Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tunnel. Show all posts
Friday, 14 February 2020
d100 More Empty Room Decor
d100 More Empty Room Decor Types
1 Storage
2 Rubbish
3 Corpses
4 Inscriptions
5 Construction
6 Water
7 Growing
8 Life signs
9 Strange
10 Magical
d100 More Empty Room Decor
01 Barrels of fermenting grog and maturing stoneware bottles of beer and wine
02 Jars of pickled cabbage fermenting
03 Sacks of acorns and turnips for winter
04 Stacks of firewood
05 Stacks of decaying coffins
06 Sacks of grain crawling with vermin
07 Dried smoked giant rats hanging to cure
08 Meat carcass hanging from hook to age, 1in4 human
09 Lamp oil in jars and candles in wooden boxes
10 Small granary with at least a ton of grain
11 Empty barrels and boxes
12 Empty stoneware and glass bottles
13 Broken and rusty old weapons and broken shields
14 Broken and weathered armour suits falling apart
15 Piles of empty clay jars, some broken
16 Pile of sand and rubble
17 Midden pit full of garbage
18 Compost heap and piles of scraps
19 Boxes, bags and piles of old goods and scraps
20 Piles of junk, broken old tools and building fittings
21 A human skull on the floor
22 A herd beast skull hanging on the wall, often painted
23 Pile of human-like bones
24 Human skeleton intact where they died
25 Human corpse
26 Pile of rotting human corpses
27 Pit with a carrion crawler where people throw corpses
28 Dried out mummified corpse in uniform or noble dress
29 A pit full of lime where corpses are thrown
30 A pit full of maggots with flies around it for corpses and rubbish
31 Threatening graffiti on the wall from dungeon boss
32 Subversive scrawls are hidden about out of the way
33 Older recycled stone in the wall has part of a prehistoric script
34 Journal of notes from a spy watching the area years ago that somehow got lost
35 A love letter or Shopping list
36 Dead letter drop used by traitors against the boss
37 Torn page from a spellbook
38 Memorial graffiti on the wall to fallen comrades
39 Guard roster from months ago
40 List of things to do from boss
41 Bricks in piles
42 Brick moulds, clay and drying bricks
43 Stones partly cut with saws and chisels with stacked blocks and rubble
44 Start of a tunnel with tools laying near
45 Boxes of trap parts
46 Pit into depths with shovels
47 Pit with pulleys and bucket to move rubble
48 Carpenters room for making furniture and doors
49 Sculptors studio carving ornaments and features
50 Tables with maps, plans and a model
51 Chamber pots where monsters and evil people poop
52 Well with rope and bucket into the deep
53 Bathing chamber with water heater and firewood and steam apparatus
54 Washroom with buckets, mops and cleaning supplies
55 Latrine, plank with holes over cistern pit, very smelly
56 Barred drain that goes into the depths
57 Stone toilet with water on hand for flushing and washing
58 Small water fountain for drinking
59 Barrel of water with a ladle
60 Laundry room with heater and wood and several large tubs of water
61 Mould growing from cracks in ceiling and wall
62 Moss or lichen growing on walls especially where water leaking
63 Shrieker mushrooms likely to alarm guards
64 Luminous bacteria glows in dark dimly
65 Room damp with mildew and slime
66 Trays of soil cultivating mushrooms
67 Thick slimy black growths like roots
68 Roots through walls and ceiling from trees or fungus
69 Walls covered in root mas from plant or fungus
70 Ancient tomb spores here inflict terrible disease if any too long in here
71 Shed scales or exoskeleton on the floor, might mistake for something scary
72 Pile of monster excrement where something collects it's own waste
73 Eggs of some creature, quite large football sized
74 Mass of cobwebs, corners and parts of the room covered in web
75 Gnawed remains of body mostly eaten by monster
76 Nest made of straw and trash where some creature has been sleeping
77 Holes in wall into rat nest
78 Termite colony nest growing from wall
79 Ants everywhere
80 Rotting food here crawling with maggots and hundreds of huge flies
81 Haunting scares everyone away d6 1=moans 2=rattling 3=apparitions 4=creaking 5=rats in walls 6=whispers
82 Blood splatters and stains here, signs of a grisly tragic battle monsters avoid now
83 Crude idol with some offerings of d3 copper coins, food or pipe weed, monsters come here for a minor cult d4 1=ancestor worship 2=demon cult 3=the ancient dungeon spirits 4=alien outsider god only known to cultists or occult scholars
84 Secret hiding hole or saferoom, 1in6 with a forgotten body inside
85 Secret panel here contains some trinkets and a map and other items
86 Trap sets off an alarm if the door opened, bell or gong or pile of cooking pots
87 Trap triggers an attack d4 1=scythe 2=dart 3=pendulum 4=deadfall. Often atatched to a door or ladder or stairs or might use some bait object like a treasure
88 Trap releases into room d4 1=large monster 2=gas 3=snakes 4=wasps or bats or slime
89 Trap door d4 1=entry door has delay then shuts and locks 2=into sewer or vent 3=concealed pit with something bad in bottom which slams shut 4=oubliette with a prisoner in a locked pit 1in6 dead
90 Off duty inhabitants used this room to slack off, signs of gambling, erotic idol, filthy old mattresses, pipes, ash bucket
91 Room haunted by a bad spirit d4 1=plague spirit 2=poltergiest 3=spectral minion 4=spirit wants revenge on current inhabitant who killed them, will reward helpers with revealing a secret door of items
92 A magical faerie door sometimes can be opened and take adventurers to another strange world d4 1=hell 2=faerieland 2=giant land 3=ancient past when evil monster ruled age of darkness
93 Gremlins here hide in a crack and some will try to
94 Magical signs and writing here only visible through magic
95 Invisible object is hidden openly in the room
96 Magical alarm in here informs the lead spell user in the area
97 Magical vermin live here d4 1=bookworms 2=gremlins sneak into strangers baggage 3=imp 4=minor faerie folk like pixie or sprite
98 A spirit in artwork here is cursed and seeks release and possibly tragic love
99 A magical hazard has been left here d6 1=animated weapon 2=animated armour with weapon 3=bodies on floor are zombies 4=mimic 5=cursed weapon 6=cursed seal
100 Dimensional barrier here is thin d4 1=things from beyond resembling blind deep sea fish pop through here if you remain a turn. A d6 first round and one each round, on the tenth round a shark comes through but if killed barrier resets 2=room is attuned to an element and summoned kindred things here have more HP per dice *d4+4 instead of d8). Subtle signs or even large runes might indicate what element and benefits 3=Mirror is a gateway to a strange world inhabited by nightmares and beings trapped in here over centuries. Inside is a guantlet of hazzards to reach the exit 4=painting with pocket universe playing out some scene in a loop and out of sync with normal time
Monday, 4 September 2017
d100 Cave rock art works

So caves are not such a big leap from sewers and i'm still on a bit of a Veins kick. I studied prehistoric rock art and wrote way too much about it so all this inspired me to do this. Mostly they are for decor or curiosity with no game function but villagers might mention them as a scary place or finding one in a deep cave might be a warning. Could describe historic event and you might find remains of a monster depicted in art or find a living descendant.
