder Hobos only prejudice if how much more one corpse can make profit over another. A prisoner might make a salable slave if you can be bothered. A corpse can make bait, or a terrifying leather outfit or artwork or scary deterrent. Teeth can make jewelry or even dentures and bones can be ground and used as fertilizer like what happened to the millions of Napoleanic war dead.

Murder Hobos are not just a big naughty and greedy. They will kill and enslave everything living then sell the corpses and collect every valuable shred of loot. Even the not very valuable doors, old bones, tables, chars, shreds of cloth will go to waste. Modern Murder Hobos with bring workers to glean every scrap. Some with bring rending vats and turn corpse fat into tallow and sell as devotional candles or use as fuel to burn down a goblin fort (ancient Chinese did this last one to thousands of people at a time). A rotten corpse thrown in a well can cause all kinds of problems for the locals. A murder hobo doesn't need a mission or a cause or a story. They just need to know there are creatures they can rob and muder for profit and preferably not be called wanted criminals in civilization. While Murder Hobos might even thrive in a prison the life style could limit their money making.

Once a Murder Hobo has sated their basic lusts and desires and have some left over money then it is time to invest. A private prison is a good investment because you can use it for storing ransoming captives, receiving bribes and running other vice operations like drugs and prostitutes. Plus inmates can be turned into sweatshop workers and can help strip dungeons and glean every fibre of hair, every tooth and every brick.

Slumb lords are a common advanced career. An easy way to start is make a list of every haunted house, squatters shack and unwanted demon murder house and buy them at low low prices. Then clear them out and rent them or sell them to new more profitable tenants. A tavern is good buy. Possibly invest in a trade boat so you use it to loot and enslave backward islands far from the law or smuggle drugs or set up a slave plantation.

Also remember cannibalism is only with your own species. It's totally ok to spit roast a kobold. I do recommend if your party isn't made up of evil degenerates to not start eating dead party members an hour inside the dungeon. I find using the excuse "we might get trapped or lost and need food" needs a bit more time and desperation to be effective than one hour in the dungeon.

Sometimes you might get a mission but the only details to worry about is where the loot is. I recommend when rescuing a princess not to eat her until dad hands over the loot. A charmed doppelganger or illusionary disguised orc works just as well as a real princess but best to run away to your gruberhole (robbers cave) quickly with those old tricks.

Now to compete with the Empire's open cut dungeon mine military engineers, the Barron is having work crews use Bloodsand as a processing facility where murder hobos send dead monsters, bricks and dungeon junk for processing by the wagon load.

In the Barony murder hobos often start out as scavengers and gleaners looking for items not looted by a more advanced party. The next step is to go prospecting perhaps in the wilds looking for a new dungeon or join a shanty town near a megadungeon full of Murder Hobos, bandits, killers and scum. Finally with some experience elite murder hobos with a entourage of their own can take over their own dungeons and build their own tiny fortified camps with rending vats and prison cages on wagons.

In the Empire life is a bit less horrible and more wholesome. Most Murder Hobos start as penal dungeon scouts and are forced in by soldiers. While they explore and evaluate the dungeon the Royal Dungeoneering camp sets up a tiny fort and locates all the dungeon entries and air holes and seals them. Then they can pump in smoke and drive out monsters into archers or waggon mounted crossbows or gun arrays or spike filled pits. With a sufficient crew the Engineers will get workers ot open cut mine the dungeon. It can be risky but the Empire provides healing at least and job prospects.

When these murder hobos earn their legitimate freedom the Governor of the Empire colonies might grant them a licence or letter of marque to explore dungeons. Freelance Murder Hobos in the Empire can work fine but best off avoiding civilization. Escapee convict scouts who cross the border to the Barony will find the Empire will have sold them to the Barron by the time they reach a tavern. Respectable Murder Hobos in nice clothes who can fake good manners might get offered officers commissions in the Royal Dungeon Engineers. A great reward might be a gifted commision and territory but mostly you pay for the privelage. You might even have to outfit and train your own troops. The Empire demands first purchas rights of uncommon magic which is a drag. If they the party fake respectability in public they will go far. What happens in the dungeon stays in the dungeon.

With the Barony and the Empire both expanding and building settlements dungeons are useful as brick mines at least. Both sides want magic items. Both sides want Murder Hobos kept busy on the frontier and not too long in civilization.

Poleboy:
Why be a murder hobo?

Murder Hobo:
Stories are for weaklings
Don't think about being a murder hobo
Just let  your greed and hatred flow
and let it happen

d12 Murder Hobo Types in the City
1 Insane wild eyed murder hobos chewing on bones and fighting over dead rats in gutter
2 Washed up old murder hobos mostly hopelessly drunk in muddy streets
3 Battered murder hobos seen better days, missing limbs, plagued or drug addicts
4 Returned murder hobo party from roaming wilds like prospectors looking for dungeons
5 Murder hobos in transit to a dungeon they are mid looting, suspicious and tight lipped
6 Murder hobos with full bellies and purses, looking for vice and strange pleasures
7 Murder hobos for hire, post excavation after recovering long lost items under contract
8 Murder hobos selling dungeon monster meat in the street half price
9 Murder hobos leading blind pony carts of bricks, monster corpses and furnishings
10 Murder hobos after post dungeon piss up, now inspecting slum properties to invest in
11 Murder hobos flinging copper pieces to poor, dressed in gaudy new clothes
12 Murder hobos with entourage, lovers, freeloaders and pets, strutting about like nobility

Poleboy:
What is the secret of living a long life?

Murder Hobo:
Shut up and get in that hole boy!

Frontier Murderhobo Town Streets

So in murder hobo town new people arrive almost daily to start trouble.
Life on the frontier is lawless and brutal.
Every day people throw done tools and travel to the frontier.
Dream of adventuring wealth and fame and a easy life.
Plan on looting the ruins, tombs and dungeons on humanoid holy lands.
Most die, some flee now broken, a few remain.
Maybe those humanoids are fighting for something?

