ToME WikiJust a quick idea, of a few new names for Junkarts - two sets, and a few extras. I like the idea of junkarts, and I think the list of possible names should be longer. It's fun finding them all out.
tangled strands of silver -> Faust's Dimensional Map
A chipped lens -> Faust's Spyglass
A leather-bound book -> Faust's Diary
A small door -> Faust's Infernal Gateway
A metallic sphere -> The Globe Of Possible Impossibilities
An oily sphere -> The Globe Of False Truth
A transparent sphere -> The Globe of Ordered Chaos
A shiny sphere -> The Globe of Strong Fragility
A polished sphere -> The Globe of Definite Uncertainty
A glowing sphere -> The Globe of Perfect Imperfection
A silvered disc -> The Ambiguous Mirror
An egg -> Chuckie Egg's Egg.
chicken feathers -> Lady Cluck's Evening Wear
A hexagon -> Barnaby's Diabolical Geometric Invertor
A wishbone -> Bertha's Lucky Charm
A bracelet -> Queen Marge's Friendship Bracelet
lots of mud -> The Portable Golem
Just my two cents.
Calamarain.
SimonSorc: How about:
Spellbook ink -> The eyedrop of spells without paper
A folded hairy skin -> The insane knight's foldable mule
An amazingly beautiful gem -> The Simaril fallen from Morgoth's crown {cursed}
A fake gold coin with 'heads' on both sides -> Sun Tzu's fearless predictor of victory or defeat
A wooden box full of bent nails -> The armor improvement kit
A one-sided bottle -> Klein's bottle of containing the universe and then some
A scroll full of red tape -> The scroll of too many boring questions to be read
A tiny talking bee -> The lock-picker of legends
A very old worm -> The bookworm that ate the only immortality spellbook
A sticky aura ball -> The immaterial corpse of an elder Wisp
A hot box -> The portable trash incinerator
A phial -> the phial of Elvish translations of cute words
A phial -> the phial of Orcish translations of warrior words
A phial -> the phial of Dwarvish translation of vulgar words
A box with a pink cross on it -> The gender trap effect tuner
A tentacle -> The lesser symbiote of cheating at cards
A piece of armor with a hole you can move -> The hole that allows scratching itches under armor
Some green meat -> The screaming, constantly-regrowing piece of troll meat
A key encased in an invisible cube -> the keeper of secrets in plain sight
Some leather with teeth marks -> The excessively painful arrow removal kit
A figurine that looks like you -> The voodoo doll of yourself. Don't let anyone get it!
Some faintly glowing white rocks -> The orbs of destiny
A flute -> The awful-sounding flute of genius delusions
A map -> The complete map of the cave of no return
A helm with lots of needles pointing inside -> The helm of Melkor worship
A white towel -> The quicker scummer upper
Two identical snowflakes that don't melt -> The avalanche maker
A false dwarven beard -> The discount obtainer
Three books -> Knuth's art of using the right spell right
A mask that makes stripes appear on you -> The very loud screaming mask of mimes
One earring -> The precious metal detector
A mirror reflecting only darkness -> The mirror with an image delayed by 744 days
An intricate box with a hole -> the arrow sharpener
An intricate box with a hole -> the arrow unsharpener
A box full of green powder -> The universal symbiote food of magically enhanced stink
A huge collar -> The knight repellant pet dragon collar
An orange book -> 205 illogical zen questions of maximal confusion
A sign -> The sign of warning that the sign's edges are very sharp
An invisible bow with no string -> The anti-bow of arrow reception
A shaving blade -> The shaving blade of cut prevention
A little mattock -> The little mattock that could
A rat-sized power dragon armor of immunity -> The brownie's ultimate armor of long life
A golden rat skull -> the brownie crown of leadership
A cup -> The potion taste remover
Green ooze -> The blood eating symbiote of sparking clean axes.