You might find these in caves but also on cliff faces or anywhere with great sheets of rock. Some might be flooded over by the sea or visible at low tide or on a mountain top.
Some are painted so these require better shelter and or a tradition of repainting them every generation, Carvings last a long time but might be worn smooth in some locations. Relief art is more 3d and statue like but carved into rock work
More modern religions might fear them adding their own on top or destroying them. A wizard might be able to research a spell from them but these will be better hidden. People might assume they were pagan or witch made to be shunned or feared. More recent peoples might open them to tourism and even create fake copies for cheap fame. People might adopt earlier artworks and make up explanations or claim their ancestors made them as part of their land claim.
Many will feature lost prehistoric life being hunted, ancient disasters, ceremonies, communities, supernatural beings, ancestors and more. It is a great chance to show off your world history. Some might be magic but the secrets are probably lost. Some prehistoric maps seem very strange to us and very abstract with distances in days travel to actual distance making them very distorted. Some possible magical instructions or treaties with supernatural beings.
Works might be made by a gender, specialist artists, shamen or wizards, seasonal rites, part of coming of age ritual, just decoration, for magic and possibly by teenagers for totally secular entertainment.
D6 Type
1 Painted with ochre, pigment or blood with brush or sprayed from mouth like aerosol
2 Scratched or scraped surface with tool
3 Chiseled and carved linework into rock with tools
4 Relief carvings with 3d shapes
5 Patterns with clay or mud possibly built into 3d shapes
6 Carved and chiseled then painted
D6 Condition
1 Perfectly preserved since prehistory
2 Well preserved but repaired over aeons possibly added to or distorted by later peoples
3 Not as ancient as you might think, possibly fake or copied mish mash
4 A bit battered or worn or covered or faded
5 Vandalized with possibly modern work over the top like names or holy symbols
6 Worn and barley noticeable requiring study and reconstruction to comprehend
d6 Frequency
1 One off single artwork alone
2 Several repeated artworks in row
3 Similar artworks repeated over area and one unique artwork
4 Several D4+2 artworks in separate sections
5 Several D4+2 artworks in overlapping mess
6 Long wall or caves gallerey with dozens of artworks
D10 Quick Types (you could use several)
1 Hunting scenes with animals posibly long gone types
2 Ancestors in the dawn time doing things
3 Spirits possibly instructions on dealing with them
4 Monsters causing destruction
5 Tribe performing rituals
6 Disaster like flood, volcano, comet
7 Stars or seasonal calendar
8 Contact with strange people like ships or clothed persons or iding animals
9 Scenes of the dead or death or the underworld
10 Abstract map of communities, sacred sites, resources
03 Abstract decorative patterns and blocks of colour
04 Tool marks forming pattern like scales
05 Walls plastered with stones or coloured clay cones
06 Patterns made up of dots or simple shapes
07 Bands of colour alternating in simple patterns
08 Stick figures repeated
09 Stick figures and animals
10 Stick figures running from comet
11 Stick figures hunting animals
12 Bizarre elongated stick figures
13 Stick figures with weapons killing other figures
14 Stick figures with extra limbs
15 Stick figures with strange heads or horns or tails
16 Dancing stick figures with instruments
17 Stick figures wailing with many dead
18 Stick figures fleeing monster or spirit
19 Stick figures worshiping monster or spirit
20 Ancestor figures teaching skills to decendants
21 Ancestor figures birthing increasing generations
22 Concentric rings of dots and figures indicating water sources and tribes
23 Men with weapons fighting mammoths and rhinos
24 Men fighting or fleeing giant auroch cattle
25 Frog or snake demon guarding water while people sick
26 Animal ancestors of local tribes
27 Female hag monster squatting over treasure in cave eating children
28 Beautiful depictions of herd animals
29 Face of lion using shape of rock to resemble relief art
30 Horned shaman holding fetishes with familiar
31 Sleeping shaman with fetch leaving body to visit spirit world
32 Strange spirit creatures warning trespassers or taboo area
33 Horned shaman with drum and erection
34 Figures dancing with breasts and erections
35 Animal paintings that have been struck with weapons and painted with blood in ritual
36 Stars in sky, sun and moon with local landmarks
37 Angry dead spirits come from tomb to menace living
38 Village scene of everyday life preparing food with huts
39 Figures dancing around fire
40 Ferocious cave bear chasing hunters
41 Figures around single other coloured strange figure
42 Crude scenes of intrecourse
43 Abstract large women giving birth
44 Pictures of animals with digestive tracts and organs
45 Pictures of animals and people made from repeated dots
46 Moulded clay bison set into wall
47 Relief sculpture of huge earth goddess with many breasts
48 Strange hybrid beast man in frightening detail looks enraged
49 Figures engaged in cannibalism turning into monsters
50 Flying demons chasing people
51 Tentacled horror eating people
52 Relief carving of attractive naked women
53 Wall covered in phallus symbols
54 Worshipers of giant many breasted bat goddess
55 Squid headed bat winged god devouring humans like snacks
56 Horned figure leading people in dance
57 Giant terrorising people and eating whole animals
58 Wolf men eating people
59 Surface covered in clay breasts
60 Painting of men fighting orcs
61 Dwarfs with strange clothes trading weapons and tools with men
62 People worshiping a huge tree
63 Hero fighting a great lizard
64 People trading with shorter people
65 Tribe chasing a male female couple
66 Angry wizard chasing scared women with babies
67 Men riding goats
68 Men fighting a centaur carrying a woman
69 Woman feeding a unicorn
70 Dragon chasing wooly mammoths
71 Wizard raisind undead from pit of corpses
72 Men chasing bison off a cliff
73 People traveling from dark cave past monsters to the surface
74 Men fighting while tribe look on
75 Men fighting a hydra
76 Many headed man being worshipped