New rivals are scrutinised by criminal factions as new people to exploit.
Other grifters or do gooders might speak to strangers.
Guilds don't like each other but missionaries are a pain stealing possible victims.
Some orphans and drunks offer to be guides for a copper.

As towns grow the beggars get competitive and start own guild or become taken over by crime. New "beggars" are driven away and eventually start Beggerton.

d12 Random nice stranger problems
1 An orphan has lost all family and everything
2 Looking for a lost relative or loved one possibly a hostage or was meant to meet here
3 Just had a narrow escape from an evildoer d4 1=kidnapping 2=stabbing 3=sacrifice 4=cannibal or non-humans
4 Lost a recent travelling companion hoped to meet here
5 Robbed and lost all valuables d4 1=bandits 2=robber knights 3=goblins 4=orcs
6 Vermin infested d4 1=fleas 2=rat bites 5% chance of plague 3=worms 4=skin rash
7 Stalked by a creep d4 1=crimminal 2=pervert 3=serial killer 4=murder hobo thinks they is heaps purdy and wants to buy them or touch them and stares at them
9 Hired a dodgy guide d4 1=urchin works for thieves guild 2=kobold they bought cheaply from a guy 3=beggar wants to attach self to prosperous betters as servant keeps away other possible parasites 4=beggar works for a cult needing sacrifices
10 A criminal gang leader takes an interest in life and tries to corrupt them
11 Faction interested in them
12 Being nice and naive is a front, have a secret accomplice to steal money

d12 Random nasty stranger problems
1 Horrible alcoholic smells and staggers 
2 Needs a fix of drugs and would sell their own mother to get more
3 Mildly blazed and relaxed or serene high of drugs, perspiring
4 Loves to gamble and would sell children to keep gambling
5 Thinks people are snooty or mocking will knife them if they keep doing it
6 Keeps thinking about people they once ate while talking to people
7 Always looking to exploit, scam, lie or achieve the goal with ease and deceit
8 Likes to spy on people for a chance to murder and rob them
9 Reports to a faction, often overly cocky and haughty "don't you know who I am?"
10 Reports in secret to a faction, nosy for information, befriends strangers
11 Member of a horrible cult who occasionally murder and recruit
12 Goes berserk in a fight +2 Attack, damage, fights into negative HP to death anyone they can reach once they become enraged 

d10 Quick Encounter Types
1 Losers - those who came to adventure but got chewed up here
2 Innocents - naive fresh meat like runaways or orphans seeking lost dad 
3 Grifters - looking to recruit, exploit and scam 
4 Dreamers - idealists come here to become rich
5 Missionaries - come to save souls and help the fallen
6 Soapbox - ranters, ravers, spruikers and rabble rousers
7 Criminal - loners, gangs and guilds 
8 Spies - all kinds of outsiders want to know what goes on here
9 Madmen - fugitives and wanted coming here to hide in unwashed masses
10 Murder Hobos - grisly dungeon veterans here to kill or rest between killing

