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Blinsky is No Fun! Content Warning This content is part of Blinksy is No Fun This work contains potentially triggering -- a Curse of Strahd expansion written by descriptions of scary dolls, creepy toys, and DM Sparky. humanoid automatons. Gadof Blinsky is a famed toymaker known for bringing joy to children throughout the bleak country of Barovia. Or at least, he used to be. Barovians of all walks of life used to Credits travel for miles across the valley just to visit his toy store and workshop in the town of Vallaki and purchase toys for their Writer and Designer: Ken Collier, aka “DM Sparky” children: mechanical wonders with features unlike any common plaything, each one bearing a tag with his Image Credits: Base images produced by Midjourney under trademark stylized “B” logo and “Is no fun, is no Blinsky!” a CC BY 4.0 license. Additional image editing by DM Sparky. slogan. Toy Credits: Some of the descriptions of toys featured in this Several years ago, the toymaker fell into a deep fit of work are taken from or inspired by Dragon+ Magazine Issue anxiety and depression from which he never recovered. This 07 "Community: Is No Fun, Is No Blinsky!". emotional darkness changed the nature of his work. No longer creations of happiness and joy, as his thoughts grew morbid, the toys he created were instead macabre and This document was lovingly created using GM Binder frightening. While some children enjoyed this grotesquery, Special thanks: To the r/CurseofStrahd subreddit and Curse most parents viewed such playthings as wholly of Strahd Discord communities for their inspiration, inappropriate. And so, the toy shop, like the toymaker, resources, and support for Dungeon Masters everywhere, to became a sad, empty shell of its former glory. u/MandyMod, u/DragnaCarta, and u/LunchBreakHeroes for Investigate Blinsky's toy shop and battle a strange toy that their inspiring homebrew content expanding Curse of Strahd, seems to have taken on a life of its own, eventually and to the players of my campaigns for encouraging me to uncovering what happened to Blinsky’s family and put this together into a format where other people can unraveling the secret of what the toymaker is hiding in his actually make use of it. attic. Blinsky is No Fun! is a one or two session side adventure, for characters of levels 4-5, for use in the Curse of Strahd Disclaimer: Blinsky's Toyhaus LLC. makes no guarantee of campaign setting. the safety of our products. All toys and games are provided on Get it on DMs Guild: Blinsky is No Fun! an "as is" basis with no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied. We advise strict parental supervision. Our products are intended only for mature audiences of children eighteen Creepy Toys. (18) years old and above. These products contain small parts Blinsky sells a wide array of different toys for 5 sp each, each which may be considered choking hazards, sharp parts which one bespoke and exquisitely crafted, but also unusual and may be considered cutting hazards, and scary parts which frightening. He will also accept orders for custom-built toys may be considered nightmare hazards. It is the responsibility for the price of 1 gp each, though his creations frequently fail of the parents or legal guardians to determine if products are to live up to the expectations of the buyer. appropriate and suitable for their child. Keep children out of If you need to describe a few of Blinsky’s creations which the reach of the toys. ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS! are on display, you can roll on the following table:
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d100 Blinsky Toys d100 Roll Toy Description Marionette This deluxe playset includes a miniature stage and tiny marionettes of a king, queen, prince, princess, 1 Puppet Theater executioner, tax collector, dunce, vampire, and vampire hunter. Pair of Clown 2 Two masks on sticks; one is scowling and the other is frightened. Masks This wooden top is painted with images of scarecrows and children. When spun, it looks like the scarecrows 3 Wooden Top are chasing the children. Wooden construction toys shaped like different bones of the human body. They snap together in a nearly 4 Boney Builders infinite number of anatomically incorrect configurations. Wind-Up 5 A wind up toy that scuttles around. It shoots a harmless stream of web before it runs out. Spider Blankie of This weighted blanket has a colorful silk-fringed border and fuzzy tassels that hang on each corner. It is only 6 Smothering large enough to cover the wearer’s face. A small compact mirror. When opened, there is a 50% chance the viewer will briefly see themselves either 7 Mirror, Mirror as a hideous hag-like monster, or a beautiful and fair prince/princess. Banshee 8 A stitched doll of a ghostly pale woman in a tattered white dress and veil. Brunhilde A hollow ceramic boar with an angry expression. Arrows and swords protrude from its back where a slit for 9 Boar Bank coins can be found. Mimic 10 A felt mustache with eyes and teeth that adheres to the upper lip. Hopefully it comes off…. Mustache Plush Bear with 11 A cute-looking stuffed bear with a full set of carved human teeth inside its mouth. Teeth 12 Spider Baby A figure with a baby doll head and mechanical spider body and legs. 13 Ghost Ship A wooden ship with diaphanous sails and skeletal crew members standing on deck. Avenging 14 A unicorn doll and companion peasant doll. The unicorn’s horn can be used to impale the peasant doll. Unicorn 15 Artificer Doll An adventurer doll dressed in mismatched pieces of armor, with potions on his belt. 16 Barbarian Doll A savage-looking doll clad in a loincloth, wielding a greataxe. 