Monday 8 April 2024

Dungeon Decor For Chagrinspire


These are for decorating your boring old dungeons for Chagrinspire. Im currently running Gunderholfn as a solo adventure - its minimal text is easier to add to and great for solo play without making reading comprehension rolls to work out how characters could act given the info they have.

These can decorate rooms, dungeons, wrecked vehicles and other weird stuff.

d10 Quick Types
1 Graffiti
2 Posters
3 Statues
4 Relief art
5 Paintings
6 Metalwork
7 Engravings
8 Stonework
9 Monument
10 Magical art

d100 Dungeon Decor For Chagrinspire
01 Faction or planar patriotic tags and signatures cover everything
02 Memorial graffiti for dead or lost battle, may feature religious symbols
03 Holy symbols of gods and cults, often aimed at recruiting new followers
04 Spitful slander graffiti about another faction or person often 
05 Sexually crude graffiti often intending to be offensive
06 Gloomy occult or underworld scenes or torment or despair
07 Occult signatures of demons and sometimes details of a contract
08 Message in any language written for some separated friends long ago
09 Stencil print of a black circle inside a triangle used by the cult of the Black sphere forces
10 Stencil print of a circle or star with an A sign for the Alliance against chagrinspire
11 Poster showing war machines of ancient "Fight us and Suffer Needlessly"
12 Poster warning about spies "Loose lips can kill!"
13 Poster warning about dangerous diseases and germ warfare "Wear your mask and Wash Often!"
14 Poster showing strange incongruent factions of the allies against Chagrinspire, smiling together in uniforms. With phrase in common "These are Friends!"
15 Poster warning of sexual disease and seductive spies used as sabotage by the enemy in common "Smiles are Enemy Tools to Destroy You as much as Bombs!"
16 SOldier in uniform of faction looking to distance, text in common reads "Fight for a World with Meaning! Destroy Chagrinspire Now!
17 Poster of a monstrous brute with gas mask and helmet carrying a frightened youth with the slogan in ancient "These Brutes want to kill everyone you have ever known! Dont help them with your inefficiency"
18 Poster of heroic soldiers at the front "Give Your All or they will leave Nothing!"
19 Framed print of a painting of a serious ancient faction general who commanded some faction
20 Millitary Calender with prints of attractively painted youths in folk costumes, usually missing some months torn off, collectors pay for months of specific years and frame and rate their quality and artists from 1gp per page. Some are vandalised especially by mutants who hate this art
21 Statue of a heraldic beast sitting upright holding up a paw and wearing a crown
22 Statue of a king or queen in regalia only 1in6 chance head and name is intact
23 Statue of a heroic athletic deity carrying a torch lighting the world
24 Statue of naked war goddess holding a weapon on a pillar of broken arms and armour
25 Statue of a standing soldier in dress or historic armour, often stand in rows or used as columns
26 Statues of streamlined gargoyles clinging to walls and resting in niches or on pedestals (real gargoyles might be attracted)
27 Statue of a planar being of an alignment faction or a cult
28 Statue of a deity holding two violent monsters above the ground calmly
29 Statue of a sphynx often in rows (real sphynxes might be attracted)
30 Statue of a golem warrior of a type used by an ancient faction, often in rows
31 Life size stone or metal face set in wall or altar or niche 1in6 still functional can be ordered to control d4 1=on or off lights 2=provide spring water from mouth 3=explains where you are in ancient 4=heat or cool room
32 Huge stylised relief faces on wall or rows of faces 
33 Relief scene of a god-king standing above smaller commoners slaying them with ease leaving piles of headless broken corpses
34 Relief sculpture of heraldic designs of ancient factions
35 Relief sculpture of heroic faction soldiers violently fighting bestial enemies
36 Relief art of the gods dressed in styles and armed like the ancients that might not be obvious
37 Relief carved partial columns of naked youths with swords
38 Relief carvings of distant and long lost cities with monuments visible and showing produce like sheep or grain, provide some lore of ancient cities and produce. Some include a floor mosaic map of the world showing where they were located
39 Relief busts in rows along walls of ancient faction leaders and heroes
40 Geometric line art carved over all surfaces in patters reminiscent or arcane, occult and alchemy
41 Portraits of nobles on the walls mostly head shots but a few group and full standing ones, often vandalised and sometimes 1in20 chance hide something behind them d6 1=locked safe 2=note 3=older artwork 4=secret panel 5=spyhole 6=map
42 Gloomy Mural showing soldiers marching to death as skeletons into the underworld
