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Barrow

What the chamber is (d20)

d20Barrow
1Entrance passage, lintel carved with knotwork
2Blocking stones, pulled aside
3Antechamber with offering niches
4Guardian's alcove
5Side cell with a stone bench
6Chamber of grave goods, long since picked over
7Ship-setting laid in stones on the floor
8Hall of shields, bosses green with age
9Pit of animal bones
10Rune-stone corridor
11Thrall's chamber, plain and cramped
12False chamber built to fool robbers
13Weapon rack, hafts rotted away
14Hearth room, ash still in the ring
15Horse burial
16Sealed door with warning runes
17Treasure cell behind a slab
18Shield-maiden's bier
19Oath-ring altar
20The jarl's chamber, bier at its heart

What is in it (d12)

d12Contents
1Dust and settled earth
2Clay pots, some still sealed
3A rotted chest with iron bands
4Bundled bones in a niche
5A bronze cauldron
6Drinking horns on a rotted table
7A loom-weight and spindle set
8A boar-crested helm on a peg
9Runes cut fresh over old ones
10A robber's corpse with a pry bar
11Folded sailcloth gone to lace
12A game board, pieces mid-play

Who uses it (d8)

d8OccupantBuild the encounter from
1Empty: the dead lie quiet—
2Empty, but the offerings are fresh—
3Grave robbersHumanoid
4Carrion verminVermin
5A restless thrallUndead
6The honoured dead, risenUndead
7A guardian set to watchConstruct, Undead
8A spirit bound by oathUndead, Fey

The heart of the site (d6)

d6What is there
1The jarl's bier and hoard
2An oath that still binds the living
3The blade everyone has heard of
4The wrong body in the right grave
5A draugr that has waited for this
6A second, older burial beneath the first