17 Bard Doll Wearing colorful flowing clothes and a feathered hat, this doll has a toy lute attached to its hands. Blood Hunter An albino doll wearing leather armor and a crocheted necklace featuring a wolf’s head logo. His clothes are 18 Doll removable, and he comes with a toy bathtub that can be used for washing up. This doll has a halo around its head and is wearing pink and gold robes. A small wooden bead necklace hangs 19 Cleric Doll around its neck. This doll is dressed in green with a circlet of dead leaves around its head and has a small wooden staff in its 20 Druid Doll hand. 21 Fighter Doll Brandishing a toy longsword and short sword, this adventurer series doll is ready for combat. Dressed in robes with its hands and feet wrapped, this little adventurer is posed crossed-legged in a 22 Monk Doll meditative position. Clad in shining silver lamé armor over pink and gold robes, this doll is armed with both a wooden holy 23 Paladin Doll symbol and a toy sword. Wearing a dark green hood, with two scimitars on its belt and a bow slung across its back, this doll smells 24 Ranger Doll like the great outdoors. 25 Rogue Doll Wearing a dark cloak, with a dagger in each hand, this doll aims to misbehave. 26 Sorcerer Doll The doll has a pointy beard and magical effects around his hands that look like an ice spell. 27 Warlock Doll Wearing dark robes and holding a toy rapier, this doll has a quasit familiar perched on its shoulder. 28 Wizard Doll This doll is wearing a pointy hat and robe covered in cloth stars.
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d100 Roll Toy Description Doll With This headless doll includes several different heads that can be installed, including one with the eyes and 29 Detachable mouth sewn shut. Heads Miniature 30 A wooden playset that includes a weighted “hanged man.” Gallows Wooden A set of wooden nesting dolls; each one smaller and apparently older than the last. The innermost doll is a 31 Nesting Dolls mummified corpse. 32 Bat-Mobile Actual taxidermied bats hanging from a wooden frame. When rotated, the bats flap their wings. Musical 33 Merry Go This wind up toy includes figurines of wolves chasing children in place of the usual horses. Round Devil 34 A ventriloquist dummy in the likeness of the vampire, Count Strahd von Zarovich. Dummy Ireena A pretty little doll with rich, auburn hair and a charming smile. Not for sale! (See Blinsk's Toys: Ireena Kolyana 35 Kolyana Doll Dolls, in Curse of Strahd.) Plush 36 Stuffed with sawdust, this toy’s claws look like tiny dull blades and its teeth are retractable. Werewolf Jester 37 A little wooden bard tangled up in bells and string. Marionette This box has sinister-looking carved clown faces on all sides and rattles as if it has something inside it. A Wooden 38 character who succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence check can open it, but finds nothing inside to explain the Puzzle Box rattling. Faceless 39 This doll wears an aged wedding dress and has a veil you can lift to reveal a faceless head. Bride Vamp-In-The- 40 A coffin shaped Jack-in-the-box. You turn the crank and after the song plays, a vampire puppet pops out. Coffin Chattering Sculpted wooden dentures with oversized fang-like canine teeth. The dentures chatter for one minute when a 41 Fangs spring on the top is fully wound. Lazy Eye A bag of glass-eye marbles fashioned in various shades of green, blue, brown, and hazel. When you roll a 42 Marble Set marble on the ground, it always appears to be looking at you. Ravensong A clockwork raven that sits atop a porcelain skull. Winding the mechanism plays an eerie tune, while the raven 43 Music Box pecks the empty eye socket of the skull to the rhythm of the song. Ghost A bone slide-whistle carved in the shape of an emaciated skeletal figure, mouth agape at the end. It emits 44 Whistle eerie, ghostly moans that can be varied in pitch with the slide. Sitting at the top of an enameled wooden rod is the likeness of a snake’s skull wearing a jester’s cap. Rattles 45 Death Rattle like a snake when shaken. 