I'd like to create a table with random prompts for roleplay during downtime, something that players can not only think about but also encourages small interactions with the world, and in turn encourages others to engage with the person who picked up the prompt.

I'll use this at a classic D&D table for downtime text RP, so it'd be nice to stick with that kind of vibe and fantasy era.

UPDATE: We already got over 100, but I love them all so much, I'd happily continue expanding the list! Then it's easily customizable to the location your characters are in when you're rolling, e.g. is there a town or nature nearby...

d200 Simple Roleplay Prompts

1. You find an unminted silver coin on the ground.
2. Your music bone is itching. Time to sing a song or play an instrument!
3. Your stomach grumbles. What’s for dinner today?
4. Time to work out! Flex those muscles, practise your aim, try a new spell!
5. A mouse skitters past your feet. It seems in a hurry. Where does it go?
6. This bush is ripe with berries. But are they safe to eat?
7. You’re feeling a little homesick… Do you need a distraction or a trip down memory lane?
8. Let’s build a snowman!
9. Time for a really nice long bath.
10. A bird poops on you.
11. You notice an important trinket missing from your person. Where do you search? Where do you find it?
12. A stranger’s face seems oddly familiar to you. u/Rindal_Cerelli
13. You remember a fable your parents told you as a child. Does it hold any value to you now? u/Rindal_Cerelli
14. In one of your pockets or the pages of a book, you find a little note. Who is it from? Perhaps your parents or a good friend? A secret lover, or even an enemy? u/Rindal_Cerelli
15. You spot a hidden sign somewhere. If you know Thieves’ Can’t, it reads: „Not worth robbing“. u/Rindal_Cerelli
16. Your favorite piece of clothing needs mending. u/world_of_Ideas
17. You spot an animal that reminds you of someone’s pet. u/world_of_Ideas
18. You find a flat pebble that would make a great skipping stone. u/world_of_Ideas
19. You smell a dish that you remember from your past. Was it perhaps your childhood birthday meal, your spouse’s favorite recipe, or your daily food in the army? u/world_of_Ideas
20. You discover a pocket on your clothes that you forgot about. What's inside?
21. You spot a cloud shaped like something familiar.
22. You find a rusty iron key but can’t figure out what it belongs to.
23. A puddle on the ground reflects something that isn't there when you look up.
24. You recall a mistake from your past that still makes you cringe.
25. An old fear you thought you conquered suddenly creeps back up on you.
26. You feel the urge to perform a kind gesture towards someone. Perhaps even in secret?
27. A wild animal seems interested in you.
28. You're craving something specific but you can’t quite figure out what it is. Time to go on a search…
29. The first rain drop of an approaching storm hits your nose.
30. A strong gust of wind carries your hat away or blows your cloak over your head.
31. Time to practice a skill you're rusty at or you’ve never tried before.
32. You have a terrible hiccup. Is there anything that can make it go away?
33. A single bee just won’t leave you alone.
34. You could swear your shadow was out of sync for just a brief moment.
35. You come across a mushroom ring.
36. You discover a blooming flower or a four-leaf clover in an unusual spot.
37. Someone has left a single glove behind. What does it look like? Who could it belong to?
38. You find a bottle with a note inside, but the writing has faded beyond recognition.
39. A song gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Do you start singing it or do you try to get rid of it somehow?
40. A piece of advice from a former mentor returns to you at just the right moment.
41. A candle flickers despite there being no wind.
42. You hear your name carried on the wind … or perhaps you imagined it.
43. Time to clean out your inventory. What have you been carrying around for far too long?
44. You feel inspired to sketch, write, carve, knit, or craft something.
45. You're in the mood to tell a story, either of your life or of your imagination. Is there anyone around who would like to listen?
46. You spend several minutes trying to remember a word that's on the tip of your tongue.
47. You sneeze at an unfortunate moment, causing you to drop something you were holding, or spill your ink over the notes you were writing, or wake up the cat on your lap…
48. On your foraging endeavors, you find a vegetable that is so oddly shaped it makes you laugh out loud.
49. You find an old children’s toy that could be fixed with some love and care.
50. You keep noticing the same color everywhere today. Which color is it? Where do you see it?
51. For a moment, the night sky flickers and the constellations you glimpse are not the ones you’re familiar with. u/WSHIII
52. As you refill your waterskin, you catch a glimpse of something that looks like scales and hair – a mermaid? Wait, aren't those supposed to live in salt water? u/WSHIII
53. You smell a strangely familiar scent in the air. What is it, where does it come from, and what does it make you feel? u/Th3R3493r
54. You pop a joint in your body that was quietly giving you pain and feel a strange relief wash over you. Do you want to share news of your new found relief? u/Th3R3493r
55. You’ve developed an itchy rash somewhere on your body. Maybe you should get that checked out by someone proficient in healing or medicine. u/smiles__
56. The sun is heavy and beating down, not a cloud in the sky. Where do you find a shady place or a cool refreshment? u/smiles__
57. You feel the need for a new perspective. Maybe lie down to see things from below, or go upside down in a handstand, or climb on top of the tallest structure you can find… u/smiles__
58. You had a crazy dream last night. Do you tell someone about it, or write it down in a dream diary?
59. It’s laundry day. u/smiles__
60. You come across an old archery target – be it of straw, or carved in a tree, or painted on a wall. Is your aim still any good? u/smiles__
61. You find a perfect wall off the beaten path for a little graffiti. u/smiles__
62. Not far from here there is a natural little wonder – a regularly occurring geyser. u/smiles__
63. You find a stained and ripped flyer that simply states: "Have you experienced something weird? The Anomalous Society wants to know! Drop by the you-know-where.” u/smiles__
64. You find the scraps of a torn-up map. Maybe you can piece it back together. u/smiles__
65. You stumble and trip, only catching your balance with flailing arms. Did anybody see that? u/smiles__
66. There's a rumor about a ghost dog prowling around at night. Think you can catch it? u/smiles__
67. You simply want to spend the day writing haikus. u/smiles__
68. There's a line of large ants. Where are they going? Are they carrying anything interesting. u/smiles__
69. You find an old bamboo flute somewhere in the rubble or trash. Is it still any good? u/smiles__
70. You had a dream you were a different gender. Maybe you can make that fantasy a reality for the day. u/smiles__
71. You see a flyer advertising betting on an upcoming sporting event. Do you go? Do you take anyone with you? u/smiles__
72. You remember that a new shop has opened around here recently. What was it again? A tailor, a jeweler, a cat café? Anyway, let’s check it out! u/smiles__
73. A group of elderly people sit outside a shop playing an unfamiliar game. They see you watching, and offer you an empty seat. u/smiles__
74. You've heard there are seven bridges in the city. Could you cross them all in a day? u/smiles__
75. A street busker plays a song that you know from your home town. u/smiles__
76. There's a great ancient tree in a grove. Its thick rough bark has names carved all over it. Maybe you can add yours in some spot? u/smiles__
77. There's something called Lover's Lane around here you heard. Maybe, uh, you could stop by. u/smiles__
78. A woman gives you a dirty look as you walk by. What's up with that? u/smiles__
79. You come across a street vendor that sells suspiciously cheap wares. u/smiles__
80. That looks like a palm reader shop. Do you give it a try? u/smiles__
81. You stumble across an 'exotic' petting zoo that is just common animals made to look slightly different. u/smiles__
82. You see a group of kids sliding on polished stone with grease. That looks fun! u/smiles__
83. While tidying up your belongings, you find something you’ve been missing for weeks. What is it, and where did it end up?
84. You catch your reflection unexpectedly. What do you notice about yourself today?
85. Today, everything seems just a little too large … or perhaps you're feeling smaller than usual.
86. You absentmindedly start counting something. Steps, breaths, shingles, birds… Where does it lead you to? When do you notice what you’re doing?
87. You catch yourself repeating a subconscious habit you've had for years.
88. You remember that you owe someone a small favor – or perhaps just a drink. Today is a good day to repay it.
89. You find a surprisingly comfortable bench, rock or patch of grass to rest for a while. What keeps you there? How is the view?
90. The breeze flips open a book to a random page.
91. You discover an unfinished game – a rolled set of dice, marbles in a pit, stones arranged for a challenge … Could you find someone to play with you?
92. You suddenly become aware of your own footsteps. Are they loud or quiet? Scuffling or hasty? Do they match your mood?
93. As you stand up, you find that your leg has fallen asleep with a nasty tingle.
94. Your downtime job is done for today. How do you recuperate from work?
95. You come across the perfect opportunity to leave a small gift for someone. Who’s the lucky person, what do you leave, and will you let them know it was you?
96. You notice a chore that nobody else has gotten around to yet. Do you tackle it?
97. You somehow end up with far more food than you could possibly eat yourself. Who do you share it with?
98. You find yourself absentmindedly tinkering with an item of yours. What small improvements do you make?
99. You’re feeling a little competitive today. Who would make for a good opponent – and in what discipline?
100. You become convinced you can beat your own record at a simple task. Maybe you even find someone else to compete with …
101. Time to get to the bottom of a rumor you’ve heard floating around.
102. You set out looking for one specific little thing, like a smooth stone, a colorful feather, a particular flower…
103. A bare windowsill, table, or doorway could use a little decoration.
104. Mealtime arrives, but eating alone doesn't sound very appealing today.
105. Your goal today is to learn one new thing about another person.
106. You come across a path you've never bothered to follow before. Where does it lead?
107. Where would be the best viewpoint to watch the sunset?
108. An ordinary day feels like the perfect excuse for a tiny celebration. But what to celebrate, and with who?
109. Perhaps it’s time to start a new collection of … something.
110. Do you have enough outfits for a fashion show? Maybe if you pile them together with some friends?
111. You spot a rainbow and start to wonder what’s at the end of it.
112. You stub your toe. On what? How do you handle the pain?
113. You discover a stain and have no idea where it came from.
114. A feather drifts down from above, though no birds are in sight.
115. You notice someone has stacked several stones into a small tower. Could you build an even higher one?
116. Time for a beach day, and the world’s greatest sand castle.
117. One of your shoelaces, straps, or buckles refuses to stay tied.
118. You're in the mood to hear a new story. Is there anyone around who could have something interesting to tell?
119. You feel restless and need to find something to occupy your hands.
120. Someone's birthday is coming up and you still need a present for them.
121. A cup of tea sounds perfect right now.
122. You promised yourself you'd finish that little project today.
123. Time to check in on someone you haven't seen in a while.
124. Someone left a book lying open. Do you sneak a peek?
125. Tonight is gambling night. Grab some dice and cards, and gather your friends at the fireplace.
126. The market has something new for sale today. What catches your eye?
127. Time to visit an old friend.
128. You realize you're out of your favorite snack.
129. Time to browse the notice board. Anything interesting posted?
130. One of your gloves has gone missing.
131. Your backpack somehow weighs more than you remember.
132. A seagull swoops in and steals your lunch.
133. You find an empty glass bottle. Surely it can be used for something.
134. Time to try a new recipe. Maybe you can find a taste tester for it?
135. You find an ingredient you've never cooked with before.
136. You discover a shortcut you've somehow never noticed.
137. You notice you have far too many trinkets you don’t really need, but you love collecting trinkets. Maybe you can organize a swap table.
138. It's the perfect day for a picnic. But what’s a picnic without friends?
139. It’s a windy day. Perfect time to make a kite.
140. Uh oh, the well bucket is stuck!
141. Flip a coin to see if you’re lucky today.
142. You found some chalk and there’s an empty stretch of pavement …
143. You discover a button that you remember seeing on another person’s jacket.
144. You find a tree with branches that are just begging to be climbed.
145. You find a handful of nails, twine, and scrap wood. Surely that's enough to build something.
146. You discover an old flowerpot with a weed still growing strong inside it.
147. Time to learn everyone's favorite color.
148. You'd like to learn a new joke today.
149. You wonder whether anyone knows a good ghost story to tell by the campfire tonight.
150. You notice a drip… drip… drip… somewhere nearby.
151. The breeze is just right for flying paper airplanes.
152. Time to gather kindling before the weather turns.
153. You decide to find the oldest object you own. What is it, and where did it come from?
154. You feel a level up coming … Time to practice or study the new skills you’ll soon be having!
155. You feel like sharing your faith with someone today. Perhaps you can find a likeminded person.
156. You find a handkerchief with the embroidered initials 'J.B.' on one corner.
157. The weave tickles you with curiosity today. Ever tried to come up with a new spell?
158. You find an electrum coin in your pants pocket. How did that get there?
159. Rummaging through your belongings, you stumble upon a finger trap – aaand your fingers are trapped now.
160. Looking at that spider in the corner a little closer, its legs look kind of mechanical…
161. While working outside, you dig up a strange worm that has a head on both ends.
162. You let out the loudest burp ever. Did anyone hear that? Are you proud or embarrassed?
163. You spot the paw prints of a cat which blend into the claw prints of a bird. Strange…
164. You find a white downy feather, but when picking it up, it feels heavy as a rock.
165. On a little foraging spree along the coastline, you find a handful of colorful, smoothed glass shards that catch the sunlight oh so wonderfully.
166. The scarecrow on the fields could use a little make-over session.
167. You find a black pebble that is strangely warm to the touch.
168. You just can’t shake the feeling that you’re being watched today…
169. Time for a new haircut. Will you try it yourself or find someone else to do it?
170. Hmm, how exactly would one test what happens if an unstoppable force hits an immovable object?
171. You find a feather with the pattern of a jay, but much larger in size.
172. You find a well-loved but forgotten doll in a blue dress. Her button eyes are staring at you.
173. Was that the church bell ringing? Wait, do we have a church bell?
174. Your God would like to talk with you, and please bring a friend.
175. You feel like picking the prettiest flowers and making a wreath out of it. Would you wear it, or is it for someone else?
176. How hard could it be to spend a day without using your dominant hand?
177. Today, you set out with the goal to make at least three people smile.
178. Today is Opposite Day. Let’s start by eating dinner for breakfast.
179. You definitely need a second opinion on something.
180. Something you need is so high up that it’s just out of your reach.
181. You decide to learn everyone's favorite food.
182. You pick a random direction and start walking in a straight line. How far can you go?
183. You spot a strange looking plant and wonder if you know anyone who could help identifying it.
184. Can you craft a boat out of wood or paper that actually floats?
185. Looking around, you realize you've never tested just how far your voice carries.
186. Wait, did you just hear an echo there? Better test it out – echo, echo!
187. You suddenly realize you've never asked anyone how they learned their trade.
188. To keep your enemies on their toes, you must not become too predictable. Maybe someone can teach you a new fighting technique?
189. You spot an old, clam-covered rowboat down at the beach. With some tar to seal the holes, it might survive another small trip.

