d100 spooky and possibly deadly artworks

Every good gothic mansion or church has some nifty soul soaring artwork but did you know some are evil, magical or worse? This one features religious and monuments to wealth and power but will do some other weird ones when i start on my magic mansion zone later. This table could be used to create a museum or gallery or a roll could be taken to mean several sets of similar works like a room of mirrors, paintings or statues.

d100 Spooky and possibly deadly Artwork
1 Gargoyles actually living monster guards

2 Miniature gargoyle features come to life and harass trespasers

3 Columns with relief carved figures guarding passage or door animate and attack

4 Statue of woman or hero is a stone golem guardian

5 Statue of archer (possibly a cherub) is actually a trap that shoots

6 Statues of hounds, lions or others really stone golem guardians

7 Statue of holy person curses intruders

8 Statue of holy person cure the sick or wounded a limited amount per day

9 Statue of wizard or monster casts offensive spell on intruders
10 Statue can talk limited amount, offers directions or warnings
11 Doorknocker with face, abuses visitors threatens with non existent magic powers

12 Doorknocker with face screams if unwelcome visitors touch door

13 Mirror is a gate to pocket dimensions with imprisoned beings inside

14 Mirror is communication device to outer planes being

15 Mirror is acts as crystal ball showing visions of distant lands

16 Mirror is gateway to other plane, might release a monster if intruders look in

17 Mirror flatters viewer telling them how wondrous they are

18 Mirror distorts features into evil versions from alternate reality

19 Mirror gates in evil versions of intruders from alternate reality20 Mosaic of historic scene which moves to tell epic story takes hours to complete
21 Mosaic of maze if traced with finger pens secret door, releases minotaur if wrong

22 Fresco of erotic scenes animates if admired, hours of viewing pleasure

23 Mural of battlefield animates if admired with gory detail

24 Mural of battlefield animates if admired, warriors leap out and attack intruders

25 Relief face carved in stone sings when visitors enter

26 Relief face carved in stone has a breath weapon vs intruders

27 Relief face carved in stone allows one to converse to spirit of building

28 Relief face carved in stone spits into trough acts as limited healing

29 Scale model of building, including miniatures of party in this room
30 Scale models of monsters on display table, start to grow to full living size if touched
31 Painting of party being killed by each other or monsters

32 Painting eyes watch party walk around room, linked to other plane or ghost

33 Painting eyes are spy holes with secret chamber behind wall

34 Painting of demons and devils frolicking, party recognize selves amongst victims

35 Painting of paradise emitting light and sounds of music

36 Painting of naval battle hear seagulls, waves, smell of sea

37 Painting of cruel evil man, anyone looking at him save or cursed with change alignment

38 Painting is a prison for evil wizard, if damaged he is released

39 Painting of hunters and beast, gazed on for too long beast comes from art and attacks
40 Painting of undead cavorting in graveyard, music first then undead start coming from it
41 Painting of evil man, poltergeist in artwork slams doors and attacks party

42 Painting scene of village life is a gateway to pocket universe

43 Painting scene of battle is a gateway to pocket universe

44 Painting scene of family in castle is a gateway to pocket universe

45 Painting scene of hero fighting monsters is a gateway to pocket universe

46 Painting scene of treasure horde is a gateway to pocket universe

47 Painting is a scene of a feast, food can be taken from it and eaten

48 Painting of beautiful slaves who will come from art and dance and pleasure visitors

49 Painting scene of ruined castle is a gateway to pocket universe 
50 Painting of bluebeard like villain, comes from painting to kidnap attractive women
51 Painting of hero fighting small draconic creature, both crawl out to attack strangers 

52 Painting of portrait home to a ghost, spirit, phantom or shadow

53 Painting of Satyrs, centaurs and beastmen in celebration, music tempts to enter frame

54 Painting of witches who exit frame to curse, charm and kill party

55 Painting of saint in torment acts to sanctify room as holy place of protection from evil

56 Painting of goblinoids cavorting in wilds, gremlins then lager start to crawl out

57 Painting of scientific illustration of anatomy, herbalism or alchemy explaining new ideas

58 Painting of maiden, her lonely spirit appears as human to meet men

59 Painting of saint being tortured, sounds of sobbing, whips, moans heard
60 Room covered in paintings with random sounds ans animated sequences
61 Tapestry of life of holy person viewers save or alignment shifted towards good for 24hrs 

62 Tapestry of blood thirsty battle viewers get +1 hit and damage next fight and +2 morale

63 Tapestry of hunting scene with mythic creature which comes to life and attacks intruders

64 Tapestry of creation myth, creatures drop out and look puzzled some attack

65 Tapestry of maps of the kingdom will teleport a group to map location if touched

66 Stained glass of saints, unbreakable and curses any who try

67 Stained glass of saints, a glass golem warrior step out to attack intruders

68 Stained glass of outer planar beings, one is summoned if intruders enter room

69 Stained glass of crops, fields and farms creates a meal for the hungry once a day 
70 Gilded throne for important holy officials curses non authorized sitters
71 Fountain with holy folk statues blessed water 1 dose per person per day

72 Fountain with magical healing creatures or planar being carvings d8 healing per day

73 Fountain with animated water elemental being, hostile to intruders

74 Huge decorative cauldron

75 Collection of whips and flails animate and punish sinners and thieves

76 Ever burning incence block in silver box with ventilation holes to spread sweet odour
77 Ever burning magical brazier

78 Silver mace or rod, a magical intelligent weapon tries to make holder into holy champion
79 Golden crozier on rack can heal daily with touch but cursed if removed by unworthy
80 Gilded important holy robe and hat on mannequin, cured if worn by unworthy
81 Cabinet display of saints life with minor holy trinkets some with petty magic effects
82 Cabinet display of samples of creatures parts in jars or mummified some valuable
83 Cabinet display of holy symbols of various ages and styles
84 Cabinet display of ancient scrolls some magical
85 Cabinet display of weapons and armour some magical but magic alarm if broken
86 Cabinet display of miniature paintings and sculptures but magic alarm if broken
87 Cabinet display of ancient pots, tablets and other fragments, cursed if glass broken
88 Cabinet display of mummified bejeweled holy corpse awakes as mummy if glass broken
89 Room gilded roll 1d100 for % or room covered in gold sheet, thieves are cursed
90 Room lined with semiprecious stones or pearls or amber in mosaic, thieves are cursed
91 Huge marble fire place with carved with gargoyles - two come to life if disturbed
92 Huge marble fire place with carved with flames summons a salamander if disturbed
93 Huge marble fire place with carvedwith patriotic regalia, softly plays anthem when lit
94 Huge marble fire place with carved treefolk, satyrs and unicorns, brownie or pixie inside
95 Huge marble fire place with carved devils and a mouth for opening, imps may come out
96 A magic weapon trapped in stone or other object, only worthy or chosen can remove
97 Suits of armoured knights with weapons animate and attack
98 Weapons on display rack animate to attack intruders that touch them
99 Collection of holy persons severed heads will converse and give personal advice
100 Huge carved statue or iron, amber, crystal, bronze really a golem

More Traps

When I was writing my redbrick dungeon zone book - I did some traps for this kobold filled hellpit but recently i found this article on VC traps and thought re investigating. I played in a game or Palladium's Recon once and was killed by my peers when I destroyed a village with rockets because I saw one tunnel - doh! One rpg death I deserved.

Anyway for a fantasy or post apocalypse game here are some traps:

If kobolds in your area local villagers probably will be more competent at trap lore - to counter kobolds and trap them. A specialized expert kobold hunter might be possible.