77 Wizard sacrificing people to wicked spirit
78 People running from waves to high place
79 Goat men having a ceremony
80 Worshipers dancing around monolith with toad thing sitting on top
81 Men fighting a cyclops and hero shooting it's eye with arrow
82 People with tents trading tusks, fur and stones
83 Fish men stealing women chased by angry tribes men
84 People meeting strange slender people hiding in trees
85 Lizard men and monster destroying huts taking human prisoners
86 Wizard battling ghosts from a pit
87 Tribal ritual burning someone at the stake
88 A great flying bird thing snatching a child from angry people
89 Tribe building log wall to keep out angry giant
90 Fish woman luring men into sea
91 Man with axe fighting a lizard man
92 Women with spears chasing a man
93 Tribe of people swapping children with frog folk
94 Many men dragging a great stone
95 Enslaved men dragging rocks to great mound being whipped by bigger men
96 A great horned man with axe leading many slaves tied by neck
97 Strange symbols repeated over again with no visible meaning
98 Walking bird fighting warrior
99 Men shooting arrows at the sun led by horned man
100 Several log forts with huts with monsters roaming in between
d100 Cave rock art works
01 Handprints everywhere
02 Large painted areas with pigment03 Abstract decorative patterns and blocks of colour
04 Tool marks forming pattern like scales
05 Walls plastered with stones or coloured clay cones
06 Patterns made up of dots or simple shapes
07 Bands of colour alternating in simple patterns
08 Stick figures repeated
09 Stick figures and animals
10 Stick figures running from comet
11 Stick figures hunting animals
12 Bizarre elongated stick figures
13 Stick figures with weapons killing other figures
14 Stick figures with extra limbs
15 Stick figures with strange heads or horns or tails
16 Dancing stick figures with instruments
17 Stick figures wailing with many dead
18 Stick figures fleeing monster or spirit
19 Stick figures worshiping monster or spirit
20 Ancestor figures teaching skills to decendants
21 Ancestor figures birthing increasing generations
22 Concentric rings of dots and figures indicating water sources and tribes
23 Men with weapons fighting mammoths and rhinos
24 Men fighting or fleeing giant auroch cattle
25 Frog or snake demon guarding water while people sick
26 Animal ancestors of local tribes
27 Female hag monster squatting over treasure in cave eating children
28 Beautiful depictions of herd animals
29 Face of lion using shape of rock to resemble relief art
30 Horned shaman holding fetishes with familiar
31 Sleeping shaman with fetch leaving body to visit spirit world
32 Strange spirit creatures warning trespassers or taboo area
33 Horned shaman with drum and erection
34 Figures dancing with breasts and erections
35 Animal paintings that have been struck with weapons and painted with blood in ritual
36 Stars in sky, sun and moon with local landmarks
37 Angry dead spirits come from tomb to menace living
38 Village scene of everyday life preparing food with huts
39 Figures dancing around fire
40 Ferocious cave bear chasing hunters
41 Figures around single other coloured strange figure
42 Crude scenes of intrecourse
43 Abstract large women giving birth
44 Pictures of animals with digestive tracts and organs
45 Pictures of animals and people made from repeated dots
46 Moulded clay bison set into wall
47 Relief sculpture of huge earth goddess with many breasts
48 Strange hybrid beast man in frightening detail looks enraged
49 Figures engaged in cannibalism turning into monsters
50 Flying demons chasing people
51 Tentacled horror eating people
52 Relief carving of attractive naked women
53 Wall covered in phallus symbols
54 Worshipers of giant many breasted bat goddess
55 Squid headed bat winged god devouring humans like snacks
56 Horned figure leading people in dance
57 Giant terrorising people and eating whole animals
58 Wolf men eating people
59 Surface covered in clay breasts
60 Painting of men fighting orcs
61 Dwarfs with strange clothes trading weapons and tools with men
62 People worshiping a huge tree
63 Hero fighting a great lizard
64 People trading with shorter people
65 Tribe chasing a male female couple
66 Angry wizard chasing scared women with babies
67 Men riding goats
68 Men fighting a centaur carrying a woman
69 Woman feeding a unicorn
70 Dragon chasing wooly mammoths
71 Wizard raisind undead from pit of corpses
72 Men chasing bison off a cliff
73 People traveling from dark cave past monsters to the surface
74 Men fighting while tribe look on
75 Men fighting a hydra
76 Many headed man being worshipped
77 Wizard sacrificing people to wicked spirit
78 People running from waves to high place
79 Goat men having a ceremony
80 Worshipers dancing around monolith with toad thing sitting on top
81 Men fighting a cyclops and hero shooting it's eye with arrow
82 People with tents trading tusks, fur and stones
83 Fish men stealing women chased by angry tribes men
84 People meeting strange slender people hiding in trees
85 Lizard men and monster destroying huts taking human prisoners
86 Wizard battling ghosts from a pit
87 Tribal ritual burning someone at the stake
88 A great flying bird thing snatching a child from angry people
89 Tribe building log wall to keep out angry giant
90 Fish woman luring men into sea
91 Man with axe fighting a lizard man
92 Women with spears chasing a man
93 Tribe of people swapping children with frog folk
94 Many men dragging a great stone
95 Enslaved men dragging rocks to great mound being whipped by bigger men
96 A great horned man with axe leading many slaves tied by neck
97 Strange symbols repeated over again with no visible meaning
98 Walking bird fighting warrior
99 Men shooting arrows at the sun led by horned man
100 Several log forts with huts with monsters roaming in between
Saturday, 10 December 2016
Common Dungeon Detritus

Dungeon Detritus is crap you find in empty rooms and boring corridors. Common stuff is mostly not valuable but beginner murder hobos might find a few scraps. This will be followed by exotic types that will be weirder and dangerous. This could also be things you find in a fishing hole, trench or garbage heap. The exotic list also serves as red herrings. Players will try to rationalise them and think must be logical explanation. Poor poor players.
