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Game Master / Underground Sites / Cavern

Cavern

What the chamber is (d20)

d20Cavern
1Great mouth open to the sky
2Rubble cone under a roof-fall
3Vaulted hall, roof lost in the dark
4Forest of columns
5Underground lake shore
6River gorge with a natural bridge
7Terraced floor stepping down
8Hall of fallen blocks the size of wagons
9Balcony ledge over a drop
10Mushroom-grown flat
11Cathedral chamber with a single great pillar
12Sinkhole shaft letting in a shaft of light
13Mud flats that hold footprints
14Waterfall chamber, loud with spray
15Island in a flooded hall
16Gallery of hanging stone spears
17Wind-tunnel throat
18Glittering mineral hall
19Abyssal edge: a drop with no bottom in sight
20The great deep, a hall too wide for any lantern

What is in it (d12)

d12Contents
1Only the sound of dripping
2A rotted boat pulled up on the shore
3A rope bridge, half its planks gone
4Lantern hooks driven into the rock
5A cairn of piled stones
6Blind white fish in the shallows
7A survey party's abandoned camp
8Giant fungus, some of it cut
9A fallen climber's gear
10Drums or bones arranged in a ring
11A stone stair, cut by hands
12A wrecked wagon, how it got here unclear

Who uses it (d8)

d8OccupantBuild the encounter from
1Empty: only echoes—
2Empty, though the mud holds tracks—
3A colony of cave verminVermin
4A territorial great beastMagical Beast, Animal
5Fungus that moves when unwatchedPlant
6People who live down hereHumanoid
7A thing of the deep waterAberration, Ooze
8A wyrm that sleeps on the heightsDragon

The heart of the site (d6)

d6What is there
1A sunken ruin older than the settlers
2The great beast's roost
3A lost expedition's last camp
4A lake with something at the bottom
5A hidden people's meeting ground
6A road that leads further down than anyone has gone