43 Mural of heroic battle scenes with screaming horses, cannons and piles of corpses
44 Mural depicting layers of hell and the delights that await those who sell souls to Hell's will. The diabolic text of hell explains how to find an imp to represent hell to make your bargain
45 Mural of naked gods making universe and performing their famous deeds
46 Mural of idyllic naked youths with woodland spirits and animals feasting
47 Painted advertisement d4 1=ciggarettes 2=bottled sauce 3=candy 4=horseless carraige
48 Painted coat of arms and royal regalia of a national faction of ancients with images of nations history, religion and produce
49 Paintings of important royals and nobility most vandalised 1in6 ok alternately may depict or also feature d6 1=livestock 2=hunting hound with prey 3=horse 4=mansion estate 5=feast 6=officers in uniforms
50 Large scale framed paintings awkward to move or carry, subjects include d6 1=ferocious beast 2=hero with famous magic item 3=famous city or citadel 4=famous castle or fort 5=scene from the apocalypse war 6=pantheon of gods in their court watching the mortal world
51 Metal plate walls with rivets, rusted iron or tarnished copper
52 Ornate metal doors with heroic war scenes embossed
53 Portculis gate mechanism to seal the room, may be set up as a hidden trap or have a guardpost
54 Part of room is a cage or cell with a locked door, might be a cage door over a niche or pit to an oubliette cell for one
55 Ornate ironwork around the vault of the room 
56 Metal framed stained glass windows, with an empty space with a continual light spell behind them
57 Silver piping inset into grooves in walls to make ornate patterns and designs. Sometimes might hide a puzzle or even text
58 Great iron or bronze cauldron with faces all round used in some ritual purpose
59 Iron maiden cabinet with spikes inside for a prisoner, mostly just for show and fashion
60 Walls covered in ornate brass plates with images and designs on them
61 Wall has engraved oaths to an ancient god and symbols of the god
62 Engravings dedicated to the rulers of an ancient faction over a few centuries, full of nationalistic praise more than truth
63 Engraved with poem about there being no more war after the final apocalypse war in ancient
64 Engraved with names of fallen soldiers and a special honour roll hor heroes who received medals
65 Engraved all over with medical aphorisms while temporarily a convalescent hospital temporarily
66 Engraved with text from holy books
67 List of faction regiments and types slaughtered in a great battle against enemy machines
68 Engraving filled with silver of fabulous buildings, machines and weapons of the first half of the apocalypse war
69 Older artworks have been smashed and have had new text engraved on top and where later damage occurred text is hard to read and some characters look quite strange. Foolish scholars might mistake for a lost language or code but its just garbage
70 Lists of once famous wizards and their military cohorts in the apocalypse war
71 Ornamental columns often in rows, possibly with animal, humanoid, plant or geometric-inspired designs
72 Stone altar for a shrine of a minor god or petty god with text in ancient. If a forgotten petty god is sacrificed too the petty god will know and seek this place and suplicants. Petty gods can be annoying parasites or great allies or both
73 Stone plinth for showing ornamental objects d6 1=water jug and bowl 2=small idols 3=small chest 4=stuffed mutant animal 5=nude figurine 6=urn of long dead flowers or human ashes
74 Fountain possibly working 1in6 times but could be fixed or cleaned sometimes to working condition if it has water. 1in6 it is a minor magic fountain such as heals a d4 per person per day
75 Stone bench used for d6 1=meetings 2=feasting 3=ritual 4=experiments 5=disections 6=surgery
76 Small tomb or crypt entrance 1in4 never looted 
77 Well drops down 3m x d4 to water usually and possibly reach lower levels or underwater river. May have a hostile creature as a guardian and locked iron bars preventing escapes or entry from the well
78 Staircase goes one or more level, Condition d4 1=blocked 2=secret 3=trapped 4=guardian. Goes to d6 1=forgotten sub level 2=enters a cave system 3=enters a tunnel system for escape or reaching another area not on most maps 4=workshop 5=store room 6=another level
79 Elevator or dumbwaiter going up or down one or more levels 1in6 working but could be repaired. Trapped or alarmed if working usually
80 Colourful flagstones of unusual quality which activate a trap if crossed with wrong code or pattern d4 1=darts 2=spell 3=release or summon monster 4=releases gas or swarm 5=shuts door and floods or cloors/ceiling crush occupants 6=automated murder holes from incendiaries or grenades