Ive done some similar stuff but second table a bit more fancy for ocasional find to make adventurers wonder or for deeper dungeons
d100 Common Dungeon Detritus
01 Missing limb
02 Pool of blood03 Broken bones
04 Dead dried rat
05 Severed head
06 Dried old ear
07 Pool of slimy algae
08 Maggot ridden dead rat
09 Broken pieces of wood
10 Caltrops d4
11 Dried old scalp
12 Squashed and soiled hat
13 Glistening turd
14 Mouldy hunk of bread
15 Tangled fishing line with bone hooks
16 Iron Spikes d6
17 Chalk pieces
18 Old boot
19 Harmless patch of mould
20 Half chewed dried ration buscuit
21 Mostly used wooden torch
22 Greasy old tallow candle stubs
23 Bloody earing with torn flesh chunk
24 Finger
25 Hunk of rotten cheese
26 Pool of urine
27 Slippery diarrhea patch
28 Dented pewter tankard
29 Broken wooden bowl
30 Cod piece
31 Fancy curly toed shoe with bell
32 Smashed lute
33 Dented helmet
34 Broken wooden sheild
35 Broken weapon
36 Mostly burned map
37 Burned wizard hat
38 Wooden spoon
39 Broken clay pipe
40 Tobacco pouch
41 Empty grog bottle
42 Broken arrows
43 Empty wineskin with hole
44 Length of 10 foot smelly chewed rope
45 Smashed trap
46 Broken chain links and manacle clasp
47 Filthy shirt
48 Soiled trousers
49 Old glove
50 Axe handle
51 Broken pick
52 Broken drum
53 Lost baby giant rat
54 Largish funny coloured egg
55 Huge mushroom
56 Crumpled stained erotic print
57 Goat horn
58 Large beetle
59 Greasy stinking animal collar
60 Feathers
61 Spilled handfuls of grain
62 Crushed wicker basket
63 Old rags
64 Scrawled note complain about dungeon boss
65 Adventurers letter to loved ones
66 Creepy fetish doll
67 Broken terracotta miniture figure
68 Monster tooth
69 Huge scales
70 Snake skin
71 Shed bug or spider skin (might look alive)
72 Skull
73 Rotten apple
74 Chewed deer head
75 Corroded copper coins d10
76 Pile of ash, possibly a book
77 Handful of acorns
78 Battered pie tin
79 Old tiny leather jerkin
80 Pile of broken bricks and crumbly mortar
81 Pile of hair
82 Dried monster placenta
83 Blunt saw
84 Toasting fork
85 Pile of firewood kindling
86 Old sack
87 Old straw stuff pillow
88 Moth eaten blanket
89 Broken glass or ceramic
90 Filthy wig
91 Jar of "miracle virility" pills
92 Bundle of improvised bandages
93 Jar of grease
94 Scattered incomplete thieves tools
95 Scattered fingernails
96 Broken hammer
97 Tin plate
98 Old belt
99 Pile of sling stones
100 Basket of soiled laundry
d100 Exotic Dungeon Detritus
01 Hunk of troll flesh
02 Small shrine of evil cult03 Jar of virgin tears
04 Magic mouth spell
05 Kyuss grub
06 Corpse actually a zombie
07 Cursed weapon
08 Quiver of arrows
09 Rott grub
10 Pile of bones actually a skeleton
11 Scattered darts 2d4
12 Corpse with carrion crawler grubs
13 Poisoned caltrops
14 Finger with magic ring
15 Patch of yellow mould
16 Stone with permanent light spell
17 Iron hand grenade with flawed fuse
18 Bottle of holy water
19 Patch of green slime
20 Huge dung ball with giant scarab beetle
21 Unicorn dung heals d4 damage if smeared on wound
22 Scroll has been used as toilet paper
23 Magical runes (probably explosive)
24 Cursed runes
25 Lost adventurers dog
26 Lost linkboy whose party vanished
27 Magical dungeon pie
28 Pool of strange magical liquid
29 Teleporter pad
30 Potion bottle
31 Crawling undead hand
32 Glaring undead eyeball
33 Huge spider pinned down with a dagger
34 Lost goat with pack
35 Sack of copper and brass plates, vases and candlesticks
36 Sack of torches
37 Wooden crate of candles
38 Small keg of beer
39 Pot of warm soup
40 Huge steaming pile of fresh dung
41 Strange disorientating mist
42 Permanent darkness spell
43 Giant rat burrow
44 Pyramid stack of skulls
45 Large monster egg in nest
46 Sack of cultist robes
47 Bag of live hens d6
48 Stray young pig
49 Scattered deck of hand painted cards
50 Shrieking fungus patch
51 Mass of giant spider web with mumified goblin husks suspended
52 Spade, pick and pile of rubble by a hole
53 Lit storm lantern and oil vial
54 Pocket of flammable gas
55 Pocket of poison gas
56 Pocket of stinking gas from dead troglodyte
57 Kobold lost slave in expensive jester outfit
58 Musical instrument
59 Ivory chess piece
60 Manuscript wrapped in string of adventurers
61 Large pot of fermented cabbage
62 Mimic in chest form taking a nap
63 Spool of wire
64 Pack of thieves tools
65 Box of pots, pans and field stove
66 Silver dagger
67 Polished metal mirror
68 Hourglass
69 Wolves bane bunch
70 Nice knife with ivory handle
71 Sack of kittens
72 Stone idol of elder god
73 Large stoneware jar of lamp oil
74 Starved unconscious abandoned slave
75 Barrel of pickled heads
76 Donkey ladened with adventurer supplies
77 Hanging smoked hog jowls
78 Gold coin with contact poison
79 Human baby
80 Stone statue head
81 Sheet ghoul hanging from wooden peg
82 Crystal with spirit inside will try to posses holder
83 Cat actually a polymorphed adventurer
84 Imp or gremlin in a bottle
85 Adorable baby hook horror
86 Goblin children playing ball
87 Crystal ring used as scrying device by evil wizard