Animals like food for bait, treasure or body of ally work well for human.

Messy dungeons or outdoors are easier to hide traps in so better get rid of those gelatinous cubes. Water flooded area great way to hide a trip line also. Anything with spikes could have poison or infectious substances so a CON save in order.

Trap users often have secret marks which a counter trap specialist might learn but these could be faked or change from group to group of trappers. Part of trap lore is spotting and identifying trap markers.

Side closing foot trap - some of these have been found across europe from ancient times. Can be built to target victims of a certain size so a kobold could build to trap humans but would release a kobold or wouldnt work on huge creature. When stepped on foot falls through and side grab and lock target. For extra mayhem try poison spikes. An intelligent victim could get out with some effort so spikes a good option vs humans. While spikes only about a d4 or d6 , being locked while under attack not very nice.

Spike boards - buried under filth stab feet if stepped on only a d3 but may have toxins or infectious agents

Spiked see saw - when foot steps on panel it drops and a other side of spiked board hidden, pops up and stabs you in the face with spikes. 1d6 plus possibly poison or infection.

Side closing pit trap - when you fall in concealed pit spiked sides close in and trap you get stabbed from both sides while dangling in pit with possibly more spikes in bottom or snakes or something horrible. 1d8 or 2d6 damage.

Door trap - trip wire activated spiked club swings down to hit who tripped wire. 1d6 or 1d8.

Arrow trap - trip wire fires a projectile usually an arrow 1d6 or sometimes more like a heavy crossbow 1d8.

Mace trap - large heavy piked log or drum wings down on whole party if trip wire set off. 1d8 or 2d6 or worse depending on object. Everyone in line needs to save or be hit. Does need room to work.

Deadfall trap - trip wire activated spiked board or simply rubble. Can be built various sizes and can even collapse whole tunnel on party. Typicaly 1d8 or 2d6 but 4d6 or worse possible.

Whip trap - when line tripped a bendy branch or bamboo pole flexed and tied is released striking the victim with spikes on end 1d6 or 1d8.

Barbed pit trap - can be small for a foot of big enough to fall into. Spiked metal hooked barble overlap all the way down injuring victim and making removal dificult without sustaining more damage. Several helpers could release victim given time. 1d6 for a small one, 3d4 for a large one. A panicked victim must save to escape and takes more damage every attempt. Takes at least 10 minutes per attempt for helpers to remove victim.

Grenade trap - tripwire sets off explosive device or several

Bullet Trap - a cartridge with a nail in the primer or one shot tube black powder pistol buried fires into foot if stepped on

Animal traps - often hidden or with bait need a STR roll to open trap mechanism which most animals cant do. Often tied or chained up. Given STR save is for person in the trap, easier for person out side or if using a lever to open than for victim. Fox or rabbit trap 1d4 STR save to open. Wolf trap 1d6 STR save -4 to open. Bear trap 1d8 STR save -8 to open. If trapped and remain still trap damages 1pt per hour. If victim panics and moves or fails to escape with STR save get 1pt damage

Will probably add these to my earlier trap tables I have been using

d100 Strange Graves of Planet Psychon

I'm always up for a challenge and this was a request - more weird science than gothic but AOK for today's newjack oldschool DMs. Good for an gonzo setting.

 d100 Strange Graves of Planet Psychon
1 An acre of lemon yellow sand filled with glass skeletons

2 A metal pod welded shut with remains of a rocket man with jetpack and pistol and helmet

3 A 30 foot long coffin semi exposed, giant cyclops or possibly badly assembled elephant

4 Fossilised dinosaurs some with uniforms

5 Broken cryopod with horrifying self mutilated mummified corpse within

6 Glass pyramid of the cyborg cat men

7 Three metallic 100stilts supporting metal pod containing mummified aliens

8 Ancient bunker converted to crypt of a cyborg wizard

9 Giant immobile quivering mass of jelly, deep within is crypt of elder thing wizard
10 Ancient forgotten warlord crypt boasting he will never be forgotten, looted and vandalised
11 Ruined complex built of linked buried school buses, occupied by child ghouls

12 Mostly buried plane converted to crypt of red men, if tampered with angry horde signalled

13 Step pyramid of the lizard men guarded by mummies with crystal tipped wands

14 Sprawling ancient necropolis exposed by erosion, jackal sacred men feeding grounds

15 Yellow men warriors mummified on poles if molested imps burst from their chests

16 Hole in ground to ancient sub road tube, zombies awaken and crawl from cars if see light

17 Cyan men sacred shrine where bodied dissolved in acid, over run with goblins currently

18 Wrecked tugboat on tiny island now a pirate tomb, filled with skeleton pirate guards

19 Huge chunk of Ice with carved sealed door way, tomb of ice wizard kings
20 Ancient motel buried under junkmail, being studied by ape men archaeologists
21 Small volcano with basalt doorway guarded by salamanders 

22 Mutant king tomb glowing with strange fields and auroras

23 Concrete ancient crypt of unexploded bomb with AI needy for philosophical debate

24 Tomb of ancient clown king with cannibal clown mutant in tiny cars patrolling

25 Ancient theme park populated by beast men and androids, great Wizards tomb in centre

26 Eldren tomb guarded by robots and AI kill satellite

27 Morlock tomb with pits of zombie eloi to feed and serve in the next life

28 Android graveyard where defective androids go to die, a cyberbrain animates them

29 Ritual gladiator pit where men die in bloodsports for funeral rites, volunteers are needed!
30 Black monolith slab AI watches over graves of tribal cult servants, calls savages to guard
31 Eccentric AI hidden in trap filled bunker tomb has secrets villagers need to live 

32 Violet tribal chop up dead to feed to monsters on sacred ground, beasts expect a meal

33 Green men graveyard guarded by killer plants planted by druids

34 Trap filled bunker tomb of of amazing master thief

35 Knights sarcophagus guarded by horrific mount pining for master

36 Ruined monastery with cyborg monk crypt beneath

37 Concrete bunker of cyborg soldiers turned undead

38 Fish men skeletons scattered over area around huge sea monster skeleton

39 Morlock vampire crypt, desperate for food and willing to take extreme risks
40 Elden wight in a sarcophagi with a UV frequency (anti undead) laser pistol
41 Golden mummy sarcophagus with hawk man mummy inside angry if disturbed

42 Creepy crypt with beast men mummies guarding shining dodecahedron of elder gods

43 Black faceless sphynx with tomb inside of evil necromancer Pharaoh

44 Tomb of ancient combat robots guarded by sentient mine field

45 Strange tomb perched on top of rock outcrop guarded by monster

46 Fire breathing undead t-rex with tiny stone crypt on back wandering in circles

47 Zombie surfers guard grave of the big kahuna, tiki golems defend his coffin

48 Mutant punks turned undead guard the crypt of a necromancer

49 Dolphin men with single crystal horns and psionics guard crypt of the sea shepard
50 Duck men visiting ancient tomb-statue of their god mother goose hostile to outsiders
51 Chicken men flinging dung at grave of ancient colonel, too scared to enter themselves

52 Raptor men guard the remains of holy spinosaurus, mad with rage if weeping interrupted

53 Sunken pit with semi sumerged tomb of the fish kings

54 Huge golem statue sitting on throne, actually tomb of ancient king

55 Skeletal warriors surround tomb, lich inside wants company but new friends keep dying

56 Ancient tomb under stockpile of psychotronic weapons and hallucinogenic nerve gas

57 Tomb complex bunker guarded by androids who believe the sleepers will awake

58 Wrecked spacecraft with undead astronauts guarding AI and power plant

59 Zombie cowboys guard giant plasticrete cow statue, tomb of the beef king
60 Vampire lizard man kings tomb, prisoners being dragged in to sacrifice by reptilians
61 Tomb of a dragon built by mother Tiamat to mourn her son, guarded by dragon men

