d100 skeletons (and a place)

The Necropolis Lond: a massive cemetery. Crooked stacks of caskets teeter between sprawling mausoleums where they are dug up by skeleton chain gangs overseen by undead bureaucrats to make room for new tombs.

Everything is busy, everything is complicated, no one is exactly in charge. Here are some skeletons.

1. Skeleton wielding greataxe
2. Skeleton wielding shortbow
3. Skeleton wielding elven saber
4. Skeleton wielding crackling trident
5. Skeleton wielding oversized shears
6. Skeleton wielding miner’s pick
7. Skeleton wielding glowing red brand
8. Skeleton wielding rib-turned-boomerang
9. Skeleton wielding pitchfork
10. Skeleton wielding crude bone spear
11. Skeleton wielding own arm as a club
12. Skeleton wielding big rock
13. Skeleton wielding broken hilt
14. Skeleton wearing spiked helm
15. Skeleton wearing magic shield on back
16. Skeleton wearing ancient buckler
17. Skeleton wearing new-ish platemail, punctured over heart
18. Skeleton wearing rusty ringmail
19. Skeleton wearing moldy leather armor
20. Skeleton wearing wedding dress
21. Skeleton wearing pristine burial shroud
22. Skeleton wearing fine red sash
23. Skeleton wearing dirty peasant clothes
24. Skeleton wearing charred northmen clothes
25. Skeleton wearing dusty tuxedo
26. Skeleton with large coins in eye sockets
27. Skeleton with gallows hood and noose around neck
28. Skeleton wearing barrel over upper body
29. Skeleton with wooden slats nailed to bones 
30. Skeleton wearing magical black crown
31. Skeleton wearing huge metal collar, trailing chain
32. Skeleton wearing full facemask of a big eye
33. Skeleton wearing ancient looking tabard of an unheard-of empire
34. Skeleton covered in sewage
35. Skeleton covered in green slime
36. Skeleton covered in tar
37. Skeleton covered in wax
38. Skeleton covered in embers & ash
39. Skeleton covered in barnacles
40. Skeleton covered in clay (mistaken for a golem)
41. One armed skeleton
42. Skeleton with one leg missing, moves around on all threes
43. Skull with vertebrae like a snake
44. Skeleton with no head
45. Skeleton with crutch, one leg is shattered
46. Skinny skeleton with no ribs
47. Skeleton constantly dropping at least one bone
48. Skeleton with skull sliced horizontally through eyes, top moans in the wind
49. Scuttling hand poking out of a skull mouth like a hermit crab
50. Floating skull, loose bones orbit
51. Skeleton draped with thin silver chain
52. Skeleton painted red
53. Skeleton with gilded bones
54. Skeleton painted like a sugar skull
55. Skeleton with dangling chimes and tiny bells
56. Skeleton with scrimshawed map on bones
57. Skeleton with jade bones
58. Skeleton with charcoal bones
59. Skeleton with rubbery bones
60. Skeleton with crusty salt bones (avoids damp)
61. Radioactive gray skeleton
62. Cyclops skeleton
63. Iguana-man skeleton
64. Owlbear skeleton
65. Heron skeleton
66. Narwhal-man skeleton
67. Bat-ling skeleton
68. Rhino-man skeleton
69. Skeleton with a crocodile head for an arm
70. Stag-headed skeleton
71. Skeleton horse and rider, heads swapped
72. Skeleton with freaky snaking neck
73. Weird skeletal rat king in humanoid shape
74. Skeleton with fossil head - something Pre-Cambrian
75. Humanoid mass of animal skulls
76. At least ten skeletons packed into a cage
77. Three skeletons chained together
78. Giant ball of skulls
79. Two skeletons carrying coffin
80. Pile of broken bones, moves like a slug
81. A skeleton with its head stuck in another’s torso, like a pantomime horse
82. Skeleton with bastard sword through chest
83. Skeleton with raven chillin in ribcage
84. Skeleton with trail of gunpowder leaking from skull
85. Skeleton with magic arrow wedged in eye
86. Skeleton embedded with magical metal shrapnel
87. Skeleton with embarrassing personal object in an awkward position
88. Skeleton with oak sapling sprouting from nose holes
89. Skeleton with wasp nest attached to shoulder
90. Skeleton with ruby laser eye
91. Skeleton riding a floating mammoth skull
92. Skeleton with bulky frankenstein arm grafted on
93. Skeleton with animated shadow that whispers secrets
94. Skeleton with one leg replaced with wizard staff
95. Skeleton apparently animated by clockwork
96. Skeleton with purple hat and wand of magic missile
97. Skeleton with candles stuck to it in a pentagram, four are lit
98. Skeleton with arcane bomb in chest, explodes on death
99. Skeleton surrounded by haze of choking black dust
100. Skeleton with holy symbol burned into skull