88 Box of black lotus resin and ornamental iron pipe
89 Smugglers book with codes, dates and list of contraband
90 Box of fake beards
91 Torturers trunk of whips, thumbscrews and blades
92 Halfling chef in a sack
93 Headless corpse with magic boots
94 Stuffed mermaid in display case
95 Monkey with fez, bongo drums and begging cup
96 Invitation to vampires ball in a distant castle
97 Brain in a jar
98 Keg of honey (save or causes hallucinations)
99 Mindflayer head (looks like octopus first)
100 Dragon claw
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Terrible Campaign Ideas: Karth-Oom
Characters exiled by ship to colonial territories far away. In the land of Karth-oom, a ancient society of humanoids castes live in sprawling subterranean cities and holy citadels. The Humanoids have a ancient cast system.
Hobgoblins are the warrior caste and do the fighting, they train and hunt and execute criminals
Goblins are the fungus farmers, foresters and herd giant caterpillars
Kobolds perform butchery, funeral services, garbage removal and gongfarming
Bugbears are holy men and ritual assassins and may break any taboo they please including cannibalism
Goblin kin claim they reincarnate from kobold to goblin to hobgoblin to bugbear
Humans arrived twenty years ago and used superior sorcery to replace the king bugbear with a governor. Goblins now grow sugar and tobacco instead of traditional crops. Human hunters like to hunt the giant caterpillars which upsets the locals.
Players are expected to help the governor:
Look for the secret bugbear murder cult hidden among the bugbear caste
Find the hobgoblin bandits who are operating with support from native neighboring kingdoms
Kobolds are popular house slaves with humans which discuss goblinkind who try to murder kobold house slaves for transgressions like talking to masters and touching food of superiors
Orcs have been brought in by humans and need to be trained to patrol the kingdom - this outrages goblinoids who regard orcs as demons lower than kobolds.
Find missing ladies from a palace raided by "wild" goblins
Goblin gods demand a thousand sacrifices or the moon will eat the world, if Humans don't facilitate this a night of murder and mutiny erupts
Human troops killed several bugbears performing a sacrifice and now area is in rebellion
The priests were known to have hidden wealth when the occupying forces arrived, search their temples and holy caves and fungus groves for the treasure
Those graveyards some drunk men robbed are having some undead problems go clean up
A trouble making human priest is stirring up the goblinoids, capture this man
A human priest has been accused of kobold abuse and outraged local goblinoids, punish the non human savages
A bugbear priest has taken rebels and holed up in a citadel fortress, find their weakness
The governor appears in public riding a horse and locals outraged he will not ride or ritually mate with a Caterpillar
Bugbear priests make blood idols from blood and spongy fungus, human church declared this sacred crop be destroyed
Goblins are becoming opium and tobacco addicts, and sitting about being indolent, sales are good but work is down
Bugbear priests have been up to something in wilderness, some kind of huge ritual and building a new huge idol, find out where and kill them and burn whatever they were up to
The governor always gives terrible advice to win:
"Don't listen to natives just kill them until they are pacified"
"Burn down a few temples until they locals hand over the trouble makers"
"We need missionaries from home to administer the troubled districts"
"Torture them, they don't feel pain like us and the good gods will forgive you"
"If they hide in their caves execute their women and children till they surrender"
"Burn their crops and store houses then they will cooperate"
"Publicly flog their leaders till they cooperate"
"Take some wizards and fireball them on a high holy day to teach them respect"
"wade in blood and gore!"
"For the emperor we can do no wrong"
"Kill them all and bring in orc slaves"
"Tear down their filthy huts and build them proper human houses"
"Put the whole population in a camp, they are dying out anyway"
Sorry this sucks why are we here?
The empire uses colonies to get rid of most vile criminals, cruelest despots and most corrupt
Possibly party will realise that following orders will destroy the colony
They could take over or replace the governor with a letter to the emperor
Grab as much loot as possible and escape before the colony goes up in flames
Go native, help goblinoids repel humankind
Invite pirates and plunderers to take over and make everything worse
Invite necromancers because that always ends well
Let the bugbears summon a demon god to drive the humans back to the sea
Thursday, 25 August 2016
d100 Boulders

Obviously I'm now scraping the bottom of the barrel and have used up all my ideas. This will be a terrible useless table you can use indoors or outdoors when you need to roll large rocks. You should roll on this table as many times as possible every game.
