I am currently running a “dungeon delving” campaign (in the Ptolus campaign setting), and one of the characters has decided that she wants to get some side income by carving chess sets out of monster carcasses they have come across and selling them.
This is novel enough that I feel I ought to develop some further plots from this. So, any ideas for:
- the kind of people who might buy such chess sets
- what kinds of shenanigans might develop from something like this - supernatural or otherwise?
As a plot hook, you could have some rich jerk commission a custom chess set made using the bones/hide of a powerful, possibly endangered creature.
A rival could show up, trying to use monster parts to make checkers tiles.