62 Crypt of a wizard who collected and bred pakuspawn mini kaiju pets now swarm ruins

63 Kaiju monster curled up asleep on ziggerut temple-tomb of the spice lords

64 Skull rock fabled resting place of ancient warlord filled with traps and undead

65 Ice castle of the snow queen guarded by ice golems

66 Complex chilled to below zero, filled with dead frozen prisoners and security robots

67 Sarcophagi with imprisoned immortal inside, will aid party for a while till bored with them

68 Cave filled with jets of flaming gas, resting place of mutant messiah

69 Zombie children with mouse hats guard tomb of the rat god in ancient ruined film studio
70 Floating sky island crypt drifts by, undead hurling out failed adventurers to death
71 Bee men in mourning guard great hive tomb of revered old queen

72 Bat men vigilantes patrol area around cave tomb of ancient bat super hero

73 Graveyard of butterfly winged elephants full of ivory but don't let elephants catch you

74 Giant snail shell turned into tomb of the squid men guarded by curses and undead

75 Tangerine men trading elderly to Mi-go at brain depository bunker

76 Rollerball court and tomb guarded by skeleton team, gold trophies adorn dead hero
77 Museum guarded by androids in historic costume of ancients protect tomb of academics

78 Turquoise villagers on pilgrimage giving children to ghouls in ancient crypt
79 Warborg guarding tomb of ancient arms dealers clan
80 Mutants with giant brains, lasers and psionics guard tomb of ancestor in crashed saucer
81 Savage grey alien primitives guard crashed UFO tomb of their ancestors
82 Pathetic wooden crucifixes of dead time travelers from past and tiny wooden shack 
83 Adventurers digging up buried ancient cars from ancient traffic jam for loot on bodies
84 Android gremlins guard ancient toy factory and crypt of inventor
85 Chickenmen deep frying a corpse for burial with potatoes in cardboard box
86 Android children crying over graves of human owners dead for aeon's, seek new parents
87 Ag dome with robots caring for garden paradise and grave of human master
88 Morlock butchers digging up eldren graveyard and hacking corpses into portions
89 Morlocks serving the machine god Moloch throw corpses into mouth of huge furnace
90 Eldren solemnly place bodies on altar so AI god can beam up into sky to live anew
91 Villagers place corpses in crude v2 like rockets and fire over horizon for burial
92 Minotaurs of age presenting selves to AI of slaughterhouse to be chosen for next life
93 Robots solemnly taking wounded comrade to recycling centre
94 Plantmen trading corpses for food with villagers, take corpses to mulching machine
95 Taxidermy robot with collection of stuffed dead in museum
96 Villagers solemnly take dead to grey in saucers who mutilate and defile them
97 Villager leave dead in fungus cave, reborn as mushroom men
98 Villagers feasting on dead, man laughing and spasming from diseased brains in diet
99 Bunker where elderly volunteers sacrifice selves while kin dine on free soylent green
100 Cyborg dog man sleeping on grave of dead robot master

d100 Strange Encounters in the Graveyard

Gothtober continues!

d100 Strange Encounters in the Graveyard
1 Followed by hooded phantom who fades if approached

2 Followed by a phantom  weeping maiden who fades if approached

3 Followed by a phantom  creepy child with doll who fades if approached

4 Followed by a phantom hound who fades if approached

5 Followed by a phantom hunchback who fades if approached

6 Noisy ghost breaker with whip claims to be taming invisible spirits

7 Students sneaking around trying to steal corpse (artists, sages or necromancers)

8 Professional grave robbers trying to loot a crypt or grave

9 Young priest looking for undead he can test himself with
10 Theif looking for executed corpses a witch will pay him well for
11 Sounds of chains rattling and moaning

12 Sounds of Scream of terror

13 Sounds of Sobbing and weeping

14 Sounds of Creaking sounds of coffin lids moving

15 Sounds of Laughter

16 Dog sitting on grave of master

17 Rat follows party with cunning gleam in eye

18 Owl follows party looking for edible critters they scare from hiding

19 Huge croaking toads in a circle, stop when party see them till move on
20 Cat follows party for a pat or snack 
21 Dancing goblins singing and drinking

22 Kobolds stealing headstones for building with teeny wheel barrows

23 Drunk teen hobgoblins smashing headstones in revenge for humans killing kin

24 Bugbear came to dig up worms for fishing but loves a good scare while here

25 Orcs digging up corpses for evil wizard to animate

26 Carrion crawler looking for tasty grave to burrow into

27 Swarm of rats looking desperately for food

28 Giant rats pour from burrows in graves

29 Bear sized rat tired of eating the dead
30 Wolves looking for snacks
31 Witches having a forbidden ritual

32 Cultists chanting over a grave

33 Evil acolytes looking for interesting corpses to raise back in hidden temple

34 Student necromancers practicing new cantrips

35 Senior necromancer with zombies and cart stealing dozens of bodies

36 Gang of thieves searching for hidden stash

37 Gang of thieves brought victim here to intimidate and blackmail

38 Gang of thieves fighting with another gang

39 Gang of thieves preparing to kill gang squealer in cruel ritual
40 Gang of thieves looking for east tombs, crypts or sarcophagi
41 Gang of thieves fighting undead

42 Phantom dog follows and barks at party attracting more trouble

43 Phantom dog attacks and chases party till they leave graveyard

44 One eyed demon dire dog attacks

45 Hellhound howls, stalks then attacks

46 Werewolf attacks

47 Undead wolves attack as pack

48 Glowing mutant horror hound attacks

49 Skeletons with wagon collecting other skeletons to dance of the dead
50 Skeletons cleaning and maintaining graveyard attack if disturbed
51 Skeleton guardsmen try to chase intruders from graveyard

52 Zombies moving graveyard boundary stones to expand

53 Zombies eating a screaming bound prisoner

54 Ghouls gangs meeting to divide up turf

55 Ghouls playing catch with human skull

56 Ghoul approaches party to see if they want to become ghouls

57 Foul stench of a ghast wafts over area

58 Ghast beating member of ghoul gang while others watch in fear

59 Ghouls in monk robes silently marching in line, could mistake for living
60 Ghoul fallen into muddy open grave cant climb out
61 Adorable child ghoul threatens party

62 Wights dueling, have done so yearly for many years

63 Wight highwayman demands party give him loot for his barrow mound

64 Wight nailed down with silver spikes wailing

65 Shadows silently dancing

66 Shadow hound silently stalks attacks at worst moment

67 Shadow family with shadow children having midnight picknick

68 Wraith trapped in small fenced area of own clans graves howls for victims to approach

69 Lich recruiting for servants, unconcerned by living unless bothered
70 Noble mummy sitting on stone throne surrounded by zombie courtiers
71 Wight hound hunting for victims to make slaves for master