81 Large plinth with a naked woman an each compass point with a cornucopia and a great collection of food carved from stone (really petrified by a spell and could be depetrified and eaten). It is dedicated to survivors of all the great famines on the continent during the apocalypse war. Later carvings are cruder with larger death tolls that depopulated whole nations
82 Memorial arch in room carved with heroic warriors killing ugly enemies. Has a concealed room to get inside long forgotten and crosses through the ceiling and into other side
83 Huge plinth with bronze statue laying on it of a dead forgotten hero sculpted with giant proportions for artistic reasons and not because giants
84 Stone sphynx with head of a famous ruler with a crown holding some royal regalia to commemorate a famous ruler who kept the alliance against Charginspire working
85 Great stone sphere held by bronze humanoids or animals like bulls
86 Statue of heroic wretched explorers who died in the Underland seeking information on the Grey gnomes of Null could be found to help fight Chagrinspire
87 Niche with bars inside is the remains of a saint who died gaining a great victory and called a now forgotten god to the battlefield to die according to ancient sign
88 Niche with bars inside is a standing automaton steam-powered soldier who died heroically saving hundreds of humans and these are its actual remains
89 Niche with a force wall, inside is a mummified catfish folk wizard with terrible mind control powers. The sign indicates it was discovered in ruins of the dawn age and that researchers were studying it as a possible weapon. Any fish cultists who find out will be very excited
90 Statues of a party of adventurers who destroyed a fort of the enemy but vanished when they entered the complex inside Chagrinspire
91 Walls covered in antique weapons and armour, sometimes displayed as exotic foreign weapons of the past, 1/3 are low quality wall hangers -2 to hit and bump dice down one. Rest are actually functional and a d4+1 will be real. At least one is cursed, one will be superior and the rest common items 
92 Paintings hanging on the walls or murals will come to life and creatures from within will attack d4 1=adventurers 2=monsters 3=soldiers 4=nobility, they are a form o illusion magic and return to art when killed and will be reborn each day. Sometimes there are passwords for them
93 Paintings hanging on the walls or murals will come to life and are portals to pocket worlds that reset everything each day. Most inhabitants are simple but sometimes spirits move in for the free food and comforts. They may reveal secrets of the past or be places to rest or offer sidequests like find someone who escaped the painting d4 1=feast scene in a castle 2=town square in a seasonal festival 3=art gallery full of monsters and treasure 4=Wizards of the Null Sphere in a surreal nightmare world
94 Paintings hanging on the walls or murals are magical prisons and if sour looking characters in them for more than a round you can here their whispering thoughts and will ask you to d4 1=break the painting to release them 2=destroy another painting with people they dislike in it 3=come inside to join them for treasure (really its how they escape is by leaving a dupe in their place) 4=release them buy saying a magic word, really they are a demon who longs to torture and kill
95 Long dormant automaton knights covered in cobwebs often seated at filthy feast table or standing on guard. After a few rounds of anyone in the room they start to power up
96 Strange metal hemispheres with slots parked around the room and various sizes. After a few rounds spikes and muskets emerge from the slots and they reanimate. Ancient war machines made as simpler automaton and guard. Once fired up are noisy and smoking
97 Crystal statue was brought here as a cursed treasure, it acts as the focus of secret underground Derro base that can project psionic hate rays to this area which cause people to quarrel especially over alignment stuff. If threatened the statue animates and attacks
98 Obsidian Mirror used to call gods of the outer darkness - staring into the mirror allows a spirit to speak mind to mind and it will offer knowledge of foul rituals you can learn and use in certain places to summon outer gods that could aid your struggles. With some pleading, they might teach you the reversal ritual in case the strange gods just eat everybody and don't help. Nobody has used this magic a thousand years
99 An ornamental carved stone doorway arch on an otherwise blank wall section. With the correct password known to servants of hell this is a planar gateway to hell shaped as a lewd devils mouth or bottom opposite the way back. Some have the word carved in the frame as a trap. Once activated the blank wall in the arch becomes mirror-like and the gate and devils may be on the other side waiting
100 I huge iron or bronze or stone giant statue possibly with a beast head and possibly a weapon. If the object it guards is disturbed it comes to life as a golem

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