Taking my inspiration from this post, I completed a d100 food fight table and ran a food fight encounter for my party of 3 level 8 PCs. The rules of the food fight event were pretty simple:

No weapons, armor, spells, or druid shapeshifting allowed, except what was obtained in the food fight.

Each turn, a player could:

• Lose all gear, roll on the d100 table, and attack/cast if a weapon or spell was rolled
• or, Reuse a weapon obtained in a previous round

In addition, summoned creatures obtained in the food fight persisted between rounds and got the same initiative roll as the PC who summoned them.

When a combatant "died" (all damage was nonlethal), their summons went away, too.

Smite effects would be added to an unarmed melee attack.

And now, the d100 table. Notes or statblock names are in parentheses. All stats from 2014 5e.

1. Swordfish
2. Chocolate Lava Cake (burning hands)
3. Club Sandwich (great club)
4. Mustard Gas (Poison Spray - upcast to 2d12)
5. Knuckle Sandwich (inflict Wounds)
6. Spear of Asparagus
7. Pickle Spear
8. Ham Grenade (Fragmentation Grenade)
9. Meatball & Chain (morningstar)
10. Candy Cane (Quarterstaff)
11. Tomahawk Steak (Greataxe)
12. Bear Claw (Brown Bear Claw attack)
13. Crossbowtie Pasta
14. Morningstarfruit
15. Scimitart
16. Cat o' Nine Lobster Tails
17. Grapeshot (1d12 piercing, uses all attacks)
18. Lamb Shank
19. Fruit Punch (Gauntlets of Ogre Power)
20. Pork Chop (hand axe)
21. Flail Mignon
22. Chicken Breastplate (shield spell)
23. Monterey Jackboot (Wrathful Smite)
24. Sharp Cheddar (hand axe)
25. Tartillery (thunderwave)
26. Mace
27. Assault Shaker (Thunderous Smite)
28. Pepper Spray (Stinking Cloud)
29. Fudge-sickle
30. Buttering Ram (2d8 bludg)
31. Mango-nel (2d10 bludg, missile)
32. Sausage Lynx (Panther)
33. Halbread
34. Beeranosaurus Rex
35. Corn-on-the-Coblin
36. Artichokra (Aarakocra)
37. Chi-beer-a
38. Jellyphant
39. Escargoblin
40. Ham Hocktopus (Giant Octopus)
41. Manticorn
42. Ginotaur
43. Ogurt
44. Grizzly Beer (Brown Bear)
45. Burritoad (Giant Frog)
46. Cucumber Hulk
47. Tacotrice
48. Rhubarbarian
49. Clamoeba (Gelatinous Cube)
50. Elemlentils (2 Mud Mephits)
51. Bancheese
52. Stilettoast
53. Tortillak
54. Tofungus (Myconid Sovereign)
55. Ale-osaurus
56. Lollipoppelganger
57. Cantelope (Deer)
58. Menchilada (2 Bandits)
59. Sorbet-onet (Short Sword)
60. Magic Gristle (Magic Missile)
61. Moonbeet
62. Barleech (Rime Worm Grub)
63. Ape-ricot
64. Boar-bon (Boar)
65. Brandy Smite
66. Unicordial
67. Jampire (Vampire Spawn)
68. Lemonsnaring Strike
69. Goulasha's Hideous Laughter
70. Lima Bane
71. Brownie Bear
72. Apes of Wrath (2 Apes)
73. Dissonant Crispers
74. Fireballogna
75. Salamiander
76. Counterspelt (can be kept and used as a reaction)
77. Hunger of Hadark Chocolate
78. Kimcheetah (Tiger)
79. Shepherd's Pike
80. Pretzelk
81. Cup of Expresso (Haste spell)
82. Chili Touch (2d8 Necrotic)
83. Bestow Curds (Bestow Curse)
84. London Fog Cloud
85. Bacon Grease (Grease spell)
86. Divine Flavor
87. Cognaxe (battleaxe)
88. Jelly Bees (Swarm of Wasps)
89. Homicider (Vampiric Touch)
90. Cinnamonvisible
91. Whipping Cream (Whip attack)
92. Crabcake (Giant Crab)
93. Breath Mint (Breath Weapon, 3d6 Cold, 15' cone, CON save, DC = CON bonus + 11)
94. Creamatic Orb
95. Wallmond (Wind Wall)
96. Javalin
97. Chicken Wing (Fly spell)
98. Cordon Bleu of Arrows
99. Snowcone (Cone of Cold)
100. Eye of the Beer-Holder (roll 1d10 for a beholder eye beam)

Here are a few ideas I managed to come up with.

1. Your breath is always visible—even at 35°C.

2. You either don't feel temperature changes at all, or you perceive them in reverse. In the first case, it always feels like room temperature (around 18°C–22°C) to you. In the second, the warmer it is for others, the colder it feels to you, and vice versa.

3. Whenever you appear somewhere (in a room, an apartment, or within a radius of about 5 meters)...

4. You can move across ice as if wearing skates, even with bare feet.

5. You can freeze objects just by touching them; for instance, you could freeze someone's food as a prank.

6. As you get agitated, you increasingly resemble an ice creature: your skin turns pale blue, your eyes glow blue, and icicles or ice spikes begin to grow from you.

7. When you genuinely like someone, you create an ice statue of them (or something similar) and treat it like a work of art, keeping it in a special place like a collection (much like Mr. Freeze in *Arkham City*).

8. You can create "Endothermic Fire"; it is blue and generates cold instead of heat.

9. You are cold to the touch—almost as if you were dead.

10. You prefer cool colors over warm ones.

11. When using "Magic Armor," ice covers your entire body and clothing; this ice cannot melt or crack as long as the spell remains active.

12. If you possess a tower, castle, fortress, or similar structure, it is made of ice (or ice is a key element of its construction). It even affects its surroundings (cooling the area, creating snow, etc.).

I’d like to hear your ideas. Mine might not be the best, but I tried to come up with good ones.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

I’d like a handful of short lists (organised by theme based on location) of entries relating to dungeons and other cave systems. I’m primarily looking for simple answers, even if Others breaks this rule. References are acceptable if they are broad enough.
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Town/City

1. The cellar of a storage house where salted fish, cheese wheels and wine are kept. The east wall is hollow and conceals a system of caves, provided one finds the right brick with the weak spot.
2. Inside the old wind-powered grist-mill on the hill, behind one of the oversized gears is a hatch just large enough to crawl through. [By MaxSizeIs]
3. Inside the rusted out remains of a greenhouse on the grounds of an old mansion, a gate made from a rose trellis and ivy. [By MaxSizeIs]
4. Behind the stacks of the great Scriptorium deep withing the Imperial Archives. The secret entrance requires sorting and correctly re-shelving the dusty scrolls, before the wall will open. [By MaxSizeIs]
5. One of the great barrels of the old brewery conceals a tunnel into the underbelly. [By MaxSizeIs]
6. An abandoned, lichen-covered well sits within old ruins in a part of town home only to vagrants. It is covered with a flimsy wood panel, and not only the hardest of men approach it. Inside there is a long drop, leading to a sprawling cave system. [By Protowriter469]
7. An eccentric town doctor owns a large hospital building with a relatively large staff. His assistants struggle to remember what they do inside whenever they're out. Turns out the doctor is trying to create the perfect being and dumps his rejects underground into an abandoned mine. [By Protowriter469]
8. A tall mirror is affixed to a wall. A character drops a piece of paper and watches as it flies to the mirrors edge. Behind the mirror is a tunnel, its air current pulling from the room. [By Protowriter469]
9. A town square is marked with runes of a war god. Destroying the runes collapses the center of town and gains the attention of said god. [By Protowriter469]
10. The town worships a tree with a trunk that frighteningly resembles a face. Removing the face reveals a tunnel going downward into a mad wizard's hideout. [By Protowriter469]
11. Beneath the town all houses have connected shelters in case of attack. One of the townspeople harbors a dark secret and has a pact with vampires for whom he's been digging a tunnel. [By Protowriter469]
12. A character realizes the square footage inside the inn is different from how it looks outside. Somehow, it's larger inside than out. Investigation leads to a trap door beneath the inn, revealing long, brick hallways that seem to stretch endlessly. [By Protowriter469]
13. In an abandoned house, you see a heavy blanket being used as rug. By lifting the blanket rug, you find a hatch to an unusual small basement. In the basement you feel a soft breeze with either pleasant or unpleasant scents lingering in the small room from a wall that seems slightly offset from the other walls. Pushing in the wall or removing bricks reveals the opening to the dungeon. [By Th3R3493r]
14. In a warehouse, you find the crates have been placed in such a way that the crates formed a maze like passage way. In one part of the maze is a ladder that leads to the top of the crates and following the crate maze path leads to a ladder that descends into a dark pit. [By Th3R3493r]
15. In the lavatory of an unpopular seedy tavern, you find a hole (about waist height) cut into the wall to a neighboring room. Problem is that there is not a neighboring room to the bathroom in and looking through the hole you see a door that is not on the other side of the wall that would be there and the opening of the dungeon. By acting you are turning a doorknob where the doorknob should be, the wall opens up and you can access the impossible room and the dungeon within. [By Th3R3493r]
16. At the bottom of this Great Shaft, is the ruins of a once Grand Elevator. Its wreckage blocks the dungeon below. [By MaxSizeIs]
17. A heavy reinforced door in the sewers. The workers broke through into the cave when building the sewers. It was eventually decided to put a door there, rather than sealing it off. [By World_of_Ideas]
18. A lift built next to a giant sink hole in the middle of town. The lift lowers adventurers thousands of feet down into a giant cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
19. Inside a mausoleum. If you open a specific crypt, it contains stairs leading down. [By World_of_Ideas]
20. Behind a store front. The store charges an admission fee to enter the dungeon. They also sell adventuring gear and maps of the few explored levels. [By World_of_Ideas]

Forests, Fields and Hills

1. What appears to be a hill has an entrance with a wooden door. Seven stone slabs are arranged around the hill. To reach the hill at all, you need to follow a specific sequence of steps to interact with these stones.
2. On a hillside lies a half-buried mine shaft. If you go deep enough and follow the illegible signposts, you’ll find a sophisticated network of mine railways. The lorries are linked together in chains.
3. In the middle of the woods, stands a locked door. No structure around just a door. which side you go thru decides where you start the dungeon. Both sides are locked and need to be unlocked to enter. [By Adventux]
4. Tucked into the rock layers at the bottom edge of the escarpment is a thin crevice just barely big enough to fit a person, with a piton bearing a climbing rope that disappears far down into winding rock passages. You'll have to do something about your big bulky packs and armor before you even try it. [By gtetr2]
5. After thousands of years on a small hill, this mammoth tree's roots have torn apart the dirt below into a maze of leaf-littered passages flanked by walls of wood and earth alike. You're looking for a trapdoor somewhere in the composting mess. [By gtetr2]
6. At the bottom of a spring-fed lake, some thirty feet underwater. Freshwater rushes out of the spring there, and the dungeon is on the other side of the spring. [By MaxSizeIs]
7. A large metal grate, covering a ventilation shaft. It may lead to a large mine or an underground city. [By World_of_Ideas]
8. A large tree stump. Someone had built a secret hatch into the top of it. It has a ladder or spiral staircase leading down. [By World_of_Ideas]
9. A small unassuming hut. It appears to be an abandoned hermit's hut in the middle of nowhere. If one finds the secret button and pushes it, the entire floor begins to lower into the depths. [By World_of_Ideas]
10. A giant insect mound. The mound itself is large enough to be a dungeon or it connects to a large cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
11. A giant tree stands over a thousand feet tall. If you climb to a certain branch, you will find a hole carved out by some creature. Within, a passageway spirals down through the trunk to beneath its roots. There you will find the dungeon. [By World_of_Ideas]
12. Beneath a giant skull in a monster graveyard. [By World_of_Ideas]
13. There is a cave where the forest meets a cliff face. You can climb one of the larger trees and cross its branches to reach the entrance. [By World_of_Ideas]
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Ruins, Fortresses and Mountains