d100 People on frontier murder hobo town streets
1 Former adventurer lost d4 limbs, begging to afford artificial limbs or a cart
2 Scrawny filth covered beggar shows badly bandaged stab wound needs doctorin
3 Addict former wizard apprentice now stoned on wizard weed and lotus sells drugs
4 Former thief lost hands d4 1=guild business 2=trap accident 3=caught stealing 4=captured by monsters 
5 Begger with holy symbol preys all day 1in6 has a pet that also preys by begging bowl 
6 Monk with bowl, stick and robe sits quietly watching except when goes to the forest to train
7 Beggar with a curse d4 1=blind 2=mute 3=flatulant 4=hideous
8 Village idiot hit hard times back home with newer idiot routines
9 Bard with a flute, mostly paid in booze and adventurer trinkets 
10 Wounded man in bloody bandages needs healing so can go back to dungeon
11 Brother and sister here looking for dad as mom recently died and now all alone
12 Happy blind link boy sure adventuring party will return to take care of his pension
13 Young group of street kids from city stole some supplies and now want to rob a dungeon
14 Woman here looking for husband to bring him home to family
15 Group of country bumpkin youths here looking to get that free dungeon gold they heard of 
16 Child looking for parent who left them here when they joining a party in a dungeon yesterday
17 Escaped slave wearing rags to cover tattoos has no idea where they are
18 Wandering tinkerer has come here by accident and warily looking around for work
19 Orphan escaped a wicked abuser and wound up here
20 Several halflings have come out of curiosity but at least a few look interested
21 Man in university scholars robe selling coloured miracle potions just for today
22 Kobold seller offering cheap obedient kobolds who rob purchaser and return to store
23 Selling cheap booze from a barrel with snake heads and worse mixed with strong grog 
24 Woman claims to be widow selling dungeon map and claims "from her dead husband" 
25 Old drunk offers secret ways in the local dungeon only monsters use normally
26 Adventurer leaving town selling cheap cursed magic items before leaving 
27 Thugs try to take a map from a orphan, really she is their boss and uses them to ad credibility to her map selling racket and other scams
28 Madame Zora can tell future with petty divination spells and skills but claims extraordinary magic powers including local betting tips with her brother in pub 
29 Man selling fake fragment of  famous artifact. "Dont know what it is but i reckon 30gp would sort me right". It has a magic sling stone inside to detect as magic 
30 Man offers you a chance to see a naked dryad for 10gp, takes you into woods where dryad charms new mooks for her gang to go and get more guys to charm
31 Runaway farm boy come here to seek adventurers to join brave heroes on a quest
32 Farmer has come here for some easy gold to save farm from debt
33 Mutant has come here to make money to remove their deformity
34 Girl has come here escaping bad arranged marriage to meet her true love
35 Scribe from city thrown away a boring job to meet elves and barbarians as an adventurer
36 Has come to buy monster bodyparts they take to city to sell wizards, it cant fail
37 Tinkerer has come here to start a new store supplying adventurers
38 Plucky young urchin from the city come to get a job serving adventurers
39 Farm youth fled work and wants to kill goblins and orcs 
40 Youth runaway hopes to make money to impress sweetheart of higher class
41 Pilgrim has tourist has come seeking holy souvenirs
42 Preacher warns about gambling and drinking, lectures locals about wasting all the blood spilled for grog is a sin that hell loves
43 Missionary has come to save all the sex workers and the gangs glare angrily at the attractive well-funded preacher
44 Priest investigating to see if church needs a shrine or church here
45 Inquisitor hunting for cults, witches or heretics among the camp
46 Healer has come to help crippled adventurers and find them work
48 Missionary come to raise money for orphans and collect stray children
49 Templar has come seeking a relic, wants to join adventurers
50 Drunken friar wants to kill undead former friends in a dungeon & heal the poor
51 Village idiot arrives and argues with a duck (a shapeshifting druid friend) 
52 Troublemaker preaches against treason to king and law
53 Filthy old bard singing about the murder hobo life with a big crowd
54 Woman complaining adventurers here abandoning wives and children is evil
55 Local tavern owner and gang leader propose town needs a new feature
56 Merchant spruiking new wares d4 1=new weapons & armour 2=latest lamps & climbing gear 3=new sex workers 4=drugs and grog arrival
57 Medicine show selling potions and herbal brews for baldness, libido and VD
58 Puppet show with drunken adventurers having sex with monsters and killing them
59 Bard lampooning local aristocrats and lawmen in front of laughing crowd
60 Bard offering coin for tales of daring and seeling a party to join for inspiration
61 New pick pocket has no idea local crooks will want a cut and membership fees
62 Begger with fake bandages and dungeon treasure maps for sale
63 Shifty looking fellow gasps, staggers and falls dead for breaking a gang code
64 Hulking brute with a dent in the skull and a big knife looking for work
65 Fancy dressed oik looking around town scouting for gang considering moving in and local gangs want this person beaten up
66 Shifty man in black cloak and hat with many knives just want a quiet private room is asking around, wants to hide until gets an assassination contract
67 Bounty hunter with manacles and dogs needs men to help catch bandits robbing drunken murder hobos which is actually a tax evasion scam
68 Lady bard a famous dancer and courtesan for nobles wants her own floorshow in a tavern and local mob overjoyed treating her as a hero, a d4 ex noble lovers soon follow
69 Attractive woman looking for murder hobo husband she can marry and murder for money
70 Desperate stab and grab thief arrived and can't wait to shank someone to get drinking money, skilled at doing in a crowd even will pretend to help a 'sick' victim 
71 A secret policeman from city here to see if city needs to annex this place and check for sedition as rumours of lawlessness get worse
72 Old sergeant of a lord has come to see what criminals and commerce here might need more policing
73 Tax agent here secretly recording who seems to have lots of cash and messages larger towns tax offices with pigeons every few days 
74 Merchant guild agent looking at the local economy to see if guilds need to move in or if non-guild workers are here 
75 Cultist here to recruit and locate lost evil relics sold by adventurers
76 A bandit working for an orc gang here for an alliance of humanoids who want town destroyed
77 Cannibal gang member pretends to be an adventurer and has a cool map of cave of redneck cannibal clan
78 Goblin magician hidden as a human by a spell for a while investigating murder hobo weaknesses and destinations
79 A bhut works in village spying by night is a horrible monster aiding cultists and monsters with adventurer secrets. Gets lots of adventurers drunk and talking
80 A were rat spies on town and investigating drains and other ratty hiding places. Uses rats for information it trades with other monsters and evil beings
81 Crazy man with missing legs begs to be taken in the dungeon for the last fight
82 Crazed widow mad with grief sobs all day looking crazy and tugging hair
83 Muttering drunk complaining always covered in blood when it is mostly just mud and shit
84 Mad surgeon come here makes drinking money on adventurers after lost licence for drinking. Late at night likes to murder drunks on the street and uses corpses for necromancy experiments
85 Mad widow sure adventurer is her long-missing husband has a d4 scared hungry children
86 Mad rich drunk boasts of unlikley adventures imagine they have had
87 Crazy old murder hobo happy to give tips and dungeon locations for beer and pub meals of mostly meat. At least half stories are true
88 Murder hobo with axe in the head wound now walks around naked warning of the burrowers under the street and the eyes in the trees and spies everywhere
89 Mad old woman talks to all the goats about town who seem to whisper back
90 Mad old prospector locates dungeons and sells maps to younger men with notes on main monsters. Love only mule and crossbow he talks too. Sells furs and monster scalps too
91 Murder hobo empties a sack of goblin scalps in the street and cheers, giving away beer from a keg
92 Murder hobo carrying the corpse of a child camp follower to the priest for burial and looks pretty grim
93 Murder hobo with goblin arrows staggers into town with sack of coins and passes out, some locals get out their shanks to finish them off
94 Murder hobo boasting about recent dungeon trip offers to sell map with left over rooms for 25gp 
95 Murder hobo with chained up kobolds offers to sell as untrained slaves as a lot 
96 Murder hobo showing off a dryad head in a sack and magic items her enthralled lovers had
97 Murder hobo drunken berserker with twitching eyes and hands
98 Murder hobo wizard lloking for couriers to get jars of monster organs to the wizards guild in the city before they spoil
99 Murder hobo enetratining urchins with candy, a monster face skin mask and his orc finger necklace. He gives away kobold dollies and monster knucklebones for the kids once a week
100 Murder hobo claims they are best at everything in fact they are high level slumming it and being a jerk. Annoyingly follows parties, kills everything and demands 90% treasure. Young adventurers roll their eyes when he comes near. Actually serves a demon lord messing with adventurers through this jerk. Oddly undead wont target him

A town fit for Murder Hobos

Murder Hobos and Mayhem
Started to think how a murder hobo town might be needed to accompany a goblin mine and realized i had done lots of this before. But here is some extra detail and tables for bigger towns. Also thinking need some maps and a year by year growth diary of a town. Had good weekend brainstorm session too.

