Happy New Year! I've been meaning to start making some dungeons for a while now, so what better time to start than now. Whether I actually do or not, I've thrown together this spark table for inspiration; please do feel free to use it:
1 | Ancient | Childhood |
2 | Death | City |
3 | Sunken | Factory |
4 | Love | Touch |
5 | Empire | Fall |
6 | Heavy | Pit |
7 | Rural | Library |
8 | Darkness | Ocean |
9 | Bloom | Song |
10 | Rust | Roots |
11 | Noise | Bones |
12 | Time | Gardens |
13 | Excess | Portal |
14 | Decay | Idol |
15 | Flood | Door |
16 | Sleep | Light |
17 | Cold | Bridge |
18 | Ash | Mask |
19 | Meat | Rise |
20 | Solitude | Galleries |
21 | Growth | Cliffs |
22 | Greed | Road |
23 | Luck | Badlands |
24 | Chaos | Trench |
25 | Laugher | Labyrinth |
26 | Smoke | Passages |
27 | Forgotten | Junction |
28 | Song | Causeway |
29 | Roots | Caverns |
30 | Bones | Mines |
31 | Hangman | Riverbed |
32 | Blood | Crypt |
33 | Prophet | Vents |
34 | Stars | Warrens |
35 | Cut | Meadows |
36 | Sacrifice | Shafts |
37 | Incense | Jumble |
38 | Gold | Crawlways |
39 | Obsidian | Wasteland |
40 | Winding | Halls |
41 | Fractured | Canyons |
42 | Deep | Shore |
43 | Flooded | Chasms |
44 | Dripping | Maze |
45 | Sulfur | Worm-casts |
46 | Ice | Edge |
47 | Misty | Darkness |
48 | Artificial | Refuge |
49 | Crystal | Wonderland |
50 | Gem | Jungle |
51 | Endless | Arches |
52 | Fungal | Pillars |
53 | Lava | Geysers |
54 | Noxious | Dunes |
55 | Giant's | Burrows |
56 | Jagged | Battlefield |
57 | Ashen | Railroad |
58 | Steaming | Ossuary |
59 | Haunted | Nest |
60 | Ooze | Hunting Grounds |
61 | Twisted | Society |
62 | Enchanted | Factory |
63 | Antimagic | Tonic |
64 | Pastry | Heap |
65 | Highrise | Chimney |
66 | Loud | Debt |
67 | Overgrown | Crowd |
68 | Burnt | Museum |
69 | Disputed | University |
70 | Repurposed | Office |
71 | Dirty | Distillery |
72 | Glass | Art |
73 | Electric | Canal |
74 | Murder | Tourism |
75 | Paper | Lizard |
76 | Smoked | Graveyard |
77 | Bombed | Council |
78 | Fat | Slum |
79 | Luxury | Music |
80 | Wild | Ruins |
81 | Broken | Fort |
82 | Prototype | Market |
83 | Artisan | Rookery |
84 | Antigravity | Holy Site |
85 | Biomechanical | Lair |
86 | Cosmic | Homesteads |
87 | Floating | Boomtown |
88 | Folding | Harbour |
89 | Hallucinogenic | Prison |
90 | Hypnotic | Vaults |
91 | Living | Town |
92 | Orbital | Paradise |
93 | Regenerating | Rain |
94 | Slippery | Sea |
95 | Silken | Belt |
96 | Soul | Fleet |
97 | Space | Cloud |
98 | Truth | Titan |
99 | Vanishing | Worldtree |
100 | Wizard | Wheel |
This is using the words from Sean McCoy's original expanded post, plus some borrowed or stolen from the excellent Downcrawl / Skycrawl and from spark tables I have bookmarked at both Bastionland and Prismatic Wasteland. Plus a few words I sprinkled in as the mood or inspiration took me, or when I realised I had duplicates and needed to replace them!
Image credit: midgptjourney |
This is so intimidating that this might just be it for today for me. If you're looking for more then you may like my 5 room dungeon generator and this dungeon-related RPG Blog Carnival round-up post - good luck.
Comments are always welcome. If you use this I'd love to know what you rolled, and see the results...
Starting the project with a spark table seems like a really great foundation. I guess as you zero in on the focus of your dungeon concept you'll curate the table a bit? Or will you keep it broad?
ReplyDeleteMost likely I'll curate the table, these things always evolve, although I maybe like the idea of having different themes for levels/areas in theory. In the sprit of the thing I thought it was most important to just start, and then see what happens! Seems you have a theme planned, I like it, I had literally no ideas. Good luck!
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