72 Boring phantom wants to talk about horses, muscles and women

73 Artist or poet phantom wants to seduce living hottie

74 Evil goatmen dancing and playing roughly with bones, headstones and statues

75 Warlock with goatmen hanging a servant who failed gang

76 Screaming wight in gibbet hung from tree
77 Corpses laying on path spring to life and attack

78 Severed head on pole tries to talk to party, very bored
79 Severed hands of thieves scuttle about picking pockets
80 Severed undead leg hopping about on own
81 Poltergeist flinging rocks at skeletons
82 Ghouls gambling over who gets best bits of paralyzed prisoner
83 Various undead, leaders dressed in finery meeting about graveyard conditions
84 Skeleton children pelt rocks at party and flee if attacked back
85 Zombie child playing with pet zombie puppy
86 Storm breaks out with lightening then rain
87 Fog rolls over the graveyard making visibility poor
88 Icy wind chills and numbs everybody
89 Sudden flash of lightning, dozens of spirits visable for a moment
90 Imps dancing with familiar spirits
91 Graveyard albino serpent with sting burrowing into coffins feasting on dead
92 Student on a dare to spend night, struck mad by visions, hair white
93 Outer planar being battling another opposite alignment being
94 Outer planar being battling undead
95 Charmed person thinks is with lover, really a rotting undead corpse
96 Hero or leader with necromancer questioning the dead
97 Undead knight wooing undead lady
98 Undead bard entertaining group of mixed undead
99 Lesser death playing chess with knight so he may live longer to complete quest
100 Undead feast with many mixed undead celebrating underworld holy day

d100 Strange Lone Graves

Second session of frost giant G2 module and it feels like a boring wargame resource planning exercise. I will have to intervene as one or two sessions more is unappealing. I might use my own glacial dungeon zone stuff and campaign setting.

Anyway....

d100 Strange Lone Graves 
When in wilderness or even occasionally in a urban graveyard, some graves stand out as weird and usually trouble. Many have treasure. Some are traps or contain very powerful undead. In many cases the intruders get a chance to escape from the most deadliest breeds who cant be bothered to chase low level weaklings. Some graves might be red herrings or even traps. Enemies might offer party a map and story to a deadly grave as a trick to kill heroes. Similar grave often found nearby.
1 Headstone and slab, secret passage to forgotten dungeon

2 Headstone and slab, secret passage to occupied underground base

3 Headstone and slab, secret passage for smugglers and criminals

4 Headstone and slab, secret passage to non human settlement

5 Headstone and slab, secret passage to cult complex

6 Carved statue headstone Is a shrine to forces of the heavens

7 Monolith marker is a shrine to forces of nature, guarded by beast

8 Mound is burial with a horde for the afterlife, skeleton guards inside

9 Small burial cave or grotto haunted by sinister spirit
10 Small burial cave or grotto home to a hag or a witch
11 Unmarked grave of suicide now a poltergeist

12 Unmarked grave of mad serial killer attracts vile crimes and assault

13 Unmarked grave of child sobs, phantom asks for help finding toy or pet

14 Unmarked grave of loyal pet, phantom dog or horse or cat

15 Unmarked grave of murdered traveller, phantom seeks home for remains

16 Unmarked grave of murdered maiden, spirit seeks vengeance or love

17 Unmarked mass grave of massacre from war or bandits

18 Bleak grave of murdered man, phantom demands help with vengeance

19 Dusky worn stone pillow with angry shadow within
20 Dark stone grave of cult leader, evil uses as a shrine 
21 A hidden stone sarcophagi home to a lonesome vampire

22 Broken crypt with smashed coffins and well fed ghouls

23 Grave is dug up and starving animals feasting

24 Grave is dug up and goblins eating human remains with gusto

25 Grave is dug up with necromancer and servants stealing corpse

26 Grave dug up by scholars or artists for anatomical dissection and study

27 Ancient warrior sarcophagi or barrow mound occupied by wight

28 Black ancient slab radiates evil with wraith inside

29 Smashed open sarcophagi with 1d4 zombies inside
30 Stone sarcophagi in broken small tomb with mummy inside
31 Megalithic barrow with a pack of ghouls

32 Humble grave with wooden marker and burrowed hole to carrion crawler nest

33 Moaning chained wight inside heave coffin just audible above ground

34 Huge fat ghoul munching on broken open humble coffin

35 Call for help from inside stone sarcophagus, trapped immortal awoke inside

36 Call for help from inside stone sarcophagus, trapped person recovered from coma

37 Grave of known zombie former explorer, inside holds maps to many strange places

38 Shade of drunk calls out for libations of wine to keep him quiet

39 Familiar sadly sitting on dead wizards grave
40 Spooky tree over druid grave menhir attacks any who interfere
41 Whisper in mind of travellers asking for help, evil undead wizard trapped in grave

42 Hell hound guards grave of evil wizard

43 Hell cat awaiting new master on grave mound of old master

44 Cracked sarcophagi releases stench if approached from ghast inside

45 Flying skull chases those who pass grave of mean merchant to cheap for graveyard

46 Bleeding boned skeletons under shallow earth guard grave of a witch

47 Grave of zombie jester killed by party, will follow and try to entertain new friends

48 Phantom lady falls in love with adventurer, follows and appears as mortal lover for a night

49 Glowing skeleton emanating sickly poison light arises from lead sarcophagi
50 Mutant zombie crawls from shallow grave underfoot of travellers
51 Hungry ghost craves food and chases party to wither supplies into dust

52 Ancient stone marked grave crawling in green glowing kyuss maggots from inside

53 Strange basalt worn sarcophagi with undead serpent man wizard deep in sleep

54 Warrior phantom begs travellers to take sword is actually cursed relic

55 Warrior phantom begs travellers to take intelligent race slaying sword is

56 Cackling undead witch lies in shallow buried wooden coffin

57 Ancient mound of buried giant, now hungry zombie, awakens if mound walked on

58 Burial mound with sacrificial guard skeletons to protect

59 Willow the wisp tries to lure intruders into nearby monster lair or swamp
60 Under a sad willow tree is a stone old sarcophagi, inside a man hating banshee awaits
61 Flaming skeleton guards spring up to defend headstone of pyromancer-necromancer

62 Skeleton warrior sleeps awaiting great mission in future will slay any who touch grave

63 A cracked old crypt is lair of a crimson mist, a blood sucking vaporous undead

64 Grave contains living brain in jar than mentally controls nearby zombies

65 Skinless zombies surround grave guarding evil wizard remains

66 An ancient grave mound guarded by blood drinking monolith

67 Undead wizard hates living, hoards magic items under old cracked headstone

68 Plague zombies guard evil priests grave

69 Devil or demon attack any who approach ancient monolith over evil hero grave
70 Cursed undead leaves coins into crypt entrance to tempt robbers
71 Succubus sleeps with dead lover in sarcophagus attacks any who threaten her darling

72 Incubus stands watch over grave of dead sorceress awaiting allies to raise her

73 Stone sarcophagi with paladin engraved, inside is a death knight in deep sleep

74 Strange stone slab over grave of wizard, guarded by elemental

75 Black stone menhir grave of ice-necromancer guarded by skeletons with cold powers

76 Headless horseman menaces any who find graves of his decapitated victims graves
77 Swarm of bugs, rats or birds guard ancient grave of a druid