People call these shambling heaps towns but one could mistake them for ruins struck by earthquakes, mudslides and storms. Everything covered in mud, often from recycled materials made by incompetent unskilled labour. They stink of piss, vomit, rotten food and old beer. Many locals are in states of alcoholic or drugged stupors or nursing wounds in between expeditions. Those less brave simply labour and carry loot and dig holes as directed by more experienced murder hobos. Many runaways and orphans are atracted to lives of adventure and are pressed into service as linkboys, lantern bearers and pole holders. Half the population is usually outside working some absent for days at a time. When dungeons and mines dry up murder hobos move out. When families, farmers, church going folk and law turn up most murder hobos move on. Ive also considered some former dungeon monsters would in some towns be slaves but also when nobility and cults destroyed might join the shanty town as labourers, mercenaries and prostitutes. Many murder hobos don't care if your human or not other would hate non humans murdering them and and organising genocidal raids on nonhuman camps. Women are treated poorly and might need to kill quite a few people to get respect or have aggressive defenders.

Old Stuff:
Old murder hobos  - d100 tragic old murder hobos you can meet
Murder Hobo Shanty Towns - d20 businesses, d50 problems, d50 seasonal visitors
Murder Hobo hirelings - d100 mercenaries for hire in murder hobo town
Murder Hobo Shanty Town Events - d100 street encounters
Murder Hobo Shanty Town Problems revised - revised problems up to d100
Murder Hobo Shanty Town Seasonal Visitors - revised visitors up to d100
Murder Hobo Types and Roles - d10 murder hobo types and trivia
Royal dungeoneer corp - notes on how empire does it

Most start as camps with tents but these can grow into hundreds or more, turning area into garbage strewn stinking muddy bog. Some progress into bigger things and get more permanent fixtures. Ones that are started by military or guild are usually better planned as are ones where a strong leader emerges. The bigger town more law and order there is and many grow into normal towns. When big industry arrives and banks and streets and temples and law arrived and set up permanent buildings the days of murder hobos are over and the scum leave. Destroying all local monsters makes area safe enough that farming families move in also the beginning of the end.

d10 Settlement Types
1 Tent town with a few traders and poor health and sanitation, plenty of drunken violence
2 Crude wooded shacks and tents with a few traders and
3 Fortified building surrounded by shacks and tents
4 Wooden pioneer fort in centre of shacks and huts
5 Sprawling out of control town hopelessly disorganised chaos
6 Neat well planned main street with buildings and several two story buildings
7  Fortified town with improvised wooden walls, barricades and watch towers
8 Company town with kit houses, second story buildings, good walls and fences
9 Military town with trenches, good walls and strict grid and organised camps and shacks
10 Church town with temple in centre on hill and good walls with orderly buildings

d10 Leadership
1 Anarchy reigns and people do as they please with violence often resolving things
2 Close knit brotherhood cooperate and share for survival and profit against monsters
3 Leader has emerged by brute strength with gang of cronies
4 Leader has emerged by cunning, charisma and political intrigue including dirty tricks
5 Leader has proven to be right, given good advice and earned respect and allegiance
6 Leader with money has invested in town and bribed way to top with paid thugs
7 Theives guild has taken over in secret with a expendable puppet leader
8 Secret police secretly run with a puppet who makes sure best goods go to the Barron
9 Town elect a leader who makes outrageous promises and is lynched or flees if they fail
10 A veteran adventurer runs town based on experience and superior might

d10 Non Murder Hobos
1 labourer works dirty jobs digging or building or felling trees
2 Drunks damaged by horrors of the pit trying to muster bravery to go back
3 Cripples and sick injured and awaiting chance to get better or no way to leave
4 Orphans and runaways looking for work or too young to be taken below
5 Trader selling booze and food from the city to treasure laden adventurers
6 Shifty thief looking for opportunity disguised as labourer or servant
7 Servant or baggage handler looking after adventurers tent or shack while away
8 Slave or possibly non human caring for masters property
9 Opportunist selling grob and drugs and possibly a prostitute for right price
10 Old timer prospecting for new dungeon holes, hunting game collecting scraps or loot

d20 Industry for bigger murder hobo towns
1 Foundry where dozens of workers melt metal, make tools, manacles and weapons
2 Lumber yard where dozens of workers cut wood and make walls and shacks and other goods
3 Worker Dormitories with rows of beds, latrines and kitchen for poorest workers
4 Barracks for military or mercenaries slightly better than labourers and fortified  
5 Slave yard where slaves are bought and sold and caged up when not at work
6 Waggon maker makes all kinds of wheeled vehichles, pulleys and winches for mining
7 Junkyard where town refuse and dungeon rubbish thrown and sorted by poorest workers
8 Brewery where most beer comes from employing dozens making mash and bottling beer
9 Hospital as there are so many injured and sick at anyone time with many beds
10 Prison where drunken brawlers and killers locked up if they cant pay and put to convict labour
11 Slaughteryard where animals are killed, hacked up, salted and pickled
12 Docks and fisheries where boats provide transport and provide locals with fish
13 Tanners yard where leather is made and made into goods for locals
14 Freight yard where waggons of goods come  and go and crated goods are stored for shipping
15 Hotel several stories with accommodation, meals, bathhouse, saloon, gambling and hookers
16 Graveyard in a busytown will be huge with coffin makers, undertakers, crematorium and shrines
17 Builders busy serving increasing demand for specialized construction with brick and stone
18 Rendering yard where monster and humanoid corpses are boiled up to make flammable oil
19 Warehousing for stored goods, freight handlers and travelling traders, storage for hire
20 Bank and fortified administration for company owned business usually manager lives inside. Most banks are set up by merchant or banking guilds or even churches or big government and they usually bring in more law and order

I am considering making a map with several example towns - a clean developed one run by guilds from the city on the verge of becoming legit. Another horrible crime filled one and a few small satellite tent towns. These maps, all set on a 6 mile hex in the mountains a day away from Shadelport with some adventure plot seeds will make a nice book for my next landmark or sometime. Gives me a little easy to complete project for some time and a starting point for my next campaign. Another possibility is to write a ten year diary of events of how a murder hobo tent camp turns into a respectable mining town over say ten years.

