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Animal Burrow

What the chamber is (d20)

d20Animal Burrow
1Burrow mouth, earth worn smooth by passing bodies
2Spoil heap of kicked-out soil and stones
3Low run with roots hanging from the roof
4Bolt-hole chamber with a second, hidden way out
5Sleeping chamber lined with grass and fur
6Larder pocket packed with stored food
7Nursery chamber, warm and close
8Midden pit of bones and droppings
9Crawl so tight it scrapes both shoulders
10Junction of three runs, each one scent-marked
11Collapsed run, fresh earth piled in it
12Root chamber under a great tree
13Wet dip where groundwater seeps in
14Chamber dug into an older cellar or grave
15Run scored deep with claw marks
16Wide hollow where the whole clan gathers
17Lookout pocket near the surface, light through a crack
18Old run, abandoned and dry
19Run that breaks into a natural cave
20The broodmother's den, deepest and widest

What is in it (d12)

d12Contents
1Only packed earth and the smell of musk
2Shed fur and moulted hide
3A hoard of stolen shiny things
4Half-eaten livestock
5A trapper's lost snare, still set
6Gnawed saddle leather and buckles
7Eggs or young, hidden under bedding
8A traveller's bones and torn pack
9Seeds and roots stored in neat piles
10A fresh blood trail leading deeper
11Dropped tools from someone who dug in after them
12Poisoned bait left by a rancher

Who uses it (d8)

d8OccupantBuild the encounter from
1Empty: the burrow is abandoned—
2Empty, but the bedding is still warm—
3A family of burrowing beastsAnimal
4Vermin that took over the runsVermin
5A pack that hunts the surface at nightAnimal, Magical Beast
6A digger grown far too largeMagical Beast
7Trappers or outlaws who moved inHumanoid
8Something that eats the diggersAberration, Magical Beast

The heart of the site (d6)

d6What is there
1The broodmother and her young
2A hoard dragged down from the surface
3The runs that undermine the homestead above
4Someone taken from the surface, still alive
5An Awakened beast that leads the others
6A breach into older workings below