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PDFStaples writes:
I’d be interested in a Vornheim-style multi-column table of reasons why mega-dungeons were created or inhabited by new occupants. Thanks. ^__^
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roll d100
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The Dungeon is | That was/is now | By/For |
| 01-02 | a bank | a hatchery for | advertising executives |
| 03-04 | a boudoir | a holy place for | angels |
| 05-06 | a brewery | a home for | animals |
| 07-08 | a burrow | a library for | assassins |
| 09-10 | a cathedral | a museum for | bards |
| 11-12 | a cellar | a zoo containing | cannibals |
| 13-14 | a corpse | a zoo to amuse | criminals |
| 15-16 | a court | abandoned by | dead gods |
| 17-18 | a fetus | all in the imagination of | degenerates |
| 19-20 | a forge | belongs to | devils |
| 21-22 | a habit trail | bought by | dinosaurs |
| 23-24 | a hell | built by | dragons |
| 25-26 | a hunting grounds | built for | dwarves |
| 27-28 | a laboratory | can be found on a treasure map | elder gods |
| 29-30 | a lower plane | claimed falsely by | elementals |
| 31-32 | a market | collateral for | elves |
| 33-34 | a mating ground | created for | ettins |
| 35-36 | a memorial | desecrated by | eunuchs |
| 37-38 | a mine | forgotten by | faerie |
| 39-40 | a mode of transportation | has baffled all attempts of explanation is commonly blamed on | ghosts |
| 41-42 | a monastery | in the shape of | giant insects |
| 43-44 | a mortuary | is claimed by | giants |
| 45-46 | a natural cave | is the holy land of | gnomes |
| 47-48 | a natural formation | lost in a dice game to | goblins/orcs/etc. |
| 49-50 | a palace | meant to lure | gods |
| 51-52 | a pantry | merely a map leading to (roll again) | halflings |
| 53-54 | a paradise | neutral ground for (roll 2) | humankind |
| 55-56 | a parking garage | protection for | illusionists |
| 57-58 | a pocket dimension | protection from | living statues |
| 59-60 | a posh hotel | recently remembered by | lycanthropes |
| 61-62 | a prison | redesigned by | mages |
| 63-64 | a sanatorium | shelter for | medusae |
| 65-66 | a sewer | shelter from | monks |
| 67-68 | a ship | sold to | mushroom men |
| 69-70 | a skeleton | taken from | ninjas |
| 71-72 | a slave pit | the ancestral homeland of | people with animal heads |
| 73-74 | a small annex to (roll again) | the basis for the stories of the | pirates |
| 75-76 | a small box | the boudoir of | sadness elementals |
| 77-78 | a spawning place | the city of | sandworms |
| 79-80 | a stable | the command center of | sentient objects |
| 81-82 | a theater | the garden of | serpents |
| 83-84 | a training ground | the home of | snake men |
| 85-86 | a trap | the nest of | space aliens |
| 87-88 | a university | the nursery of | spiders |
| 89-90 | an abattoir | the resting place of | spooky children with psionics |
| 91-92 | an arena | used to entertain | the religious |
| 93-94 | an execution grounds | used to train young | titans |
| 95-96 | an imaginary place | vacated by | troglodytes |
| 97-98 | ruins | where can be found the common ancestor of (roll 2 in column 3) | undead |
| 99-00 | the homeland | won in a dice game by | vampires |
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Wonderful. Excellent work.
Agreed. This is a great table. Thanks!
Some of these combinations are brilliant, I especially like the one that sets up a relationship between two groups:
“A cathedral that is now neutral ground between angels and living statues.”
How great is that?
If anyone actually uses ‘advertising executives’, let me know.
Wow, this is a wonderful entry.
I’ve made it in an Abulafia page:
http://www.random-generator.com/index.php?title=Megadungeon_Origins