I would use for landmarks in hex crawls and caves or when landscape getting boring.
d100 Boulders01 Porphyry boulder of volcanic ash surprisingly light
I would use for landmarks in hex crawls and caves or when landscape getting boring.
d100 Boulders01 Porphyry boulder of volcanic ash surprisingly light
02 Boulder has rune carvings covering a grave pinning down a wight
03 Worn ancient boulder used in ancient times for humanoid king coronations
04 Squat toad shaped boulder, ancient altar of frog god
05 Boulder a fertility shrine attended by attractive youths
06 Boulder pins a spider demon trapped but unharmed by non magic rock
07 Boulder has crude dungeon map carved on it
08 Boulder has hearts and goblin names carved on it
09 Boulder covering a pit full of starved ghouls
10 Boulder covers a treasure pit with guardian skeletons
11 Boulder has long worn footprints of a devil on it
12 Boulder holds a trapdoor down, inside is a furious mummy
13 Boulder has rock faeries living inside who offer food and drink and sex
14 Boulder is a living monster which animates and attacks any who get close
15 Boulder is a xorn egg almost ready to hatch fully grown intelligent being
16 Boulder is actually a mimic, likes to look like has gold or gem seam inside as lure
17 Boulder is a favorite basking rock of a giant chameleon
18 Boulder has a hollow with fresh water inside
19 Boulder has a thin crack with gold ring wedged deep inside just visible
20 Boulder has sparkling fools gold deposit
21 Boulder has fossilised dinosaur bones visible on surface
22 Boulder has arrow and initials A.S. carved on surface
23 Boulder has colony of thieving rock rats living underneath
24 Boulder has crude prehistoric carvings of dancing goat men
25 Boulder has bearded madman chained to it
26 Boulder has ferocious flesh eating ape chained to it
27 Boulder has several savage dogs chained to it
28 Boulder is warm to touch and has a heartbeat
29 Boulder is strangely cold with frost on surface
30 Boulder has carvings and text of ancient religion on surface
31 Boulder has crudely drawn dicks drawn all over it
32 Boulder has a huge nest on top
33 Boulder covered in piles of animal feces
34 Boulder has a mysterious torch like jet of flaming gas on top
35 Boulder has carving of ancients depicting grusome human sacrifice
36 Boulder carved into likeness of large earth goddess on throne
37 Boulder has gate sigils if read opens gate to tiny elf colony pocket universe
38 Boulder is fake and covers entrance to kobold hole
39 Boulder is lost favorite rock of a local giant who misses it
40 Boulder has crushed adventurer and kit sticking out from underneath
41 Boulder is actually a giant petrified monster turd full of animal remains
42 Boulder is a curled up hibernating rust monster will awake if metal nearby
43 Boulder is a fossilized giant brain
44 Boulder is a titans dream and only a phantom
45 Boulder has semiprecious crystals on surface
46 Boulder spattered in blood from years of sacrifices
47 Boulder has a hole where a flock of stirges nest
48 Boulder is a giant lump of candy spat out by some primordial being
49 Boulder is a mass of fused skulls
50 Boulder is actually a huge tooth
51 Boulder is a mimic having a nap
52 Boulder covered in adventurer graffiti
53 A ship anchor is fused inside boulder
54 Anchor was a ancient anchor stone carved with antediluvian script about a ship
55 Boulder slightly levitates above ground and was in past visited by pilgrims
56 Boulder is carved with face of giant angry baby
57 Boulder is carved with serene nymphs reclining and vandalized
58 Boulder is carved with scene from mytholgy
59 Boulder is carved with ancient gigantic king smiting enemies with three languages
60 Boulder is a ancient borderstone with inscription from a lost city with patron god
61 Boulder has crudely carved holy symbols over prehistoric rock art
62 Boulder has dinosaur footprint fossils
63 Boulder is naturally shaped like a giant skull
64 Boulder has remains of quarry marks from shaping in prehistoric times
65 Boulder of a type of rock from far away and signs of being dragged here long ago
66 Boulder is overgrown with tree roots
67 Boulder has a tint cottage where brownies live
68 Boulder carved with funeral memorial
69 Boulder is a trap which rolls towards anyone aproaching or passing
70 Boulder precariously balanced and easily rolled from position
71 Boulder is a petrified giants head worn from age
72 Boulder has a hole inside sealed with clay, a ancient mummy is inside
73 Boulder is a former holy place and carvings of pilgrims on surface
74 Boulder is a favorite spot for goatmen to frolic with young
75 Boulder coated in magical moss with potion like quality
76 Boulder is carved perfectly spherical by ancients
77 Boulder is carved perfectly spherical by ancients but broken open by treasure hunters
78 Boulder is actually a blinded burn scarred helpless beholder but can still bite
79 Boulder has a trickle of water from inside where a saint touched their staff aeons ago
80 Boulder home to cluster of rock worms
81 Boulder has a clean hole cut through somehow for some unknown reason
82 Boulder is actually a huge snail shell left in past
83 Boulder has a crude shack built into it where a crotchety old retired murder hobo lives
84 Boulder is worn carved tip of structure buried long ago
85 Boulder glows in the dark
86 Boulder has trail of destruction behind it from when it rolled here years ago
87 Boulder is sacred place where goblin women come to give birth
88 Boulder is haunted by phantom of person crushed by it
89 Boulder is haunted by shadows of evil men sacrificed here in prehistory
90 Boulder has a patch of yellow musk creepers and guardian zombies and treasure
91 Boulder is a giant dice used by giants long ago
92 Boulder is a family of bowlers, living rocks that dislike adventurers who killed their mom
93 Boulder is a coiled giant rock serpent hibernating
94 Boulder is a giant ball of dried snot from a titanic formarian in the dawn age
95 Boulder is a imprisoned demon trapped by a druid long ago
96 Boulder is a evil elemental in stasis trapped by a wizard long ago
97 Boulder is remains of a petrified cave troll exposed to sunlight spell by cleric
98 Boulder is hollow and home to a family of harmless goblins
99 Boulder is a coiled up stone drake in disguise having a nap
100 Boulder is a giant petrified eyeball of a titan

Wednesday, 23 March 2016
d100 Dungeon Vermin (revised little guys)

Been commuting from Canberra to Sydney for work and gaming. So as my portable tablet and tower died im down to old faithful acer laptop which since last few updates has got rid of bugs. Also worked co curating paste for a festival day. I managed to include some questionable content plenty of ppl would have rejected. So my posting been slower. A local wed club and thurs wargaming club and a gamer bar open all night with cooked breakfast with dungeon decor i must visit too. Town has best wargaming scene ive seen in decades and but pathfinder seems biggest rpg game and
So todays d100 is a revision of this
aeonsnaugauries.blogspot.com.au did a awesome version too but i cant find it
I have meant to fix this. My animal project has sped up since abandoning stats every entry. My d100 petty undead was made easier by generic stats than trying to describe everything
Some average stats for quick use but special animals exist to break these standards and can be more dangerous.