46 Morbid Molly A handmade doll with a lopsided smile, wearing a burlap sack cloth dress. “Hungry A hag doll made of dyed green leather with black yarn for hair. Reaching down her throat reveals three child- 47 Agnes” like cloth dolls. Wolf Hunter Plush doll of a male human wearing hunting garb and wielding a crossbow, and sword. There is a slit on the 48 Plush doll’s back allowing you to turn it inside out, turning him into a black dire wolf. Both have only one eye. Death’s Door 49 A wooden coffin-shaped box that, when opened, reveals a set of domino tiles made of gray bones. Domino Set A small clay bust of a bald woman with instructions to dampen the head daily. After 1d4 days the head begins 50 My Pal Ivy to sprout long tendrils of poison ivy. Durst A dollhouse in which the beautiful family rooms conceal secret rooms, tunnels and cellars. Each hidden room 51 Dollhouse contains a grisly scene of torture or murder. Shreddy A stitched-up bear composed of multiple parts from different plush bears. It is slightly animatronic and sings a 52 Teddy creepy song of being best friends with the owner. It somehow knows the owner's name. A miniature torture device playset. Comes with a stretchy-arm clown doll with a menacing spiked-tooth grin. 53 The Rack When the doll is placed on the rack, little wooden gears turn, stretching out the doll and causing it to laugh maniacally.
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d100 Roll Toy Description This clockwork item consists of a hooded, axe-wielding executioner with red eyes, and a crying man at the Executioner’s chopping block. When a coin is dropped into the slot in the front, the headsman swings his axe, and the head 54 Coin Bank of the crying man drops off. The head is attached with a string, and when the axe raises again, it is reeled back to its shoulders. A wooden spinning top that looks crudely carved. Yet when it is spun, the air catches the carvings in such a 55 Laughing Top manner as to make the sound of children laughing or crying in the distance, depending on which direction it is spinning. Flayed Carved to look like a horse whose skin has been removed. Muscles, tendons, and blood vessels are all 56 Rocking intricately shown. In some areas, even those layers have been removed in favor of exposing parts of the Horse horse’s skeleton. A little toy wagon with a coffin, drawn by skeletal horses. As the wheels turn a scratching sound can be heard 57 The Hearse from inside the coffin. A simple lantern with a hood covering. The hood spins as the base plays a music box tune to reveal pictures Nightmare 58 of clawed monsters, winged demons, witches, and wolves on the wall! Different hoods can be purchased that Story Lantern tell different stories. Burgomaster’s A clockwork dismembered hand, wearing a white glove with an ornate signet ring and dress shirt cuff with 59 Hand gemmed cufflinks. It moves around on its fingers when wound up. Lil’ 60 Undertaker’s A satchel containing a cloth measuring tape, a child-sized hammer, saw, shovel and a small box of play nails. Understudy A mechanical depiction of a hag stirring a cauldron with two withered cloth arms. As you crank the stirrer, a 61 Tot in a Pot haunting tune plays. As the tune crescendos, a scream is heard and a child’s head pops out of the cauldron. To reset the toy, push the child’s head back into the cauldron. Fortuneteller A clockwork bust of an old woman that tells you a creepy fortune when you put a coin in the slot. If you 62 Bank attempt to open the coin drawer, her eyes light up red and she utters a curse. Toy Vistani 63 This brightly painted wooden wagon includes two toy horses and two Vistani figurines. Wagon Nightmare 64 A plush black horse with striking yellow, red, and orange yarn for its mane and tail. Plush 65 Tyger, Tyger A stuffed, saber-tooth tiger with a bloody doll head hidden in its mouth. Legendary 66 Finger A vampire, faceless bride, werewolf, marionette jester and undead cleric are included in this premium set. Puppets 67 Vistana Doll A doll wearing colorful clothing and a headscarf, carrying a miniature tambourine. Nightmare A black wooden horse with the mane and tail carved to appear to be on fire. The name “Bucephalus” is 68 Rocking painted on the side. Horse Deck of A deck of playing cards with card backs that depict Castle Ravenloft. The face cards depict the von Zarovich 69 Playing Cards family. Ace: Strahd, King: Barov, Queen: Ravenovia, Jack: Sergei, Joker: Pddlwick II. 70 Bone Dice Dice that are hand carved and yellowed by age. Each of the pips resembles a grinning skull. Three-Dragon A hand drawn set of the card game we all know and love but the three dragons are a dracolich, a shadow 71 Ante dragon, and a ghost dragon. The bone-white and coal-black game pieces are carved to resemble various undead monsters. Pawn: white 72 Chess Set skeletons / black zombies, Rook: white temple / black castle, Knight: white revenant / black death knight, Bishop: white wraith / black ghoul, Queen: white ghost / black banshee, King: white lich / black vampire. 73 Shelf Elf A handsome doll that resembles a dusk elf. He appears in a different pose each morning. Sparky the 74 A wind-up dragon that spits sparks as it rolls around. Dragon 75 Clay-Doh Jars of colorful river mud. Pebbles and sticks can be seen suspended in the mixture. My Little A series of horse figurines that are varying shades of blues and greens. Small symbols are painted on their 76 Kelpie flanks like bats, bones, daggers, and moons.