I have run this with a few new player groups who wilsey didn't trust many locals and were horrified by brutish behaviour and filth. Not for nice adventurers but a buffer between monsters and the world of man. I'm not sure If I could sell a novel based on this.

The Misery of Blood Sand Beach pt2 - Street Encounters

So I was cranking out stuff to keep up my hits up and I think I'm over it. G+ and blogger seem to be slowly being killed. Im considering building a website. Ive had lots of requests to do a compilation book again. Working on something polished would cut my blogging output to a trickle. I'm more into quantity than quality. No decisions needed at moment. After last road war game will knock out a compilation just to make life easier for me to run it. Im in Sydney now with my traveling pc, in Canberra with my design pc hopefully by monday. Usually in xmas holidays I work on compilations and play Temple of Elemental Evil PC game again.

Will be a few more tables and a map coming for this setting.

I've also decided to bite the bullet and make proper gods for this setting ive been running for years. Horrible obnoxious gods. Even the good ones.

I should do some more maritime tables too. Occurred to me some prison hulks in the harbour would fit in too.

d10 Quick Encounter Types
01 Vermin

02 Convict Labour
03 Vice
04 Beggars
05 Non humans
06 Sailors
07 Murder Hobos
08 Criminals
09 Street sellers
10 Weirdos

d100 Encounters On The Streets

01 Hopping sea fleas jump on everyone

02 Rats scuttle over feet, might turn hostile 
03 Isopods scuttle over ground picking on scraps
04 Trilobites crawling about 
05 Huge crab tries to grab someone from under some rocks
06 Tentacles from huge squid from open water tries to nab somebody
07 Seagulls try to knock food from hands to steal
08 Seagulls annoyingly begging for food
09 Stray cats looking fighting over scraps
10 Aggressive sea scorpion tries a snatch and grab from open water
11 Chain gang being whipped on way to a sweatshop
12 Coffle of labourers being herded to work in fields
13 Cruel overseer beating slave in the street
14 Escape by slaves turns into a riot, orc guards attack
15 Masters making slaves fight for money
16 Legless slaves in wagon chained by necks off to slave market
17 Slaves being beheaded by orcs in street
18 Slaves being hung in gibbets for punishment
19 Slaves being flogged on a-frame 
20 Slave owner trying to sell youth for quick sale
21 Drug dealer on street selling goods from 1sp
22 Kobold transvestites offering trips to heaven 1gp
23 Old woman with orc guards selling cups of rum 1sp
24 Drunks in the street laying about
25 Man selling angry wild kobolds for strangling 1gp
26 Goblin trader selling assorted mushrooms from 1gp
27 Kobold renting out goat by the hour 1sp
28 Drunks vomiting in the street
29 Berserk hallucinating barbarian imagines enemies everywhere
30 Kobold robbing sleeping drunk
31 Drug addicts begging for change 
32 Man with no arms or legs begging for work
33 Kobolds begging for food scraps
34 Escaped slave begs for help
35 Beggar following party, beggar guild spy for hire
36 Elderly woman collecting money for old seamen home
37 Down on luck stranded sailor begs for work
38 Old necromancer with only one zombie begging for change
39 Waggon collecting dead from off the street
40 Beggar being attacked by rats
41 Orc hoodlums demanding money
42 Kobold selling his family at low low prices
43 Lizard man being whipped by orcs cursing this damned town
44 Frogman wizened and dying from salt overdose in gutter
45 Gang of of halflings beating a old man with clubs for a sandwich
46 Halflings cook selling buttered clams 1cp a serve
47 Orc gang sling insults at puny adventurers
48 Orc militia check your papers
49 Orc militia demand confirmation visitors really are males
50 Orc militia looking for druid terrorists or fish man saboteurs
51 Filthy drunk sailors drunkenly dancing in streets
52 Sailors having a fight in the street 
53 Sailors asking where they can find prostitutes
54 Sailors being beaten by orc militia
55 Sailor selling maps of strange islands
56 Sailor selling monkeys, parrots, snakes and other pets
57 Sailor selling tattoos
58 Sailor selling scrimshawed whale teeth
59 Sailor busking with accordion for beer money
60 Sailor sacrificing to a sea god in one of many alley way shrines
61 Drunken murder hobos staggering between pubs 
62 Drunken murder hobo stabbing or strangling a kobold in alley
63 Drunk murder hobo being beaten by orc militia
64 Murder hobo skinning, butchering and removing teeth from a lizard man
65 Retired murder hobo with one arm selling treasure maps
66 Murder hobo drunkenly talking to invisible friends about treasure
67 Murder hobo drunkenly being escorted by three kobolds in a human woman's dress
68 Murder hobo laying on ground begging for money, points out his stab wound
69 Hungry murder hobos eating a kobold on a spit
70 Lady murder hobo band with fake beards looking about town curiously
71 Muggers threaten visitors with shanks
72 Con man selling treasure maps
73 Cup and ball con man with small folding table
74 Card shark or coin toss con man in alley way running games
75 Muggers beating up old murder hobo beggar
76 Pimp slyly offers to show location of real brothel with real women for 5gp
77 Pimp offers to take to secret brothel, all girls are polymorphed kobolds
78 Man threatens to accuse visitors of being fish men if not paid 5gp
79 Con man has deed to a ship in harbour at low low prices
80 Con man asking for charity for crippled sailors home
81 Kobold selling hot buttered turnips 1cp
82 Orc selling hot chestnuts and acorns (orcs can eat them) 1cp a serve
83 Shifty push cart selling daggers, hooks, marlinespikes and teeth
84 Kobolds selling old clothes and strange bones from trolley 
85 Old woman selling eel stew and rat pies 1sp each
86 Old man selling bloodwurst sausage and sauerkraut 1sp serve
87 Kobold selling loaves of black bread 1cp
88 Kobold selling buttered periwinkles and crabs 1cp serve 
89 Old toothless man selling mystery boiled meat from large pot 1cp chunk
90 Orc selling boar penis soup, fabled fertility medicine 1gp bowl
91 Fishy man with googly eyes and thick lips in hood staring at visitors
92 Recruiter for mercenaries expedition to Monster Island
93 Press gang from ship needing crew offer to buy you all drinks
94 Failed ship captain telling stories of treasure islands looking for crew
95 Secret policeman looking to recruit murder hobos for dungeon mission
96 Recruiter for pit fighters offers great prizes and benefits
97 Wizard looking for murder hobos to recover lost item
98 Merchant looking for missing family wants to hire discreet murder hobos to rescue
99 Former bandit leader happy to give ex gangs lair location as revenge
100 Drunk crippled explorer happy to tell tales of the gold temples of monster island