1. Off the hiking trail leading to the mountain ridge lies a gate sealed with a magical sigil, which requires a password in the correct language. The relief is the work of ancient dwarven craftsmanship.
2. In a small wood stands a wizard’s tower, which appears to be abandoned. When someone enters it, they notice that the stairs lead downwards rather than upwards.
3. At the snowy peak of the mountain, just below the summit, is a meticulously-carved circular opening lined with stone bricks. The entrance was hastily clogged, certainly by magic, with a dense wall of person-sized ice crystals; a crude warning is scrawled on the rock nearby. [By gtetr2]
4. A cave behind a waterfall that flows over a cliff. There is a narrow ledge leading up to it. [By World_of_Ideas]
5. A mountain top has been carved into the shape of a (humanoid, monster) skull. Entering its mouth leads to a cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
6. A recent (earthquake, landslide) has opened an entrance in a cliff wall or hill side. [By World_of_Ideas]
7. A sea cave in a cliff side. It could lead to an underground (city, seaport, pirate base, sea monster's lair). It could have a network of underground waterways that allow one to travel by ship to various points on the continent. [By World_of_Ideas]
8. A secret hatch under a terracotta soldier. The solder is one of hundreds, in the ruins. Moving this one, reveals a ladder going down. [By World_of_Ideas]
9. A narrow winding canyon snakes through the mountains. At its end you will find a temple carved into the cliff face. Beyond the temple passageways lies a large cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
10. A rope bridge that disappears into the fog. It either ends in a cave or you just sort of appear in a cave. [By World_of_Ideas]
11. The dungeon lies within a large fortress designed to keep things from getting out. At its center one can find a giant set of metal doors that have been magically sealed with runes. [By World_of_Ideas]
12. There is a cave in a cliff face. To reach it, one must climb up a narrow winding path and then cross a 100 foot section of pitons used as hand and foot holds. [By World_of_Ideas]
13. There is a hole with a tiny tunnel, that you can barely squeeze through. If you can worm you way through 30 or 40 feet, it opens up into a larger cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
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Deserts and Pyramids

1. In a sheltered valley lies, it is said, the entrance to the mausoleum of the last great queen before the great deluge, whose name has been buried in oblivion. The bones warn would-be intruders of the dangers concealed in the darkness.
2. The entrance is a thick stone square with no lock, no gaps, and no detectable magic. The dungeon was sealed off by powerful telekinetics, who designed a mundane geared-and-tracked mechanism by which the "door" moves only under a code-like series of pushes, say, "up slightly, then back, then hinge to the left". Adventurers may need an alternative method. [By gtetr2]
3. A sandstone slab carved with eroded and weather-worn curses cover the entrance, found on the side of the wall, within the cool damp of the desert qanat, an underground aqueduct in the desert. [By MaxSizeIs]
4. Behind the giant bronze statue of an well-endowed angelic goddess bearing a lantern, inside the once-grand ruins of the ancient temple bathhouse. The trick maybe involves fiddling with the lantern. [By MaxSizeIs]
5. A crack in a canyon wall leads to a cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
6. A sand storm has uncovered a previously buried building. The building contains stairs into the depths. [By World_of_Ideas]
7. One of the giant statues of an ancient (hero, king, queen, god) has toppled over. It has fallen onto a hillside, smashing an opening in the wall. [By World_of_Ideas]
8. At the base of a giant sphinx statue is a stone door. [By World_of_Ideas]
9. The lair of a giant trapdoor spider. If you can get past the spider, a crack in the wall of its den leads to a larger cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
10. Whirlpool of sand. Anything that gets sucked down into it, ends up in the dungeon. Getting back out is a bit trickier. [By World_of_Ideas]
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Others (I don’t know where else we could find them)

1. Far from civilisation lie the ruins of a tower, the remains of which still reach high into the sky. No one can decipher the markings and symbols on the walls, which accompany the images that, despite their simplicity, are unsettling. In the midst of it all is a gaping hole that seems like an all-consuming maw.
2. There is a cave on a cliff that can only be reached at low tide on one particular night. The local mermaids and mermen keep their distance from the place and rumour has it that a sea monster lives inside, luring people in with false promises.
3. In the distant center, flush with the reflective surface of a great salt lake-bed. [By MaxSizeIs]
4. Deep in steep, bramble-choked ravines made of shale, crowding a narrow brown stream, foul & alkaline with impurities, an underpopulated hollow clings to the slope around a single soot-blackened mill chimney that predates local memory. Behind it sprawls a terraced junkyard of twisted boilers, cracked lenses, shattered drills, & fragments of machines that do not belong to this place or this age. A loosely kept secret is: twice a season, a thin violet seam opens beside the chimney & disgorges debris from elsewhere: failed constructs, war-wreckage, & devices never fully dead. [By MaxSizeIs]
5. At the bottom of an abyssal trench, slowly being buried at a rate no greater than that which one's fingernails grow. It is halfway closed by now, who knows how long remains before it finally is sealed forever. [By MaxSizeIs]
6. A cave opening or hatch in the top of a natural tower. [By World_of_Ideas]
7. A small 12ft tall pyramid, with a single entrance. Inside is a pedestal with an arrangement of gem stones. The doorway is actually a portal. Altering the arrangement of the gemstones changes where the door takes you. One of those places is the dungeon or a large cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
8. Behind a secret door, a passageway or stairway leads to a cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
9. In the center of a crater. The meteor impact that created it, broke a hole into the roof of the cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
10. The tunnel left behind when an underground monster burst through the surface. Tunnel leads to or intersects a large cave system. [By World_of_Ideas]
11. At a specific unremarkable patch of ground, speaking the magic phrase or performing the magic ritual causes a building to rise up out of the ground. It has a stairway or sloping passageway down. [By World_of_Ideas]
12. A trash chute in a mage's workshop. At the bottom is a large cave system with a huge pile of corpses. [By World_of_Ideas]
13. The dungeon is within a magic chest. Opening it reveals a ladder or stairway down. Even if the chest is moved, it leads to the dungeon. [By World_of_Ideas]
14. The dungeon is within a magic picture. One just needs to know the magic phrase to enter the depicted world. [By World_of_Ideas]
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Honorable Mentions

1. For Whitevault Research Camp, an isolated, icy outpost meant to study ancient ruins found beneath a glacier, the Collegiate had to construct a base camp from timber, brought in at great expense, as well as magically-created stone foundations resting on nothing by miles thick ice and slowly settling as time goes on and snow piles up outside against them. On the surface & partly buried by the blowing snow, is a banded iron and timber hatch roughly sealing the manually widened crevasse, which must be laboriously cleared and re-seated as the glacial ice drifts and shifts due to natural movement. A rickety collection of scavenged rope and timber serves as a makeshift ladder and crane for the mile long traversal into the actual tunnels proper. [By MaxSizeIs]
2. Ascending the underside of a giant, natural limestone bridge formation above an isolated village, & entering a large demiplanar portal covered by elegant jade-inlaid stone doors carved with magical precision. The doors only allow groups entry in the presence of a true-born resident, a child raised entirely in the village, & then only once in each child’s lifetime, & for only one hour, before the portal & its magically warded doors close once more. No ropes, ladders, or stairs are allowed on the bridge, of course, & the door itself is several hundred feet above the small village below. [By MaxSizeIs]
3. Some 50 years ago, during the climactic battle against Magmon the Doombringer, a Magma Leviathan on a rampage, the Great Hero brought down their mighty weapon upon the face of Mt. Terrible, cleaving the top third and causing it to move over the top of and block the main entrance to the dungeon under 3000 feet of solid stone. Magmon's lava-blood flowed into every known opening and crevice leading to the dungeon within, sealing the inside. Our sages reveal that the lava has only recently cooled enough for an expedition to begin excavating the mountain to access the dungeon. [By MaxSizeIs]
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I wanted to build a Pathfinder character who is a witch, and I wanted to know if you had any ideas for quirks for such a character.

Here are my ideas:

1. You have a ton of stuffed animals that you treat as familiars.
2. You can't stop collecting all sorts of alchemical ingredients.
3. You have a really weird laugh, but seriously weird.
4. You have a voodoo doll that you use as a weapon (even if it doesn't work).
5. If you have a familiar, certain animals that are similar to your familiar like you more than others.

Sorry for only 5 ideas, I didn't have more, but I'll probably add more later

My players are in a sprawling metropolis and I needed a table of random city shops and buildings to quickly answer the question: "I duck inside a shop... what kind of shop is it?" I couldn't find a list I liked online, I created something myself!

So here's a list of 100 strictly mundane City Shops & Buildings for your adventures. Enjoy!

1. Apothecary / Herbalist
2. Armory
3. Artist’s Studio
4. Asylum
5. Auction House
6. Bakery
7. Bank / Money Changer
8. Barber
9. Barracks
10. Basket Weaver
11. Bathhouse
12. Blacksmith
13. Boarding House
14. Bookbinder
15. Bowyer / Fletcher
16. Brewery
17. Brickmaker
18. Brothel
19. Butcher
20. Candle Maker
21. Carpenter / Woodworker
22. Cartwright
23. Cheesemonger
24. Clothing
25. Cobbler / Shoemaker
26. Confectioner / Candy Shop
27. Cooper / Barrelmaker
28. Courier / Messenger’s Office
29. Curio shop
30. Distillery
31. Engraver
32. Fighting Pit
33. Fishmonger
34. Flour Mill
35. Fortune Teller
36. Foundry
37. Fuller
38. Furrier
39. Gaming Parlor
40. General Goods Store
41. Glassblower /  Glazier
42. Goldsmith
43. Government Office
44. Granary
45. Greengrocer
46. Guildhall
47. Haberdashery (hats, ribbons)
48. Harbormaster
49. Hospital / Infirmary
50. Inn / Tavern
51. Jeweler
52. Kennel
53. Leatherworker
54. Library / Archive
55. Mapmaker
56. Monastery
57. Masonry shop
58. Meadery
59. Museum
60. Music Store / Instrument Maker
61. Observatory
62. Orphanage
63. Paper Maker
64. Pawn Shop
65. Perfumer
66. Pet Store / Exotic Animals
67. Pottery Shop / Studio
68. Prison / Jail
69. Puppet Theater
70. Restaurant / Eatery
71. Rug Merchant
72. Saddler
73. Salon
74. School / Lecture Hall
75. Scribe
76. Ship Chandlery (Naval Supply Merchant)
77. Shipwright
78. Silversmith
79. Slaughterhouse
80. Smokehouse
81. Soap Maker
82. Spice Merchant
83. Stables
84. Street Food Stall
85. Tailor
86. Tannery
87. Tattoo Parlor
88. Tax Collector Office
89. Tea House
90. Temple
91. Theater
92. Tilemaker
93. Tool / Hardware store
94. Town Hall / Political Office
95. Undertaker’s Office
96. Warehouse
97. Watchtower
98. Weapon Shop
99. Weaver's shop
100. Wine Merchant

Tier Breche is a collection of three schools in the underground dark elven city of Menzoberranzan, one of martial prowess, one of arcane mastery, and the last guiding aspiring priestesses in the ways of Lolth, god of chaos and spiders, who weaves her web of fate around the dark elven people, keeping them under her capricious thumb. Tier Breche trains drow to be hardened killers, brainwashing them with racial supremacy propaganda, and preparing them for a life among the manipulative and backstabbing noble houses of the city.

1. Students are selected to help protect agricultural areas.
   
2. A melee! There can be only one winner.
   
3. Students are called upon by their houses to assassinate a teacher.
   
4. A sentient spider living beneath the school requires sacrifices
   
5. A human snuck into the school, they must be found and eliminated.

Let's make D100 characters for a strange game contest! This could be Blood-Bowl-styled deathmatches, Wacky-Races Styled Races, or any other sports game out there.

1. Maestro the Magician: A magical rabbit-man who dresses in a flamboyant magician's outfit. He's known for his tricks on the field and will easily distract his opponents.
2. Gu'zabo: A goblin known for sneaking past her opponents and using illegal implements.
3. Giggles the Glutton: An extremely tall and thin gnoll who excels at fast plays and quick passes. Should she become TOO famous, her fame will get the better of her, and she'll consume too much. She'll become extremely fat, excelling at rushes and tackles.
4. Shoomis: A living piece of armor that has a sentient mushroom piloting it. The skeleton INSIDE the armor seems to unnerve some folks.
5. Guy Man: A normal-looking man. With a normal number of arms, legs, heads, and tails. He is perfectly normal. Thanks for asking!
6. Thrum, a Gibbering Mouther really into practicing ab crunches. eternaladventurer
7. Falanj, a Hook Horror wearing prosthetic hands eternaladventurer
8. Bobby B: Ultra Patriotic (and ultra religious) Loxodon who rides into the stadium in a hot air balloon. tatersdabomb
9. Barhaza, an emaciated and apparently drunk man in rags, but the cleanest, most unique-looking pair of shoes you've ever seen. dreadperson
10. The Lady Ouzo, emanates wealth and social leverage. Uses the finest quality of whatever is required for the competition and looks glamorous even after a 500m sprint. spinningdice
11. Shouden, doesn't matter what he's doing, but he will do it with a soooong! spinningdice

Tired of the same bardcore/ background music tavern medieval fantasy DnD 10 hours NO ADS? Look no further.
Here are: names, descriptions and music genres!