78 Undead children in sarcophagi attack bad adults who hurt them
79 Undead revenant if freed seeks enemies who killed him or descendants
80 Strange grave marker, inside a metal and glass coffin is a sleeping woman
81 Cannibals opening grave and feasting on interior hope to become immortal ghouls
82 A necromancer and a customer summoning a spirit of the dead for information
83 Villager attempting false resurrection ritual creates cannibalistic mindless zombie
84 Necromancer attempting to reanimate dead lover
85 Grave surrounded by ravens swarm and attack defilers of druid or priest remains
86 Amateur adventurers trying to open ancient sarcophagi release undead horror
87 A ghoul snacking on a paralysed child on top of his grave
88 A angry draugr guards a ancient burial mound to protect his treasure and dead wives
89 Ancient monolith grave guarded by mighty serpent90 Ancient grave with coin slot for sacrifice to keep draugr inside
91 Stone statue animates and attacks any who touch old grave
92 Gargoyle statue actually alive standing on headstone
93 Obelisk zaps intruders with magic missile
94 Obelisk zaps intruders with curse
95 Obelisk zaps intruders with flame strike
96 Obelisk zaps intruders with burning hands
97 Beastmen dancing and cavorting around grave of ancient wizard master
98 Inside a crypt is a dwarvern looter angry at humans for disrespecting ancestral graves
99 Inside is a gateway to a minor kingdom of elfland, ancestorors of locals
100 Inside strange grave is a gateway to some horrible dimension or underworld

benjamin eisenhofer started translations into german of some of my stuff here:
http://der-eisenhofer.de/2013/100-flueche-dnd-fantasy-rollenspiel

Gothic Dungeon Key A-Z

a blog i did on small monsters for zero to first level monsters
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/dungeon-dwellers-little-guys.html
a modern upgrade flatteringly using some of my critterz and more
http://aeonsnaugauries.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/low-life-encounter-table-version-1.html

This is dungeon key is a sequel to my redbrick key and is intended to be used with geomorphs i will
start working on soon. I will provide some brief descriptions. Less traps and areas for living than redbrick key.

d100 random room key
A 1-4 Artwork
5-6 B Solace
7-9 C Cell
10-12 D Scriptorium
13-14 E Execution
15-17 F Font or fountain
18-19 G Crematorium
20-30 H Crypt
31-35 I Library
36-41 J Cloister
42-43 K Curse
44-48 L Living Area
49-52 M Mortician
53-54 N Secret Entry
55-59 O Administration
60-64 P  Prayer room
65-67 Q Laboratory
68-69 R Reliquary
70-74 S Sarcophagi
75-77 T Torture Dungeon
78-79 U Throne Room
80-85 V Vault
86-90 W Workshop
91-92 X Treasury
93-95 Y Temple
96-00 Z Shrine

A Artwork
Significant artwork depicting a scene in church mythology, history or even abstract. Includes paintings, murals staturary, relief carving, stained glass, mozaics or caligraphic or hieroglyphic text. Many tell stories in comic book form. Magical ones may come to life gargoyles and types of golem the most obvious, sometimes from the architectural features.
1 Depiction of god with the first ancestors or or other important ancients
2 Depiction of god in act of creation
3 Depiction of god or saint in judgement
4 Depiction of god or saint or servants in battle, suffering or doing other mythic deeds
5 Depiction of pioneering churchman preaching to masses
6 Depiction of paradise for those who live prescribed life
7 Depiction of underworld warning to enemies
8 Depiction of holy teacher preaching to disciples or writing book or at prayer
9 Depiction of a great holy leader or king showing piety and devotion to faith
10 Depiction of god with all insignia and symbols of divinity like a sacred beast

B Solace
A quiet nook often isolated from other areas with benches, possibly scenic views, art or supreme minimalism. Intended for silence and prayer, perhaps chanting even music take place here.
1 Bare minimilism or abstract pattern to aid meditation
2 Bust of holy person or divinity
3 Statue of holy person or divinity
4 Holy scriptures or prayer or chant written on wall
5 Mural or painting
6 Pool or well in floor
7 Sound of quiet music or chanting
8 Pillows or prayer mats and other specialties of faith like grog
9 Multiple private prayer booths
10 Tiny shrine in small cell with line up outside

C Cell
A cell where prisoners or monks or clerics live, mostly spartan and bare except for palette and a potty. A prison cell will have lockable bars or manacles.
1 A tiny monk cell
2 A tiny cleric cell with holy scriptures or other religious trinkets
3 A holy master cell with pillows, carpets, scriptures and holy water and other things
4 A prison cell with manacles on a chain
5 A prison cell with manacles to hang prisoner on walls
6 A prison cell with just bars and lock
7 A prison cell with bizarre restraint like iron mask or stocks
8 Dark confined box  prisoner locked in
9 Cramped cage possibly wooden barely holding prisoner
10 Cell with slow torture device like weighed legs, wrack, iron maiden

D Scriptorium
A room where books are made and copied, documents are copied en mass. Often many books in process of being copied with many desks. Sometimes desks have chains for scribes and artists. Some are using clay with stylus tool, other use vellum or papyrus or paper.
1 Cheap knockoffs of common prayer and song books 
2 Cheap knockoffs of holy books for literate middle classes and poor clergy
3 Cheap scrolls for tourists and pilgrims
4 Commercial copy of common document like apocryphal adventures of saints
5 Copies of secular documents being made for donations
6 Internal church records and requisition forms
7 Documents detailing how to persecute and detect those deemed enemies by church zealots
8 Copies of holy books for nobles, rich, new churches and missions
9 Artworks and marginalia being added in more elaborate version of original copies
10 An important masterwork many volume work in production from notes from bards

E Execution or punishment block
A area for executions, punishment and sometimes the courtroom. Depending on importance and religion. Some literaly with, others with  or .
1 Chopping block with sword or axe
2 Flogging post with manacles
3 Yard where monks lie prostrate or kneel for hours
4 Stocks with torture pariphialia
5 Pit with bars exposed to above at floor level
6 Tiny cage suspended of ground
7 Hangman's gallows or guiliotine
8 Fire and stake
9 Live vivisection restraint block with manacles
10 In pit or cage possibly for creature

F Font or fountain
An ornamental fountain where holy water is made, blessing and ceremonies performed. Some more ornamental decor and water for pilgrims where they can receive a lesson from the artwork in the water vessel.
1 A simple well or pool in floor
2 A chalice or bowl on a plinth
3 A statue or bust with a fountain
4 A impressive artistic sculpture or relief of a scene
5 Thermally heated pool for bathing or laundry
6 A pool for a creature like fish or eels or lampreys
7 Drinking or bathing trough for horse or ritual animal
8 A grotto or cave with pool, favorite hangout for holy hermits
9 A pool for divination or communion rituals
10 A pool for healing or exorcisms or drowning witches

G Crematorium
A chamber where dead or funerary waste or sacrifices are burned. Often with a great furnace, flaming pit or even a huge brazier. Some faiths require a water source like a holy river or well to remove ashes. Others store urns wit remains.
1 A huge oven with metal door for whole coffins filled with fine ash
2 Large oven with plinth and ceremonial decor for public cremation
3 Bundles of wood often with a boat or bed ready to burn corpse in
4 Burning pit in the ground
5 Apparatus to desiccate body into mummy with slow cooking or sunlight or exposure
6 Acid pit, possibly 1d6, able to remove flesh in a month
7 Huge pit of ash plus roll d5 again
8 Sealed shelves in rock or wall with funerary urns inside plus roll d5 again
9 Stacks of funerary urns on shelves piled to ceiling plus roll d5 again
10 Stacks of burned bones in neat bundles or random stacks plus roll d5 again

H Crypt
A entrance to a sub level burial chamber full of sarcophagi or a single tomb. A large one will be a mausoleum or many connected crypts a catacomb. The dead may be in coffins, sarcophagi, burial urns or exposed and mummified. Usually churchmen, nobles and the rich only qualify.
1 Single sarcophagi in tomb
2 6+d6 sarcophagi in tomb
3 2d6+12 sarcophagi in tomb
4 2d20 coffins on plinths
5 4d20 coffins in stacks
6 2d20 Preserved heads or other body parts in containers
7 3d100 Funeral urns of cremated dead
8 5d20 Skeletons arranged in heap or artwork or in shelves
9 1d20+10 Mummified corpses clothed standing
10 2d20 bizarre preservation, pickled, smoked, dried, magic, frozen