d10 Quck Night Time Encounter Types

01 Animals

02 Beast Men
03 Supernatural horrors
04 Monsters
05 Riffraff 
06 Criminals
07 Militia
08 Cultists
09 Dodgy deals
10 Spooky stuff

d100 Encounters by Night

01 Sea scorpion climbs from water

02 Giant Crabs patrol streets
03 Water weird in a stagnant pool
04 Giant squid tentacles from water
05 Giant Frog in summer or Ice Toad in winter
06 Giant rat pack roaming streets
07 Giant crayfish scuttling about streets
08 Marine stegocentipede roaming for meat
09 Flying manta ray (1in6 vampiric)
10 Land lamprey school flopping about looking for blood
11 Crab men scavenging on streets
12 Eel men looking for food or murder
13 Fish men cultists looking for humans to kidnap
14 Fish men cultists summoning creatures from the depths
15 Marine troll up from the deep very hungry
16 Marine hobgoblins looking for metal goods
17 Lizard Men from Monster Island trying to free captives
18 Serpent man in woman form spying on humans
19 Vodyanoi marine umber hulk hunting
20 Kelpie in form of woman or horse luring men to deaths
21 Marine ghouls hateful of the living 
22 Sea Hag hunting for victims
23 Willow the Whisp
24 Marine zombie of long dead sailor covered in barnacles
25 Red Slaad looking for slaves to take to limbo
26 Vampire sea captain looking for victims
27 Penanggalang flying around looking for prey
28 Nereids looking for men to rob
29 Sirene regularly comes to steal especially magic
30 Hydrodaemon come to visit cultists
31 Marine ogres stealing metal goods and food
32 Sea wolves in humanoid wolf form hunting
33 Selkie in woman form looking for stuff to steal with several leopard seals nearby
34 Werewolf looking for food or murder
35 Were rat gang of sailors robbing buildings
36 Werepanther looking for victims by night
37 Tako octopus folk looking interesting human things to steal
38  Land urchins scavenging muck from cobblestones and mud
39 Eye of the deep roaming about for food
40 Algoids who form from slime by night and roam streets
41 Old hobo trying to avoid monsters and militia
42 Escaped criminal slaves from pens trying to escape
43 Limbless slave dumped in street to die
44 Escaped savages from monster Island with no clue what to do
45 Lizard men slaves heading for water
46 Kobolds picking streets for scraps of food or rubbish
47 Begger left out trying to get someone to let inside
48 Old man drunkenly roaming streets
49 Foreign drunk sailors unaware of curfew or night dangers
50 Escaped woman from illegal sex club desperate to escape
51 Gang of thieves breaking into shops by night
52 Gang of criminals dragging kidnap victims
53 Gang of criminals out for a dare
54 Pirates out to steal a ship
55 Pirate gangs fighting
56 Street gangs having turf war
57 Solo thief or assassin climbing building or wall
58 Pimp, thugs and slave women running from the law
59 Serial killer disemboweling a homeless person
60 Gang of were rats fighting gang of sea wolves
61 Orc militia chasing a young theif
62 Orc militia fighting a gang
63 Orc militia chasing escaped slaves
64 Orc militia fighting pirates
65 Orc militia fighting fish men
66 Orc militia fighting giant crabs
67 Orc militia being eaten by were rats
68 Orc militia executing men trying to free slaves
69 Orc militia beating a homeless person
70 Cult of the kraken god sacrificing a victim in a shallow pool
71 Cult of the kraken god throwing wax tablet into water in a ritual
72 Cult of the old man of the sea drowning a victim on a salty pool
73 Cultist of Hell doing the devils work 
74 Demon worshipers carving evil runes in escaped slaves 
75 Fish men cultists bringing bound woman to fish men
76 Necromancer cult releasing zombies into the sea
77 Cult of murder god throwing severed heads and hearts into the sea
78 Druids calling earthly powers to destroy town but attacked by sea monsters
79 Angelic cult trying to free slaves set upon by sea monsters
80 Sea wolf cultists sacrificing slave to the lord of sea beasts
81 Strange man offers you to follow him to secret drug den
82 Strange man offers you to follow him to secret brothel
83 Shifty man offers guide to secret night market of stolen goods 
84 Man in shadow offers free gold but leads to slaver ambush
85 Man in shadow offers free beer but leads to orc militia
86 Man in shadow offers free prostitutes but leads to sucubi
87 Man in shadow offers safe place to hide, actually leads to a press gang
88 Old man claims to be wizard without spell book, begs for help
89 Youth chained under house foundations whispers for help, actually a slaver trap
90 Man hanging in gibbet claims to be from good family begs for rescue
91 Spectral minion rattling chains begs for help to escape the town
92 Severed head drops from the sky and rolls down the streets
93 Eerie light comes from pools of water and a humanoid in hooded cloak runs out
94 Hear distant screams from woman, orc militia swarm the streets
95 A soaked druid staggers down street and falls dead from drowning
96 A grim face of the towns patron sea god appears in sky and grimaces then fades
97 A chilling wind blows down the street and phantoms of the dead arise moaning
98 Glowing eyes float down the street glaring at all then move onward 
99 The mayor, his orcs, clerics and wizards on the way somewhere in secret
100 A pirate lich with his skeleton crew walk down street and into the water