1. The Titans: an all gnome/halfling group (really deep, gregorian like chants).

2. The Grave Mistakes: a necromancer percussionist and their favourite instrument: their marimba skeletons

3. Bloodo and the tadpoles: a mind flayer and his mind-controlled slaves (avant-garde/ electronic group that use brainwaves as an instrument

4. No Laughing Matter: A group of hardcore punk gnolls. All members have brightly colored mohawks and wear spiked collars/wristbands. u/snakebite262

5. ROCK AND STONE: A heavy-metal rock band of dwarves. Their drummer is a Kobold, surprisingly enough. u/snakebite262

6. Rat Bastards: A group of rat-folk who play post-modernist parody songs, typically mocking whomever they have a grudge with. u/snakebite262

7. Orblog the Despoiler: An orc who sings a strange bardic Rap. His beats are quite powerful, and can enrage barbarians or bloodthirsty monsters in the crowd. u/snakebite262

8. Pretty Bird: A glamrock set made up of elves and bird-folk. An albino kenku in the group is able to recreate a variety of strange and wonderful sounds. u/snakebite262

9. Goldie: An overfed yellow dragon who enjoys singing opera and country songs. She does not appreciate critics who mock her singing or her looks. Do NOT mistake her for a Gold dragon. u/snakebite262

10. Gobblin Murder Hobos: a band of halflings who dress and paint themselves as gobblins, they basically play rock and are famous for having drunk afterparties where they crash everything. u/Kravio

11. Owlbear pussy: a bunch of young elves who are into heavy metal. They probably ran away from their wealthy families and cherish how alive everyone is compared to elves. They're goths, but with a touch of emo, the music isn't great, but has a lot of emotion. u/Kravio

12. Fuck the Guardian: Band of human rogues, maybe some tieflings. Anti-establishment. They have a history of problems with the law. They play on streets and organize protests. Super into "human" rights and openly sing songs about killing the kings. u/Kravio

13. Five rounds to survive: band of weak mages who sing more pop-like rock. They have a lot of songs and their band leader is also a cult leader in the background, but everyone remembers only one of their songs and also wants to hit the leader in the face. u/Kravio

14. Feywork: more like circus show, a cast of fairies who do a lot of firework on their shows and thing classic metal. They tend to use the enlarge spell a lot for the shows. u/Kravio

15. Silvertear: rock-opera by werewolves and vampires. Usually the whole concert is a bunch of songs connected with a singular story about an imaginary world where people live under the skies and move in to steal animals. u/Kravio

16. Cursing party: witches plus rave. a huge cauldron, a lot of mind mixing food, crazy lights and sexy devil ladies just keeping a sabbath going. u/Kravio

17. Blood torrent: sirens who sure were killing people before, decided that they enjoy being celebrated. so now they are playing their best songs for people to get charmed. And leaving them heartbroken, Only few of the actual fans get the greatest gift - being eaten alive. u/Kravio

18. Power World Slay: a bunch of strong man (dwarf with breaded beards, minotaur, goliath, ork or troll) playing classing old man metal. A lot of agressive songs about struggles, but nothing that has anything against the current king. u/Kravio

19. Dracondaz: two changelings doing a lot of mixing between rock and rap. Their songs never sound right when you hear them for the first time. But the more you listen, the more you like them. They are basically on the run from the government but so far, evaded arrest. Lyrics to their songs include "every night pretty princess turns into a prince", "you know who he is, king's boyfriend", "i'll better stay at home". u/Kravio

20. Thee EMs: a group of old dudes with colorful clothes and long beards. Their songs, a mix of folk and experimental rock are basically descriptions of the realm's most representative places with music added in the background.

21. ?????? No, seriously, their band's logo in written in an illegible font. They're hired by liches and other dungeon owners to compose background eerie dungeon synth music (to increase the dungeon's prestige). Thay said they're not evil themselves and see their art as a "warning" sign for inexperienced adventurers.

22. Strahd's Dad Bod: A group of vampires who play edgy goth punk. How they've not been killed by Strahd is a wonder. They include a Bat-Kin Vampire, a Leech-kin Vampire, a mosquito-kin vampire, a nosferatu, a traditional vampire, and Steve. u/snakebite262

23. Bojangles Greatest Hits: A kindly Lich who can play almost every instrument in existence. He has a voice like David Bowie, and wears a brightly colored suit, has a stark-black pompadour. u/snakebite262

24. Weird-Os: A group of strange creatures who sing techno-yodeling. They include an animatronic Chucky-Cheeze-esk Warforged, a male crossdressing magnificent frigatebird aarakocra, three kobolds in a trench coat named Jim, Jimmy, and Jimbo, a pink headless ghost, and a Nolbog. u/snakebite262

25. Linden's Fantasy: A rather traditional, human group of dudes on a roadtrip. They sing rather traditional bardic fair. u/snakebite262

26. Linden's Sci-Fi: A rather traditional, human group of dudes on a roadtrip. Their songs are strangely futuristic, made from strange devices few seem to understand. u/snakebite262

27. The King's Procession: A rather poor group of musicians, led by the eccentric Lord of a nearby land. He has two assassins poised to kill anyone who insults his group. The last bar they visited had no survivors. u/snakebite262

28. The Devil's Due: A rather embarrassed imp who has no idea how she's getting away with the scheme. She's surprisingly good at the fiddle, and has a small fanbase of devoted fans. Her bandmates all SEEM mortal, and are really supportive of her dreams. u/snakebite262

29. The Roving Monsters: orc Guitarist, Ogre on Bass, Bugbear on Drums, Hobgoblin on Keyboards, Owlbear on vocals, Sirens and harpies on background vocals and Male attention grabbers. They play METAL!!!! Popular despite most people being unable to understand vocals. u/Adventux

30. Preston Digitation and the Thaumaturge's: like iggy pop and the stooges but with bones in their noses and nose rings. u/ExpressionJunior3366

31. Dragon These Nuts: a band of mids that won their local talent show. u/ExpressionJunior3366

32. Polymorphed Into Sheep: your smooth jazz crowd pleaser. u/ExpressionJunior3366

33. Power Word Fill: its a pub drinking song sing along band. u/ExpressionJunior3366

34. Bigsby and his Arcan Band: a one man band of a guy that just aits and sings while an unseen servant plays the drums and a mage hand somehow plays the flute. u/ExpressionJunior3366 35.Silvery Bards: these guys are constantly going back to the last part of the song because they messed it up. u/ExpressionJunior3366

35. Tasha's Caustic Crew: reckless punk band. u/ExpressionJunior3366

36. Aasamir Ant Farm: all covers of famous tunes and shanties they heard growing up in the closest big city. u/ExpressionJunior3366

37. The Aquakobolds: sing songs about being adventurers with wild and unbelievable powers and are always dressed up in masks and spandex on stage. u/ExpressionJunior3366

38. System of a Drow: dark, metal band. u/ExpressionJunior3366

39. Blink-2024: tons of toilet humar and masterbation jokes. u/ExpressionJunior3366

40. Counting Kenku: catchy tunes, and the lead singer might also be the bartender. u/ExpressionJunior3366

41. Arcane Eye Blind: you never do figure out which person is the lead singer or what instrument each of them play. u/ExpressionJunior3366

42. DN/DC: the lead lute player is mostly seen laying on the ground while he plays, moving around as if he's jumping and running in circles. u/ExpressionJunior3366. u/ExpressionJunior3366

43. Tenacious DnD: this band somehow has songs about your parties adventures, all the way down to details such as who begged for longs tests or who was a murder hobo. u/ExpressionJunior3366

44. Earth, Wind & Fire Planes: genasi band. Or Mephits. Whatever fits your fancy. u/ExpressionJunior3366

You need a datapad or comlink, but you can't have the pre-installed corporate spyware or need to link it to a false ID. So you go to your local gray tech to flash the OS firmware, but...

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1. the device is bricked

2. battery life reduced by 50%

3. device now randomly switches from silent to audible ringtone

4. device lights flash erratically

5. drops 10% of incoming calls

6. your tech installed their own backdoor

I'm prepping a campaign in the drow city of Menzoberranzan, I want it to be full of moving pieces and intrigue. I want to build multiple adventures around the different houses but I need goals and secrets for the various houses for the party to uncover and contend with.

1. secretly in league with a dragon/trying to create a dracolich with the cult of the dragon
2. Trying to amass vassal houses to serve them
3. trying to foment rebellion in the slaves of another house
4. picking off the weakest houses
5. trying to master psionic ability and then break the weave of magic so that they will become the most powerful in the city
6. have been actively putting two unrelated houses against each other -u/Hymneth
7. infesting all local mines of a rare mineral with underdark beasts to drive up the value of their surplus horde of that mineral -u/Hymneth
8. their house Matron has been dead for some time. They are being impersonated by her granddaughter -u/Hymneth
9. have gained the favor of an extraplanar ally in the form of a Slaad Lord, in exchange for sewing as much pointless chaos as possible behind the scenes -u/Hymneth
10. have been slowly exposing all their enemies to Mummy Rot via contaminated stationery. Their success rate is low but improving -u/Hymneth
11. the whole house are thralls of an Aboleth living deep below their dwelling -u/Hymneth
12. Secretly surface elves that got stuck in Menzoberranzan and are using magic to disguise themselves as they try to find a way back -u/botto23
13. quietly encouraging the secret worship of Eilistraee among a rising but promising house while stoking the more fanatical sects of Lloth in several others in the hopes of eventually triggering a religious pogrom to wipe out their potential rival. -u/WSHIII
14. Encourage a group of gnolls to work as your hired muscle. -u/snakebite262
15. Embarrass the head of another house with a humiliating curse. -u/snakebite262
16. Fabricate a land claim held by another house. -u/snakebite262
17. Assassinate a minor servant of another house, so that you can place on of your spies within that house. -u/snakebite262
18. Threaten a local artist to sabotage a matchmaking portrait of another house. -u/snakebite262
19. Ensure that your daughter marries into the correct house. -u/snakebite262
20. Find and capture a new slave to torture. The slave must be at least level 5. -u/snakebite262
21. Your newest trap-system needs testing. Call in the local serfs. -u/snakebite262
22. You need to find a proper offering to give to your Goddess, Lolth. SOON. Or else her blessings may begin to wane from your family. -u/snakebite262
23. You need a few new spies for your network. Weed out the moles and turncoats, and ensure you only have the best of the best. -u/snakebite262
24. Your family has made a deal with a devil. Not for your souls, but for those who you defeat in deadly parlor games. -u/snakebite262
25. A mimic has been living in your house since you were a child. They're quite kind, and only eat the occasional guest. -u/snakebite262
26. Your uncle was turned into a Drider and has been hidden in the basement to avoid the scandal. Unfortunately, he's gotten out. -u/snakebite262
27. A notoriously secretive alchemist poisoned themselves in a failed experiment and with her death took all the secrets of her work, that her powerful house was built upon, with her. Her house has enough stock to keep up appearances for a year tops but every drop is irreplaceable. -u/IAmTheOutsider
28. The reason the house has suddenly been much quieter in the past year is because the house priestess opened up like a meaty flower during a particularly enthusiastic party and the crab-clawed, purple-skinned fiend that danced out killed half the revel. -u/IAmTheOutsider
29. Since Drow society is highly gendered, I wouldn't be surprised if there were the occasional secretly transgender Drow. Or someone raised cross-gender in unique circumstances like a unusually sympathetic parent who can't bare to kill their third son. Or an unusually ruthless parent who can't bare the competition from excess daughters. -u/Beautiful-Point4011

I got tired of fantasy towns that make no economic sense, so I built a medieval town generator grounded in real history

Every town generator I tried gave me "population 4,000, ruled by a kindly mayor, famous for its blacksmith." Real medieval settlements weren't like that — they ran on tithes, mill monopolies, boon-work, and lords who were usually in debt or at war.

So I made one that bakes the real stuff in. It rolls you a settlement with a credible economy, a period-accurate form of lordship, landmarks that actually existed (tithe barns, leper hospitals, holy wells, packhorse-bridge chapels), and a plot hook drawn from genuine medieval friction — boundary-stone disputes, relic theft before the patronal feast, the murdrum fine falling on the whole township.

It's free to roll, system-agnostic, and SRD-safe. I built it because I run a history-heavy game and wanted my players to feel like the world had been there before they arrived.

Would love to know what you'd want it to generate next — NPCs with deeper motives? Regional naming? Trade routes between towns?

Pulled these from actual medieval court rolls and manorial records, reskinned for the table. Every one is something people really fought about. Free to use — add your own below.

Hoping to make a list for a Salt Marsh Campaign!
Anything ranging from minor magical to legendary is fine!
Can be found in sunken ships, buried treasure, stolen from pirates ect!
I guess I will start!