Two coins of unknown currency -> Gandalf's two cents
A diary -> Groo's diary (shudder)
A keyhole -> The key random alteration kit
Two pink rabbit slippers -> The pink rabbit slippers of respect destruction
A toe-ring -> The toe-ring of earthquake prevention
A mirror-written scroll of identify -> You can't remember what that is (i.e. player has LESS knowledge after ID)
A belt made of skull fragments -> The open mind
A very cold rod -> The rod of stuck tongues
A book made of living flesh -> The Quylthulg's holy book
A very long stick -> The odd long stick whose ends go thru walls
A brain in a jar -> The farmer brain bored out of its skull
Three socks, one is invisible -> The socks of corruption hiding
A cunning plan -> The plan that almost beat dumb luck
A piece of cake -> The slogan of the doomed fool
A very dull dagger (0d0) -> The blessed butter cutting dagger of *SLAY AFTERTASTE*
A book labeled 'catma instead of dogma' -> A disciple is forbidden of believing what he reads
Half a gold ring -> Leftover material of making the one ring
A flashing potion with the cap stuck -> The mix of all potion types
String coming out of an orb -> The dispenser of infinite string
An object that keep changing -> The hodge-podge of infinite combinaisons
A saber handle -> The light-generating saber
A shrunk live sheep -> The sheep sorcerer of legendary incompetence
A trusty dagger (9d15) -> The addictive dagger that is always stolen when wielded
A scroll of bad Ogre poetry -> The scroll of ultimate pain
- variant for space-themed modules: The scroll of Vogon poetry
A talking very well-armoured rat -> Reywal, the most excellent rat counselor
A bloody balance -> "A pound of your flesh, no blood, no bones, a pound of your flesh for a wish"
A flower and some weird peas -> The flower of whirled peas (try pronouncing it, laugh)
A tome signed 'Morgoth' -> Morgoth's cooking diary written in spell ink
The series of Globes are really cool, actually, as is the series of Faust goodies. The Phial is evil though, making people think they'd found one of the true artifact ones. I like it! Plus the Wooden Box of Bent Nails is funny 
MassimilianoMarangio: I like the three books of Knuth and Klein's Bottle
RogerBarnett: Hmmmm... I'll jump on the bandwagon and make a set of my own then (though I doubt any of these on this page will actually get included, due to the limited time of the creators
A tattered leaflet -> The leaflet '101 uses for a broken dagger'
An old leaflet -> The leaflet '12 steps to beating Slime Mold addiction'
A folded leaflet -> The leaflet 'Travels in Mordor: A hobbit's guide'
A ragged leaflet -> The leaflet 'Safety Rules and Regulations for Wand usage'
A plain-looking leaflet -> The leaflet 'Monsters and Dragons and Demons, oh my!'
SimonSorc: my favorite is the lesser symbiote for cheating at cards. B5 fans, anyone? (-;
I wish the code would allow for a longer description when you look at it, instead of always the "These objects are known only by rumors" thingy. Then the puns would be deadly...
RogerBarnett: I suppose I could make a little add-on pack, to be included on the ToME homepage, of extra junkart names, plus a few other things. No gameplay changes, just flavour stuff, like this. Could occupy my spare time for a little while.
BurbLulls: I love doing these junkart names! Here's mine:
A small figurine -> A Tulkas Action Figure (With divine aim action!)
A dusty rope -> Samwise's Forgotten Rope
A tin of powder -> Powdered Orc
A tin of powder -> Powdered Troll
A tin of powder -> Powdered Maia
An amorphous horror -> Pure Eldritch
The Autobiography Series:
A white tome -> Eru's Autobiography 'Why I made Arda'
A red tome -> Tulkas' Autobiography 'I Lamped Him One'
A green tome -> Yavanna's Autobiography 'What's Piety?'
A purple tome -> Manwe's Autobioraphy 'Why I'm So Great'
A black tome -> Melkor's Autobiography 'I'm So Misunderstood!'
The Fake Series:
Ringil -> A toy Ringil
The One Ring -> The One Ring Home Game (Ages 8-80)
Grond -> A plastic Grond
Grond -> A carved wooden bullfrog
A Phial -> The Phial of Bill Ferny
SimonSorc: it's also expected the item would be magical. While the plastic Grond requires some time travel or interdimensional travel to get plastic so it counts, the toy ringil and the one ring game could be hardcoded to have no effect.
Players expecting every piece of odd junk to be magical should be balanced by some of that stuff being NOT magical. (-;
Atarlost: Here are some selections from a pre-Wiki thread on the subject. The old forum thread is here and contains some more worthy junkart names.
SimonSorc: Vogon poetry? I can already feel my intestines threatening to strangle my brain over that one. I'd rather have a disaster area concert ticket...
RogerBarnett: Make it into a new spell school. Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Mana, Mind, Divination, Conveyance, Udun, Nature, Temporal and Vogon Poetry. Think about it...
Vogon Limerick (level 1) - Confuses one enemy At level 10, it also stuns and frightens them At level 20, it causes paralysis and poisoning At level 30, it becomes a ball of radius 1
Vogon Ballad (level 20) - Sound-based bolt attack At level 20, it has a chance to teleport the monster away
Vogon Epic Work (level 35) - Sound ball attack At level 15, it will cause *destruction*
Obviously, I've had too much caffeine today
MayLith: LOL! I love it. Though I still think that at high levels, an Epic Work should at least cause a save vs. sanity loss.... (or maybe that should be the limericks; I can see it either way
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BurbLulls: And perhaps there should be one like the Necromancer's 'Necromantic Tooth' that creates a Blurglecruncheon (3d8) in your inventory. Not to mention Gobberwart's Mimicry.
Nobody: Heh... Always liked these random artifacts for some reason. A metal-coated black chunk -> The One Ring-Finger
A small, lumpy rock -> The Severed Nose of the Stone Troll
An empty jar -> Notlih Sirap's Brain-in-a-Jar (don't get it? reverse the name.)
A freezerburned severed tongue -> The Consequence of Licking Great Ice Wyrms