Magic Murder Maze Mania

Some tables to make mazes actually interesting.
Obviously, most adults with brains can methodically solve a maze so they don't work as mazes in game but they are good locations.

These are stuff to populate your maze and make term more annoying.
Feel free to cap d12 to lower numbers for less dangerous monsters.

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-anuranomicon
-ethyria with large amounts of a bronze age megadungeon
-2025 draft of my home rules part 1

d12 Maze Decor
1 Dead bodies of those who never got out

2 Graffiti on walls of warning, despair or just marking route

3 Fake graffiti with dangerous advice about trap or hazard 

4 length of string (might lead to trap or monster collecting string)

5 Diagram of a maze, on the wall, but most likely also or misleading

6 Shrine to a spirit of the maze or divinity

7 Monster droppings

8 Relief sculpture on the wall like an ornamental face

9 Trail of blood, possibly least to or from a trap or hazard

10 Phantom or poltergeist menaces people near a passage, trap, or hazard 

11 Kobolds are working on repairing a trap

12 Phantom or wizard and guards working on a magic trap or hazard

d12 Hazard
1 Chasm to cross (over water or just deep)

2 Chasm with rope swing or bridge

3 Chasm over lava or acid or monsters

4 Guard post with a monster

5 Patterned floor, wrong path activates attack spell

6 Slippery floor (possibly slope to a trap or hazard)

7 Timed dart launcher or spell effect fires in a rhythmic pattern

8 Swinging pendulums in the path

9 Bait for a trap or ambush

10 Illusion covering a trap or ambush

11 Statues with an attacking spell guard a passage

12 Floor on fire or covered in magical damaging

d12 Trick
1 Rotating room or corridor, or wall
2 Slide or pit to another level
3 Moving walls change the layout or crush
4 Secret or fake passage or door 
5 Portcullis gate or self-sealing passage
6 Magical disorientation or direction
7 One-way or self-sealing door or passage
8 Fog, darkness or blinding light

9 Illusion covering a threat or passage
10 Magic mirror or fountain
11 Flooded passage or doorway
12 Teleporter pad

d12 Trap
1 Pit with vermin or rancid water
2 Pit with self-sealing trapdoor
3 Pit with steaks or poison spikes
4 Pit with monster
5 Snare or foot clamp or concealed poison spikes
6 Murder holes 
7 Deadfall or rolling boulder
8 Crossbow or poison dart
9 Pop-out spikes or stakes
10 Pendulum or scythe
11 Gas, poison or sleep or hallucination
12 Damaging spell

d12 Ambush Monsters
1 Thieves
2 Sheet phantom and/or sheet ghoul
3 Doppelganger 
4 Mimic

5 Trapper or Lurker or stun jelly
6 Cloaker or Darkmantle
7 Living statue
8 Slithering tracker
9 Grell or gibbering mouther

10 Golem
11 Invisible stalker

12 Stone juggernaut

d12 Wandering Monsters
1 Vermin or swarm
2 Carrion Worm or giant beetles
3 Insane berserk warriors or cultists
4 Giant spiders or a scorpion
5 Giant lizards (gekko) or frogs (treefrogs)
6 Nilbog or quickling gang

7 Gelatinous cube

8 Minotaur hero or minotaur gang

9 Animated weapons or armour

10 Medusan or basilisk

11 Elemental

12 Willow the whisp