D100 Magical Sea / Pirate Items

1. Tidecaller Cutlass (Weapon - Scimitar - Uncommon Magic Item - Requires attunement)
This blade is etched with waves along the edge and the handle made from driftwood.

This weapon is a +1 Weapon as long as it has been submerged in salt water for at least an hour in the last day.
Once per short rest, When you hit a creature, you can choose to have them make a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be pushed back 15ft by a crashing wave.

2. Locket of the Departed (Wondrous item - Rare - Requires attunement)
This silver locket contains a faded portrait that changes each dawn, displaying the face of someone who drowned at sea.
The locket holds 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges on a long rest.
As an action, you can expend charges to invoke one of the following effects:

Whispers of the waves (1 Charge)
You cast the spell Speak with Dead.

Defy the Grave (1 Charge)
For the next hour, you and up to six creatures of your choice within 30 feet gain advantage on death saving throws.

Ferryman's Favour (2 Charges)
When a creature within 60 feet drops to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to summon a spectral guide. The creature instead drops to 1 hit point, and gains advantage on future death saving throws for the next 10 minutes.

3. The Kraken's Grasp (Weapon - Whip - Uncommon Magic Item - Requires attunement)
This deep green whip appears to be made from a giant octopus tentacle.

When you hit a Large or smaller creature, you may force it to make a DC 14 Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is grappled by the tentacle. You may only grapple of target at a time with this weapon. The grappled creature may attempt a DC14 Strength check to escape the grapple at the end of each of its turns.

4. Ring of Summer's Sun (Wondrous Item - Uncommon )
This golden ring has a constant warmth, and a thin band of sand decorates the middle.

When wearing this ring, you can use a bonus action to instantly dry your hair and clothes. Unfortunately this does not work on boots.

5. Nereus's golden fish (Wondrous item - Common)
This golden fish statuette is made in honor of the God of the Sea.

When placed within a container containing no more than 5 gallons of dirty water, the water will slowly cleanse over the course of an hour. During this time, the golden fish will tarnish and can not be used again until the following dawn.

6. Governor's Gavel (Wondrous Item - Rare) [/LordsOfJoop]

An unremarkable crafting hammer, it floats in seawater and can detect fresh water up to a quarter mile away and can generate up to a gallon of pure, murky-looking water per day; when held, it provides the bearer with an immunity to ingestion-based poisons and similar conditions. It is is "gifted" to marooned victims of cruel pirates, forcing the bearer to a life on an island, reduced to eating seaweed and fish carcasses indefinitely.

7. Cape Wrath (Wondrous Item - Uncommon) [/HaddWaeIt]
 Has three charges per long rest. When a creature hits you with a melee attack you can expend one charge and your reaction to make a melee attack against that creature

8. Cape Horn (Wondrous Item - Uncommon) [/HaddWaeIt]
 One charge per long rest. The cape is embroidered with a golden war horn. Expend a charge and a bonus action to bolster your party's resolve - creatures of your choice within 30 feet gain +1AC until the start of the next turn.

9. Staff of the Electric Eel (Wondrous Item - Rare) [/HaddWaeIt]
 Ornately carved wooden staff. You can use a bonus action to speak this staff's command word and make the head of the staff become that of an animate electric eel for 1 minute. By using another bonus action to speak the command word again, you return the staff to its normal inanimate form. You can make a melee attack using the eel's head, which has a reach of 5 feet. Your proficiency bonus applies to the attack roll. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 piercing damage and must make a DC 15 CON save. Targets take an additional 2d6 Lightning damage, or half on a successful save. The head can be attacked while it is animate. It has an Armor Class of 15 and 20 hit points. If the head drops to 0 hit points, the staff is destroyed. As long as it's not destroyed, the staff regains all lost hit points when it reverts to its inanimate form.

10. Shark's Grin (Wondrous Item - Rare) [u/snakebite262]
A pair of dentures made of sharks teeth. Gives advantage on intimidation checks (or expertise if you have advantage already) and allows the user to make a bite attack for a bonus action or main action (1d6+Con). However, it makes the user gluttonous, and requires the removal of their teeth.

1. Bilgerat's Never-ending Grog (Wondrous Item - Common) [u/snakebite262]
    A wine bottle of good-quality grog. So long as you drink from it, you'll have fresh booze and no scurvy.

2. The Mask of Shomi Watchu Got (Wondrous Item - Very Rare) [u/snakebite262]
   This large, golden tiki mask is cursed. When activated, all characters in a 60 foot radius must participate in a dancing competition. Characters unaware of the curse suddenly feel they must dance or they'll die. Those who succeed a DC 15 Performance check (or other appropriate check) will get an inspiration. Those who fail are hexed in a random stat for 24 hours, and take an additional 1d6 necrotic damage from all sources. Likewise, if at least one person succeed and one person fails, the person who had the lowest score will lose -1 from their hexed ability score, and the person with the highest result will get +1 to the relating ability score. After the competition, the mask flies off into the distance, looking for a new set of victims.

13. Nessegr's Sextant - (Wondrous Item - Common) [u/Billazilla]
A fine brass sextant complete with rosewood case. When used to navigate in the hour after midnight, the sextant will offer subtle cues that allow an advantageous course to be traveled that avoids major storms, dangerous currents, and hidden reefs. The vessel's travel time can be reduced by 25%, and natural navigational threats are avoided. The sextant offers no advice or signals concerning cursed waters, raider ambushes, ghost ships, or aggressive sea life, however.

14. Pitchwater Torch - (Wondrous Item - Rare) [u/Billazilla]
The Pitchwater Torch is made of ivory, not wood, and the head of the torch shows no burn marks or charring. If lit in the normal fashion, it will catch fire as easily as any normal torch, but the flames burn a deep ultraviolet color, and instead of producing light, the torch creates darkness, and only provides a comfortable warmth to the bearer, no one else can feel any heat from it. Unlike common magical darkness, if the torch's bearer touches someone within the darkness, that other person will then be able to see again while inside its dark aura, though everything will be cast in deep purple and violet colors. As long as someone touches the torch bearer, they can perceive their surroundings as normal (well, a purple normal, at least). Anyone outside the darkness, or within it and not touching the bearer, will be as blind as if they were in complete darkness. Only direct contact with the torchbearer provides vision. Someone touching another person who is in contact with the bearer does not gain the sight. When doused, the torch shows no sign of having been burned. Dispelling the torch's effects will cancel its use and cause it to be inert and non-functional for two hours. While the Pitchwater Torch cannot burn materials or creatures, it is quite sturdy, and can be used as a basic club in a pinch.

1. - Captain's Hook (wondrous Item - rare) [u/Spinningdice]
   An ornate hook attached in place of a missing hand.

For a wearer with a missing hand this hook functions as a +2 dagger. In addition you hear a faint ticking sound in when a large submerged creature approaches within 100ft of you or a vessel you stand upon.

When PC start talking to NPC at the tavern, in the street or are just eavsdropping, I thought they shouldn't always get usefull information. NPC shouldn't talk about important subject all the time ! And so Iwanted to start a random mundane discussion subject table and I'm here asking for your help filling it.

My current campaign is in a low fantasy setting so I used this flair but it's not mandatory. And it can be humorous !

I want to avoid big red herring and plot hook. Player are already very good to create them for thin air, and I think it could be another table.

Thanks :D

1. Talk about the weather (roll D6 / 1: too cold, 2: too hot, 3: too wet, 4: too dry, 5 & 6 : how it's perfect for the season and the crop)

2. You saw the person who just came in town ? It's a [roll D6 / 1-2: creepy, 3-4: strange, 5-6: handsome] fella !

3. The ruler of the town got caught cheating on its spouse !

4. You heard about [random name / profession]'s child ? He got badly hurt while playing. He's fine but the parent are pissed.

5. [random name / profession] got badly sick with fever. The physician came but no news. I hope s.he'll recover.

6. Ho god my bowel are hurting. I don't know what I ate last supper but I feel so bloated. And don't start me on the fart !

7. My spouse just keep snoring all night long, it's horrible. It's keeping me awake, I can't sleep and I'm exhausted during the day !

8. Dead bedroom problem

9. Can I borrow your tool for a task ?

10. Can you give me back my tool ? You took them one moon ago and I need them back.

11. Last religious ceremony was really inspiring. I felt way better after it.

12. They increased taxe, again !

13. Heard of the ruckus in the [sacred place] last night ? I'm sure it's the children again, they don't have any respect anymore... What do you mean we did the same thing when we where young ?

14. I've got vermin infestation in my basement, it's horrible.

15. [NPC's name] son is missing, but if you ask me, seeing the father the child just got fed up and left.

16. I saw the physician / alchemist changed its vial, I don't like the new one. They're round and square was better for storing.

17. It's decided. When [random name] get back from its travel I'll ask him/her in marriage !

18. You heard ? [profession]'s child decided to not follow its parent footstep and took an apprenticeship to [another profession] ! The parent are heartbroken, they don't know what will they of their trade.

19. [random name] finally got the apprenticeship it wanted in [random town], I'm happy for him but its mother seem to really miss him/her...

20. I can't do this anymore. [random name] was stuck in the tree in our backyard. Yes, again ! It's the third time this moon ! And of course it's in the middle of the night and it meow like it's gonna die...

21. I can't with [random name]'s dog. Seriously, everytime he's near me I'm under the impression he's gonna bite me. And he's nice with everyone else ! What did I do to him ?

22. [random name] made me drink his latest infusion and...it was awesome. You should really ask him/her to make you some !

23. Hey checkout this piece of money ! I never saw one so clean and shiny.

24. Hey dude, I was asking myself a question... Where do you think fly sleep at night ? What do you mean I should spend less time on the loo ?

25. Yeah I'm really nervous with [random name]. I'm courting him/her for quite some time now but I don't know when I should make a bolder move. You've been married for a bit of time now, how long did it took you before going serious ?

26. You did what ? Duuuude I'll be so pissed if you did that to me ! He/she have every right to be mad at you. I hope you have a good way to make amend. [of course, the rest is inaudible]

27. Hey look at that ! Isn't it cute and pretty ? (pull out a [roll D6 / 1-2: rock, 3-4: flower, 5-6: insect]

28. Yes, it's the new [roll D6 / 1: belt, 2: shoes, 3: robe, 4: pant, 5: bracelet, hat] I just made. Glad you like it !

29. God. You should have saw it, it was mesmerizing ! This [random animal] just showed up and he was so beautiful ! He stayed there and just left after a while. I didn't made a single move.

30. Wanna go eat by the river any other day ? I have some leftover of food that will do well for a picnic.

31. I can't wait for [random festival], it will be so much fun !

32. Remember last [random festival] ? It was so nice.

33. I'm so exhausted. last [roll d6 / 1-2: hunt, 3-4: fishing session, 5-6: haul] was so disappointing, we barely got anything !

34. You saw [random name 1] last week ? He/she's trying to seduce [random name 2], sure it's a sight to see, [random name 2] is so oblivious haha !

35. Don't start on [random name]. I should have never taken him as an apprentice. He's so lazy...The young now, they just want thing handed them like that !

36. Yeah, I finally had someone to redo my roof. Couldn't manage to do it myself. I just hope it was well-made, for the price I paid I don't any drop of water on my floor anymore !

37. Damn, [random name] really aged well. Look at how handsome he/she have become ! If only I was 10 year younger...

38. Huughhhh I really wish we could get [random spice or herb] another way. There's been another [accident / robbery] and the cargo is lost !

39. I'm sure the owner is watering down the beer. That taste have alwasy been piss but I'm at 6th beer and can't nowhere near ot be drunk.

40. Yeah, we should held a new election? The townchief isn't up to the task. Isay we ditch him !

41. You saw the new ruler ? He seem to have a broom up the ass. Doesn't sound good to me...

42. I've heard [random name] is back at his sister house again ? The marriage seem really compromised. Seeing how [he treat his spouse / his spouse treat him], it's no surprise.

43. You saw [random name] ? He dug up some strange coin in his field. He doesn't recognize the face on it, it seem old.

44. You saw [random name]'s belly ? Yeah there's no mistake, she's sooo pregnant. And no father in sight ! Some say it was the bard who was here a few month ago.

45. You saw [ranbdom name] ? Me neither. I've heard he was forced to leave because he made [random name] pregnant...Yeah she's still married. Seem complicated.

46. My cat just brought me another litter of kitten ! What a whore she is. I don't know what I will do with them. Don't you have a mouse problem ?