Whats Your Definition of Murder Hobo?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=murderhobo

Which def do you like better? What would you change?

1 murderhobo
The typical protagonist of a fantasy role-playing game, who is a homeless guy who goes around killing people and taking their stuff. The term originated in discussions of tabletop role-playing games by authors seeking to create games aimed at styles of play not supported by traditional games like Dungeons & Dragons.

Four murderhoboes burned down the peaceful orc village, killed every orc in it, and looted their corpses.

2 murderhobo
A derogatory term used to denigrate old school players of Dungeons & Dragons, and considered a gross insult among real old school players and DMs. Users of the term falsely claim that murderhobo was the style of play back in the day (1974-1978) and that is based on a false understanding of what old school play is. Bitd the way that the original old school Dungeons & Dragons was played was as a game of exploration, and good play meant that you a avoided combat when possible and gained treasure by other means. A player in those days only went into combat when it could not be avoided and only killed when it was necessary. If the goal could be obtained through other types of interaction, that was the preferred day.

I don't even know you, why are you insulting me with this murderhobo nonsense?

What Would Your Definition Include???
On FB there is a assumption you murder anyone, villagers, the law, farm animals, children.
In stormbringer I did all that but only to summon demons for sex. Even my worst murder hobo players didnt kill that many ppl outside adventures and it had side effects. One player murdered a tavern owner and found in his locked chest evidence he was a member of the secret police reporting on adventurers to tax man and the law. A lynch mob surrounded the parties house and they bribed them with erotic dark elf furniture. Another house they owned got firballed by someone. So the consequences of one player cost the whole party.

If anything my players were capitalist upstarts. They argued they were not murder hobos because they had homes. I pointed out living in caves most of the year instead of the homes was a bit contentious. Killing monsters with dirty tricks rather than direct combat was pretty common. Possibly MH act like colonials on the frontier - Cortez, Columbus and others are good examples. People like Joseph Banks argued with science to declare aboriginals were not human and did not understand ownership therefore the empire should rob them. Some argued if natives had souls.

Certainly being a MH does not preclude roleplaying or story but some DMs might care too much if players don't give a shit about their epic literary wannabe creation. If they care about NPCs too much and players want to get to the killing and looting too much this can lead to the DM complaining of MH-ism. A DM with a plotted story will be disappointed if the party not interested in the hook and dont give a shit about the plight of Princess Trufflepants. Sandox settings where players can do as they please are great. If they find consequences of murder exiting and become criminals so be it. Oddly enough I find myself trying to get new kid gamers to think before killing the sheriff but if adults want to fine (I won't play roadwar with kids again possibly avoid modern settings with guns too). Kids playing thieves can be kind of awesome. I DMed a family and mom the cleric telling thieves to be good and dangling healing spells as a bribe was kind of funny.

If I want bad freeform acting I don't play role playing games. If I want a linear narrative I will watch a film or play most computer games. Freedom to play as you please and deal with the consequences is a great thing about RPGs. I rarely use adventures in DnD and if I do I like to just put it in position on the map and offer it as one of several options not contrive some involvement. My city authorities seem to be intimidating and several players have been caught by the state and forced into becoming police informers and have their earnings monitored by magical tax agents.

The worst MH game with these problems I was a Player in, was in a homebrew MERP setting. Half the party decided the pro human faction was the road to riches. My assassin helped the bard mob some druids for helping the enemy elf nation and began enriching ourselves. We didn't know several party members were half elf rangers working for the elves. Game died in arse as players split and turned on each other. Part of the problem was the setting and the DM assuming we would be interested in helping the snooty elves and would turn on the humans. It could work but the campaign goal was unclear. We never had any elves talk to us only humans telling us elves were bad. Yes we were jerks trying to break the game. Possibly the evil behind the war could have revealed themselves or made us enemies because elves were the only enemies we were presented with yet never saw or spoke to. So we got bored and roused mobs and tried to seize power over humans and blamed elves for everything. We were teenagers and the GM we were pretty iffy about but gave them a chance to entertain us. We wanted to establish something like Granbrettan from Hawkmoon but the GMs motives were unfathomable and assumed we would expose the plot over years. Rolemaster possibly more murder hobo than dnd - nobody wants a fair fight or any fights if possible in pursuit of cash and power. Nowadays I would just leave the game, then I had the gamer student house.

Assuming your world is entertaining and the plot hooks are engaging and being outraged if players don't want to be railroaded by your premise is not the players fault. Playing to the players interests if better than dictating them. Calling them murder hobos in the pejorative sense (especially if you never played oldschool and just jumped on the mob understanding from some forum) is lame. If players want to be outlaws you can still have fun.