Tiny
Bugs, mice, frogs, lizards, finch, cricket, under a foot length
HD 1hp AC +5 some might inflict 1hp Mv6
Small
Chicken, smaller dog, goose, cat, duck, monkey, crow, owl, under a yard in length
HD d4 AC +4 some might inflict d4 Mv9
Medium
Sheep, goat, pig, large dog, miniature pony
HD d6 or d8 AC +3 some might inflict d6 Mv12
Most dungeon vermin can sense in dark or have penalties halved
Poison often mild +2 or +4 for smaller specimens on only a d6 or so damage

D100 Dungeon Vermin
01 Dungeon rat swarm - 4d6 1hp rats in a swarm more aggressive than regular rats 1dam to victim/round, 1 victim every 6 rats
02 Dungeon Giant rat - d4 HD often travel in groups of d6
03 Dungeon Hog Rat - 1HD as big as a pig, solitary as the eat smaller rats
04 Dungeom Bear Rat - 2-3 HD often fill whole drain or tunnel and chase food into corners
05 Ball of rats - ball of 3d6+4 entangled rats with fused tails attack as small creature
06 Dungeon king rats - 1-3 foot long 1d4 HP, 1d4 bite, diseased, good food and hide 3d
07 Dungeon rat mutant - bizarre specimen with wings, scorpion tail, bald, green, intelligent
08 Plague Rats with red eyes and black fur
09 Mice mostly flee on site or run past
10 Mouse Swarm with hundreds of mice
11 Dungeon Hens 1d6 and Cock 1d4 HP and damage - wild, feral or somebodies livestock
12 Dungeon rabbits - 1d3 HP 1d4 attack if cornered, uses dungeon as thoroughfare, possible feral food beast
14 Dungeon Cat - usually flee but may be curious and follow
15 Dungeon Dog - usually medium dogs, stray pet, watch dogs on patrol 1d6 or feral dog pack 2d6 - territorial, will have allies it can howl for
16 Dungeon subterranean swine family with sow, boar and adorable piglets
17 Dungeon hog lost from herd eating some lovely muck
18 Boar who eats dungeon rubbish and agressive of territory
19 Dungeon cow, stinking miniature shaggy cows with mildew covered hair, gang up, trample and butt
20 Goblin miniture tunnel goat eats all kinds or rubbish, will butt and fleee threats but will let you milk it if you have food and it is a doe, buck more agressive
21 Dungeon hedgehog - 1-3 foot long eating bugs, grubs and other critters, good eating, harmless
22 Dungeon bobcat, normally cautious but curious
23 Ferrets - a lost pet or hunters breasts gone feral in a family of 1d6, chase mice and rabbits
24 Dungeon weasels, large ones attack and suck d4 blood per round, small packs
25 Badger hunting or using area as thoroughfare, mounds of earth might have remains of beads and potterey they uncover on digs
26 Jackal or fox looking for scraps, possibly see parents with some young 1d6, will flee
27 Dungeon monkey, evil litle men, steal stuff and fling shit
28 Ghost bats cause fear when they leap out in surprise and demoralize people, nast bit, pussum sized
29 Vampire bats swarm about draining a HP per round and possibly spread disease
30 Screeching bats in hundreds cause confusion and alert local monsters
31 Dungeon toad - looking for bugs, puffs up if sees bigger things, possibly poisonous, size and attitude of bull terrier, makes good leather
32 Dungeon froglings or toadlings - 1d6 large 1-2 hand size frogs or toads looking for
33 Dungeon gecko - hides above doors, camo blends in, may hide near door frames, bites or squeaks loudly then flee if startled, eats bugs, is tasty
34 Dungeon turtle - slowly wandering turtle looking for bugs, might stay near water or drainpipe, tasty, looks tired and resigned to fate, linkboys eat them
35 Dungeon Lizard - one to two yard scavenging monitor lizard, attracted by smells of blood or rations
36 Dungeon Adder, sneaky biting snakes with mild but painful poison, might even swarm
37 Dungeon Python a constrictor up to 18 feet long
38 Dungeon cobra or rattler with lethal bite and bad attitude
39 Dungeon Salamander or Newt, squishy and poisonous, large ones bite hands or feet
40 Dungeon
41 Discover you are crawling with leeches - 1hp damage
42 Huge lamprey like leech drop from above or ide near door frames to attack the cling and suck blood
43 Trap tooth rock grubs, burrow and attack from ground with trap like jaws, STR to pull free or DEX to avoid ig you know they are there
44 Dungeon maggots - good bait and good eating for some, 1HP and bite for 1 HP, 1d10 maggots probably on some corpse or some dung
45 Dungeon Earth Worms - up to a foot long come from its hole to eat some rubbish, good bait
46 Dungeon giant worm - up to a 1 yard worm with a 1d4 HP and bite
47 Dungeon sting worm pops out of ground or wall with paralasys sting
48 Dungeon grubs - 2d20 grubs attack for 1hp then live inside host as a parasite - when worms exeed HP victim bursts, 1d6 attack a person each round
49 Dungeon thread worms - 2d6 sticky threads attack and cling to victim from wet patch on ground or near food or rubbish for 1hp per worm then live inside host as a parasite - when worms exceed HP victim bursts open
50 Termite swarm infests wooden objects to eat
51 Chirpers increadibly noisy cave crickets, may congregate near scraps and bite, mosly make alarm if scared warning local monsters