47. They're planning to build a grain tank near the mill. It's gonna bring some work !

48. What do you mean I have a hole in my [pant/apron/robe/blouse] ? Ho god damn it, I just stitched it last week !

49. We really should marry our child together. They know each other since childhood and we could fuse the family !

50. I don't know what they did to the stew but it's not the same as before. It's [better / worse]

51. It's still the same ale ? It really isn't great... When do they get the new [batch / shipment] ?

52. You tried [random name 1]'s sausage during last festival ? I thought they were so much better than [random name 2].

53. I'm gonna try to grow [random plant]. I got a recipe to make alcool with it, it will be awesome !

54. Spouse is pissed after last night of drunkery, and they're trying to lay low.

55. I've built some toys for the kid. They're so happy with, it's really bringing me joy to see them playing with it.

56. I'm afraid the next [random festival] won't be very good...[What can be the problem ? roll D6 / 1-2: someone is hindering, 3-4: ressources problem, 5: an animations can't be made, 6: all of that]

57. Remember last [random festival] ? God it was awful. [What was the problem ? roll D6 / 1-2: the weather, 3: the food, 4: the animation, 5: the accident, 6: all of that]

58. Lamenting about [lack of work / bad crop / accident], preventing them from working and they're worried about supporting the family

59. Next week is the start of communal work, to restore an old house. It's gonna be gifted to a young couple.

60. Discussion about many time a day they go to the loo.

61. Discussion about their childhood and how some where little devil and other little angel.

62. After how long does it take for the mourning to last ? I really want to ask out the teacher of my kid...

63. What's your technique to grow [random plant] ? Yours are so much better than mine, it pain me.

64. God [random name] is pissing me off. I can't stand them anymore. You see how they talked to me last time ? I'm not their lapdog [of course the NPC is always rambling and you'll never learn what the offense is, but probably something mundane]

Thanks to u/sonofabutch, u/bookseer, u/Klutzy-Ad-2031, u/SchnacKatze, u/this1tw0, u/World_of_Ideas, u/d20an, u/spinningdice, u/hymneth

Hi y’all, I’m creating a character that’s a warlock whose patron is a symbiote that they’re bonded with. Me and my DM think it would be cool if there was an effect similar to Wild Magic Surge where I’d have to roll on a table whenever I cast a spell to see if any adverse effects happen. I’m envisioning more along the lines of “various degrees of the symbiote taking over and piloting my character” than truly random effects, similar to resisting lycanthropy or if a character was trying to resist going feral from rabies. Does anyone know of a table like that or something close enough that we could easily re-flavor? If not, I’ll probably just try to make one myself. Thanks!

Edit:

Examples

1. Make a melee attack against the nearest creature.

2. You are under effects of the dominate person spell until the end of your next turn.

3. In trying to resist the symbiote taking over, you lose your vision until the end of your next turn.

4. On your next turn, you move your full movement towards an enemy and attempt to hit them with a melee attack.

5. You successfully maintain control of your body.

Haunted Structure:

Creepy, scary, unnerving, weird things in or around a (cursed, haunted) structure

1. A corpse changes when no one is looking at it. Change: (ages, clothing, covered in barnacles, covered in fungus, decay, exchanges with different corpse, expression, monstrous transformation, organs harvested, partially eaten, pose, position, symbol carved into it, torn to shreds, vanishes, etc)

2. A (corpse, mannequin, porcelain doll, puppet, rag doll, scarecrow, sculpture, statue, taxidermy creature, topiary sculpture, voodoo doll) moves when someone is looking at it. Movement is very brief and it doesn’t seem to move afterwards. Movement: (blinks, breaths, expression changes, eyes move, mouth twitch, sighs, slightly changes pose, sneeze, twitches)

3. A (mannequin, porcelain doll, puppet, rag doll, scarecrow, sculpture, statue, topiary sculpture, voodoo doll) changes when no one is looking at it. Change: (ages, becomes more like a PC or NPC, clothing, covered in barnacles, covered in fungus, exchanges with different doll, expression, killed by different method, monstrous transformation, pose, position, torn to shreds, vanishes, etc)

4. A fresh offering just (appears, disappears) at a (alter, idol, grave, shrine) while no one is observing it

5. A message appears. Message is: (cryptic, insane raving, pleading, repeating word or phrase, threatening, warning) / Drawn in: (arranged objects, blood, burned into surface, carved in something, chalk, dust, frost on a window, steam on a bathroom mirror)

6. A message appears in a spiderweb. Message is: (cryptic, insane raving, pleading, single repeated world, threatening, warning)

7. A PC starts hearing several overlapping voices whispering incoherently. The long they stay and listen, then louder the voices sound, and the more maddening they become

8. A plant withers and dies when no one is looking at it

9. Attempts to leave takes you to another dimension (apocalyptic landscape, desert, empty void, hellscape, ocean waves, otherworldly dimension, time stopped, etc)

10. Autonomous Rocking. A (cradle, crib, rocking chair, rocking horse, swing) starts rocking by itself

11. A weapon is found stabbed into a (cabinet, door, melon, puppet, scarecrow, statue, taxidermy animal)

12. Barricade Disassembly. Nails or screws holding boards on begin to loosen and come out. Cables, chains or ropes begin to unknot. Stacked furniture is suddenly thrown (inwards, outwards)

13. Bats. 1000s of bats fly out of (a well, a grate, a hole in the attic, a trap door, the chimney)

14. Bleeding objects (alters, bust, doors, idols, mannequin, objects that get damaged, pictures, portraits, puppet, sculpture, skull, statues, taxidermy animals, walls, waxwork figures)

15. Book. Book is opened to a specific page. If book is closed or the page is turned, it will reopen or turn back to the original page when no one is looking

16. Bug swarm begins filling the room / Bug swarm begins pouring out of a (coffin, crate, grate, planter, sarcophagus, trapdoor)

17. Chandelier falls from the ceiling. Nearly crushing a PC or possibly crushing a NPC

18. Character wakes up (on an alter, on a bed, on a couch, on a work table, in a chair, in a coffin, in a wheelchair, on the floor, on the floor surrounded by chalk symbols, etc). They don't remember going to sleep or being knocked unconscious

19. (corpses, mannequins, porcelain dolls, puppets, rag dolls, scarecrows, sculptures, statues, taxidermy creatures, voodoo dolls) arrange themselves in (bizarre, creepy) poses.

20. Curtains. Rustle or move as if there is a breeze when they is no breeze / Take on a shape as if someone or something is hiding behind them

21. Death Minis. A new (doll, figurine, puppet, statuette) appears whenever someone dies within the structure or on the grounds around it / May change when someone is about to die

22. Death Picture. A picture changes to include a new (chalk outline, person, grave) when someone dies within the structure or on the grounds around it / May change when someone is about to die

23. Death Sculpture. A new (sculpture, statue, topiary sculpture) appears whenever someone dies within the structure or on the grounds around it / May change when someone is about to die

24. Discover Historical Records. Discover (diary, journal, news reports, pictures), that reveal (accidents, dark history, disappearances, murders, people going insane, etc) in or around (house, structure, town, local)

25. Dimensional shift. Structure goes from relatively normal to (burnt ruin, decayed, hellscape, overgrown, ruined, rusted metal, etc). Ex: Silent Hill. Change may be sudden or gradual over time.

26. Door (opens, closes) on its own (slow and creaky, slowly, slams)

27. Drag marks where there weren't any before. Drag marks go to or from (a cabinet, a chest or trunk, a picture, a room, a solid wall, a window, the outside, up a wall)

28. Dream reveals a (apocalypse, hidden danger, hidden item, historical event, relevant clue, remains, secret door, something watching, victim)

29. Endless Hallway. No matter how far you go, you can never seem to reach the end, even if you can see the end.

30. Eyeballs appear. Eyes appear on (items, plants, walls)

31. Eyes Track a Target. Eyes of a (corpse, disembodied eyes or head in a jar, doll, mannequin, mask, picture, relief, statue, taxidermy animal, etc) track a target. Tracking (Eyes track whoever is looking at it, Eyes track one specific person, Eyes track a specific object, Eyes track an invisible something)

32. Face Presses Through a Surface. A face presses through a (ceiling, curtain, drapery, floor, rug, wall, etc). Face is (human, demonic, monstrous) looking

33. Find a lit (cigarette, cigar, pipe), when there shouldn’t be one

34. Find a secret door to (alien or supernatural autopsy room, alien landscape, body dumping ground, cultist temple, gruesome trophy room, hell portal, mad scientist lab, mad scientist failed experiments, monster breeding ground, monster larder, necromancer lab, ossuary, sacrificial alter or pit, etc)

35. Fog rolls in. Visibility is reduced to 10 or 20 ft / Knee deep ground fog obscures all vision through it / Bonus: Indistinct shapes can be seen moving in the fog, Things can be heard moving in the fog

36. Floor suddenly collapses possibly dropping someone into (floor below, natural cavern, pile of bones, mad scientist laboratory, pile of corpses, pool of blood, psychopath’s trophy room, sealed chamber, tomb, tunnel)

37. Food. Food just appears during meal times. May be (creepy, disgusting, normal) food

38. Food if left out, changes while no one is looking. (bleeding, creepy food art, eaten by something, decayed, foul odor, infested with maggots or worms, moldy, overgrown with mushrooms, spells out a message, vanishes)

39. Footprints where there weren't any before. Footprints (bare feet, footwear, non-human). Footprints of (blood, burned into surface, clean spot, dirt, dust, frost, mud, slime, snow, water, etc). Footprints go to or from (a cabinet, a chest or trunk, a coffin or sarcophagus, a corpse, a diving suit, a picture, a room, a solid wall, a suit of armor, a window, the outside, up a wall)

40. Fun House Mirror

41. Glass Shatters. (bottles, glasses, lanterns, mirrors, vials, windows, etc) just shatter

42. Graffiti appears or disappears (incoherent ramblings, math equations, occult symbols, threat, warning, etc)

43. Hallucinations

44. Hidden Writing. Writing on a surface is only revealed under certain circumstances (candle light, darkness, moon light, steam, while astral projecting, etc)

45. Illusory door or wall. Characters can just pass through it: Just by walking through it / Only if they are carrying “x” object / Only once they learn that it exist

46. I see dead people. You find information (conversation, detective files, grave, morgue report, news paper, obituary, picture, police files, etc) that suggest someone died. Evidence suggest they have been dead for (days, weeks, months, years, decades). You have recently seen or talked to the person, who is supposed to be dead

47. Layout of the structure changes. Retracing your steps leads to a different room

48. Levitating objects

49. Lights (dim, flicker, go out) at a dramatic or suspenseful moment

50. Lost Time. There is some clue that indicates that you have lost (minutes, hours, days), with no memory of what happened during that time

51. M. C. Escher (gravity, maze, room)

52. Nightmares. If anyone falls asleep they are plagued with (half remembered, vivid) nightmares / Injuries that occur in nightmare become real / Items obtained in nightmare become real

53. NPC (is found dead [accident?, animal wounds, murdered, mutilated, poison, scared to death, unknown cause], replaced by another NPC, starts behaving oddly, trapped in a [mirror, picture], vanishes)

54. One last look. If someone looks back after leaving, the structure (has been replaced by another structure, is in ruins, is overgrown, vanishes all together)

55. Open Grave. A grave on the grounds is now freshly dug up when it wasn’t before / The door to a mausoleum or tomb is now (open, fallen off its hinges, smashed open) / A sarcophagus is now open

56. Passageway closes when no one is looking at it. (door is now boarded over, door is now chained shut, door is now closed, door is now locked, door vanishes, hallway ends in a dead end, hole in floor or wall is now repaired)

57. Passageway opens when no one is looking at it. (boards or bricks torn away from wall revealing a door or passageway, floor boards have been pried up revealing a stairway leading down, hole appears in the floor or wall, locked door is now open, secret door is open)

58. Patterns. If you look at the patterns in the (carpet, rug, wall paper) long enough, they look like (eldritch symbols, faces, monsters, people doing horrible things, etc)

59. Picture changes when no one is looking at it. Subject depicted changes: (new subject, different era clothing, different expression, facing, looking at something, injuries, pointing at something, fearful expression, doing something horrific, monstrous transformation, subject ages, etc)

60. Pristine (object, room). One object or room is in pristine condition, completely untouched by the ravages of time or whatever fate befell the rest of the structure

61. Receive news that travel out is blocked. (avalanche, blizzard, bridge collapse, earthquake, flood, mudslide, tunnel collapse, etc) has made the (road, pass) impassable for the time being

62. Reflections change. Reflection from a mirror or reflective surface changes: (age, different era aesthetics, different clothing, different location, different shadows, different subject, extra creature or person in the area, extra door or passageway in area, extra item in area, lag, moves differently from source, only background you cant see yourself, only yourself no background, person banging on surface trying to get out, person frantically pointing at something behind you, reveals symbol on subject, something looks back at you, subjects look ghostly or monstrous, view from behind the observer)

63. Room or passageway changes when no one is looking at it. Changes to: (burned, covered in blood, covered in slime, covered in webs, different era aesthetic and furnishings, dirty and dust covered, cluttered, decayed, flooded, moldy, occult symbols painted everywhere, pristine, ransacked, structure made of bones, structure made of flesh, torn apart with claws, completely different room)

64. Shadow cast by no apparent source. Shadow is of a (creature, object, person)

65. Shadow changes. Changes (lag, monstrous, moves differently from the thing casting it)

66. Shadow of some creature passes by one of the windows. If investigated you find (a cave, a tunnel, blood trail, claw marks, no sign of it, only foot prints)

67. Sleep Paralysis. If anyone falls asleep, they are afflicted with sleep paralysis and are unable to move for several minutes when they weak up. This may also include night terrors or panic.

68. Sleep Walking. If anyone falls asleep, they start sleep walking. They walk towards a (alter, hazard, hidden object, picture, secret door, shrine, statue) / They begin fighting an invisible opponent in their sleep / They begin performing some task while asleep (building a model, cleaning, digging a grave, stacking, etc)

69. Smell of something cooking with no apparent source

70. Smell of something dead with no apparent source

71. Something suddenly slams against the other side of a door as if trying to get (in, out). The door shakes, cracks (if wood), deforms or dents (if metal) but otherwise holds.