Please share your MH stories and definitions!
Will revise my murder hobo book some day too
Perhaps world murder hobo day is needed
Started penning songs for Murder Hobo the musical

d100 Shanty Town Street Encounters

Murder Hobo Shanty Towns
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/dungeon-rush-shanty-towns.html

Murder Hobo Shanty Town Mercs
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/d100-rent-murder-hobo.html

Magic Shop Article covers the basic store you would find in a shanty town
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/ye-old-magic-shoppe.html

So while I did include a d50 events and wanderers table in the first article I should expand both to fill d100 and expand the concept more. These are things that might happen every few hours where the d50 events is for stuff that effect whole community.

These could be used in a mining camp or slum

d100
01 Rats get underfoot trying to get food

02 Stray try to beg or steal food even nipping backpacks 
03 Dog fight breaks out and people start betting
04 Mad dog foaming at mouth running around on biting spree
05 Organised dog fight gathers a crowd 
06 Organised bare knuckles fight gathers a crowd
07 Fight between two men people mostly ignore it
08 Men having a knife fight, winner tries to finish off loser if not stopped
09 Wrestling competition gathers a yelling mob
10 Woman vs woman fight announced a sp to enter the  fight tent
11 Stray squealing pig runs through street knocking people over
12 Crazy donkey or pony panics from cruel treatment
13 Man beating a donkey or pony
14 Mad billy boat butts any one he can when loose
15 Stray chicken chased by murder hobo
16 Homeless kid begs for food
17 Slippery mud and excrement puddle, DEX save or fall in
18 Failed begging adventurer with missing body parts  
19 Dog follows adventurers
20 Stray cat stalking mice or birds
21 SItting old man has died and no body has noticed yet
22 Kangaroo court held to punish thief
23 Man put in stocks for thieving or fighting
24 Man being hung for thieving or murder by mob
25 Person being burned or tortured for witchcraft
26 Panic about doppelganger in town eating and robbing people
27 Man collecting corpses on wagon not serving any legal official service 
28 A bard here to collect stories of heroism or vice
29 A hungry prostitute makes you a offer
30 Man offers attractive company in tent d4 1=pimp 2=slaver 3=monster 4=robber
31 A man offering treasure maps of local dungeons
32 A desperate old murder hobo looking for a rescue party for friends in dungeon
33 A man selling humanoid d4 slaves d4 1=orc 2=hobgoblin 3=goblin 4=kobold
34 A man selling his wife gathers a crowd for auction
35 A man selling monster trophies for cowards and 
36 A man selling d6 clay bottles of beer
37 A bakers boy selling bread
38 A fisherman selling cooked fish or eel stew
39 A goblin selling shroom stew and drugs on the side
40 A farm boy selling apples and blackberries
41 A farmer selling his son or daughter
42 A man selling a animal on a rope d4 1=pig 2=goat 3=big lizard 4=sheep
43 A old woman selling sack of d6 animals d4 1=chicken 2=blackbird 3 =seagull 4=duck
44 A man selling rat on a stick
45 A man selling dead rats tied by tails to his stick in a rat hide coat
46 A man with a goblin charging people to beat or stab the goblin
47 A local hunter selling scrawny hill rabbits
48 A disguised orc selling cheap poisoned stew
49 A bard busking for money or food scraps
50 A goblin child spying on people from under garbage heap
51 Invisible person pushes past you d4 1=adventurer 2=imp 3=stalker 4=humanoid spy
52 A priest preaching about vice and murder hobos
53 A tax agent spying on who makes it rich or has conspicuous wealth
54 A gentleman and guards seeing the degradation and filthy sub humans locals 
55 A old woman or man looking for their missing son
56 A game of kickball or stickball erupts upsetting many in the way
57 A gambler calls out for any interested in a game of cards 
58 Bard playing and a tattered crowd dancing a jig
59 A struck it rich adventurer provides a keg of beer for a street party
60 A evil cultist opens a keg of poison ale then departs
61 A man selling demonic trinkets that he claims protect you from harm
62 A man selling a cursed item cheap 
63 A Empire crier calls out news about cheap land on frontier 
64 A group of old women denounce vice and advocate good life
65 A priest looking for troubled souls to save
66 A cultist proscribing his secret society as the best
67 A mercenary recruiter looking for possible soldiers
68 A army sergeant in disguise looking for deserters
69 See a huge 12 inch mosquito sucking on a unconscious drunk
70 See a gremlin drop from someones backpack into garbage
71 A sickly pox covered man limping and coughing
72 A drunken hobo vomiting in the street
73 A man coughs up blood staggers and falls dead in mud
74 A tattooist offering cheap poor quality unhygenic tattoos
75 Lice, fleas and ticks swarm into your hair and clothes
76 Cockroaches or weevils get into pack spoiling food
77 Man selling cups of fresh spring water with a tin cup and barrel 1sp each
78 Man selling dirty ditch water from a bucket 1cp each BYO cup
79 Old woman selling eggs (probably bird eggs)
80 Huge farm lad selling bundles of straw for bedding and floors 
81 Local woodcutter selling bundles of firewood
82 Fancy capped self proclaimed alchemist selling d4 healing potions
83 A flash robed man selling fake miracle healing potions and tonics
84 A druid cultist offering to rid people and packs of vermin with a cantrip (0lv spell)
85 A man selling a d6 dogs of varied types
86 Dust clouds and smoke make everyone sneeze and choke
87 Lumbering smelly old man in rags actually a zombie
88 A man with whip makes goblins fight for money and bets
89 A raggedy puppet show about adventurers in dungeons
90 Flies swarming every where crawling in eyes, mouths and ears
91 A man selling strange eggs he found
92 A pimp with d4 hobgoblin sex slaves offering half price services
93 Healer looking for clients who can pay might have some spells
94 Cloaked man selling tobacco, hash, opium and novelty clay pipes
95 Boy selling a live or dead chicken
96 A man selling monster ear and finger necklaces
97 A man seling saucy banned prints from the city pay 1cp per view
98 A man crying out for paid adventurers for mission
99 Men are skinning a live goblin or orc
100 Men cooking a dog in street 1cp a chunk with gravy