I Library
A storehouse for books, often with special collections, archives, records of goods, state documents, church history or other works. Most have shelving for storing with a filing system. A library chamber has typically a d100 books, the more important ones chained and locked up.
1 Church doctrine for students of religion
2 Tedious church records on tithe and accounting
3 Records of monks and clergy lives
4 Records of mythology of religion and legendary heroes
5 Church religious commentary, debates and interpretation
6 Sciences & Arts: natural history, mathematics, astronomy, geology, literature, philosophy, poetry
7 History of land and all time since god was involved in creation
8 Journeys of saints, missionaries and crusaders past
9 Descriptions of blasphemy, evil and the underworld
10 Books about magic, wizardry, witchcraft, sorcery, divine magic

J Cloister
A large square area surrounded be pillars supporting a ceiling covered walkway around the outside. Most have grass or a garden inside ans possibly trees. The columns may also include a wall limiting access to the central area and the ground level might be lower than the floor level. Favorite places to meditate or study.
1 Open room with checker board or Mosaic floor
2 Grass possible dead or overgrown if abandoned
3 Mud, filth and excrement over bare earth or cobblestones, slippery and wet
4 Refined garden with water feature, trees and statuary and possibly a tiny grotto with a hermit
5 Hedge maze or elaborate statuary
6 Fruit trees and or berry bushes or food or medicinal garden
7 Fountain and large water feature, possibly fish
8 Sarcophagi or a tomb
9 Overgrown with trees like the wild
10 Dead and blasted trees, grass and empty ponds, possibly petrified

K Curse
This evil place is damned and usually sealed off or given warnings if clergy present.
1 Corporeal undead trapped in here and hostile
2 Non corporeal undead haunt this place
3 Spirit posses persons in here
4 Poltergeist
5 Doppelganger
6 Hostile gargoyles
7 Cursed relic contained here
8 Guarded by supernatural other worldly being
9 Servant of god appears to curse interlopers
10 Sacred place  or damned place either way it's not for mortals and equals a curse

L Living Area
A living room for clergy or monks or householders
1 A room for senior monk or priest
2 Important guest room for a bishop
3 Guest room for noble
4 Dormitory for lay members or acolytes
5 Shared room for lesser or student priests
6 Room for slaves, servants or newcomers seeking entry
7 Kitchens and dining area
8 Brewery or wine making facility or distillery
9 Hospital for treating ill and medical aid to churchmen
10 Recreational hall where clergy play games, sing, fight, exercise

M Morticians Morgue
An area where bodies are stored and prepared before burials
1 Embalming room with vats of flammable fluids and baths
2 A mumification room with bandage preparation and mummification apparatus
3 A room where organs are removed and placed in jars or urns
4 A morgue where bodies await burial or identification or some sacred time period
5 Anatomical laboratory where bodies (sometimes criminals) are cut up and documented
6 A parlour for intimate funerary ceremonies where family often view corpse
7 A room where slaves are killed or suicide to join master
8 A room where soliers are killed or suicide to join master
9 A room where animals and pets are killed to join master
10 A room where bodies get makeup, wigs, and dressed for public display with

N Secret Entry
Fear of live burial or escape routes or for maintenance or other purpose
1 Secret stair case to other level or surface
2 Secret hiding place for priest
3 Secret escape for condemned builders, architects and tomb workers
4 Hidden chamber of vice and depravity
5 Hidden prison or torture cell
6 Hidden treasure or relic or manuscript
7 Secret spy chamber to view other rooms
8 Secret maintenance tunnels for true believers to visit
9 Secret maintenance tunnels for corrupt builders to rob
10 Secret entry to ghoul tunnels or other monsters

O Administration
Where chapter houses or churches or state process bureaucratic paperwork
1 Counting house where money, goods or tithe information is worked on
2 Building office where architects, builders and others run constructions
3 Chapter house for religious organization
4 Where births, deaths, marriages are documented
5 Taxation or tithing office where collected goods are documented
6 Land office where records of land ownership and use recorded
7 Records of church admin, pilgrim efforts and donations
8 Meeting room for councils and committees
9 Court house for common public trials
10 Starchamber for secret trial mostly of internal matters of church

P Prayer room
Where the faithful prey is peace
1 Rows of benches in front of altar or artwork
2 Pillows or mats in rows or a circle
3 Private booths for individual private contemplation
4 Bells in high vaulted rooms with ropes to above
5 Room with cages of sacred or symbolic animals the cult use like pidgeons
6 Chamber with open area and massive gong on pedestal
7 Tiled mosaic walls and ceiling with artworks
8 Huge braziers or light shaft from window high above
9 Incense burners and long curtains
10 Mosaic maze like pattern pilgrims follow on floor

Q Laboratory
Many labs are found depending on type of structure. Some make materials for burial, others provide for staff. 
1 Brewery or wine press and cellar for staff or even for dead in ritual libations
2 Morticians lab brewing acid, embalming fluid and treatments for mummification bandages
3 A hospital wing with patients and an operating area
4 Alchemical laboratory with possibly some intact finished potions
5 Apothecary lab for conventional medicines and refined herbs
6 Architects lab with models and calculations
7 Natural history lab and collection of specimens
8 Collection of the nations cultural goods and curios
9 Poison or necromancy or collection of rival faiths goods and documents
10 Wizards lab

R Reliquary
Where saint body parts and relic items are stored, usually sanctified ground
1 Museum of life story with some trivial possible possessions
2 Magical saint body part in case on altar
3 Collection of objects which true pilgrims recognize the real object among them
4 Collection of saints possessions
5 Saints corpse in a glass coffin
6 Saintly relics sealed behind bars and rarely opened
7 Weapon or torture device or part thereof used to kill saint
8 Remains of shroud, coffin or tomb of ancient saint
9 Chest containing scriptures, if opened unleashes curse or monster 
10 Holy weapon of faith used to slay enemies

S Sarcophagi
A stone, brick slab containing a coffin or group of them in a chamber
1 A crude clay sarcophagus with cheap wooden coffin inside
2 A brick sarcophagus with wooden coffin inside
3 A crude carved stone sarcophagus with a bandaged corpse inside
4 A simple stone sarcophagus with good wooden coffin
5 A fine carved sarcophagus with text and scenes with lead lining and good coffin
6 Quality carved and or painted sarcophagus with painted wooden coffin
7 Carved sarcophagus with engraved art of occupant with lead lining and painted coffin
8 Carved relief art of occupant with double coffin and lead lining
9 Cheap sarcophagi with fake coffin and fake treasure
10 Plundered sarcophagi

T Torture Dungeon
A room for the torture of prisoners with torture equipment. Each room specializes in a type of feature torture
1 A flogging post with whips and chains
2 A frame with chains and a oven and branding irons brazier of coals
3 A wrack for stretching and manacles  for chaining prisoners on walls
4 Cages, many hanging from ceiling, stocks and chains
5 Iron maiden, iron boots, thumbscrews all slowly impale with spikes
6 Huge cauldron with hot oil or lead, wooden stakes with piles of wood
7 Saws to slowly cut open restrained bodies
8 Disemboweling tools, which to unravel innards
9 Wheel to break restrained prisoners limbs, foot and skull crushing devices
10 Chair with spikes, knee splitter, iron mask