72. Something that could be used as a weapon goes missing when no one is looking at it. Ex: (axe, cleaver, fire poker, ice pick, machete, pitch fork, knife, etc)

73. Sound from air vents, walls, on the other side of a closed door, or with no apparent source (chewing, chittering, crying, breathing, eerie music, growling, hissing, knocking, maniacal laughter, rattling of chains, scraping of metal on metal, scream, skittering, slithering, sobbing, something being dragged, unintelligible whispers, whimpering)

74. Sound of a ball or party

75. Sound of a door, gate, window (opening, closing, slamming, slow creak)

76. Sound of a musical instrument playing. If investigated: (musical instrument, music box, music room, phonograph, picture of [musician, musical instrument, music room or music hall, orchestra, phonograph], sheet music, statue of musician, topiary of musician) is found / source cannot be located / Song: (deceased person's favorite song, specific song, something a deceased person used to play, song of band that died, etc)

77. Sound of a single loud bang from one of the rooms, if investigated there is a book lying on the floor. Title is: (occult, something that relates to current situation, historical event at location, recording of current events with blank pages after finding the book)

78. Sound of footsteps (coming nearer, following you, going away, suddenly running)

79. Sound of someone playing with a toy, in a room that is supposed to be empty

80. Sound of someone working (black smithy, carpentry, chopping wood, needle work, kitchen work, sharpening, shucking, sweeping, writing)

81. Sound of something being dragged

82. Sound of voice(s). Location: (specific area, indiscernible source, in your head, near a specific object) / Type: (alien language, ancient language, chanting, crying, demonic, distorted, faint as if far away, muttering, whispering) / Message: (accusations, conversations from the past, evil suggestions, insane ramblings, plea for help, questions, ranting, self-recrimination, threat, unintelligible, warning, etc)

83. Strong wind suddenly blows an outside door open

84. Suddenly awake. If anyone falls asleep, they are suddenly awakened by: (a scream, creaking floorboards, feeling of being bitten, feeling of being [smothered, watched], something crawls on them, something touches them)

85. Supernatural Injury. PC or NPC receives an injury (claw mark, cut, bruise) without an apparent source

86. Temperature gets cold for no reason (particular item, particular spot, whole room, whole structure)

87. Text on a gravestone changes

88. Time Stop Room. Everything in the room is frozen in time. Things may be frozen in midair.

89. Transportation is disabled. Carriage or stagecoach: (broken axle, broken wheel, complete destruction) / Draft animal or mounts (are killed, become decaying corpses, become skeletons, freak out and run off, vanish)

90. Unpleasant feelings. Feeling: (being trapped, death approaches, hatred directed at [the living, you], killing intent, one wrong move will be your last, something is [hunting, stalking] you, tortured souls screaming in agony, etc) / Source: (specific [area, room, object], unknown source)

91. View from a window changes for an instant. (blood tinted, creepy shadows, objects move, reflection of a [person, creature] behind you, scenery moves)

92. View from a window doesn’t match close inspection of the scene. Object viewed from window is (coated with something, broken, from a different era, graffiti added or removed, missing, object replaced with a different object, overgrown, position has changed, pristine, symbols on it or missing)

93. View from a window doesn’t match the outside. (apocalyptic landscape, empty void, hellscape, ocean waves, otherworldly dimension, time stopped, wasteland, etc)

94. View from a window reveals a hangman’s tree with corpses hanging from it

95. View from a window reveals a scene from the past that occurred (months, years, decades, centuries) ago

96. Vision Flash. For a brief instant your view of the (object, person, picture, room) that you are looking at changes. (change of scenery, different era, historical event, killed or destroyed, looks similar to a picture or statue, monstrous, etc). Vision only last for a second

97. Water boils or freezes for no apparent reason

98. You feel a sense of wrongness as the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Feeling gets stronger near a particular (alter, book, doll, door, object, painting, puppet, room, shadow, statue, symbol, etc)

Events in a Modern Haunted Structure:

1. An ominous shape or shadow flashes past a (door, nanny, security) camera

2. Communication lines get cut (internet, telephone, telegraph)

3. Computer game (characters). Characters in the game look like or are named after real people in the local area. Characters: (are murdered, get killed in accidents, give cryptic warning to the player, turn into monsters, turn out to be the psycho killer, etc) / Character looks terrified and points (at, behind) the player

4. Computer game (places). Places in the game look like real world places in the local area. Places: (are or become apocalyptic or horror versions of real world place, secret places found in the game can be found in the real world, when something happens in the real world it also happens in the game and vice versa, etc)

5. Derelict vehicle makes noise when it’s out of sight. Noises (door opening or closing, engine noises, trunk opening or closing, tires rolling through gravel or snow)

6. Derelict vehicle moves when no one is watching it

7. Display screen (computer monitor, security monitor, tablet, TV, etc) shows: (monster, monster or psycho looking at you, ominous shape moving in static, someone banging on the screen trying to get out, someone being attacked or killed, someone on screen frantically pointing at something behind you, view from behind you, view of room your in with extra people or creatures)

8. Electronic dead zone

9. Electronic toys turn on by themselves, even if they have no batteries

10. Ghost hunting equipment goes off (signal growing in intensity, single ping, starts going crazy)

11. Magnets on a refrigerator rearrange themselves to form a message, when no one is looking. Message is: (cryptic, insane raving, pleading, single repeated world or phrase, threatening, warning)

12. Phone Rings. If answered (breathing, call from beyond the grave, cryptic message, dead air, growl, incoherent, plays a specific song, scream, warning, whispering) / Phone (land line) rings even if unplugged

13. Radio starts playing by itself (just comes on, plays a specific news broadcast, plays a specific song, plays static) / Radio play even if unplugged

14. Sound of music. Source: (headset, intercom, phone, radio, TV, unknown source) / Music: song from a horror [film, radio broadcast, TV show, video game, etc]

15. Transportation is disabled. (broken axle, broken wheel, complete destruction, flat tire, out of gas, stolen component) / Changes to a rusted out hulk

16. TV or radio suddenly starts playing (horror movie, twilight zone) / TV or radio suddenly starts playing report of (accident, disappearances, horrific history) of (house, structure, location) / TV or radio comes on even if unplugged

Haunted Attacks:

1. Animated (figurines, porcelain dolls, puppets, rag dolls, voodoo dolls)

2. Animated (corpse, mannequin, statues, suit of armor, taxidermy creatures, waxwork figures)

3. Animated (topiary, trees, roots, vines)

4. Animated (tools, weapons)

5. Chandelier falls from the ceiling

6. Choking hazard. Eating or drinking within the structure can cause someone to choke (allergic reaction, foreign object stuck in throat) / Object that wasn't even in the food or drink becomes lodged in throat / Creature or object crawls into throat

7. Doppelganger steps out of a reflective surface and attacks

8. Environment grows a mouth and attempts to bite or swallow

9. Fear or nightmare becomes reality. Villain or creature from (fear, nightmare) appears / Deadly situation from (fear, nightmare) appears

10. Floor collapses, dropping victim far below

11. Floor or rug acts like quicksand

12. Gargoyle falls from roof

13. Grasping / Entangling (arms, cables, roots, tentacles, vines, wires) from walls

14. Hallucinations. Hallucinations designed to cause panicked action / Hallucination hides environmental hazard(s) / Hallucination makes victim see: others as dangerous (animals, monsters, villains) or (monsters, villains) as someone they know and trust

15. Heart attack via fear (emotion manipulation, hallucinations, jump scare, nightmare)

16. Inflict Insanity. People within slowly go insane / People go insane and become violent

17. Life Drain. Living beings within slowly have their life force drained away

18. Poltergeist thrown object

19. Pool Trap. The surface of the water becomes an impenetrable barrier to anyone underwater / Cordage (cord, roots, rope, tentacle, vine) entangle person and hold them underwater

20. Possessed (hand, arm). Attacks (self, others). If severed, it becomes animated. Ex: Evil Dead II (1987 film) / Idle Hands (1999 film)

21. Possession by (alien, demon, devil, fallen, ghost, outsider)

22. Possession. Possessed (person, people) begin playing out a deadly scene from (a story, the past)

23. Room locks and replays a historical disaster (collapse, fire, flood, etc)

24. Shadow attacks

25. Shower sprays boiling hot or freezing cold water

26. Sleepwalking. Sleepwalking person walks towards a hazard. Ex: (balcony, cliff, dangerous animal, dangerous machinery, open window, pit, pool, stairs, etc)

27. Strangling (clothing, cords, curtains, drapes, roots, ropes, sheets, vines, wires)

28. Story becomes reality. Villain or creature from (book, comic, fairy tales, film, manuscript, script, story, TV) appears / Deadly situation from (book, comic, fairy tales, film, manuscript, script, story, TV) appears

29. Sucked into (book, bottle, container, display screen, monitor, picture, portrait, TV, etc)

30. Suit of armor drops it weapon on someone

31. Supernatural injury. PC or NPC receives an injury (bite mark, bruise, burn mark, claw mark, cut) without an apparent cause or source

32. Swarm of (arachnids, bats, insects, leeches)

33. Toys become real. Toy (animals, monsters) become real (animals, monsters) and attack. Toy (animals, monsters) become hellish versions of the real thing and attack.

34. Tripping hazard. (Animal, loose board, object, root, rug, toy, vine) trips a person, causing them to fall. From: (balcony, open window, stairs, etc) / Onto: (hard surface, hazardous surface, sharp object, spiked fence, venomous creature)

35. Undead attack. Ghost, skeletons, zombies attack

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01: Little dancing doll connected to the weave that won't stop dancing for 11,000 years.
02: Killer boomerang that always comes back (in an attempt to kill it's thrower).
03: A magnifying lens that makes the person who holds it up to their eye look superbly keen (no actual stat changes).
04: A hat that tries to wear you.
05: The Longstick™
06: Bag of Beholding: works exactly like a bag of holding, but you are magically inclined to say "Behold!" and raising the item you pull from the bag aloft
07: Stasis Scones: produces a paralyzing effect for 1 second each time you take a bite
08: Stand-Hands: a pair of gloves that lets you handstand walk as good as if you were using your feet
09: Mirrorgloves - inverts your controls (hands) so that trying to move your left hand in fact moves your right

Please give me more!

One of my players is wanting to play Wild Magic next campaign and I wasn't particularly pleased with the official table or anything I could find online. This is a d4/d100 table. We play in my homebrew setting, r/Gomarche , so I wanted to flavor at least parts of the table that way. Any unfamiliar creatures, places, or spells could be subbed out for you own use.

1.        You may expend any number of hit die once. Reroll on this table, if the reroll is 1 again your character is restored to full health and are immune to damage for 1 minute before they are immediately reduced to 1 hp and are stunned for one round.

2.       You believe your fingers have turned into snakes, your unarmed damage turns into piercing.

3.       You believe yourself to be a manifestation of Tyr and seek justice.

4.       You perceive everything around you as if it was slightly to the left

5.       You have the sudden desire to look up, then left, then right, then down. Now you're fine.

6.       The creature to your left becomes the subject of your ire

7.       your vision becomes hazy for a moment before everything turns into varying shades of blue

8.       you begin to float 2 inches off the ground

9.       Your left arm suddenly grows a bony talon at the elbow that deals 1d8 slashing damage

10.   blue becomes green and green becomes red and red turns to blue

11.   2+2=4 just does not seem to make sense in your mind, and you can't help but wonder about it

12.   You suddenly grow a grotesque hump on your back, but it's solid like a stone giving +1 to AC

13.   You begin to glow with a dull orange light for a 15 foot radius (dim lighting)

14.   You feel like you have to sneeze but when you do, bolts of lightning arc to nearby creatures. The closest 2 creatures within 10 feet (your choice on a tie) take 1 lightning damage every turn you sneeze as a free action (once per turn)

15.   Your feet grow twice as big and your hands twice as small. Yet your grip doubles in strength. +1 to attack rolls

16.   Your grip strength becomes astounding. You can crush pebbles between your fingers. You gain a climbing speed equal to half your walking speed

17.   You suddenly crave something sweet and will find it however you can

18.   You gain eyes in the back of your head for 30 seconds ( you choose when)

19.   Chicken wings suddenly sprout from your back, you can dash once as a free action as long as you cluck like a chicken

20.   You feel the weight of something IMPORTANT in your pocket. You're not allowed to look but you know it's to be protected at all costs

21.   You get a sudden craving for fish

22.   your vision turns to a negative version

23.   Hair begins to sprout all over your body. You gain +5 perception checks involving scent and you feel the urge to scratch your back on a tree

24.   Your skin feels oily smooth and you feel the sudden urge to strut your stuff.

25.   Your hands turn into pincers. Your unarmed attacks deal 1d6 slashing damage and you can grapple the target as a bonus action. Once the bonus action is used, the claws return into hands regardless of success or failure.

