As my Sea Wolves characters have
finally got their hands on their very first ship and took to the waves seeking plunder, I needed a way to quickly generate the cargoes of any unfortunate merchant vessel they come across.
This generator tries to combine a fair chance of the crushingly mundane for the demands of verisimilitude but during creation I did little to limit my sense of whimsy. ("nine barrels of bloody awful gin each containing a pickled monkey" remains my personal favourite.)
Useful if you're running any kind of fantasy Age of Sail adventure, and if you're running something historical nix the supernatural stuff.