Lan Lo - City of the Vanishing Lake

So my old city post of Lan-Lo was best received of my maps.

The ancient city sits in a central asia type trade route. It is very ancient and has traders and nomads from most civilizations. It also has prehuman ruins dating back further especially lizard men whos mummies and ghosts are sometimes found. The city is built on a lake that is cursed to move. Is it moves back and forth civilization moves with it and the huge basi area is surrounded by ruins aound the former location. As it moves back and forth the ruins are inevitably re-ocupied.

I will recreate it digitally next month in higher res. I will do versions with lake position past and present and with seasonal lake volume varients that show surrounding marshes, perhaps a version entirely ruined with the lake gone. A local hex map with content generators will also be handy. I also had idea of making one of my A-Z dungeon keys for ruins 24xd12 tables or something. Some caravan and tribe generators too. It will be very loose and sandboxy and might have a few tomb and ruin maps too.

As I have been sitting on 4 unfinished 100 page manuscripts for 5 years I am a failure as a game publisher despite years of practice in all the skills and experience. So I want to do something simple and short to get for sale that is less ambitious and I can edit myself. Ive also done stuff on stupas and nomad graphics in the past so I can re use them too. Size of a old TSR module seems a better goal than my huge incomplete setting books.

Stupas and steppe nomads with encounter tables

Some new tables

d12 Steppe Hex Location
1 Stupa - monastic burial location and shrine
2 Nomad village or camp
3 Abandoned village or camp
4 Burial site (tomb, eroded graves, standing mumified horsemen)
5 Water hole d4 1=wild herd animals 2=travellers 3=preditors 4=bandits
6 Grazing area often with wild herds or nomad herd
7 Sacred spirit mound - where shamen cont
8 Caves - often tombs, bandit hiding places or haunted
9 Ruins - lonely, eroded and sand blasted
10  Corpses from a battle or massacre from last d4 days
11 Ancient monument d4 1=statue 2=border stone 3=shrine 4=temple
12 Old road or trail mostly heading to Lan Lo

Encounter Tables
	Steppes by day	Steppes by Night	Lake and marsh
1	Nomad families in wagons	Lycanthrope	Fisherman or marsh folk
2	Nomad warriors or hunters	Peryton or Leucrotta	Giant Otters
3	Nomad Herders with animals	Beastmen Tribe	Beastmen hunters
4	Holy Pilgrims	Orcish or ogre tribe	Giant Carp
5	Merchants of the east	Doom Bat	Flock of wetland birds
6	Merchants of the west	Giant Lizard or snake	Deer or buffalo or swine
7	Orcish tribe	Giant beetle or ants	Crocodile
8	Bandit gang	Terror birds	Giant Snapping Turtle
9	Beastmen tribes	Giant owl	Giant Crayfish
10	Demihuman tribes	Wild animal herds	Giant marsh Rats
11	Wild animal herd	Hyenas or jackals or fox	Giant frogs
12	Lions or wolves or dogs	Lions or wolves or dogs	Water Weirds

Encounter Tables
	Ruins by Day	Ruins by Night	Occupied City
1	Nomad warriors	Shadows or wight	Nomad traders
2	City Adventurers	Zombie mummified nomads	Merchants of the east
3	Bandit gang	Lilliltu Demoness or Succubi	Merchants of the west
4	Orc tribe	Peryton or Leucrotta	Local merchants
5	Beastmen tribes	Sphynx or Shedu	Holy Pilgrims
6	Giant Lizard or snake	Lamia or Naga	Local militia
7	Giant beetle or ants	Orcish or ogre tribe	Mercenaries
8	Terror birds	Cultists	Adventurers
9	Centaurs	Beastmen Tribes	Slavers
10	Giant eagles or vultures	Were owls or harpies	Gangs
11	Stymphalion Birds	Hyenas or jackals or fox	Cultists
12	Lions or wild dogs	Lions or wolves or dogs	Farmers or slaves

Encounter Tables
	Steppe Beastmen	Ruin Beastmen	Wetland Beastmen
1	Lion	Dog	Fish
2	Dog	Lynx	Frog
3	Wolf	Vulture	Crayfish
4	Fox	Centipede	Ibis
5	Jackal	Bull	Duck
6	Rabbit	Rat	Slug
7	Yak	Mole	Squid
8	Deer	Crow	Eel
9	Lynx	Peacock	Lizard
10	Badger	Jackal	Turtle
11	Goat	Snake	Beaver
12	Eagle	Monkey	Otter