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d100 Roll Toy Description A squat, colorful, owlbear-like creature with a small beak and large, soulless eyes. Huge ears flank a colorful tuft of fur on the top of its head. It has no arms, but it does have tiny feet that could never support its body. While it 77 Fearby might initially appear cute, the combination of features suggests a predator. The toy will randomly animate and say various nonsense phrases at inopportune times. 78 Mr. Rocko A smooth, flat riverstone with a painted smiling face on it. Gooey A carved head whose nostrils are filled with harmless green goo. If you stick your finger into its nose, a green, 79 Louie gooey brain pops out from the top of the head. Mr. Toy body parts including eyes, ears, nose, hair, eyeglasses and other accessories with pins on the back. Meant to 80 Turnip be used to dress up a turnip, beet, or other root vegetable. Head Haunted 81 Whoopie Makes ghostly moaning sounds when sat upon. Cushion Tinkle Me 82 A puppet that wets its pants when you pull its string. Lemo Head-la- 83 A small hoop meant to be rotated around a child’s head or neck. Guaranteed to cause a spinal injury. hoop Zombie 84 A blond doll with dead eyes, wearing green armor. It holds a broken bow. Hank Zombie A wizard puppet doll wearing broken spectacles. It has a hole in its hat and has a visible wound on the back of its 85 Presto stuffed head. 86 Eric Doll A puppet of a cowardly, but living cavalier. Carries a broken shield. Zombie A child-sized doll with a bare chest and broken, protruding ribs. It is wearing a horned helmet and holding a 87 Bobby splintered club. Zombie Dressed in a fur-trimmed acrobat’s leotard and missing one eye, this doll holds the shattered pieces of a broken 88 Diana staff in each hand. Zombie 89 A doll that looks like the corpse of a freckled human rogue. Her hooded cloak is ripped to shreds. Sheila Zombie 90 A plush stuffed animal representing a juvenile unicorn covered in simulated blood. Uni Venger An oversized demon-like doll with bat wings, bluish skin, a fanged mouth, and a single horn on one side of its 91 Doll head. Wears red and blue robes. Zombie 92 Dungeon A diminutive doll wearing red and gold robes. It has a hole in its chest, as though its heart has been ripped out. Master Dragon 93 A plush stuffed animal shaped like a dragon with five heads, each one knit out of a different color of yarn. Goddess Dream 94 A puppet with a scarred face wearing a striped sweater. Has extremely long fingernails. Fiend Camp 95 A puppet wearing a sports mask over its face. Holds a toy axe in its hands. Counselor Bathwater 96 A tub toy shaped like a lizardfolk with gills on its neck. Sprays water out of its mouth when you squeeze it. Creature 97 “That” A clown doll with a sinister, fanged face. Turning the doll inside out transforms it into a plush spider. Evil Dead A poseable doll of a shirtless man with an axe in place of one hand. Has sixteen points of articulation. When you 98 Man pull a string it says "Hail to the king, baby." Cannibal 99 A stuffed bear wearing a bite mask and a white straitjacket. A tag on the bear says “I’m crazy for you.” Bear Pinned 100 A voodoo doll dressed in black leather with many rows of pins stuck into its bald head. Pontifex