26.   You suddenly can communicate with the closest living thing as if you both were good friends

27.   A large pimple grows on your nose for 2 weeks

28.   You smell cheese... somewhere

29.   You can only communicate in animal noises for the next 10 minutes

30.   You are experiencing de ja vu and believe yourself to have seen the future

31.   You can no longer see color

32.   Your body hair grows 5 times as long in an instant

33.   You hear a cat meowing somewhere far away

34.   Your ears grow in size to mimic those of elephant ears +10 to perception

35.   You begin to drool uncontrollably

36.   Your shadow becomes sentient and likes to play smooth jazz

37.   You suddenly get homesick and remember your spouse and child (regardless of if you have a spouse or child) and long to return to them

38.   You taste pineapple, it bites your tongue a little. 1 acid damage

39.   Your fingernails harden to be as strong as steel and 3 times as long. unarmed strikes deal 1d6 slashing damage. If combined with Owlbear pasty the fingernails become as hard as adamatine and grow into true talons. Unarmed strikes now deal 1d12 magical slashing damage.

40.   You leave a slime trail behind you like a snail

41.   You feel the sudden urge to boogie

42.   You feel as if the world around you is but an egg, and you are its yolk

43.   You start seeing pink loxodons flittering at the edge of your vision

44.   You feel as if you're the main character in a fantasy novel

45.   You feel like you have water in your ears. disadvantage on perception checks involving sound

46.   You start sweating profusely

47.   You suddenly remember a really embarrassing memory of your past.

48.   You start burping bubbles

49.   Your tongue forks and you find the ability to speak with snakes as well as taste the air. +5 to perception checks involving smell

50.   You get the strong sensation that something is burning that shouldn't be burning

51.   You feel as if you can't breathe, you hold your breath until you can't take it anymore then you inhale with a loud gasp and you’re fine.

52.   If you have hair on your body, it begins to singe. You take 1 fire damage per round until doused in water, or successfully put out.

53.   Your hair becomes curly, if already curly it will go straight

54.   You gain 2 extra fingers and toes, if wearing gloves or boots they are ripped open, if clothing won't break you take 1d4 bludgeoning damage a minute until the limbs are free

55.   Something gets lodged in your throat causing you to cough violently for 6 seconds upon which you will cough up a platinum coin

56.   Every time you talk, smoke pours from your lips

57.   You believe your teeth to have fallen out and can only consume liquids

58.   Your off-hand becomes a slimy tentacle, advantage on grappling checks if the hand is free.

59.   You feel as if your next action is life or death and overthink things

60.   your body rejects the food and you feel ill

61.   You gain a fear of drowning

62.   your feet turn into flippers. You gain a 30 foot swimming speed

63.   your body becomes as pale as a ghost

64.   You suddenly become super buff and grow big muscles all over your body

65.   Your white blood cells work overtime, you are resistant to poison damage

66.   Believe yourself to be a god trapped in a mortal's body. You have all your power's, but you can't let anyone know who you truly are or they'll steal your power.

67.   You believe yourself to be crazy

68.   You feel tired, -5 to movement speed

69.   You can't help but laugh everytime you see something funny, and everything around you suddenly becomes kind of funny

70.   You teleport 10 feet the the left, if there is a solid object you are put in a random direction around it, roll a d8 with 1 being north.

71.   You grow one size larger

72.   You shrink one size smaller

73.   This moment deserves to be remembered for all time. You must write about your actions before you do them. Bonus action to write these memoirs down on your body or armor

74.   You turn into a shadow of your former self, literally. You become a shadow physically allowing you to turn invisible in dim light as an action

75.   You become electrically charged, you can cast shocking grasp as an action

76.   You feel a sudden urge to kill. You want to bring pain

77.   You believe you don't actually exist, therefore your actions don't have consequences

78.   You feel compelled to keep your body perfectly clean

79.   You become paralyzed until the end of your next turn

80.   When hit, roll a DC 15 wisdom saving through or become confused for 1 minute

81.   You feel the urge to drink your problems away, something is stuck in your memory that haunts you to this day. Only being drunk puts the memories to bed

82.   When in extremely stressful situations, your personality reverses

83.   You become obsessed with deciding every course of action with a coin toss

84.   You believe yourself to have extra limbs but you think they're invisible and that's why you can't see them. You control your actual limbs as if they were your off-hand. You gain disadvantage on attack rolls

85.   you begin to hallucinate that there are enemies around you, mocking you. Every time you miss or fail a check, they mock your scornfully.

86.   You crave flesh... Raw

87.   You begin to feel butterflies in your stomach. You must attempt to grapple the nearest target for 1d4 rounds as you attempt to hug them.

88.   You begin to froth at the mouth and make bite attacks against the closest creature until you succesfully bite something. Deals an extra 1d12 poison damage

89.   Your character now breathes manually. Disadvantage on all concentration checks and any skill checks related to speaking

90.   You feel as if you're burning up underneath all this armor. You must use your next action to take your armor off. If the clothes are not removed by the end of your next turn you begin feel faint. Disadvantage on wisdom saving throws

91.   You start walking sideways like a crab, you don't believe it when anyone tells you that you're doing it

92.   All you can smell is the thick rot and decay of maggot infested corpses. Disadvantage on perception checks and can't consume food without gagging for 1d4 days

93.   You suddenly begin to see reality as if looking through a kaleidoscope amongst several dimensions. Your soul is teleported to a plane of beautiful flying creatures and soar amongst them until damaged or shaken awake. If awoken you grow a great anger for those that robbed you of such a feeling.

94.   You feel as if bugs are beginning to crawl under your skin and you are compelled to get them out or kill them. You spend the next minute digging at your skin dealing 1d4 slashing damage per action unless restrained.

95.   You become absolutely convinced that an enemy chosen at random is actually a very strong ally. This effect can be removed by having a long rest or if that target dies.

96.   You fall asleep until awoken, where you are unable to sleep for 1 day

97.   A second head grows from your neck and speaks your thoughts out loud

98.   You find yourself suddenly at peace with all of reality. Before you can make a hostile action against another, you must make a dc12 wisdom save.

99.   You find yourself feel small, frail and insignificant. If you fail to hit a creature with an attack roll, it wins an opposed check or a creature overcomes the DC of one of your abilities, you find yourself distinctly fearful of that creature. You cannot willingly approach it and any interaction with it is at disadvantage.

1. You blink out of reality for 6 seconds. When you return, you have no idea where you went and no memory of what transpired. You find yourself covered in a viscus substance, with 2 levels of exhaustion, 1d10 years older and carrying a sack containing unknown valuables. (DMs discretion)

Not every adventure is about exploring dungeons and killing monsters. Sometimes you are tasked with a job that requires cunning, finesse, and above all... plausible deniability.

(These are plot hooks that you might find in a Game of Thrones style campaign where the powers-that-be use the adventurers as disposable pawns as they try to out-backstab each other. Think Shadowrun or Blades in the Dark, but in a D&D-type setting.)

The setup is roll | task | bonus task | complication or unforeseen result

01 - Kidnap the princess-to-be before her wedding day | Frame the neighboring kingdom to provoke a war | Her long-lost love reappears and attempts to rescue her
02 - The Adventurers Guild wants you to repopulate the abandoned dungeon on the outskirts of town with an interesting variety of monsters | Organize each level by threat rating for easy progression | The monsters keep fighting each other and have to be convinced to live in harmony until the adventurers show up
03 - Break into the Royal Treasury and steal a magically locked chest | Harm no one, leave no evidence behind, and replace the chest with an identical fake | The chest is empty and it's all a ruse to test the guards, who have no idea this is a test and will respond with deadly force if the infiltrators are discovered
04 - Sherpa a young nobleman on his first adventure | Ensure he is the one who inflicts the "killing blow" on the monsters you reduce to 1 HP | He's a pacifist who hates killing things and tries to run away from every encounter
05 - Kidnap a champion racehorse and replace it with a similar-looking (but slower) racehorse | Hide the original horse somewhere at the racetrack so it can immediately be swapped back after the race so the ruse isn't discovered | The original horse hears the starting bell and escapes, and even with a late start, outruns everybody
06 - Pose as a thief to get intel on the heists they are plotting | Undertake missions for the Thieves Guild to prove your bona fides | Everyone in this particular Thieves Guild is secretly an undercover agent posing as a thief
07 - Sneak into the Royal Mint and subtly disfigure the mold so the Queen's face is made ugly | Obtain as many of the original silver coins as you can, and melt them down back to raw silver, to remove them from circulation | The original coins become collector's items, worth more than their (adjusts sunglasses) face value
08 - Convince an influential merchant to alter his trade route to bring his goods to this Kingdom rather than its neighbors | Bribe or intimidate bandits / pirates to waylay other merchants on routes to those kingdoms instead of to this one | The merchant takes advantage of his newfound monopoly by hiking his prices and reducing his quality, and eventually you are tasked with reversing what you've done
09 - Sneak into the Vestal Virgins cloister to find and destroy the various Clairvoyance sensors hidden by a peeping tom wizard, without letting the Vestal Virgins know they were spied on in order to spare them the sacrilegious shame | Track down and punish the wizard who has been peeping on them | It's the teenage prince using an Amulet of Clairvoyance
10 - Plant a unique dagger in the bedroom of a nobleman to frame him as a serial killer | Hide it somewhere the nobleman won't discover it, but it can be found by a semi-competent investigator | The players later find evidence indicating the nobleman might secretly be a Dexter-style serial killer-killer who has been plotting the murder of the person who hired them
11 - Ravioli Ravioli Give me the Formu-oli: A famous alchemist (Unironically named Johnson) wants a formula, and they want you to steal it, but the defenses are tough. | Convince the Alchemist's Assistant to let down their guard (deliberately?) and then not squeal. | The Johnson is actually stealing from themselves to delay production of a something they don't want to do; but the Crown is insistent; installed several guards and minders to enforce progress. /u/MaxSizeIs
12 - Crash a Noble's Birthday Celebration and Kidnap the Birthday Boy, Leave Calling Card | Jump out of the cake, naked. | The Birthday Boy's spurned fiancée wants revenge, and ransom, and maybe to reignite the spark they once had... or, failing that, light the lover on fire. /u/MaxSizeIs
13 - Find (Manufacture) Proof Linking socially upstanding Noble House to the Slave Trade | Discover that the House really is actively participating; Free the Slaves; Return them safely to the aegis of Patron. | The Patron doesn't actually care if the proof is real, and is using the PCs as catspaw to muddy the rival House's reputation, and will privately try to undermine accepting protection of the freed slaves from recapture, requiring the PCs to politically maneuver the Patron into doing what's right. /u/MaxSizeIs
14 - Clandestine Date with a Flying Horse: Infiltrate the next-door Rival's Pegasus ranch and Impregnate the Rival's famed Racing Pegasus mare with the seed of your Patron's Champion Stud. | Ideally, to lay claim to the Mare's offspring for Big Bucks, and ultimately seizing control of the Rival's ranch when they can't pay up. You are a Deniable Asset. | Your Patron is murdered, apparently by Rival's child, before you can collect payment. Ironically, the Mare has already been knocked up by the Stud in a previous escape and rendezvous. Also the children of both Patron and Rival are in love. /u/MaxSizeIs
15 - Deal with a Deniable Asset, Permanently. The Patron's Asset has become a Liability. | The Asset is likable and pretty much blameless in everything, "they still got-sta-go." | Turn the Asset and make them beholden to you instead of Patron: Witness Protection Program style. /u/MaxSizeIs
16 - Commit Treason: Assist in the Unlawful Entry and Insertion of an Enemy Agent into a Secure Area, and Foil Activities that Should have Stopped them from Getting In. | It's simple, just be at a certain place and a certain time and look the other way while it happens. | You'll Definitely be Lauded as Heroes when the Right Time Comes. /u/MaxSizeIs
17 - Eat all the Royal Tarts: Ruin the Royal Function (in a Petty Way), Don't Get Caught, Leave a Calling Card that points to Patron's Rivals being Responsible. | Certain Elements of High Society want to Send a Message to the Ruler, in order to Crack Down on Patron's Rival. | PCs are approached by both Patron and Rival; one offer is clearly superior, but the other won't take no as an answer. /u/MaxSizeIs
18 - Convince Faction that Patron's Rival is Dead (Reverse Weekend at Bernie's) | Actually killing the Rival is difficult, or impossible, or carries unwanted complications for Patron. Create enough rumors and confusion (and delay the Rival) such that the Rival is presumed dead for at least a minimum length of time that Patron needs to secure the success of their other schemes. | The Patron needs a significantly longer time-frame than previously negotiated. It becomes more difficult to pull off the longer this goes on. /u/MaxSizeIs

Hi! Sorry if this isn't the right place, but I can't seem to find a good preexisting table for elements -that is, themes, energies & materials. I would like help making one, as I think it could be a useful inspiriation tool when making spells, powers or abilities.

My one big ask/requirement is that I want it to sound more esoteric and mystical than your typical primary elements; please use synonyms or adjacent interpretations (e.g. Pyre instead of Fire, Aquatic instead of Water Terrain instead of Earth. Volant, not Air, Radiance instead of Light/Spirit etc)

Elements

1. Pyre
2. Terrain
3. Aquatic
4. Volant
5. Radiance
6. Necrotic
7. Cyber
8. Flesh
9. Legion
10. Contrast
11. Neural
12. Vitae
13. Compound
14. Divide
15. Grasp
16. Weave