Terrible Letters From Home (d100)

From the Konsumterra's blog post, here is an extract.

Terrible letters from home are distractions from fighting wars and often demoralizing. Family could be friends or own house hold in your home. Designed to be good in dnd or ww1 cthulhu or other setting.

The random table was shared at r/d100.

d100 Result

1

Older relative has committed murder and run away pursued by the law and leaving family

2

Younger relative committed a crime and has run away and joined a gang

3

Member of family murdered d4 1=child 2=youth 3=adult 4=old

4

Member of family cheated someone shaming you all

5

Member of family was conned and lost a fortune through dirty tricks

6

Family member in prison for accident or a mistake

7

Child or youth kidnapped and carried away

8

Blood feud has been ruining your kin and rival families power

9

Family member went to prison now out a labourer or servant

10

Something valuable stolen from clan

11

Family member become depraved evil drug addict alcoholic and abuser

12

Family member in debt to gambling and has now sold a child as a servant

13

Family member is a sex maniac even disguising self as a prostitute and getting caught

14

Family member dies abusing drugs or having accident while high

15

Kin are involved in grip of petty organised crime and trapped

16

Kin member is a serial killer, a family secret scandal failing to happen

17

Kin member is sadist and abuser tormenting animals and or people

18

Family sexual pervert sexually assault a family member and has exiled them

19

Family member has turned sophisticated attending orgies, theaters, artist parties

20

Family member been seduced by amoral organisation secret lodges, club or cult

21

A relative died in their shack of exposure and hunger

22

A relative has been locked up in a mad house and is tormented by institution

23

A relative has gone to debtors prison where they are constantly ill

24

A relative has been sold under contract to pay off debt in a terrible high risk job

25

Several kin have joined the military life and abandoned their families

26

Mob killed someone collecting loans from gang

27

Bank came and took everything from a relative ruining them

28

Several kin have fled homes and departing to frontier or new territories

29

Someone killed on the job and families left paupers

30

Landlord abusing family with beatings and abuse

31

Family involved in border dispute in court

32

Family member has trial for murder seeking money to buy freedom if defense fails

33

Family having fight over messy divorce and return of dowry

34

Family being evicted by landlords battled in court

35

Family having dispute with church elders

36

Family fighting over claim of found treasure (possibly cursed with greed)

37

Family engaged in constant petty legal feuds with other family

38

Family has members killed and imprisoned fighting rival family

39

Family has mystery bastard arrive claiming family property

40

Family legally maneuvered into subordinate role to other clan

41

The fairest youth in clan ran away with trusted person and both missing

42

A widowed parent has found new younger and poorer love

43

Everyone gossiping about affairs and who is into who

44

Former lover from home tells you about their marriage to someone else

45

Former lover has gone crazy and disapeared

46

Former lover joins some far away military or merchant service

47

Former lover wants to see you and get married

48

Former lover now has a child from somewhere

49

Recent lover informing you about terrible disease they have

50

Letter from most recent serious lover saying your dead to them now, it is all off

51

Family killed due to war related disaster or attack

52

Family members killed in a bizarre massacre

53

Family killed in natural disaster like flood, mudslide, cold

54

Family disappeared nobody knows where

55

Family killed transport accident like train, plane or auto

56

Family home burned down killing and injuring several members

57

Family robbed and house looted and smashed

58

Family blamed for d4 1=starting fire 2=poisoning well 3=witchcraft 4= cowardice

59

Family wealth and leaders lost transporting precious goods bankrupting all

60

Feud has started with great vindictive family over law, money or love gone wrong

61

Someone having a terribly not secret affair that will cause clan trouble

62

Family members miserliness resulted in deaths of other family

63

Family members revealed to be actually married

64

Bizarre love triangle between several families

65

Someone married someone foreign or of a different class

66

Family members death causing succession feuds and legal battles

67

Terrible mismatched marriage with horrible stranger

68

Someone wants a divorce and is causing a scandal

69

Someone has started gossiping about family member and their live in friend

70

Someone in family is vain, rude and thoughtless and starting blood feuds with other clans

71

Plague killed many in your home area, all avoiding that place

72

Patriarch or matriarch of family dies of pox causing power struggle to be the next

73

Someone you love crippled by a injuries from an attack or accident

74

Your vd test results come in and you have big problems

75

Your dearest childhood friend in terrible fever no doctor can explain

76

Someone personally close wasting away in coma

77

Kin who survived plague driven away by jealous neighbours mob

78

Several children of clan died of the scarlet sickness

79

Friend with plague symptoms kills self

80

News from home naming the many deaths from a sickness

81

A relative has been caught performing public sexual perversion and now in prison

82

Kin has used law to ruin someone to make a profit and locals all unhappy

83

Family leader has been working as a fixer for a criminal gang

84

Family member been imprisoned for injuring married partner

85

Family member performed a crime and blamed a homeless traveller

86

A kinsman stole something and made self rich while original owner had life ruined

87

A family member robbed a kinfolk and splitting the clan

88

Family wasting savings on frivolous status symbols of wealth

89

Family member gave fortune to church while close kin left ruined

90

Family member outlawed for sexual crime and is now seeking a boat far away

91

Family member convinced home is haunted

92

Kin tells of a seance by a witch and the amazing secrets they were told by spirits

93

Family member saw something on the moors one night now broken person in fear

94

A priest has been forming a strong influence on your loved ones

95

Someone in family joined some strange club or fraternity which worries the elderly

96

Long lost relative returned but was really a fraud after money

97

Kin has taken residence in strange old house full weird books

98

Family member lost in war has been seen among the criminal classes of a city

99

Family member went mad took up strange practices, odd friends and collections

100

Family member had awesome religious vision on deathbead