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