U Throne Room
A room where important lords or officials meet audiences, often on a dais and often with escape route for leader
1 Wooden chair on dais
2 Large chair with curtains and banners
3 Large chair with fine carving and paintings
4 Large chair with metalwork and semi precious stones
5 Gilt over wooden great chair with carved figures of heroes and monsters
6 Huge stone throne chair with own steps
7 Dual thrones roll 1d6 for type
8 Group of Thrones of officials or council 2d6 roll 1d6 for type
9 Great throne with screens to prevent visitors gazing on the mighty one
10 Huge metal throne worth thousands but awkward and expensive with relief art

V Vault
A store room for goods, treasure, or other stuff
1 Preserved foodstuffs like cheese
2 Building and artisan raw materials
3 Religious paraphernalia for special occasions, costumes, palanquins, etc
4 Coffins, bodies or bones
5 Records, scrolls, ledgers, journals and other records
6 Storage of vehicles such as wagons, chariots, carts or boats
7 Wine or beer cellar and manufacturing equipment
8 Chamber filled with grain
9 Treasure of valuable grave or household luxuries
10 Treasure vault of coins and valuables

W Workshop
Room where building is maintained, artists work on decor an other craft and trades ply their craft fir use in the complex or the next life.
1 Sculptors workshop with half finished statues and blocks of stone
2 Painters workshop with half completed works
3 Woodworkers room with tools and collection of wood and half finished work
4 Stone mason with tools and gargoyles and half finished work
5 Architects workroomm with blueprints and models and calculation
6 Barrel, urn or ceramic containers being manufactured
7 Tannery with leather, cauldrons of wax, dye and chemicals
8 Weaving looms and spinning wheels with partly finished rugs and fabric
9 Coffin makers shop with tack of coffins
10 Blacksmith and metal workers with orge, ingots, bars and half finished tool and weapons

X Treasure
Store rooms for loot
1 Coins from commoners, thousands of coppers in coffers
2 Plates, urns and silverware from wealthy on display
3 Chests locked and trapped full of coins
4 Chests locked and trapped full of semi precocious stones
5 Illuminated manuscript with metal cover with semi precocious stones
6 Idols and statuettes on display of precious metal
7 Collection of valuable holy symbols on display with semi precocious stones
8 Chests of IOU notes from nobles possibly long gone
9 Collection of ceremonial stave's, rods and crowns covered in gold
10 Pile of fake loot with trap or curse or monster

Y Temple
Important holy places for ritual and prayer
1 Huge statue with valuable gem eyes, cursed or trapped
2 Great hall with altar and room for adherents to gather
3 Gods statues hold up the ceiling of great chamber
4 Ceiling has amazing work of art and many statues
5 Temple specializes in selling church services to rich or important persons
6 Temple for selecting and anointing royalty or church officials
7 Temple dedicated to knowledge and arts
8 On older temple sealed inside or under newer temple
9 Temple for specific sect, order or chapter of faith, possibly with own saint
10 Temple with collection of shrine to pantheon or saints or other planar entities

Z Shrine
Common minor holy sights
1 Semi precocious stones imbedded in sacred patterns on floor
2 Semi precocious stones imbedded in statue
3 Pillar or post with relief art and writing, possibly features of a god or beast
4 Shelf in wall with statuette
5 Bust or portrait art with text
6 Sacred fountain
7 Sacred tree or stone
8 Holy Obelisk with relief art
9 Sacred Pit or well
10 Magical Diagrams on floor or wall

Post Shopping Roundup

Been Shopping online and scoring a few products of late. Some to see what the OSR is up to before I start designing my own. Some Cthulhu as my mid era collection has been played too often and even read by some players. Running Cthulhu Britannia game for a while but some time travel could slip in.

The Witch by Timothy Brannan
A bit cheaper now so I had to snarfle this one down. Fits in well with BX and usable with lots of interesting spells. I am still a fan of the one in Dragon with Elmore art but ths one is nice. May be a role for witch in my games. Spells, creatures and magic loot bonanza.

Void Core
Ok but i prefered cthonian stars and cthulhutech and eclipse phaze but this good value very good looking game. The fiction interludes dont do it for me.

Tomb of Rakoss the Undying
Another cheap adventure the entrance is pretty cool. As a sampler for a ompany it does a good job of providing a taste,

The Manor 1-4
Good clean zine fun that makes me wanna get zine going. Have thought of a A5 book of hexes for hexcrawls myself. Mini adventures feel understated (meant to be a compliment) and can be fitted in anywhere easily.

Ruins of the Undercity
This is similar to my own redbrick dungeon zone project and im glad i didnt see it earlier. Pretty good and has given me ideas. Made me realize some of my random table stuff good for solo crawling. Tried solo Psychon hex crawling after reading this.

Protodimension no16
Online horror game magazine free here. Fairly nice production standards but has not sucked me in enough to get rest yet.

Cess Pit of the bog mother
 A short oldschool module with lotsa treasure (id cut a zero off most rewards in game). Cheap oldschool fun and playable in one go. Once again Im temped to make a 12 page oldschool 2 colour module


Frontier Explorer and Star Frotiersman
Great mag for star frontiers which i am still fond of and still follow. I steal from many SF games but this one was pretty good in its day - fast and simple compared to traveller and space master. Lotsa ideas to steal. Links in titles of mags above.

Mongoose RQ Empires
Mongoose RQ stuff easy to get now even my gameshop has books cheap (i may grab clanking city). The basic mechanic of stats for empires fails for me. Id rather try plot it on civilization or use a 70s wargame. Has some ideas but at one dollar i cant complain.

Book of Quests for RQ6
A new RQ world with runes and chaos which they have needed. A little bit dull compared to questworld or glorantha. This is a big book with lots of content which could take months of play. Too big to digest but seems good quality. I will try more RQ6 stuff.

Basic Arcana
Looked appealing but i have done most of this stuff myself as have peers on blogger. Still its cheap and has some ideas.

Anomalous subsurface environment 1&2
I might have mentioned this before but this is best modules i have ever read. Actually the setting is more interesting and would fit in Psychon without much effort (id be willing to wing it). Maybe Im just scared of clowns and should go with the evil bastards. I live in a house split among clown lovers and haters. This causes problems.

Talisainia
Great stuff from 80s and beyond all free here - months of reading the world with no elves!

Machete Girl Magazine
Free here proclaimed cyberpunk magazine - aint exactly mondo2000 and seems more about rave freaks - not a gamer product intentionally

Liberation_of_the_Demon_Slayer
One of best yet - table for unhappy backgrounds is great, interesting setting, would work on my Psychon setting too. This feels more like a deliberate new wave oldschool adventure and not just a clone product. I hope to see more. Adult subject matter appreciated too.


BRP Mecha
 Pretty good stuff - feels a bit strapped on but simple and walkable. I like it - well designed and might be able to use for cthulhu mecha sf fun. Cthulhu king of Kaiju here I come with a tac-nuke for you!


Call of Cthulhu Britania Folklore
Decided im gonna get cubicle7 cthulhu britain books. This one has stats and ideas for any BRP horror or fantasy game with lots stats on folklore beasties. Very well done. Also another company done adventures set in new york, i think by the lovecraft county guys so i should get it.

Atomic Age Cthulhu
Has not set me on fire really. some art flawed and would like world book section in front like most time setting books. To be fair I need to try harder to like this book. Gurps atomic horror seemed easier to love and fun. I would rather have seen more 50 dover book copyright free images than illustrations that seem modern and slightly unintentionally humorous.