52 Dungeon dung beetle - collects dung and rolls away and stores in nest neatly
53 Cockroaches d100 - may get into party stuff and lay eggs
54 Dungeon mosquito swarm - swarm inflict 1hp per round for 1d4 rounds then leave
55 Dungeon fleas or ticks - infested area spreads to party, lose 1 hp per day till treated, with weekly disease check
56 Fly swarm of stinging flies or wasps that crawl into eyes, ears, nose, may blind and smother
57 Giant tick bite then suck 1d4/rnd, diseased
58 Dungeon giant mosquito - 1d4 HP, 1d3 bite then suck 1d3 per round till dear, diseased
59 Cave lobster (Dungeon Yabbie), usually hide near drains or water on in puddle, nip for surprised then flee to water if prey dangerous, delicious in butter and garlic
60 Giant wasp - 1d6 large stinging cat size wasps with clay nest
61 Dungeon giant flies 1d6 in group, aggressive hit and run hand to small dog size
62 Ants or termites, footlong builder or mining ants or a single grumpy dog sized ant or termite
63 Inch ants, multiple bites cause 1pt wounds and mild poison
64 Dungeon scorpion - up to foot long, aggressive often in groups
65 Dungeon centipede - up to foot long 1d4 hp, Poison+2 save, angry if disturbed nest or while eating
66 Dungeon camel spider - foot long creatures look part lobster. Paralyze you with venom then eat 1hp for1d10 rounds, others may join in meal, attack sleepers unless desperate
67 Tarantulas, many hand size or lone larger, poison inflicts urge to dance till exhaustion
68 Dungeon rat eating spider - a 2 hand size spider with necrotic bite dam 1d6+2 damage save vs poison for half - not hostile but might be startled and defend self
69 Dungeon red back spider - black orb with scarlet eye mark on back builds scraggly webs under benches, furniture, goods left against walls, holes - poison aggressive with nest
70 Dungeon trapdoor spider - blends into stonework bottom few feet of wall or in doorways for skilled ambush
71 Rope snakes like to hide among rope or look like coils of rope
72 Torch bugs fold up to look like a torch when scared, if you set them alight they go crazy
73 Lamp Spitter shoots spit at open flames, dousing candles or lamps. Biggest can douse a torch, if irritated they jump on your face
74 Lockspiders hide in locks and poison anyone rude enough to use a key or lockpicks in their homes
75 Leatherworms, infest leather goods and weaken them
76 Blue Gel, ball sized glob drops onto wood or leather goods, ruining them rapidly
77 Flying Squealers are magical winged piglets from another plane, they are adorable, eat your food, fly about shitting and squeal if spooked
78 Dungeon Squirrel, dog size, aggressive, eat carrion and all kinds of dungeon waste.
79 Dun Jelly, eats sewerage and feces, some keep them in latrine pits, sometimes people step in them and slip and stink after
80 Baby fire salamanders live in fire places and forges and if left without fuel will wander off to start a fire, feeding them fuel or fire magic heals them, cold or water or sand hurt
81 Explodestools d4 1=d3 1foot diameter 2=d4 3foot diameter 3=d6 10foot diameter 3=d6 10foot diameter 4=d12 20foot diameter
82 Green Mould, creates stinking cloud if disturbed once a day
83 Tentacle from drain or water grabs your foot will give up if hurt or cant drag into hole
84 Faeries, sprites, pixies or brownies pinch stuff and play tricks on rude or oafish boors
85 Flying monkeys screech, steal stuff, grope people and fling shit
86 Shrieking mushrooms scream if disturbed allerting dungeon monsters
87 Walking mushrooms, kinda adorable to some and possibly delicious
88 Stirge owls, blood sucking dungeon owls
89 Undead hand or other body part or undead small creature like a rat zombie
90 Baby carrion crawler 1d4 HP one sting save vs paralysis +4, leave nest in groups of 1d6
91 Baby trapper covers single floor stone usually near doorway sometimes in group of 1d6 - 2d4 HP grab then crush for 1d4 per round, surprise
92 Baby cave fisher - sits above doorways, try to eat party pets or hobbits, 2HD, entangling fisher line 2x1d6 lobster claws when victim close
93 Small piercers 1d4 dam
94 Baby purple worm 1d4 HP 1d4 bite or stinger - kill and eat now or else
95 Baby jelly or ooze or cube eating some dungeon rubbish
96 Baby mimic 1d4 HP grabs then 1d4 per round crush, disguise as doorknob, gem, dagger
97 Gremlins play cruel pranks, pick pockets, hotfoot, steal food, cut rope, hole battles, etc
98 Lost familiar creature may be shy or just follow or be friendly
99 Rat or weasel or cat looking but actually a imp or brownie or other small curious shape shifter
00 Spherical one eyed furry ball follows party, makes cute noises and eats party victims, it is a baby beholder, if scared it has a single flash strobe Save vs blindness for 2d4 rounds -1 to hit for 1 hour after, it usually flees and goes down a hole, very fast and harmless at this age but most get eaten
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