Mine

d20	Mine
1	Adit mouth with a weathered claim post
2	Tool store and lamp room
3	Ore-cart turnaround
4	Timbered drift, props groaning
5	Powder magazine behind a heavy door
6	Shift room with benches and a cold stove
7	Stable for the pit ponies
8	Winze head with a hand windlass
9	Worked-out stope, pillars left standing
10	Ore chute and loading platform
11	Flooded sump with a broken pump
12	Assay bench and sample racks
13	Cross-cut that meets older workings
14	Ventilation raise, air moving
15	Face where the vein pinched out
16	Cave-in, half cleared
17	Hidden side-drift walled off with planks
18	Rich face, the vein bright in the rock
19	Breakthrough into a natural cavity
20	The bottom level, hot and airless

d12	Contents
1	Bare rock and drill holes
2	An overturned ore cart
3	Crates of company stores
4	A dead canary in its cage
5	A crew's lunch pails, left in a hurry
6	Dynamite sweating in its box
7	A ledger and a locked cash tin
8	A wrecked pump engine
9	Picks and shovels stacked neat
10	A chalked warning on the wall
11	A miner's body under a blanket
12	A sealed barrel that sloshes

d8	Occupant	Build the encounter from
1	Empty: abandoned	—
2	Empty, tools still warm	—
3	Claim jumpers working the face	Humanoid
4	Company guards	Humanoid
5	Vermin drawn to the stores	Vermin
6	The dead shift, still at work	Undead
7	A mining machine gone wrong	Construct
8	Something the digging woke	Elemental, Aberration

d6	What is there
1	The mother lode
2	What the company buried and why
3	The trapped shift, alive or not
4	A breakthrough into something that was sealed
5	The claim's real owner
6	The engine that should never have been started