Game Master / Underground Sites / Cave
Cave
What the chamber is (d20)
| d20 | Cave |
|---|
| 1 | Cave mouth, daylight still reaching in |
| 2 | Scree slope under a low roof |
| 3 | Dry gallery with old campfire rings |
| 4 | Bat roost, floor thick with guano |
| 5 | Narrow rift, walls a shoulder apart |
| 6 | Chamber of dripstone curtains |
| 7 | Shelf above a cold draught |
| 8 | Crawlway opening into a round cell |
| 9 | Flowstone terraces, slick underfoot |
| 10 | Chamber of broken stalagmites |
| 11 | Gallery with scratches along one wall |
| 12 | Forked junction with a dead side-pocket |
| 13 | Pool chamber, water black and still |
| 14 | Boulder choke with gaps between the blocks |
| 15 | Chimney going up into the dark |
| 16 | Bone-littered den |
| 17 | Echoing hall where sound carries wrong |
| 18 | Sump: the passage dips under water |
| 19 | Crystal-lined pocket that catches the light |
| 20 | The deep chamber, where the air does not move |
What is in it (d12)
| d12 | Contents |
|---|
| 1 | Nothing but stone and silence |
| 2 | An old bedroll and a cold firepit |
| 3 | Claw marks at head height |
| 4 | A cache of dried meat hung out of reach |
| 5 | Spent brass and a broken lantern |
| 6 | A nest of rags and fur |
| 7 | Painted handprints on the wall |
| 8 | A dead prospector with a full pack |
| 9 | Fresh tracks in the mud |
| 10 | A rope left hanging from above |
| 11 | Bones cracked for marrow |
| 12 | A carved marker pointing deeper |
Who uses it (d8)
| d8 | Occupant | Build the encounter from |
|---|
| 1 | Empty: nothing lives here | — |
| 2 | Empty, but something passes through | — |
| 3 | A predator's den | Animal |
| 4 | A pack that hunts from here | Animal, Magical Beast |
| 5 | Swarming vermin | Vermin |
| 6 | Outlaws lying low | Humanoid |
| 7 | Something that oozed up from below | Ooze |
| 8 | A beast that should not exist | Magical Beast, Aberration |
The heart of the site (d6)
| d6 | What is there |
|---|
| 1 | The lair of what rules this cave |
| 2 | A hidden cache someone meant to come back for |
| 3 | A way through to somewhere else |
| 4 | The remains of the one people came looking for |
| 5 | A spring, a vein or a seam worth claiming |
| 6 | Something old, sealed in before the cave had a name |