50 reasons to brawl in an Inn

You are Game Master. An Adventure has just ended. The players have returned from a long voyage, they killed a powerful mage and made their pile horribly. So, you indeed didn't believe, that they would succeed . You wanted to finish off them all, and mage level guarranteed success. And perhaps you would have really succedeed, if you hadn't been so sleepy or hadn't missed, that a mage had 75% magic resistance. And what now? You won't tell them one morning: "Ring of Invisibility" ?! What ring ?!! So what, that you've got him in your equipment - I don't remember anything like that! You try to cheat me! Two millions penalty points with inherit on next characters!!! You don't call out specially some absurd brawl in an Inn, too, in which only target is ripping off players. No!! Such conduct is injust and deeply contradictory to the spirit of RPG. The brawls don't come out because players have in opinion of Game Master too much of something. In order to keep full objectivity, roll dice (players like it) and test what is the real reason for that brawling (and what follows, lossing the whole surplus of treasure). You should use the chart below, which using is indispensable element of proffesional GM-ing of RPG, as the autors say.

1d50		1d50		1d50
1	religion	18	sport	35	memories
2	ideology	19	hazard	36	joke
3	natural phenomena	20	refusal of treatment	37	crowd
4	profession	21	plants	38	sex
5	nationality	22	animals	39	feeling
6	social class	23	noise (silent)	40	history
7	scores	24	art	41	messages
8	individual features	25	science	42	race
9	effect of spell	26	manners	43	presentiment
10	health	27	conduct	44	prizes
11	service	28	tales	45	hygene
12	quality of food	29	weather	46	fashion
13	politics	30	crime	47	languages
14	appearance of inn	31	boredom	48	habities
15	alcohol (other drugs)	32	education	49	no reason
16	local conflict	33	family	50	twice roll
17	intervention of supernatural force	34	time(season of day, year, day, month, era

The circumstances should be defined in more detail, too (1d10):

Roll Circumstances

1 - 3 provocation
4 - 5 coincidence, missunderstanding
6 - 10 real conflict

Roll	Circumstances
1 - 3	provocation
4 - 5	coincidence, missunderstanding
6 - 10	real conflict

Examples:

Ad 2: " - that whole live is shit worth(value) - maybe yours is such..."
Ad 7: the reason may be oversensitivity of someone person to his strength, dexterity, intelligence......
Ad 8: height, weight, age, beauty, possible being left-handed a.s.o.
Ad 49: a chance performs a great role

Obviously reasons may be joined, and the quantity of reasons appearing in that configuration is unlimited.

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Amin Mirghani, Tadeusz Dawidowski
and some other persons
(maybe me, too .... I forgot)

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