Flailsnails tips

So if you are relatively new to this whole old school thing (like me) but want in on that flail snailing goodness, here's how I do it:

1) roll 3d6 seven times (STR CON DEX INT WIS CHA & GP). If you want to live life in easy mode roll you can assign them how you like, otherwise swap two.

2) Pick your class. The basics in Labyrinth Lord or Jeff's Random Classes or the big ol FRACAS put together by Daniel Dean. If you want to get fancy you can use one of Skerples’ Races (there are some fun ones).

3) Roll for spells of you're a caster and buy some equipment (again, Labyrinth Lord or BECMI or whatever) and make sure you have the dungeon crawling basics. That 3d6 for gold gets timesed by ten so you got some spending money.

4) If you're making this for a particular game, keeping in touch with your other players so you're on the same page (i.e. not having all MUs etc).

5) Have fun~~~

the industrial dungeon

 

For industrial ruins, dvargir mines, Into the Odd, etc. 

Roll d100 twice per room (or click)

1. Cave in
2. Poisonous ore pile
3. Rubble/ collapse
4. Flooded room
5. Verminous corpse
6. Kitchen/ pantry
7. Vertical shaft, breeze
8. Alarm system alerts room to the SW
9. Rail track
10. Pipes
11. Levers for nearby room
12. Rail track
13. Ventilation shaft
14. Monument
15. Oddity
16. Weird physics
17. Cave in
18. Office: Records, paperwork etc
19. Peaceful or pitiful NPC
20. Flame hazard
21. Trap cuts of entrance
22. Monster eggs
23. Vertical shaft
24. Arsenal
25. Oddity
26. Containment barricade
27. Rail track
28. Corpses
29. Suspended cage, prisoner
30. Pipes
31. Stairs up
32. Weird physics
33. Mine face
34. Crawlway to SE-most room
35. Uncut cave
36. Leaky pipes, water on walls
37. Fungal infestation
38. Rail track
39. Bad engine, smoky & loud
40. Borehole downwards
41. Laboratory
42. Holding cell
43. Stored explosives
44. Fresh corpses
45. Ramp
46. Wide pipe to NE-most room
47. Mine face
48. Ore vein exposed
49. Flame hazard
50. Borer
51. Dried/rotten corpses
52. Pipes
53. Tool lockers
54. Walls carved with writing
55. Elevator
56. Radio receiver
57. Pictures of former residents
58. Huge pulley wheel
59. Ventilation shaft
60. Oddity
61. Water pump, dries area
62. Bunk room
63. Ranged foe above
64. Useful but ridiculously large machine
65. Library
66. Underground river
67. Tomb
68. Pantry
69. Hidden exit to surface
70. Underground river
71. Disassembled machine
72. Fragile/ sensitive noisemakers
73. Overlarge monster
74. Mine face
75. Automaton workers
76. Crawlway to north-most room
77. Inactive conveyor belt
78. Hidden floor rot
79. Tool lockers
80. Gate or portcullis
81. Pipes
82. Bunker
83. Pipes, steam hazard
84. Water pump
85. Enormous drill, functional
86. Crisscrossing catwalks
87. Choking coal dust clouds
88. Underground river
89. Canteen
90. Hole downward, bridge
91. Security checkpoint
92. Mine face
93. Sewage pipe
94. Oddity
95. Confusing crawlspace
96. Uncut cave
97. Refined substance
98. Partial map
99. Winch operated chasm ferry
100. All exits >50ft off floor

my god! there's something in the ice!

give me a hand! I think we can get it out…

1 - some fleshy plasm reaching out of a metal barrel (as gibbering mouther)

2 - a dead girl, perfectly preserved (got lost in the cold and died. Her family will be looking for someone to blame)

3 - a sinuous insectile worm (rhemoraz)

4 - ancient man (weeps for a life he will never see again, never gets references. If things get violent he is some kind of super soldier and only primitive weapons work on him)

5 - a body with withered but still green leaves in its mouth (ancient fern, releases sand sized seeds if disturbed. Anyone breathing them saves vs poison or grows own fertile sprouts from mouth & eyes, suffocates)

6 - something big and hairy with too-big teeth (a saber tooth or giant warthog)

7 - something big and metallic (sealed submersible or starship. Crew dead from starvation. Journals & advanced/anachronistic weapons)

8 - mummified eunuch (animates of course)

when they ask to research the dungeon

Maybe the librarians can help them out. This is half rumor table, half dungeon generator.