Terror in the skies
Another Cthulhu book im having trouble loving. Id like to see more less complicated plots and crypt crawls like 80s adventures. Investigative games I find more linear and many end with a discovery followed by helplessness. BRP stuff seems very inconsistent in layouts nowadays. New gaslight looks better than original - most fould detailed old version Sherlock Holmes adventure daunting.

Other BRP Stuff
Will get pulp book. Was tempted by Amber coast book but i cant help but choke on glorifying invading my ancestors. For some reason I no longer want to play crusaders, samurai or nazi ss deathcamp guards. New BRP fantasy world book looked tempting but it is basically old school stormbringer system and I think I could do better myself. Fonts seem bigger and I have spotted typos which a dyslexic person notices then you editing is flawed. Iceland and Rome stuff all looks good. I was put off by roman cthulhu by the back story about gods which just didn't seem very Lovecraftian (but blavatsky maybe). Viking monographs for cthulhu dark ages look good. Cthulhu vikings looks viable. BRP Clasic fantasy quite good shame chaosium went another direction but I hear author will do a new product elsewhere. Good mash up of dnd and RQ.

Some of these things just made me think i need to publish more stuff faster.

Psychon Game Play

So have had several short sessions of Planet Psychon and some interesting characters created.

Conan generated Moritasgus a emarald skinned punk haired druid wearing living plant mail coat and expert with the spear. Moth antenna, 4 didgits in limbs and was raised by serpent men who grew him in a lab before escaping. Skilled in druidy things, making fetishes and blocking arrows. Has a pet wolf 9 foot long, crimson hair, webbed toes and a unicorn horn. Has nuetralize disease gum too.

Steve playing a Rigg, a Morlock with tangerine skin, no hair, 4 didgits and horns. Was raised in underground hell of Wallmar, an ancient warehouse bargain mart. Was driven out when discovered the managers were a corrupt priesthood. Has firearms skills and a flintlock pistol and is conversant in energy weapon theory, machines and traps. Has a pet Eldren food beast and likes to eat raw uncooked kills. Ha a disposable laser, some gems and wears a hero harness and greaves. Has water breathing pills.

Andz Playing Filgree, a falcon beast man with steel grey feathers and a stinging insect tail. Spear master with additional critical chances. Also javelin user and able to enter a battle frenzy. An able survivor, tracker and very alert. Raised on a flying citadel that raided various hexes but he was abandoned on a raid and is now lost. Has a scarlet tween goblin valet. Has a water breathing pill.

Rod playing Swiliar a Eldren with sorcerous majik, with cyan skin, long lime green hair only 4'6. Forked toungue, cat eyes and spectacular genitalia. Has many animal languages and is ver alert. His family terraformed while he was absent an\d dont know who is so he has left looking for a new home. Has a smartphone and some magic strength boosting weed and a pipe.

Polli ha a rogue with green and yellow spotted skin, seven digits, two smaller arms and a long toungue. A classic thieving cowardly bastard with two weapon fighting. Raised by mutants in the wasteland before joining a citadel gang. 


Matt has Targer a Eldren sorcerer raisd by high altitude air nomad clan who follow AI named ASLAN. All Eldren of his clan have orange skin, leonine mane, a tail and pointy teeth. Has no combat skills as their god edited out all the violence from their monitor scans of the surface world. . Has holy water, a jewel that enhances saves and plays the Harp.

Ive been running them in the nicest hex i generated: Goldfang Gulch. Scarlet goblins enslave green kobolds and keep cyan trolls in stocks as food. The scarlet citadel houses a goblin market. Goblin warrior knights and witches rule and the are pretty happy bunch. They do worship the old ones but only so they dont get eaten. Treasure of the old ones and ancient empires are found laying about here attracting adventurers. What they dont tell you is mimics and shoggoths abound. Giant green cyclopses, cyan trolls, mi-go, gnop-keh and lions are found also. Goblin hunters are friendly but goblin knights keep demanding one on one combat. Witches are healers but also looking for sacrifices and offering food and treasure to young men to draw them near.

Party met in goblin mart and a witch for cash told them a god sent them here to prepare them for destiny. Party cross crystal desert under a yellow sky till reached lapis megalith plain. Attacked by a magenta shoggoth and cooked and ate some of it. Characters also at this point rolled blood colour and what they taste like. Swiliar the Eldren tasted like old sweat so the Morlock lost interest in eating him.  Captured a troll too. In shoggoth lair was 3 crystal lids over wells, one open.  Inside was a green stone with green cthonic text about fish men. Two shoggoths attacked and party killed them then used stone to summon a fish man. Druid spoke fish to creature who was obligated through treaty to serve one day a month. Two more summoning stone found. Found another vault and killed 3 more shoggoths and got some more stuff. Mostly gems and fish man gold but Swilar found a arm band (a tentacle ring for big creature). Tried concentrating on Filgre the hawkmans sidekick who fell into a coma. Swilar could her goblins thoughts inside his mind.

"Hello I cant see, where are my legs. hello?"

Swilar now has goblin lore and read goblin.

"when does it wear off?"

"Never, and has 3 more charges".

Filgree a bit miffed his punching bag harmed and carried lil fellers coma brain dead corpse away.

Good to be using my months of bonkers sandbox prep at last.

Gamelog: Cthulhu 1490 finish for a while

Cthulhu 1490 ended tonight (for a while) as heroes attacked castle of the apocalypse.

Research revealed castle built by cultist Barron a hundred years ago before being burned at stake. Family remained low profile since. Alchemical supplies in area bought up in huge amounts. A holy hermit alchemist gave them 6 holy purification potions as he had a dream telling him so. Considered wasting area with a god but decided more conventional plan - aerial bombardment and gunpowder.

Brought army in to block road. By night elite crossbowmen and sappers crept in to position putting smoke potions on air vents to dungeon and demolition charges on walls. Party wizards on star vampire dropped bombs and castle burning and ruined with smoke driving out inhabitants who were killed by elite knights. Sounds of dragon roar came out and dragon flew out killing several knights. Magic fog swept over land and archers and knights sniped from hit and run positions. Party entered and found giant alchemical apparatus dragon made in. Then battle huge demonic form immortal Barron. Only cor the pagan could harm it with his enchanted axe. Harri trapped a holy potion over a door and burned the demon but he realized quickly he could not harm it. Cor threw a potion at it and Harri helped block it's blows from striking Cor. Cor's axe almost broke. Outside the dragon almost killed a crossbowman by sweeping its tail through the fog shrouded battlefield. Several crossbowmen lucked out and hurt the dragons eye and it fled. The wizard knight brothers on star vampires chased it and tried to irritate its wounded eye more. Finally they struck it with holy potions and recharged serpent man death rays and it crashed into the mountainside dead. Inside Cor was struck twice while harry fetched the last holy potion and the two heroes slew the demon lord.

The wizard brothers joined the inquisition. The pagans went to live in the forest with elves, werewolves and wild hairy folk. Some talk of cannibalistic rituals of immortality. Serpent man in priest form fled to Briton to meet a clan of its own kind it contacted. Will run again but happy to retire most of these characters. Will be running green and pleasant land and cubicle7 Cthulhu Britannia stuff for a bit then some sf then back to 1490 later.

Death Throws

Me inflicting over 200 damage with 64 d6 explosion from 18 alchemist fire bombs. I was in the centre, playing Mongo the 3rd level dwarf. Mongo was dying from mummy rot anyway. My biggest DnD damage ever, most awesome suicide i ever had in DnD. I left without knowing if it made a difference. I suspect the monster didn't feel it.