SCHOLARS FIND AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY:

1. An agent of a foreign empire that claimed dominion over the ruins, like Napoleon in Egypt. Inconsiderate and condescending. Mostly describes FLASHY ARTIFACTS that would be good displays.
2. A conqueror’s enslaved scribe. Reluctant and fatalistic in the face of this culture’s destruction by his overlord. Notes LAYOUT AND DEFENSES, claiming their futility.
3. The charismatic leader of a cargo cult. Zealous; earnestly claims rights as the builders’ true heirs. Focused on the trappings of builder culture to reinforce own legitimacy (mostly religion and technology: MAGIC, ARMS & ARMOR, SYMBOLS)
4. A romanticizing poet writing centuries later. Attempts to use report to further ‘noble savage’ or golden age ideology, focusing on EVIDENCES OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES.
5. A census taker during reign of a prosperous kingdom. Dispassionate and businesslike, mostly just lists. Notes population and amount of taxable goods (TREASURE AND ANIMALS).
6. A sensationalist archeologist, tampering with the findings to win further support. Bombastic clickbait. Describes ALL KEY PARTS of the dungeon but is only correct 50% of time.

THE BUILDERS WERE UNDERGROUND TO:

1. Hide from the sun (biological reason)
2. Hide from surface weather (biological reason)
3. Hide from a particular person (social reason)
4. Hide from an enemy group (tactical reason)
5. Mine (resources)
6. Farm (resources)
7. Conceal an item (burying)
8. Contain a powerful being (imprisonment)
9. Research (observing)
10. (roll twice; unclear or contradictory reasons)

NEW OCCUPANTS HAVE TAKEN AN INTEREST IN:

1. Some sort of technical bow
2. A jade eyepiece
3. An imprisoned catastrophe
4. Ancient aged wine
5. An automatonic knight
6. Information on the Jabberwock
7. A stashed supply of gethre
8. Old, heretical version of current holy symbol
9. A powerful weapon like a cannon
10. A black mirror
11. A poisonous (radioactive) ore
12. An immortal coelacanth/aboleth
13. Orichalc burial armor
14. A mass grave
15. Rare Emperor’s Crown Mushrooms
16. A magnet with the strength to levitate metal
17. Golden oracular skull
18. A hand of glory
19. A bath that reincarnates, but leaves the user with no memory
20. A sword that reflects death magic

encounters in the moraines

terminal moraine

d10	terrain	NPC	verb	creature	treasure
1	Flat Ice. Slippery.	Gray haired ear collector	studying	White Elf ronin	2d10 deer hides
2	Deep powder between buried pines	Volsung hermit & angel-gull	searching for	White Elf witch & 1d4 thralls	Dwarven glass bead chain
3	Steep, scree-covered slope.	2 Jormund scouts	ignoring	Territorial Ibex	2d20 elven silver sequins
4	Wide, shallow melt stream. Dripping icicles	Void Witch in Throne of Vecna	hunting	Yeti Ascetic	1d3 portions Warding Salts
5	Bare stone peak, elf-tomb doorways (see ELF-TOMBS)	d6 lowland tomb-breaker	wandering towards	Yeti Ascetic	Inscribed elf skull, Bone to Ice
6	Thin snow shelf on sheer rock	Jormund scholar	hiding from	Troll Knight	Silver Gull (worth 500gp to Volsung faithful)
7	Waist-high stunted pines, loose boulders	Volsung lay healer	taming	Lava Baby	Porcelain death mask
8	Crevice in the ice	d6 brigands	defending from	Fanatics of the Giant	Scrimshawed tusk map to elf cache
9	Protruding rock pillar, gravel and ice all around	none	attacking	1d4 Harpies	Rare perfume from Lost Eshkelon (sought by diabolists and witches)
10	Deep clear pond	x2	killed by	x2	Snow satyr pipes (as sleep, Wis save 12)